Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-01-28


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WeIlove to,aeknowlsdge the services isss
I Edered to, our country ID, her struggle fell
freedom, BY dizAting gdished foreig igners.a w Ehai
American e-f eser forget that American
liberty was gainedawith The aid of sLafay-
ette,t Mentgo lsteuben, DeKaib, Pplas
XII. Kosciusko, Rochamb mbeau, and many 9TH
ers9 Kosciusko was among the most fa-
NOUS oflthsse great men; but his history is
fast passing off fronstt1e recollection Of the
present genera tom a puer patriot never
bsea aghsd Leta tesall the prossaiin on j events
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He was born in Poland, in 1855, and re-
ceived his military education at Warsaw.
DR.. Franklin made his acquaintance in
Paris, from which city, when American
Am assador, he commended him for mill
tary rank, to Congress Washington made
him an aid. He soon became one of our
highest engineers, with the grade of colonel.
He fortified Gates camp against Burgoyne,
and afterwards commenced the Notifications
at West Point At the close of the revolu-
ton he was Genaral, beloved by all the
people IF all the States. He returned to his
own country, was made major General
u9der Poniatowski, the Polish Bay ard, and
served as such during the fruitless Polish
struggle of 1892, '93 and 81. In 1894
he was generalissimo of the Polish armies.
On the 10th Of October he was taken pris-
oner by the Russians. He was confined for
years at St. Petersburgh, by the empress
Catharine, then liberated by Paul, loaded
with honors, and offered employment in the
Russian service. He refused it, willing to
serve only in the cause of freedom. Paul
offered to him his own sword. Kosciusko
replied: 81 no longer need a svord, since
Ino longer haze country" In 1898 be
again visited America. Congress made
him grant for his services. 1t must have
been small, as the attorney general, Mr..
Reverdy Johnson, in the article we extract
to-day from the Union, says che received
no rewards from u.s." After visiting Gene
raj Washington and Mr.. Jefferson, and re-
manning a short time in America, he return
ed to Europe. He lived many years, we
understand, near Paris, where be was when
the allied armies entered France He then
went to Vienna, and afterwards died in
Switzerland, in October, 1917. = Thence his
remains were taken to Poland, where al
most divine honors were paid them. The
cadets at West Point raised monument
to his memory -Sarannah paper.
THE MORMON DELEeATE.-The editor
Of the Cleveland Herald gives from per-
sonal acquaintance the following account
of Mr.. Babbitt, the Mormon delegate to
Congress from Dcseret:
"We are boys together. Naturally
bright, intelligent, and active, when aP-
preaching manhood he entered into the
Mormon excitement, at the time Kirkland
was the Promised Land, and, Rigdon the
popular advocate of the divine mission of
the Prophet Smith. His early advantages
had only been those Of this then new coun-
try; but in order to defend Morlnonism, SO
unpopular with all other creeds, study, in.
vestigation, reflection, and argument were
necessary. The young convert soon be.
came Jealous talker, next an exhorter,
and then popular preacher of the doc
trines OF the Golden Bible. He united his
fortunes with the prosecuted Mormons, and
became eminent with them for his zeal, his
talents, and sound judgement. When driv.
en- from Nauvoo, Mr. Babbitt stuck his
stake with his people in the Great Basin,
and now claims seat in Congress as del.
egate from Deseret."
CHARLES LAMB ON DlsEAsE.-Charles
Lamb in one of his letters to his friend
Carton, gives him the following advice
There is much more truth than poetry
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