Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1862-11-28
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Chief Justice Taney is said to be quite ill.,
He is in his s6th year.
The whole amount Of salt inspected at Onon.
| daga for the year, till the 9Th Of November Ia
76S0,4S3 busbels-an increase over last year Of
PAS 349 bushels.
A big feet passed Detroit bound down on the
| 18th and 18th. The vessels numbered I43 and
their cargoes exceeded 100000 bushels
A white robin, with plumage like the cleanest
snow, and otherwise very beautiful has been shot
at Auburn, Massachusetts, and will be stuffed
for preservation.
1t is said that Fremont is about to sell his
Mariposa ffact, and viii receive sufficient sum
therefor TO enable him TO liqudate his indebted
ness, and have three or four millions left.
A well-dressed and rather pompous youth
asked lady who was riding in the cars, ais this
seat engaged, nadami" The answer was direct
Yes sir, and am engaged tool"
There is a rumor running through the Brazil
ian Department of the International Exhibition
! that stone has been found which is larger than
the Koh-i-nor and the Star of the South put to-
gether Qr.-Is it a granite mountain4
| A little boy once said to his aunt-aAunty,
should think that Satan must be an awful troub-
lie to God" Ale must be trouble enough, in
deed, l should think" she answered. 81 don't
see how he came to turn out so, when there was
no devil to put him up to it,
! SAMMY" was two years and six months old,
and had inclinations to visit his aunt's house
| every hour. His mother said to him as aunty
brought him home, that he "must not ever run
down to aunty's without leave" Soon again
his merry voice sounded through aunty's rooms
The little fellow sunny face her delight; she
said to him, Sammy, have you leaveY" The
chubby hand was thrust out, with Eyes, aunty,"
and in the open palm was clover leaf which he
had picked for his passport to aunty's presence.
Governor Andrew has submitted the proposal
10 President Lincoln to place an iron clad man
| Of war in Boston haibor. The Alabama has al
ready been within two hundred miles of that
port, and the Governor, in view of the necessity
Of the work offers on the part of Massachusetts,,
that she shall build the craft in case the general
! government cannot.
john Hutchns, member Of the House of Rep
resentatives from the Ashtabula (Ohio) district,
is drafting bill which he contemplates intro
ducing at an carly stage of the next session of
Congress, to provide for the abrogaton of the
State Governments of all the States in rebellion
on the first day of January next
/ AT Louisville, last Sunday Parson Brownlow
| preached TO congregation partially composed
Of loyal East Tennessee regiment. Address
| ing himself, in his sermon to them, he advised
them to obey their officers until they arrived in
their own taste in settling old scores with the
rebels in that section.
The number of principal colleges and profess
ional schools in the United States, including the
theological, law, and medical, in 1860 was 223
About I0,000,000 acres of public lands were ap-
propriated during the present year for the sup
port of colleges and schools for agriculture
and the mechanical arts. Five millions of per-
sons received instruction in the ed ucational insti
futionS Of the nation the ending luna i6ll
The Oberlin News says that James A. Stone
private in Edgcrtons Battery, of Barnetts Ar
tillery Regiment, who died in hospital at Nash
vile, Tenn, on the 25th of October, was "white
slave" He was born and raised slave in Ken
lucky. Thirteen years ago he ran away from his
master and came north. Being a mason by
trade he found work and home in Oberlin,
where he leaves wife and five children, with a
little home partly paid for during the struggling
years of his freedom. He was so white that few
suspected him to be of African descent, and Of
those who knew that fact scarcely any We're
aware that he had been a slave.-CIeUe. Herald.
The Albany Argus of Tuesday, 18th says
ave undersstad that the roads in the western
part Of the county are almost impossible on ac-
count of snow drifts. We are informed that in
some places the snow is three feet deep.
t The official election returns from Dakotah ter.
ritory show that but four hundred and ffty-sev-
5 en- votes were polled at the recent election for
I delegate to Congress. Governor Jayne was
elected to Congress over Colonel Todd-present
$ delegate-by sixteen majority. Townsend was
q elected Auditor by twelve majority, and Irish
Treasurer by three majority.
The total returns of votes cast by the Wiscon.
: : sin Volunteers, at their distant and home camps
: for candidates in that State, foot up, s.2l7, o.
which 6,2l9 were for the Republican UnioI
+ ticket. This shows how soldiers vote.
'i A rebel paper published in Louisiana is print
n ed on the inside of ordinary wall paper. Tn
Houston Telegraph and the Galveston New
- have come down to small brown paper such a
d grocers use. Many of the Mississippi papers ar
e lingering in the last stages Of contraction. The
appear in all sorts Of fantastic shapes and colors
Is exhibiting alarming symptoms of the fatal news
= paper epidemic in the rebel land
Mrs. Gothwick, of PeTyville, noted Unio
10 lady, kept her 'red, white and blue" flying 1
st spite of the rebel possession of the town, an
when the rebels were evacuating the place, sh
IN waved il over their heads and aunted il In the
IN faces. This was too much for the secesh ehival
= ~. They went and demanded the flag. Sh
refused to give 1t up unless a commissioned o.
ls feer should come for it, and when an officer di
he come she said he could have il in pieces, as
Of would never be given into their possession
fy desecrate. She had cut it into hundred bit
duu NACAatueo3 yod IAAs tuo udhhcI Oi o.
country in the dust. II you do have little ten
p0raTy possession of our village"
. a special Washington dispatch to the Phil
:. delphia Enquirer. dated New. 18th says the u
est Intelligence from the rebsl army ssys ths
hI have been marching into Richmond for sewer
"a days aud that none remain behind except Jael
te son and Stuart with part Of Hill corps, who q
W o between Cullpepper and WarTenton and who vi
oi no doubt try to har1nss our advance on to Ricl
e- moad. The rebels viii not give battle this 81,
of their works around Richmond. They ha
on had near 100000 recruits in Richmond the Ia
- month, and the hunying into the fortifcatiOns
y: their army has doubtless struck terror TO th'
ais souls.
wa The Hartford Times Of the 18th says; Lett
nd 10 Nov. Z, have been received in this city by
,ot d. Morgan, ESQ, from his son, n 8. Morgi
ed Acting Master ON the u. s. slO0p-of-war Rel
dv with FarTaguts squadron at Ship Island.
~ says a boats crew from the confederate iron cl
i6s steamer Ovieto, at Mobile escaped from n
steamer and arrived al ship Island on the LIST.
They say she is 10 be fitted out TO cruise a. I
IA Sumpter did. She is the same vessel that ,
in by the U. S. ship OneidA-for failing TO p
al vent which, Commodore Pre6ble was snmmar
md dismissed from the navy. He also mentions
fact that in Mobile harbor there four log
leir ships, all more or less iron plated. rumoI
der mentioned, but discTedited. that Farragut is
me ing north, aud that Commodore Dupont is
take his place al Ship Isiand."