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Vn-Say's 9auertissmeuts.
FOR SALE.
TO TOWNSHIP ASSESSORS,

NOTICE is hereby given that the assessors
IN of the several towns in the county are rs-
CURED, by law, to meet at the office of the county
eiefh, In tne city ana county of Rock Island, on
the last Saturday of the present month. ,2stb
lnst) Tor instruction and advice relative to their
dunes a. asaessors-then and there to aaree upon
basis upon which the property of the several
towns shall be assessed for the present year
JAMES NJ. BEARDSLEY.
Clerk of the County Court of Rock Island Co.
Rock Island, April l3, dItwIt 80.
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WANTED.

OK good wagon makers to whom constan
~ en- ploymsnt and good wages will be paid.
oet0dwst. B.. H. KINBALL.
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DISSOLUTION.

THE firm of PETER & Bro. is dissolved, by
l. mutual consent. II. X. PETER,
w. S. PETER.
Rock Island, April iss, 1866.
NOTICE.
The undersigned will continue the boot and
shoe busness, at the old stand, as heretofore.
WALTER s. PETER.
Rock Island, Apr II, lS66, d2w.
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Chief Justice Chase.

NEW York, April lO.-A public meeting was
held last evening at the st. Pauls methodist epis
copal church, In this city, under the auspices OF
the ladies centenary association. Chief Justice
Chase presided. and Bishops James and Simpson
delivered addresses. The chief justice, in the
coarse of his remarks, alluded to the passage of
the civil rights bill, and claimed that the next
slaves
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STOVES.
DR. BGGELOW

10 the only Physician, as a Special
l,t, now in Chicago that can be en-
areiy relied upon. Go to him. and
not suffer that horrible di.eas, u
remain IN your system, dlsfqurlp0
your face and BODY, besides des
troying your happiness aud int
The evening Argus., 1866-04-14

Geo. D. Prentice, Esq, Louisville, Ky.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-12-28
TuR pvpIIo DEsr on oHfo.

The Commissioners of the Sinking Fund
have presented to the Governor their re-
port for the six months ending Nov. Is,
1866. 1t gives clear exhibit of the fiuan-
ces of the State. The total receipts into
the Treasury during the past six months,
(including $500, $40, 50 on hand last May,
amounted to 81, ,40s, 1855 The total
disbursements for the same period were
$3.50, ,637, ,9l--leaying balance in the
Treasury, Nov. Is, 1866, of 1854, ,7OO,67.
During the fiscal year the Public Debt Of
the State was decreased by SI,097, 246 81.
In addition to this actual reduction, the
sum of $29, 900 has ceased to draw inter-
est the parties holding it having been noti-
fed to present the stocks for redemption.
The public debt of Ohio amounts to SIl,-
.Sl4, 76s,l4. 1t consists of foreign and
domestic loans. The foreign debt, pay
able in N Y, amounts to $l1, ,133, 729, So.
The domestic debt, payable in Columbus,
amounts to 1851 ,oSS,49. The loans pay
able after. 1860 amount to S46s, 1922, ,25.
This sum, the Commissioners say, can be
redeemed at the time of paying the next
semi-annual interest on the foreign debt
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-12-28
fFrom the Cleveland Leader.
CONTR THE CURRENCY.

