Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1864-02-19

Illinois has furnished l45,O73 men to the Un
ion armies.
Major General Blunt is restored to comman,
in Gen. Curtis Department Kansas.
A trunk containing $4,000 was found las
week by our soldiers, secreted in house nea
Knoxville.
In Manchester, England, land has been sold
by the square yard, and as much as E200,00t
per acre has been given for sites in the best par
Of the town.
Queen Victoria has nine children and fou
grand children.
Itisstated thatthe snow is fully forty fee
deep on the Rocky MountaiDs--a greater deptl
| than has been previously known there for years
Pride is the dainty occupant of our bosom
and yet ever feeds on the meanness and infirm
ity of our kind.
The hyacinths are in bloom at Vicksburg, anc
the soldiers play on the green grass. Here W.
are having anew ice crop.
With $sOOO,OOO capital employed and ,OOC
saw-mills engaged, Michigan cuts annaally
about l,000,000,0O0 feet of lumber worth 80.
100000.
It is asserted that the gold customs of Febru-
ary, at New York, viii probably be over S.
100000; with only $S.OO0OOO to pay out
The Jews in the interior of Asia are bestir-
ring themselves to erect monument to the men,
CRY of Ezra the Scribe, the restorer of their sa-
cred writings, who has been dead $500 years.
A blockade runner grounded in fog on the
9TH inst, and was destroyed by our fleet and
batteries in Charleston Harbor.
The Ohio Copperhead Convention is to be
held at Columbus on the Sd of March, to NOM
mate State ticket and elect four delegates at
large to the Chicago Convention.
The Erie Dispatch says another big oil well
was recently struck on the McClintock Farm,
which yields from 200 to $50 barrels of oil per
day. An eighth interest sold for $4,000.
An officer from Grants headquarters says all
through the country to the rear of the Union
line Union officer, in his uniform, can ride un-
molested TO any portion of Mississippi Ten
nessee and Alabama.
After months industrious begging through
out Ohio, the admirers of Vallandigham have
raised less than one thousand dollars toward the
fund for his relief.
Over fifty thousand dollars have been paid in
Memphis, Tenn, to collectors of internal reve-
nue. during the past sixty days.
On the 9th inst, Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard,
through his agent paid his United States tax on
property in Memphis, Tenn, amounting to one
hundred dollars. This clearly indicates that,
even if he has faith in the establishment of a
Southern Confederacy, he has no hopes that
Tennessee will constitute portion of it.
The Washington correspondent of the Wor-
cester Transcript, who has examined the Intern
al Revenue returns, says that tobacco pays
fav of 9 950000. laafber cor,as ,,oxt ,l,,y;Do,
81 900, ,000 then iron, 81, ,700 900; and then malt
liquor, 81 100000. Peddlers pay $3O0,O00 for
their licenses, and those who ride in carriages
$250OO0.
The Treasury Of Fayette county, Ohio, was
opened by false keys on the night of the 9th,
and robbed of $4,743. The Fayette County
Herald says that the Treasurer had, fortunately,
deposited $4,000, just before the robbery, in
the county bank.
A Hartford paper says it is thought that Colts
Pistol Factory was fired by a rebel. One pur-
porting to have escaped from the South, had
been employed previously, and the fire broke
out during the only half hour out of the day
when the watchmen were not on duty
Washington Feb. l5th.-The Supreme Court
to-day refused application for writ of certiorayi
in the case of Vallandigham, Oh the ground of
want of Jurisdiction.
The House ways and means have Just report
ed a bill to sell $4,000, 900 of gold. Mr. Chase
says they willhave even more than this to spare
on the Both of June 1864, the close of the fiscal
year.
W. w. Treadwell, Of the Peoples Bank at
Hudson, Mich, who recently absconded with
the deposits of that institution, was arrested at
a place near Mansfield.