Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1864-03-25

Branch, ~. D., the ueaths peihS Infee our louT
lper day.
Slaves are cheap in Mary land. Three were
sold at auctiou, at Frederick, on the I'd inst;
one slave girl eighteen years old, for 81, one
woman for $l5 and woman and a child, FIVE
years old, for $25.
/ We learn bya letter from Vicksburg that
"cne" Abraham Lincoln has been nominated
;or the Presidency at a meeting of the people OF
Vicksburg.
Revivals are spreading throughout New Eng
! land, aud it is mentioned as one of their marked
peculiarities that there is absence of all ex-
| citement.
1 "a Louisville editor says he has just seen a
gentleman who, after having Travelled three
! thousand miles in the South in search of his
4 rights without finding them concluded TO give
| up the hunt and come home.
| The kangaroos have latterly increased so rap
| idly in Australia that a wholesale system fde-
struction is proposed to get rid of them. They
threaten to overrun the country.
Flaver said that if men should rise from the
dead and read their epitaphs, some of them
| would think they had got into the wrong grave.
W. D. Griswold, Esq, the newly elected Pres
ident of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, is
| to receive the comfortable salray of $4,000 a
year.
Cotton is coming. On the 10th inst. no less
| than 600 bales arrived at Cairo bound up the
] river.
During the year 1863, the number of cattle
sold in the city of New York was 209,427. OF
these III ,638 were from Illinois. The balance
| from the other States and Canada.
Never send to the Printer to stop your paper
| until you are sure you do not owe for it. Pay
up. Then order your paper stopped with
| good grace.
Mr.. Say SAY -gah- e-gishkink and seve-
| raj of his companions, with equally cheerful
names, all belonging to the Chippewa tribe of
| Indians, passed through Chicago ON Tuesday,
bound to Washington.
The British steamer United Kingdom, on her
| last trip from Liverpool to Portland, had two
births and one wedding.
Map Starr, chief mastering officer reports that
| $40 new recruits were mustered i'll from Ohio
| during the past week, making the total number
since the 1st of last November, 23,651.
Twelve deserters from the 10th Louisiana
have arrived within our lines within three days.
They had got hold of the Presidents Proclama-
tion distributed in Klpatrick's raid.
The Sanitary Fair at Albany closed on the
18th. The receipts are estimated at one hun
dred thousand dollars.
A negro upon being asked what denomination
Gen. Mcclellan belong to, replied, "De nomina-
ton for de Presidency"
The Union gain in the State of New York, as
| far as the returns have been made, show gain
of eighty towns over last year.
The Raleigh IN. CO. Standard which was
| recently suppressed by JEFF. Davis, has been re-
tl, y.
| self a candidate for Governor.
A British subject recently. arrived at Knox
vile, Tenn, who ran the blockade into the Con-
federacy, with $4,000 to speculate in cotton, was
conscripted into the rebel army, passed through
several severe battles, and finally escaped into
our lines, wiser man.
The COpperhead Legislature of Delaware has
voted down, by IA to T. the bill for the relief of
families of volunteers. Resolutions in favor of
| vigorous prosecution of the war, of thanks to
the army, and sympathy with the wounded and
the families of soldiers slain or disabled, shared
the same fate.
"a hermit convicted of murder" is the head
ing of an item in Wheeling paper. The her
nit was one Hezekiah AlsOp who has lived
many years alone in rude and secluded hut;
the victim of his rage was Philip Shuttleworth.
The hermit now exchanges his hut for twenty
one years in cell.
"Don't you believe the Lord is on our side?"
said strong Rebel to a not toyer-confdent friend
| some time since Don't you think, now, the
Lords on our side?" Well y-e-e-s, replied
the other-"y y-e-e-s; but He's acting mighty
strange about it-mighty strangel'
A food at Windsor, Canada, last Friday
night caused great havoc. Buildings were
swept away, cattle drowned -four made into
| PASTE salt made into brine, sugar dissolved, an
iron bridge badly twisted, and great many vir-
tuous inhabitants nearly frightened out of their
wits at such "goings-on" in the middle of the
night.
1t is not men of might that we want but men
who use their might-men who work with zeal
and energy at whatever they set themselves to
do. 1t is not the strong "Samsons" and the big
"Goliahs," that do the most good; but lads like
David-earnest active and strong of purpose
doing one thing at a time, but doing that thing
well.
An Englishman proposes aerial railway loco
motion, or in other words, balloons fitted up for
passengers, which are to be drawn through the
air from station to station by ropes worked and
drawn in by stationary steam-engines. No
grading, no rails, no iron, no earthly expense to
be incurred but for the stations and the baloonsl
Washington special to the Cincinnati Ga
zete says: The number of National Banks,
up to the 22d inst, is three hundred and ten.-
| The Bank of Commerce, of New York, is among
the latest applications. A number of the branch
es of the State Bank of Ohio, are also proposing
| to re-organize under the national law"
| The Albany Journal returns of the town cleo
tions in the State of New York. now show $50
Union Supervisors, to $50 opposition. Union
gains IS; Copperhead gain 5.
A genuine War Democrat as the New York
| Post calls him, writes to that paper from Con-
necticut that the War Democrats of that State
will not support 0rgen S. Seymour for Cover
nor.
| A letter from JAPAN in the Tribune, reports
| the burning of 30, 600 houses and $50 warehou-
| ses in the city of Oasaca, with loss of 600 to
| 1000 lives. The fire lasted three days.
| The government must not cannot fall
Though your flag may have trailed in the dust;
though the banner of our country may have been
sullied let it still be borne onward; and if it be
necessary to cleanse and purify the banner, let
it be baptized in fire from the sun and bathed in
a nations blood.-Andreto johnson.
Mems graces must get the better of their
| faults as a farmers crops do of the weeds; but
4 when it is high and shakes its palm like leaves
/
them," for the dense shadow of growing corn is
as fatal to weeds as the edge of the sickle.
Alternately once said to rich but dirty pa
tient, who consulted him about an eruption:-
" Let your servant bring you three or four pals
of water and put it into a washtub; take off
your clothes, get into it yourself and rub your
self well with soap and a rough towel and
you'll recover" "This advice seems very much
like telling me to wash myself" said the pa
tient. We'll" said Alternately, "it may be
open TO such construction"
Late information from Vicksburg is to the ef
feet that news had been brought in by negroes
stating that portion ofthe Marine Brigade, un
der Capt. Crandall, recently surprised rebel
camp, twelve miles east of Port Gibson, and cap
tured forty-se prisoners and arms, including
Capt Lewis, besides releasing five of our men
| Who had been taken at Big Black few days be-
fore A large lot of provisions was destroyed