The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-01-22
members aud he Tacs. fIsIias been 50 faI

members aud The ruce. ftiIGs becn so fsT
conducted with great practical good sense.
Hon. Sidney clarke, of Kansas in the
House YESTERDAY slicited ue little attention
iu hfsboId TraDi and sEle anuer Of,tresl
ing Orir pSblic hd systsui H6 cOuiepds
that wAd ,Oever eEus tls lape s of our Gchu-
/ try, be hey many or+iew. VII, in the end,
control ia politics. Where the masses of
the people own the soil, that country is strong
to resist all external foes aud to overcome
much of internal dsseDsion. When the land
is controlled by the minority, proveriy will
surely abound among the ma, ses. England
more paJticilaily illdslrstestbiS hS6l The
only thing Abate taTea TIC dbwpiall d the
English system is Der capacity for cOloniza-
ton. Land denied her subjects at home
has been gained Pythem in ber colonies
abroad.
Mr.. sglapke dEsIIs sts length upon the
homestead policy. tbe result of which "wbo
runs may read" and shows where only a
few years ago The buffalo fed before the
Indian, now are rapidly growing cOmmuHi-
ties in populated States From 1862, when
the first homestead law went into operation,
down 10 June 80, 1867, the entries under
the various acts have covered seven millions
of acres, making a total Of 1880 farms d
100 acres EACH, Within the late insurrecs
tiOnary States the homestead entries have
reached within two years 225, sac acres, with
| a population, planted on the, sod Of u DDS
psFGnS lil@ GA51Nbll1l1TlIS
The entire area of the public lands States
and Territories beginning with Ohio and
ending with Alaska, is estimated at 1884
9ss. 400 acres, Of which AS y000, 900 are sur
tyeyadaad, ,therefare open TO legal settlement
| OF this Iand the Government, since its organ
izatiOn, hss sold $4,000, 900 seres,I Thirty
million acres Of this lapdssqFe nsF- held BY
speculstqrss Besides these thirty millions
which have passed into tbeshands Of ,mOnop-
olists, the Government has granted tO the Pa
icifc Railroad l2A 900 coo acres; for oiHei
.rsilrOadsI West and South, 81, ,000, 600 scres;
for canals IL yOOOs 900 seFes; to the States and
already selected as sswauP and oYsTfpEed
lands, = 80 900 900 acres; 10 the States. in sid
of establishing agricultural colleges about
ten milli9GS acres, for military and BaVal SER
vices, over "A, 900, 600 aefes.I OF gbernearly
fve,huHdred million acres thus disposed Of,
over 225 600, ,0O0i 1.pillions arsonOWiin the
hands ofFailrOsd IcoEPeratiOns, ptiRatsspee+
ulatoIs aud naunOPolistss These figures al
ready cover onersikth of the public domain,
and The amount already asked for, not grant
ed, to various railroad enterprises will, if
grantee, double these figures. snloshnsdl
90 While there are eogent reasons, why the
public domain should be made to contribute
by just process 10 the aid Of gFeat'internal
Improvements by means Of wbichwucK of the
vast territory of the Republic has been open
ed to industry and enterprise, there is no
good reason, to justify the disposed of those
lands-a trust we hold for the worlds poor
lat private sale for private speculation.
suarol siti5sai PATENTS ! HedH iNei
Notwithstanding for Sometime past there
has been general gtagnalion id business,
that Of inventors generally still progresses,
judging from the list Of patents 1 have just
received from the Patent offie. For two
weeks ending JANUARY 18th, there We're 2O7
Patents issued, respectively to the States and
foreign countries following: New York SO;
Illinois I9; Pennsylvania, Ii? Massachusetts
49, Ohio 16; Connecticut is; Michigan Il
New Jersey s; Wisconsin, 5; Missouri s;
California 5; Iowa 8; Minnesota 8; iSoutb
Carolina 3; West Virginia z, Virginia 9: Ma
ryIand 2; District Of Columbia 3; Indiana &
Alabama 2; Georgia .; Kansas 9; Vermont
.; New Hampshire 9; France 2, Maine l,
Delaware l; Louisiana /; Texas i; N ebraska
/ !; Rhode Island /; oregon /; Switzerland 1.
oftheiab6ve list, thtFe sre 1IS extensions 81 ii
seven years, { of Which are 10 one one ' man,
Gyrenus WBealer,, 5r., for improvements in
bis grain ard grass harvester, and 8 for de-
signs, varying from 10 to 4 years
LUCY sroNE. 'Sh il
The Womans Rights folks, ofwssbingtOp,
were afforded an unusual treat last night
in the lecture Of Mrs. Lucy Blackwen on
W6nan's Rights. The hall wss tbronged,
despite the rain, with men and women Of the
different positions Of life, including a, large
number of Senators aud Rep iesentatiyes, one
Of which; Senator Wilson, Introduced The
lectures, and occupied seat on the plat!
form idurfbg the evening. i 5'A' - 7'5
The speaker, I'D her bddveassi, rapidly add
accurately sKstchsd the PRESENT condition Joi
her SEX retertihg 70 the laws Of nearly every ly
State in the Union not protecting woman Ii
holding and cohSsying property, The spl
portidhiug her husbands estate upon his
decease, the guardianship of her children,
&C.; of course e0ncluded by an earnest and
able appeal to all right minded men. to aid
III repeating all laws which debar Fomsn
of their Suffrage. ioHsiu SO
This woman question is assaGmiiug Zig pro-
portions here. 7a5 lh H'u Ai' J. E.
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