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The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-08-14
whom to shut up Pirs for Fattening.

When to Shut up Pigs for Fattening {,
If tbr pens are furnished with shelter and
with water, we should say begin in August
A pound of pork is made much more econ
Omically in warm weather than in cold.
Little food is wasted in keeping up the an
NAL heat, and many green articles are avail
able which are out OF season late in the fall.
Swine enjoy fresh clover fed every day with
their cooked corn or prOVendsr. Sweet corn
ought to be raised for the purpose Offesding
in the green state to swine. 1t greatly pro-
notes their thrift, and, we thought, makes
flesh as economically as any food that can be
given.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-08-14
eEN. eIBsoN on THE sTUmF.

Our gallant candidate for Congress
has opened fire upon the enemy,and will
make good his promise made at Clyde.
He spoke to a splendid meeting at
EorwaIk, on Wednesday of last week.
Wednesday Of this week he addressed
the great Grant and Colfax meeting at
Cincinnati. He speaks in Huron
county next week at different points
on Wednesday evening, Aug. 18th, he
speaks at Bellevue. The latter part of
nezt week he viii speak here. The cit
izeus viii be duly notified of his coming.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-08-14
cRAwFoRp COUNTY DEMOCRACY


The Crawford County Democracy held
alarge meeting on Saturday night at the
Court House in Bucyrus and endorsed
enthusiastically the action of their dele
gates at MonroeviIle in refusing to go
into Convention, and eondemiDg the
nomination of Noble. Speeches were
made by A. NJ. jackson, Thomas Beer,
Judge Clements and others denounc-
ing Noble as a bondholder, thief &c,
and resolutions were passed requesting
the County Central Committee to issue
a call for convention to nominate a
Candidate against Noble. They declare
they viii not support Noble, and are
determined to yindicate the position
they have taken in the contest.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-08-14
Faota for Campaignsrs.

Since the war closed, in period of about
three years tie public debt has been
reduced betweea Ss0o 100000 and $780,
gOO.OOo.
In thses years the army has been redu-
ced from IYOO5.5l6 men to about 10000
and proposition iE now pending for its
reduction to 25y 900.
OF the eleven States which vent into
rebellion, eight have been restored to their
old relations TO the Union under loyal Gov
ernments and are now represented in Con-
gress.
The taxes removed have ali been from
domestic industry, from cotton, from agFicuI-
tural products, from minerals, from PetrO-
leum and Che tax upon whisksy has been
reduced rs per ceDt. aud upon tobacco 25
P'rcsns T00ClTA1
Dan voorhees, has been making great
fuss about Itazstioo5 and ne made 50 much
fuss about it that the matter was looked into
and il was found that Dams tax amounted 10
s711S centa in i've years
The Thirty ninth and FOrtieth Republi-
can Congresses have removed $IgI 100000
of taxes, that but for this action the people
would nOv be called upsn toPay
The ordinary expenditures of the Govern
nspt foI The fiscal year iEelOnIy $lO2sI8-
447 in paper, whereas ten years ago, on a
gold bssiS, aud before the era of high prices
they were $1GOOO,OOO under the Democratic
administration Of James Buchanan.
Blair was nominated by General Preston,
Of the rebel army; Wade Hampton second,
Cd, aad Gen FOrtsst Of Fort Pillow enfOr-
csd it. What q trio Of rebels Well
enough Blair may be revolutionary. q
In General Blair's farewell order 10 hs
army corps, he recommended cOnfistesting
the property Of the Southern people, aad
dividing II among ths NOrthera sOldiery.'
Now he complains because yths Southern
rebels are not allowed to rule the country.
6 KS Has ~ ~. w
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-08-14
Gold for the Rondholders. !.

