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81" t''ac Southern States gain admission fof
'''ir representatives. 10 the next C@ong,c>, anil
;'rH bring NY the question Of Compensation f,r ,h,.
slaves ma''c free BY Proclamation. and The CIV.
PcrhcadS OF tho N"rtl. lend their MD and help u
''rr! snch 4 vote. can they compel our people u,
IL: = iaar' q! tie ;,nb!!c ,lyt. ,hcrchr cpn,rac,ci
. debt created by no agency Of .tetr ovn, and
mus asked {" reimburse slNNr owncr, for what
they had no RICH, 10 contract. f.
, 1865-10-28

other. We who stood up and fouph. ~ Oh,
nation can afford to be magnenimous Let ,hr
land 60, and forgive them for their .cp,imcnts
4 would not have q .coiorcd soldier cber;,h cn.
nifty agnist another man: Let him rcu,cn,h,x
that when gcsus was rcviled he .cvilcd no,
aguin. Let him forgive them, for they know
not what they do. The spiri, I wan, The color
cd msn TO have is, forgiveness from the ho,,oa,
Of the heart. You will 20 forward. md The
privileges before you are unboundcd. F.a,
not. I believe that the God who brought YOU
into freedom will carry on the good work until
you enjoy it III all its completeness.
frho cxcrci.ca cl,..d .;a,
Rev. Mr.. Alyor51
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FngEDMEx's SAv1xGs.-Wc call attention to
the National Frccdn,cn's Savings and lruxt
Company, whose object is strictly benevolent.
It is 4 bank for the "cmancipatcd slaves and
their descendants" The company is chartered
by Compress and nn,r,x,d h- d..
: 'es'oe' Oh '"c United states ls
p'''e'p"' o'"ec Is !" ''e c'tS o. New hork. and
of"'e"es or agencies arc to DC established at ul
- -" ee"s'ai points OF the colorcd pcoPls
".ous""u' INC country ana III several places,
''cn nave oeeh appointed cl1snlcrs, and
ac o'ScNAfS'hs inc duties faithfully. Deposits
are received OF one dollar and upwards, and in
terest paid on all sums Of Ave dollars and up-
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, 1865-10-28

tS Att meeting Of the members Of the
Cons iIssbytcriAn Church of Charleston, held
on Monday evening last, the Rev. u. +. Han.
dolph wna elected Pastor.
, 1865-10-28

SAxToS CnAfITAntr SncikIf-A, , mc.,
ing OF this society held in Temperance Hal. on
Medicsday evening last, Mr. Moses vira., in
tie CHAIR, the following gentlemen rcrc elected
officers tor The ensuing year President, sam.
'cl Bing Eice.rrc.idrnt. Samuel Dickson
Secretary. James Haynes Treasurer, John
Days. The society number. abou, two hundred.
and !, in n tiouri.hing condition.
, 1865-10-28

HELtoIous.- Bishop Baker. OF the ST. Epis-
copal Church. and Dir. Harris. the missionary
secretary, arrived in Charleston on Monday lust.
they arc on ii tour through the Atlantic Suites
for the purpose of ascer,aining the condition of
things religiously and wherever they find a
necessity for the establishment Of missions for
the evansclization of tire people. they stand
ready with tie means und the hear, to do it.
Bishop Bnkcr delivered an eloquent sermon
in the Spring Street Church, OH Tuesday even.
ing. and DR.. Hurts made a fnrcibIc address on
Individual Responsibility and Labor. The
meeting was largely attended. aud the attend.
ance highly gratiied with the services.
, 1865-10-28

~ Robert Bannckcr was II colorcd astrono.
mcr of some considerable note in the early days
OF the Republic. His color placed no obstacle in
the way of his real merit as a man of genius, he
ing recognized even by the Fathers Of the coln.
Try. II was to this distinguished negro that
Thomas Jefferson wrote the follow ing
Nobody wishes more than | do TO SEE .uc,
proofs rs you exhibit, tint nature has given TO
our black brethren talents equal to those OF the
other colors of men, and that the appearance of
a want Of them is owing only to the degraded
condition Of their existence both in Africa and
America. | can add, with truth, that no one
wishes more ardently to see a good system com.
lHcnced for raising the condition both of their
body and mind TO what it ought to be, as fast as
the inIl,ecility Of their present existence, ard
other circumstances which cannot he neglected,
will admit.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-09-05
The Contraband's Secret,
BY RICHARD L, GREENauRsr N. D.

