Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-04-15
Correspondence of the Portage Sentinel.
Letter from the Qneen City. No. 2.
MEssRs. HARRIS & BATTERsos:-

MEssRs. Harris & BATTERsos:-
1t is probable that there is no place
in The United States where Lee lures, Con.
certs and places Of amusement, are better
attended than in Cincinnati. The last
winter, particularly, has demonstrated this
fact; signors and signoras, jugglers and
divines, dioramas and panoramas, the
"Greek Slave and paintings, s'star &C.
tors" and lee turers on Pschycology, Biolo-
gy, Big-ology and Humbug-clogy have all
claimed share of public patronage. C.
Chauncey Burr, editor Of the "Nineteenth
Century," of Philadelphia man of strong
intellect and q splendid orator, delighted
large audiences here for several weeks in
lecturing upon the science of Biology and
giving experimental evidences of its truth.
He influences men while they are in the
waking state, by inducing a kind of In
sanity. Most of his experiments were high
ly amusing, and if good for no other pur-
pose were certainly beneficial to the dys-
peptic, as laughter promotes digestion.
A course of Lectures, through the winter,
were delivered before the "Young Mems
Mercantile Library Association; ;"-Horace
Greeley, Of the New York Tribune, gave
the opening Lecture, and during the course
some of the most distinguished and talented
men of our country have addressed the AS
sociation. Mr.. Taft gave very interest
ing Lecture upon the subject Of Railroads.
In regard TO the important position which
Cincinnati occupies in our Country-its
latitude and longitude, he speaks as follows:
GA line drawn directly West, from Bal
timore, three thousand five hundred miles
to San Francisco, touching Cumberland,
Parkersburgb, Marietta, Chilllcothe, Hills
borough, Vincenues and ST. Louis, no
where varies q degree and half from SO
deg. North, the latitude Of CINCINNATI
The northern boundary of the United
States, as fixed by the late treaties with
Great Britain is 49 deg. North, varying.
however, somewhat in its course toward
the East. The latitude of 29 oeg. North,
strikes the northern part Of the Gulf of
Mexico, and forms about ah average of
the latitude Of the Southern boundary of
the United States, since the late treaty
with Mexico. The latitude of Cincinnati
divides equally this vast territory, leaving
ten degrees on the North, and ten degrees
on the South, 1t lies in the best part Of
the temperate zone, with q moderate eli
mate.
If the sublime plan of railway, from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, shall ever be
carried into execution, what line of latitude
can present SO many, and so manifest ad-
vantages, as this? 1t will unite the two
rival cities of the valley of the West. 1t
will Join the noblest harbor of the Pacific
with Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York,
and Bostou-the great emporlums OF the
Atlantic. 1t will iniersect tie commerce
of the Mississippi, at St. Louis, and will!
touch that of the Ohio, at Cincinnati. 1t
will unite the mines Of the Sacramento
with the golden harvests of the Mississippi
valley. 1t will be direct; and yet will
pass through all the important commercial
cities Of the Union, except New Orleans.
For it will be seen, by a glance at the map,