When HoratiO Seymour was GOverROr Of
New York he vetoed bill providing for the
payment of the Foreign creditors of that
State in legal tender or lawful money. He
took the ground that, as the paper money of
one country was worth nothing ID anOthef,9
the proposed payment was no Paymentai
all; IN other words, that it was the virtual
reputation OF the debt of New York.
What do our PendletOn paper money news
paper contemporaries say to thisl ss'Hs-sa
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-08-14
One hundred wears AGO, a goC

One hundred years ago, good
Deacon Of New Haven carried an UNI
brells to church-the first one seen at
that plaee-and aep6tatioh of the
brethren we're sent to labor with him,
as the use Of an umbrella
when it rsined was thought to be flying
in the face of Providence. What
would they have thought Of Life In
surances and lightning-rods in those
daysi
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IMPORTANT,

The Ohio State Journal has the folio
wing item of political news, which ac-
counts for Seymour's delay in writing
his letter of acceptance: 1t is stated on
somewhat leaky Democratic authority,
that there was really an effort made to
put Chase on the Democratic ticket
the leaders having no faith that Sey-
mour could carry any State in the Union,
except Kentucky. The National Demo-
cratic Committee engaged in eorrespon-
dence on this subject and gained the
consent of all except two of the Demo
cratic State Central Committees, to ac-
cept Seymour's resignation, and place
Chsse's name vice Seymours. The
unwilling States were Ohio and Iowa.
Some were in favor Of going ahead with
the business without Che consent of
these two States, as they were both
certain for the Republicans in any event.
But more timid councils prevailed, and
the reluctant Seymour finally took up
his cross"
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-08-14
The Grasshopper Plague in Kansas
and Iowa.

A letter to the Chicago Republican from
MuscatinP, Iowa, says:
In the last three or fotr years the grass
hOpperz have travelled from New Mexico and
Utah, destroying vegetation aud crops, to
Des MOines river, the skirmish line of the
grand army being now established on the
banks Of the Mississippi. If you take down
the map and run an air line from Chicago
to the point joining Utah aud New Mexico,
It will be on the line OF march of the grass
hopper army, from where their ravsges
we're first noted to this place. A rule laid
on the same line will cover their proba-
ble area Of destruction, til they shall have
been drowned in the lakes. Their ravages
in Kansas two years ago were fearful. Last
yesr they committed great destruction in
Nebraska and in Southwestern Iowa, but
we're not as numerous as they had been in
Kansas. This year they have doEe their
chief bad work IN the counties Just west Of
the Des Monies river, their eastern front ex-
tending from below the city of Des MoiBes
10 above Fort Dodge, and extending south
Wardly to the Missouri. In that parallelo-
gram there have been more grasshoppers,
this year, than ten men could count, were
each man to live to be as old as Methuselah.
In some places they have devoured whole
fields of growing grain, leaving them look
as though they they had been burned. Vast
.lxtents of grass and weeds have been con-
3umed by them, But from all accounts /
udge they have not anywhere in Iowa
go6bled up everything as they did in not
few localities in Kansas.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-08-14
A Democratic Authority On
Seymour.

