Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-06-02
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The famous Belle Boyd has come TO grief in
England. She has been turned penniless out
of her hotel, and the landlord retained her bag
gage as security for her bill. She has also par
ted with all her iewelry, and is in q state OF
great destitutiOn.
Another rebel Governor has come to grief
Ex-Governor Letcher has been gobbled. The
Government will soon have an extensive as
sortment of rebel Governors and Ex-GOVernoTs
ou hand.
The French murderer Leduc was lately exc
cuted at Boulogne before about twenty thou
sand persons. On the seaffOld he embraced the
priest, surrendered himself to the executioner,
who in an instant bound him to the plank face
downwards, aud immediately thrust him under
the fatal knife, where he adjusted slide to pre-
vent the criminal moving his head; having done
which, he pulled cord, and the knife came
down, severing the head from the body. Sothe
scene ended Leduc's crime was the drowning
of two little children of his wife by former
husband.
The following impressive thought is taken
from one of the recent utterances Of Rev. DR..
Bushnell, of Hartford. He is speaking of the
majesty and strength of our GOveTnment:-"We
did not know how strong it was before. Nobo-
dy had any conception of the immense strain it
could bear. How bright is the future now of
such Government and nation. HallOwed by
SO many battle-fields, and these by the tribute
of 50 many histories and sung by so many
songs of the great poets of the future, how dear
and sacred and glorious it will bel And God
be thanked it was our privilege TO live in this
great day of crisis, this always be called he
roic age of the Republic. -
Governor Brownlow appears to have perpe-
trated severe joke ON the fugitive rebel off,
eials of Tennessee. They wrote him from Au-
gusta, Ga, offering to come back and surrender
the stolen funds if they would be permitted 10
resume their rights unmolested. The answer
consisted oftwO dispatches to the Union troops
in that part of Georgia, pointing out the loca-
tion of the fugitives, aud ordering their arrest
with the archives and specie. Intelligence was
soon received of their capture.
1t was stated some weeks ago by the corre-
spondent of New York paper that General
Weitzel while in command at Richmond, had,
at the request of the wife of General Lee,
withdrawn colored troops guarding her house
and substituted white soldiers. The same cor
respondent stated that General Weitzel refused
to march the colored troops through the city
| lest he might offend the einhabitants. The Gen.
eral writes to the Cincinnati Gazette stating that
both reports were wholly untrue-but that not
only was there no ground for these. but that
the very opposite is the truth.
An Indiana correspondent of the Louisville
Democrat says that the statement that Presi-
dent Lincoln had not blood relation save his
two boys, is incorrect, for there are now living
in Harrison county, Indiana the families ftwo
| of his pephews, the sons of his brother Josiah,
who moved from, Kentucky at an early date
These Lincolns were all farmers and one Of the
nephews Jacob, is still living on the old place.
He has large family and has had two sons
killed in the army.
1t is striking fact that in the investigations
which have ferreted out the assassins of the
President and the conspiracy within which they
acted. it has been discovered that the great
lcrime of assassination, the Lake Erie raid the
conspiracy to release rebel prisoners at Chicago
the St. Albans bank robbery, the hotel burning
and the yellow fever infection plot, all connect
more or less intimately with each other
New developments are constantly coming Ia
astonish the country more and more as to the
extent Of the perhdy of the leaders of the re-
belliou. From the inception of their treasons,
ble plot to the present moment, there seems Il
; have been no crime which they have not com
mitted. ItnOw appears, from statement mad
by correspondent of the Boston Daily Aduer
; tjSer, made on the authority of Gov. Aiken
that care was taken to prevent the people of tn
South from seeing President Lineolns first in
Iaugural. 1t was garbled and misrepresented I,
. suit rebel schemes. The opinion of Governo
Aiken and others is, that had that documen
been generally known, no State, with, per
haps, the exception of South Carolina, wOulC
have seeded.