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Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-04-20
Abode of Vice and Misery.

A writer in the Courier and Enquirer, who has
recently devoted considerable time to the explor
atoms of the Abodes of Vice and Misery in New
York, thus indicates some of his discoveries:
s'We could tell of one, twelve feet by twelve,
in which were five resident families, comprising
20 persons of both sexes and all ages, with only
two beds, without partition screen, or chair or
table, and alldependent on their miserable sup
port upon the sale of chips, CLEANED from the
street, at four cents basket-of another, still
smaller, and still more destitute, inhabited by
man, woman, two little girls and boy, who
were supported by letting the room to be used as
a rendezvous for the abandoned women of the
Istreet-of another, an attic room, seven feet by
i five, containing scarcely all article of furniture
buta bed, on which lay fine looking man in a
raging fever without medicine, or drink, or suit
able food, his tol-worn wife engaged in cleaning
dirt from the floor, and his little child asleep on
bundle of rags in the corner-of another of the
same dimensions, in which we found, seated on
low boxes around candle, placed on q keg, a
woman and her Oldest daughter, (the latter girl
of fifteen, and as we are told, prostitute) sew
| ing on shirts, for the making of which they were
paid cents apiece, and even at that price, out of
which they had support two small children,they
could not get a sufficient supply OF work--of
another of about the same size, occupied by
q street rag picker and his family, the income
of whose industry, eight dollars month
of another scarcely larger, into which we were
drawn by the terrific screams of drunken man
beating his wife, containg no article of furniture
whatever-another warmed only by tin pail ol
lighted charcoal placed in the centre of the room
: over which bent blind man, endeavoring tc
warm himself; around him three or four men ant
women swearing and quarrelling; in one corner
: on the floor woman who had died the day pre-.
v;ous of loathsome disease, and in another two o.
three chill dren sleeping on pile of rags; (in re
gard to this room we may say that its occupant
, were colored people, and from them but few
!, days previous had been taken and adopted by on
Of our benevolent citizens, beautiful little whit
child four or five years of age, whose father wa
, dead and whose mother was at Blackwelfs l.
land )-another from which not long since twent
lpersoas sick with feverwcra taken to the hospital
and every individual of them died. But VIII
vey to the Imagination, by words, the hideou
squalor and the deadly effiuvia, the dim undraine
courts oozing with pollution, the dark, narrow
stairways decayed with age, reeking with filth an
6 overrun with vermin, the rotted floors, ceiling
, begrimmed, crumbling, oftentimes too low to pen
nit you to stand upright, and windows stuffe
with rags; or why try to portray the gaunt, shiy
ering forms and wild, ghasty faces in these blac
and feetng abodes wherein from cellar to garre,
. ALL lif, dies, death liv, and nature breeds
Porverse, all nlonstrous, all prodigous things,
. Abomnable utterablc.
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-04-20
Another Bank Crowbared.

"Treasurer Clerk and Mr.. G. Harman entered
the State Bank yesterday just before its Close and
demanded the tax under the hate law; payment of
which was declined The Treasurer then stepped
behind the counter and took possession of pile
of gold from which Mr. Herman and himself pro-
ceeded to count out S5,70O, which they 'bagged,
and carried off. No resistance objection
was offered by the officers of the bank-the stock
holders having, at meeting held a few days since
resolved not to interfere with the execution of the
law, though protesting against its exactions as il
| legal and unjust. 1t is said that the Treasurer
makes some three or four hundred dollars by the
operation. ."-Dayton Jour.
Now, what bowling there will be among the
sympathizes for the poor, persecuted Banks. How
they will prate about the Bank being robbed and
pIundered If it were ard-working mechanic
these very men, who are so lavish of their denun
Citations, would see nothing wrong in public of
fcer selling the last COW to pay the tax, but wher
it is the property of poor Bank, which makes
but from IA to A per cent. on its 100000, how
their hearts do bleed for them, and what a mon
strous outrage it is, to be sure (!
From time mmemorial, the law has authorized
the collectors of the public revenue to enter upon
the premises of the unprvileged and dstran hi:
property for the payment of his tax; and it has
been the uniform custom to make such distress
where the tax not forthcoming, and no notice
was given of the approach of the officer, as is re-
| quired in the case of a Rank, but the Treasure
went into the field and took the horse from the
furrow or into the shop and seized the tools upol
! workbench, and no one ever thought of denoun
cling him fordong so, or the law for authorizing
the sct But when the same rule is applied to a
Ba, k, how the advocates of special privileges are
fired with Indignation" Well,what say the peo
plc!shall the Banks be privileged beyond the com
mon mass of men! That has got to. be the ques'
ton for the people to decide, and the sooner tha
decision is made the better.
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-04-20
So, ,O0o ,G0G OF Gs0sd--News from Smith
O'Brien, &c.

