Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-11-24
NEWS oF THE WEEK.

SoNfrHINe NEw The ladies Of Piquz gave
"Mush-and- Milk" Supper on Tuesday even
ing last, for the benefit of The NJ. II Church.
1t is said that ii is only necessary to steep
brown hair in champagne TO make it of the
golden hue loved and painted by Titan.
Gen. Grant in reply lto a speech of welcome
in New York on Thursday, is said TO have de-
clared himself distinctly opposed to the French
occupation Of Mexico
The Mansfield Herald says that q box cons
tanning the dead bodies OF two infants was
found floating ON creek in that vicinity.
The legislature of South Carolina has ratified
the anti-slavery amendment to the National
Constitution. wiIr,
The Ohio soldiers vote stands: For Cox,
2,42S; for Morgan, 6S7-mOye than three to one
for General Cox.
The Mississippi Legislature has passed the
bill providing for the support of wounded and
disabled rebel soldiers.
The FIVE per cent. one and two years Treasury
notes, falling due on and after the first proximo,
will be paid at the Treasury department at
their maturity ".ii
The mortality in the United States hospitals
during the late war, was only nine per cent
In the Crimean war it was, it was fifty per cent
The record iss very creditsble. one. .-,s
The lower House of the Mississippi Legisla-
ture has revised its action on the bill to allow
negro testimony against whites and passed it
by vote of AZ to AZ.
A dispatch affirms that on account of the ex.
cessiye cost Of living in Washington, resolu-
ton is to be introduced into Congress immedi-
ately after its organization to adjourn to Phila-
delphia.
At the Freewill Baptist General Conference
at Lewiston, Me-, a short time since, q resolu-
tioR prohibiting the ordination Of ministers
who use tobacco was adopted.
IN boring for oil in Pennsylvania, Green Co.,
q vein of Quartz has been struck, very rich in
gold, which has caused great excitement in that
immediate neighborhoOd.
johnson, the ~Unionist" Of Georgia, in dis
cussipg the future of the Freedmen, wants the
Federal Government TO "let them alone" That
is Just what JEFF. Davis always wanted
In Scotland minister refused the sacra-
ment TO printer who was engaged during
part of Sunday night in producing a paper
which the minister confessed that he read with
pleasure every Monday morning
Mr.. Harlan p Hall, formerly of Ravenna in
this State, has purchased the ST. Paul (Minn.)
Daily Pioneer, which has heretofore been the
Democratic State organ but which under his
charge becomes straight-out Union paper.
Illinois has done nobly in her recent election.
At least twenty counties which were formerly
Democratic have been carried by the Uuionists.
The COpperheads have carried only ten or
twelve counties in the entire State.
Dispatches from the French Foreign Minister
TO the American Minister at Paris, received two
years ago, are given, and say the intention of
France is to restore order in Mexico, repay her.
self for expenses, and then evscuate the country.
The 18th Ohio Cavalry, commanded by Col.
Ratcliff, of Warren, numbering 80 commissioned
officers and 6I5 enlisted men, left Louisville on
Friday noon for Camp Chase, where they have
prooably arrived GRE this. 1t will be paid off
and discharged Immediately
JoHS MirouELL.-This patriot has left his
country for his cOuntry's good, and gone to re-
side at Paris, as correspondent of Ben. Woods
Daily Ae,os. This self-expatriatiOn is said to
been one of the conditions of his release
President johnson has appointed Major Gen.
John 4. Logan, of Illinois, late commander Of
the Army of Tennessee, Minister to the Repub-
lie of Mexico, and Col. William A. browning
of Tennessee Secretary of Legation. Both of
these gentlemen viii accept. sgE
Governor Hahn, Just arrived from Louisiana,
reports that the reconstructed rebels are acting
as bad as they know how in that State In one
of the parishes they met in convention and re-
established slavery by formal enactment and
| resolution.
| The L0uisciNe journal says that "the Hon.
| John Bell of Tennessee, is about to write let.
( n l. ~ Il - Il
will doubtless attract much attention. Mr..
| Bell 8 position and motives have been misunder.
stood, and consequently misrepresented."
Secretary McCulloch believes that the Treas
ury will be in condition sometime during the
next year, to commence a systematic reduction
| of the national debt. Of course when the re-
ceipts Of the Treasury are greater than the eX-
penditures, q contraction of the currency must
be the result, and as far as this iE concerned
reduction ofprices may be hoped for.
The trial of 6. Volney Dorsey, late State
Treasurer, on charge of malfsasance in office is
expected to take place before the Court of Com
mon Pleas of franklin county, which COM
menced its fall term on Monday last 1t is re-
ported that Hon. r. B. Warden has been re-
iained in behalf of the State, to assist in the
prosecution Of the case,
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has changed the day of our State Thanksgiving
from the 30th of November to the 7th of De-
cember, the time appointed by the President
We believe that ali the States are now in accord
| in regarding the 7th proximO d day for both
State and National Thanksgiving.
Governor Wards majority in New Jersey is
| three thousand, six hundred; McClellans ma
| ;ority vas Geyen Thousand, two hundred and
| ninety-eight; Psrkers majority in1S62 fourteen
| thousand four hundred and eighty seven. The
Union men will probably have majority Of
eleven in the Assembly, and two in the Senate
| Clinton AIR LINE.-It is rumored that the
| Clinton Air Line r. r., which passes through
/ this county, from kinsman TO Pennington. en-
| route 70 tbs Great West, is to be revived under
| the auspices OfEnother company, and completed
large amount of money aud labor has been
expended on the Clinton line Warren Ohroa.
The people of Alabama have shown their re.
constructed loyalty by electiDg to the office o.
Sheriff the man who murdered Major General
| Robert McCOok, and sending TO Congress rev.
] erend rebel who DECLARED on the stump that the
man who took the prescribed oath of loyalty
was black-bearted traitor to the South.
Hon. John NJ. Bolts is to be one of the U. S,
Senators for Virginia. The Norfolk Post SAYS
| "There can be little doubt of Mr.. Bolts election
TO the United States Senate, though General
Milson, Of Norfolk, has been suggested ALSO
Nilsson is a man of great intellect and high
character Like Mr.. Bolts he has been Union.
ist throughout the great struggle"
Recently published reports concerning the
| activity Of the Navy Department, says Wash.
ington dispatch, 10 getting ready for sea variou:
vessels, have no significance beyond the fac
that at all times there ale circumstances con.
nected with the business of the Department
which necessitate the fitting out Of vessels 10 bt
dispatched on Government duty.
/ We have news from Mexico by way Of New
Orleans. From this we learn that Juarez had
received reinforeements and captured Monter-
ey. MatamOras was invested, and the Liberals
'icould take it whenever they please A Mex.
ican transport was captured in the North Rio
Grsnde, and turned over to the American All
thorities. An Imperial gunboat had passed u
to MatamOras.