Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1864-04-29


colored schools, and over 2I000 teachers, of
whom $3.50 are women.
The public houses, says an eastern paper.
charge three dollars and half a day for REGULAR
board-two dollars for smelling of the kitchen.
and fifty cents for kissing the cook
In the 1st Michigan regiment of sharpshoot-
ers, there are two companies of full l-6looded
Chippewa Indians.
A number of the prominent merchants and
citizens OF Liverpool have forwarded $4,000 to
the Treasurer of the Friends Freedmen's Aid
Association of Philadelphia, to be used for the
relief of freed negroes.
ParsOn BrOwnlow has declared very emphat-
lcally III favor of the denomination of Mr..
Lincoln.
A. @. Harris, brother-in-law of ex- Presi--
dent Fillmore, died at his home, near Nashville,
on Thursday last Pity it hadn't been tother
fellow.
A white woman ON trial at Bridgeport, Con-
| necticut for adultery with a negro man. was
defended by two Copperhead lawyers, and esca-
ped from Copperhead sheriff while the trial
was going on. Where are you, Miscegenation?
A whole family named McMann, and num-
6erlng i've persons, were burned to death al
| Iarport Pennsylvania. ON the 9Th instant
Their house took fire at two O. clock in the morn
ing, and they were unable to escape.
A gentleman walking with two ladies step
ped on hOgshead hoop that flew up and struck
him in the face. ''Mercy - said he (which
one Of you dropped that?"
Major Horace Goodwin, of Hartford Connec-
ticut, claims to have in his possession the torch
which was used by General Israel Putnam
when he entered the wolf den at Pomfret.
| Among the inscriptions on the tombstones in
the rebel graveyard at BealtOn Station, Virgin
| ia, is the following: "A coward, 9th Louisiana
Volunteers, died December 4, 1861"
The petition of Richmond beggar sets forth
that he was in great distress, needed and was
willing to take food, or clothing, or even mon
ey." Thought to be hard on Memminger.
The Baltimore American does s.not hesitate
to say the greater part of the vote which in Mis-
souri,, Maryland and Kentucky, will be cast for
Mcclellan, is vote that would be more glori-
ously cast for jeff. Davis, and only takes up the
other as the next best man.
The War Department has ordered an addition
of 10, OOO beds to the present hospital accommo-
datiOns at Washington. All patients able to be
removed are 70 be sent North at once
Children who do not like castor oil can have
|
quantity of oil prescribed is placed in a pipkin
over fire, and an egg broken into it and stirred
up; when cooked, a little salt or sugar or cur
rant Jelly should be added The patient cannot
possibly detect the medicine, and will be most
likely to cry for more of the mixture.
The printers of Atlanta, Georgia. having
''struck" for 81 81 per thousand ems, the four
Journals published at that place have been COM
PEELED to suspend publication. As soon as the
printers quilted work, however, the conscript
officers seized them and marched them off to
camp.
In private letter to the editor of the Wash
ingtOn Republican, from the army, the writer
tells story of of the farmers in the vieini-
ty Of Culpepper, whose possessions lay in a
district where both armies have foraged The
old chap one day, while surveying ruefully the
streaks in the soil where his fences once stood,
remarked with much feeling: Il hain't took no
sides in this yer rebellion, but I II be dog gorn-
ed if both sides hain't took me.
a leading Copperhead visited a grocery in Al
len county the other day, and gave vent to his
treasOnable sentiments, saying, among other
things, that If he twas in command of Libby
Prison. he would treat our Union prisoners a
id sight worse than the rebs do, - The la
dy behind the counter could stand it no longer,
and seizing woman's weapon, a broom stick,
and rushing at the Copperhead, gave him a
pounding that he will long remember He re-
treated from the store on double quick" The
verdict was that the lady had served him right.
A colony of five thousand Circassians is about
to be established by the Porte, in the Holy
Land, on the large and magnificent plain of
Sharon, between Mount Carmel and GAIA The
people of Palestine look with suspicion ON the
scheme, thinking it will be adding Just five
thousand robbers more to the number already
operating in their country.
In the warrant for town meeting in a neigh
boring town, a few weeks since, one of the ar
tieles was to see if the town would authorize
the erection Of a flagstaff One old Copper
head patriarch ON the day of the meeting. was
heard to ask his friend what kind of a flag it
was proposed to display upon the staff. ''The
Stars and Stripes, of course, replied the friend
Il thought so, said the old shell bark, II knew
it was some ID Black Republican project
Portland AdUertiSer.
About the richest reason assigned for the
grand defeat of the Peace Democracy at the
spring elections, is given by the Warren, Ohio,
Constitution. 1t says: There is but little in
terest felt in the elections throughout the cOun-
try-the Democrats seemed to be reserving their
strength for the fall campaign"
The New York Express is one of the most ul-
ira Democratic papers in the country, but it has
the candor to publish the following: ''Since the
beginning of the present unfortunate war, some
500 general officers have been appointed, and in
not one case thus far, have political considera-
tiOns entered into the case of the appointed
During the Thirty y-seventh Congress, the Mill
tary Committee of the Senate, composed OF
four Republicans and three Democrats, enter
tanned {, 425 appointments, and in the present
session some 1000, and the Committee assert
that not one party vote has ever occurred in the
Comaittee room on reporting fayorably in the
. case of any man..