NEW YORK, April Is.
The steamship Great Britain, which arrived
at Liverpool just as the America was leaving is
reported to have had on board the enormous sum
of $8,O00,000 of gold from Australia.
We find the following in the London Times;
relative to Smith O'Brien. "The easter recess
has been enlivened by the receipt and publica-
ton of an address from one who had not unwill-
ngly been reported an object of interest in Eu.
rope"
"F'rom the distant solitude of Van Dieman's
Land, Mr.. Smith O'Brien has despatch as elabo-
rate an epistle to those gentleman who nobly
concerned themselves, by memorialing the Gov
ment in his behalf. During the last four years
his addresses have been induced by various con-
siderati ons to abstain as much as possible from
every sort of appeal to public opinion"
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-04-20
Total receipts for March,
Receipts for March, 1852,
$l3,l40 05
1889 81
Increase over last year,


This shows the Road to be in highly prosper
Gus and Hourishng condition.
0JThe Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad was
opened to Crestline on last Monday, week, and
the cars have commenced running regularly from
Pittsburgh to that point. general celebration
of the completion of the road, is to take place ON
or about the first of May.
O5-A destructive fire occurred at Wooster on
Saturday morning, the 9th inst, by which ten
stables, together with horse, two carriages, sew
raj hogsheads of sugar, harness, &C., were con-
sumed. The loss is estimated at from $5, 900 to
$1,000 The fire was the work of an incendiary,
and on the Tuesday night following attempt
was made to set fire to another stable.
G5- The rumor of change in the Cabinet of
President Pierce, like the hundreds Of other ru-
mors set aAoat by the gossips at the capital turns
out to have been entirely unfounded.
| 01"FHon. VIM r. KING, Vice President of the
United States, has returned to Mobile in very
low health. There is little or no hopes Of his
recovery.
! GrCharles c. 1ngersoll has been appointed
| by the President, U. s. Judge for the district of
Connecticut.
GFThe frigate Macedonia sailed from New
York the morning of the l4th inst, to join the
Japan Expedition.
| 0HH7The American Carpet Factory, at Roxbury
Mass, was destroyed by fire on the morning of the
l4th inst. The loss is estimated at 100000.
CeF- In the twenty eight years ending ls47-8,
our stock of specie was increased by the amount
of $28, 100000, which was at about the rate oi
So, 900 900 year. In the four years and ha Il
last past, our specie currency has actually in
creased $lO4,0o0, 900; which is at the rate o.
$a3,ooo,ooo ayear.
! OH5- SPIRITUAL CoNvENrIoN-The late Con
venton of Spirtuasts, held at Springfield, Mass.
1 have voted to have national convention of the
believers, at Rochester in September next
when he said, woman not made until the
evening came, and the stars were all out in the
glory.
The UNITED STATES MINT-The New Yorl
Courier states that the whole force of the mint
Philadelphia is engaged on quarter dollars only
as they are deemed the most useful of the silve
coins, and the amount of new coinage at this tint
amounts to Sl5Oo0O. They are CO ming at tht
rate Of $4,000 day, SO as to be ready for gene.
raj distribution on the 18th. -
o. Fifteen vessels have been engaged in tn,
search of Sir John Franklin, at a cost of four
million dollars. Sir John has now beeu absen
nearly years.
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-04-20
F.om the Cleveland PlGin Dealer.
LFtc Sandmsky DefaHItef.

| It was lately rumored in town, that llr. Harlow
Case, late Collector of the port of Sandusky, had
absconded with funds of the Government. Those
who knew Mr.. Case were staggered, and could
not believe it. But it proves to be true, and fur
nishes another evidence of the corrupt and corrupt
ing character of the last administration. So long
as men, high in place, are allowed to plunder the
public treasury, we cannot expect paltry collect
or to be honest. We can imagine 8Ir. Case go
ing into office with the best possible intentions,
never dreaming of fraud until Galphinism had
grown to be household word, and Galphins wero
deemed very eccentric but respectable people,
then bravng the temptations which stole upon.
him, then dallying with it, and finally, Gas usuall
yielding, and adding another to the long list Of
government punderers. Mr.. Case, however, will
not come off as easy as his "ilustrious predeces-
sors." The measure of guilt attached to pecula-,
ton is in an inverse ratio to the amount of the
theft. Mr.. Case is more respectable Of course
than the wretch who steals loaf to keep off hun
ger-but he will still find himself as cursed. He
should have taken more. Another circumstance
that initiates against him, is his elopement with
another mans wife. In some other Countries
France for instance-this is viewed as We y
pleasant, and commendable enterprise, but here
it has not yet received the stamp of public
approval.
The following particulars of this "bad Case"
we take from the Sandusky Mirror: @
"Harlow Case is supposed to have fled the
country, taking with him the wife of Mr.. A. Fran
els, the Deputy Collector. Mr.. Case has wife
and four children. He left Sandusky on the
2nd of March, with his wife and two younger
children, for the purpose of moving them to Now.
York City, where an older son resides. Mr.
Francis left for the Granville Water Cure about
the same time 5...t.,..
Mr.. Case took his family to New York and LEFT
them. He was last heard from at Attica, New
York, on the 10th March. Mrs. Francis left the
Water Cure about that time, and has not been
heard from since letter to her husband has
been found since, we are informed, avowing her
purpose of clipping with Case. She took with her
an only child.
The amount Of money taken by the absconding
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-04-20
New Member Of the Board of Public
Works.

