Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1864-02-26
Items.

1 ssS1daho says Wag, Is the last cry OF the
gold hunters. When they go there and get back,
they may have eyed hoe, but no gold.
The Columbus Express says the name of DIR.
EPSON B. Olds new church has been decided on
In honor of the founder, the followers arc 10 he
called EpsOmiteS.
The earnings of the Cleveland and Toledo
! Railroad for the year ending Dec 3lst, 1868
foot up 81, 577, S99 S6.
Some of the Union men of East Tennessee
who have been imprisoned by the rebels, have
commenced suits for damages against the VIII
| lannon's leaders in the rebel ranks Parsm
! Brownlow's suit is first ON the docket, and he
lays his damages at $25, O0O
A man and his wife, employed in the Treasury
Department at Washington, have been dismiss
ed for reasonable correspondence with rebels
The woman wrote To her secesh friends, zone
woman can accomplish more with officials here
than fifty men can do lis true It's pity
It's, and pity tbs 'tis true. -
Gov. Smith, of Rhode Island, informed the
General Assembly on the 10th inst. that the
quota of that State under every call of the
President of the United State is full.
About two hundred freedmen a week are en-
listed at Chattanooga. They come from Georgia
and Alabama in squads of from five to twenty
many ofthem having shackles upon them when
they arrive
The Onondaga Salt Springs produced last
year total of 7,942 1888 bushels of salt The salt
duties amounted to 1863, ,425,3S The total prod
uct since 1886 has been l54,933,807 bushels.
The earnings of the Erie Railway last year
were $l0444000, and it is estimated they will
reach $14,000000 next year. The receips this
year were about double what they were before
the war commenced.
"A Washington dispatch says that the Pres-
dent received dispatch from Connecticut an
nouncing that the Union Convention had elect
ed delegates to the National Convention and in
structed them to vote for Lincoln.
In less than twenty EIGHT minutes, $29,035,
were recently subscribed TO pay off the indebt-
edness of the Wabash Avenue NJ. E. Church. in
Chicago. The Tribune calls it the fastest church
subscription ON record. The debt was $28000.
The notorious rebel naval officer Capt Cox
setter, drowned off Wilmington on the 10th
INST, while trying to escape from the captured
blockade runner Fannie and Jennie The pur-
ser THE vessel was also drowned
A New York paper says the whskey dealers
have lost million of dollars by recent fuctua-
tions in prices.
The officers who escaped from Richmond have
been granted furlough of 30 days.
In the House to-day, Mr.. Garfield stated there
will be $74,000000 in gold in the Treasury Ju-
ly lst, at the present rate of receipts and the
pledges of Government for coin are $23000000
The New Hampshire powder works turn out
$50 barrels of gunpowder monthly.
A military detective force has been put on
duty in Cincinnati, by the government, to see
that military officers and privates conduct them
selves with propriety, andare here on legitimate
furloughs.
Governor Brongh has appointed William
White, of Springfield, Judge of the Supreme
Court of Ohio. to fill the vacancy created by the
resignation of Hon. H. H. Hunter.
Washington correspondentreports that SO,-
600 veteran volunteers have re-enlsted and that
over 10000 new recruits have enlisted since the
Ist of November. Of these, Ohio has furnished
10000, besides veterans.
The Knoxville Wing of the 18th announces
that the editor, Parson Brownlow, was SO seri-
ously i'll that his life was despaired of.
Adam Delpt, citizen about II years old. was
shot dead in Columbus by Corporal Myers on
Thursday evening. Myers was out with squad
after stragglers and deserters and ordered Delpt
to halt Delpt did not obey, when Myers shot
him through the body. Myers was arrested
and placed in close confinement.
In the description of the escape of our coun-
trymen from Libby Prison, Captain Wallack
says some negroes rho 1Uere in the prison,
Uditillg on prisoners discovered tohdt they acere
doing, bit LOydHy Kept the secret" And SO is it
always. Negroes have always been true to IN
ion soldiers The fugitives have reason to thank
God that their efforts to escape were not dscov-
cred by Northern Copperheads.- Dayton Jour.
1t may be interesting to the lady readers to
know that the Empress of Austria has the small
est waist in ChristendOm. 1t measures ISL
inches-about the circumference of her hus-
band neck. And yet-would you believe it,
girls?-the circumference of her body at the
shoulders is 3315 inches.
In Virginia, citizens of certain counties are
to resist rebel conscription, and to
punish rebels generally. The rebs. seem to
have acquired wholesome dread of :" home
guards, and denominate them "swamp drag
ons." They are said to be the sharpest kind of
sharpshooters.
Washington dispatches give the points of the |
official correspondence relative to the arrest of
Consul General Giddings, at Montreal, on a |
charge of kidnapping. He was arrested at the |
instigatiOn of seeessionists with the double de-
sign ofinsulting the United States and levying |
black mail.
The railroad between Chattanooga and Knox |
vile has been repaired, and cars are now run |
ming, to the great joy of the people along the line
of the road. Not a house or shahty was pass |
ed on the trial trip that the residents did not |
rush out and, with handkerchiefs and flags, well |
come the coming of the federals
The notorious guerrilla leader, Bill Harper |
who has been the terror of a portion of West |
ern Virginia ever since the breaking out of the |
was killed a few days ago He was
caught in the house of a relative by party of |
Home Guards and fought desperately, receiving |
thirteen balls in his body before he fell dead.
As was foreshadowed by the earlier rulings,
he Admiralty Court at Halifax has restored the |
steamer Chesapeake and her cargo to the own
ers. The counsel for the pirates, in the course /
If the trial introduced naval commission pur-
porting to have been issued to the pirate lead
srs, but it was not regarded by the Court.
A New York paper says Government five per
cent. securities can be converted at par. This |
nanifests' no want of confidence in the Govern
nent of the United States. Under Democratic
'ule three years ago, with no war on our hands,
Government securities were not converted at |
ess than ten per cent. Is this the reason why |
Bogus Democrats say that the country is ruined /
md that Democrats must manage the Govern
nent again.
The silent passage of Arnold's resolution for
IN amendment of the Constitution TO abolish
Slavery throughout the United States, by ma
ority of sixteen in a thin house, presages the
most important act of legislation in the history
IF the Government. A majority of over forty
i've representatives can be commanded for the
measure on a full vote.
A Democratic Temperance Society has heen
established at Eaton. That is horribly anti
but it isn't an impossible thing
the vilest sinner may return" And we have
no doubt those Democratic sinners will return
to their whisky.-DaytOn Journal.
The House, on motion of Mr.. Farnsworth, of
Illinois, passed unanimously resolution of
hanks to the re-enlisting veterans. No omore
ust and timely act has been done this session.
The country unites with representatives in ex-
oressions of profound gratitude to its defenders.