Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-11-01

Dispatches from Washington ahhounce tnae .
lieutenant General Scott Will retire from active
ervicc within ten days, on account OF infrrn !
lealth.
Nine schooners from Lake Michigan, all la
len with grain, were driven ashore on Tuesday
night Of last week in the storm Three Of them
rc likely to prove total loss.
The real estate Of Boston is valued at Sl61-
10000; of Philadelphia, $l52,000000. Differ
nee in favor of Boston, $l5,OOO,OOO,
1t appears that this country has saved during
he last nine months eighty FIVE millions of dol
lars in diminished imports.
The late John A. washington's estate near
Washington is about 60 be confiscnted. His
agent, Turner, caught the Secession fever, the
negroes have nearly all run away, and the army
has captured all the horses and cows. Only one
able-bodied negro remains on the place.
A despatch from Gen. Rosencrans on the 29th
inst, states that he had advanced some miles
in the direction of the rebels, and was prepar-
ing TO make another forward movement with a
view Of driving the rebels from that entire sec
ton of the country. he had intelligence that
for several days they had been retreating He
intended following as soon as necessary ar
rangements could be made.
African slavers have discovered new way Of
reaching Cuba with their cargoes. A few weeks
ago 500 negroes were landed on Anguita Island,
one of the Bahamas, the slave ships burned to
escape detection, and the cargo forwarded to
Cuba in two trips by schooner
Government has information that the British
Government has agents along the coast buying
up all the ship timber. The Administration has
taken measures through Collectors to ascertain
the facts, and if the information prove true, to
stop it Immediately.
Dispatches from the West report Price at Neo-
sha, about IS miles southwest from Springfield,
near to the southeastern corner of Kansas, and
only one day s march from the Arkansas border.
Gen. Fremont will not have an opportunity to
fight the rebels in Missouri If this information
is reliable.
| Under the caption of Confederate Allies" !"
the Tribune discourses of Drunkenness and Ra-
pine, and closes with the following apostrophe;
aPatriots in the Union armies beware of Liq-
! uor, your greatest danger and deadliest cursel
! Abhor and shun Rapine, as you loathe and
shrink from the blacklist treason !"
Until recently no record has been kept of the
number of seaman lost by falling overheard. 1t
is ascertained that no less than eight hundred
and forty -four lives have been lost in this way
during the past nine months, and the large num-
Der elicits the inquiry whether there may not
be some defect in the rigging or mismanagement
life by falling overheard.
Cassius NJ Clay our Minister TO Russia ha:
intmated to the Government that in view of the
threatening attitude of the. rebels he would pre-
fer to surrender his present Commission as rep
resentatve to Russia, and enter the army in ac-
tive defense of the Government. The Govern
ment has the subject under consideration, and
Kentuckians in Washington are anxious for the
return Of the gallant Cassius.
A Hartford (Ct) paper says: The second croT
of several kinds of fruit and vegetables seems
to be common this year of no frost till after the
middle of October. In this city we have rasp-
berries of the second crop; in Hartland they
have strawberries and raspberries; and in other
towns they have new potatoes and peas for the
second time this year.
A Unionist was last April in conversation with
Col. Bragg, of North Carolina, now Gen. Brax-
ton Bragg of the rebel army. Says Bragg "We
are sure to beat you. Al of our whites will
fight. The negroes relieve them from labor
while only a part of your whites can fight, fol
mosl of you will have to work. Slavery will
enable MS to conquer you"
There was proposition to offer prayer in 9
rural district for rain, when an honest old
Dutchman, who had large farm, stated hi,
"vews' to the meeting in this way: "Dere ISL
some Yields along dere hill dere dat ish purity
dry, / wish you bray for some rain on dem; but
you needn't bray for any more water on der
moisht black ground, under de hills dere; caus
corn moosh grow on dem Yields anyhow l'
A young woman had laid wager she should
descend into vault in the middle of the night,
and bring from thence skull. The person who
took the wager had previously hid himself in
the vault, and as the girl seized the skull, cried
in hollow voice, "Leave me my head y "There
it is, said the girl, throwing it down and CATCH
ing up another. "Leave me my head !" said the
same voice. "Nay, nay" said the heroic lass
you cannot have two heads;'' so she brought
the skull and won the wager.
A correspondent sends to the New York Pos
this auecdote: "You have heard of the arres
of Mr.. Russell, the correspondent o
the London Times, who was fined in Whining
ton, Illinois, few days ago for shooting on Sun
| day. As he was leaving the Court, good oil
Scotch woman put her hand on his shoulder an
said to him: Had ye been at the kirk yesterda,
We wadna been here to-day; and dinna be wr
, ting home any more lees aboot the war.
aWell, that's always the way with the tell
graph folks 70 exclaimed Mrs. Mellow; ''the goc
: news they send us one day is pretty sartin
I be contradicted the next. Why, there's ol
neighbor, Sally Shute, who got story how h
IS husband had been killed in one of the battle
4 and the day after it all upset, for it prove
to be another man Give me the old mail stag
is arter all, continued Mrs. Mellow "f twas slo
n twas sartdif.
N The great Naval Expedition carries out
great number of army transportation wago
70 and great many extra arms and infantry equ
o ments. 1t is limited that quantities Of brig
Zuave clothing have been taken along with d
e intention, of forming the negroes of the cOa
NJ into Zouave regiments. Several hundred 70
: balls are among the stores. These are for L
r. men to exercise with when in camp. Two hu
N dred professional stage drivers also go along
= drive the extra wagons.
- Since the publication of Mr.. Cameron's Is lett
ID to Gen. Sherman, we may without improprei
relate an aneedote of Gen. Fremont. A few da
ago Missourian came to him with ample ce
d tificates Of his fidelity TO the Union asking pc
D. mission to search through the camp for thr
. slaves whom he believed to have been taxi
into the service of one of the Illinois regimen
10 The General politely declined, saying that
g. could not allow any one to examine his can
"a for any purpose, except by regular authority
- law, and then the applicant went away. An
- he had gone, Fremont turned to the gentlem
r. with whom he had previously been talking:
dare say" said he, @these persons may be he
!. but If they are, they have come expecting
70 End a refuge, and viii never violate the CO
nt fdenee they have reposed in me, so long as .
=. name is John O. Fremont. IN T. Tribune.
10 No Chance for Home Guards.
The young ladies Of Logansport, Ind, Tecel
A. ly held a meeting and passed indignant resOl