Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-07-21
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and two white crows were recently sold to
man in Manchester, New Hampshire.
| Western editor complains that his poverty
came very near being exposed to the world
pickpocket relieved him of his purse, but un-
expectedly and considerably Tefrained from
saying anything about its contents.
General Mowrie after struggling through a
miserable Carolina cypress swamp for several
days, asked long, lsnk butternut-dyed native.
how far it was to teTrG GJma. 81 hain't hearn
o no sich place about yer, was the reply.
On the Fourth of July all the. dining room
servants at the Louisville Hotel without cere-
mOny, Joined in the Freedmen's procession.
leaving the landlord and clerks to wait on their
guests.
| A correspondent of Portland paper tells of
a little girl who. attending Sabbath School for
the first time, and being asked if she loved the
Lord, replied, Don't know, thir l hant got
nothing agin him p
Green corn new potatoes, melons, berries.
and fruits of all kinds including grapes and
tigs, are now plenty in North Carolina whose
soil yields all the products grown in the North
or extreme South.
1t seems that the rebel portion of the Cher
okee nation has cOme to grief. The New Or
leans Tunes says that these Indians are near
starvation and that General Stanley has appeal
ed to the Texans for relief.
Eleven hundred and SIX captains, three thou
sand three hundred and eighty two lieutenants.
five thousand five hundred and eighty five
non commissioned officers, and thirty-two thou
sand seven hundred and twenty mine priyates
Rebels) were discharged up to July j.
| 1t is said that Payne was the only one of the
fottr hanOoH Er.darr L,I
come upon the scaffOld without indulgence in
stimulants, which he had steadily refused, say
ing that he wished to die with an unclouded
mind.
The New York Stats Zeitu,,g which has the
largest circulation of any German paper in the
United States, has come out in favor Of negro
suffrage. 1t wishes the question left to the de-
cisiOn of every State; it regards period of ap-
prenticeship as necessary for giving to the freed
men political education; but it calls it 'sfolly
and perfdy'' to demand that men who are free
be forever excluded from the right of suffrage
A sword costing $50, has been purchased
jby the freedmen of Fortress Monroe, for pre-
lsentation to Gen. Butler, in token of services
rendered them while in command of that De-
IPartment.
An exchange asks, s'Where shall we go for
the summer The Boston Post replies
wherever they will trust You to two months
board" When you get there write to us.
We notice that some of the Copperhead pa
pers have got 50 they can say negro instead
Of ''nigger, when speaking of that unfortun-
ate but loyal race. Is this modification In view
of the fact that the negroes may some day have
votes to give
Iowa has been visited lately with number Of
very fierce storms. seriously injuring crops,
corn especially. The streams are unusually
high and the bridges generally have ben swept
away.
The old elm tree on Boston Common on
which Mary Dyer was hung, two hundred and
thirty years ago, for preaching Quaker doc
trines, IS still standing. Some of its heavy
branches are supported by IRON chains, and ev-
cry possible care Is taken for its preservation
A dispatch from the late Rebel War Depart.
ment is published, which proves that the de-
struction of the cotton and tobacco and tn,
burning of Richmond, were done under th,
express orders Of Gen. Lee.
Emerson Etheridge has been arrested il
Weakley county, Tenn, and is now confined
at Columbus, Ky, for sedtious hsrangues. Jr
one OF his speeches ne told the negroes that they
were not free.
The Vermont Standard, printed at Wood
stock, RdiUety says: ''any improvement noticed
/ in our paper this week may be attributed to the
absence of the editor for several days
Ex-Gov Pickens, of South Carolina, is now
residing at Yorkville in that State. In hi.
speech on the taking of Fort Sumter he ''thank.
ed God the war had come" He is now said tc
be thankful that it is over.
DIR. Hubbard, of Paris, says that out of IOC
persons 65 marry, three of those get divorced
eight leave their partners without that formal
itY, fourteen stick to the marriage relation but
fight all the time, thirty vegetate, and perhaps
! ten out of the sixty-five live and enjoy them
selves Fickle Parisians.
A woman in Rochester, N. Y, was, a few
days since, relieved of tape worm one hun.
9 dred and twenty feet in length.
: 1t is a remarkable fact that electricity travels
: 50 rapidly that it may be sent through gun
: powder without igniting it, and it is only wheI
g the current is retarded that explosion take
1 place The progress of electricity is swiftel
B than that of light, being about two hundred
n miles second.
An order from General Grant has closed al
the gambling hells of Louisville. We expec
: to see the Democratic papers in that vicinity
: denOunce this as another specimen of ''milita
ry despOtism"
: A Providence gentleman, Just returned from
e ISavannah, says that Mrs. jeff Davis is not des
: ltitute She boards at the Pulaski House, ha
: plenty ofmoney and an extensive and magnifi
,, lcent wardrobe, which she exhibits to advantage
}; Her little son seems to be enjoying himself b,
>, singing in the hall, ''Wen hang jeff Davis OF
b sour apple tree" What an unnatural brat
The official paper of the Colombian govern
q ment formerly New Granada) recently pub
i lished decree issued by the Colombian gov.
i Iernment, declaring that President Juarez o
. Mexico has deserved well of America in view
. of the indomitable perseverance he has evinceC
T, in defence of the independence and freedom O
his country, and that they regard his virtue,
and patriotism as affOrding an example to th.
y Colombian youth. The decree also provide,
: that the portrait of President Juarez be placed
: in the National Library at BogOta, with a suita
bic inscription.
A California philosopher has discovered tha
the shocks which we call earthquakes are no
earthquakes. They are caused by electricity
and only extend few feet below the surface o
: the earth. In the course Of time, he contends
,, lthey will have summer showers in that State
4 which will do away with the necessity of Oc
Icasional earthquakes. 1t is as necessary fO
electricity to have some mode of expression a
$ for politician TO have organ.
Il is stated that a Canadian farmer named
IS Crowley, near PeterbOrO, lately opened an ole
: well and sent one of his Sons down to measure
y the depth, but remaining long time, anothe
e son was dispatched to see what was the matter
y He, too not returning as speedily as was con
ceived proper, was followed by third and ther
fourth, until all four were in the well; wheI
: to the utter anguish and dismay of the poor ia
Il 81 4 4 4
i len victim to foul air. The four were takeJ
out dead, every effort to rescue life being vain
a The intensity of feeling manifested by tn,
: rebels in the United States and Canada over tn,
II execution of Mrs. Surratt is not on account o
4 her being woman, but account of her be
r ing one of the Southern aTistocracy." Fo
: such poor devils as Payne, Atzerott and Hsr
n rold, who were mere tools and hired assassins
v they have nothing to say, but Mrs. Surratt wa
one of the female ''chivalry, p" and the rope by
V which she was hung raised blister on the uecl