Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1862-02-07

Items.
There is Gaelic proverb: +'If the
best mans faults were written or his fore.
head, Il would make him pull his bat over
his eyes" H
The Cincinnati Copimereial Of Tuesday,
noticed the arrival in chat city ofsevoDteen
secesh prisoners from Che Kauowha. They
we're dragged" by thirteen men, in cabin.
DEArn OF GEN. Lanes CHILD.-Gen.
Lanes infant son, who was attacked with
scarlet fever at Quincy, Illinois, on the Gath
ult., died on the 3lst. His age about one
year The rernaiBs were taken 10 Kansas
by The mother - sA fAO ittt9J
About 5000 centfabauds are collecting
cotton IN the vicinity Of Port Royal. The
cotton is carried on the heads Of the ne
groes to the banks Of thestrcams pavigable
for steamers. The number Of laborers Is
steadily Increasing. @ ~ alli9 at
The report that Gen. Grant is about
pitching into the rebels at Fort Henry up
tho Tennessee River, is a good sign. II
looks like work
Favorable diplomatic advices from Eu-
rope have been received at the State De-
partment
A meteoric stone fell in Chittonden, VT,
on the 18th nIt., accompanied by a very in
tense light. The stone is Ave inches by
fOur, and three inches thick, taperiDg in the
form Of a wedge, and appears as if broken
from larger one.
Frominformation received from our scout
ing parties and from ether sources, it is be-
lieved that large bodies of rebel troops have
been within few days transferred by rail
road from Manassas, relying upon the utter
inability of the Federal army TO move
against them on account of the impossible
condition Of the roads.
Do you happen 10 know any whole-souled
or halfway sympathizer with the jeff. Davis
Rebelliongwho does not hate and Improve
every opportunity TO vilify JoHS 9. FRE-
MoNTi We do not,
He who loves Slavery hates the Republic
There is no friend of that pernicious institution
who is for the vigorous and uncompromisng
prosecution of the war.
Some of our contemporaries seem to think the
great purpose of the war is toput down the Alb
olitionists If they are correct, we fear the war
is likely to prove an enormous failure, for since
it began it has made Abolitonists at the aver
age rate of about half million a week At
this rate, there is reason to dread that pretty
soon the people win get up the point of de-
clarng that rebels have no rights that loyal
white men are bound TO respect-not even the
right of hogging their own @niggers."
Private letters received in Washington from
persons abroad confirm the impressions that the
Governments of England, France and Spain
mediate an early recognition of the indepen-
dence the Confederate States. This rccogni-
tion, it will be pretended, is made in the cause
of humanity - ~ "a 80
2 The capture Of Cedar Keys, Florida, by our
military and naval forces, is commented upon
by late Savannah papers. The Republican
thinks, "wth the Tortpgas, Key West, Cedar
Keys and Fort Pickens in Possession of the
Union army, there is nothing left of the State
of Florida worth holding" and the Republican
is notfar out Of its estimate.
Business at the Brooklyn Navy Yard contn-
ues very brisk and the workmen have their
hands full in preparing and fitting out the new
and newly purchased gunboats, mortar vessels,
DC The "Mortar expedition" is rapidly pro-
crossing. Three more of the squadron have
sailed. The new frigate Adirondack is rapidly
approaching completion.
An instance is told of man who was sent
from New Orleans to the North, to pick up in
formation for the rebels. When he returned
home he reported as follows: II went to New
York; business is going on there about as ever
never saw things more busy there-should
| judge no one had gone to the war; didn't actu-
ally hear much about the South. Then ] went
to where they were turning out the things for
the war; and saw how they were doing 1t, and
then Was Ohen began to smell h-Hp
A printer by the name of Bigarel, formerly
the publisher of an iniidel sheet in Indiana
called the Vanguard, and recently employed in
the Governments Printing Office at Washington,
been detected in the act of stealing printing ma
terials from the latter establishment. When
discovered in the act of stealing, he had car
pet bag heavily loaded with type; and a search
of his boarding house revealed the hiding place
of over two hundred pounds more. As this is
the first instance in which the printer has been
k1lo,rt to steal, we give it publicity-they have
frequently been known to stake something" but
never to steal. This singular case of weakness
can only be accounted for by the suppositi6n
that he has associated with government con-
tractors" during his brief residence in Wash
ington. II4
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