The New York Herald has sometimes
been called the London Times Of Ameri-
ca. TITS read more in Europe than any
other American paper, and is regarded
there as well as here, as most valuable
medium of news. No journal in this
country or in the world pays more
annually for telegraphic news than the
Herald. By the enterprise it has
shown in this particular it has gained
a large circulation, and its influence is
felt throughout the country. The Her
aid has been the political Bible of the
larger portion of the Democracy of
New York, and was at one time their
chief and only organ. What this
Democratic authority says in the pres
Ient juncture of public affairs is there
fore of general interest. In leader on
the canvass in Wednesdays issue, we
Ilnd the following;
The Democrats have rightly heen
called the old Bourbons in American
politics. They learn nothing by ex-
perience. They follow the same course
and adhere to the same dogmas under
all circumstances. They do not seem
to know that the world moves Origin
ally it was the poison of the hidebound
Democratic leaders of the South that
operated. In 1861 they threw away
Douglas, a popular and grand man,
upon hair-splitting bubbles and from
personal prejudice. They consequent
ly divided the party, lost the election
and brought on the war. At the July
Convention in this city the Northern
Democrats, who had the control there,
acted in the same narrow minded and
stupid manner. They permitted them
selves to be bumbugged and over
reached by ring of New York poll
tieians and nominated Seymour, who
is repetition of Frank Pierce in want
of capacity, and who would, if elected,
bring upon the country as much trouble.
He is nothing more than a scheming
local politician and pretty phrase
maker.
As Mr.. Bennett has ''been there, "
this may be regarded as coming from
one who knows.
In another article on the Presidency
aud the candidates, the Herald says;
But the Democrats, in the very
breath in which they claim to be the
peoples party, refuse to receive an i'm
pulse from the people or to conform to
popular thought. The whole mass of
Democratic voters, desiring to make
this election a practical fight, and one
in which they would have some chance
to win, wanted to see national man at
the head of the ticket; but the party
plan prevailed, and they have instead
a figure something worse than poor
Pierce, while the only recognition the
ticket makes Of the claim of national
services is in the second place.
Grant is an able man, man of dis
tinct convictions and Of firm and posi-
tive quality. Such a man cannot be
dishonest cannot be an intriguer and
cannot readily bemade any mans tool.
If he have any vagaries of conduct
they VIII be outright violent ones, but
such as will afford opportunity to indi-
cate his strength of character in over
coming them if occasion require.
Honest, ,clesr-headed, resolute, Of un-
eonquerable wiIl-such is the very
man we want in the Presidents chair
to give its ancient dignity and force to
that sadly compromised office
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-08-14
The Bankruptcy Act Hztended.

10 the closing hours of the Senate the bill
extending and modifying the conditions of
the Bankruptcy act was passed, and, it
having been signed BY the President, is now
a law. By the terms Of the previous bill
the benefits of the act could mot be taken
after the LIST of July unless the estate Of the
bankrupt yielded fifty per cent to the
creditors. The bill just passed extends the
period for bankruptcy without conditions
until the 1s1 of January next. This viii be
importaRtRnews to those desiTous Of taking
the benefit of the act, bat who believed
themselves unable to do 50 becsnIe ii the
restriction clause.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-08-14

A dispatch, dated Washington, Aug.
18th, says: "Hon. Thaddeus Stevens
died at precisely twelve o'clock To-
night, at his residence in this city on
C,IpitOl HILL Simon Stevens, Thad-
deus Stevens, Jr., a nephew, and his
housekeeper, Mrs. Smith, were at his
bedside; also Sister Loretta and Sister
Geneyieye ofthe Providence Hospital,
and ]. Scott Patterson, Of The Interior
Department. and the servants of his
household. Breathing his last he
passed away quietly and calmly with
out struggle as though he was falling
asleep"
Thus passes away one ofthe greatest
and most heroic men Of this nation.
Death has conquered spirit which in
life was unconquerable. As a leader
Of the House of Representatives and as
statesman, he was infexible, deter
mined, fearless and consistent, and in
every relation which he sustained he
exhibited the noblest traits which adorn
the human charscter, He lived to a
ripe old age, having realized the great
political aspirations of his earlier years,
IL 1oa+b J;1 ~ c.T ~, v,,4;I IL
had seen embodied in the action Of our
government, the great truths he has SO
long and earnestly advocated. Peace
10 the ashes of the great Commoner-
The noblest Roman Of them all.
He was born in Caledonia, Vermont
April 4th, I79S, and was 75 years old
at his death. He never married. His
public life is as familiar as household
words.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-08-14
TTAKE iisidiiIi56 6reunilt t. ahkriis fAel Sablie
~ ih'' lsffS''Sfs91s1'd fS''S fs91s1'd q HsfR9 fH5fiilit 5fiilitur-
Sorghum EVapOratOrS.
Ny pilee o oPer5,tJn is 3t HB5alds Z Cos new
SASH FACTORY, nsar1the
@. & &Yg DEPOT,

where will be found at all times 10 wait On Gus
TONERS. Tho S1ShfB erd1 frcmses 10 be very
good and It Is very important 20 all that IL VIII Be
manufactured HlntBrthe-V -VerE -beSts OF SEruD and
Sugar An who want their fstiit gas above
stated should give me call All who have used
nay EvapuritoP say fhatTtIfs the 1ltsuless labor
aviry and bgst aii4p pted por4t0r th;t Is made
2NOWis the time y get eeTtIine reldy IN time.
Send toF cilTulaie or cone add see. DOn't kJrget
the psace, at II. Bow - y f'D9Tues sash Eafforv
near the e. 0s o. De, a,ots19d h55J "A! BOWEE's.'
Fremont, 0. 1896. gW .
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-08-14
rhe ,.crat, Of h.,Ith are:

