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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-10-10
Correspondence of the New York Tribune.
4 Friendly Interview vgIth the
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WASHINGTON, Sept. rs, 1861.

WASHINGTON, Sept. rs, 1861.
I have Just learned the particulars OF
two interviews, which took place on Sun
day last, between some members of Col.
Hsves' 9Th Pennsylvania regiment and
the Virginia 4sd (rebel). stationed on op-
posite banks of the Potomac at Great
Falls. The river is here not more than a
hundred yards wide, and the pickets on
both sides have occasionally hailed each
other. On Sunday the rebels invited
some of our men across, stating that if
they would leave their arms behind them
they would receive hospitable treatment
and be allowed to return.
One of the Pennsylvania boys stripped,
plunged in and swan over. He was help
ed up the rocks by a Virginia Captain, who
gave him his overcoat to wear, and pro-
posed that be should take drink of whis-
ky. aIf I drink" said the soldier, "it
must be to Our country" every good"
said the rebel officer, 81 will join you;
here's to our countryr And the men on
both sides of the river joined in hearty
cheer. The man remained an hour or two,
and then swam back, a little nebluous from
the many healths be had been obliged to
drink. :. --.-'.'' -
In the afternoon several of the rebels re-
turned the visit. They were courteously
entertained and exchanged buttons with
our men, as souvenirs of the interview.
awe don't care about the war;" said they,
"and don't want to fight, but we can't help
it. You Peunsylvanians are like friends
and brothers, and we wish we had those
id South Carolinians against us instead
of you." One Of the Virginia officers took
off his gold sleeve buttons, having no 9TH
or disposal gift at hand, and received a
quarter eagle in return. aGood Lord r
said be, ats been long time since I've
seen such piece of money" They were
all anxious to know the popular sentiment
of Pennsylvania and the other Border
States in relation to the war, and SEEM
ed good deal depressed at learning the
truth. They appeared to be tolerably we'll
clothed and fed and did not complain of
their condition. @
Two OF the soldiers exchanged letters
from their sweethearts. Various exehan-
ges of newspapers, DC, were also made,
and in the act our men received letter
from sister to one of the rebels, without
the owners knowledge. l bad an oppor-
tunity of reading the letter this morning,
and give you an extract therefrom: ''Take
care of yourselves the writer says for 1
don't believe there is yard of stuff for
for shirts or clothing in the whole county.
There IS not an the whole county a pound
Of coffee or q pound Of sugar. Mrs.-
uses honey in her tea. Send some of your
money home when you get it,"
1t appears from other parts of the let
ter, that the whole country has been strip
ped of cloth, shoes, coffee and sugar, in
order to supply the soldiers. a-l
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-10-10

DYS PEPSIAs
IN ALL IT'S FoRMs.
Clergymen, Members Of Congress,
Judges of the Supreme Court, indeed
persons in every station Of life, have
cheerfully given us the weight of their
testimony. private and published, in its
favor. Many Physicians. though oppcs-
ed to "Patent Medicines generally,
have repeatedly prescribed BGRuAvE's
HOLLAND BIrrEns. 1t is designed for
giving
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-02-01
The Only Remedy.


The following extract is from the recent
speech ofMr. GREEN. of Missouri, in the U.
S. Senate:
at is not the notification of the Fugitive
Slave law nor the passage of the Liberty
Bills that constitutes the real difficulty be-
tween the South and the North. II is only
III the few cases where fugitives arrested that
those measures can be broughtinto operation.
The real ground of complaint is the state OF
Northern sentiment on the whole subject,
and until this is changed, tits hopeless to seek
any other remedy. Public sentiment at the
North is not such as will protect and
enforce Southern rights. Amendments TO
the Constitution will therefore amount TO
nothing while public sentiment at the North
continues as it is. Under present circum-
stances, ii is as impossible for the South to
live with the North as with the Navajo
Indians"
Compromise makers will see at once that
their occupation is gone. Let them, then,
at once set about the real work in hand,
and change the estate Of Northern sentiment
on the whole subject" Of Slavery.-at least,
get the North into the doughface position Of
affected love of Slavery. This done, and the
traitors to the government will bo able ITO
live" with us, and no longer class us with
"Nsvajo Indians" whose known repugnance
to Slavery probably suggested the idea to
Mr. GREENS mind.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-02-01
Parson RrownIow.

