Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-11-09
PERSONAL.

| John O. Breckenridge has gone to Europe, t.
settle in the south of France.
Mr.. George Peabody, the London ex-banker
is now visiting his relations at Zanesville.
A. a.. Stephens in private letter says tha
he Is OPP oscd to the constitutional amendment
G. Il. Langston, a colored graduate o
Oberlin, is making political speeches in Kansas
No wonder Bismark is broken down. In tn,
campaign of Koniggratz he slept but eighty
hours in thirty days.
The Lorillsrds, tobacconists, of New York
have paid $7s5Ol6 to internal revenue within
eleven months
President johnson has issued an order fol
the reinstatement of General Sweeney to hii
former position in the regular army.
Commodore Vanderbilt intends to retire from
business "as soon as he obtains a competence.
He is poor man yet having only fifty mil
lions.
Catharine Schertz, a Jewesss, is creating {
sensation in Lancashire county, Pa, as pulpit
declaimer. Her sermons are pronounced very
able.
"The Prose Works of the distinguished
American poet, John G. Whittier, have beer
issued in two duodecimo volumes by Ticknol
and Fields
The Cass Mansion in Detroit has passed into
the hands of H. P. Baldwin, Esq, for $4,000
snd is to be thoroughly renovated, at an ex.
pense of $4,000.
Rev. D. F. Louden, one of the Fenian Pris.
oners at Toronto, was acquitted on the ground
that he was not responsible for his actions Oh
account of being drunk.
Generals Grant, Sherman, Howard, Logan
and other distinguished military chiefs, will
meet at Cincincinati, on the 18th, in reunion
with the various Orders of the old Army of the
Tennessee.
Mr.. T. P. Barnum missed the regular train
from Toledo to Fort Waye, but got on a freight
train, which, after many difficulties, brought
him through at 1880 P. M-iust in time tc
fulfil his appointment.
Senator Wright, of New Jersey, died last
week. His death now makes it the duty of the
present Republican legislature to elect his sue
cesssor-and another Union man will of course
be elected
1t is said that John G. SAKE is preparing &
translation into English verse of the "Clouds'
of Aristophanes. On the same principle that 8
poet should be translated by poet, wi
should be translated by wit.
Rev. Samuel Helfenstein, the oldest mini.
ter of the German Reformed Church of thu
United States, died at Philadelphia on Wednes
day last, aged 90 years.
Col. Adam Badeau, Aid-de-C Camp to Gen.
Grant, has written book entitled History o
General Ulysses S, Grant, and his relations tc
the War of the Rebellion" 1t will shortly b.
published by Appleton.
Gen. Thomas Jordan, author of a Harper'.
Magazine article on JEFF. Davis, and Col. j. P
Pryor of Memphis are engaged in preparing
for publication life of Gen. N B. Forrest.
Ex-Governor, ext General, ex-everything Hen.
ry A WISE of Virginia, says that he is either
felon or prisoner of war. If the former, it il
the duty of the Government to punish him; i
the latter, it is equally the duty of the Govern.
ment now to release him from the oblig ations o.
his parole. He says he has done nothing tc
ask pardon for; but that nobody can kick him
into another war"
The two new Police Commissioners of Bal.
timore are thus described
Mr.. George Young is gentleman of fair
social standing has some property, is life long
politician and was something of Radical
years ago until he married his third wife, who
is a rebel. He is a job printer in business, has
been President of the upper branch of the City
Council for four years, and is now at the head
of the Conservative organization by the city.
Mr.. VIM. T. Valiant, the second appointee
is politician by profession, and has always
been an office holder. He has been in the Gus
tom House, the Post Office, and the City Coun,
Gil, the lower branch of the Legislature, the
Collectors office, and is now in the Revenue
Department In politics be has always beer
pro-slavery, and is now a rampant Johnsonite