Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1863-01-02

Items.
The Ohio Legislature convencs at Columbui
on Monday next We shall endeavor to spread
before our readers in next weeks JounSAr IN,
Governors message
The reports in the daily papers that the rebels
had made another raid into Maryland, turns out
to be pure canard. .... t.
Defrees' report Of the operations of the Gov
eminent printing establishment shows saving
In twenty months Of $206I0O0 under what the
same printing would have cost ON the old plan.
J. The twenty sixth asteroid has been discover
/ ed by NJ, D'Arrest of the Observatory of Co.
penhogen. This being the first discovery OF
the kind in so high northern latitude, NJ D.
Arrest proposes name from the Scandinavian
mythology-Freya, the hyperborean Venus.
THE NATURAL ALmFs.-A young volunteer
in one of the New York regiments was captured
in Virginia on tho 7th ult. and taken before
Stonewall jackson, who Travelled on the same
train with him TO Richmond. The President
had just seen the news Of Seymour's election in
a New York paper, and gave the first intima-
tion of it TO Stonewall, who exulted over the
Democratic triumph ns another Bull Run, aud
remarked that 6cttor times might nor BE- expected
en- The NORTH All the way TO Richmond, jack
son proclaimed the news to those he met and
it was hailed as though it involved the recogni-
ton of the Southern Confederacy Stonewall
Is smart, but sometimes little too fast.-M y
Tribune
: The amount necessary 10 pay all the troops to
this date is estimated by the Paymaster- Gener-
al at forty y-five millions.
The population of the Russian Empire in l722
was l4,000,000 in 1903, 360O0,OOO, and at the
present it amounts to 65,000000.
One of the walters in the Phnnix Hotel at
Lexington, Kentucky, describes his experience
with the rebel officers who tarried there during
Braggs invasion. He says: "Ebry one Ob dem
rebels made his own money. and dey was berry
free wild it coz dey know'd it didn't cost muffin.
One gentleman gave me five dollars for blackin'
his boots and tole him he was berry kline; but
It it was all the same to him I'd RAIDER had a
dime. He tole me denI was a id Yankee
nigger, and didn't glib me muffin"
The Cumberland river is reported as still ris
ing, and is now in good condition for small boats
The Ohio Sinking Fund Commissioners have
left for New York, for the purpose of paying the
January interest on the State debt 1t will be
paid in gold as heretofore announced.
The N Y. Tribune estimates that New York
City, alone, will yield S12,0OO00O per annum,
under the internal revenue law.
The receipts of hogs at Cincinnati the past
week were $4,000 head, and the total packing,
thus far is up to $4,000. The season 3 busi-
ness Will over a half million, and larger than
in any previous year.
A man, who was once on journey said he
never liked to see tables full of books and news
papers where he stopped over night "for" said
he "I can never find any wLishJ AT such places.
A shrewd inference.
init hat Il II.
sent to Horace Greedy $1,000, as a contribution
for the sufferers in Lancashire, England.
Leprosy prevails to an alarming extent in the
British West India colonies. 1t was introduced
by the Chinese coolies.
The receipts of cotton at Cincinnati are now
quiet large-some 1853 bales in a few days.
The bales from Memphis were l,443 and 536
came from Cairo.
Commissioner Boutwell, has received at his
office since the tax law went into operation
nearly six million and half dollars. This does
not include collectors receipts.
The people of the South are not troubled in
the winter with rattle-snakes, moccasins or vi
pers, but they may find the Anaconda very bad
To preserve your health-take a brandy
smash in the morning, throw it out the window,
and after that eat your breakfast.
A Western paper says: at is only twenty
one years since the first log cabin was erected in
Burlington, Iowa, and now it contains 10, 100 in
habitants. Alarge cabnl
Ifpeace was made with the rebels by the rec
ognition oftheir independence, there would in
less than year be civil war in the States now
loyal. And shall we give peace to our enemies
for the sake Of war among ourselves?- Louis.
Jour
The Virginians are adopting new form of
abolitionism. They are hanging their negroes
to prevent them from rising