The following plucky article we clip from
the Knoxville (Tenu.) Wing, which is edit
ed by the renowned Parson Brownlow:
You Can't INrMIDATE Us.-Snbscriber
in South Carolina, Alabama and Georgia
are constantly sending in their insulting
epistles to us, and ask discontinuance Of
their papers because we are opposed to Sc
cession. We receive as many new patrons
as We lose old ones, but if we were to receive
none, we would have no part or lot in the
wickedness and treason of secession. This
effort to break up this government, led only
by South Carolina, is bold, wicked, dars
ing and damnnable act, for which its guilty
leaders ought to be ANONYMOUSLY executed
This whole scheme of disunion is more
consumate Abolition contrivance than ever
was devised at the North, by the most'ultra
anti-savery men, and will work the greater
mischief TO the slave population ofthe coun-
try. II tOW bring about the overthrou of
Slavery one hundred years sooner than the
Republican party could have done It,
The cotton States may go out of the Uu-
ion, the border States with them-altoeeth-
or may form Southern Confederacy. We
shall adhere to our Union, Constitution and
laws, and denounce secession and the mis-
cradle Southern Confederacy that may
spring from il, and those who brought It
about, though it may cost us our lives upon
the scaffold! Nay, VIC shall dare say it in
the teeth Of South Carolina, that the FEEDER
al Government ought to enforce the laws,
collect the revenue, and lash the rebellious
States back into line at the point of the
sword and the mouth Of the cannon!
We have no desire to live underany gov
5 eminent controlled by the corrupt, wicked,
: and hell-deserving Williams who lead this
: revolution in the South.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-02-01
New and Astonishing Cotton Fields.

John Mitchell, "the Irish Patriot" as he
delights to call himself, has become some
what famous in America, first as distin-
gushed foreigner, and later by his agoniz-
ing wish, frequently expressed, "to own a
good plantation well stocked with niggers."
Mitchell is now in Paris corresponding with
the Charleston Mercury. In letter dated
December 18th, hc thus brings 70 light a
new cotton field, which produces six times
as much cotton as all the Southern States
put together, and is capable of greatly in
creasiug that amount. This paragraph
must have been decidedly unpalatablc 10
the Southern readers of the Mercury:
Now China, at present, produces even
six times as much cotton rs all your South
ern States put together-not of the finest
kind, indeed, but of the sort of which nan
keen is made, in which about three hundred
millions of people arc clothed every day
Yet, where that cotton grows, it is calculat,
ed that other and better cotton may grow
and magnificent alluvial valleys of Central
China, all around the Hoan-Ho and the
Yang -tse-Kaug rivers, are certainly as ca
pable of producing the most valuable kinds
Of that useful plant rs are the valleys of the
Mississippi and the Alabama. Labor, also,
is far more abundant, and costs literally
nothing at all. Once the country is sub
jected, English cotton-growers may have
millions of laborcrs, all anxious to work for
their bare subsistence, for what would sub
sist one negro would be a luxurious supply
for five Cinnamon. The Cinnamon, too
will be apprentices, not Slavcs-the spirit Of
the age forbids-and so there will be nc
obligations TO care for them, to feed and
clothe them. In short, if the cultivation
once begins on those two rivers, you may
bid adieu to the Manchester and Liverpool
markets; and that's the meaning of tho
China war"
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-02-01

Astonishing as il may appear, Yaucey
has declared himself in favor Of coercion
The coercion be advocates, however, is thas
Of forcing the people Of Alabama 70 sub
scribe to bis schemes Of disunion. We
have before alluded 10 the strong Union
feeling which must necessarily exist 10 the
seeding States, and in further confirmation,
the Nashville Banner has the following par
agraph:
"We learn that quite an exciting scene
occurred in the Alabama Convention after
that body had refused, by a decided vote,
to submit their action to the people. Hon.
Mich. Davis, of Huntsville, declared his be-
lief that the people of North Alabama
would never abide tho action Of that Con-
vention if denied the right Of voting upon
it. Mr.. Yoncey Msr@pon denounced tls
people of North alabama as tories, traitors,
rebels, and said they ought to be coereed
into submission to the decree of the Con-
Uention. Mr.. Davis replied that they
might attempt coercion, but North Alabama
would meet them upon the line, and decide
tho issue at the point Of the bayonet."
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-02-01

