Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-09-07
SnLnIERs, C0NYENTI0s.

A movement has been inaugurated for the
holding of Mass Soldiers Convention for the
Ninth Congressional District to appoint dele
gates to the Pittsburg National Soldiers Con-
ventOn and to transact such other business as
may come before it. Will our exchanges in the
various counties of the district bring this matter
before their readers and help forward the move
ment 2 Correspondence will be held with prom
nent soldiers in all parts of the district and de-
finite arrangements will soon be reported
Sdndusky Register.
Returns of the Atlantic Gable Company show
their receipts for messages to be at the rate of
E90O, 900 per annum.
Prior to signing the treaty of peace with
Austria, Italy will dismiss one hundred and
twenty thousand soldiers.
A ST. Domingo letter writer says the project
of annexation to the United States is consider
ed as consummated.
o. NJ. Roberts, President of the Texas Sc
cession Convention in 1861, has been elected
one of the Senators from that State.
A dispatch from Fortress Monroe says the
impression prevails there that JEFF. Davis will
soon be released on his parole, on the ground
of continued i'll health.
DrsPEPsIA-There is probably NO ore disease with
which mankind afflicted which is the course of so
called stomach, and there is certain
dy than Roback's Stomach Bitters.
VIRGINIA-Upcn the receipt of the news of
the result Of the recent Philadelphia "Gray back"
Convention, at Culpepper in that State, the citi-
zens with great unanimity hoisted in honor of
the event rebel flags.
NEW JERssY.-Governor Marcus L. Ward, of
New Jersey, will shortly call special session
of the Legislature of that State, to take action
on the Constitutional amendment, and on such
othe topics as may come before it.
1t is reported that the Masons of Illinois de-
mand that the cornerstone of the Douglas Mon
ument shall be laid by the Grand Master of the
State, instead of President Johnson-otherwise
they will take no part in the ceremonies.
The complexion of the canvass in Pennsylva-
mia promises the election of Gen. Geary by an
overwhelming majority, and gain of three
Union Congressman TO the delegation, headed
by Thaddeus Stevens
shocking accident occurred on the n. Y.
C. R. R. on the afternoon of the 5th, about six
miles east of Rochester, by which several per-
sons were killed outright and many others in
iured The accident was caused by the careless
leaving open of switch.
Our President in a little speech which is re-
ported in our dispatches, dffidently declares
that he is 'phy ysically weak" and that his "in-
tellect is not as strong as it ought to be" We
protest Will not some one hasten to assure
Mr., johnson that he is physical colossus and
an intellectual titan?
The President read the following original
poem to the Albamians:
IL, l, |, l, l, l,
Me, me, me, me, me, me, me,
], me, ], me, ], me, |,
Ne, ], me, |, me, ], me.
In his late speech to the Philadelphia Com
mittee President johnson boasted that he chad
no superior OIL earth but the Almighty which
was his way of proclaiming himself "the- big
gest toad in the puddle" He also said lie had
cried over the arm-in-arm scene at the Wig
wan, whereby we are reminded of
"a frog on a log sneeziug at his daughter;
Tears shed till his eyes red then he jumped
into the Water"
There is also story of another vain ambi-
tious frog, which puffed himself and swelled
into such pompous form that be bursted