Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-07-19
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Cotton-growing has been commenced in the
British colony Of Queensland, Oceanica with
good prospect Of success.
The smallpox is very prevalent in New
York city. The deaths last week from this dis
ease were greater than for several years past.
The reading of the Presidents Message is
said to have had a most inspiring effect on the
three months volunteers at Cairo They will
nearly all enlist for the war.
Advices from our Ministers at London and
Paris give most emphatic assurances that Eng.
land and France will fully respect the blockade
cotton or no cotton.
The Legislature of New Hampshire adjourned
on the 4th inst. The million loan bill to aid in
carrying on the war, was passed, after meeting
considerable opposition from some of the Dem.
ocratie members
Notwithstanding the American troubles +bo
Glasgow Herald says that there have never
been so many United States ships loading and
asunloading in the Clyde at the present time.
A DEcIs1ox.--There is a man named CorrD;-
chael, Judge of the District Court of MARYLAND.
IN Kent county, who has decided that all the
the Union soldiers in that State are outlaws.
The ladies of Philadelphia provide with
coffee, ham, bread and cheese and writing mate.
rails all the volunteers who pass through that
city. The coffee is boiled 100 gallons at a time.
The people of Mobile are getting frightened
and are counting their arms. They claim TO be
able to equip 1000 volunteers with army rifles
and muskets, exclusive of the arms at present
IN the hands OF the citizens and militia.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, of Wednesday, saws:
u ne Government has purchased in this CITY, up
TO last evening, 2O60 horses, 5000 sets of har-
ness, and $50 wagons for the army, and nearly
all sent to Western Virginia"
GooD.-Gov. Dennison is advised bv his apent
at Washington, that an act remittine duties on
arms has passed both Houses of Congress and
Will be signed tonight. The effect of this act
Will be to save Ohio about $30,O00
CoTToN.-Two hundred car loads of cotton
have passed through indianapolis the past week.
bound to Eastern ports. Where is Mr. G. c.
Memminger Secretary of JEFF. Davis TreasuryY
here is the great cotton police?
The Richmond correspondent of the Mem
pins Appeal says "it is told of Mr.. Toombs
that being recently importuned by an acquain-
lance tor position in the State Department, he
replied: "Clerkl What need for a clerk? WHY
l can carry the whole State Department in nv
hat" - ny
a movement is on foot in Trumbull and Ash
tabula counties, to form a regiment for service
to be ready in September. The proposition is
to form an independent regiment, the men fur
nishng themselves with gray uniform. The
Ashtabula Sentinel is informed that four humid
red men are already engaged for this regiment.
The editor of Brownsons Democratic Re-
view speaks out thus: "The American citizen
that seeks to overthrow the American Govern
ment is not only traitor, but liberticide. a
dls-humanized monster not fit to live or inhab
1t any part of the globe; he has no suitable
place this side of hell"
INDIANA MILITARY ENTHUSIASM. Indi
annapolis journal says: "Of the four regiments
to be raised in the first three Congressional
Districts, sixteen companies have been assigned
TO the hrst District The number is already
made up, and other companies want to get in.
Inc hoosIer State in all parts is thoroughly i'm
bued with patriotism. Twenty additional req
iments could be raised in Indiana without
difficulty.
CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN NoMINArIoEs.-Tbe
california Republican State Convention. which
adjourned on the Goth June, nominated what
tney deem to be very strong ticket, viz: For
Governor Leland Stamford; for Lieutenant
G0vernor John f. Chilles; for Congress L. G.
Phelps, A. a. Sargent; Judge Supreme Court
Edward Norton; Clerk Supreme Court Frank
f. Fargo; Attorney General, Frank NJ Pixley;
Controller, G. r. Wasson; Treasurer, David r
Ashley; Surveyor General j. Houghton; State
Printer, p. p. Avery.
A PATRIOTIC OFFER.-Beniamin s. Wa1cott
of New York Mills, Oneida Co, N. Y. lately
wrote to Gen. Prentiss, stating that he owned n
good steamboat at ST. Louis which he would be
hapPy to give the Government if it was needed.
In reply Gen. Prentiss thanked Mr.. Walcott for
MS patriotlc Offer and accepted the steamboat
on behalf of the government
PRoeREss OF French CoNMERcE.-A circu-
lar lately issued by the French Emperor, states
that the ratio OF the development of French
commerce, winch averaged seventeen millions
yearly between 1880 and 1897 averaged tbirtv
hve millions during the following period, and
one hundred and twenty y-three millions during
the period ending 1889, in which wear the total
amount OF expectations, which, thirty wears ago
reached the sum of five hundred millions only
rose to two billions three hundred millions Of
francs.
SUGAR DUTIEs.-The probability of increased
duties on sugars has made the New York deal
ers active IN securing supplies. The Tribune
states that during the past week the supar ner
chants of New York paid duties amounting in
the aggregate TO $262,000. One dealer maid
$SOO00, and another $4,000. One firm paid
Sol,UOu IN duties on sugar on the 9Th and on
other Withdrawals $4,000 within week.
The Cincinnati Commercial has the follow.
ing: A letter from Fort Piekens dated lima
@Oth' says; IAN important addition is about IA
10 be made to the armament of Fort Pickens
consisting Of eight 42-pounder rifed gums
Ihey arrived by steamer three DAYS since. and
are now landed on the beach. A few davs
more ana they VIII be in position, constituting
our most powerful batteries, and capable ~
great effect in battering down the fortifcations
OF the enemy As Gen. Bragg does not seem
prepared to commence the work of bostilit;es
why not take the initiative at Fort PickensP-
Is Bragg pleasure to be perpetually consulted
The Louisville Courier insists very vebe.
mently every two or three days that II is ar
awful outrage for the U. S. Government m am,
the Union men of Kentucky without at the same
time arming the disunion men. This is nm.
questionably very bright idea We wonder
lts author doesn't occasionally dwell with elo.
9nent Indignation upon the extraordinary fact
that the Administration supplies Firearms to
Gen. Scott's troops without supplying an eoual
number to JEFF Davis's. Doesn't our neie5bor
thlnk such discrimination atrocious2-Lou Jour.
The venerable Gen. Samnel L. Williams Of
oterhng, KY, upon being cheered by the Union
Guard OF that place. thus addressed the mem
w men was much younger man, followed
that flag; it was in 1871; the enemy was threat.
ening our young and rising country. ITnde,
that banner we conquered. And can now b,
sgeh bastard as to forget itY to abandon itP-
NO, mol II Kentucky secedes, l will not.
VIII De true to that Union. They NAV take my
ProPerty-strip me OF ALL even take the little
remnant of my life-but as God is nv wines.
they can never make me recognize allegiance to
any government but the Union with its GLORIOUS
Stars and Stripes"
Tho London correspondence of the New
York Post says that the impudence of the