A correspondent Of tho Nashville Dem
ocrat puts this question to the Cotton State
secessionists. He says that there are daily
passing over the Louisville and Nashville,
and the Nashville & Chattanooga railroads,
twenty carloads of breadstuffs and meats,
bought in the Northern markets, and on
their way to the States Of Alabama. The
writer says be has taken the number Of car
loads per day, and feels safe in his estimates
as follows:
ave have nine car loads of corn, seven
of -four, and four of bacon. Each
car contains seventy-ive barrels Of -four,
two hundred and eighty bushels of corn,
sixteen thousand pounds Of bacon; that is
one hundred and forty-seven loaves Of bread
day, besides two thousand five hundred
and twenty bushels of meal, and sixty-four
thousand pounds of bacon to 60 with the
breadstuffs." He makes the following ap-
pication of the facts These iguresshow
us that the people are very destitute Of
provisions, and they will make the traitors
suffer for the ruin that they are trying to
bring upon them. Look, we pray you, to
this self constituted anti-coereion committee
that you have among you'll They wish to
bring you to ruin! You will not follow
them
Georgia, stand by the Union, stand by
your bread Alabama do likewise North
Alabama attend to them! We are for the
Union, and can pledge you that our people
will stand by you."s
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-02-01
Hon. WIN. Duer on the southern Traitors.

Hon. VIM. Duer on the southern Traitors
Hon. VIM. Duer, of New York, who ran
on the "Union" line last fall, has written q
strong and earnest letter on the present cri-
sis, in which he takes firm stand in be-
halfo of the Union, and its preservation at all
hazards. He pays his respects to Toombs
and his brother traitors in these words;
Was ever before a great government
treated with such Ddignity as ours3 They
carry their traitorous ensigns and badges Of
disunion into the House, and parade them
before the eyes of our President. Scenes
have been witnessed that have no parallel
in impudence since Catiline entered tho
Roman Senate. Senators, whose States,
with their advice and concurrence, have Sc
ceded from the Union, and who avowedly
regard our government as a foreign and
hostile government, retain their seats, and
vote and act in the interest of the rebels
They seek to overthrow the Constitution
without wiping from their lips the oath with
which they swore to support it. They
spread their plans Of the campaign in the
Senate chamber and telegraph their con
federates from the capitol. By the laws oi
war and of nations they doubly deserve
death; first as traitors aud next as spies.-
Is this to he endured? Is there lower
depth of degradation into which we mus
sink9 Why is not Toombs arrested p
Does their own miserable and cowardly sub
terfuge of constitutional and peaceful Sc
cession" justify them in sezng our forts, the
property of which is in our government, and
over which our government has exclusive
Jurisdiction.
Why, this is conducting a revolution OF
old Bailey principles, and bringing to thu
work of treason the sharp parcticc of kua
wish attorney. They stick to their seats ii
the Cabinet and in Congress in order tha
they may strip our arsenals, rob our treasur,
and betray our forts. The only respect il
which they show any fidelity to the con
stitution is in drawing the pay and mileage
Union or no Union, the first thing VIC hay,
TO do is to avenge insult, to retake our prop
orty, and to inAict a severe chastiscmen
upon its deprcdators.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-02-01
Special Message of GOV. Dcnnison

