Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-09-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The Treasury Department now holds near
a;ghtvsix u,illian dollars in gold

lie lTcdSuig OCpdituiCuh HOW hOIuS hcdi'
ly eighty six million dollars in gold.
The net earnings of the horse Dexter, since
last June, are $s,9Ol 49,.
The State Fair has been postponed till tie
16tlsof October on account Of the late great
flood having made railroads leading TO Dayton
impossible.
The Albany Daily Knicter6Ocker says that
the physicians of the Medical College in that
CITY, in dissecting the body of a negro convict
few days ago, found his heart on the right
side and the liver on the left.
-Ohicsgo is revelling in first-class sensa-
ton. A Prusian, named ROsenquist, the other
day, being accused of stealing money, called on
God to strike him dead if he was guilty-and
Immediately fell and expired.
The State Department has information
that the preparations for the Paris Exposition
are rapidly going forward, and there will be a
large display of the products of American in
dustry.
The restoration of the statue of Washing
ton, taken by General Hunter from Lexington,
Va, was celebrated at the Military Institute at
that place, last Monday. Ex-Governor Letcher
delivered the address on the occasion.
"A tight-rope performer, named Gorham
while performing on rope stretched across one
of the streets in Corunna, Mich, last week, fell
off head downwards distance of forty feet, re-
ceiving injuries which will prove fatal.
Two brutes in human form, named Kate
Davis and Schuyler Sibley, of Sarina, Canada,
were imprisoned last week for fogging their il
legitimate child to death, little girl five years
of age, because she would not say her prayers.
There was frost in Illinois, Wisconsin and
Iowa, on Thursday night, which, in some local
tiles, damaged the corn crop. Early corn, how
ever, was generally SO far advanced as to be safe
from serious injury.
During the flood at McPhersonville, oppo-
site Dayton, sixteen persons were blockaded for
forty-eight hours in the second story of house
without morsel to eat, except few grapes that
grew on a neighboring arbor.
The War Department has published the
regulations for-the payment of bounties of last
session. All applications must be filed within
six months from the 1st of October. As soon
as the claims of any regiment have been class
fled and examined the payment will te COM
| menced.
Florida papers report the bombardment of
the Dry Tortugas by steamer bearing the rebel
flag, and mounting four guns on each broadside
IL o1I obor, rv,f Of
two miles, and then put to sea. DR.. Mudd, one
of the convIcts of the assassination plot, was
severely injured by the explosion of shell.
An immense iron ferry boat has been laun-
ched at Detroit Michigan, to ply at the rail-
read crossing, She is a vessel of eighteen
hundred tons, and is the largest now on the
lakes or rivers of the Northwest. Upon the
two tracks, running the length of the steamer,
| fourteen cars can be placed.
There is much excitement financially in
| Canada at present. The Bank of Upper Can
ada, at Montreal, failed the other day, and would
probably be followed by others. The safest
merchants in Montreal have to pay fifteen per
cent. for money. Reinforcements for the mil
itary are arriving by nearly every steamer from
| England Work on the Huron and Ontario
ship canal was commenced on Monday.
i'm the trot between "Butler'' and Cooley"
at Chicago, on Saturday, each horse won two
heats, when an angry feeling arose between the
drivers, and in the fifth heat which was trotted
after dark, Butler came in without his driver
Upon investigation, McKeever the driver of
| Butler was found on the course with his
skull fractured, from which he subsequently,
died. The driver of the other horse and seve-
raj other parties were promptly arrested, on
suspicion of foul play.
The Convention of soldiers held in Pitts
burgh this week, was one of the largest meet
ings ever assembled in this country, and the
enthusiasm was without bounds. The number
present was up in the fifty and hundred thous-
ands, and they were fed and lodged by the cit
izens, who threw open their doors to receive
the gallant boys in blue. A private soldier in
Massachusetts regiment, L. Z. Dudley, who
was clerk in the Treasury Department at
Washington, and had resigned that position
because he was refused two days leave Of
absence to attend the Convention, was unan-
imously elected temporary Chairman of the
monster meeting. Gov. Cox was chosen per-
manent Pres dent We will give a report of
the proceedings in our next.
The food with which, during the past two
weeks Ohio and Indiana have been visited,
surpasses anything of the kind known to the
| Oldest inhabitant. The destruction of property
has been immense, and the loss of life not in
considerable. Large portions of Columbus,
Indianapolis, Dayton and Springfield have been
submerged, while in the country miles of rail-
road track have been washed away, and many
miles of farms left without fence. The loss
of crops is the most serious damage. OF corn
alone many million bushels have been washed
away. In the Miami Valley particularly has
the destruction of corn been immense. The
late flood carried off the Ohio d. Mississippi
Railroad bridge over the Great Miami at Law
renceburg, and weeks will be required to repair
it. The Atlantic d Great Western Railroad
was seriously damaged between Gallon and
| Cincinnati