The long, weary day march was ended, and
our troops had encamped for the night on the
verge oil a vast prairie. Our pickets were
already upon duty our tents cleaned white
through the dusk our campfire had been kin
died, and the hai-famished men were eagerly
awaiting the evening rations. Far away we
could hear the roar of the Red river, and oc-
casionally rising above it the shrll cry of night
bird, or the cry OF prairie Wolf. The sky was
hecked with mottled clouds through which the
moon now and then cast dim light, and the
wind, as it swept through the tangled grass
amid which We byouacked, had the hollow,
sullen murmur that betokens a storm.
| sat in the glow Of the FIRE, wondering what
would be the tate Of the Red river campaign,
and recalling many events of our civil war
when a sergeant approached me and said
." DR., Greenhurst, | should like tospeak with
you few moments can you grant me prI-
yate interview"
"0h, yes" replied and we were soon in
comparative seclusiOn OF tent We found vacant
81 Our plckets have just brought up two per
sons"
d" And who are they " asked
&" They profess to be conIabands, " said the
sergeant " but in the enemy's country am
always afraid of spies and you know as well
as what base stratagoms they have employed
to gain information with regard to our move
ments,"
-" Yes, yes, said earnestly 81 admire
your caution, and We certainly ought to be On
the lookout but where are the strangers
" told Barret to keep them till | could see
some superior officer, and lett them on the south
side of the camp where he was stationed.
g will 60 back with you," observed, "and
test them by c few questions "
A brisk walk soon took Us to the place where
private Barrett was on picket duty. cannot
adequately sketch the picture which presented
itself as We reached the spot, but will attempt
to give you faint outline. A young girl stood
leaning against heavy baggage wagon in an
attitude sculptor might love to reproduce for
its unstudied grace her figure was wrapped in
gray cloak, which fell around her like the
rare draping Of statue her uncovered head
was iinoly nodded, and perfect luxurianeo of
chestnut hair swept about her, not curling in
heavy ringlets, but as full Of rippes as mount-
ain lake when the night breeze sweeps over ITS
surface. Her face was delicatoly chseled her
eyes and cheeks oil ailame with excitement, and
her red lips compressed as II IT required no light
effort to accomplish her mission, AT her side
might be seen child who might have counted
nine or ten summers, with tattered garments,
and bare aud bleeding feet, and bearing a strong
resemblance to her companion. The whole
scene was touching in the extreme and my heart
goftened at onoe.
"Sir," exclaimed the young stranger, " is it
true that tho poor slave may find refuge in
your camp
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-09-05

The SILKY WoRM.-Great alarm has been felt
in France at the disease OF the silk-worm, and
the most strenuous efforts are mads by the gov
ernment and by scientific men to discover the
cause. Importations have been made from
China and elsewhere in Asia for the purposes OF
experiment, crossing, SO. but thus far, it would
seem, with somewhat doubtful results.
1t appears from recent investigations that the
silk-worm was bred in China exclusively from
2640 years before Christ to the year $50 of the
Christian era, and that the severest penalties
were imposed on its exporlaton. 1t was
brought to Europe and presented to the emperor
Justnian in the year $50 by some monks who
had visited China and learned its ma nagement
there and the manner of using ts products
1t is copjectured that the constant in and in
breeding for 80 many years among insects not in
q state Of nature has led to the disasters which
have attended this business. No doubt importa-
tions from China, India and Cashmere will help
the French over their difficulties, but it will re-
quire time and great expense to accomplish i.
The government is fully alive to the importance
Of the silk growing industry 10 the prosperity Of
France, and 1t will spare no effort in its power
to continue il.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-09-05

