The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-07-26

county: Lyme, $4,000; Ridgefeld, $4,000;
Clarksfeld, S25,OOO The amount of taxable
property on the duplicate in these townships
is: Lyme, Sl,469,62O RidgeAeld, sl,4O5,SlO;
Clarksfeld, s62O,S52.
The work of procuring sponges, as pursued
at Tunis, requires great skill on the part of the
sponge fishers, who are principally Greeks,
Siciians, and Arabs. OF these the Greeks are
the most expert in their vocation. The
sponge fishery is most actively carried on dur
ing the months of December, January, and
February, as at other seasons the places where
the sponges exist are overgrown with sea
weeds.
Democratic orators are not noted for epi-
grammatic terseness of speech. 1t took Mr.
Voorhees, two hours last week to tell a small
number of his constituents that he was only
joking when he said, few weeks ago, that he
would not support Greeley under any coz
ceivable circumstance, and that he intended
all along to support the Baltimore nominee.
We trust the country will feel easier, now
that it knows what the "Tan Sycamore of the
Wabash" will do.
At Sidney, Ohio, on the morning of the 2lst,
an unknown man covered with blood was
brought into town who, after recovering con-
seriousness and gaining strength to speak, said
his name was Fear, of Vandalia, o., and that
on Saturday night he was robbed of four hun
dred dollars and beaten, and that Mr.. Taylor
and Mr.. Wickers were the men who robbed
him. They were brought to him and he iden-
tilted them. They were then thrown into
Jail. Vengeance was threatened, and it was
with difficulty that they were saved. The
prospect of the mans recovery saved the pris-
oners.
The official figures of the losses sustained
by insurance companies in consequence of the
Chicago fire, have just been published by the
Auditor of the State of Illinois. The total
amount of the risks was 500, ,225,7SO; of
which the losss was $685. ,72O. The aggre-
gate paid up capital of the companies was
S64, ,750 and the net surplus $9O,5S3, ,4O2,
making a total of $95, ia, ,15l, or within mil
lion and half of the amount of insured loss.
The companies have paid S37, 1896, 1856 risks,be-
sides S5,l7S, ,790 salvage and discount, leaving
the net amount unpaid at $5S,SSO,974. The
Auditor estimates that of the sums vet due
there will probably be paid enough to make
the whole payment equal to ffty-four per
cent. of the insured loss. The total value of
property destroyed was S165, 100000. OF the
unpaid insurance $27,OOO,OOO, OF upward of
one-hai, were lost by Illinois companies.
These have paid less than ten per cent.
All the caucuses and conventions that have
been held, notwithstanding there has been
great flourish of trumpets, are but mere pre-
liminaries to the work of the autumn. The
campaign really opens in North Carolina on
the first of August, with State election.
North Carolina has white population of 67S,-
40, and her blacks number 39l, $50, or 1868
per cent of the whole population. The total
vote last year was lSl 900. The vote is divid-
ed about in population of $4,000 whites to 67,-
| 600 blacks In the last election, which involv-
| the question of a constitutional convention,
the party lines were very closely drawn, but
gave the Republicans. who opposed the con-
vention, a majority of 5000 votes. 1t is prob
able that the Republican majority will be
somewhat lessoned this year by detection
from the negro vote, but old State politicians
who are perfectly familiar with the ground be-
lieve that victory will again rest with the Re-
pubEcans.
Greeley is in the hands of men who will de-
mand of their President, and of their Con-
gress, payment for their slaves. Greeley has
advocated that very principle He favored
payment of 4OO,OOO,OOO of dollars for slaves
freed by the war. Greeley is in the hands of
men who own millions of dollars of the Con-
federate debts, the payment OF which will be
pressed upon Congress the moment the Demo-
cratic party regain power. Greeley is in the
hands of those men who would bring apon our
pension rolls OF the names of every wounded
Confederate soldier, and the names of the
family survivors of every dead Confederate
soldier. Are republicans willing to assume
such danger by voting for GreeleyP a Presi-
dent Will consort with the men who elect him.
He will choose his advisers from his friends.
| He will reward with Office those to whom he
| is indebted for his position, Who are the
men by whom Greeley will be elected, if he
shall be elected? Who are GreeIey's friends7
To whom will he be indebted for his Office
should he gain the Presidency2 Every man
can answer those questions for himself.
| Mr.. Fenton fully confirms the public under
standing that Mr. Greeley's fsrt move would be
to contract the currency and resume specie
payments. He descanted at length upon the
baneful effects of superabun dancy of paper
money, under which evil he declared we are
now groaning; and went so far as to fix ex-
actly the standard of proportion between gold
and paper money. We have now, he said, five
dollars of paper for every one dollar in gold in
the country; this is too much paper for the
gold. History shows, he continued, that one
dollar in spiecie in the banks for every three
dollars In paper in circulation "is necessary
condition for public confidence and and finan-
cial security" But existing facts deny this
proposition. The public has far more conf
dence in our greenback and national bank
currency to-day, irredeemable though it may
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circulation before the suspension of specie
payments. We never had better currency,
or one based on firmer foundation, than that
now in circulation, which rests upon the SOL
vency and credit of the National Government,
and upon the good faith and total resources Of
| the American people.
The shooting of young boy in Cincinnati
on the 7th instant, by the Rev. Samuel j..
Browne, man eighty-fve years old, is rem
dered singularly sad by another murder in
Memphis, Tenn, several weeks ago. Gen. J..
| w. S. Browne, son of the venerable clergy
| man of Cincinnati, shot and killed Capt.Adams
+ for the seduction Of his daughter. Adams was
! an ex-Confederate officer, and after the sedue-
ton promised to marry the girl, but refused to
keep his word Browne, who was known as
: a strong wiIled man, made several efforts to
force Adams to redeem his promise. Receiv-
! ing nothing but scorn for his tatheTiy remens