The policy Of contracting the currency, W bich
Mr.. Secretary McCulloch is row engaged in
enforcing, will, if carried out to its legitimate
c-nclusions, result in the prostration of busi-
ness an2 the continuation of The present heavy
and onercus taxation upon the people, We
protest sgainst it for two very important and
weighty reasons.
/. Because such contraction of the curren-
cy would decrease the national revenue fully
one-half. The present system of currency,
stimulating the business of the country to un-
precedent prosperity, yields to the government
revenue unequalled in its magnificent volume
by any known in the financial history of other
nations. And yet Mr.. McCulloch is wsging
wsr upon the system which yields them. Pre-
cisely as the currency is contracted, the busi-
ness of the country will contract, and the re-
ceipts from taxation will decrease. And if the
plans of Secretary McCulloch are carried out
if the greenbacks are funded, and the National
Banks required to redeem in coin, the internal
revenue receipts, from incomes, from manufac-
lures. and from every quarter, will be reduced
fully One-half. In order merely to pay expen-
ses--tO make both ends meet--the government
would be compelled to keep up, and perhaps
even increase, its present excessive, unneces-
sary and burdensome taxation.
9 We protes against the contraction of the
currency because its infallible and inevitable
result Will be want OF money, "hard times, and
prostration Of business. We have already allu-
ded to the present unexsmpled business pros
perity of the nation. This prosperity is the re-
suit Of our enlarged system of currency. Not
only this, but the present business of the coun-
try rest upon the present system of currency as
a foundation, and to disturb that system would
be TO pull out the very foundation from
under our financial structure, The present
system of contraction, which is at the rate of
four millions month for greenbacks, will take
out of the volume of currency, by the close Of
the present fiscal year. no less than seventy five
millions. Now, if this ray id reduction is per-
sisted in, greenbacks, becoming scarce, viii
have higher value than national bank notes,
being legal tender for yment of judgments and
obligations, which the national bank notes are
not. But these legal tender notes are the basis
of the national bank circulation, and as they
are reduced the banks will be compelled to re-
duce their circulation, calling in their issues,
asserting and exchanging with other banks and
locking their notes up in their vaults. 1t is
obvious, then that the contraction of the legal
tenders viii cut two ways. In other words, for
every greenback dollar withdrawn from circu-
lation, dollar will be withdrawn from the cir
cnlation of the national bank-note issues Con-
siderng this, how lorg will it probably take
Mr.. McCulloch, at present rates, to bring about
stringency, scarcity of money, heavy failures,
panic, commercial revulsion, the overthrow of
manufacturing enterprises, and general busi-
cess prOstrationY
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-12-28
CLOSE OF THE VOLUME.

This number of the Journal brings to a
close the Fourteenth Volume of the New
Series, it being the Thirty Seventh year of
its existence. For the short time it has
been under our control we have received
numerous evidences that our efforts to pub
Iish first-class County Paper have been
appreciated. 1t has been matter of
qualification that SO many Of our patrons
friends we now claim to call them-have
taken pains TO speak OF the journal in
terms of the highest appreciation. We
would be blind, indeed, not only to our
own interest, but to the interests of the
town and county, if we did not see in this
a substantial encouragement to redouble
our efforts toward Improvement. 1t may
not be out of place to say that we have
worked under the serious disadvantage of
being entire strangers to the readers of the
JoWrRet. In time, however, this will be
overcome, and We shall feel and speak not as
'slooker on here in Venice" but with all
the interest of the ''oldest inhabitant." :"
Newspaper work soon teaches one to break
through the ice of formality, and It will
not be our fault if this journal isn't on
terms of reciprocal good fellowship with
more fresides in the county than it ever
was before. Next week the Journal com
mences, with the new year, the THIRTY
EIGHTH year of its existence To all its
subscribers, readers, and friends, it wishes
HAPPY NEW YEAR and many substantial
blessings.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-12-28
CoNGREssI0NkL.
saNATE,

THURSDAY, Dec. 20.-Mr. Wilson offered q
joint resolution directing the President of the
United States TO instruct officers Of the army
and navy and Of the Freedmen Bureau, to
prevent and prohibit the infiiction Of. corporeal
punishment tor crimes and misdemeanors in the
lately rebellieus States, until their civil govern
ments shall have been recognized and ratified
by Congress Ordered to be printed.
After some discussion on the subject of troops
being sent to Missouri by order of Gen. Grant,
to assist in enforcing the laws of the State, de-
bate on the Nebraska bill was resumed and con-
tinued at length. Without coming 20 vote
the Senate adjourned 10 January 3D., 1861 7
HOUSE.
MIR. Stephens, Of Pennsy lyania, introduced a
resolution, which was agreed TO, authorizing the
appointment of committee of seven, to report
bill establishing free schools for the District of
Columbia, from which no children over six years
Of age shall be excluded said schools to be
supported by the equal taxation of all classes.
The Speaker announced the following as Se-
lect Committee on Free Schools in the District
of Columbia: Mr.. Stevens, of Pennsylvania,
Martin Welker, of Ohio, Boutwell,, of Massachu-
sets, MoultoB, of Illinois, N. o. Hubbard, of
New York.
On motion of Mr.. Spaulding, of Ohio, the
committee on Ways and Means was instructed
to inquire into the expediency of exempting
from tar.ff duties timber and lumber for ship
building, and fire wood for steamers navigating
northern lakes and rivers when imported by the
parties using them for such purpose.
An amusing debate took place the motion
to reduce the compensation of members of Con-
gress to the rate which prevailed before the in
crease of the last session. The House then ad-
journed to January Sd, at II o'clock.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-12-28
NEWS SUMMARY.