To the General assembly Of Ohio:
l herewith transmit copy of the pream-
BILE and resolutions adopted by the General
Assembly of Virginia, on the 10th inst, re-
lating to the condition of the country, and
among other things proposing tho holding
of convention at the city of Washington
on the 4th proximo, to be composed Of Com
missioners appoined by tho several States.
The resolutions further submitted pro-
grammc for the adjustment Of the existing
unhappy differences. The proposition pre-
sented ir the United States Senate by Hon.
John J. Crittenden, so modified as that the
first article proposed as an. amendment to
the Constitution of the United States shall
apply TO all territory now held or hereafter
acquired south of the latitude go 30', and
provides that the slavery Of the African race
shall be effectively protected as property
therein during the continuance of the Ter
rtorial Government; and the fourth article
shall secure to the owners Of slaves the right
of transit with their slaves between and
through non-slaveholding States and Terri
tories.
While regard for the fraternal relations
that have so long subsisted between the citi
zens Of the different States, and a Cheerful
recognition of that comfy between then
which have always been justly esteemed a
our strongest ties of union, make it eminent
ly proper that the invitation of Virginia t
her sister States to meet in Convention 70
the purpose indicated should be accepte,
by this State, feel it to be due TO the pee
pie of Ohio and our fellow-citizens fall th
States to frankly say that the terms of ad
justmentare, in my judgement, inadmissible
In submitting this important subject t
the wisdom of the General Assembly, l cal
but express my profound regret that in these
suggestions from the State of Virginia
which had so large share in framing th
present Constitution, and which has held
larger and more constant influence in th
administration of our Government under
than any other State, she omits to encoul
age our reliance upon the Constitution as
is, and apparently deems it necessary to ad
Just our views in regard to territory not yc
acquired, before tho great interests of tn
country can find repose from the trouble
concerning that which now belongs to us.
TSigned1 w. DEENIsoN
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-02-01
The New York Reralds springfeld GIl.l

The New York Her0td'S Springfield (tll.)
correspondent says:
1t was but yesesterday that l had occa-
sion to converse with Mr.. Lincoln on the
subject of his impending trip to Washing
ton city. He stated that he had as yet nei-
ther fixed the day of his departure nor Sc
lected the route, but that the former would
probably take place on or about the 18th
proximo. Stoppages will be made by him
at all the principal points.
A number of the lady friends Of Mrs.
Lincoln have, with characteristic feminine
solicitude, taken up the newspaper rumors
of intended attacks upon the President elect
while on his way to tho Federal Capital,
and used them as arguments to induce her
to delay her removal to Washington until
her husband was safely installed in the
White House. But the plucky wife of the
President met all these we'll met PROPOSE
tions with scorn, and made the spirited dec
Iaraton pefore she started on her Eastern
trip that she would see Mr. Lincoln on to
Washington, danger or no danger.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-02-01

Do you wish to know how to save the
Union and give an overpowering life tn the
now despondent sentiment of patriotism
We answer, ShosO that you mean to defend
the Constitution and maintain the Govern
ment Had Major Anderson fired dozen
guns on Thursday of last week, and brought
the Star of the West sicily under the walls
of Fort Sumter, Treason would have stayed.
That act alone would have saved Virginia
from plunging into the fatal gulf Of rebell-
ion. Useless talk Of compromises, and Of
dragging the Republican flag in the mire,
can do nothing but more surely precipitate
her into it.-M y Iri6tns.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-02-01
A New Song.
BY OLIVER WENDELL HoLMEs.


We sing "our Countrys" song to night
With saddened voice and eye;
Her banner droops in clouded light
Beneath the wintry sky.
Well pledge her once in golden wine
Before her stars have set;
Though dim one reddening orb may shine,
We have a country yet.
'Twere vain TO sigh DER errors past,
The fault of sires or sons;
Our soldier heard the threatening blast
And spiked his useless guns;
He saw the star-wreathed ensign fall
BY mad invaders torn;
But saw it from the Fashioned wall
That laughed their rage to scorn
What though their warlike cry is flung
Across the bowling wave-
They smite the air with idle tongue
The gathering storm who brave.
Enough of speech the trumpet rings;
Be silent, patient, calm,-
God help them if the tempest swings
The pine against the palm
Our toilsome years have made us tame,
Our strength has slept unfelt;
The furnace fire is slow to flame
That bids our ploughshares melt;
'Tis hard to lose the bread they win
To drop the iron threads we spin
That weave our web of towns;
To see the rushing turbines stand
Before the emitted fumes,
To fold the arms that food the land
With rivers from their looms,
But harder still for those who learn
The truth forgot so long;
When once their slumbering passions burn,
ho ~, f11oz
The Lord have mercy on the weak,
And calm their frenzied ire,
And save our brothers ere they shrek,
1--WE played with Northern fire /"
The eagle holds his mountain height
The tiger pace his den
Give all the country, each his right
God keep us all Amen
National Fast, Jan. 4th, 1861.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-02-01

The Newark IN. J.) Daily Advertiser,
abiding to the troubles Of the hour, re-
marks as follows:
Nothing seems needed but hand with
a soul behind it at the center Of this great
nation TO WELD tspotent energies and warm
the hearts of patriots. The people of the
Free States, scattered throughout their hills
and valleys hive hardly yet got awake to
the reality that the integrity of their conn
Try has been actually threatened or can
possibly be destroyed. As to any actual
plan for tho destruction Of their Govern
ment they have been perfectly inereduIons
They could not conceive of such thing
and arc even now hardly convinced that il
is in danger, or that anybody means it harm
1t is time they had learned the astounding
fact,
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-02-01
DecIaed Hit.

