Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-12-13
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aThere is a divinity that shapes our ends as
the doughnuts said when the girls We're making
them
The Richmond Examiner prays for the reign
Of an English, French or Russian Prince over
the South before restoration of the Union.
The Louisville journal truly says that the
discharge of our duty at the present time in
wolves the discharge of cannon and small arms.
CnuDREN-The smallest are nearest Cod rs
the smallest stars are nearest the sun.
When is an Irish girl most disposed to take
compassion on her lover2 When her heart goes
pity Pat.
There are three hundred secession prisoners at
Camp Chase. Twelve were released on the 5th
instant.
A dispatch to the Cincinnati Commercial say s
that black flag has been hoisted at Columbus,
kentucky.
There are eighteen hundred female slaves
within the lines Of the Federal forces at Fort
Monroe.
Our most distinguished critics admit that
Gen. Mcclellan is the greatest reriepcr this
country ever produced.
There is an intimation that movement will
be made to expel Senator Bright of Indiana,
from the United States Senate.
The Chllicothe Advertiser says that panther
seven feet in length was recently shot in Turin
township, not far from Bonneville, Ross Co.
In discussion with Temperance lecturer, a
topper asked, "lf water rots your boots, what eff
feet must it have ON the coat of your stomachf'
The Presidents Message was delivered at
noon on Tuesday and published in San Fran
,,,f fill ot Z tala
graph is fast institution.
Boyer who killed Woelf inOttowa county some
time ago, has been sent to the Penitentiary for
life, The difficulty grew out of the small sum
of 81 cents.
Learn in childhood, if you can, that happiness
is not outside but inside. A good heart and a
clear conscience bring happiness, which no rich
es and no circumstances alone ever do.
The small pox is making terrible work with
the rebel troops ON Muldraugh's Hill, KY
Large numbers are dying daily oft, says dis
patch in the Richmond Enquirer.
The Cincinnati Times states that John G.
Hcenan, the notorious Benecia Boy, has arrived
in Cincinnati, with the intention of raising
company for the war in the Southwest
The arms taken from Floyd at Carnifex have
been brought into Wheeling. They are 300 flint
JOCK flUeS, all SOILS Oh suOOIllB, ana al
together mixed lot Of tools.
The Senate of Mississippi have adopted a
preamble aud resolution, proposing the passage
of effective laws preventing the growing of an
other cotton crop until the present one is dis
posed Of
"a man who'll maliciously set fire TO barn,
said NJ Slow, "and burn up twenty cows, ought
to be kicked to death by jackass, and I'd like |
Il .
Two Pennsylvania soldiers named Forester
and Sypes, guarding bridges on the Northern
Central Railway, were poisoned at Lutherville, |
Wednesday night, by drinking whisky offered
them by an unknown person. Both soon died.
A merchant lately advertising for clerk who
could bear confinement" received one answer
from one who had been ten years in the State
Prison, and another from the mother of ten
children.
The Chicago Journal says: There are eigh-
teen preachers in Col. David Stuarts regiment,
which left here for st. Louis to-day, eight of
whom are officers, and the rest privates in the
ranks. OF these, seventeen are Of the Metho-
| dist denomination, and the other Baptist
Does my son William that's in the army get
plenty to eat?' asked lady of a recruitinf SER
geant the other day. "He sees plenty, was the
laconic reply. "Bless his heart, then, know he
will have it if he can see it, he always would at
home"
The Washington Republican notes as a sign
of progress, that a letter from Lexington, KY,
says Judge Holt is getting tired Of protecting
the property of pro-slavery traitors and rebels,
and says that the war must take its course even
( if it be across the peculiar institution
! The late Francis jackson of Boston, a leading
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each to number Of his personal friends in 'the
cause, >, funds TO be used for the purpose of bring
ing about a change in public sentiment regard
ing Slavery, and $4,000 to help along fugitives
from slavery.
Gen. Fremont attended service at Henry Ward
Beecher's Church, on Sunday last, and the con-
gregation rose en- nldSSo as the General and Mrs
Fremont entered. Mr.. Beecher's discourse was
on "Greatness." After the service the people
made rush for the Generals pew, and detained
him half an hour with handshaking; at the
church door, they crowded the street and gave
him three cheers
The sleighing is superb over nearly the whole
Of the States of Maine and Vermont, and a
large portion of New Hampshire. The snow
is about eight inches deep, and is frozen so that
sleighs glide smoothly over the hard surface.
The Navy Department have purchased num-
Der of small vessels of light draft, which are to
be armed with Dahlgreens boat howitzers and
ll-inch guns, with rife bore Of seven and a
half carrying spherical shells weighing about
$50 pounds.
1t is very singular that we have no official ad-
vices from Pensacola, two weeks having past
since the bombardment. The New Orleans Bee
of the Goth publishes acongratulatOry order of
Gen. Bragg to his troops in which he tells them
they have won a great victory and lost but Sc
ven lives
]. B. Merwin formerly editor of Temper
ance Journal published in Chicago, and well
known Western Temperance advocate, has been
appointed Temperance Chaplain for the whole
army. He goes from camp to camp, talking
publicly and privately with officers and soldiers,
and is said to be doing good work.
Camel coal has been discovered at Grab Orch
ard, Kentucky, by our troops there, and the i'm
habitants are quite astonished at it. One man
said that several years ago he had dug well on
an adjoining farm, through the "saIne sort Of
stuff but it had mover occurred TO him that it
was camel coal.
Secretary Chase said, in response to toast, at
the dinner given by the Union Club of New
y FORK, that the blackest negro in South Carroll
ma, black as midnight, in his eyes is whittier than
the whitest rebel, which was vehemently cheer
ed by the company, among whom was William
b. Astor.
Who would have thought, ten years ago that
Edwin Croswell the most inyeterate of New
York Hunkers, would live to be eomplimented
for his views on the Slavery question by Gerrit
Smith, the most radical of Abolitionists? The
Sage Of Peterboro has addressed Mr.. Q. long