Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1864-06-17
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down East states tnat he mas deIerfnlueu, aTtef
mature deliberation, to sell his printing Office
and purchase hen.
The Radicals carried the election ON Monday
in ROlla, No., giving the Unconditional Union
candidate for Mayor sixty-twO majority, and
backing him upwith complete Radical council.
ACanadian farmer recently wanted his wife s
funeral postponed on account of the non-arrival
of a professional gentlemen who was TO extract
several teeth from her containing $l2 worth of
gold filing.
The Ohio Statesman has become fastidiOus.
II don like Mr. Lincoln because it thinks ''his
instincts are vulgar" 1t likes the high odor
of Southern gentlemen-which is Democrat
ic.-Dayon Journal.
Nearly four years ago secret organization of
rebels was effected in Baltimore TO assassinate
President Lincoln ON his way TO the National
Capital. That city is now the first to hold an
enthusiastic meeting to ratify his nomination
for reelection to the Presidency.
The BeIleville Demokrat one of the strong-
est among the German journals in Illinois to
advocate Fremont before his nomination, has
backed square out and hoisted the names of
Lincoln and johnson.
A Georgia letter says '+Dispirited and dis
hesrtened, the Georgians are fleeing to their
miserable homes along their lines of march
Our cavalry are picking them up in squads.
They viii make another desperate expiring eff
fort, and ifwhipped, the rebel cause in Georgia
is fully played out.
Genuine diamonds have been discovered in
Missouri. A box containing 81 of these gems
unpublished, is on exhibition at the st. Louis
Sanitary Fair.
A n<&, ol,sv fafln
few days since when one of his new recruits
walked up to him and declared that soldering
was rather disagreeable, and that said recruit
being female, would quit the business
The Chicago Journal says: "There is the very
best of authority for stating that up to Saturday
afternoon, May 9lst, reinforcenents TO the ex-
tent of forty y-three thousand men had been sent
to General Grant"
An exchange says-''There is something in
expressibly sweet about little girls" The
as they get bigger"
Chicago still goes ahead at . 40 gait 1t is
estimated that the business blocks and build
ings to be erected in that city the present sea-
son will cost over $4,000, 600.
The Dubuque Times says a vote was taken
on the Mississippi steamer Itasca on her last
downward trip as to who should be the next
President. Out of 80 votes cast, Lincoln re-
ceived s. Grant 3 and Mcclellan 1.-The Nc
Clellan man declaring that she didn't care a
d-n which side whipped in this war. :
The editor ofthe Toledo Commercial has been
shown the dying confession of one W. f. Had
ly, who was executed by order of Gen. E. B.
Brown, at Warrensburg, Mo-, in which he boasts
of having caused the death of 100 Union men
and cold d-bloOded murder.
The I30th Ohio, one hundred day troops,
having in its ranks clergymen and others of as
good men as there is in the State,aOa Saturday
voted unanimously to go to the front and fight.
They then marched to the White House and had
an interview with the President, who address,
ed them, thanking them for their prompt re-
sponse and saying, Wherever you go l know
you will do your best Washington dispatch.
A poor Prussian named Klinhe showed great
daring and courage at the siege of DuppeL A
sack of powder placed TO blow up a certain
work would not explode-it was all essential
that il should do so-and a man rushed forward,
placed the MATCH TO the bag, and was himself
blown up-wOnderful to say, not killed, though
a frightful cripple for life. He has been made
an officer.
President Lincoln on Friday that nothing could
defeat him but Grants capture of Richmond,
to be followed by his nomination at Chicago
and acceptance. WELL" said the President,
81 feel very much like the man who said he
didn' twant to die particularly, but if he had
got to die, that was precisely the diseass he
would like to die Of
The Philadelphians have done handsome
thing, by presenting Mrs. Gen. Meade with an
elegant house and furniture, eligibly located in
the Quaker City. The money to purchase the
property was contributed by the citizens of
Philadelphia.
A telegraphic dispatch informs us of the COM
plete triumph of the Union ticket in Oregon.
The Union candidate for Congress, J. q. d.
Henderson, is elected over James r. Kelly, op-
position; h D.. PittOck, of MultmOma, is chO-
sen State Printer; and r. L. StrattOn, r. P
Boise and Joseph G. Wilson, Judges in the sec
ond, third and fifth districts The Legislature
is Union, and will have United States Sena-
tor to elect Mr.. Harding's term expiring in
March, 1865.
It has not escaped remark, that two of the
most conspicuous men in the Fremont Conven-
ton. were the late Brigadier- General McKin-
stry, who after full trial by Court Martial was
dismissed from the Army of the United States,
for dishonesty, and according to Army Regu-
lations was declared am unfit associate fer gen.
tlemen. The other was Captain Haskell, FIRE.
mont's Headquarters Quartermaster, in Mis-
souri,, and one of his California friends, who
was SO sharply ycriticised-whetherj Justly or not
is not ascertained-while Fremont was in COM
mand in MissOuri.-DdytOn journal.
The New York Evening Post, whose first
choice for President is not Mr.. Lincoln, tells
Al.,TL
mously demanded: stHe is popular with the
ssplain people" who believe him honest; with
the rich people, who believe him safe; with the
soldiers, who believe him their friend; and with
the religious people, who believe him to have
been specially raised up for this crisis. -
The Nashville papers mention the arrival of
a number of prisoners and deserters, from john
ston' S army In that city. Some of them gave
amusing accounts Of the news in the rebel army.
For instance, their officers had publicly an
nounced to them, previous to the last fight, that
Grant was terribly whipped, and that Lee was
following him right on TO Washington; that the
army of the Potomac was destroyed, and that
now all they had TO do was to whip Sherman,
and that would end the war and result in the
independence of the COnfederacy. The Ken
tuckians were promised that they should see
their homes soon, when the rebel army had dri-
news was received with the greatest enthusiasm,
and the men went into the fight on the double
quick, but added the informant ''you Yanks
were too heavy for us"
A copperhead Congressman was bewailing a
day or two ago, the prospect of hard work ahead,
in the political campaign, and speaking to Ben
Wade, remarked that stump speaking was very
hard labor. $50 it is, " said Mr.. Wade, ''but
there won't be much use in it this time. Out
in Ohio we're going to take it easy. Well just
let old Abe run himself There is no use say
ing anything for or against him. The people
have elected him already and saved us great
deal Of trouble. If you don't want to embark
in very fruitless business, you Democrats had
better stay at home this summer, and save your
powder for some other time
Gen. Ed. johnson was captured by Frank
Totnan, of the Maine Seventh. He took the
rebel by the collar and told him he was his pris-
oner, when johnson replied that he should not
surrender to any one but the commander of the
force. His captor replied, Don't know any
thing about that; you can get away from me;
and he took him to General Hancock.