Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1863-11-13

A "coffiD," said an Irishman, "s the
house a man lives in when he is dead"
George Peabody, the eminant American
Londoner, has presented Yale College with ge-
illogical cabinet worth $l2600O.
The leading New York City hotels are
now asking 80 so per diem for board-that is to
say $2l so per week. Rather steep, that
PUT NO CoPPERHEADs ON GuARD.-This
is the voice of the people, as expressed in every
election this year thus far except in the pitiful
little State of New Jersey.
Minnesota papers say that in consequence
of the absence of hunters, prairie chickens are
running through the streets Of St. Paul
The accumulation Of guns in the Spring
held arsenal now amounts to $4,000. About
10000 are kept boxed subject to call at any time
President Lincoln has transmitted to the
Ladies of the Great Sanitary Fair held last week
at Chicago, the original draft of his Proclama-
tion of Emancipation.
AT Berlin, Michigan, barrel of Sorghum
Syrup was stored away some i've years ago; it
was recently opened, when the contents were
found to be dry sugar.
The pneumatic engine in London carries
one hundred and twenty mail bags daily thro
| its tube, in fifty-fye seconds, a distance which
would occupy ten minutes time ofthe mail carts.
Ex- Governor Sprague has bought the
trotting mare "California Damsell" for eleven
thousand dollars as present, it is said, for his
betrothed, Miss Kate Chase.
Baron Rothschid has como to tho relief
of the finances Of France, and he has taken four
millions sterling of French Treasury bonds at
five per cent interest.
| A paint mine has recently been discov-
cred in California which yields eighty -four diff
ferent tints, varying from vermlion to dove color
The supply is large enough to last 100 years.
Tho London Times of October 81, says
the Paris advices state that the new French loan,
which is expected shortly to be introduced. is
A prisoner who arrived at Fairfax few
days ago, after running the blockade at Will
mington, paid $4,500 in Confederate currency,
, to raise $500 in gold for passage money.
WHAT CHANGEwAs THERE.-We learn
that Canadian gentleman, who was a rantng
secessionist eighteen months ago, recently in
vested $4,000 IN Five -Twenties. To this COM
Il plexion must we come at last
Evidently something is the matter with
the Copperhead papers. Not one of them has
yet denounced the Presidents last proclamation
for volunteers, as arbitrary and unconstitu-
tional."
u Henry Ward Beecher is doing the Amer
lean cause good service in England. Free Trade
: Hall, in Manchester, capable of holding 1000
persons, was densely crowded recently TO hear
Mr.. b., whose appearance was greeted with the
most enthusiastic applause.
: How significant the fact that Slavery
IL, L., ~.
was Just, it would not shun the light of free in
!. qury. II is the consciousness of being in the
wrong which moves the champions of slavery
to advocate gag laws and vigilance committees.
A horrible catastrophe occurred in Troy
on Monday of last week. A sewer in Jacob
street, in process of construction caved in, and
buried fifteen men under an avalanche of soil.
Five or six only of these have been saved.
We learn that the rebels, on returning
the body of General Lytle TO our lines, sent
along with it package containing his private
papers pocket-book, pen-knfe,and even the
buttons of the blouse which the General wore
under his overcoat when he fell.
George E. Pagh rushed with alacrity tc
the defense OF Cathcart and his co -conspirators
when they reached Cincinnati in Irons. The,
constitute part of Pughs army, with whicl
he threatened to inaugurate civil war in Ohio
! Why should he not try to rescue his subalterns
4 AT Terre Haute, Indiana, on the 10th
ult., bridge gave way, precipitating to the riv
er beneath eleven persons, two wagons, fou
horses and number of cattle, and causing the
death of three men, three girls and one boy.
The Democrats Of Franklin County, Pa.
must have been desperate at the election fo
: their Sheriff, one Brandt actually brought pris
oners out of Jail TO vote the Democratic ticket
The election board didn't see it," and sent tn
Sheriff's novel voters back to Jail without th,
luxury of voting for Woodward.
5 Vallandigham professions before the elec
tion were graced by females carrying banner
inscribed ''White husbands or none" We gues
it will be "none" as judging from the election
returns none of the white boys in the State, Ell
: ther at home or in the army, will be likely t.
trouble them.
= The Government detectives in Baltimore
seized a blockade-runner called the Cog,ttte oil
Tuesday night of last week. Her cargo valued
: at $4,000, consisted of powder, whisky, lum
2 Der, and dry goods intended for the rebels Thi
: is the largest seisnre of the kind yet made il
: that port by the detectives.
> Four thousand eight hundred refugee
from Northern Alabama and Georgia have ar
I rived in Nashville since the first of August an,
= Most of them have been sent North.
The latest reports from St. PetersburI
state the situation between Russia and Turke
was threatening, and the probability was ths
the Gar will have diplomatic rupture wit
the great Western Powers before Christmas
= On the morning of the Ohio election, th
Richmond Examiner published an article /
which it freely expressed its hopes of Vallan
dighams success hailing the success of tn
opposition as the birth of peace party" an,
avowing the belief that Vallandigham, if elect
ed, would "accept dissolution as an accomplished
fact"
/ A rebel officer, brought to Washinuton
: few days since, was asked if Lee intended t
make another invasion of Maryland, when h
emphatically exclaimed, Oh Maryland"
The elections in Prussia, which took plac
on Oct 20, have again resulted in an overwhel
e ming victory of the Liberal party. The ney
II Second Chamber will be even more democrati
than the one which was dissolved in September
The Copperheads of Amanda township
Hancock county, o., burnt the barn of Mr. Pc
ter Shoemaker of that township on the night q
the 18th ult, with two horses, and his entir
crop Of wheat, &c. Mr.. S. was an active Unio
! man, and out of pure malignity the Copper
heads thus destroyed his property.
e There is in Novia Scotia young woman
h seventeen years of age, who is seven feet tw
inches in height She measures forty -thre
?, inches round the waist, thirty inches frol
her armpit to the tip of her fingers, weighs tw
n hundred and seventy-four pounds, and has