The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-03-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK,

wAdvices from the Cape Of Good Hope
report DR.. Livingstone killed by the Oafres.
- Bishop soule, cf the Methodist
Church South, died at Nashville on Wednes-
day.
The Governor of Massachusetts has
appointed The 5th of April as day of fast
ing and prayer.
s#The Mississippi Legislature have ap-
propriated $4,000 to be expended in the de-
fence of jefferson Davis.
HThe Senate Of Virginia has passed, by
vote of 25 to 4, the bill TO call State Con-
vention for the and Monday in May.
aN- Artemus Ward has directed in his
WILL that his property, after the death of his
mother shall go towards the erection Of an
asylum for printers.
The whole of the remainder Of Table
Rock, at Niagara Falls, which is row in a
very dangerous position, is to be blasted off
with powder, tomorrow, by the local author
tiles.
~ The Idaho Avalanche of the 10th says
that Gen. Crook is fighting the Indians With
great vigor, notwithstanding the ipclement
season. At battle on Stone Mountain the
Indians murdered thirty prisoners.
sEA fire occurred Friday night at Wash
ingtOn, at the corner of Pennsylvania avenue
and Sixth street. Six or seven persons are
believed to have been killed by the falling
walls. Two bodies were recovered.
sW IKE House Committee on Elections
have had under consideration the Ohio con-
tested election case of De!ano against Gen.
Morgan, and decided to give the former Is
days to take testimony and prepare his case.
A very destructive jreshet has deluged
the whole Virginia and Tennessee valley.
The food has swept from Lynehburg to
Chattanooga, sweeping away bridges, wash
ing up railway tracks, and damaging the
whole face OF the country.
tE Farther accounts from Alabama and
Georgia represent the dsstitution in those
States as greater than heretofore stated.
Deaths from starvation are reported in Ala
baus, aud leading paper in Georgia esti-
mates the total number of starving al $4,000.
sE- The New York Tribune has engaged
Mr.. Dickens TO write a novel for its weekly
edition-paying for If $25.00O. Carlyle has
also been engaged to contribute single az
ticle, to cover a page of the daily edition, for
which be receives the sum of one hundred
and fifty guineas. John Stuart Mill has ell
so been secured as a contributor for 1857.
EThe lower branch of the Missouri
Legislature has passed, by 76 ayes to IS
nays, the bill providing for such an amend
ment of the State Constitution as shall per
NIT negroes to vote. 1t is believed that the
bill will pass the Senate, and doubtless,
then, Missouri viii take her place al the side
of Tennessee, in the cause of imrariai SUI
frsge. -E
aWA thoroughly Radical daily 1ewspa-
per- to be called The Nt,o- Orleans Republi-
cda, is to be started in that city Oh the 25th
inst, the prospectus of which has just been
issued. The projectors and editors of the
enterprise are endorsed in Washington by
Gen. Butler. Banks, Howard, and Logan, and
Messrs. Wade, Stevens, Shellabarger, and
Coalfax. The paper will be represented in
Washington BY experienced correspondents.
The amount OF stock already subscribed is
SAID to reach S250OO.
E Tcombs, the hre-eaier, the exUnited
States Senator, the great secessionist, has
lately returned to Georgia, being for q long
time hidden by his friends, for fear of the
indignation ofhis fellow rebel citizens. The
Atlanta Iateliyencsr makes an appeal for
mercy in his behalf and hopes vengeance
will not b. visited upon him.
s%-Tbe Mahoning Register has the fol-
lowing: A gross outrage was Pcrpetrated Ou
an old negro woman, near seventy years Of
age on the night Of February AL. She Is
living with her son-in-law, alse an old man
on the line OF the Hubbard R R., near the
McCurdy farm. Three ruftians entered
through the roof as the windows and doors
were barricaded, intimidated the man by
presenting pistol at his head, and one by
one outraged the woman. It is feared she
will never recover from the effects.
aE The new Eight Hour law just passed
by the Illinois Legislature and signed by the
Governor, provides that after the Ist of May
next, eight hours labor between the rising
and setting of the sun, in alI mechanical
trades, arts and employments, and othel
cases of labor and service by the day, excepr
in farm employments, shall be a legal day I
work, where there is no special agreement OF
contract to the contrary. The act does NO
apply to service by the year, month or weeh
aud does not prevent extra time of work a:
employees may agree.
sE Senator Morton of Indiana, on Satur,
day night, in speech TO serenaders, spoke
in favor of the Reconstruction bill. He hopec
the President would execute the law in it;
letter and spirit. He said the South would
make great mistake if they opposed it; h'
anticipated that in two years the South would
assume her former position in the Union, auC
fraternal relations would be restored. Speak
er Colfax on being called for, endorsed th.
sentiments of the Senator He added, "Con
gress has said to the rebel States, you shal
be led By ths faithful men, the Unionist,
whom you despised in yOar fancied triumph
of miserable cOnlederacy. And the ffieadl
who listened to him would say, as the couu'
try would say. Those who love The flag shll
rule the eOuptry."
sE-On Thursday, Vigilance COMMITTED
at Mansfield arrested seven or eight qersons
belonging to the gang ofrascsls in that place
had them photographed and then started
them off on the cass, informing them that il
they returned there ii would be at theis peril.
Intense excitrment existed in the city. 4
arge mseting attended by the best citizens
1 Twas held and the Committee were fully in
dorscd. The citizen say that from the num-
| Der of the robbers and their ipspnerof carry
ing on operations, there seemed 10 be no
means Of protecting themselves, but by this
summary proceeding. It is said that OveE
eighty confidence men, burglars, thieves, and
| pickpockets were counted there in one day;
and within ten days, eight citizeus were as
saullsd with slung shots or pistols. The
citizens have commenced, and declare their
4 determination 70 clear the town before they