Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-05-19
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All our National COINS are TO have the motto:
"In God we trust" a
A barber in Savannah says he has used up
more than 100000 of rebel money for shaving
paper. 2'i'
The terms of amnesty to desertsrs offered by
a proclamation of President Lincolp viii not
now avail as the sixty days expired on Wednes-
day, May 10Th. y
Some ofour enterprising naval operators made
strike at Mobile. Going up the river in
launches, they captured blockade runper load
ed with 1900 bales of cotton.
The World says that, upon his Inauguration
as President in 1901, Mr.. Jefferson founded q
republic based on integrity" II so, what sort
of republic was that founded by Washington? +?
and what became of it2
Those of the officers and crew Of the rebel ram
Webb who escaped capture below New Orleans,
were taken prisoners by the United States
steamer Glide near Brashear City, La, ON the
Sd. They are eight in number.
President Lincoln, as we have been told. after
the battle of the Wilderness had been raging
some days, betOok himself with friend to the
Opera, exclaiming "Fhe people will wonder if
they hear OF IT. but the truth is, ! must have a
change of some sort, or die"
/
A ToAsr.-s'The Press-It expresses truth.
re-presses error, im-presses knowledge, de-
presses tyranny, and op-Presses none.
The New York Herald defines the develop
ment the Democratic doctrine of State Rights
in the following terse terms: Secession, IIlSaw-
rectjOn, -ASSGsSnIdttOl,." 1a-.-s .i
Booths diary mentions every thing that oc-
Cured from the time that he fired the fatal shot
until his capture. He gives the names of the
parties who harbored him and those who re-
| fused to, the latter of whom he had marked for
his vengeance.
DecOra, famous Winnebago chief died re-
Gently at Lincoln, Wisconsin, aged one hundred
and thirty three. He aided the United States
in the Black Hawk war, and was rewarded bv
General Jackson with small United States flag.
He kept it as long as he lived and now it waves
over his grave.
MY friend,'' said a seedy individual to a
waggish acquaintance, at ferry, Il wish You
would lend me two dollars to cross the ferry; |
haven't got a dollar in the world" "WelI I
would like to know, - was the reply, what diff
ference II makes to man who hasn't got dol
lar in the world, which side ofthe river he ON
| Among the rebels who have come into our
lines ut Chattanooga and given themselves up
I is Clarence Prentice, the erring son of the edi-
tor Of the Louisville Journal
| The father had better follow suit
A singular phenomenon in the shape of lake
of water has made its appearance in Centre
county, Pennsylvania, about three miles from a
small place called HOrnstown, on the Hubles-
burg road, covering about one hundred acres oi
Land, and varying in depth according to the ir-
regularities of the ground, from ten TO thirty
feet-some say fifty feet.
a number of citizens of Fredericksburg were
disputing about the merits of different rebe
generals. Finally cOuntryman summed VI
his own view thus: jackson was the flanking-
est general we ever had but Johnston was the
most fallbsckingestl" The remark was accepted
as the sense of the company, which at once dis.
persed.
Abraham Lincoln died comparatively poor
Out of his salary of S25,000, he saved it is said
but ten per cent. He was economical in hi,
household and personal expenditures, and be
lnevOleut 10 larger degree than most men VIII,
have filed the Presidential chair He refused
to speculate, though the temptations to indulg,
IN financial operations were, perhaps, as allur
lingly presented to him as to any officer of tn,
Government. And yet notwithstanding thes,
now well known facts, only the day before hi
assassination Cincinnati contemporary accused
him of having made S25, ,000, 900 during his frs
term of office s.z-