Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-10-06
Correspondence of the Portage Sentinel.
CoLUMBUs, Friday Sept. 26, 1851.

COLUMBUS, Friday Sept. 20, 1851.
MR. IlARnIs:-We are getting back
some three thousand years in the WORLDS
history. The times Of animal worship
generally have returned. Pea-bulls. onions,
eeks, snipes, banton cocks, and such like
worthless are getting up ngain among the
Gods, and draw together as large numbers
as were wont to assemble on the Nile in
the pa!,niest days oil old Thebes and Mems
phis Ii is q pity they did mol leave US, in
some shape, the ancient forms Of prayer
ussd q, their sacred festivals. Osiris. and
Isis, Ceres. Flora and others, whose relig-
ion has been somewhat neglected and run
down Of lale, might here, yesterday have
seen it take fresh start, and found many
willing to rush into the fold. | suppose
the people of OHIO have come together at
this place, at this time, for much the Same
purpose that has influenced thriving couD-
tries and nations of men Of all ages of the
world Who knows bet that some one OF
the most energetic get,ers-up Of these Fairs
may yet be worshlpped in some temple,
ornamelted with statue of premium
bull! Bucephaia is the name OF "a city
once built ia honor of a horse; and the ad.
miration of maiIkind for ''nll kinds of four
footed beasts was never stronger than
here at this time. But we are only Begin
ming yet-young converts. The religion
Of ''plow-shares and pruning hooks is bu.
rising from its sleep Of ages, and agricul>
ture and peace are but just beginning to
show what people can do and vii! do,
when encouraged to labor, and their nuen>
tion is not diverted by warlike enterprises
from the cultivation of the soil. They be-
come surely very much devoted TO the OBJ
ecls of their industry and anblllon-if they
do moi, like the Egyptians, become wholly
devotional and idolalrous
2 O'CLOCK, P. NJ M.-GaAr of The Plain
Dealer, and SNITH, Of the Statesman, think
they have counted noses sufficiently accu.
rate, ond decide that there were fifty ihous-
and on the ground yesterday. To-day,
the number is diminishing. The display
of horses is particularly fine. There are
lew ''bobs" and think plain symp-
torn of sense and hnmad5sy among the
friends Of progress. For one am pleased
10 see it. Concerning the cattle will say
that they hare been fed aueli; and thar,
when the W es,ern Reserve stops making
cheese, and suffers the calves 10 run with
the cows, and takes better care of its stock
in the winter, believe the Sciota valley
will have nothing 10 bonst Of in This matter
This is proved at once satisfactorily to all
those who saw the diffareuce between the
bull belonging to Judge HlTcHc OK, of
Geauga,a and the many others on the ground.
He is a Western Reserve animal, and does
not pretend to "fu:I blood as the Judge
son told me- The fineness of form an6
color Of our cattle has always been &c
knowledged; and all it requires is equal
care 10 make them Superior in every respect.
The Judges bull took the first premium
But Thousand circumstances prevent
my giving any very interesting intorma
lion 10 your readers at this time. II | ge.
leisure in Cincinnati Tomorrow will give
J Gu something more in detail.
OF COLUMBUS and its inhabitants never
had very exalted opinion, and have
seen nothing on this occasion to elevate i,
any higher. She raises q bridge or n
building whenever she can get an nppro-
prlntion out Of the taxes of some kind -
W hnt taxes does moi do is not done, and he
who has no longing to gel hold Of some Of
'.!he crunbs," will s.ny away.
Yours,