Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1862-06-20

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on the 9th inst supposed 10 be Gen. Price. wa
Col. IngrahaIn Of Van Dorn's staff
Every man IN Western Virginia who declines
upon request, to take the oath Of allegiance i
put into the prison at Wheeling.
Over 5000 shells were thrown by the aeet IN
the bornbafdment Of the forts below New Or
leans. Most Of them were l3-inch shells: which
cost, with their filings, nearly $40 each.
H. n Sanford, Minister 10 Belgium, has pre-
sented the First Minnesota Regiment with a
small battery Of three rifed steel cannon, six
Founders, with their equipments.
Gen. Butler is moro than trumpi when
threatened with assassination in New Orleans
he blocked that game by,coolly telling the reb-
els his successor would be Gen. Phelps, the
Yankee Abolitionistl
Gen. Pope has dragged" about o5,000 rebels
in Missouri, at New Madrid, Island No. 10 and
Corinth, including half a dozen Generals; and
all too with the loss of not over one hundred
lives on our side. Pope leads the column
Gen. Burnside, in his order congratulating
his troops who took part in the taking Of Fort
Macon says. Every patriot heart will be filed
with gratitude to God for having given to our
beloved country such soldiers"
1t is stated that Hayti and Liberia, now that
they are recognized as nations by the United
States, will send phitc men as their representa-
tives TO Washington. Can it be that no respec-
table person Of color is willing to lose caste by
putting himself on an equality with Cox 81 Co.
at the Capital2
II hope, my little daughter" said mother
one morning, "that you will be able 10 control
your little temper to-day" "Yea, mother; and
hope you will be able TO control your big
temper"
VIM F. Goshorn, of slave Lucy notoriety, has
been arrested at Wheeling for his secession
sympathies, as developed in his jubilntion at tbs
defeat of Banks, and is to be taken 70 CamI
| Chase for safe keeping. He had better be sen
up TO Cleveland take the place Lucy occupied
Free negro nurses are called for by the rebe
army officers. They are informed that aif theJ
go willingly good wages will be paid; il they
do not volunteer they will be impressed.
! The bercavements of the war, so far as the
single city of New Orleans is concerned, have
dreadful exemplifcation in the appalling fact
stated by the New Orleans Della, that there are
now no fewer than twenty -four hundred orphan
children in the several asyluns of that city.
General Hunters negro brigade has been dis
banded Railroad Communication between
Charleston and Savannah was cut off recently
by 800 of our troops, who destroyed 3 bridges.
Up to the 10Th inst, over 1900 slaves have
had petitions filed for their emancipation in the
District of Columbia under the late act of Con-
gress Thus two thousand disgraces of the Fed
eral capital have already been wiped out
The members of the present Legislature Of
California, elected by the Republican and Doug
las Democratic parties respectively, have united
in calling State Convention to meet at Sacra-
mento and organize for the ensuingState election.
Gen. Mitchell is now plating with iron, and
raoa e..
ferry-boat lying near Huntsville, on the Ten
nessee river. With this, manned with two To-
pound Parrot pieces, he hopes to bid every at
tempt to cross the river defiance.
The Rebel Government has published "C3en.
eral Order" directing the drafting of every male
white and mulatto capable of bearing arms
whether they had Substitutes or not. What a
blessed state of society they are enjoying down
in Dixie
Capt. Henry Clay, o. S. A., grand -son of the
late Sage of Ashland died in Louisville of ty-
phoid fever on the 9th inst. His father fell at
Buena Vista, and the son served gallantly as aid
of Gen. R. w. johnson, in putting down the
insurrection; his disease was contracted in camp.
The Nashville Union is very severe on Mr..
jeff. Davis. IL asserts that he is of illegitmate
origin, his father being born thief at that who
once lived in the town Of Fairview Todd coun-
ty, KY, some fifty miles from Nashville.
The services performed by acontrabands" in
behalf of the Federal cause, have stimulated
passions of the rebel soldiery against them to
such an extent, that even the Richmond Wing
is shocked at the barbarities inflicted upon the
defenceless slaves"
A beggar in New Orleans approached we'll
dressed citizen and held out his hand for aims
The citizen offered him confederate note. No,
said the poor fellow, taking mournful survey
OF his own dilapidated dress, Il have too many
rags already"
The recent murder of John A. Carter at
Springfield, Mass, was a most remarkable crime.
An unknown man approached him from behind,
and dealt the fatal blow, and as the victim fell
looked at him and exclaimed, any God I've
made mistake-its the wrong mani" Mr.
Carter died on Sunday, leaving wife and three
children.
IL is stated that at a late imperial reception,
Napoleon took Slidell to seat and conversed
with him during the space Of an hour, winding
up with the ad vice to the rebel leaders, 80 lay
do'On their arms as their cause Oas hopeless"
The Augusta Goa Chronicle wants to know
why the sugar and tobacco were not DESTROYED
at New Orleans, al well as cotton and adds
"There is no justice in placing the whole burd
ems and destruction of this war OH the cotton
merchants and planters" The Chronicle is get
ting its eyes opened and beginning to see it, I"
The Tribune says lady in Ulster county, N.
Y, writes: ave have ust received the horrid
news of poor James Websters death. Heown-
ed a farm in Virginia, was a Methodist minister,
and quiet Union man. The rebels took him
while he was threshing in his barn, without even
allowing him a change of clothing, drove him
three days without eating, 80 that he died. He
was my nephew" les st,,t .s...s..v.,.
Ex- Representative Bouligny, OF New Orleans,