Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1863-05-15
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| President Lincoln has approved the sentence
OF death passed upon two men convicted Of re-
cruiting for the Rebel army in Kentucky. and
they are 10 be executed on the 18th inst
Indian troubles have broken out In Utah. "a
whites, in pursuit of stolen stock. have been
murdered; II Indians killed in retaliation ana
300 whites are in pursuit Of the notorious Win
nenuck.
Tar SPorrED DIsEAsE--A young man named
Beardsley, who resided on franklin street. west
side, died last night Of the aspotted disease" "
which has recently appeared in this section He
was sick but for three days. C2spc. Leader.
The oopPerhends Of Pleasant Ridge, wapello
county, Wisconsin, have had a school house
meeting, and resolved that they would resist
the draft. Here is first rate opening for
cemetery, with the prospect that the lots will
soon be occupied.
II turns out to be strictly true that, last fall
in Northern Alabama, the rebels actually butch
cred about thousand blacks to prevent them
falling into the hands OF the Union Army Two
hundred were confined in a large building. the
building fired, and every one of them burned to
death.
The blockading fleet on the Florida coast has
captured twenty five vessels-sloops, schooners
and brigs-withn a few weeks They and
their cargoes are valued as $25O000.
aAsA Asa Asa Such was the cry of Val
landigha m from his upper window, no doubt
| the grand hail OF distress of the Knights Of the
Golden Circle. We are assured by one familiar
with the rituals of secret orders that when @the
! grand hailing sign of distress cannot be seen
the word is to be heard. ."-C2cre Herald.
The Leavenworth Conservative says it is q
remarkable fact that the soldiers from Kansas
are seldom taken prisoners The Kansas mer
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though the State has 10000 volunteers scattered
through nearly every department, and hardly ar
officer has ever been captured. At the present
time the Conservative does not know of singlt
Kansas soldier who is prisoner.
! A cowhiding affair came off at Perrysburg on
! Saturday, the parties to which were the senior
editor of the journal and the editor of the Ind.
pcndcnt. The difficulty originated in personal
reflections in the Independent on the editors Of
the Journal. The senior editor of the Jour,a
having been the assaulting party, and having
administered, as it is understood, severe casti-
CATION.
| Municipal elections were held in most Of the
cities of Indiana on Monday. In Indianapolis
the COpperhead ticket was withdrawn, and no
opposition was made to the Union ticket John
Caven, for Mayor, received $500 votes Colonel
Richard j. Ryan 1880, and the other candidates
about the same number. The new Council
SldnusScVenteen Union 10 one butlernut. In
Terre Haute, Albert Lange, late Auditor of State
was elected Mayor, and the whole Union ticket
carried by majority of about 400 Michigan
City aud Shelbyville have also gone Union.
During the speech OF Col Stanley Matthews
at the great Union demonstration at Hamilton,
Ohio, he won the earnest attention of three la
dies present, who ostentatiously wore butternut
ornaments. When he spoke of the effect that
the course of traitors at home had on the sold
iers in the field, and pictured its double coward
ice, they were observed to grow nervous, and
finally they plucked the Infamous ornaments
from their dresses and threw them on the ground.
They did not rest contcnted until they had
trampled them in the dust.
A bill is before the rebel Congress providing
for an election the members of the next House
Of Representative by general ticket. The OBJ
lect of changing the law is to secure full rep
resentation from each Rebel State; whereas un-
der existing regulations, all Western Virginia
and the three counties on the eastern shore to-
gether with two Districts in North Carolina,
three in Louisiana, three in Tennessee, and one
in Florida, would be unrepresented, because no
elections could be held in those sections.
The Buffalo Express says few days since the
noted and notorious Davenports, of that city
gave public exhibitions Of spiritual iugglery in
town in Michigan challenging search. A Mich
igan paper says: "The investigation was made
more thorough than they anticipated, resulting,
as it did, in the discovery of their apparatus for
producing raps table turning spiritual music,
&c. So these holy men, finding the tables turn
upon them, drew dirks and Violently stopped
further investigation This interesting scene
occurred ON the Sabbath The civil authorities
took coguizance of the affair, and in accordance
with the laws ofthe State, fined each of the i'm
posters twenty five dollars for exhibiting show
on the Sabbath"
WHAr WAS Ir1-The New Haven Palladium
records the following: "On Sunday morning,
May Sd, about half past eight o'clock, the people
of Wallingford, CT, were started by rumbling
sound, like loaded wagon passing over the
road and soon after by report like the discharge
of artillery. At the same time ball of fire was
observed to dart east from the foot of the liberty
pole. The pole was shattered from top to bottom,
the splnters flying in every direction, and about
twenty feet of the pole fell to the ground. The
pole cost Moses Y. Beach over $500 and was the
finest in the State. On the top was large cop
per ball"