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Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-02-10
The tolefation of Christian Enrspe:

Our readers have already been advised
Of the excitement created throughout Eng.
land by the appointment Of a cardinal IN
the person Of DR.. Wisemap, by the Pope,
to superintend the spiritual concerns of the
Catholic population ofthat isle. The Pro.
testant population were aroused, as if the
Pope was about to subject them all to his
rule. That was specimen, of Protestant
intolerance. Here is a specimen Of Cath.
olic intolerance. W. clip from the w ash
ington Union: .at-sa -.;aa
MIR. Cass, the American charge d'affairs
at Rome, has lately received communi.
cation from Cardinal Antonelli, to the ef.
feet that, in consequence of the official
complaint of the Cardinal Vicar, the doc.
trinal decisions of the Congregation ol
Propaganda Eide, and the many earnest
petitions Of many English and American
Roman Catholic residents, his Holiness had
been reluctantly obliged TO withdraw the
permission which he had granted with re
spect to the American Protestant chapel.
So the Pro.estants in Rome, if the above
be correct, ars not to be allowed TO NEE
and worship as q congregation Such il
the federation of Christian Europe.-Cin
Eng.
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-02-10

The RICHEST Man IN ViRGINA.-Ths
editor Of the Lynchburg Virginian, com
menting upon paragraph which has been
travelling the rounds ofthe papers in regard
to the wealth Of General Traver, said TO be
the richest STAKEHOLDER in Georgia, furnish.
es the following information which is prob.
ably new to most Of our readers. We
had no idea ,ha, any Virginia planter own.
ed so many slaves, and acknowledge some
little curiosity 10 know who he is. If he is
compelled 10 superintend them, with all
his wealth. his lot is scarce to be pitied.
"There is gentleman residing i'll the
county Of Pittsylvania, who is larger
STAKEHOLDER and wealther than Gen. Ira.
YER, and who is perhaps the richest man
in Virginia. He owns 1909 Or 1000
slaves, and plantations almost without mum
ber. The increase of his slaves enables
him annually to settle large plantation.
OF his income we are not prepared to speak.
We respectfully suggest TO tbess.two gen.
tlemen, and we presume the suggestion
only needs to be made to inst their COM
plinnce with it, that they forthwith remit
US check for $1,000 each, for which we
will send them lock Of our hair; or if it
bo more agreeable, we propose to add our
common property together and divide the
whole into three paroles Of WHICH each
shall take a share. We are excessively
impatient 10 know the result OF the propo.
stion,'
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-02-10
Home and Woman.

If there has been more touching and
eloquent eulogium upon the charms Of
nome, and its dearest treasure woman
than is contained in the following extract
from the Christian Enquirer, it has not
been our good fortune TO meet it:
"Our homes, what is their corner stone
but the virtues Of q woman, and on what
does social Sell.being rest but on our
homes? Must we not trace all our bless
ings of civil life to the door of our private
dwellings? Are not our hearth-stohes
guarded by holy forms OF eenjHgal, fiial
and parental love, the corner stohs Of the
Church and State, more necessary than
both? Let our temples crumble, and our
academies, decay, let our public ediGces Jour
halls Of justice, and our capitols Of Stale,
be leveled vito the dust, but spare our
homes! Let no socialist invade them with
his wild plans of community. Man did
not invent, and he cannot improve OF. ab.
rogate them. .'ra. -. j. -..s5,s.. 3
ga private shelter to cover up two hearts
dearer to each other than all lhe world
high walls to exclude the profane eyes of
every human belng-and the place. for
children to feel that mother is holy and
peculiar name-this is home, and here is
the birthplace of every sacred thought.
Here the Church and State must come for
their origin and support. Oh! spare our
homes! The love we experienced there.
gives US our faith in an infinite goodness;
the purity and dsinterested tenderness OF
home is our foretaste and our earnest Of
better world. In relations there establish
ed and (os,ered, do we find through life the
chief solace and joy of existence. What
friends deserve n name compared with
those whom a birth-right gave US? One
mother is worth q thousand friends, one
sister truer than tweEty intimate compan-
ions. We who have played on the same
hearth-under the light Of the same smile,
who date back to the same scene and sea-
son and innocence and hope, in whose
veins runs the same blood-do we not find
that years only make more sacred and i'm
portant the tie that binds US? Coldness
may spring up; distance may separate;
different spheres may divide; but those
who can love any thing-who continue to
love at all, must find that the friends whom
God himself gave, are wholly unlike those
we chose for curse Ives, and that the yearn-
ing for these is the strong spark in our ex.
piring affections.
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-02-10
An Innocent Man Hung.

