Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1864-10-21
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An old an trite saying is like this:-"When
ash leaves fall, COpperheads crawl in their
holes. - The ash trees have begun to shed their
leaves, and the COpperheads are seeking their
holes. ,i
A house without childrenI 1t is like Ian
tern and no candle; garden and no flowers; a
vine and no grapes; brook with no water CUR
CLING and running in its channel.
A correspondent suggests that it would be
becoming and truthful if the Copperheads
should pass resolution to wear Grape for thirty
days in honor of their late friend and colleague
John Morgan.
At circus in Philadelphia the other afternoon
the performance was stopped while the funeral
procession OF soldier passed by.
ers is distressing. In one brief week they lost
Generals Hardee, Anderson, Patton. and Gen.
John MOrgan.-D Dayton Journal. q
Yes, and Gen. Mcclellan is soon bound to 90
he's-On his last legs now, and they are shakey.
If you are friend of law and order you will
go for Lincoln and Johnson If you are for
guerrilla warfare, highway robbery, bush
whacking and assassination, you will 90 for
Mcclellan without any advice of ours. -
Many of the Democratic newspapers speak of
the Union soldiers being Lincolns hirelings.-
Is this not reflection upon General Mcclellan
who draws the salary of "a Major -General2
A happy man is one who loves his neighbor.
is kind to thePoOr, and pays for his local paper
AveriIl says in his farewell order to his cav
airy division:
"Since the first of May we have marched over
1900 miles. Five hundred comrades, who have
fallen in twenty battles attest the devotion with
which you have done your duty, and seven bat
tle-6ags, thirteen cannon and over fifteen hum
dred prisoners, captured from the enemy, exhib-
it some ofthe results of your work.
"Out of the mouths of babes and sucklines'
is true now as in the days of the Psalniist Do
readers remember Rebecca the little lolsite slave
girl from the South? There was whole col
umn of argument in her answer, when she was
asked if she would vote for Mcclellan: "If
were Rebel, / wOuldl" i'tf isf
GALLANT Gen. JOSH A. LoeAS recently made
an earnest speech advocating the election Of
Lincoln and johnson. . ...ssr.
Mcclellan claims that he failed before Rich
mond for the want of Reinforcements Hewili
meet with the same difficulty at the ballot-box.
The latest adyices from rebeldom claim the
ChicogO candidate as a native ofSOuth Carolina,
in copy of the Charleston Courier, dated Sept
2, in an editorial paragraph stating that although
GEo. B. McCLELLAS entered West Point from
Pennsylvania, he was born in South Carolina,
and gives the names of a relative still living
there after whom he was christened.
Why does not Gen. Mcclellan resign his COM
mission in the army? For nearly two years he
has been drawing pay at the rate of between
seven and eight thousand dollars year from
u a
journals who are raving about the enormous
expenses of this war, may set that down as one
item that their candidate might economise i'm
mediately. 81 &
The fearful iamine at the Cape de Verde Isl
ands still continues. In the islandO Santiago
which year ago contained $4,000 inhabitants,
Z 900 died of starvation from January Ist. TO
May LIST. The Portuguese government have
given $4,000 to aid the sufferers. A Spanish
brig has been ordered to join the Paris feet ma
king 2l5 guns in those waters. .5t,s,.
:; A gentleman in this city who has heretofore
been a leading and Influential man among the
Democrats, but who could mt go the Chicago
Platform, amazed one of his old political bed
fellows, few days ago, by the remark, @Whatl
Are you going to vote for Mcclellan? Better
vote for jeff Davis, and then we shall know
where. you standp-Springfeld { Mass. Rep.
General Dix said: %If any man hauls down
the American flag shoot him ON the spot. -
General Mcclellan practically says: If any
man hauls down the American flag, exhaust the
resources of craftsmanship to induce him to
haul it up. BY the way has any conservative
or coPperhead brass enough to say that the
South exhausted the resources of statesman-
ship before she went to war to hdmilate the
flag of the natiOn.-CiR. Com. sf.e -l.s 81 -1
The "Sons of Liberty IN Iowa, need look
ing after, and they are being attended to. In
the vicinity of Davenport they recently assas-
sinated two men, Bashore and Woodruff, who
were engaged in the draft. One of the murderers
confessed the crime Of the gang, and fifty seven
have been arrested.
The New. York World says of General Nc
Clellan's oratory, Aout of the abundance of his
heart his mouth speaketh." Considering that
his speeches average about ten lines each, and
are dry at that, this says little for the @sbund-
ance of his heart. s,. bs be-s sili
"A charming young widow, who was living in
fine style at st. Louis hotel and whose Ia
day-hke department and conversational powers
had secured her a number ofmale friends from
among the most respectable IN town, was recent
" visited by detective officer, with a search
warrant for $500 diamond ring which she had
stolen: This article was rot only found, but
in searching her trunks and boxes a large quanti-
ty of jewelry and about $4,000 in green backs
were also discovered. The young gentleman who
had loaned her number of valuable rings and
other tokens ofleVe, de-, were 50 shocked on
learning the character of the lady that they de-
clined TO prosecute her, and advised the sway
ward sister to depart in peace piece ofad-
vice which she was not slow in adopting.