Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1863-01-16

Items.
Secosh prisoners atill continue 10 fnd quar-
ters on Johnson's Island The Sandusky Reg
istor announces the arrival Of 50, average speci-
mens, ON Saturday evening
The late Pew renting in Henry Ward Beech
er's Church, yielded $4,000 OF about $1,000
more than last year.
Eight prisoners have Just escaped from the
Vicaria dungeons in Naples. They filed away
the iron gratings Of the windows Of their cells,
and the sentinel winkcd at their departure
The latter was formerly Bomba soldier.
According to the N. Y. Herald record for
1862, overl 600 persons were killed and wound
ed by railroad, and over 300 by steamboat ac
cidents; and about $4,000 worth of property
was destroyed by fire.
President Lincoln contributed $3.50 TO the
sum collected by tho efforts of Mrs, Smith, to
provide Christmas dinner to thirty thousand
sick and wounded soldiers in Washington.
General Rosecrans is said to have establish
ed his headquarters in Murfreesboro' at the
very house at which General Morgan was mar
ried by General Bishop Polk, in the presence of
JEFF. Davis. The change Of occupants is quite
suggestive.
In answer to an inquiry Of the Senate, the
Secretary of War denies that any person has
been required to take an oath that he would not
bring an action for damages against those who
arrested him or ordered his arrest. So this lie,
got up by the Northern seeesh sympathizers, is
nailed to the counter.
The pen with which the proclamation was
signed was bespoken in advance by Mr.. Sum-
ner for Mr.. George Livermore, Of Cambridge
Mass, a well known antiquarian and collector
Of historical curiosities.
III L r
Indiana, Secretary of the Interior, vice Hon.
Caleb B. Smith, resigned.
The 9th regiment Of Iowa volunteers has
about it striking PECULIARLY, namely, that
nearly all its members are over forty-five years
Of age. Three -fourths of them are grey headed
and many have long, white beards giving them
avenerable appearance.
The death OF that notorious rebel and Govern
or Of Missouri, Claib f. jackson, is confirmed.
He died Dec 9Th, of cancer in the stomach
The Missouri Democrat cody remarks--"Ail
that can be said of him is, that he is now the
right man in the right place."
| Among the rebel casualties in the Murfrees-
boro' battle was Captain Hen. Yancey, son of
the Hon. W. L. Yancey, mortally wounded.
A correspondent of the Richmond Examiner
estimates the damage caused by the lombard
ment of Fredericksburg at $700,0o0.
The small -pox has broken out with consider
able virulence in Newport Rhode Island.
There arc now about three hundred men lack
ing to fill the quota of Massachusetts under the
last call. These Will be raised without draft.
At recent hotly contested municipal elect
ion in Covington, KY, the "Butternuts." aided
by all the prestige and help of their confederates
on this side of the river, were completely routed.
The whole Union ticket was triumphantly elect
ed by majorities averaging nearly orguite three
hundred. The sign is good one for Kentucky.
II they will the unqualified Union men can no
doubt completely control the State.
The Detroit Adgerttssr d Ti-i6u,.e calls atten-
tion to the singular fact that the Democratic pa
pers which favor paying half the war debt Of
the rebels, have such terrible concern about
paying Missouri to get rid of the curse of sla-
very. What screamers to protect the Northern
people from taxes they must be, when they
would impose three or four hundred millions upon
them, spent in rebellion against the Government
and the Unionl
For man who, two years ago was Hunker
Democrat, Gen. Butler comes out rather strong
on the subject of the negro. In farewell ad-
dress to the people of New Orleans he said ="
Months of experience and observation have
forced the conviction, that the existence of sla-
very is incompatible with the safety of YOUR
selves and the Union" This sounds very much
like what we used to hear in Abolition meetings
twenty years ago.
Mr.. Jones, in his lectures in New York told
his audience that in England three hundred
families controlled the Government, few thou.
sand landlords owned the soil-five men owned
one-fourth of Scotland and five millions of
adult men had no voice in the Government
Mr.. Adams, Minister TO England, writes to
his son in Boston under a late date, that the re-
lations of the embassy at the Court of ST James
are more cordial and pleasant now than at any
time previously since he went to London.
A Washington correspondent of the N. Y.
Commercial asserts that letters from John Bright
and other politicians have been sent to the
President, declaring that proclamation of
emancipation will at once array Great Britain
with the Union.
There are now on hand at the United States
Armery at Springfield, from 10000 to 10000
new rifles, all packed and ready for shipment
This is the hrst time since the war broke cut
that there has been supply ahead of the de-
mand. The Armory now turns out about l 600 |
. day; before the war the product was only l.
800 a month.
The great chain of the Pyrenees has Mt last
been crossed by a railroad. The entire distance
Is GO miles. South of Bilbao the mountains
rise very abruptly, and there occurred all the |
difficulty in crossing. The sum-
nit is at an elevation of 2,l63 feet above the
tide level, and this has obtained by maximum
grade Of 76 feet to the mile. On the BAY of |
Biscay, as its termination, pier one mile long |
s being constructed, giving that place the best |
harbor on the Southern coast Of Spain.
A New Orleans correspondent SAYS ga mos. |
affair occurred recently in the for
ner headquarters of Major General Butler
Captain j. @. Mcclure, Of General Banks staff, |
who had occasion to enter the office found a rose
ying upon one of his desks. and taking it up to |
'melli its fragrance he no sooner applied the rose
70 his nose than he fanted 1t is supposed the |
rose contained poisonous powder, which caused |
The insensibilty. The flower has been secured |
and will be analyzed by askillful chemist"
Professor Winchell, State Geologist of Michi- |
gan, reports that the whole area Of that state
embracing one hundred and eighty-seven town
ships, or six thousand seven hundred square
miles, is underlain by coal seams, ranging in
thickness from three TO five feet Mines have
been opened att several places, three at jackson
md one at COrunna, which last year yielded
'ver twenty-f five thousand TONS The coal re-
smbles that of the Illinois beds in quantity.
Col. Gibson at Murfreesboro.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Ga