Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-03-09

Queen Victoria has written au authograph
letter TO the Pope, thanking him for he instruc-
tiops he had given to his clergy in the Feniau
matter.
General Griorson, tho Union raider of war
times, testified before the Reconstruction Com
mittes Yesterday that he believed an organiza-
tion existed in the South whose purpose it was
to rerew the rebellion.
The Seymour Times mentions case in that
town in which young lady administered "love
powders" to young gentleman in the hope OF
winning his affections. The consequence was
that he was poisoned and came near dying.
Bishop Alexander Campbell, generally known
rs founder of the Disciple denomination of
Christians, and eminent as a theolcgian, espec
ially as debatnr, died at his residence at Beth
any, Penn, Sunday night, in the 18th year Of
his age.
A German wants the Government TO issue
bonds calling for small tracts Of the public
lands TO be sold to Europeans, who will take up
the land when they inmigrste here. He thinks
such bonds would be eagerly bought up in
Germany.
The United States Supreme Court has decid-
ed that county or municipal corporation has no
inherent power to subscribe for railroad stock;
such power must be giuen by special act of the
Legislature. The case came up on an appeal
from. Iowa.
| The Rocky Mountain Ne,os says: The Ov-
erland Stage Line between Denver and Salt
Lake is now in splendid condition, the road be.
ing we'll stocked and careful, gentlemanly driv-
ers all the way through. The trip is now made
in six days.
| The St. Louis Democrat anticipates the open
ing of the upper rivers this week. The Mis-
souri, is open from Leavenworth to Kansas City.
Heavy shipments have been made to the Low
er Mississippi the Cumberland, Tennessee, and
other lower Rivers.
1t is announced that on a close canvass it is
ascertained that every Republican paper in IL
lnois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota takes
ground against President johnson s veto and in
favor of sustaining Congress. The exception is
the Chicago Journal.
The New York Neus' (copperhead) Wash
ington correspondent says: The delay in the
reorganization of the Cabinet seems inexpli
| cable, when it is considered that three OF the
present members are actively engaged in op-
posing the Presidents policy.
On the 3lst of December, 1865, there were
220 newspapers published in Ohio, cf which
| twenty are dailes. Twelve are published in
the German language, weekly, except two
which are dailies Cincinnati has seven dali
les, Cleveland three, and Columbus two
| Large meetings of Fenians were held on
Saturday at New York, Philadelphia, Boston,
Troy, and elsewhere. O'Mahoney promised
the New York meeting to land force in Ire
land within six weeks, but the main object at
the meeting seemed to be the sale of the Irish
bonds.
| General Schenck on Monday, succeeded in
having incorporated in the appropriation bill a
section providing five thousand dollars for the
erection at West Point of memorial tablets, and
for the expense of inscribing upon rebels guns
the names of the battles in which they were
captured.
Senator Nye has received telegram from
Union citizens of Nevada, stating that the Un-
! ion party, Union press, and~UniOn legislature
indorse his action upon the veto. The resolu-
ton introduced in the Nevada Senate indors-
ing the President received only one vote in the
affirmative.
Twenty-o -one members of the Tennessee Leg
islature having seeded from that body for the
purpose of preventing quorum, Governor
Brownlow has issued an order for new election
to fill their seats, and warns the people of the
peril 10 the State if the plans of the seceders
are allowed to succeed.
| A Washington letter says: As an index of
the disloyalty so highly stimulated and encour-
aged here of late the portrait of President Lin
coin was hissed at the tableau exhibition at
Odd Fellows Hall given in aid of the poor Of
the city. Another portrait, that of General
Mcclellan, was cheered.
John Il. Green, the reformed gambler, is on
trial before the United States District Court at
Cincinnati, on charge of passing one hundred
| dollar counterfeit compound interest note in
! Albany, Athens county, Ohio, where he now
resides. The evidence establishes the fact that
| Green did not know that the note was spurious.
| A Chicago paper says the business men OF
that city are feeling quite blue over the con-
dition of trade and the prospects of the coming
spring. With scarcely an exception, none have
succeeded in making expenses during the win
ter, and those carrying large stocks have sus-
tanned heavy losses through successive declines
in the price of general merchandise.
The Lexington (Ky.) Observer d Reporter
would like, it says, to put the following question
| to the President: ''If the bill to enlarge the
powers of the Freedmen S Bureau was objection
able because it authorized the commission OF
the outrages we have enumerated, how much
more Objectionable is the actual commission Of
these outrages here in Kentucky, without the
semblance Of legal authority2"
Hon. Kenneth Rayner, worn out politician
of North Carolina, has arrived in Washington
for the purpose of presenting the 'thanks OF
the people of his section TO the President for
his highly conservative and patriotic course
towards the Southern people. Mr.. Rayner in
sists that "ninety-nine out of every one hun
| l.al - kl1f fral a1G
| favor of Mr.. Johnson's reelection, and that II
an election was held to morrow he would sweep
the South like a hurricane" OF course he
| would.
1t will be recollected that dispatch was sent
out from Washington, few days SINCE to the
| effect that the wife of western member OF
Congress was about to enter suit for divorce
against him. A special dispatch from Chicago
to the Cincinnati Gazette says: "The wife of
the Hon. John A. Kasson, Representative in
| Congress from Iowa. has commenced suit for
divorce in the Desmoines District Court of that
State. The charge against Mr.. Kasson is adul-
terry. These are doubtless the parties referred
to in the Washington rumor. 4"
! The trial of Samuel Coovert charged with the
murder of the Roosa family at Deerfield in 1864,
is now in progress in the Court of Common
| Pleas in Warren county, in session at Lebanon.
| The witnesses introduced by the prosecution,
the first day, were Mrs. Roosa and Jeanette
Roosa, the only surviving members of the fam
| lily who were at home on the night of the mur-
! der; McNeal, the brother-in-law OF Coovert,
and several others. Itwas proven that Coovert
told about the murder in Morrowtown the morn
ing after it was perpetrated, and several hours
before the arrival of the daily papers contain
ing accounts of it, and before any report of it
by any other means had reached Morrowtown.
Mrs. Roosa and her daughter did not positively
identify Coovert as the murderer, but they
thought he resembled him.
THE MANNER OF THE PRESIDENTS
SPEECH.
We have had variety of editions of the
Presidents speech from the steps of the White
House, and a still greater variety of comments
upon it from all sources, but hitherto we have
had no account of tbs manner of its delivery
and reception, except what could be gathered