Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1864-04-15

Another word to say;
Now here to all,
TALL fat SMALL
vow I'd rather die
Than miss the bliss that's in a kiss
When taken on the sly.
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Items.
They drink some gin in Belgium. The ouan
tlty 'imbibed" the last few years is about 3S.-
SOO,OOO htres (quarts nearly). The cost of IL
tire is one franc sixty centimes.
The Commercials Chattanooga despatch saws
MaI.-Gens. Buell., Negley McCOok, CrittepdeD.
Newton and Sykes and ten Brigadiers have been
ordered to report to Gen. Sherman for duty in
his division.
man was convicted of bIasphemy in a town
IN Canada recently, and sentenced to three
months imprisonment at hard labor, and TO pay
a fine of five dollars.
The Turner's of Chicago have rented their
Hall to the Democratic National Convention, to
be held in that city on the Fourth of July next
The rent to be paid is $4,000.
The Binghampton Times tells ofone Pat Barns
who is seventy years old and is the father
of thirty children. He is living with his second
wife, and is an Industrious hard-working Irish
man.
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tralla for the last year will show decrease of
EIOOOOO. The amount as stated for 1863 was
really about E5,S45, ,784, and of this, writer in
Victoria says, Gl 100000 went from the Aus
tralian banks
! lady missionary passing through one OfOur
streets last Sunday, Mortified at the sight of
certain unkePt Juveniles engaged in the exhila-
rating PastIme OF long taw." Asking one lit
tie ragamuifiD if he knew where little bows who
played marbles on the Sabbath went to?" he
replied: Some Ov em goes down on the
docks"
little drummer-boy named Orion P. Howe
OF the 55th Illinois regiment Tho was wounded
at FIeksburg while carrying ammunition has
been adopted" by the Board of Trade of Chica-
go, and Dir. Lincoln, recognizing his merits and
his bravery, has given him vacancy in the Ma
val School at Newport.
The New Orleans Delta of the 23d saws Off
cIal information was received this morning that
the reconnaissance under Gen. Mower, seventy
five miles above Alexandria on the 2Ist where
the enemy was met in some force fight en-
sued, in which we turned the rebels flank, cap
tured four pieces of artillery with cassons and
200 prisoners.
Ex-senator Pugh hasudeclined the Democrat
ic candidacy as Senatorial Electtor, and the
Democratic State Central COMMITTEES have filed
the vacancy by the appointment of Charles REM
elm, OF Cincinnati.
There are some unpleasant features in Cali
fornia life; such, for instance, as the chance of
having two hundred and fifty pistol shots fired
at you, which was the experience of one Fergu-
son in miners fight in the gold region last
month. Several balls hit him, but he escaped
injury from the most of them, although his
clothes were riddled.
Gen. Wallace, true and loyal Democrat,
closed letter as follows: "This is neither
'Lneoln's war, nor a war for negroes nor a war
for conquest or glory, or party. It is the peo-
pies war for free Government. The only dis
tinction that can be made between the hero
who fell at Bunker Hill, and the hero who fell
at Shiloh, is, one died to establish free Govern
ment, the other died to perpetuate it; both are
martyrs to liberty. VIII the people abandon |
their own cause? God forbidl'' 1
Here is pithy little affair, said to have oc- |
Cured at Western debating society, in bar
room, where the question to be discussed was,
" Is the sense of smelling more pleasing than the |
sense of tasting?" This is the way it was de- |
cided Uncle Joe was the last TO speak upon the /
negative, and all were anxious to hear him de-
liver himself. Walking up to the BAR keeper, !
he called for whiskey punch and drank it off |
nents, he handed the glass to his disputant, and
thunders out, Now smell II, you varmint."
A soldier lay in a lady's house, badly wound
ed A Major General rode up TO the door His |
orderly took his horse. He got off, went in, and |
sat down by the dying man's 5 side. Taking out /
little book, he read from it, "Let not your heart
be troubled" DC. He then knelt down and off /
cred up prayer to God for that dying soldier
Arising from his knees he bent down and kissed |
him and said "Capt. G., we shall meet in
Heaven" He then rode off That General was
Maj Gen. Howard.
A New Orleans correspondent of the New I
York Times says nineteen hundred colored chill
dren are now learning to read and write in the
day schools of New Orleans. year ago over
10000 negroes were fed by the Government
commissariat in Banks Department, besides I5-
900 more who hung around our camps and were
more or less dependent These are now all at
wOrk.-There are fed to-day only 80 colOred or
phans and about 100 aged men at the public ex-
pense.
During Gen. Sherman's expedition wound
ed Federal officer crawled into the yard of a Sc
cesh planter when the latter took an axe, and,
with fendishness scarcely credible, struck
him on the head, killing him instantly. A
small party of Federal soldiers, coming up
shortly after, the negroes told them ofit, when
they Immediately shot the planter and placed
him in the house. which they burned to the
ground
rebel woman writes TO her husband in
Prices Arkansas army (the letter having been
that "Parson Nolan is our sercutri-
der now. He says that God has pIanely prom
ised to be on our side and drive the accursed
Y Yankees from off our soil Parson Nolan is a
splendid preacher, but it don't look to me as if
God was drivin the Yanks any too much outen
just new."
Cabbage" says the Edinburgh Review, Soon
tains muscle sustaining nutriment than
any other vegetable" This probably accounts
for the fact of there being many atheletic fell
lows among the tailors.
The Republican City Government of Chica-
90, which preceded the present Copperhead Ad-
on comparison Ofexpenditures with
the latter, shows an annual saving to the tax
payers of 1895, ,526.62. The daily cost of Con-
perhead rule in Chicago as computed by the
Fribune is $s22,335.5O; the hourly cost $97. 30.
and the cost per minute is $l.62. One year of
COpperhead government has raised the taxes
from $479,336.S3 to nearly $S53,0OO.
The COpperheads in the New Jersey LegIs-
ature lately attempted to pass law forbidding
any soldier to approach the polls on election
day, under severe penalty. This, of course,
was intended to prevent them from exercising
he elective franchise, ifany of them should hap
pen to be at home. The bill was defeated by a
tie vote, few of the Democrats being unable to
stomach quite much infamy.
The copperhead women of Ohio say they are I
determined to make up the sum of fifty thou g
and dollars for the Vallandigham fund.- so that t
he Ohio traitor can live inglOrOusly at his ease
n Canada. Of the fifty thousand dollars. five {
thousand have been paid inl s
Two hundred and fifty rebel prisoners (Lou- !,
at indianapolis have written to Gov .
'mor Hahn to say that the school of misfortune :
las taught them wisdom, and that they desire !
o take the oath and return to citizenship i'm .
Ioulsiana-especially now that it has become a /,
rec state.
boy baby was recently born at st. Johns,
n. b., with the power of speech He made
ew Occular remarks and died
The Rome (Ga) Sentinel thinks that atbere !