Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-09-15
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The rumor obtains in Washington that the
trial of JEFF. Davis will take place Immediately
upon the conclusion of that Of Wirz, and at
Richmond
John Vorhees, editor of the Monroe mich. J
Monitor copperhead sheet, has been arrested
for forging bounty papers, DC, and lodged in
jail He attempted to commit suicide, but the
stomach pump brought him to again.
disease called hog-diptheria is now rapid
ly killing out the hogs in Fairfax Va, and ad-
joining counties. The animal appears well one
morning; during the day its neck swells, and
by the next morning it is dead. No cure has
been discovered.
The following advertisement appeared in a
late English paper: "To-day, about one O'Clock
in the afternoon, my dear wife Catharine, born
at Ellerding, was happily confined of two girls
and boy. Barely ten months ago she had
twins, making five children in one year.
Elber6eld, Aug. ii, 1865.
The Democratic journals are, publishing a
sketch of the eventful career of General G. W.
Morgan, in which they say that ''in the bloody
struggle of Ohickasaw Bluffs, the brunt of that
fearful fight was allotted TO the heroic division
| of Morgan" But they prudently omit to say
anything of the personal bravery which General
Morgan displayed in that fight.
In the Wirz trial, on Saturday, Lieut.. Col.
Chandler, formerly in the rebel service, who
made an inspection of the Andersonville prison,
testified to the indifference Of Gen. Winder to
the health and comfort the prisoners; Winder
said to him, it would be better to letOne-
half of the prisoners die, so that they could
take care of the remainder. Winder was after
ward promoted.
dispatch from Charleston of the 5th inst,
says that the election on that day for delegates
to the State Convention (for reconstruction
was very quiet A ticket got up by a combina-
tion of old politicians, and headed by Mayor
Macbeth, received nearly all the votes The
delegates are mostly conservatives. asr
Mr.. Henry S. Foote has been permitted to
return to his home at N ashville Tenn, on con-
dition that he does not molest the policy of the
Government regarding reconstruction.
Some of the Union papers call the Democra-
cy Confederate Democracy All right, but
| the name is too long. We propose a more
appropriate title, ''The Congo Democracy"
That is short, appropriate, and sounds well.
| A correspondent Of the Washington Repu6-
lican states that Major General Hooker is to be
married on Sept IL, to Miss Groesbeck, sister
of Judge W. S. Groesbeck, ex- Member of Con-
gress. Miss Groesbeck enjoys an income of
| $40, 900 per annum.
| Daniel Webster, son of the late Colonel
| Fletcher Webster, and grandson of the great
Daniel Webster, died at Marshfeld on Satur-
day, aged 25 years. The young man had led
dissolute life, and was hOpelessly wrecked in
health and character.
The Iowa Republican is advising its readers
| to s'hold on to wool" Whereupon Prentice
remarks: ''Thats what our anti-amendment
men in Kentucky are trying to do"
The New York World says: "The number of
troops on the pay and muster rolls of the army
is as follows: Regulars, Is, 900; colored troops,
| go 900; white volunteers, 10O, 600. The num-
Der actually in the field at the present time is
about $50, 900. This number is, however, be-
ing reduced each Gay by the mastering out of
several thousand men.
Abd-el-Kaders visit to Europe recalls the
fact that at the time of the massacre of Demas-
Gus he saved the lives ofseveral hundred Chris
tians Each of the continental Governments
gave him the highest honorary decoration it
had to bestow, and England presented him
with double barrelled rifle.
A Cleveland paper states that the portfolio of
the Secretary of War was rendered to Governor
Brough prior to his illness, and that, had he
survived, he would have succeeded Hon. E. NJ
Stanton, who desires to resign.
The n Y Tribune says: Hypocrisy" says
the French moralist sis the homage which Vice
paws to Virtue Witness the WOodwards,
Hughes, and Reeds of Pennsylvania, heading
their State ticket with Colonel in the late
war; while the Vallandighams and Pendletons
of Ohio Judge their case too bad to be doctored
by anything short of Major General.
The Cleveland Leader says it has informa-
ton, which can be depended upon, that VAL
landigham is the candidate of the active Demo-
Gratis for United States Senator, and that every
effort-false or fair-Open or secret, is to be
made to secure a Democratic majority in the
Legislature, to the end that Ohio may send the
"Great Exile" to Washington as its Senator
Fortunately the best lain schemes of mice and
men gang oft aglee.
Governor Marvin, of Florida, addressed his
follow citizens at Jacksonville on the I'd inst
He informed them as to the plan of the Presi-
dent for the purpose of reconstruction, giving
his views on emancipation, confscation and
other topics he deemed most essential to the
welfare of the people. Slavery" says the
Governor s'has ceased to exist. With the fall
of the confederacy its corner stone crumbled to
dust and the winds have scattered it" After
some advice to the freedmen, the Governor clos
ed his address with an appeal to all to cheer
fully accept the new order of things.
The CINCINNATI 6aze5ts says: "Bishop Smyth
(Catholic) of Dubuque, the burning of whose
stable, carriage, and horses by Copperheads for
his patriotic spirit, was noticed in our columns
some time since, has, we are glad to learn, had
his losses made good by the voluntary contri-
buttons of his fellow citizens During his re-
cent absence new buildings were put up in the
place of those destroyed, and a carriage and
horses given him.
The Mississippi Constitutional Convention
understood j'the situation, and acted in such
a manner as to show their good sense and good
faith. In their amended Constitution they not
only prohibit slavery forever, but also deny the
reserved right of secession. resolution was
adopted declaring the ordinance of secession
adopted in 1861 to be "pull and void those vo-
} ting for it expressly declaring that the inten-
tiOn of the resolution was to ''throttle forever
the fallacy that there is a reserved right TO the
! States" What do the Ohio States Rights
Democrats say to thati
very significant appointment is that of D.
R. Goodloe, whom the President has Just made
United States Marshal of North Carolina. He
was driven from that State ten years ago as an
abolitionist. He is well known as radical, "
: was an associate editor ofthe antislavery news
paper in Washington, the National Era in
, | which "Uncle Tom Cabin" was first published
and was friend and associate of Helper whose
famous work on the Impending Crisis of the
South" he assisted to compile.
Gen. MORGAN, the nominee of the Democratic
party for Governor of Ohio, has always been a
Democrat of the strictest sect. His military ca
reer has not been a brilliant one. His inglori-
Gus retreat from Cumberland Gap, at the time
when it was important that he should remain
there will not soon be forgotten. He took an
active part in the political campaign that result
ed in the defeat of Gen. Mcclellan. and also in
the political contest when Vallandighan was a
candidate for Governor. He is a Democrat OF
, the Vallandigham stripe and can never be gov
+ ernor of Ohio. The people will not trust him.
A Wonderful River.
1t has recently been demonstrated be-
yond peradventure, that the Coloradoriver,