President Johneons message was published
entire in the Paris journals.
Stephen j. Meany, Fenian Senator from Ohio
formerly editor OF the Toledo Colnemrciai who
was lately arrested in Liverpool as Fenian
spy. has been committed at Dublin for trial.
Judge Mccain, Of New York, has decided
that person who loses money by gambling is
not entitled to recover it by law. This is car
rying out the Blackstone theory, that a man
cannot take advantage ofhis own wrong.
Petitions are being circulated in all the coun-
ties of Illionis, asking the Legislature of the
State to prepare an amendment 10 the State
Constitution, to be submitted to the people, es-
tablshing impartial suffrage.
A resident of Bucyrus, Ohio, who gives R.
N. E, as his initials is about shipping to the
Governor, for the poor of that State, six cars
of wheat, six of corn, and six barrels each of
pork and beef.
A terrible fire occurred at vicksburgh on the
night of the 23d, destroying whole block of
100 houses, and in which twelve persons were
burned OF killed. and over one hundred persons
left homeless.
The Secretary of State has received informa-
ton from the officials of Canada that the SEN
tences of death passed upon the following pris-
oners Robert B. Lynch, Jno.- cMahony, VIM.
Slavine, John Quinn, and Thomas School, has
been postponed and aresPite granted until
March 18th next.
telegraph from Baltimore announces that
negro was sold for larceny on Saturday last at
Annapolis, Maryland, who bid himself of at
S37. Two girls also, sold for SONS petty of.
fense brought espectively S22 and $50 The
presence of an officer of the Freedmen's Bu-
reau prevented more spirited bidding. United
States COMMISSIONER Books, of Baltimore has
Issued warrant against the Sheriff for selling
the negroes.
An appalling calamity occurred in Memphis
last Monday Morning. fire broke out in the
basement Of a building in the fourth story of
which sixteen persons were sleeping. When the
fire broke out they we're partially suffocated and
some of them leapiug from the windows were
crushed on the pavement below. On the fire.
men reaching the windows with ladders the
remaining inmates were found to be dead, with
the exception Ola woman aud child. The woman
was lying on the floor aud had Just strength to
point to the cradle where the child, four years
old, was sleeping, aud then'dropped liieless. The
firemen secured the child aud escaped through
the window, the blankets over its face having
saved it. Nine negroes, employed in the estab-
lishment, were burned to death.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-12-28

The Atlantic Monthly for January
The Atlantic 1io'thty enters on its niue eenth
volume with an array Of distinguished names
and sterling articles that promise we'll for the
coming year. The January number contains
the first iustalment of DR.. Holmes story, "The
Guardian Angel" in which will be found the
same old charm that so fascinated the readers of
the "Autocrat," the Professor" and ''Ehe
Venner;" humorous story in verse, by James
Russell Lowell; graphic sketch of Henry
Ward teecher's church, with some pertinent
reflections upon modern church going, by James
Parton legend in verse. told as only Whit
tier can tell it ; a poem entitled Terminus,
r(on Growing DID, by R. W. Emmerson
spirited and faithful translation of the contest
between Achilles and AgamemnoD, from the
First Book of the lliad, by W. c. Bryant.
Mr. Higginson contributes Plea.fo Culture
Mr.. Trow bridge furnishes another of his attrac-
tive stories under the title, The Man who stole
Meeting House; Bayard Taylor tells char-
aeteristic of The Strange Friend; Mr.. Shanly
gives homoroussketch OF Capillary Freaks
E. c. Stedman offers poem on Pan in Wall
Street and Walter Mitchell describes the King
dom of Infancy. The story of katharine
Morne, by the author of Herman" is contin-
tinued Topics of current political interest are
thoroughly treated,-the Causes for which a
President can be lmpeached are lucidly set
forth, and Frederick Douglass makes power
full appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage
The number elnses with notices of several pop
ular new publications..
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-12-28

Inducements to Agents, To any one who
wiz send us the names of two new subscribers
to the Journal for one year aud $500 we will
send the AmeYicas Agricaltrist for the coming
year. In doing this we do not discriminate in
any way between old and new subscribers, but
simply offer an excellent Agricultural paper as
an inducement to our friends throughout the
county to act as our SCENTS. There are many
persons in the county who are not now on our
lIstwho want the Jo,uadl and only need to
have their attention called TO it to become SUBJ
scribers. Let each OfOur friends try the expe-
riment. -....ts =,
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-12-28
TIE NEXT PR EsIpENT.