! It is probable that Hicks, who was exc
culed at Monticello, Mississippi,last spring,
for the murder of VIM. Allen, was NO,
guilty of the crime. The coroner's in.
quest found that Allen was shot in The
head, but the remains have since been ex.
humed, and examined by physicians, from
whose Feprot it appears that he was not
shot, but was probably killed by blow
according to Hicks confession made to a
minister, and published after his execution
Fhe confession OF Hicks, with whom AL.
len had been travelling, was to the effect
that on Sunday morning, while he, Hicks,
had left their camp, at Ford's Cowpens,
to examine some houses near by, his wife
came running TO him, telling him she was
afraid she had killed Allen. Hicks re-
turned to the camp, and finding that Allen
was indeed dead, or nearly SO, removed the
body about $50 rods of, and left him with
his clothes beside him. 1t appears that af.
ter Hicks had gone out, Allen took large
draught Of whiskey and then approached
Mrs. Hicks with only his shirt, drawers
and socks on, with the design of hugging
her," as he said, and that she struck al him
with wagon hammer which she had in
her hand pounding coffee. II hit him on
the head and caused his death. She did
not know that Aliens design was Of the
basesr kind, but her onlv intention was to
keep him,off. On the trial, Hicks prevari.
cations tended to strengthen the circum-
stances against him, but those very prevar-
ications arise from his determination not
to implicate his wife,. Had he told the
truth at first, and called for medical ex.
animation of the deceased, it is highly
probable that he would have been acquit-
ted, and the law would have been spared
the odium of judicial murder. But we
must say that his wife, in keeping silent
while her Innocent husband was executed,
failed in the high virtue which her sex
have so often exhibited.
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-02-10
Tiie Monster Debtor of the WerId.

The sum of Indebtedness of that con.
glomerate Of humanity which we call Eng
land, is SO prodigiously great that it should
be always referred TO as standard of size,
and instead OF saying as high as noun
tain, as big as church door, as long as
from here to yonder, &C., it would give
much livelier idea of height length,
breadth, or uace rsrsa, to say it is rs big as
the debt of England, but then, as there is
nothing else in the world half so great, the
hyperbolical evtravagance Of such o COM
parison might destroy its effect. An in
genious author has taken the pains to make
the following statistical estimate Of the
English debit ... ..s.
''lts weight in gold would be G, ,2s2 ions;
in silver, 100000 tons; It's transportation
in gold would require 26 ships of $50 tons
each; IL, 59l horse.cars, each carrying
half a ton, and forming procession of rs
miles in length, Of 36l, ,769 soldiers each
carrying so lbs; in sovereigns. piled one
upon another. they would be ITO; laying
them side by side, and touchicg each other,
they would form chain of gold Of II ,O4s
miles in length, or nearly twice the cir.
cumlerence of the moon, the same amount
in one pound notes. sewed together, woul
carpet turnpike road 40 feet broad and
lO40 miles long, or from Lands End TO
John o 'Groat's and half way back again;
if sewed together end to end, they would
form bandage reaching, four times a.
round the world, or sixteen times around
the moon; divide the debt equally among
the inhabitants of the world, and each per.
son, man, woman, or child, of every color,
would receive as their share les; it would
require 476 ships of $50 tons each 10
transport it in silver from Mexico (provid.
ed the mines in that country could furnish
it, } and after reaching England 100000
horse carts, carrying half ton each,
making procession GIT miles long, or s..
.oOo,0 of men carrying so lbs. each, to
deposit in the vaults, prior TO its issue for
the redemption of outstanding pledges"
English reformers need not trouble
themselves to eradicate particular evils in
their government, for while the people of
that country have TO pay ont of their daily
earnings, the interest on such debt, there
can be no stop to the nuisances and indig.
mites which they suffer. Happily for US,
in our country, we have no debt at all in
comparison with that Of England.
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-02-10
New MOTIVE POWER FOR RAILROADS.

