Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-07-21
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men nave De6H Oub " Idho Nun, Dub 0ltIeIlU
by his Aeetness, he has eluded them. Great
excitement prevails near his rowing ground. ~
Twenty We thousand men are busily engag-
ed in pushing forward the Pacific Railroad on
the California side
During the week ending with Saturday the
18TH three thousand three hundred and ninety
eight emigrants arrived at the port of New York.
John Bell with his family, arrived at Nash
vile, Tennessee, on the 10Th inst
The sum subscribed to build the Lincoln Ma
tional Monument at Sprinpfield, Ill, now
amounts to $35, 0OO
The Louisville Journal in rather a sly, round
about way, announces that Mr.. Clarence j.
Prentice late Colonel in the rebel army is the
local editor of that paper.
1t is announced that in France there are
eighteen thousand subscribers TO the Lincoln
Medal.
Ha person sees Niger in everything around
him, it isn't certain that he could help the mat
ter by looking within. He might see little
nlgger there, too
The crop of sugar in Louisiana this year is
expected to reach 10000 hogsheads, against H.
600 bogshead last year. The largest crop ev-
er raised in that State was 444 GOO hogsheads.
Hls d lIsl
Chesterfield, Va, daughter of prominent citi-
zen, was shot dead last week by discarded low
er, named Sublett who is under arrest.
George F. Robinson, the brave Maine sol
dier who saved the life of Sec. Seward, has
been given clerkship worth 81, 300 year.
When Benjamin parted with Davis, he said:
''Were both going to the same place" Glow
is that?' asked Davis. ''Well,'' said Benia-
min m OoinU to En- and uoYY oro 90
ing to Your Rope"
Major General Thomas has been adopted
as citizen of Tennessee, by the Legislature of
} that State.
An official report of all the American gold re-
ceived at the United States mint and its bran
ches from our first gold discoveries down to
June 80, 1864 states the amount at S597 I87,-
734 81. OF this, 1856, 718, ,873 ii was from
the California mines, and the smallest amount
l -S20S. 90 from Vermont
The piers of the suspension Bridge across the
Ohio here are nearly completed The wires
/ will be suspended in short time. The span of
the bridge is l,057 feet the longest span in this
country Cincinnati dispatch.
3 Elections will take place as follows: Ken
lucky, Members of Congress and State Treas
uIer, first Monday in August; Vermont, Gov
ernor, Lieutenant Governor, and State Treasur-
er, first Tuesday in September; Maine, Govern
or aud Legislature, second Monday in Sept.
f The apprehended difficulty with the Imperial
party in Mexico, growing out of the sale to
General Mejia of artillery by the rebel general
in Texas, after Kirby Smiths surrender, has
been obviated by the delivery of The guns to the
United States authorities by General Meia.
s The Hudson River Railroad is complimented
for their cleverness in recently killing whole
e family,-father, mother and child, all at once
so that there was nobody left to bring an action
7 for damages.
A political principle is illustrated in the con-
versatiOn of Southern office seeker with a vo-
ter. The former was defending himself from a
charge of aristocracy, and the reply was:-
"Well old hOss reckon you re the right stripe;
; going to treat, amt you? Bout this aristoc-
. . racy; I'll Jess tell you what's D,y principles.
: don't want nobody to 'ristocrat it over me, but
! l 'ristocrats it over everybody tn let me"
d The Noble County Republican, records a
It characteristic performance of the Copperheads
: of that place (Caldwell) in stealing cannon
and throwing it into the creek to prevent it from
r being used by the soldiers and Union men on
: the 4th of July. The Republican thinks, not
: irrationally, that men who would perpetrate so
g dastardly an act would not hesitate to dig up
y the bones of their immediate ancestors and sell
e them for tooth picks.
The London Times has suddenly discovered
that history is liar and that the battle of Wa
' terlOo was emo great shakes after all. Itsays:
cat Waterloo the disturber of the world S
| peace was punished but that is all The ideas
which he represented survived; the dynasty
e which he founded rose again, and the ruins on
which his throne had been raised it was found
Q beneath our power to reconstruct. Under such
o circumstances we think the celebration of Wa
!, terloo might as well be discontinued.
!, The unconditional surrender of the rebel ram
n Stone,oaN by the Spanish Government, to the
United States authorities, puts end to all
: the speculations in regard to the destiny of that
!. vessel. The circumstances connected with the
y surrender are honorable to both parties the
: Spanish Government waving all question as to
the validity of the claims of our Government,
q and also declining to press reimbursement of
: the I6 900 paid to the officers of the ram. In
4 return, the United States Government vOlunta-
A rily agrees to pay the SIG, 5000, to which Spain
: does not pretend to have legal claim.
1t A man named John Fletcher, of Greenfield,
S Pa, was knocked down and robbed by two
e thieves, between Gallon and Crestline. After
| beating him until he was insensible, they rob-
e bed him of his watch and chain, and between
Il $500 and $500 in money, and then laid him
5. across the railroad track with the expectation
: that the train from CLEVELAND would kill him.
e, Fortunately the train was behind time, and Mr..
Fletcher recovered his senses in time to drag
himself from the track before the train came.
,s Three men have been arrested on suspicion and
|. the watch found on one of them.
A correspondent of the Boston 1ranScrip
states that on recent visit TO Mt Vernon be
& saw returning veteran soldiers refused admit
u lance to the place because they had not enough
. money to pay the fee demanded by the seces'
= sion occupant named Herbert. colonel of &
y regiment was mulcted one hundred dollars fol
the privilege of allowing his regiment five min
utes view of the place.
The Louisville Journal says that an ex-mem
e Der of the rebel Congress, who returned homt
= a short time ago, saw his eldest son imposing
\ upon his youngest brother. @I will whip you,
y said the father. "NO, you don't dare TO whiI
. me-" said the boy. "Why don't dare to whiI
:. you?" Because if you do will tell Gen. Fry
e that you are a rebel, and he will hang you.
u, Three sailors have been sentenced to twelve
e. years each in the Connecticut State prison fo
m breaking open coffin containing the remains
J, of another sailor, and stealing SIXTY dollars
g. which they knew to be sewed up in his pants.
'e On Tuesday of this week there was fresbe
in New Jersey which exceeded any thing of tn.
= kind had in that State SINCE 1871. Thee wa;
- at the same time very heavy freshets in eastern
Pennsylvania. Great damage TO bridges fen
:, ces aud crops was done in both States.
De The Wheat crop, which promised so heavy
r yield throughout the country a few weeks b6
D fore harvest, will not be more than two-third
or of a crup-possibly not more than half crop
s. The weeYil, the rust and the spot, have proven
s. very destructive in many places, and the we
st weather has damaged great deal of wheat tina
was gnod. Corn and oats now promise well mos
I'd every where.
n foreign correspondent chronicles the i'm
portant fact that on the 18th of April her roya
;r highness the Queen of Madagascar did, with ac