Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-06-28
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JEFF. Davis boasts that "Cottons king"
Upon his throne so written,
But he'll soon find when on his swing
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coast of Africa, was fast going to decay, retorts
I'VE did not suppose there was any Buchan-
an lower than the late unlamented President Of
the United States"
The Charleston Mercury has no doubt that
parties in that harbor have lately been afford
ing information as well as supplies to the Unit.
ed States fleet now blockading the port There
are some patriots, it appears, still left in South
Carolina.
The New York Tribune says: According TO
our reports from Washington, there are still
many traitors in the several departments
Some of them are open in their expressions Of
disloyalty. The oath seems not to have been
70 thoroughly administered as it should have
been, though it is understood that Mr.. Chase
intended to have this done in the Treasury, and
will discharge at once any clerk who is shown
to be a traitor"
SHAD CAUGHT IN CRrSoLINE TRAP.-On last
Friday lady of Rocky Hill, Connecticut,
while passing brook which runs into the Com
necticut, saw two fine shad stunning themselves
in a stream. The shad looked tempting, the
lady coveted them, but had no fishing tackle
with her. She finally bethought of her hoops
took them off, and having tied the upper end
set the contrivapce in the brook, and drove the
unsuspectng shad into the net, when they were
safely drawn to land, the most recent and cruel
ly deceived victims of crinoline
Ihfee young men reached GAINESVILLE, on
Saturday evening, from Loudon county, Virgin
ia. They report that all the horses and wagons
in the region they came from had been pressed
into the service of the rebels, and the country
secured to obtain provisions. Great dissatisfac-
ton prevails among the farmers. Orders were
issued the first of last week, for all males be-
tween the ages of l6 and 60 years to report
themselves at the different county seats to be
enrolled for the Southern army One hundred
and forty citizens of Loudon county left for the
North on Thursday night last, to avoid being
impressed. Columbus Journal.
The Enfield rifle is neither more or less than
the United States Springfield rifle musket,
chrlstened in England the Enfield rifle after the
place in that kingdom where they are being
manufactured, under the foremanship of half
dozen master w0rkmen imported from our
Springfield Armory works. In this country
the weapon is best known as the American
Mimic musket. The American mechanics above
referred to carried the patterns over to England
with them, dc. Nearly all of them are back
again at Springfield, after having spent three
years in putting the Enfield MIME Musket
| Works in operation The Enfield gun, like our
MIME musket is of caliber So.
SOUTHERN INSTITUTION Clarksville.
| Tenn, Chronicle, has the following:
Died, on the 9th inst, and aged l07 years.
Xenia servant of G. j. McCauley, ESQ, OF
| this county. She died with secession badge
pinned to her cap and was attended to the
grave by some eighty persons who thus bore
testimony to a life well spent
RIFLES NEEDED BY THE SOLDIERS At FoRr-
REss MoNRoE.-A soldier at Fortress Monroe at
the close of an account of the Great Bethel affair
| published in the New York Times, SAYS:
We shall be at it again soon; but for Heaven g
sake, use every atom of influence possible to get
us arms; our muskets are comparatively useless.
! They do not carry with the least certainty, and
what can we do against Mimic and Sharpe & rifles
FEMALE SEcEssIoNIs1. The Washington
correspondent of the New York Herald writes
| 1t is well known that a Southern lady who
| has figured considerably in Washington society
especially the political wing of it, has the repu
tation of having entertained secession spies o
late. Among those of her rebel guests named
is Ex-senator Wigfall who, it is said. stoppe,
at her home several days, concealed. The Gov
ernment is paying some attention to thi
lady's levees, as they differ from those she for
merly gave in this city.
RELIEF OF KANSAS - The total amount =
! money contributed throughout the country 70
the relief the people of Kansas was $lO4.6SI 81
From October, 1860, to May 81, 1861, fourtee
millions four hundred and twenty-threo tbou
sand four hundred and twenty-four pounds @
| provisions have been received, on which freioh
has been paid to the amount of S64263 Sc an,
ierrage and dray hire to the extent of $40 8O2 SO
The distribution has been made on a principl
as fair as possible to all sections of the State.
GENERAL MARIoS's LAST WoRps.-A life O
| the above South Carolina hero, by Major S
Horny, published in ls49, gives the authors ac
count of the Generals last words which ar
very remarkable:
Ambitious demagogues will rise, and the peo
pie, through ignorance and love of change, will
follow them Vast armies will be formed an,
bloody battles fought. And after desolatin,
their country with all the horrors of civil wal
the guilty survivors will have to bend thei
necks TO the iron yokes of some stern ursurpe,
and, like beasts of burden, to drag, unpitied
those calling chains which they have rivette,
upon themselves forever.
The RIP RArs.-Fort Calhoun, or the aRi
Raps," is an immense foundation for fortified
J tion IN Hampton Roads, about equi-distant fror
the main land north and south. 1t is situate
on the south edge of the ship channel, and CON
pletely commands the navigation of the JamC
river II has been for some years loaded wit
hundreds of tons of loose stone to aid in settlin
the walls. Though not secure fortifcation
itself, it is an admirable place for rifle canno
battery, as is shown by the facility with whic
9 shells We're thrown from it into the SewelI
: Point battery, three miles of.
: SECESSION OF A WHE.-In the last Conpre,
{ Mr.. Boteler, of Virginia, was sort of Unio
s man, but when the pinch came he went off vii
the other rebels. A late Washington lett
says:
The wife Of the Hon. A. r. Boteler, a memb
OF the last Congress, from Harpers Ferry di
B. trict, but now a secession leader, has aecedC
= from her husband, and gone to the more COZ
genial atmosphere of Hagerstown, where 81
will probably remain until her husband ge
}, over his secession proclivities 1t is said thr
Q as she left him. she remarked that "as soon as
came back into the Union, she would Join him
l. WHAr NORMAN WOMAN sAYs:--The Rocl
A ester IN. " Democrat publishes the followir
extract Of a letter from a Mormon woman, AZ
u mes Olphant, a niece of Brigham Young;
a I'VE folks here must rePlenish the world if yc
. sands of blooming lads and lasses filling emp
IT space will the cry be poor deluded Mormons
1t What would Uncle Sam say If he could see
i here as we are-nestling quietly among the hill
! as chicks under their mothers wing, with L
= stars and stripes floating on every side and
u like banner hung up in every heart. No sece
o sion flag herel What will the old chap say :?
-s treasonr Mormon treasonf II ia the only SD
! in all our country where there is no dissentil
y voice--freedom forever and the country
J. Lowell"
d The Charleston Mercury is very restive abo
Is the inactive style in which the Confeders
1 campaign has been carried on hitherto.
y says.
% By assuming the position of the defensive,
10 have lost Maryland, endangered Missouri, ne
ar tralized kentucky, and are now making Virgi
ia our battle field. is this wise statesmanshi
V Is it efficient generalship2 Fabian tactics ,
~ out of place. We trust the war policy Of I