Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-08-03
IMPORTANT NEWS ITEMS.
A great Horse Fair is to be held at @
August %, %. "a and 25.

A great Horse Fair is to be held at Cleveland,
August %, %. "a and 25.
Secretary Seward is announced as probabl
candidate for Ira Harris place in the United
States Senate, after next March. - ... 80 zfa
Among the delegates from New York to the
Philadelphia Convention are Fernando Wood
James Brooks and Washington Hunt.
The JonesborO (Tenn.A Flag hoists the name
of General Grant for the next President and
that Of Colonel William B. Stokes for the next
Governor of Tennessee.
Information has been received at Washington
of extensive frauds at the West on the revenue
principally in, whisky. A number of Ohio dis
til'ers are involved.
Hewlett distillery, at jamestown, Illinois,
was struck by lightning on the 3D. and totally
consumed. About $25,0o0 worth of whiskey
was destroyed.
The Associated Press have made arrange
| ments for two hundred words or less over the
Atlantic telegraph, each day, at a cost of
eighty Thousand dollars for the first year..
Good Health is paramount to wealth. IL the system is
in bad order purge out the vile hunorf and dsempers
with Rob,cks Blood Pills, and get the internal organs
performing their regular functions and in order
keep them so with RoBAcK's STOMACH BITTERs.
heart > OOuG6uI, W16IS LQO American end OF
the Atlantic Gable is fastened, .iss the name Of
a locality, (not town or village even, in Trim
ity Bay, and OF the eastern coast of New
Foundland, north Of st. Johns.
The official report shows that from the first
death in New York, by cholera, which occur
| red on the LIST of May, there have been fifty-six
deaths in all from this cause up TO Wednesday
evening.
Major General W. 7. Sherman has been pro-
NOTED to Lieutenant General, vice Grant pro-
moted to General; and Rear Admiral David D.
Porter has been promoted to Vice Admiral, vice
Fsrragut promoted to Admiral. f.-....f IS.
The officers benefited by the law lately pass.
ed granting three months extra pay, are only
those who, being in the service on the 3rd Of
March, 1865, were mustered out on resignation
or at their own request, after April 9, 1865.
The trial of Generals Sweeney and Spear, and
Colonel Mahon, for breach OF the neutrality
laws, began last week at Windsor, Vermont, be-
fore Judge Smalley. We trust they will be al
lowed to go free.
| p The Washington lntelLigefcer calls ..the idea
ofcallng convention CT Southern Loyalists''
"extremely farcical,' and adds: ait is called TO
assemble in Philadelphis, because there is no
place IN any Southern StQte ,rhere such Con-
uentiOn uoould be tolerated. s-- ..
bread, you will Herrck Aliens Gold Medal SAHARA
us There Is nothing equal to it. II ip far superior to
soda to with cream tartar Bread Biscuit raised
by it is easily diges:ed than by any other Try
paper, and you will not fail to use it after Have
the Gold Medal none. GrOcsrs and Druggists keep it.
Reports received from various parts of Hi
nOis. Wisconsin, Iowa and Indiana are to the ef-
feet that the wheat crop will be more than an
average one in respect 10 both quantity and
quality The barley, goat and rye crops also
promise WE'LL 8 80
A Democratic. mass cOnyentioRswa held at
Irainards Hall in Cleveland on Saturday last,
at the call of F. 7. Backus, r. P. Ranney, H. B.
Payne and Moses Kelley TO send delegates to the
philadelphia convention and these same gentle
| men were appointed said delegates.
The President has signed the bill regulating
the manner of holding Senatorial elections,
which it was expected by many that he would
veto. This is the last bill of any political i'm
portarce which will be presented to the Presi-
dent during this session. -
The Mobile Adre5tiser and Register of July
IIth, speaking of a recent duel fought near
Richmond, Va, describes the parties thereto as
@Maior H. G. Wall, of the Adjntant Generals
Department Of the Confederate States, and Col
d. C. Mayor, also of the same branch of govern
ment"
1le ashlD8tOn CHfOHtCte says IL Ie5Tns II ON
good authority, that 'the University of Virginia
Is engaged In the intellectual labor of preparing
a new series of school books for Southern
children, in which the virtues of the ''Confed-
crate cause, its so dit RS statesmen, &C., are to
be duly celebrated and exempliied." That is
the place TO commence.
The amended Internal Reyenue aetwas sign
ed on the 18th of July. by its provisions, in
all cases where the rate of taxation is increased
or decreased but taxation yet remains; the law
is to go into effect ON the first Of August But
the sections relating to the import upon whs-
key, beer and fermented liquors, are not to take
effect until the lst of September. The free
list, however, went into effect upon the passage
of the act .Ir. .ta-.
At the Convention which met in Memphis
on Thursday last, to elect delegates 10 the Phil
adalphia Convention, speeches we're made by
several persons, very bitter in their tone against
Congress- and Northerners. Ono General insist.
ed that JEFF. Davis was the greatest statesman
of the age; that the south had lost more than
the whole war debt of the North and asked
whether the South ought to be compelled to
share this burden. \ Judge wanted the Radi-
cal merchants pointed out, so that the country
people might starve them out of the city.