The LILIES OF NEw ENGLAND. A friend who
has just gone up into Vermont, sends back o
word that the ponds all along the road are
STARED with lilies forming milky way for
the whole distance. These same white water
lilies are the native queens Of the New England
summer, afloat in their palaces Of ivory and gold,
and exacting homage from every passer. Bare.
foot boys along the roadside do not covet them
with more intensity than the merchant princes
in railway cars, whose Overtasked thoughts are
refreshed with the glimpse of their purity
This IS their very season. The sequestered coun-
try places where water runs and debouohes into
ponds and shadows are made regal with their
presence. 1t is nothing to see mlddle-aged men
suddenly become enthusiasts in their quest
scaling stone walls, trampling through mire
reaches OF the meadow and wading knee deep to
pull them up by their leathery stems from the
mud, with ash or alder pales cleft ut the smaller
end. They are very beautiful when c1ilcd up
in shallow glass dishes on the country parlor
tables, but their true beauty is disclosed as they
sit on the water with their white garments OF
royalty about them, opening their bright eyes
with the morning SUI, and shutting up the gates
to their golden hearts with the fading day There
is no flower Of summer--no nor OF winter either
-moIo slmply elegant, ullney fragrant, ana
regally superb, than "great, white water lily"
1t symbolzes wheteyer is pure and beautiful in
human life and character whatever is rich and
golden in the human heart. The lotus of the
Eastean streams never could be the flower to us
that the pond lily of New England is, irngiog
our inlands ways Of travel with its matchless
floating stars, and leading the thoughts along
within cool and pleasant recesses, where the
mornings are full of freshness, and tho nights
come down in peace. ce.-Bostoa Post.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-09-05

In the dark Canadian forests hon blndy roamng on
Down the wild New Hampshire valleys her bewdered feet
had gone.
the oy.bos sweet their ringing on hs frosty summer
air
the boats across Tho waters how they caped tho sls to
bear!
The wondtoas glorious sunset tho bsst October day,
When that weary wife was folded to tho heart Of Robert
Gmyl-Ow Ygppg Fols
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-09-05
TERMS FOR ADVERTISING.

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three Insertions, o0 for each subsequent insertion
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Probate and COMMISSIONER Notices, 81, 90 each,
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Notices Of Deaths and Marriages inserted gratis but
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half advertising rates
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-12-29

mn. H. BUCKLAND,

II ATE OF LONDON, EEGLAND, at home for corsn,
| Saiiy AZ P. NJ. Or. BUcKLASn having haa muen
experience In the Medical Profession Mnne
that ali cases of sickness intrusteo 70 ms e
will receive the most professional atsendance accoLony
stsad and ireland Residence Pike Street, next door
west Of the Catholic Church
Fremont Feb. 10, 1856. HT
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-12-29
LIVING WIrHorr woRK.

1t is well known that the late Preston
King committed suicide in temporary in
sanity brought on by the persistence and
clamors of the horde of office-seekers who
beset him in his official position. 1t is a
shame to our people that such spirit of
ofice-seeking finds place among us-such
a greed of places that bring large salaries
and little work. The Tribune says of this
matter:
We find it hard-we living men-to
traverse the fearful decision that made a
Senator suicide. flour community is so
as to hunt public officials to the
grave, why censure men of a sensitive,
womanly nature, who 60 to the river and
find peace from their opportunities in its
deepness. Stand all apart! Look on this
dead man-rest has come to him at last
rest from strife and crime and selfshness,
men eating their fellow-men, and living
like ravens and crows on the the offal Of
public life. Are there no fields to be
titled in the Far West, no rock.concealed
mines to be torn to pieces for the gold that
is in them, no canals to be dug, no roads
to be built--nothing, that this poor man
must be picked to death merely because
he is an officer of the Revenue. He has
a thousand offices, you say, and therefore
you would clean his bones. Shame upon
us, upon our manhood, that we cannot be
men, but vermin. The guilt of this death
is not upon the soul of the suicide, but
upon the souls of living men, upon those
who hunted him with such eagerness and
rapacity, that life was dreary burden,
reason fell, and death became welcome
blessing. -f- rs T-.-.r.-
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-12-29
IRUsKIN ON sIAMMoN WORSHIP,

