Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1864-03-11
Items.

Items.
The New York court house willcost 80, OOO. 900.
Transported for life--the man that marries
happily.
Up 10 Saturday, the Sanitary Fair, held in
Brooklyn, New York, had realized $3.50, 000,
The Fair was to close on Saturday.
Private subscriptions to the amount of IL, 600
for the relief of East Tennessee have been made
in Boston.
Parson Brownlow has arrived at Louisville
from Knoxville We are glad to learn that he
is recovering from his severe illness.
Capts. SAWYER and FLYNN, whowere senten-
ced to death at Richmond in retaliation for The
hanging by Gen. Butler oftwo rebel spies, have
been exchanged.
A hypocritical fellow in athens inscribed over
his door, s'Let nothing evil enter here" Dio-
genes wrote under it, ',How does the owner
get mp
oNE OF LIFE < LESSONS.
All my life j still have found,
And will forget it never:
Every sorrow has its bound,
And no cross endures forever.
Our losses in the late reconnaissance from
Chattanooga toward Dalton, Ga, did not exceed
$50 in killed. wounded and missing. The en-
my loss 500.
recent traveller in South America speaking
of the noise of insects in the woods, says that
of the grasshoppers is like steam-whistle and
the hum of the insects generally like ''a ma
chine at full work sharpening razors.
United States Senator, Reverdy johnson, of
MARYLAND, Douglas man in the last Presiden
tial election, has becomea radical abOlitOnst,
and in the Senate has taken position for amend
ing the Constitution so as TO prohibit slavery
everywhere in the nation. Goods truth is
marching OF!
One of the most practical, common sense and
comprehensive prayers ever made was that of
Lord Ashley before he charged at Edgehill: 80,
Lord 4" said he ''thOu knowest how busy must
be this day. If | forget thee, do net thou for
get me.
Ex-Gov. Wright who presided o:er the In
diana Union State Convention, clossj his speech
with the prediction that, wher the ar was over,
there would never be another negro put on the
auction block and sold into slavs, y on the Amer
ican continent.
The electric telegraph now extends, by way
of Russia to within 200 miles of kiatchka, a
frontier emporium close to the Chinese Empire,
between which and Pekin, about 200 miles
distant, there is regular post establishment, so
that it would be quite possible to communicate
with Pekin from London in week.
Washington correspondent Of the New
York Times states that letter has been re-
ceived from Gen. Grants army, saying that
nine-tenths of the soldiers are i'll favor of MIR.
Lincoln's reelection. and will vote for him if
they have the opportunity. On the 22d of Feb
ruary votes were taken in several brigades, and
out ofnearly l3, 600 ballots polled only $50 were
cast against him.
Up to the middle of February nearly 9, 400
citizens have taken the oath of allegiance at
Little Rock, Ark; 5000 privates and IL COM
missioned officers of the rebel army have also
taken the oath, and of these over 5, 90 have en-
tered the Union army. No order has ever been
issued requiring the oath to be taken. The step
was voluntary on the part of all.
William Crafts, the fugitive slave, lives i'll
London, England, has attained high scientific
| position, has made his fortune by invention
which has been patented, and appears with his
| wife in the best society. DIR. johnson, a slavc
| in Kentucky only twelve years ago, has taken a
degree at Edinboro University, Scotland, and
has become regular physician somewhere in
| England
Its impossible to estimate the number of men,
formerly in the rebel service, who have enlisted
| into the service of the United States, but they
must amount to good many thousands
Enough men to make a regiment have enlisted
from among the prisoners at Fort Delaware
alone The Chicago Evening journal says
''Over Thousand rebel prisoners from Camp
| Douglas leave for Philadelphia this evening,
having enlisted in the United States navy"
Fourteen Quaker conscripts, who escaped
from Guilford county, n c., arrived in New
| York ON Monday, and were furnished with mon
ey to take them to Indiana where they have
| friends They had contrived to keed out of the
army until the last call, when they chose flight
to Obeying aperemptory order to enter the ranks.
They say that nine-tenths of the population OF
Guilford, and the adjoining counties are for the
Union.
Richmond must be pleasant city for peace
full and economical residents. The Eednlinei
saws that board at the hotels is from $40 to $50
a day. that the citizen is in danger of being
pulled up every half hour by the conscripi
hawk, and of being robbed once in twenty -fou
hours, and has the night change of knock
down or tumble into the basin. Itstates that
during the last ten months the police have made
III, ,495 arrests, of which /, 7S4 were of persons
charged with felony.
An elegantly dressed lady entered a Chicago
store last week, and purchasing some silk, ten.
dered hundred dollar Canadian bill. Not be.
ing satisfied as to its genuineness, boy was
sent off with it to the bank, who returned with
''as good as goldp' The lady was highly in
dignant at thus being suspected with roguery
and taking the bill, said she would not pur.
chase the goods. She was finally prevailed OF
to accept the articles cut off. After she haC
gone it was discovered that she had changed
the genuine bill first rendered to the clerk fol
another, a counterfeit.
At Kingston, little town of some six o
eight hundred inhabitants, some 30 miles ives
of Knoxville Tennessee, on the 3Oth OF Janua
ry county convention was held, for the pur
pose of reorganizing the county and setting th'
|, civil machinery in operation and nominating
county officers Resolutions were adopted by
unanimous vote approving the President
! proclamations, recommending vigorous prose
cution of the war until the Union is fully re
!. stored, the reorganization of the state govern
ment agreeable TO the late amnesty proclama
ton, and the reelection of President Lincoln
Future historians will easily seperate the Pa
triots from the Copperheads of 1863, Their re
spective literatures will make the destinctiol
, between them clear enough to the muddiest in
vestigatOr, The terms ''liberty," freedom,
; emancipation, - ''freemen," ''the integrity O
the government, ''the old flag and all tina
class of words and phrases viii be inseparabl,
associated with the Union party, ''Nigger,
=. ''NlRIeT. ADOlltlOOlStS.
''Nigger" Niger, ''Nigger," terms am
epithets which everywhere illustrate the Cop
: perhead literature of these times, will as mer
! ringly distinguish the Copperheads, as the bran
! upon Cain. Then shall the historians quot
: the favorite quotation of a distinguished Cana
dian scholar '-''Time at last makes all thing
7. even. '-DaytoH Journal.
e The New York Tribune says: John W. An
D drews who played a very prominent part i'll til
f draft riots on the 18th of July last, had Sat
e urday three indictments presented against hiI
h in the United States Circuit Court Judge Ship
S man presiding-one for melting and setting o
foot and engaging III rebellion against th
y United States; the second for treason, and fC
melting and aiding resistance to the draft; th
third was for conspiracy to levy war against th
United States. The District Attorney mad
q the usual requisition on Gen. Dix for the SUI
render of Andrews, who is at present in Fo
g Lafayette. Andrews has since been put upo
l. his trial and nlead mt 0lIiLu TO all the indie