Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1864-02-12
Items.

L Grams. h6CEuiLlLlK iOf Olu dllu bcW
was going on rapidly.
All enlisted men in the regular army are to
be credited to the respective States in which
| they were recruited.
I048 deserters were registered mt the Provost
Marshals Office in Virginia during January
ITO came in on the I'd.
Several thousand prisoners (Federals) are be-
ing sent from Libby Prison, Richmond, to the
interior of Georgia.
Fernandina Island, off the coast of Sicily,
disappeared beneath the waves some years ago,
but it is gradually coming to the surface again.
Gen. Butler confidently believes that an ex-
change of prisoners viii yet be effected. Com
missioner Ould, the rebel officer assigned to that
duty, is in favor of exchange.
A young stock broker having married fat
old widow with 100000. says it wasn't his
wife's face that attracted him SO much as the
figure.
Mr. John Note, of Trowbridge, Allegan Co.,
Michigan, while hunting recently, killed three
| deer with one bullet at one shot, and found
them all dead about rod apart.
The Springfield Mass. armory turned out
$500 muskets last month-the largest number
ever madein single month. There are 100000
on hand.
A man in Poughkeepsie, N. Y, within few
weeks has been drafted, married and burned out.
| he might have recovered from the draft and the
burn; but the marriage settled him.
Sherman's expedition comprises the 18th and
| 18th corps with I5,0 900 negro troops from Port
Hudson, and is moving on jackson, Meridian,
| Montgomery or Mobile. The combined force
will reach 10000 men.
The Provost Marshal of Iowa has telegraphed
to the President that the State will fill its quo
| ia by volunteers, rendering draft there unnec-
essary.
There were 5,227 births, 2,372 marriages in
Boston last year.
During last week 1,l04 passing soldiers were
entertained at the Soldiers Home, Cincinnati
The grand total of soldiers received there, since
the opening, is 58,506.
Atthe election for town officers in Bingham
ton, New York, on the I'd inst, every candidate
on the Union ticket was chosen by handsome
majorities-a result unprecedented in the polit-
ical history of that place.
San Francisco now ranks as the third COM
mercial port in the Union, New York being the
first and Boston the second. If San Francisco
keeps growing much longer, however, she will
change places with Boston.
Tennessee has done nobly for the war since
given %, 800 men TO- the Federal service, ofwhich
$4,000 are cavalry and 1000 infantry. The
cOlored troops raised number 1850.
The burning on the 5th of that portion of
Colts Arm Factory at Hartford in which the pis-
tolls were made, involved loss of 81, 600, ,000 on
which 100000 was insured. Two men were
killed, and 800 thrown out of employment.
An Irishman recently said:-Ireland gave me
a birthplace, which was all she could give;
England gave my father dungeon; but America
gave me good home, therefore I'm a Union
man from the ground up-all the time.
The Columbus Journal of Monday says the
Books of the Commissary of Musters show
that the enlistments throughout the State for
the week previousswere 1,069.
1t is worthy of notice that many of the vet
eran corps return to the army before the expira-
tion of their furlough. One of this class gave,
as reason for not remaining the full time. that
he was homesick, and so returned to his home
in the army.
The Chairman of the Tax Commission for the
sale of confiscated estates at Beaufort, S. c., is
DIR. VIM. Henry Brisbane, who more than twen-
ty years ago was driven from South Carolina
because he would liberate his slaves
tits said that the Government is in possession
of undoubted evidence going to show that the
rebels would give up the contest at once, were
it not that they are induced to believe the sue
cess of the Copperheads possible in the naxt
Presidential election.
The Missouri Legislature passed the Emanci-
patton Convention bill by vote of 80 to IS, af'
ter amending it SO as to postpone the election oi
members of the Convention to November.
| Moses Y. Beach, of Wallingford, Connecticut
expends over $500 annually in presents to chill.
dren in the public schools of that town, as ar
incentive to them to be diligent in their studies
The bank note circulation of the North anC
South combined, at the commencement of the
war, was SI50,OO0O00. Now in the Northern
States alone, it is $1S0,000,000, together will
over $300,0O0,000 Treasury notes and $20, 600,
600 postal currency.
Upto the middle of last May, our armies hac
lost only So per 900 year of the whole force
The English army suffered, in the Peninsula
campaign, an annual loss of 265 per 1000, and
during three months in the Crimes, 5l1 out o
1000 perished, mostly by disease.
W. B. Johnston, of s. c., reports that the az.
gregate loss of that State up to the 1st of No.
vember, 1868, at 4089 men; of these 2,239 fell
in battle or died from wounds and 1850 from
diseases. including few from accidental causes
Adam Delpt, citizen about 40 years old, wal
shot dead in Columbus by Corporal Myers or
| Thursday evening. Myers was out with squad
after stragglers and deserters, and ordered Delp
to halt. Delpt did not obey, when Myers sho
him through the body. Myers was arrested anC
| placed in close confinement.
The State of Maine leads off in action undei
the new call for troops. An order has beer
passed by the Legislature looking to the pay
ment of a uniform State bounty of $500. Tha
is the way to do it, for then the burden fall
equally on the taxable property of the citizeD
protected by the Government
On Friday, the Woman's Loyal Nationa
League sent to Washington 100000 signature
to their Emancipation petition. This is thu
first installment of the million to be presented
to this Congress. The petition is intrusted Il
the care of the Hon. Charles Sumner.
The Montreal Witness asks for scientific ex
planatiOn of the fact that this has been the mild
est winter in Lower Canada, and the severest
perhaps, ever known in the United States, anC
even as far south as st. Louis and Washington
A deserter from the Union army lately visite'
Kingsville, Canada, fell in love with girl there
and married her. He sent her to Detroit to bu,
clothes she wrote to him to come and choos
for himself which he unsuspectingly did, ant
was given up as deserter by his charmer, VIII
also received the $50 reward without a muir
mur, and went back home.
The correspondent of the New York Herdt
with the Army of the Potomac writes that ther
, has been degree of religious interest manifes
ted by the sOldersof late that promisee to
: the absorbing sensation. Many of the regi
ments and brigades are holding protracte
meetings in their camps which are largely at
tended and very interesting. A very large mum
Der have already hopefully converted.
Governor Letcher said recently in an addres
at Centreville, Virginia that Stonewall' Jack
son was in favor of conducting the war unde
the black flag, and so expressed himself sever'
! days after the secession of Virginia, proposiD
to set the example by first carrying that flag i
the face of the enemy. Jackson was mode
{ Christian"
The courteous style of official correspondent
4 which General Mcclellan cultivated is well il