The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-07-05

throat from ear to ear, dying almost immedi-
ately. His wife was not dangerously injured
Drunkenness and dissipation were the causes.
1t appears from official statements that dur
ing three years last past there has been lost to
the Government in the Customs Department,
only S2s,OOO out of S553, 900 Of collections.
The losses to creditors through the insolvency
of National Banks, for three years, has been
s5,37 in every 100000. During eleven years,
the books Of the Treasury show money entries
amounting to sS5, ,lO4, ,232, 2,273, and losses aver
aging one dollar IN every one million.
The Republican State Convention Of Yer
mont, nominated Hon. Julius Converse for
Governor, Hon. R. S. Taft, for Lieutenant
Governor, and Hon. John A. Page for Treas
urer of State. Resolutions strongly endorsing
the Philadelphia platform and nominees were
adopted. An Associated Press dispatch says
of the Convention: The gathering was noble
one in the character of its members, and was
the largest delegate Convention ever held in
Vermont
A correspondent writes from StevensTille,
Montana Territory, under date of June 18th,
that the weather in Montana is beautiful aud
that the river and mountain streams are rap
idly rising, in consequence of the melting
snow from the Sierras. The grain crops are
looking finely; in fact, everything betokens an
abundant harvest and a prosperous season,
which only needs, he adds, the rumble of the
locomotives Of the Northern Pacific Railroad
through the Territory to render it complete.
At last Stokes, the assassin of James Fisk,
Jr., has been brought face to face with a jury
who will try him for his life. This should
have been done months ago. Such, however,
is the course Of justice in New York that the
poor, half-crazed inebriate who kills man in
drunken brawl, is quickly hurried into
court, tried, convicted and hung, or sent to the
Sing SiEg. The coward, with high standing
and money, may sneak upon his unsuspecting
victim, assassinate him to death in broad day.
light, in the presence of witnesses, and yet
prevent his case being tried for half year
through money, influence and the tricks of on-
principled lawyers.
Mob violence has begun as a part of the
tactics of the Ku Klux Greeleyites to "beat
Grant" The first outbreak occurred very
naturally at YanceyviIle, North Carolina,
where, three years ago, Senator Stevens was
murdered by the Ku Klux Klan; and the at
tack was leveled against Judge Settle, late
President of the National Republican Conven-
ton, and now Republican candidate for Con-
gress, from that district. The Judge stood
his ground and defed his assailants, and final
ly made his speech, but not until after free
fight among the reconstructed" Greeley
/ Democrats, in which the ex-rebers contempt
for the Union was shown by their pelting the
national flag with rotten eggs. "If these
things are done in the green tree, what will
be done in the dryf" If Republican speakers
are mobbed in June, how many Ku Klux mur-
ders and election riots will there be in No
vember2 Since now the President cannot in
terfere, the Southern Republicans must pro-
tect themselves at all hazards; and from pres
ent indications they will need thorough organ
ization and stout pluck to hold their own
against Greeley's masked battalions.
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