The letter writers from Washington say
that Mr., Dawes, from Massachusetts, after
a violent debate in tho House the other
day, asked conservative southern man,
who was appealing to Republicans TO como
down from their Chicago platform aud help
save the Union, whether he (Mr. HiIl)
would take the platform of the party with
which he acted during the late campaign,
(the Bell party) viz: The Constitution, tho
Union, and the enforcement Of the laws"
Mr.. Hill said he stood by that platform,
but added that it would not do as basis
of settlement, and asked Mr. Dawes swheth-
or he would take it, to which Mr. Dawes
replied amid great enthusiasm, eyes siri
every letter Of the Constitution. every OBJ
legation of the Union, aad every feature Of
the law" $3.50
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-02-01

Die Union, German paper, PublishSd
at Galveston. has been suppressed, aud. all,
It's property destroyed, for saying that Tsxas
will never desert the Union, winding up iis
article with apOOr South Carolina" Al
last accounts the editor was keeping out Of
the way ofths mob, for iear, they would
hang him.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-02-01
Come and See HOIIy's Family Sewing
Machine.

This machine Is finished superior 70 any ever offered
In this community It is centre table style, with fall
leaves each side 1t is warranted to be all required Of
any sewing machine. 1t makes difference which way
you It, for It works we'll backwards forwards
It will all kinds Of goods from the lighest to the
heaviest aud may be used successfully leather work.
PRICE.
Plain black walnut tmachines with fall leaves S35 90
Polished " silver plated $500
Pois'd mahogany silver plated and pearl work 5000
Heinmers and binders, with tools complete 500
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-02-01
Como aud See the seneca rails MACHINE,

Which takes the stitch alike both sides. 1t makes
noise and very rapidly; will sew anything you
put under thicker than two pieces of cakn, with
any kind thread and do II equal TO Singers best 1t
the cheapest lock stitch machine in the market for
family machine.
Mr.. GoodelI, Of Seneca Falls, Merchant Tailor, says:
w have sed the Taiors Machine nearly year and prefer
It TO Sngers having made hundred coats on 1t with
out missing stitch. This machine took the first premi
um at our County Fair.
Price of Family Machine, complete, $4,000. Tailor's
Machine 1890.
Every Machine warranted to give satisfaction.
All kinds Of stitching done linen, cotton, silk
woolen goods of any texture, short notice. Coat
faciugs stictched, and clothing made to order.
Person wishing work DONE wanting machines. will
end It to their advantage to call at my residence Front
street. in the second building south Of Mr.. Tschumys
Furniture store. .l
47moe ID. s. CAMFIELD, Agent.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-02-01
IN siSs'' ps slss. EIss sss.;: sisi:. z

An old bachelor probably wrote the follow
iRg;-s"Twixt woman and wine, mans lot is 10
smart, It's wine makes his ,hsad-ashss, and wo-
man his heart"
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-02-01
COME AND SEE
.GOfe's Family Knitting Machine,
VOW lN oPERATIoN AL

, D, S. CAMFIELD'S RESIDENCE.
TINHIS MACHINE is one of the most important inven.
j tlons Of modern tuies II Is extremely simple strong
and duInbe and requires less skill to operate II than
sewing machine. person With one of these machines
can do the knitting for their family and that their
neghbos who do not possess one and thus quickly pay
for machine.
It will knit plain ribbed work. and by changing the
needles and presser will produce great variety OF styles
and stitches IW KNIT very elastic open work. or yery
tight, compact, and close work -
It WIN knit stockings OF any size, from the cbilds to
the adults.
II will knit tight loose Underseevcs Ties Tppets
overals for Children and many fancy and useful articles
II will knit pair of stockings in ten minutes.
Stockings aud fancy work knit TO order.
Price Of machine, complete, $50.