Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-06-16

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The wife of the traitor Breckenridge arrived
few days since at Cincinnati, on her way to
visit friends in Kentucky, by permission OF
President johnson.
The Tennessee Senate Franchise bill excludes
those who have been rebels from voting for six
years to come. ..f s..a.-. -..' 1...,
Booth, Orsini, Charlotte Cordsy and Ravillac
all committed their crimes on the 18th of April.
A dispatch to the Gazette from Lexington
Ky, says reliable information has reached
friends OF John G. Breckenridge that he has ar
lived safe in Cuba.
The New Orleans journals describe the Gre
vase in the Lower Mississippi as one of the
most destructive that has occurred there for
many years. The country in the neighborhood
of Brashear City (on Berwick Bay) is inunda-
ted to the depth Of fifteen feet, and the loss of
stock Of every description and other property
is iDcalculable.
Says the Louisville Journal: eve under
stand that the negro population of Louisville
and vicinity propose to celebrate the approach
ling Fourth of July in grand style The cele-
brated cOlOred orator, Fred. Douglas, has been
invited, and viii be present, and address the
assembled multitude"
A French journal confirms the story ot
another journal that canal has been choked by
a tremendous hailstorm, the hailstones having
accumulated and formed mass Of ice of the
size of 40, 900 cubic yards. Six hundred work
men were vainly endeavOring to break up the
ice with their pickaxes. Tough ice, or tough
Istory.
The Hancock JeteTsoniGn says. Copper
heads are protesting against furnishing JEFF Da-
Wis We are glad to see tit is the most con-
sistent thing they have done for long time.
JEFF. is the father of Copperheads, and they
lshould defend him. Jeffais a dear fellow, but
when compared with Copperhesds he falls in
the back ground. They are far lovelier"
i The deaths in our army during the war, off
cially ascertained amount to three hundred
and fifty thousand. Add to that the helplessly
crippled, the one legged and one armed soldiers.
and the broken down in constitution, and what
price to pay for the experiment of slavery
A clerical joke is told by Boston paper,
thus: GA tall clergyman, meeting a short bro
ther from the rural districts, saluted him: We'll
brother. we are glad to see you, though you are
small of stature like Zaccheus of old THANK
you, replied the short minister, we read that
the Lord hath no pleasure in the legs of man. -
A correspondent writes: "Of all the cities
have ever seen, north or south, in peace or war,
Nashville is the dirtiest. Louisville may have
some filthier localities; Pittsburg NAV exhibit
sootier houses; New York may occasionally get
up more extensive carnival of mud: but take
it all in ALL make proper allowances for cir
eumstances and size, and think Nashville will
fairly carry off the palm.
1t is said that the only Joke General Sherman
ever perpetrated was upon entering the capita
of North Carolina. Turning to a regiment O
veterans who were marching by the State House
he called out: Don't you think this is a eooc
place to sing Raleigh round the flag, boys"
When such Copperheads as VaUandighau
and the editors of the Copperhead press who
endorse and eulogise the Sherman Johnston
Treaty of Peace, which was rejected by the
Government loyal people may take it for gran
ted that the said agreement was not only an
unfortunate blunder, but that it would have
Injured to the advantage of the rebels If il
were not so, Copperbeads would not favor if
, as they have never been found favorjng any
measure that looked to an unconditional sur.
render of the rebels.
; s'One of Dick Taylor's men, sends a note T,
the New Orleans Times IN which he declare,
that all the bitterness remaining in the conn.
try after late glorious but unsuccessful war
, lis confined to the ladies' and the stay-at-bom,
gentlemen" This confederate soldier saws the
soldiers fought brayely and without paw, cloth.
ing or food, in war brought on by the stay.
Iat-hOmes. They fought for a 'false idea" 90,
whipped and now are treated by the "Yanks'
like brothers and he is out of all manner of pa
thence with the grumblers and the discontented.
A Nevada paper tells how Dr. Ross, of vir-
ginia being merciful man, and kind to every
living thing, bad clipped the ears of beauti-
full blOoded rat tarrier. He procured dollars
worth of chlOrofOrm, and after administering
to the Juvenile canine several doses by means
of sponge, succeeded in producing a most sat
isfactOry state Ofinsensibility. of He clipped the
pups ears beautifully, and wired them up in
splendid style. So far, the operation was de-
cided success, but when he came to wake up his
patient, it was no go. The ''purp'' was dead.
The New York World estimates the total ex.
lceptions to the Presidents amnesty proclama-
ton at from 200, 900 to $50, 900 men, divided
as follows: Persons above the rank of Colonel
400; raiders from Canada, 2, 900; priyateersmen,
3, 500; volunteer rebels worth above 800 OOO
so, ,O00 foreign agents of rebel Government.
I2OO rebel naval officers, $50; disloyal iurists,
80; seceeding Congressman, l49; old army off.
GERS, l56; persons who have maltreated prison
ers, 800; Governors of rebel States, 10; North
ern men in rebel employ, 400; soldiers in rebel
army from border States not seeded, SC, 900; in
Northern prisons at current time, % 600: those
who have taken the cath and broken it, 80 OOO
The Washington Republican says: ave have
reason to believe that the Government is In DOS
session of letter written by JEFF. Davis the day
after the Sherman-JOhnstOn armistice was
lsigned, in which the arbitrator declared tba,
while it did not grant all that he could have
liked, yet that it was conceding more than he
had any reason to expect. That in his iudg-
meut, it acknowledged the rebel Government,
gave them authority to continue that Govern
ment in the late rebelliOus States, to which the
rebel soldiers were severally allowed to return
and deposit their arms And out of this recog-
milton he expressed the opinion that the United
States could be made to pay the rebel debt
The letter, we believe, will soon be published -
The'ToroDto Globe has been disposed to dis
credit the charges made against the rebel refu-
lgees in Canada and TO think the proclamation
against them uncalled for. After reviewing the
secret evidence DOW made public, the Globe says:
We cannot begin to give all the damaging
points brought out: to get the full weight of the
levidence, II must be taken as a whole. But we
lsay that even If One-balf of our brief resume be
Itrue, the completely of Southern refugees is
made out. They appear to have aided and abet.
ted every scheme, no matter how inhuman.-
The raids-the poisoning of the New York res
IervOis-the yellow fever affair-the burning
Iofcities-all darkest of dark deeds, and only
surpassed, if surpassed at all by the dreadful
tragedy at Washington, which bids fair to en-
lgulph the scoundrels themselves. As we sta.
ted yesterday, there does not appear TO be legal
levidenee duplicating Jefferson Davis; but the
inference is almost unavoidable that be knew
and approved of Booths project.
Lifelong Fellowship.
The officers and enlisted men of Gen Kilpat-
Fick's command (cavalry) held a meeting and