Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1862-03-28
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United States, Feb. Is, 1862.
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Curtis has driven Price out of Missouri and is
driving him out of Arkansas "No blame is
attached to the driver"
The notorious DR.. Merritt the murderer of
our Union Picl5ets, has been arrested south Of
the occoquan and taken to Washington city.
1t has been suggested that old Mr. Bell ran
away from Nashville because he was afraid of
'thc enforcement Of the lGsOs p
The rebels rarely risk a battle where they
havn't one or two railroads to run away on.
1t is said Gen. Mcclellan approves the new
article ofwar forbidding army officers returning
fugitive slaves. Well he might, when a viola
tion of it would lose him his place in the army.
When lady asks if you admire her dress
she expects you to express your admiration Of
herself.
| A Northern "inudsill" is not ashamed to blacl
his own boots, and Southern flower of chiyal
ry'' is not ashamed to boot his own blacks.
! The best thing to be done when evil come
! upon us is not lamentation, but action; not tc
sit and suffer, but to rise and seek the remedy
| Floyd complains that he is unjustly treated
We are disposed to reply in the language of the
Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon-"Wh out of hell and
complainS'
The Memphis Avalanche says that General
Sam. Houston, of Texas, is not dead A Gal
weston paper contains letter from him, dated
January 81.
@My good woman said the evangelist, as he
offered her a tract, shave you got the gospel
hereH" "No, sir, we haven't it, replied she, "bu
they've got it awful down to New Orleans"
1t is said that the young people of some o.
the Northern cities do their courting on skates
But there are quite enough slips where counting
is done in the old way.
We have heard of many instances Of distress
in business circles lately; but that of the New
York merchant, whose wife has given birth to
twelve children in about forty-two months-ir
installments of single, twins, triplets and fours
-seems to be the most narrowing.
| A storekeeper painted the lower part of hi
stove red, and saved seventy-6ve per cent il
the consumption of wood thereby during thu
winter. The illusion was SO complete that ont
man tried to make him pay for pair of boot
that he had burned
Among the bills presented TO the United
States by the different railroad companies 70
Transporting troops, DC, from the list of April
1861, to February lst, 1862, are the Detroit an,
Milwaukee, $l4, ,022 10; Michigan Southern $ll0,
! 32l 55; Michigan Central steamers 81 ,026 "a.
! "Where did you get this turkey?" said Co
5 Billy Wilson to one Of his amiable recruits, wh
!. came into camp one day with fine bird. "Sto
it." was the laconic reply. sAh, you see m
: boys may steal but they won't lie,' said Il
! Colonel triumphantly to bystander. ~
Kansas is full Of Missouri contrabands The
number is estimated at 5000, of whom 5000 a
5 rived after the rebellion broke out. Gen. Lar
, brought over 2500, and Jennison I,50O NOR
Hundreds beside crossed ON Goods Bridge"
, they style the ice with which the Missouri riy,
was recently covered.
Miss Dix writes from Washington to Mr.
Harrison Gray Otis, Of Boston: @The indgniti,
: and sufferings TO which our prisoners Of Wi
have been subjected at the hands Of the rebe
would disgrace the coarsest and most brut
savage tribes. May God forgive the perpetr
tors Of these monstr0us atrocities, for It is hal
for nan to pray sincerely for such enemies
these have proved.
A Washington letter writer says: II have Il
!, best authority for stating that next to CAPITA
u Ericsson the credit for the building Of the MOI
Q itor is due the President. The drawings an
v plans of Mr.. Ericsson were rejected by the chi
. engineer in the Navy, and it was only aft
: President Lincoln personally Interested hir
!. Amos Kendall says: aProbably four -fifths
| all the slaves In the United States are now LAY
, fully subject to confscation on account OF Il
= treason Of their masters. How far the fovfei
y ure Of their slaves their other property or thu
!. lives, shah be carried, is question Of expes
ency only, aud involves no constitutional que
= ton Of power. FouF-fifths Of all the alavea n
Il be thus lawfully set free. and the emancipati
S Of the other fifth would soon follow,
A story is told Of Nashville Lady: Her re
tive, an officer in the Federal army, called toi
her, She showed her patriotism by the bitt
est remarks toward the Linoolnites. Moth
could reconcile her 70 the Union or appeass
!, temper. @ohs come you nustn't talk 20" q
u the officer; @you must be Unionist now 500
b er or later you win be one" @Well, said q
70 at viii not be for while anyhow. Il took
" sin months to turn Seoesh, and ! viii not %
er Union In less time. I'm not Gfraid Of you;
"a not talk Union just BECAUSE you are here"
er PRKslpxsr LINCOLN ann sLkvHnH Is EHn d
a rRIor.-In his speech in Freaport, Illinois,
a. 1858, Mr.. Lincoln declared himself in hyor
k the abolition Of Slavery in the District Of O
ut ulnbin, and oxproesed the opinion furtheymt
~ tha enfire conefituiionnlifV Of auch actiou,