A nation cannot last as a money-making
mob; it cannot with impunity-it cannot
with existenee-gO ON despising literature,
despising science, despising art, despising
compassion, and concentrating its soul on
pence. And again, extending the idea to
embrace all preference of material wealth
and advancement to the true, the spiritual
wealth and life of the soul, Mighty of
heart he says, Mighty of mind-"mag-
nanimous"-to be this is indeed to be
great in life, to become this increasing
ly is indeed to "advance in life"-in life
itself, not in the trappings of it My
friends, doy remember that old Scythian
custom when The head of a house died.
How he was dressed in his finest dress, and
set in his chariot, and carried about to his
friends houses; and each of them placed
him at his tables head, and all feasted in
his presences Suppose it were offered to
you in plain words, as it is offered to you
in dire facts, that you should gain this
Scythian honor, gradually, while you yet
thought yourself alive. Suppose the of
fer were this; you shall die slowly, your
blood shall daily grow cold, your flesh
petrify, your heart beat at last only as
rusted group of iron valves; your life
shall fade from you, and sink through the
ice of China; but day by day your BODY
shall be dressed more gaily, and set in
higher chariots, and have more orders on
its breast and crowns on its head, if you
will. Men shall bow low before it, stare
and shout round it, crowd after it up and
down the street. build palaces for it, feast
with it at their tables heads all the night
long; your soul shall stay enough within
it to know what they do, and feel the
weight of the golden dress on its shoul-
ders, and the furrow of the crown-edge on
the skull-no more. Would you take the
offer verbally made by the death angel
Would the meanest among you take it,
think you? Yet practically and verify we
grasp at it every one of us, in measure; ;
many of us grasp at it in its fullness of
horror. Every man accepts it who desires
to advance in life without knowing what
life is; who means only that he is to get
more horses, and more footmen, and more
fortune, and more public honor, and-not
more personal soul. He only is advanc-
ing in life whose heart is getting softer,
whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker,
whose spirit is entering into living peace.
And the men who have this life in them
are the true lords or kings of the earth
they, and they only.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-12-29
rAKEcARE OF YOUR POCKET BOOK.


A celebrated pick-pocket, who was late
" sent to the State Prison for misdeeds,
being noted for his marvellous adroitness
in pocket-lifting, was requested to reveal
the secret of his success, when the follow
ing, among other diseourses, were made.
We publish them as likely to be useful to
those who are willing to take the hinti
81 never" said the pick-pocket, 'sattempt
to pick the pocket of an old resident ofthe
city, but uniformly strangers and country
men," But on being asked how he dis
tinguished them, replied, "very easily"
and gave the following list of persons who
were regular victims Of the craft:
persons in an omnibus who take out
their pocket books after the stage stops
are sure to be countrymen. Those who
stop to converse on the sidewalks or thor
oughfares or take out pocket books at the
box or pit offices III the theaters or steam
boat offices. All those who stop to gaze
at shop windows, or count money, or show
pocket books in the street, or call in the
Funk auction rooms. All these" he said,
care ourcommon victims. II find man
eating oysters or fruit or carrying an open
knife in the street, in nine times out Of
ten he is green, and we victimize him.
Persons who stand up in theater, or
stand on eross-walks, are generally coun-
try folks; and we make of them.7
The shrewdness of these observations of
the pick-pocket must be obvious to all city
people, and accounts for the remarkable
fact that the city residents seldom suffer by
the operations of these hght-6ngered
gentry" f smf
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-12-29
REMEMBER THE PoOR.

If the weather has. .''modefated" beside
your warm fires, in your ceiled houses, it
has not in the crazy tenements of the
poor. If your woodhouse is full Of good
hickory or beech, and your coal pile needs
no replenishing, it is not the case with the
poor widow, whose husband was lost IN
the service of his country, or the mother
whose 'last hope" is with the honored
dead at Andersonville, Gettysburg, or At
lanta. Let your charities, however, be
worthily bestowed. Many are the impos-
.ters now at our doors, who spend benefac-
tions in money to make their homes more
degraded. Many pitiful tales viii be'tOld
of sickness among the children, want of
employment DC. Visit all such at their
homes, and if found worthy, your gifts
bestowed with encouraging words, win
strengthen the recipient to make renewed
efforts to obtain an honorable livelihood.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-12-29
SEEING THROrGH wATER.


