The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-10-29

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= tauce of 80 feet, and was seriously injured
d Gen. Butterfeld,. Assistant Treasurer al
New York, having been implicated in the
= gold swindle, on Wall street hurricane, ba:
f been compelled to resign his position.
Charles B. Richlin, who had been suspect
ed for some time of purloining money from
letters, at the post Office in Defiance, was
arrested ard brought before commissioner
White, of Cleveland. on the 29i. He was
bound over in $4,000 bonds, to appear for
trial on the first Tuesday of January, 1870
Rumors are shoat, in Washington, of de-
cided senatorial opposition to confirming
Secretary Robson, of the navy Senator
Drake, of Missouri, who aspires to the chair
manship of the committee on naval affairs, is
personally opposed to Portor and as con-
sequence to Robson.
The elder Thomas Ewing. while engaged
in arguing case before the Supreme Court
of the United States, on the 22l, sank down
in fainting fit and was unable to proceed
with the argument. 1t was thought, for a
short time that he could not recover, but he
was able to resume his duties the follow
ing day.
A boiler in a steam saw mill opposite the
depot at Lacrosse, Wisconsin, exploded at
half past twelve o'clock on Monday, NOR
tally injuring three men. The names oftwo
of the men are James Vance and John Case.
the other mans name is not known. Sew
eral others were badly scaldsd and other
wise injured. The cause of the explosion is
not known.
In Allegheny City, last week, drunken
brute named Charles Hoenig attempted to
shoot his wife, but was 50 drunk that he mis-
sed her and shot a little girl named Rid
die, four years old, the child of neighbor,
who received an ugly wound, and is so badly
burned by powder that she will probably
lose an eye.
The Pendletonian paper policy of
finance is in full force in Hsy1 The mills
are all at work and gold advanced to ST.
500 paper for 81 gold. In consequences dry
goods and provisions were at fabulous prices
at the latest advices-the price of barrel of
pork being $55. 0O0 box of smoked herring
1858, box of soap $4,000 etc. Clearly
PendletOn should emigrate thither at once.
Sainave evidently needs his serv' ces.
A sad account of the loss of the schooner
Susan N. Smith, is given in a. letter from
Captain RounseviIle who was in commsnd
of the vessel which was lost in a hurricane
on the 2Slh of August. Thirteen of the crew
with the wife and two children of Captain
Rounseville, we're lost. The remaining four
managed to retain their hold upon the rigg-
ing of the vessel, where they remained eight
days, without food or water, when they were
discovered by the bark Haltfo-d and taken
to London.
On Sunday afternoon, at ymoutb church
Brooklyn, New York, Father HyacInlhe
was presented to Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,
and presented letter to Mr.. Beecher from
Mrs. Merriman, who was formerly men,
Der of Plymouth church, but who has be-
come Roman Catholic. 1t is long step
from Plymouth church communion to Rome, |
but it seems it is a stride that can be taken
and it was novel event the commencing of |
her old pastor of one extreme 10 the new
pastor of the very opposite extreme. But
extremes meet often, and this is a case in |
point.
a call has been issued, signed by one
hundred aud twenty-five clergymen and
laymen, for State Christian convention to
be held in Cleveland on the 3Oth of No
vember, the Ist and 81 of December. The
object is TO consider the best means for
awakening a deeper interest in Christian
work Each evangelical church society in
Ohio is urged to send its pastor and at least
one layman, and each Christian association
two persuns as delegates, Persons intend
ing to attend the convention and desiring
are requested to notify E. L.
Taylor, Esq, Columbus, as early as the 18th
Of November.
The following anguishing statement is
rom the Cincinnati Commercial: THE
Reform Republicans from this county--Geop- .
Der and Yeatman-are for the Fifteenth ,
Amendment decidedly. The Senate will .
therefore stand for the Amendment nineteen
o eighteen. Of the Hamilton Cou nty
elected to the House, one is
gainst the Anne ndment and four for it. So
hat the House will stand for the Amend
leut ifty-six against ifty-fve. That this
7ill throw the vote Of Ohio for the Amend.
1ent, there is no question. 1t is as clear as
hat the Democracy of this comfy, aeicately
ngineered By the Enquirer. gratuitously !
the Republicans in the Legislature
} as to give the vote of Ohio to the Amend
lent and the Amendment to the Constitut- 3
N of the United States" +
The Treasury Department, on the first Z
1stant, as already published, exhibited the Il
blowing cash statement: the balance of gold a
! the treasury was sos ,sO4. .658; balance d
currency, So, 559, ,OOI; total. SII5.363, ,659; a
'ss certificates issued for gold deposited in .
lie treasury, $24. .4I2 ,47O; balance, gold and Il
lrrency, October Ist, $50 ,951 ,IS9. Now h
le balance of gold in the Treasury is SII4. d
10, 489; balance of currency. 81, $40, ,O72; d
,tal, $Il9643,56I; less gold certificates ct
to. day, $26,69O, $50; balance of
Did and currency to-day, So, ,952, ,58I, y
rowing that the Treasury his gained since II
ct. 1, besides paying for 81 900 900 of bonds o
The difference between the net G
mount now ia the treasury aud the amount 4.
lere on the first of October is S., ,OOI ,392 :,
he balance shows It's increase in gold. This ! 20
dictates the ability of the Secretary to carry tr
1t his policy of buying bonds, and thus in
ducing the interest bearing debt.