Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1864-07-15

rain, hail and wind storm occurred, destroying
$5e0O0 worth ofprOperty.
Up to the Ist of June our naval captures dur
ing the war were more than twelve hundreS
vessels of all classes, of an aggregate value o
$l6, O00, 900.
The Ohio river is getting very low, only 9
inches in the channel at Wheeling. River steam
ers scarce article.
Copperheads at Newport Ohio, wishing t.
have some sport recently caught a negro lad o
fourteen, stripped and painted him, and ther
drowned him.
Great excitement has been caused III Ports
mouth, n. H, by the appearance OF the yellow
fever. IL was taken there by the De Soto, anc
thirteen fatal cases have occurred. r
Cherbourg, near which the pirate Alabam;
was sunk, is a seaport town of France, ON tho
English Channel containing about fifteer
| thousand inhabitants
The monster 2O-inch army gun now finished
at the Fort Pitt works is estimated TO weigh
lis, 900 pounds. An immense strong truck has
been made on which to transport it.
| The Cincinnati Enquirer says the wheat cror
in that vicinity is a good one in spite of the
croakers. Corn and oats will be an average crop
4 n rIehCu paper says JldI DJ an accident
| charcoal has been discovered to be sure cure
for burns. BY laying piece of cold charcoal
upon burn the pain subsidies Immediately
The remedy is cheap and simple and deserves
| trial
| Edgar Thompson, Walter Ferguson and j. H
1 Ebert, men belonging to the Morgan raiders
were detected and arrested in Louisville on the
9TH. They were sent to Lexington for trial by
Court Martial aHF
During week before last ten thousand conva-
lescents from Washington hospitals were sent tc
reinforce Gen Grant 1t is said that six thou
sand more are ready to go forward. Not more
than sixteen thousand patients remain in the
Washington hospitals.
Winfield Scott, young man from Camillus,
N. Y. lost his life on the 4th while visiting the
Cave of the Winds under Niagara Falls. He
stepped from the usual way to obtain a speci-
men of rock, when the rapid current swept him
| away.
There is an ominous silence as TO what is be-
ing done, or what Is proposed TO be done IN the
Army of the Potomac, but it may be taken for
granted that furious storm viii break before
long. This is what the present apparent still
ness means.
We see it announced that strong determine
IlGD Is DelllB eNlhCeu 10 nominate hOn D Z.
Chase for Congress from the First District We
trust he will be.
Two brothers, William and Daniel Cameron
celebrated the 4th by getting drunk and abus-
i've, in Ironton, Ohio. They insnlted the SOL
diers, shouting for Vallandigham, etc. They
finally provoked fight in which both were
killed, William being literally cut in two
A California correspondent thus speaks of the
wants of his State: 'sWhat California needs
most to-day is rain. Whatshe wants to-mor-
row is seventy-ive thousand females, which
would equal the male population, according to
the last census.
While returned member of the 10th Ohio
was relating his travels, one of his listeners
rebel ympathiser-asked this question; when
you came to a town in Dixie, didn't you find
the secesh to be the first men in the placer
Cant say as to that " replied 10th; ''but III
tell you what l can say, we found them to be
the first men out of the place.
The condition of matters in kentucky is hard
enough. Murders and robberies are frequent,
and ON the 9th the stage from Shelbyville was
stopped by four highwaymen within ten miles
of Louisville and robbed of the mails They
took from the passengers all the money, watch
es, ETC., they had. in true foot pad style
Leicester woman, who had been courted
steadily for seven years, got tired of such long
seige, and this being leap year, engaged cler-
gyman to bring affairs TO a crisis But when
the time came her lover bold thought he had
rather not whereupOn the warm -blOOded suiter
asked another man present if he was engaged,
and, when he blushingly said he wasn't but
would like to be, they Immediately fixed it
up, and were married on the spot
Jacob Webster, the Chief of the Six Nations
of Indians, in Western New York, was killed
in a drunken spree during reaent visit to the
st. Regis Indians in Canada.
1t is asserted in the London AI7ay and NaUy
Gazette that the sailing vessels in the British
Navy,wiu never be sent to sea again, there be-
ing two hundred and forty steamers in Com
mission, manned by $1,000 men.
A man came intoa printing office one day to
beg paper. Because said he, 1--WE like to
read newspapers very much but our neighbors
are all too stingy to-take one!'
Queen Victoria has Just added one hundred
and sixty acres to the property in which her ma
rine residence at Cowes, in the Isle of Wight, is
situated, by the purchase of a couple of farms
for So, 400.
The County Treasures office in Trumbnll
county was robbed of from $500 to $500 on
Tuesday night of last week. The burglars
blew open the safe with powder.
Benjamin Fitch, of Darien, CT, recently gave
building and grounds valued at four thousand
five hundred dollars for Soldiers Home, and
an endowment of five thousand dollars cash.
The Home has been incorporated by the Legis-
lature.
Among the plunder recently secured by some
rebel guerrillas at the capture of pest house
some distance from Port Hudson was large
amount of clothing intended for the flames,
which had been used by small pox patients
A man advertises in the New BochelIe Pioneer
that whereas a certain girl had agreed to mar
ry him, but now keeps out of his sight avoids
him, therefore, ifshe does not come to his cabin
within four days, he shall consider the bargain
@broke," and hold her for all damages.
Hon. J. L. NJ. Curry in the rebel Senate, in a
speech delivered at Talladega, Ala, said "But
should Lincoln be reelected, our fond hopes
would be dashed to the ground; our independ-
ence but thing dreamed of; for we have ex-
hausted our resources, and could not possibly
hope to be able to continue the war four years
longer"
A loyal woman in LOudon county, Va, the
other day refused to pay $3.50 demanded by
party Ofguerrillas to prevent the burning of her
house. The rebels had already fired her barn.
She told them to 60 ahead and burn all that she
owned; ''if she had thousands under her feet
she would not give them one cent" They
burned the house, a matter of course
An Ohio soldier, writing home from Sher-
man s army, relates how one of our brave men
was killed. He had ordered rebel to surren-
der when the fellow gave up his arms, all but
a concealed pistol, and at the first opportunity
shot the Federal soldier dead. 1t was with diff
fculty that our men could be restrained from
retaliating on the prisoners. The rebel who
killed the soldier by the means of the concealed
pistol was Immediately shot
The loss by the confagration which has been
raging in the lumber country, i'll the northern
part Of Wisconsin, viii foot up $50, ,000 In
many instances whole villages were destroyed,
and with such haste and fury that the inhabit-
ants had to fee for shelter under the bluffs of
the lake, leaving their cattle and horses in their
retreat, which IN many cases were devOured by
the flames. A large amount of tan-bark, lum-
Der and cordwood was destroyed.
The superiority Of the KedsSarge seems TO