The secrets Of health are:
1. Keep warm.
.. Eat regularly and slowly. --'sEis
3. Maintain regular daily bodily hsbitsH q
4. Take early and light suppers.
5. Keep q clean skin.
e. Get plenty Of sleep at night q ysz e
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-08-14

They say oat West that no ground viii
raise potatoes ill t1Ia potato bugs have de.
ttFoyed one crop
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Atte ntiOn! /! B0ys in Blue FaIIin

Headquarters Soldiers and Sailors
National Republican EEsoutiVs
COMMITTEES, 446 Fourteenth Street,
Washington, d. c., August lst, 1868.
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CrOckery & Glassware +!

Merchants should examine prices before purchas-
ing elsewhere. Office So Water St; Warehouse
River and MedOW; Packing Rooms 50 and 81 Water
street. n. o. FANSLER, Cleveland, O..
For sale in Fremont by S. Buekland & Son, and
C. R. 9IcCuIloeh.
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Srursriss.
ssHaEEAE
F. ]. LANDGRAF,

For1nslly Of the am Of EAnegrsl and Erbesi, haG
ustrstlrpedfFOm EsT York Eiih an entire
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RAWso OLE 81 ooK,

nearly opposite the Pcs,Oee, door north OfIOors's
0rncksry Store.
Look a tbs folOzing Price Lat Of Teas, ooHss's
andSugar'F;-
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M 0ffCE All persons are hereby
II notified not TO trust my wife, sophia Miller,
without my written Or1er as L viii pay no debts Oi
her contracting. FREDERICK MILLER. .
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CHANGE. Or BASE.

y AZ EIt AAM & 4 ,Ig s9K sS # EsbE pare gTt
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speech Of a western man, ''go about treadiDg
on the coat-tails of progress, and crying out
Whoa whoa!p They have shown themselves
during seven or eight most important years,
unable to catch up with events; and their
position is that Of mau running after
railroad train, and vaiuly fingiug up his
hands in rage with the flying locomotive.
We have not been, as all our readers
know, blind friends Of the Republican party.
We have had occasion, very often, to blame
the errors, the blunders, and the excuses of
some of its leaders; we have not failed to
condemn important parts Of their policy;
and believe they have been iu many ways
unwise. But it cannot be denied that their
spirit has been a spirit Of liberty and hu-
manity; often when they have erred, it has
been from a love Of liberty, and not from
devotion to slavery; and often again, the
prevailing ignorance of politicians upon all
other questions but that of slavery. has
made the party in power the victim of de-
signing and selfish men, and the scapegoat
of their misdeeds. But the democratic
leaders have not shown disposition to do
bettr. They offer to, repeat the blundeIs Of
the Republicans; and, worse yet, they even
put into their last platform ''prOtectiOnist"
plank, and thus abandon the last distinc-
lively democratic ground they had retained.
There is hope of the Republican party;
it seems to have a future before it; it can be
welded aud formed by the young men Of
the nation. But even if ii could not, it
should, in this election, receive the support
of al young men, of all voters who wish to
get done with tie negro in politics, of all
who desire to recognise accomplished facts,
and who see that the country imperatively
needs that other questions than those re-
iating TO the rights of negroes, shall be die
cussed and settled, without loss of time.
These questions cannot come up Until The
present issue is decided; until, by q repeti.
tion of the defeat Of 1861 the democrats are
forced to accept recoHgtruetiOn, as an accom-.
plishel fact, aud turh to other luesiiOns.
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Ntp aauettistrrtnts.

