Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1862-10-10

scnt to their regiments.
Tho New York Times says that the World is
understood 10 have become the property Of Mr.
Fernando Wood. and Is simply the defunct Day
Book under another name.
Judge Holt says that cno one can doubt the
power Of Mr.. Lincoln TO issue proclamation Of
emancipation"
Seven locomotives, taken by the rebels on our
retreat from Bristow and Manassas Junction,
were recaptured by Col. MeLean's late recon-
noissance. The rebels had partially repaired
them, and were only waiting the Feconstruction
Of one or two railroad bridges to run them
down to Richmond
A wealthy old fellow Of Albany has made an
application for divorce from his young wife Of
seventeen, who drew five Thousand dollars from
the bank, went to Saratoga, and spent the mon
ey in company with very fast young man.
We should think the old chap had good ground
for complaint.
boy twelve years of age named Hurd, es-
capped from the Indian attack on settlement
near Lake Shetek, Minnesota, and actually car
ried and led his baby brother, two years old, for
forty sig miles, to New Ulm, the nearest settle
ment. These "babes in the wood" were four
teen days in making the journey, subsisting on
wild fruits and roots The mother OF the heroic
children has since been rescued and reunited
to them.
The nearest point from Washington at which
the rebels are, is at RappahannOck Station, on
the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, fifty-on
miles from Alexandria
Gen. Pope hasrefused to employ the Chippe-
wa Indians in the war against the Sioux. He
does so from motives of public policy.
Many Of our soldiers who can get leave of
absence are engaged in fishing in the Potomac,
between Dam No. and Williamsport, for arms
dropped by the rebels in their hasty fight over
the river. A large number OF guns, swords, pis-
tolls, &C., have been recovered in this way
Persous who were on the battle ground o
Iuka, state that the rebel loss was fully 500, o
whom 300 were killed. The Federal loss wa.
100 killed and about 200 wounded. All this
was done in an hour and half and much of il
with the bayonet. The result was a brilliant
Federal victory.
Our loss at Harper's Ferry is stated in pre-
else numbers at IL ,583, and forty-seven pieces Of
artillery, besides some that were go badly ipiur-
ed not to be worth counting.
Laughter sleep, and hope, are the three boun-
ties with which kind Mother Nature compen-
safes us for the troubles of life which few, per-
haps, would accept if they were asked before
hand.
Capt. T. F. Wells, Of Boston, Mass, with 90
divers 300 men and whale ships, arrived at
Fortress Monroe, on Wednesday, 18th, for the
purpose of raising the sunken vessels at Hamp-
ton, Newport News, Gosport and James river.--
Their contract compells them to raise the Cum
berland whole, but Capt Wells intends to raise
the Merrimac whole, if possible
The Canton Repository says the Treasurer's
office of Stark county was entered few nights
since by some one aud robbed of $4,000. Ten
thousand of it was in currency and thirty six
thousand in checks, drafts, DC.
The Buffalo Commercial says that General
Cassius NJ. Clay has definitely abandoned al
idea of returning to Russia and that he win
serve his country in the field, wherever the
COMMANDMENT Chief may send him. +5ar
The Evansville Journal has been informed by
a refugee from Curdsville that the guerillas
stopped funeral procession in that vicinity a
few days ago, and stole the horses from the hearae
leaving the corpse and hearse in the road
A bill passed the Confederate Congress au-
thorizing the Secretary Of the Treasury to issue
copper coin of the denomination Of five, ten, and
twenty-five cents, to the amount Of five million
dollars, appropriating 100000 to carry the act
into effect
The local of the Cincinnati Gdzohe thus speaks
Of the death Of General Nelson: "The news OF
the killing Of Gen. Nelson by Gen. Davis at
Louisville, was received on our streets yesterday
forenoon with great satisfaction. The universal
verdict was that Nelson only received his Just
deserts, and Gen. Davis was everywhere justi-
fed.
In Indiana the price the "conscientiously op-
posed to bearing arms" have to pay for exemp.
ton from draft has been fixed at $500. i
strikes us that is paying pretty literally fol
freedom of conscience" f..'
PRIzEs CArrURED.-The New York Oopslsr.
cial advertiser publishes the names Of the vesseli
captured by our blockading fleet, with their car,
goes and value. Two-thirds Of them were ia.
ken under British colors, and their papers
showed them TO be the property of Englishmen
They number 500, and the total value Of vessel.
and cargo amounts to twenty millions thres
hundred and three thousand sir hundred anc
eight dollars.
The London Herald, rank tory sheet, which
has been bought up by promises Of cotton Il
defend the secession cause, says: at IL better Il
be starving operative in Lancashire than to b
thriving citizen of the Northern States at tn
present time. The starving operatives" Of Eu
| rope do not seem 10 be of the same opinion, a
over $4,000 Of them have sought hospitality an,
a refuge from starvation in the United State
within the past six months.
An Englishman named William Edwards
who has been for twenty years in the Britisl
| service, has enlisted in the Eleventh Connect
cut regiment as aprivate. He wrote 20 the re
cruiting officer Of the Ilth as follows: "Sir
As one who wishes the prosperity and welfare
of the country, may beg of you to enter me a
recruit, TO defend the flag that gave me anC
my family happiness !"
Massachusetts, will have sent in all, under tn
different calls of the President 80,460 men, a
follows: Sc regiments Of three years men, Sc 800
IS regiments of nine months men, $4,000; mum
Der raised ta fill up the old regiments, 1000
other miscellaneous contributions 2700; cav
airy regiment, l.200 II batteries, 1860; enlste'
in the navy, 10000.
z We have from the Cairo Gazette horSibl
story Of rebel guerrilla aatrocity-,almost too hor
rible for belief The assertion is that gang O
guerrillas in Hayward County, Tennessee, visi
ted the house Of Marshall Waters, an old an,
respected citizen, dashed in the door, seized th
old man, tied his arms behind him, and lashe'
him to tho back of horse. The old man
daughter was violated by ten of tho gang, be
ing first sotied as TO render resistance impossi
BILE This accomplished, the house was burne
to the ground, the young woman perishing
the flames. They then rode off with tho al
man, taunted him with the fate Of his daughte
gave him three minutes 10 pray, and hang hin
up. A noise frightened them, and they rode Of
the old man succeeded in escaping. This is q
youched for as being solemnly true.
Not least. in future years, among the memoir
ais Of Harper's Ferry viii stand the relics Of oil
John Brown; the engine house that he made hi
castle the spot where he was wounded, ard IA
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