Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-02-17
THAT BRIGHTER HOME.

Much of trial, grief and woe;
Little Of joy the years bestow.
The idols clay,
We build, and set up in our hearts,
They fall, and sadly hope departs
Passing away.
Friends, fortune, fame. they all may pass
Fade, "like dim shadows in the glass
Time cannot stay;
a youth is all too bright to last,
Age sees its pleasures in the past
Passing away.
But is there then no hope heyondl"
Must this poor, mortal life despond
No cheering ray,
To pierce the deep, sepulchrsl gloom
As we are fastening to the tomb
Passing away2
Loi where your Beacon hight doth SHINE
Mortal, the Immortal shall be thine
Death nor decay,
Has power Ger the life TO come,
Then, may we all reach that glad HOME,
Ne'er passing away.
81. PARIS, January, 1865.
General Banks says that Napoleon would, up
on a convenient pretext, plant the French flag
upon the west bank of the Mississippi.
The Government now has five torpedo steam
crs carrying one gun each. They are called the
China, CascO, Napa, Naubuc and AIodoc.
There is much talk in the southern part of
England about the severe frosts this winter, for
which the memory has to go back many years
to find a parallel.
panther measuring seven feet two inches in
length, was killed near Chaggy Lake, Clinton
County New York on the night of the Doth
ult., ten miles from any house, after ten day s
chase.
Gen. Sheridan says that the capture of Fort
Fisher by Gen. Terry and Rear Admiral POr-
ter was under all circumstances one of the
most remarkable and praiseworthy events of
the war.
The New York Commercial Advertiser says
there has been a serious fall in the price of cot
ton goods in that city. Standard sheetings
which two years ago were held at sixty cents,
were sold last week at forty cents
1t is stated that Robert Lincoln, son Of Pres
ident Lincoln, is about to enter the army gu
the staff of Gen. Grant, with the rank of Cap
tain. without pay
When "a salute was being fired IN the Capitol
Park, Albany, on the LIST, a lady in passing
stopped and asked, If they were firing on ac-
count OF the Constitutional amendment She
was told Eyes. ''Oh - said she, 'Iet Inc fire
one gun for Free America She did SO with
out flinching, and walked quietly away.
A melancholy afiiction has just fallen sud-
denly ON n. Louis Boyer, a dramatic author,
who was for time director of the Vaudeville.
He was in bed when his son entered his room
and said, ARE you not going father, to get up
to-day?' ''FOr what purpose?" was the reply,
sit is not yet daylight 1t was then ten in
the morning. During the night NJ. Boyer had
become blind.
One of the Shetland mares imported by j
S. Rarey, of Ohio, lately gave birth to colt
which is considered the smallest specimen of
the horse kind in the world, being only twenty
inches in height, and only weighing twenty-One
pounds The mother of the colt weighs only
seventy-tive pounds
The Albany Evening journal tells the iol-
lowing story of Ben. Wood: ''He began suit
against creditor in California The Defend
ant IS counsel moved that before the Court pro-
ceeded further, Wood, under the laws of the
State, should be required to take the oath of al
legiance. The notice was sent to him, but he
refused to take the OATH and the
suit was thrown out of court. -
Charley aunt took good deal of pains to
make him good little boy. He is "a four year
DID," the other day we heard her say to him.
''Charles, have no objection to your enjoying
yourself in every proper way, but if You ever
put cayenne pepper into my nuffagain, shall
positively y-be very much annoyed"
We are glad to learn that our old friend An
drew Jackson DonelsOn has Teturded To Nash
vile and taken the oath of allegiance. He may
be relied OH to keep faithfully the obligation he
has assumed. He is true man He went off
with the rebels, but III soul he never was with
them He caught in youth and ill the prime of
manhood too much of the spirit Of his illustri-
Gus namesake ever TO be a disunionist. Louis
CiHe Journal.
An instance of unusual munificence has lust
occurred at Hamburg A jewish merchant,
Herr Heine, has presented the sum of five hun
dred thousand marks for the support Of the
'Betty Heine Hospital, which was built at the
expense of his father, and takes It's name from
his mother.
The English House of Peers at present con-
sists of one Prince, two Royal Dukes three
Archbishops, twenty-fogr Dukes, thirty-on
Marquises, 158 Earls thirty-One- Visc0unts,
twenty Eight Bishops, and one hundred and
fifty eight BarOns. AS the Bishop of Bath and
Wells sits also as Baron OF Auckland. the total
number of peers is 435.
While the Prince of Wales was at Hebron, he
and his suite obtained permission to visit the
Cave of Macphelah, Abraham burial place.
They are the first Christians who have been al
lowed to enter it since the Crusades, nearly sew
en- hundred years ago. DR.. Stanly says every
thing is kept in the most beautiful order, and
nothing could be more satisfactory than the
state in which the tombs are preserved. Abra-
ham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Sarah, Rebeeca and
Leah are buried there. -
At Silver City, Nevada, on election day, the
Union men nailed a rebel flag upon the sidewalk
in front of the polls, that every voter might
trample it under foot, while the Star-spangled
Banner was flying overhead,
Some wretch OF Joker perpetrated this out
rage: ''lt woman were to change her sex,
what religion would she be1 A he-then. To
which lady, with more wit and point replies;
''and to convert an artless woman into a heart
less one, there only wants 'he. -
Mr.. Burrows, clerk in the Currency Bureau,
Treasury Department, was shot dead this after
noon, in the Treasury building by female
DdInGu NldIJ lIOiu O1lCdSt- ne lGilidIt
alleges that Burrows had seduced her unde,
promise OF marriage, and afterwards married an
other womm.-W Wash. Telegram, 30h
Mrs. Battersby, another fat woman, has been
added to Barnum's stock of curiosties. She is
said TO weigh nearly seven hundred wounds. In
contrast to this mass of humanity there is also
living skeleton, weighing but sixty
pounds.
Sophia Kittle has recovered $4,000 OF William
Walsh in New Y ork Court for refusing to mar
ry her after promising to. Sophia's courting
was TO some effect if Williams wasn't Rather
an expensive WaOsh Kittle.
The abolition ofslavery blythe Missouri Con
stitutional Convention causes great reioicins
throughout the country. 1t is one ofthe grand
est events of these eyentful times.
The Court House at Rensselaer,, Jasper coun
ty, Ind, was destroyed by fire on the 18th, viii
all the public records. 1t was the work of al
incendiary.
Buffalo, January 29.-A smart shock OF al
earthquake was felt here this morning abou
four o'clock