Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-03-10
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1t is said the prettiest girls in Utah GENERAL
marry Young.

/ ihe uCtl Vote IN the State Is about ID, ,0OU.
The Southern heart was fired so fierceIy at
first that there is now but little left of il but
ashes.
The Charleston rebels fired the first shot in
this war at the Star of ae West, and now the
Star Of the Vest responds to its echo by shot
that finishes them, and nearly finishes the re-
beIlion.
Charleston fell into our hands ON the 18th ult.,
Just four years to day from the time JEFF Da-
Wis was inaugurated provisional President
sof the Southern CODfederaey.
Why is it natural that a young lady having
seven lovers should desire to add another to the
list? Because all ladies wish to fasten-eight :
(faeinate.)
A man III New Jersey bought second hand
ed overcoat from a dealer a little while ago. and
as 1t didn' t fit well over the back, ripped open
the lining and found $3.50 in greenbacks stow
ed away in it. The coat fits him now.
They DO SToP.-A gentleman who made a
tour of inspection through the Venango reciou
has written a long letter in which he notices
nearly 200 oil wells that have ceased flowing
aud several others that have almost stopped
y person who saw John Breckenridge few
weeks ago, says that his appearance Is that Of a
person IN the habit of consuming a vast auanti-
ty of bad whisky. He was seedy and bloated.
and his condition SO far as an observer could
Judge, was that OF person decidedly ''played
out. -
Col. Il. j. Breckinridge Jr. of the rebel ar
my, was captured near Midway Kentucky. on
! the 23d He had been sent to that State by his
leulsin, the rebel Secretary Of War, to gel re-
cruits, or rather to induce former rebel soldiers
to reioin their commands.
I A factory in Boston mas made lis steam whis-
tie musical by 4 novel arrangement of pipes.
through which the escaping steam plays a cheer
full tune To call the workmen.
| A Spanish woman in Merced county, Calitor-
MIA, recently pursued the murderer of her low
er, captured him and handed him over to Justice.
! The losses by fire in the United States last
year are estimated at $50, 0U0. COO In Phila-
fdelpbia there were 394 fires, and the loss. in
round numbers, was 81, 600, 600.
/ \ grant has been made to an American COM
Pany for the laying of street railroads through
cut the city of Mexico. The privilege is ex-
telusiye and Is for term Of thirty years rates of
fare unlimited, and paid, Of course, in com.
| At Chattanooga, Tenn. the other ,lay. Cen.
SteediuaM punisheda merchant, who disregard
ed the challenge OF a negro soldier, by confis-
eating his store and its contents, aud placing
negro guard over it; remarking that "if Mr.
Crutchteld will not respect the negro soldiers
he shall respect the authority that made the ne
gro soldier, and puts him on guard as such. :"
! The plea of the rebel papers, that the "South
is not whipped but cowed, p" reminds us of a
| fight between acOuPle of Washington City edi-
tors few years ago. One of them was knock
cd down, aud the other fell upon him, when
| lOoker-on cried out: Better hollow 'nuff Dug,
/ or hell gouge." The combatant replied, max
ing desperate effort TO rise, "Oh-no--no-T
can right better Uhen I'm do,on
a bill was introduced into the National House
lof Representatives declaring married such men
and women as had lived together in that char
acter This of course was intended to apply to
the slave men and women, and that being the
case, the Democrats, true to their teaching, vOt-
ed, solidly against the measure, lest such law
would interfere with slave breeding, and with
the rights of the master over his pretty slave
quadroou,
| The capture of Fort Fisher released large
number of blockading ships. Nearly the en-
tire feet, by the fall of Charleston, will to
certain extent, find its occupation gone SO far
as the Navy is concerned the war has been
nearly fought out Not port of the slightest
military Importance is left to- the rebels.
! A ten years old Sunday school boy was asked
by his teacher, not long since what the ply lac
teries of the Pharisees were. ''Broad hems
such as ladies wear on their dresses" was the
reply But the Pharisees didn't wear them
| for the same reason that ladies do, did theyY"
| 20 yes, " was the wicked answer. ito he seen
of men
! The last of the tennew Illinois regiments has
/ been organized and the State Government is
forward the fifty additional companies that have
| been authorized for the old regiments of the
State.
/ About two months since a Mrs. Thornton. of
| DeKalb county, Mo-, gave birth to three chill
dren, all girls weighing three pounds each. A
sister of the above lady, in the same county,
was confined last week, and not wishing to be
outdOne by her sister, gave birth to four girls,
weighing 2i . pounds each
BY information from Savannah we bear again
| saws the Boston Commonwealth OF Small, the
| hero of the Planter" He was lately as sa-
vannah, and iell in with an old shipmate,
white man. who formerly was employed at
Charleston by the same merchants as himself.
Glad to see him, and recognizing his ability,
Small offered him one hundred dollars per
month to sail with him as mate. Il can do it
| easiIy." said Small, 'sor since the war began,
! / have made thirty thousand dollars, every cent
of which is invested in Government securities.
In 1889, when Washington passed through
Philadelphia, Just before his Inauguration as
| first President of the United States, he asked
Robert Morris, the patriotic fnancier of the age,
how the Government could take care of the debt
of 76 900, 600. Mr.. Morris told him to consult
with his Aid Camp Colonel Hamilton. The
result was that Alexander Hamilton became
Secretary of the Treasury, and the debt was
paid In 1916 the debt amounted to $l2I, 900.
600, and in nineteen years il was paid of, and
| large surplus remaining in the Treasury. All
this was accomplished without any direct tax
upon the people.
A committee of the New York Legislature is
investigating the administration of the affairs of
! New York city When they got into the Comp
troller's department they struck a rich lead of
official corruption. Hundreds OF officers are
employed who have nothing to do but draw
their salaries. IN the depositing of money, col
loo ling of water rents, selling of ferry licenses
disp,,sing Of bonds, &C., the officials manage to
pocket something handsome. The Comptroller
stated that the expenses of the city Government
in 1864 an Mounted TO Sl5, ,OO0OO0, of which the
State tax was 50, 331 900. The remainder was
consumed in the city.
pox and scarlet fever is raging fearfully in New
York. Many streets are barricaded and patrol
ed TO warn pedestrians of their proximity TO the
pestilenee Streets are biOckaded to vehicles,
and the police stand as sentipels near Injected
blocks. The presence of the pestilence IS at
tributed to the crowded condition OF the tene-
ment houses. Over $4,000 people live UNDER
ground in New York. In eighty-flys apart
ments in a tenement house near the st. Alcho-
las are $40 persons-four persons to each room
eight by ten In another there are ninety-six
rooms and SIT persons.
The Hartford Press makes an interesting state
ment in regard to the recent order of General
Sherman allottng to negroes the coast and is-
land of South Carolina and Georgia: 1t says
that when Mr.. Stanton was in Savannah Cen
Sherman invited to Il conference twenty of the
leading men among the negroes, such as they
selected to represent them. They sent their
most intelligent men. their classleaders, preach
ers, some of the large-brained. shrewd, clear
headed men With this body of representative