Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-02-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

About one million three cent stamps are used
daily. irse @ f -. II
General Grant denies the statement that he is
soon to visit Europe. t...-....
The Kansas Legislature tabled set of reso-
lutions endorsing the President
There are two hundred and sixty y-two millions
of national bank money 10 circulation.
A couple, whose ages were respectively 60
and "a, were recently married in Tiffin. ~
The Fenians ask our Government to interfere
for The protection of arrested brethren in Ire
land.
The latest stereotyped rumor by telegraph in
regard to Semmes, is TO the effect that he is to
be tried for piracy.
The New York Tribune is to be enlarged to
the size of the London Times, according 10 New
York letter writers. --
An agent of the Freedmen's Bureau was re-
Gently murdered in his bed, in Pontiac, Miss,
by enemies of the Government. a.'
A Boston distiller, who tried to cheat the gov
ernmeDt out of its revenue tax has settled the
matter by the payment of $4,000.
The supposed oldest man in the United
States, Joseph Crele, died on the 9th ult., at
Portage Wisconsin, at the ripe age of l4I years.
More than 1000 contracts, comprehending
about 1000 freedmen, were made in Memphis
during the first week in January.
In the pardon brokerage case in Washington,
on the lst, the Jury found General Baker guilty
of false Imprisonment, and not guilty of extor-
ton.
AThe Emperor Napoleon, in his speech to the
legislstive body of France, says arrangements
are being made to withdraw the troops from
Mexico, .s -.
The military district embraced in the Depart
ment of Mississippi, has been ordered to be dis
continued. The order went into effect on the
first instant i iii'
The ultra fashionable ladies' of New York
have discarded the waterfall. It's great con-
ISOLATION that the new style cannot possibly be
homelier.
A Philadelphia colored man, David X. Bows.
er, has painted portrait of President Lincoln,
which Forneys Press pronounces the best like
ness exiant. H" sase
A college with accommodations for two hun.
dred students, has been founded by the Men
monte, or Minese, denomination, at Wadsworth
Medina county, Ohio.
Generals Grant, Meade, Sherman and Thom-
as have finished their deliberations on the mil
itary bill, and the three latter have left Wash
ington for their posts of duty.
The Fenian alarm still prevails, without abate-
ment on the Canadian frontier, the people at
many places looking for an early attack from
the organization.
The Louisville Courier, a reconstructed DEM
ocratic paper, recommends John G. Breckin-
ridge to the Democratic Legislature for U. S.
Senator from Kentucky.
Gen. Saxton has been removed from his posi-
ton as Assistant Commissioner of the Freed
mems Bureau in South Carolina. He was
faithful officer. No cause assigned for the re-
moval.
The sensation writer who predicted that the
President would veto the proposed constitution
al amendment should read the Constitution of
his country before he again exposes his igno-
rance. -.-. --t..
The Fenians in Canada have issued an ad-
dress to the Brotherhood in the United States
endorsing the O'Mahoney party, and denourc-
ing the proposition TO go to Ireland by the way
of Canada.
The Buffalo Commercial Aelucrttser has an ac-
count of the great ice jam below Niagara Falls.
In some parts of the river from Youngstown to
the cataract the ice was from fifty TO eighty feet
deep,
General Sherman in answer to an inquiry on
the subject says, that in his order setting aside
the Sea Islands for the freedmen, be intended
only to have the negroes keep possession of them
till the close of the war.
United States notes, wilfully cut in half are
not TO be redeemed, and when any counterfeit
United States notes are presented to any Gov
ernment agent he is ordered to stamp the word
counterfeit across his face.