AVE-" "soAifc "" IAs 1oAs
AT the London Polytechnic Institution,
a new mode of propulsion is now being
demonstrated, which under this title, con-
sists Of series of carriages, carrying a.
long with them their own motor in the
form Of tube, which is flexible and air
tight. This tube has a series Of slide
valves, entirely under the care of a guard,
who, by levers, has perfect control over
his train. Along the whole line of rail-
way, is hid pipe of any given diameter,
in connection with which series Of pis.
tons are fixed between the rails intended 10
receive the tube above mentioned in its
passage. In these pistons are atmospheric
valves opening into the fixed pipe, which
is always kept exhausted, SO that wher
the train passes over the pistons, the slide
valves in the tubes are opened by the mean'
of inclined planes communicating with
the levers, which levers are raised up on
the train passing. The atmosphere ex
isting in the tube TO supply the vacuum
and the train is impellsd by external at
emospheric pressure.
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-02-10
A letter TO CoaHtry Girls.
BY MRS swIssHELM.

| DEAR GIRLs:-It is long time since |
have written to you, and all this lime you
have been making your dresses, Just as you
used to do, with a long straight seam under
the arm. No; it is not straight but in the
form of an inclined plane, or what carpsn.
ters call bevel, and pressing your sides
into the shape of tunnel. You have all
heard about The Greek Slave, and know it
is marble slntue, TO show n most perfect
and beautiful form, and wish you could
all see it. The outside Of the sides are two
hollow curves, as graceful as the undala-
tion between two waves, or the bend in a
willow wand. Every one has shape
more or less like this. according as she is
more or less beautiful, graceful and natu.
raj; is it not singular that after the Crea-
tor has given you form Of beauty-of un.
dulating outlines and graceful sweeping
curves you should sci yourselves deliber.
ately to work to manufacture yourselves
into sharp angles, and straight stiff outlines,
with no more pretensions to grace than the
sides of Dutch churn2 This you nearly
all do and you do itby the shape OF that
seam under your arm. .-..-.. .-..-
You sew it in a regular slope from the
arm pit TO the bottom OF the waist, and that
is us long as i, can possible be made
This makes :he smallest part Of your body
below the ribs-lhutis, you squeeze in the
muscles and flesh where thsre are no bones
TO resist the force, and so crowd the liver
until it cannot act, and you grow yellow,
bilious, nervous-ugly as sin, even IN your
faces. 1t is very strange that you can be
so foolisb-that any one can deliberately
ruin her own health for the privilege Of
looking ugly. 1t does make me nervous to
see a woman on the street with this tight
place below her ribs, and her wagging like
the limb Of supple Jack.
have grown so perfectly disguised with
this way of making dresses, by seeing
great, ugly, ignorant, vulgar girls, wadling
among the pots and wash tubs, with their
apron strings drawn around below their
ribs, and tied until they look like a wool
bag tied with cord in the centre. II is
very strange that any one having preten-
tions to gentility-to soy nothing Fof goo1
sense-would be caught dressed in way
that proclaims to every one her ignorance
of the laws Of physiology-of the rules OF
grace and symmetry, and Of all ,nste Tor the
painting and statuary of fGreece and home.
/ never see q woman dressed so, but the
frs, thought is: wonder if that woman
can rea6? 1t is sign Of ignorance, and
nothing else can be pleaded il extepuation
of such folly. .-- .. -.5 ......
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-02-10
Che portaee srntincI.
the Dying GhiIds appeaI
TO HER DRUNKEN FATHER

:; Stay, Father, stay! the night is wild;
! o, lsavs not now your dying child: ,s
1 feel the icy hand Of death,
And shorter, shorter grows my breath.
Stay, father, stay! ere morning light
Q My soul may take its upward flight. 4
And o! icannot, cannot die, 5szs
l4 w While thou, my Father, art not by.
Stay, Father, stay! my mothers gone,
and.I are left alone; ef.seej +
: And m her star-it home On high, -. ::
She'll weep that !, alone, should die
Stay, Father, stay! o, leave this night
The maddening bowl, whose with'i:ing bligl
Has cast SO dark shade around
The home where joy alene was found.
Z Stay, Father. stay! alone, alone,
; With none to cheer and none to mourn, .
fcannot leave this world of woe,
And to the land of spirits go. ..-. s....
Stay, Father, stay! once more ask,
! D, count it not heavy task ~. et-s-s.
To stay with me till life shall end.
= !. Ny last; my only earthly friend. ~
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-02-10

