Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1864-04-01

AJCilIC-
Over four million dollars in soldiers bOunties
have been paid by the towns i'll Maine.
The Maine Legislature has voted that the sol
diers of that state in the field may vote.
A dispatch from Fort Smith announces the
army of the frontier in motion, supposed desti-
nation Northern Texas.
Gen. Grant states that when the reorganiza-
tion of the Army of the Potomac is completed,
it will be the finest army the continent.
1t is reported that the President has sent
for Gen. Fremont TO give him an important
command.
Seventeen thousand votes were cast at the re-
cent election in Arkansas, 200 only against the
new Constitution.
The 18th Regiment, OWL, passed through
Cincinnati Friday, on their way 10 the 'front.'
This regiment obtained about 600 recruits dur
ing its 30 days furlough, and now numbers
1860. Col w. II. GIBSON is in command.
The Springfield Republic says:-"The DEM
ocratic Convention did a pOnderous deed when
it nominated A. S. Ramsay, of Kenton, as can
didate for Ohio School Commissioner He is
about as fit for the place as yearlng bull
would be for the place of pianist at fashiona-
BILE concert.
The Chattanooga Gazette is out in favor of
establishing new State, to be composed of
East Tennessee, North Georgia, and Western
North Carolina. The East Tennesseeans de-
sired to be set off from the rest of the State IL
1861.
The commander of the Third Ohio Cavalry
has reported TO the Adiutant Generals office
that he has over 400 men who are ready to re-
turn to the field.
The enlistment of colored troops in Middle
Tennessee goes on rapidly. At tShelbyvlle and
Lebanon there are 5000 men ready for the
field.
The Catholic Telegraph, published at Cincin-
natl, the Universe at Philadelphia, and Bron-
sons Quarterly Review, three of the strongest
Roman Catholic papers in America, are among
the strongest advocates of the total abolition of
slavery.
An expatriated Illinois copperhead, who has
been neglected in the matter of manners and ed
ucation, writes from Kingsville, Canada, to his
friends at home long and prOfane epistle in
which the following sentence occurs: "ieXpect
tolve her till Jeffdavis and the suthern aconfed-
eracy, whip old abe and his army"
A story is told of a young Frenchman who
wanted to enlist from Pittsfeld, Mass, but he
was under size and under weight, and so was
rejected. He was determined to go. however
and wrote TO Mr.. Lincoln telling him So The
President liked his spirit and replied if he
would show his letter to a certain New York
cavalry recruiting officer, he guessed he would
take him-and he did.
The Navy Department has received informa-
ton that on the 11th inst, off Mosquito Inlet,
Florida, the United States schooner Beauregard
captured the schooner Linda from Nassau to
Symna, Florida, with cargo ofsalt, liquor, cof-
fee, &cn Also, the capture on the same day by
the same vessel, of the British slOOp Hannah, of
Nassau. The vessel had on board a small guam
tity of cotton, but her Captain threw it over
board before being captured,
The amount paid to veteran volunteers in
bounties is said to reach $90,000,000.
The Ohio State journal is responsible for the
following: at is said that Newfoundland is a
country without reptile. The Chattanooga
Gazette says that 'Vallandigham is a reptile
without a country" "Time makes all things
even."
A Florida correspondent ola Charleston pa
per says that in recent battle 'The Yankee
darkies fought like devils"
An exchange says the New York Herald has
changed its programme, and now goes for Grant
on Mondays instead of Tuesdays the
latter for its Mcclellan day Thursday is still
its Fremont day.
A large quantity of baked beans was recently
sold at auction in Clifford, N H., for the benefit
of the Sanitary Commission. They had been
ordered by the Democrats, who were confident
of carrying the town, but when they found the
Union majority was one hundred and nineteen
got mad and wouldn't take them
Miscal johnson, well known in 1861 and 1862
as one the most daring, desperate and trouble
some customers in Missouri, a few days ago
came into ROlla and gave himself up under the
Presidents Amnesty Proclamation. He was
paroled and ordered to reside in Illinois, north
of Springfield, during the war.