One of the Washington correspondents
of a Boston paper says that a 'quiet but
well organized movement is being made
to bring out Mr.. CotFAx as the Republi-
can candidate for President, with Senator
HowARD of Michigan, as Vice President" "
The Presidential election does not take
place until Nov. 1865, nearly two years
hence. Discussion of the availability or
merits of prospective candidates at this
time, is at least one year too soon. No
man can be "written up" for a candidate.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-12-28
THE WORD WHITE.

Senator SUMNER has succeeded, notwith-
standing the hearty opposition of bluff
Ben WADE, in carrying his point relative
to the admission of Nebraska, and that
Territory will not be admitted with the
word white in its constitution; or if it is,
it will be with the understanding that the
Legislature will erase it afterwards. The
dispatches state that the Senators from
Nebraska are now in Washington waiting
to take their seats, and expecting TO do so
within a month, nothing save the little
but significant word ''wHITE" preventing
them from doing so Immediately. 1t is
to be- regretted that Mf. WADE, chairman
of the Committee on Territories, should
not himself have insisted upon the perfect
equality before the law Of all men, regard
less of color, in laying The political foun-
dations of this new State; but yet, no par
ticular backsliding from his splendid record
in behalf of freedom is to be imputed to
him on this account. The word ''white"
should be, erased from all ourconstitutions
and statute books, thus placing all men on
an equality. Then, with fair start and an
equal chance, let those who can, win
wealth, position an1 reputation.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-12-28
fremont, O., Friday, Dec. IS. 1866.

Pay In Advanoe.-From and after the first
Of January, 1861, we win send the Jcs.raOl to
new subscribers only upon the payment of the
subscription in advance. TOihOse OfOu old sub
scribefs in arrears who win pay up arrearsgs
and one year in advance, i. e. to The LIST of jan
uary 1868, on or before the lstof FEBRUARY next,
we wiz remit the ffy cents which has been
added to their subscriptions already due.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-12-28
Another of the years Of I

Another of the years of man is nearly gone.
With reverence and love for all, and more es-
pecally for all our customers, our good wishes
and sympathies naturally follow. With an
earnest desire benefit and bless receiprocally.
we offer for very low prices, and for little mon
ey large variety of Holiday Goods. All who
want to buy for children or friends, joys that
are Innocent and happiness that viii be last
ing are assured they can do so at the Drug
Store of DR.. E. Dillon d Son. Like Fairy
City the days of another year viii soon have
vanished. We address all who want to mani
fest their love for husbands or wives, children
or friends, all who want to make the good
better or the bad good, to buy their Christmas
and New Year gifts (innumerable in variety,
unsurpassed in beauty, and almost at COST at
the Drug Store of DR.. E. Dillon Il Son. 80 -Iw.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-12-28
PRIZES OFFERED By STATE BOARD OF
AGRICULTURE.

The State Board of Agriculture offer
premiums as follows: One hundred dol
lars for the. best accepted report upon the
agriculture of either Oh each of the fol-
lowing counties: Butler, Madison, Mus
kingum, Stark, Lorain and Lucas. Sew
enty-fye dollars for the best accepted re-
port of actual experiments made in any
part of the State in the application of fer
tilizers for the production of grain and
root crops, and in the improvement of
grass lands Fifty dollars for the best
accepted report of actual experiments
made in any part of the State in under
draining. Reports to be sent to the Sec
retary's Office, in Columbus, before the
18th of March, 1867.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-12-28
PUBLICATIONS.

