Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-01-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK .

The next Chic State Fair is to be held in
Dayton.
The young men of Norwalk are trying to
establish Library and Reading Room-
The Engineers on the NJ. s. f N. /. Il. II.
struck for fewer hours labor per day on Wednes-
day last.
ALEX. H. SrErHESs, of Georgia, says Union
men in the South ave treated worse now than
during the rebellion.
The joint resolution in favor of the Constitu-
tional Amendment passed the New Jersey
House of Assembly on the 18th, by vote Of
43 to 10.
General Sheridan is out with reply 10 Ear
ly s letter, and says that he captured more pris-
oners in the Shenandoah Valley than Gen.
Early states to have been his entire force.
The Pittsburgh Dispdtcb favors a movement
by the newspaper publishers in Pittsburgh in
favor of their interests in view of the increased
cost of paper and labor.
Gen. Howard has received letters showing
that there is great improvement in the relations
between the freedmen and their former masters
in Georgia and Alabama.
Geu. Grant, it is said under orders from the
President is Withdrawing all the troops from
the Southern States, except the garrisons OF
United States forts at important points.
The New York Assembly has adopted res
olution instructing their Senators and Repre-
sentatives in Congress to vote for the bill pay
ing bounties to volunteers who enlisted prior
to 1863.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
ordered all manufacturers to report monthly
This applies to those who are not taxable, as well
as those who are. Manufacturers should
make note Of this.
A prominent and wealthy planter in Texas
was recently arrested by General Gregory for
having hunted freedman with dogs. The
planter said at was the custom of the country, ="
and was told that @such customs would be sup
pressed"
The Government of Chill is growing stronger
every day. Several ex-Confederato officers
have rendered their services TO the Chlian
Government and several privateers are said to
have been fitted out. An alliance between Pc
ru and Chill was regarded as certain.
ESTATE OF president LINCoLN.-The estate
of the late President Lincoln is stated to be
worth about eighty-five thousand dollars, sew
enty-f thousand dollars of which are invest
ed in $40 bonds. His real estate in Springfield,
1lllDOlS, 10 NdluSu ob AfC lAOusdnu uOlIdiS.
The prospect of the immediate admission of
the Congressional delegation from Tennessee is
slight, but private advices received in Washing
ton assert that the Tennessee Legislature will
Immediately confer civil rights upon the freed
men.
Ex-Gov. Kirkwood of Iowa has been elected,
by the Legislature of that State, United States
Senator to fill the unexpired term. As his
successor for,.the long term, commencing March
T. 1867, the Secretary of the Interior, the Hon.
James Harlan, has been elected.
The Florida Legislature has elected Mr.. Call
and Provisional Governor VIM. Marvin, United
States Senators, over two rebel generals. Gov.
Marvin was elected, for the short term, on the
ninth balloting. Both the Senators elect ar
rived at Savannah on January 6, en- route to
Washington.
The Burlington Free Press says Mr.. Henry
Wilson, of Hinesburgh, has recently lost five
cows out of herd of forty, by a disease ap
parenly the same in each case, and terminating
in death about twelve hours from the attack
Ii is as yet, not known that the disease has ap-
peared in other herds.
The Lafayette Courier says "John H. Lozer
has forwarded to Washington City petition
to the President, asking for the trial and
punishment, if found guilty, of jeff. Davis.
The petition is to be presented by Speaker
Coifax, and bears the names of over twenty
thousand citizens of Indiana, including those
of Gov. Baker and all the other State officers +"
The Mobile Advertiser of the 6th inst, says
that General Thomas has officially informed
Governor Patton that all the United States
troops will be removed from Alabama, arms
and ammunition furnished to the State militia,
and that provisions for destitute families will
be promptly furnished TO the State. The same
report comes from Georgia respecting the with
drawal of the United States troops from that
State also.
A dispatch from Washington, on the author
ity of private but trustworthy information from
Paris, announces that the Emperor, in his COM
ing speech to the Assembly, will pronounce his
desire for pacific relations with the United
States and willpropose to Withdrawn his troops
from Mexico unless some point of honor in the
meantime raised render this impossible. Prob
ably the point referred to is an invasion of Mex
leo from this country by the friends of the Lib
erals