Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1863-11-20
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Petroleum will preserve wood from the action
OF salt water and marine insects Wonder it it
could preserve Fernando and Benjamin Wood
from reasonable words and acts2
Portugal is only 345 miles in length, and the
young prince who was born there the Other
day has name 50 long that it reaches over into
Spain.
The Baltimore American warns the slavehol-
ders of Maryland that their negroes, now of lit
tie use to them, will soon be of less, and advises
them to club together to induce foreign imm-
grants to come into that State.
John Minor Bolts farm, three miles this side
of Oulpcpper, is the only residence north of the
Rapidan respected as to its fences, barns, and
other property by both sides, although each has
five times advanced and then retreated.
A New York letter writer says that the st.
Nicholas hotel clears one hundred thousand dol.
lars year; the Metropolitan eighteen hundred
per week; the New York fifteen hundred per
week; the La Fargo twelve hundred and the AS
tor nine hundred.
Two little children were talking of the moon
the other evening. Charley said solemnly. in
his imperfect pronunciation, that it was "Dod u
'No it aint," said Sarah, ''it aint big enough -
"Well," replied the boy, determined not to be
put down altogether, sit is the hole he looks
'hiouSh, hoW'
-Four large steamers, engaged in running the
blockade of Wilmington, have been captured
within the last week. One was laden with
10000 Enfield rifles, ammunition and clothing;
one with saltpetre and lead, and the others with
assorted cargOes. The original cost of one was
two hundred thousand dollars
An Indian was recently murdered in Canada
West, whose family seem to have been destined
to unnatural deaths. One of his uncles wa,
drowned; another was shot, a third was hanged
for murder; and a fourth was killed by the car:
while intoxicated. OF his brothers one wa,
hung, another was shot, and the third is now il
Jail on suspicion of committing a murder. Hi:
only sister was killed on the railroad
A number of bachelors over thirty-five were
drafted in Providence. On being laughed al
for not being married, and thereby escaping the
draft, they very maliciously replied: at is bet
ter to serve three years than for life."
By way of retaliation for the inhuman treat
ment of Union prisoners at Richmond, the reb-
els on JOhnsOns Island have been restricted tc
Government rations. They are no longer al.
lowed to support themselves from the Sandusky
market-at this the Sandusky people rejoice,
the market prices for necessaries having been
advanced by the demand from the rebel thou
sands on the island.
says it is reported that the ship Express owned
by Hon. Daniel Marcy, Copperhead member OF
Congress elect from New Hampshire and 9th.
ers, and which was recently destroyed by the
rebel Semmes, was furnished with protection
from jeff. Davis government as well as our own.
Rev. l.. E. Barnard, of Georgia, Vermont,
who was accused by the Burlington Free Press
of kicking his wife, and whipping her eighteen
times within year, corrects the statement thro
the same channel. He has whipped his wife
but fifteen times in three years. and il she labors
under the impression that he has kicked her il
is because she occasionally runs against his up
lifted foot.
The luminosity of the Copperhcads o
the North towards the Emancipatonists of the
border Slave States is as bitter as that exhibited
against the Republicans. They are deadly hos
tile to emancipation in the Slave States by tn,
free action of the white inhabitants thereof
They love slavery, and can't bear to see col
ored man set free.
A Pixies Peaker, writing to the Mime
sofa Journal saysth miners are very much dis.
couraged in that region;-"they have to dig
through solid vein of silver four feet thick be-
fore they reach the gold.
1t is laughable TO recall the gas Of Cop
perhead orators and edtors-hoping TO excite
the people-about fighting their way over bay.
onets to the polls !" Their lying nonsense and
base efforts to mislead are all dissipated by the
facts that the election was never so full, and was
never more peaceful,
Slavery is dead !! 1t mattersno to be
now discussing how it died, or how strangely
the very people who instituted this bloody war
for its extension gave it its death blow; it is
enough for us TO know that the thing is dead
and the only question is now how to get its un-
slightly and offensive carcass out of the way.
and buried so deep that it may be past all res
urrection.-Ne'c Orleans Times, October 1914.
Gov. Yates, Of Illinois, recently addressed
a political meeting at Washington Oity, in which
he said; 'If we had triumphed at Bull Run and
at Fredericksburg, then we would have had the
Union restored with slavery. But that was NOT
in the cOunsels of Almighty God When /
urged Mr.. Lincoln to take rebel property. IA
call quarter of million of men to garrison
our posts, to raise million of fighting men. ID
abolish slavery, he telegraphed me-"Dick, hotd
fast and see ae salvGtiOn Of God"
The soldiers of tho 23d Ohio have re-
enlisted in body. The veterans number 400
men, and two hundred recruits received in Wes-
tern Virgnia-refugees from the South-have
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