The UNKNOWN DEAD.-A San Fran
cisco correspondent, alluding to the deaths
by cholera, says that the names OF many
of the victims are not published. One un.
dertaker, in single day, buried five per,
sons whose names could not be ascertained.
Men arrive from the mines, or from sea,
strangers TO almost every one. Boarding
l'at the restaurants, and paying for each
meal at the time, and for their lodgings
each night in advance, they have no neg
essity to register their names, and hundreds
fof these men have died within few week!
utterly unknown in the community.
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-02-10
Tn, GRrAr TuNNE1.-The great ,, 70,

The GREAT TUNNEL.-The great tun-
mel on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, in (
Preston county,( Va J is said to be progress
sing with great rapidity. The contractors
work three hundred hands during twelve
hours Of the day, and have already pene-
lrated about z, 100 feet, or more than half!
the distance. Operations are carried no
at five different points, and the whole work
is expected to be completed by the first Of
next June. This slupendious undertaking
has caused the village of Grsigvilie 10
spring up in its vicinity, which already
boasts of eighty houses, Two churches. two
schools, seven stores, and post Office
! Nat. Int. $3.50 gs5 ~ Ja8s'
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-02-10
Mutual Recognition lii Heaven.

When the Scotch minister eplied 10 his
wi(e's questlon-W neither he would know
her in heaven-"Yes shall know you, but
it will be thousand years before | shall
see you because my m ind will be SO ab.
sorbed in the glories Of Christ utter
ed more of see ming pity than truth. The
idea that the enjoyment of God in Heaven
will effect such an absorption of the mind
in the contemplation Of one object, as will
the individuals isolated as hermits, has no
warrant. Heaven is represented as a So
cial state. The Scriptures speak of the
''family in heaven" They make it a
"genteel assembly and church Of the first
BORN" They make the employment Of
heaven 10 consist much in united acts of
praise, and in acts of fellowship. We
have every reason to believe that the so.
cial propensi,ies OF man will have their
highest and purest development in heav-
en-.
Gods glory will indeed constitute the
ultimate element of heavenly blessedness.
But that glory will have its manifestations
through the intercominge of redeemed sim
ners; whose histories communicated 10
each other, will bring forth the glory of
Gods work of grace in all its interesting
details -. t. ..
That the saints in heaven are not such
seperate isolate individuals, having no
neutral relations, might also appear from
what Paul says Of spiritual relationship
claiming to be the father Of those whom he
had begotten through the truth and to find
them in his crown of rejoicing in the day
Of Christ. This could not be if he was
never to know them hereafter, and never
to have communion with them in heav.
en-.
Besides, is it tinconceivable that men in
heaven will not know themselves, or be
able to tell others who they are? If they
are conscious of their identity, and can re-
member the scenes Of earth, and if they
are capable of communicating their thoughts
to others-and their heaven will be very
imperfect if they are not-they vii! be
very sure to have re.introeuction 10 their
former friends. Nor can any one con-
ceive that God can render the happiness OF
heaven more complete by depriving US OF
the satisfaction Of resuming our acquain.
tance and communion with our friends
II into that b!essedness of the saint is TO en-
ter every element that can minister salts.
faction or supply any craving of our ma
ture, can it be supposed that we shall be
kept in ignorence Of our friends?
When Eve was created and presented
10 Adam he received her, not as stranger,
but as having intuI,ive knowledge Of her Or
IGN and good qualities spoke Of her as
if he had known her for years. So it is
conceivable that every person in the Para
disc of God will have an intuitive knowl
edge of every other. And when we come
to see-as Christ tells US we shall see-A
braham and Isaac and Jacob, we shal
know them as completely at the first sigh
as if they had for our whole life, been OIL
intimate friends.
j In every view ofthe case, there can D
no doubt that the fellowship Of heaven vii
at least renew all mutual acquaintance tina
] have existed here among redeemed sinners
5 And all skeptioism on this subject ought t
be put away. In our habitual thoughts
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-02-10
INTELLECT In RAGS.
a STORY FOR THE YoUNd AND OIL
t:,as t; BY cARy BLOOMFIELD.

