Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1864-03-18


Idaho is AN Indian word signifying The
Gem of the Mountains.
General Howell Cobb has proposed to sell the
rebel government thirty thousand pounds of ba-
con and forty thousand bushels of corn at any
price it is disposed to pay him.
poor fellow sent to prison for marrying two
wives, excuses himself by saying that when he
had one, she fought him; but when he had two,
they fought each other.
Vermont has a surplus of three thousand men
over her quota under all calls for troops.
For two successive weeks the Bucyrus Jour
nal has mentioned cases of window smashing in
that place. We Judge they are suffering the
claw and ORDER" the ''peace and quiet" of but
ternut rule. They know little what the "free
speech" !" Stree press" &C., of peace Democrats
mean.
The ruler of Cashmere has recently taken
stringent measures to prevent the further man
ufacture of the inferior shawls which are now
sent in such large quantities to England,so poorly
made as to be nearly unstable In the city OF
Stree Nugger or Cashmere there are seventy
thousand persons engaged in the manufacture.
The old man See, who shot two soldiers at
Lancaster recently, has surrendered himself TO
the civil authorities for trial. A heavy reward
was offered for his capture, and his conviction
of the offense seems certain, but the Statesman
says he could no longer endure the suspense of
his position, and cheated the detectives by Civ
himself up to his fate.
EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY.-At the request of
Gen. Butler, President Lincoln has granted a
pardon to C. w. Newton, at Norfolk, Va. Mr..
Newton is brother of Major General Newton,
of the Union army, and was a member of the
rebel electoral college which elected JEFF. Davis
President of the Southern Confederacy.
The Gen. Custar, who made such a brilliant
cavalry dash on Lees flank the other day, is an
Ohio boy. He graduated at West Point in 1861.
He is therefore quite 'youngster' to wear stars.
More than that, he has just got him wife
Perhaps that's what made him fight sol 1t
| does some people.
Three more of the gunboats fitted out at Gin
| cinnati are almost ready to leave for some point
| where their services are needed. This will
make in all thirteen vessels of this character
| sent from that city since the beginning of De-
| cember. The greater number have been des-
patched TO join the feet under Farragut, while
some few will be attached to the line destined
| for protection of the river commerce.
A Democratic meeting III Butler county, this
| State, adopted last week an amendment TO some
resolutions, TO the effect that "our delegate to
| the Convention be instructed to vote for no can
didate who is not opposed TO the further prose-
cution ofthe war, and to support Seymour, of
Connecticut, or Vallandigham of Ohio, the
Democratic candidate for President!
Copperhead papers announce that there is to
be masquerade q bawl at Circleville i'll behalf
of that rebel charity known as "the Vallandig-
| ham fund" Nowonder the acknowledgements
prefer to go masked when about such business
! Ia IL. H.,
| cold Copperhead' mask his face.
Edward Everett acknowledges in the Boston
papers the receipt of contributions amounting tC
81, ,780 from citizens of Boston and its vicinity
for the relief of the sufferers by the Rebellion in
faithful and gallant East Tennessee. We beg
the traduces of Boston to note that the loyalists
of East Tennessee are nearly all whites, and
that Boston has been doing such work as thi;
all along.
Colonel Hobart, of Wisconsin, one of the pris-
oners Just escaped from the Libby prison, while
on his journey was in danger of capture by the
rebel pickets,and only escaped through the kind
ness of a negro. He offered the latter an OppOr-
tunty of accompanying him, but the slave de-
clined to go without his family. He asked how
ever, Just, as the colonel was leaving him.
Now, massa, how soon is you all coming down
here, we all want to go wild your
Loyal Kentucky has raised only seven hun
dred of her quota of troops, under the call tol
| 500, 900 men, and ressts the enlistments of ne
groes in her borders. This shows what would
come of Copperhead administration of affairs
Yankee New Hampshire has raised six hundred
more than hero quota. Vermont and Little Rho
dy are both out of the draft; Maine is doing ad-
mirably-in fact wherever there are school-hOu-
ses and the country full of churches, the patri-
otic people responding to the call of the
President The Oldsite church is agOnizing
yet, and can't be expected to do much for the
country.-DaWon Jour.