The last number of the Edinburgh Re
0ieW says: "Currentsi in the very bed of
river, or beneath the surface of the sea,
may be watched, as Mr.. Campbell informs
us, by an arrangement that smugglers used
in the old days. They sank their contra
band cargo when there was an alarm, and
they searched for it again by the help off
so-called marinetelescope. Itwas nothing
more than a cask with plate of strong
glass at the bottom. The man plunged
the closed end a few inches below the sur
face, and put his head into the other end,
and then he saw clearly into the water
The glare and refused reflections and re-
fractions from and through the rippled sur
face were entirely shut out by this con-
triyance. Seal hunters still it. With
this simple apparatus the stirring life of
the sea bottom can be watched at leisure
and with great distinctness. $50 far as
this contriyance enables men to see the
land under the waves, movements under
water closely resemble movements under
air. Sea weeds, like plants, bend before
the gale; fish, ike birds, keep their heads
to the stream, and hang poised on their
fins; mud clouds take the shape of water
clouds in air; impeded light casts shadows,
and takes shapes which point out the di-
Irection in which currents flow. 1t IS
strange, at first, to hang over boats side
peering into a new world, and the interest
grows There is excitement in watching
big fish, swoop like hawks out Of their sea-
weed forest after white fly sunk to the
tree tops to tempt them, and the fight
which follows is better fun plainly when
SEEM Si,Mr. Campbell suggests plate glass
windows in the bottom of boat; it would
bring men and fish face to face; and the
habits of the latter could be leisurely
watched.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-12-29

The father of Mrs. SiddoEs had always
forbidden her to marry an actor, and of
course she chose a member of the old
gentleman's company, whom she secretly
welded. When Roger Kemble heard of
it he was furious. "Haye | not" he ex-
claimed, ''dared you to marry player q
The lady replied, with dOwncast eyes, that
she had not disobeyed. "What, madam,
have you not allied yourself to about the
worst performer in my company9" "Ex-
actly 50, y murmured the timid bride; "no-
BODY can call him an actor"
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-12-29

TO THE TH1RTY.N1NrH CONGRESS-.


o PEoPLE-CHosENl are ye not
Likewise the chosen of the Lord,
To do His will and speak His word?
From the loud thunder storm of war
Not man alone has called ye forth,
But He; the God of all the earthl
The torch of vengence in your hands
He quenches; INTO him belongs
The solemn recompense Of wrongs.
Enough of blood the land has seen,
And, not by cell, or gallows-stair,
Shall ye the way of God prepare.
Say to the pardon seekers: Keep
Your manhood; bend no suppliant knees,
Nor palter with unworthy pleas.
Above your voice sounds the wall
OF starving men; we shut in vain
Our eyes to Pillows CHASTITY stain.
What words can drown that bitter cry?
What tears wash out that stain of death? ?
What oaths confirm your broken faith?
From you alone the guaranty
Of union, freedom, peace we claim;
We urge no conqueror's terms of shame.
Alasl no victor's pride is ours
Who bend above our triumph won
Like David Ger his rebel son.
Be men, not beggars. Cancel all
By one brave, generous action; trust
Your better instincts and be justl
Make all men peers before the law,
Take hands from off the negroes throat.
Give black and white an equal vote.
Keep all your forfeit lives and lands,
But give the common law s redress
To Labor's utter nakedness
Revive the old, heroic will,
Be in the right as brave and strong
As ye have proved yourselves in wrong.
Defeat shall then be victory,
Your loss the wealth of full amends,
And hate be love and foes be friends,
Then buried be the dreadful past,
Its common slain be mourned, and let
Its memories soften to regret.
Then shall the Unions mother heart
Her lost and wandering ones recall,
Forgiving and restoring all:
And Freedom break her marble trance
Above the Capitolian dome.
Stretch hands and bid ye welcome homel
john g. Whittier en- 'sIhe Nation.