Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1862-10-24
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| The wild boar is one OF the most dreaded nn-
mails in nature e--exccpt the tame bore
The United States Mint in Philadelphia coins
daily from one 10 two thousand dollars Of nickel
ceuts all Of which are distributed as soon as
made; but still they are scarce.
There are now l,O56 drafted men in Camp
zanesville. Most of the counties have sent in
their quotas, but many men have obtained fur
loughs for few days.
The Mansfield Herald reports 3A64 drafted
men now at Camp Mansfield, OF these the
heaviest counties are represented as follows:---
Crawford 454. Stark 1859, Wayne $40, Ashland
2e9, Hancock 2S2 Holmes 24S, and Richland 202.
Secretary Stanton recently atook down con-
ceited wearer Of shoulder-straps who expressed
a desire to command the body-guard of some
General. Body-guardl" quoth the bluff Sec
retary "why, sir, General l-in- Chief Halleck tells
me that the only body.guard he ever had was a
bull-terrier pup" Straps was dumb.
The Cincinnati Commercial says that some
two years ago, and old gentleman living in Par
is KY, emancipated about 20 Of his negroes,
and sent them into Ohio, where he gave them
farms. They prospered. Now the old gentle
man, for his patriotism to the government, is
driven from his home in Kentucky, and finds an
asylum with his former slaves. .ss
Large supplies Of cotton for different parts Of
Europe are now obtained on the Rio Grande.--
Mexican vessels are engaged in supplying for
egn ships. 1t is supposed that Texan planters
convey their cotton TO Brownsville, Texas,
whence The article is clandestinely carried to
the Mexican border. On the Sth Of September
there were twenty vessels there waiting for car
goes, including an English steamer, which had
r E6O,0O0 pounds sterling, with which to pur-
chase cotton. '
The ponderOus Is inch Dahlgren gun, recently
mounted at the Washington Navy Yard, made
several very satisfactory shots on Monday. 1t
requires a force of twenty five men to work the
monster expedtiousy.
1t is stated that from $70,0O0,OO0 to $sO,000,-
q 900 Of counterfeit Confederate money is IN cir
culation in the South. The Charleston bank
II have $60000O0 or S7000,000 of the stuff, re-
Y ceived as good money
A correspondent who accompanied the adj
I vance to Charlestown Virginia, writes: "One ne
J. gro is confined in John Browns jail The field
9 where he was executed is planted with corn.--
I The negroes are gleeful"
e In an interior county of Kentucky, the rebels
took from a farmer over 500 worth of wheat,
y and paid in n Confederate piece of scrip worth
: nominally 50 more than the wheat came to-
t They wanted change. The farmer assured them,
e if it were all the same to them he would prefer
5 they should take the wheat and the scrip too,
!, and he would keep the change. He got rid of
b his wheat and the scrip too
The Lancaster (Pa) ) Intellgencer, the home
organ of james Buchanan, a short time since
published communication over seven columns
: : long, in which jeff. Davis is pronounced ''the
savior of his country" and the writer looks for
. ward to the time when he shall be enabled to
"cling around Jefferson Davis crying well done
good and faithful; you have been faithful over a
few things we will make you rulAr over many
things" Not word of protest appeared
s against this deliberate declaration of treason.
s The Mt Vernon Ba,,nor says: "The defeat Of
n the gallant Clement J.. Vallandigham, is great
a ly lamented by all good Uniou-loving Demo
a Gratis. :" The most sorrowfIl lamentations ovei
his defeat win be made in Richmond by the
9 leading trators
General Harney is in Washington, in citizen q
dress, gray haired and specialized but erect and
solder-like. Independently wealthy, and the
!, wearer of fairly-won laurels he remains in the
!. army from inclination, and seeks active service
o always, but never under officers who are his
y Juniors.
On account of deficiencies occasioned by the
:, exemption of a large proportion of the drafted
u men of Sept. 10, new draft has been ordered
J in Connecticut on the 9th inst. Hartford coun.
s. ty is 351 short; New Haven county, $50; Litch.
field county, 109; New London county, 24
e Fairfield county, l51; Middlesex county, I42
'r Windham county,9; Tolland county 80.
r. A spruce young couple visited jackson one
10 Cay last week to see friends in the 26th regi
- ment. They applied at a hotel for lodging bu
were told that all the rooms were full except
J. small one with single bed. This embarrassed
PC them for while; but after whispered ant
Ic earnest consultation, these young American
% tr,ld the landlord they would take the room a
:; they thought they could "adapt themselves {
I, the circumstances. So they went to clergy
- man and had the nuptial knot tied, and then re
ct turded to their at the hotel, eminently sat
sfied with their new relation.
- The London American thinks the fnancia
IN condition Of this country, after all, should no
no frighten US. II very properly says: @Let Amer
leans who oaro disposed TO take despondng vie,
h of the financial condition Of their country, re
"a member that if its debt at the end of 1863
he eighteen hundred millions of dollars, it will si
ho be less than one fifth that of England, one-ha
n that Of France, and about one half that Of Au,
m. tria, Surely the present generation need n,
sss fear that their financial burdens will be great
zee than they can bear.
nat Not the least agreeable feature of the Unis
he victory i'm Iowa Is the decisive defeat of D.
ny Mahony, the copperhead candidate for Congre
n from the Dubuque District Judge Allison, h
Union opponent has 1000 majority. Mahon
Nn VINO Is tne proprietor Oflne DuDuQue dcfhlu, W;
he recently arrested for treason and is still in COZ
i'd fnement. In spite Of and probably on accoui
m of this, he was nominated for Congress by
gh clique of his followers. Even the Chical
he Times, sheet the Secession proclivties of whis
cal are but thiny veiled, was astounded at the iu
pudence of the proceeding and characterized
bic as highly improper. Mahony has, howev'
Lhe been so thoroughly defeated that it will be
ate satisfaction that he was permitted to run, for
ere has shown that though Iowa has sent her 10y
ey sons into the field by thousands, while traitc
ors stayed at home TO mature conspiracy, enoul
are loyal men remained also 10 thwart their mac
be nations.
-" IsIBERrY-BELL ron THE LIBERBrED SLAvl
~ MIR. Lewis Tappan, having learned from o
''' of the missionaries Of the American Mssiona
-, Association that the church of the freedmen
-, Beaufort, South Carolina was in need of b.
has ordered one TO be cast expressly for the pt
~ pose. 1t viii bear the following inscription;
proclaim liberty throughout all the lal
r. unto all the inhabitants thereof"
TO A LAKE DRAISED Foa AsEIcuL-uAAL Pr
PosEa--Lake HalioulA, in Algeria, covert
'th- 500 acres, has been drained, and the hottc
roy which is to be devoted TO agriculture, is fou
the 70 be covered by deep and immensely feri
deposit similar to the Nile mud. Appreh
sions were felt that the putrefaction Of the '
numbers Of fish, left to perish by the drain
reat Of this sheet Of water, would engender disc
81 but immense focks Of vultures swarmed ul
sat the bottom as the water flowed of, and deyo