Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1845-06-26
AURORA, June 81, l845,

Aohonnt SuhS
JMessrs. Editors:-This place, which the
sun dagucrreotyped many years since on a
dry, hard, unpublished, clay plate, five miles
square, without ever thinking of taking out "a
patent for ahS trick, has obtained quite ce.
Iebrity among the settlements Of 'sYankee-
doodledom." Asifto secure it future shs-
ring reputation, much pains were taken at the
time, to give it a truly resplendent name.
Why our sponsors cid not SO far descend as
10 select Diana, has heer subject Of muci,
grave, and seious speculation; and can only
be accoun ted for on the ground that the sun,
too was probably thought to be made Of
"greeu cheese" But whatever may have
been the expectations Of those who gave THIS
spot, at the babtismal fount, no earthly, or
subtunary cognonlen, one thing is now corr
tain, this Is great, something Of a eslesiiGk
place. The moon can't shine by the side Of
it for. ."green cheese" Astronomically speak
ing, she is but satellite; and revolyes around
us-and though she may command all the
resources of the "raiky way," it will be Ut
terly impossible for her t. approximate any
near to us. We make q hundred young
moons every day ofthe calendar--place then.
in their orbits--and furnish them with pop-
ulation which 1t would not take Hersc hel
with his enormous magnifying glasses to dis
cover, and classify. There is not such anoih-
er heavenly-world manufactory in all creation.
Aurora, as if unwilling to disappoint her
ambitious godfa thsrs, is following III the
course Of her great nalnesaAe; or more cor.
rectly speaking, she is system BY herself
standing in the centre Of one Of the most lutlll,
inous spots in the "great milky pathway" .dis.
pensing light and heat, to the numerous
lesser lights which sparkle, and shine, in bor-
rowed efTulgence. 1t needs no such .expep,
siye, and lofty observatory as is being fur,
nlshed at Cincinnati. to learn this. Nor. .isit
conceived that the Hon. @. Adams visit,
and speech, ,there,would greatly help to forward
the investigation. It would be, difficult TO
choose point Of observation any where be-.
tween Maine. and the Rio Grands, but what
would be perfectly practicable in settling
this question. Any ordinary pain Of. visual
powers, underneath any Of the. brows which
frown over the wharfs at Cincinnati, might
clearly see our relative position among @the
things That are made" tf"f wpu gW
But setting aside all pretensions, but what
= Il. dL.E
are purely terrestrial in their ma tufe, this Is
considerable ofa place. As long age as the
days Of broadhorns on the Ohio Rivcr-be-
fore "vood-up' ever disturbed the silence that
reigned within its banks; and before Il was
found that pumping its waters uR through
the bottom; and putting them out at the Top
Of boat. would furnish the power of pro.
pelling it against the current. with greater
ra pidity than one eyer before had been forced
down it--in short, during the ant,-steam: boat
age Of the world, aAurora Cheese ii intel,
ligible campblack and grease, formed no in-
considerable part oftAe letterings thar marked
the freight which ffoated down that streap.
And SINCE that period. il would seem as
though tho omnipo:cnce Of steam had boea