Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1863-03-27
Items.

| The Nashville Union has the best authority
for believing that the notorious Rebel guerrilla,
Capt. Lewis Kirk, has been killed.
] About sixty women in Madison, Wisconsin,
have taken the preliminary steps 10 form I'M
ion League, TO encourage loyalty and bring the
weight OF their influence against treason.
John Trimble, the great Union man of Nash
vile, has made his slaves-thirteen in number
"a present of their freedom. This excellent
man and his whole family are, and have been,
uncondtionaly loyal.
The bill to permit soldiers TO vote, now pend
ing in the New-Jersey Senate, has been refereed
tothe Attorney General for his opinion of its con-
stitutionality. 1t will not be likely to come to
vote this session-the Copperheads do not like
to face it, M tti hs a
The attention Of all soldiers absent from their
regiments is called TO the notice of Quartermas-
ter General Wright, published elsewhere. 1t is
for their benefit, and they should not hesitate to
act upon il at once.
French sorrow and sentiment are illustrated at
Montnlartie Cemetery, where a tombstone has
been erected with a colossal tear carved on it
and the words nderneath-"Judge how we To-
we'd him !"
Mr. John Conness, the new senator from Cali
ifomia is said to be in favor freeing the slaves
VI iSoNAol "uN u hSSA w " mug 'iSih'
The Mendoza (Ill.) Bulletin says: A Mrs.
Shurtz, residing four miles southwest of Mendo-
! ia, in the German Settlement last week gave
birth TO four ehi!,frenl We understand all are
living and doing well. la -ife
I The financial exhaustion of the rebels is stri-
kingly proved by the fact that, according to the
rebel Secretary of the Treasury, for every dol
lar expended by them in the war they have not
been able to raise more than three cents by tax
alton. h il,i} It i'7s-3 ifHa
| A rebel agent in Paris says the Confederatcs
! have powder enough on hand TO last them six
months, and that he has just sent them 10000
stand of arms, which is about 10000 more than
! they want, with some 10000 muskets and rifle.
being repaired. Clothing has lately been @rur
| in" in abundance. Rebel sympathizers IL
Paris have Just raised and sent home $l0000(
! in gold for the families of killed and wounded
A certain Boston gentleman subscribed and pait
in hard cash $l000Ol
i A Washington dispatch says that betweel
sixty and seventy refugees are arriving daily
from the South. They bring the most deplora
BILE accounts of the condition of things in rebel
dom, 1t cost one laborng man nearly $500
Confederate scrip, which is about $I25 in gold
to transport himself wife and three children
/ without baggage, from Richmond to Washing,
ton. There has been recently a great adyanc,
in price, greenbacks being $50 per cent premium
over Confederate money.
; The copperheads Of Calumet. town in In
diana on the Michigan Southern Railroad, at
T tempted to break up meeting in aid of tn
Sanitary Commission, some nights since, bu
r were prevented by the appearance of Unite
States Marshal with posse of men. Subse
, quently the copperheads attacked Union peo
pie residing in the surrounding country, break
mo their waoo ns and throwing stones and club