<A414SH4s Wv A4AAz WAN AANO VIII
s,se BY cARY BLOOMFIELD.
Two proud children we're tripping along
ihe streets of Boston, one n-shiny day, OF
their way TO school, chatting as they went
and apparently enjoying themselves righ1
rnerrily.
A late rain had given coating of muG
to2lhe red brick sidewalks, SO the children
trod diin,ily, the older one, slight and
dslicately formed girl, with n merry dark
eye, and fall rich ringlets, carefully lifting
her soft shining garments, that they might
not be soiled by contact with the wet earth.
And -how, their way led through dark,
damp alley, where the sun beams grew
eickly, and paled into dimness,. as they
touched the heavy and tainted atmosphere,
though, perchance, long times between,
they melted into shadows upon the golden
hair Of some poverty clad infant, for many
such satin the broken doorways of thai
comloriless city lane.
The boy and girl moved slowly onward,
their white brows bent downward, their
bright eyes searching for the hidden pave
stones-yet ever and anon some quick
laugh a, the ludlcrous figures that fitted n
';ross their path would throne their smooth
cheeks with dimples.
Dent sou hate such dirty places, Ju-
iia:as said the boy, as few drops, not Of
rhrystal, stained ihe glossiness of his rich
attire; don't you wish school was at the
other end Of the lanea' ....,.--.@
esIrs perfectly horrible answered the
l,eniitifi young creature, with q slight
laugb-.dear, DO look at those creatures,
tbeyscan have no sensibility, no refine
ment; how dirty, how contemptible they
ure-- well, Thank goodness that we were
born richi' ...s.,.....--..s 5..5
Stop, Jule! husii yonder is something
TO excite our laughter, warrant you. Ha!
lia! d boy larger than myself, and he ap-
pears to be picking out the letters on that
scrap Of pnper-bahp ..,...--..-t.s.--
Stand still, Arthur, do, and lel's hear
him, we can wait moment 5@15
A few PAGES before them sat boy OF
some thirteen years, talless, shoeless, will,
very scant frock and trousers, the latter
mass Of patches. His hair, tangled and
thick; hung over his downcast eyes, and
hishands, stained and rough with labor,
grasped lille torn piece Of paper, which
he ehad evidently picked Up out of the mud
Soabsorbedawos he at his task, that he did
NOT i,ot:ee the fair and high bred young
,s,rang,,Ays. who stood regarding him with
shnugI,lass but subdued mirth. .....,s-r
fHsrk. the boy, leaning his brown face
onfis clenched hands, murmurs uncon.
sciousIy aloud sb.l e.n--no, not that--yes
-no,-a deep drawn sigh, nnd then a agair
--.b.ln.n'-a long panse--soh, dear
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-02-10

ROYAL BIRTH.-lt has always been the
custom in England for the Press TO an.
nounce the fact whenever q birth in the
Royal Family took place, and rs we have
a Royal Family at the present time in our
city, we can do no less than follow in the
wake of our ilIustrious predecessors. On
Thursday last the magnificent Lioness, be-
longing 10 the menagere of Raymond &
Co, wintering in this city, gave birth 10
three whelps, the first ever dropped west
of the Allegheny mountains, and they are
very naturally looked upon as the curiosi-
ties Of the day. Unlike Romulus and Re.
mus, the great Roman lions, who were
suckled by wolf. these have been taken
from their dam and given in charge of n
slut of the bulldog breed, who takes the
same care Of them that she does Of her own
progeny. ......
Mr.. Ballard, the manager Of the menn-
gerie, has very kindly presented one OF the
whelps TO Mr.. Erasmus B. Dennison, Of
the Dennison House, who intends to rear
it and have it domesticated about the house
as scatch dog, and it is needless to say
that he will want no better guard over his
premises. The mother Of this family has
produced, within the past three years up.
wards Of twenty Of these royal sons and
daughters, and out Of that number never
has raised but two pnirs. The climate
here appears to agree with the new comers,
they may possibly live, and if they should,
we presume they will receive appropriate
names in honor Of their birth place Gin.
En- ouirer. --- ..
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-02-10

~When the world once gets hold Of a
lie it is astonishing how hard it is to get it
out of the world. You beat it about the
head, till it seems to have given up the
ghost, and 10! the next day it is as healthy
as ever, ~ - -..-. =.aEs
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-02-10

heaven, we should look TO it as the place
where all spiritual relationships nre to be
renewed-where friends will have q glori-
ons me eeting, and where separations will be
unknown. - Puritan Recorder.
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-02-10

GFAn English jury in a criminal case
is said to have brought in the following
verdict:
sGuilty, with some doubt as to whether
the prisoner is the man."