The Canton Repository, one of the Oldest
and best county papers in Ohio, has recently
received an accession to its editorial department
in the person Of Capt. L. S. DILLEY, lately of
the Cleveland Leader. Capt. D1LLEY is vig-
orous writer, careful in his statement of facts,
dilligent in research, and thorough newspaper
man withal We extend our editorial and per-
sonal wishes for his'success.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-12-28
SPECIE PAYMENTS.

The time has never been when the busi-
ness of the country was transacted with
specie alone as the currency. Business
now, has increased far beyond that point
where the limited supply of hard money
would be of any appreciable benefit even
if it were all in the market. For the
smaller retail trade we might with adyan7,
tage employ only coin, having no bank
notes or greenbacks of less denomination
than FIVE or ten dollars, and discarding all
the ephemeral scrip which is now poor
substitute for change. But to return to a,
specie basis suddenly, as proposed by the
Secretary of the Treasury and advocated
BY the New York Tribune and other able
journals, would be disastrous The bulk
of private Indebtedness has been incurred
with gold at from 40 to so cents premium,
aud unless it is paid upon something near
the same basis of value upon which it was
contracted, it cannot be paid at all without
involving ruin Of fortunes and smashing
up of prosperous businesses. The debtor
class would be ruined, because they would
have to pay the increased difference in the
value of the currency, should its volume
be reduced to approximate the worth of
specie, when they were least able to stand
the pressure. We suppose it is next to
impossible to determine with anything like
accuracy the amount of money required to
transact the business Of the country; it |
fluctuates; but an average may be struck,
and we can make the volume of currency
conform to this average. If it is too large,
reduce it; if it is too small increase it
The business of the country grows fast
hence the volume of currency must be IN
creased accordingly. Our currency is
good enough in fact, the best that can be
devised but the trouble is that tits threat
ened continually with rapid and sweeping
contraction or unlimited expansion. What
we want is not return to specie basis but
a permanent financial policy, which, by
limiting the circulation of currency to the
amount really required to carry on bust
ness, will give it stable value.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-12-28
NEW -ADvERTIsM;Ts.
REMOVAL.

V1HE Assistant Assessors Office. United States In
Il ternal Revenue, 9Th Division, 9th District Ohio,
has besn removed to
Faller, Frenzel and Hibbards' Block,
State Street. An persons required by law to make
monthly reports. will plerss hand them in promptly
on or before the tenth of each month.
JOHN II. Nc 4RDLE, Assistant Assessor
Fremont. Dec rs, 1865. .....
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-12-28

Public Documents.-We are indebted TO
Gen. BrckLAND for five volumes of the Con-
gressioaGl Globe containing the record of the
proceedings of the thirty ninth Congress, an
indispensable work 10 editors and everybody
else who desire 10 preserve the only fully reli-
able record extant of Congressional say logs aud
doings in permanent and convenient form.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-12-28
A MISSION WITHOUT A RESULT.

A short time since the departure of
Gen. SHERMAN aud Minister CAMPBELL for
Mexico was duly heralded to the country
as matter out of which something extra
ordinary was expected to grow. The ship
that bore these distinguished personages
thenceforth became an object of the es-
pecial soIicitude of the telegraph, and its
arrival at the different southern ports was
daily and promptly mentioned. We were
even furnished with graphic description
of the gay and festive style of entertain
ment furnished by the Cubans to the Min
ister and Minister extraordinary IN trGnsitu
to the Halls of the Montezumas After
this, the usual muddle which envelopes
everything Mexican, seems to have befall-
en- them, for their operations after reach
ing that country were slightly mixed, and
we have now the very brief announcement
that Gen. SHERMAN has returned to New
Orleans, his mission having proved fail
ure, because of the refusal of the Imperial
authorities to grant him pass to cross the
lines to reach Chihuahua. He left Minis
ter CAMPBELL at Brownsville, from whence
he was to proceed to Jaurez's headquarters.
But this he was unable to do directly,
und the :. very latest" announces his re-
turn to New Orleans, for the purpose of
taking fresh start
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-12-28
NEWS OF THE NRIGHBORHOOD.
SENECA COUNTY.

From the Fostoria Ne1s-One night last
week the clothes lines Of Mrs. Hartley and
Wade, living few miles east of this place were
stripped of their rcontents. -----T The pork trade
has been lively this week, large quantities COM
ing in daily. Prices have ranged from $3.50 to
$3.50 per hundred Farmers say they don't
get the value of the corn consumed by the