Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-06-09

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any stones in this country, and am told tBsk
people win plough for weeks, without ccm-
ing IN contact with stone or stump. And
there1s tim Der enough here to last for long
years, and until new crop will grow
The timber however. Is not exactly distrib-
uted as eren as might be.
In the Morgan Journal, published attack.
sonville, find some statistics Of Morgan
county, from which gather that the conn
ty contains l6,068 inhabitants, Of which
only ten are paupers. There are 35
churches, capable, says the editor, 'of seat
ing the whole population Of the county, ex-
cept babies, and but 60 CT mmon schools,
with an average of 1900 pupils. There are
also a college, with 80 students, . teaf and
dumb asylum, with 30 pupils; an institu-
ton for the blind, with 90 pupils; two fe-
male academies, with 266 pupils; all these
public institutions being in Jrcksongille. 1t
is also stated that there is no licensed places
for selling spiritudus liquors, and no crimi-
nails convicted. Tor,
The small mum ber Of paupers, only 10,
to proportion of l6G0O, shows the ease
with which living is provided in a scoun-
try "heie land is plenty, and so cheap that
OIL people can have land if they want it.
The absence of dram shops, is also favor.
able to Independent living Butit strikes
me that so common schools is but a few
for population Of 10000, while the mum.
Der OF churches is ample. Jacksonville ia
said TO contain q populatiebreGS 5000 peo..
pie, and is eAaryl handsome place. Ths
rail sbad from Springfield, the sent OF The
State government, (and seat Of justice for
Sangamon county, 10 Naples, on the Ill.,
nes River, passes through Jacksonville,
which is FL miles east of Naples, and 33
west of Springfield. South Of jacksonville
it is 80 miles to Jerseyyile, and 10 10 Al.
ton, on the Missippi river, nearly opposite
the mouth Of the Missouri. Alton il ouil,
on side-hill of lime rock, the summit of
which is near 800 feet above ine river. /.
is there the State prison is located. At
the mouth Of Illinois river, 20 miles above
Alton is the little village Of Gruiton, in
little gap in the lime rock cliffs, the sum.
nit of which is near 300 feet high. There
are some quurries OF lme>rock in the inte.
rlor, and near Alton, on the summit or ihB
hill, the common earth is used with sand Id
make brick, apparently of the best kind.
From Alton, rail rond is in rapid progress
OF completion by Caf.inyiile, &C., to
Springfield. Another Is authorized from
Alton TO Terre Haute, Indiana, OH ihe Wa.
bash. Another is authorized, and u. s.
lands appropriated to build il from Cairo,
al the mouth Of the Ohio river, nor,hward
10 near Bloomington, Mclean county, and
thence one branch 10 60 TO Chicago and
another 10 Galena. All these railroads ai g
considered as certqin TO be built, and in the
shortest time PossibleS and we may, think,
safely calculate that in two more years, Of
q little more, railway communication will
be open from the Mississippi river. by The
great lake, and to the seabonrd cities, by
several routes. When these projected
rail roads may be so completed so as to
open rapii communications between everv
part Of our Republic, and competitions shall
make The communications cheap, as can
we'll be afforded, the advantages of d fer
ent locations will be so equa lixed ,hnt
lands in the west will be about equally val
liable with eastern lands, as in fact lhey
are now, and soon the western lands of ihB
free States " i'll fill up with an active, in>
telligent and industrious. free population,
npprtximating in numbers AMI wealth to
the seabonrd region. Crops here appear
promising. Rains have been seasonuble.
When, is heading out even now. Fruit is
, much thinned by frost, in some places in
others it is abundant. The population Of
) Illinois has nearly dubbed in the ten Vents
: preceding 1s5O. In 1910 it was 474 47s5.
, In 1850, s50,026. sezse am
WESTERN TR WELLER.