GRAIN DRIBL.-For sale cheap a
~ second hand Gfiih Drill. Enquire Of
r. W d. MCCLELLAN. L
Fremont, Aug. 10; 1855. 1876
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-03-25
Terms $500 per amsuns, d. advanoc.

ty of making irredeemable paper money a
permanent feature OF the national financial
policy. They would continue to issue green
oacks to an indefinite extent, and, worse
tnan all, man whose name is as intimately
associated with the Democratic nomination
ior the Presidency as Grants nar.e is with
Tue nepuolican, proposes to pay the national
usDt WIN them. in this way the WORD
"greenbacks" has become a synonym for dis
honesty, rallying cry which attracts all the
corrupt and unprincipled political elements OF
the country. Demagogues and adventures
catch at it everywhere. 1t attracts not the
poor man, but the ignorant man. The ex-
tent OF the prevalence of the morbid green
pack mania measures quite accurately the
amount at rascality in the United States.
10 couple the word greenbacks, corrupted
as IL has been by the vileness of the ideas
with which it has become associated, with
the name of Grant is not to be SUI
tered. "Grant" represents the devotion
OF the Republican party to the great princi-
pies OF democratic government-treedom and
civil and political equality. In single word
it sums up the patriotic feeling of the people
that saved the country from disintegration,
freed the slave, and are now trying to perfect
republican institution by annihilating the
last vestase of caste and class distinctions
"Greenbacks," in its perverted political sense
means that most disgraceful and fatal OF all
the crimes that nation can commit, repudi-
ton. Grant and Greenbacks" is monstrosi-
ty-like the centaur, it is halt human and
half beast. It is like commencing a man by
saying that he is a verv good fellow, strictly
temperate in his habits and constant
church-goer, but has an unfortunate weak
ness for highway robbery and arson.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-03-25
Grant and Gold.

Grant and gold, on the one hand, and PEN
dleton and greenbacks, on the other, epito-
mize the principles which will constitute the
respective bases of the Republican and Demo-
cratic platforms in the Presidential campaign
OF 1868. From the West come rumors of an
unhallowed union of the name of Grant with
the Democratic catchword. 1t is alleged that
the people will enter upon the campaign cry
ing Grant and geenbacks." We do not
credit 1t. Certainly the Western men who
attended the Boston commercial convention
did not stultify themselves in this way They
were merchants, too, whose interests are di-
rectly involved in the settlement of the cur
rency question. If greenbacks are good for
anybody, they are good for them. But it is a
matter OF history that the convention declar-
ed against both contraction and inflation-if
the cry for greenbacks has reference to that
question-and that not content with embody-
ing in its resolution a declaration against
paying the debt in currency the last business
transacted was reteration of that declara-
tion amid the enthusiastic cheering Of the
whole body. We take this as an expression
OF the general Republican sentiment of the
West. In late number of the Nation there
appeared letter from Western man who
declared that the feeling of the people ON this
subject had been entirely misapprehended.-
Greenbacks are relatively 10 the issues of the
wildcat banks that used to exist in the West
the safest and best currency imaginable. 1t
is not with gold and silver that the ''Hoosicr,"
the Sucker" and the Buckeye compare
greenbacks, but with the unsafe currency of
State banks which used to aflict them. A
uniform national currency, with the Unit,d
States to insure its validity, seems to them,
who have really never known what specie
currency is, the financial sun.mum bonun.-
They look UPON the destruction of green
backs by the Treasury Department as a spe-
cies of saor:lege.
Legal tenders have their use and so have
the poisons in the materia medica They
are resorted to in cases of extreme financial
distress when nothing else is left to rely up
on, just as poisons are taken by a sick man
who has the alternative of mercury or death
presented to Linn. Irredeemabe paper. con-
stituting forced, loan is always an evil, but
may sometimes be the least of t,co euils, one
OF which must be suffered. This was the
case when Congress authorized the paper cur
rency now in circulation. The choice was
between greenbacks and bankruptcy.
When an invalid is restored to perfect
health he does not continue to swallow calo-
mel and arsenic. He abandons them as soon
as he can do so with any safety. Our West
ern fnanciers, with many honorable excep-
tions, propose to commit the Infinite absurdi-