Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-11-17
T. SIBERIAN, Major General.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gold closed at l47s. yesterday

Nearly all the Union candidates in the
Southern States are reported defeated,
Full particulars of the execution of
Wirz will be found in another column of
ourpaper to-day.
GEN. KILPATRICK has been appointed
Minister to Chill, and Col E. H. Cook, of
N. j., Secretary of Legation. sH
Gen. Butler it is said, intends to make
Washington his permanent residence, and
is negotiating for the purchase of a house.
The Cincinnati bridge over the Ohio
river will be the largest in the world. Its
total span will be 1857 feet. '7
A clear case of t.Asiatic cholera" has APP
peared in st. Louis. So says the Demo
crat of that city. That case proved fatal.
Fifteen persons have died from the eff
fects of the explosion of the North River
steamer, st. John. -@
Gen. Banks is elected to Congress by
six thousand majority. This, says the
Boston Traveller, ''is good answer to the
attempts made to show that he is not a
sound Republican"
The Fenian excitement still continues
in Canada. 1t is rumored that a plot has
been discovered to rob the banks, and
much uneasiness is felt in consequence.
Actual war between Spain and Chill
has commenced by a declared blockade of
Chilian ports. Neighboring South Amer
lean States are disposed to join Chill
against her enemy:
The President has directed message
to the Governor of South Carolina, urging
the ratification by the Legislature of that
State of the United States Constitutional
Amendment seS
Gen. Longstreet, while in Washington,
declared that the rebellion could and
would have succeeded had it not been for
the incapacity of jeff Davis, whose inter
meddling destroyed all their hopes; and
that on several occasions he prevented the
rebels from taking Washinaton and max
it their base for offensive operations.
President Johuson is so busily engaged
preparing his message, that he refuses to
give seperate interviews to any one. The
doors Of the Reception room are opened at
certain hour, and be 'does the crowd in
lump" au, -, -ee,el E
South Carolina, in her rebel Legislature,
is re-enacting the worst features of the
old slave-code, by depriving the negroes
of firearms, under the pretext of fear Of
insurrection; also shutting up their shops,
and prohibiting them from engaging in
trade. Their arrogance would seem to
imply that the lessons fthe war have been
always forgotten. at 'Fi'H %
The cause Of the iasurrection in Jamai-
ca grew out of attempts to collect taxes of
the negroes who were in arrears. The ne
groes had appealed to the Courts, the de-
cision of which had been advertise to them.
An attempt on the part of Wirz to com
init suicide In the early stages of his trial
is made known nov for the first time. It.
appears that his wife, in kissing him, in
troduced small ball of strychnine into
his mouth, but before he could swallow it
Gen. Bakersprang upon him and choaked
it out.
The returns from the. election for MEM
bers of Congress, which took place in Ar
kansas on the 9TH, are meagre, but it looks
as if Judge Byres has been elected in the
lst Tor Helena) district, Lorenzo Gibson
in the I'd Tor Little Rocky district; and
Col ]. N. johnson in the Sd Tor Fort
Smith) district n ls a.H .i., =
:. The dinner recently given by Sir Morton Pc
TO- in New York, is said to have cost $25, ,0OO--
about 4IOO to each guest, s.s ,.a -.a3