Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-08-04

iISS-LOUeotNt0 cVoHItSSs
The epitaph of slavery, says the Washing
ton Chronicle, will be not unlike that of the fool
who took medicine when we'll in order to be-
come better. 1t was stronger and more pros
porous than it had ever been before; it went to
war in order TO gain more strength and prosper
ity and here it lies.
The Louisville Journal says, ''Some of the
papers have already ceased calling President
johnson his Excellency,' and now style him
| his Accidency.' But neither the vote of the
people that elected him Vice. President nor the
assassination that made him President was an
accident. faEa
A note from jackson, Mississippi, contains
| the following expression recently used by Gov
/ ernor Sharkey, of Mississippi, who, being ask
ed if he had objection to its publicity said he
had not, as he said it truly stated his senti-
ments: 81 have lost all the negroes had some
seventy or eighty in number, but, so help me
| God, l would not cast vote to restore the in
stitution of slavery"
In 1864 trial took place in Connecticut, un-
der the section of the blue-laws prohibiting
| kissing. The offenders were Sarah Tuttle and
Jacob Newton, Itappears that Sarah dropped
| her gloves and Jacob found them. When Sa-
rah asked for them, Jacob demanded kiss for
his pay and as the demand did not seem ex-
travagant, she ad justed it forthwith The facts
were clearly proved, and the parties were each
fined twenty shillings.
| Civil law in Missouri resumes its sway with
| an energy that is deserving of compliment At
the recent called session of the Circuit Court at
Jefferson City, three bushwhackers were SEN
fenced TO eighteen years imprisonment in the
penitentiary, and other criminal cases disposed
of with becoming Judgment.
The Board of Metropolitan Fire Commiss-
toner's on the 28th ult. elected Mr.. Elisha Kings
| land Chief Engineer of the Fire Department.
So it appears that Gen. Mcclellan is "dished"
again.
They (the negroes) have taken our time, our
first born, and our money freely Chicago
| Times. s
Maybe they had some claim to your ''frst
born" What color was it?-LOuisUiAe Jour.
A T. Stewart, of New York, is building
residence to cost at present estimates, 81 ,20O-
| 900, though it is expected to run up to higher
| figure. To secure site for this structure he is
tearing down one of the finest palatial residen-
| ces on Fifth avenue.
very severe storm of rain and hail passed
over Washington on Saturday afternoon, break
ing windows, injuring trees and doing other
damage property.
The receipts from Internal Revenue for July
foot up 0,000,000. Estimated receipts for
the next two months, $780, 000, 900.
About 200 pardons were granted last week
There are still more than 2, 900 applications on
file and the petitions continue to come in at
the rate of about 200 per day.
The total number of National Banks now in
operation is | ,494, with total circulation of
$I6l, 1856 $50. The amount of currency issued
last week was SO, 2S9,l65.
In Southern Kansas the people are getting
terribly in earnest in putting down theving.-|
Not long since six thieves were hanged in
Franklin county without the benefit of clergy.
A confederacy of young scamps in Louisville,
Ky, known the Forty Thieves, has been
broken up by the police, nine of their number
having been sent to the House of Refuge within
the past week,
The New York Times says it learns from
credible witnesses that the suffering in Column
bia, s. c., is appalling; cultivated and refined
people being reduced to beggary and actually
subsist ON charity. Individual cases of suffer
ing surpass anything known in our history,
and the people are detected, distressed or sub
iugated in spirit as well as in the field That
is all very sad, but South Carolina was the hot
bed of treason, and it is meet it should become
desert waste.
The Iowa Gate City says one of the ROisiest
copperheads of Keokuk 'is now living with
the ugliest negro women that ever was in Keo-
kuk, and don't hesitate TO call her his wife -
Perhaps that is what the Cops call ''eleyating
the niger" If so, we are decidedly opposed |
to it-for the negro's sake.
There were thirty thousand people at the |
Fenian pic mic, in New York, ON Tuesday
The Oregon Statesman says thousands of acres |
of wild strawberries are now wasting in Villa |
mette ValleY.
Three new weekly religious newspapers have |
recently been started in Richmond d-one in the |
interest of the New School Presbyterians, an= |
other representing the Old School and third |
a Methodist Episcopal organ.
The jackson 'Mississippian'' says: 'tWe |
learn that unbleached dOmestics in this city |
have fallen from seventy five cents TO forty-five
cents per yard" On which the Vicksburg
Herald sagely observes: 's'Unbleached domes-
tics have fallen here from eighteen hundred |
dollars to zero per head. y
A Quincy Gil. despatch of the 28th says the
heaviest hail storm that has ever been known i'm
that section, fell in Hancock county, some ten
miles south least of Warsaw, last Wednesday.
Farmers III that section report that every stock
of corn has been cut off, as if by bullets, and
that the grape crop is entirely ruined Forum
ately the storm did not extend over very large
section. The wheat oats and hay crops in
these parts almost entirely ruined
Spain seems determined to put down the
slave trade in Cuba. In the Spanish Senate on
the 7th, Marshal O Donnell, in reply to a ques-
tion put to him on the subject, said: ''The gov
ernment have determined that the slaye trade
shall cease, since this is matter affecting the
tranquility of the colony, and if the present
law be insufficient another bill will in due time
be submitted to the Legislative body to attain
the end in view. This believe to be duty
for the Spanish nation as well as a guarantee
for the tranquility of the colony, and we thus
remove a cause OF possible difficulties which
might even result in international misunder-
standing"
The hail storm we spoke of very briefly in
our last paper, was a much more serious affair
than we then supposed it to be. In some 10
calities in this county, good deal of damage
was done to grass, crops, dc. In Hartland, the
storm, both of wind and hail was particularly
severe. Some fields of corn and oats, were al
most entirely ruined; fences were prostrated,
trees blown down and TWISTED off and consid-
cradle damage was done TO windows exposed to
the storm. Our informant stated that he had
field of five acres of corn, that promised well
before the storm, that was utterly ruined by I
it and that his neghbols Jared little fany bet
ter. We learn that III Peru and some other
parts of the county, considerable damage was
sustained.-NOrlUalE Reflector.
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