Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-06-15

/ busf1el pounded parcfIed corn, (pinoli) $l,95;
10 lbs pehcan, (pulyeyfzed dried meat $s;
cans beef dodgers, $3.50; 8 lbs chocolate. $l,25;
pilot bread $6.7o; Sc lbs ground coffee, $lo,oS;
5 lbs tea. $s,2e; sugar, $50 lbs, $14,7o; 10 lbs
salt, Tic; ground pepper, SIC; Chile pepper, SOC;
soap, 30; rs lbs pork, 313; boxes sardines 81
so; tobacco, 20 lbs 1871 camp kettle, $l so; i
tea kettle, 50; gridiron, t5c; tin bucket, roc;
8 tin plates, sac; 8 tin cups, 81; 2 axes and
helyes, $s,25;s 4 hatchet, o.; Is travelling bags,
$11s4; gunny sacks, SOC. Grand total, $ss,7
| 80.
This is the list Of the supplies, all told, nclu-
sive of kitchen and table furniture, and exclusive
I of lodging; for which blanket apiece, the earth
and the sky, are to provide. No tents. Some
rifles to keep off the Indians, and bring down
game, are to supply the want Of guards and the
deficiencies of the larder; and some flannel and
leather habiliments viii dispense with the SER
vices of laundress; the extra supply of soap be-
ing chiefly for the chief Of the cooking depart
ment-an Office greatly subject to the imputation
of being sinecure. And this is the outfit fora
fifty days wilderness jaunt of young men who at
home ",caar fine linen and. fare samptuossly epe-
ry day. 1t is certainty suggestive of many
I clusions, that they are not Government par
Ety do not equip at public expense, didnot gradu-
ate at West Point, and not intend to break down
under the transportation Of what is aifed Tin the
vernacular of the West) belly timber Great
applause.] They are not asGovernment party,
but private company-Super Beale
taking this route to return to his superintendency
looking at the country as he goes-killihg two
birds with one stone-and fhe rest going with
him for the love of the thing; and all with pen
and pencils to tell and show what they see, and
to make up their minds about the greatest work
which the world has seen since the roads made
by the Romans, or the Incas of Peru, or the al
most fabulous of the Queen Semiramis 1t
is honorable in our young men-glorious thus to
forego the pleasures of home for distant enter
: prise; and dsdaining the sloth and case of an
ocean steamer, and its three times a day well
spread table, betake themselves TO the pers,
tolls, and priyations OF long and eyeDtlul explor
alton. [Applause.] x, ;.5ss.g
He concluded by giving hisaviews as TO tho.
manner of constructing the road: :e2- '9a~E
8 believe, them that the Central route will be
: adopted; and then comes up the. third and last
. question, hoac The road shall be made On this
: point my mind has long been made up, and oAens
. expressedS lam for itas national uarR, to be
e done by the United Stateson its own territory,
from the western frontiero of Missouri 20 the east
Il ern line of California and paid for out of the
Q public lands on its route But great difficulty
arises at this point, owing to the specuatng apd
jobbing schemes which now necessarily beset
+ Congress. Hordes of spectators are there to
e monopolize every public work, and to clear for
y tunes by every operation They want Congress
. to give them land to build the road and then LET
them own it, and tax the people to ttrarel upon
2 lii it gratis fer the Goyernment at doubde
prices for the people; and to layo towns as they
please, and to sell lots and lands, at monopoly
prices to settlers, am against all this. e1,.
for the farmer and the settler against the specu-
lator, and for notonal free road against a COR
poration monopoly, [Applause.l an Tor maxi
ing the road and settling the country on each
side of it on the cn,ptton prime plethat
J ciple which had but few advocates when went
8 into Congress, and which fought up 10 establish
: popularity am for that principle, and for Civ
ing every settler his Tne-emption right in quar-
= = ter section; and SO collect settlers upon both
: sides of the road and through its whole extent.
They would populate the entire route the first
season. They would raise provisions enough to
!. support the rpad They would be laborers to
: work upon it. They would pay for making Tho
road with the money they wvud give for the pre-
: emptons. They would guard and protect it after
it was done. They would themselves become
part of the wealth. strength, and glory Of the.
country, attached to i by its soil; and converting
: the whole wilderness, as if by magic, into scene
of civilization and refinement, houses, fields, OF
chards, and meadows would adorn the LAND.
!. Schools, churches, and mills would rise up,
Flocks and herds, and numerous population
would give Joy and animation to the scene. The
pre- -emption principle would do all this. Look
at the Platte country and see what ,pre-enptions
have done there; they will do the same on the !,
Kansas, upper Arkansas, the valley Of San Luis
and other parts of the central route; and they,
would complete the making Of the road in brief
time. Fl -. = s..
4 Citizens: come here. to speak to you o on this
4 mighty theme, and which ought to, unite all
Z hearts and minds. You stand on the brink Of 2 /,
mighty enterprise, and every one should thank
God that he lives in age, and in country and
: under form Of government which enables him
to act part in the great undertaking which j. TO-
unite two oceans and three continents, consoi-
date our Union. and make our America the thor
oughfare of Europe and Asia. -. -. ,r,..,a -
4 The MEs1LLA QUESTION IN CALIFoRNIA, ----i
tThere was quite an excitement in ta California
against the Mexicans when the news Of the dif6-