We learn that Governor WooD has filled the
vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Col.
MhANYPENNY, by the appointment DR.. WAYNE
GRrsWoLD, of Circlevile.
The Governor has thus handsomely conformed
to the wish expressed by the late Democratic
Convention; which will be the wish ofthe people
next fall. MIR. GRIswoLD will have an opportu-
nifty to prepare himself during the summer so as
fully to enter upon his duties in the fall. We
congratulate him, and the people Of the State
upon this choice. He will be vigilent guardian
over the public works Of Ohio. He has tact, en-.
ergy, hrmness and ntegrity-attributes essentia
to every office, and especially to the Office JUS
| filled Statesman.
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-04-20
Another Specie CircuEar---Thirty six
MiasSosas OF Three Cent pieces COIN
The following has been officially issued:

The following has been officially issued:
MINT OF THE UNITED STATES, }
Philadelphia, April 9, 1865
The directors of the Mint, with the approval of
the Secretary of the Treasury, give notice that
the distribution of three cent pieces at the ex-
pense of the mint for freight, is discontinued.
The director has also,in pursuance of the discre-
ton vested in him by law, temporarily suspend
ed the coinage of three cent pieces, with view
to the more active employment of the mint in the
manufacture of other silver coins. Over thirty
six millions of three cent pieces have been put
into circulation within two years, it is believed
that suspension of their coinage will cause no
public inconvenience, especially as other silver
coin speedily be available for the uses to. which
the three cent pieces are at present applied.
1t is requested, therefore, that until further no
tice, orders and remittances for the purchase of
three cent pieces be discontinued.
GEO. w. EcKERT, Director.
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-04-20
A WIaig Lie Clinched.

The Federal papers throughout the country,
says the Ohio Patriot, have been exceedingly
busy, for some weeks past, in circulating report
that Democratic Congress,with the appreciation
of President PIERCE, had passed an act raising
the salaries ofForeign Ministers, &c. This turns
out to be Whig lie manufactured out of whole
cloth. No such act was passed by a Democratic
Congress, nor has President PIERCE said or done
aught to bring ubout the enactment of such a
measure. 1t is true; however, that the late Gal
phin Whig Administration, headed by President
FILLMORE, exerted all the powers and energies it
possessed to bring about the passage of such law,
but Democratic Congress very wisely refused
to give its Support to any such Galphin extrava-
gance."
The following letter, received from promin-
ent Democrat at Washington City, puts to rest
| this huge lie of Federal Galphin Whiggery:
WASHINGTON Cry, April f. 1853.
FRIEND G1LL:-In looking over the last Patriot,
see the impression is rife among Wing editors
that the last Congress- the close of the session.
raised the salaries of Foreign Ministers. Such
is not the case! 1t was unjustly recommended
by the late President and Secretary of State: but
the proposition failed through disagreement Of
the two Houses, the House of Representatives
having refused to support any su ch GalpAin ex'
travagances.
Such are the facts; and give them for the
information of Wing zibellers of Pierce's admins
| tration.
yours truly, L.
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-04-20

THE Mission TO SPAIN.-Among the most i'm
portant acts of the President is the appointment of
the Hon. Pierre Soule as minister plenipotentiary
to Spain. Mr.. Soule although among the young
est of our distinguished men, has already proved
himself one of the most brilliant skilful and eau
tious.
We would not desire an ADLER, more prudent,
a more honorable man than Pierre Soule for the
and we are certain that, with the exception of
few fanatics, his appointment to the mission to
Spaia will meet with the cordial appreciation Of
the whole counhy.-N Y. Sunday Times.
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-04-20

AccIDENr.-On Saturday little boy three
years old, living in the South part of the village,
was run over by the locomotive of the wood train
and considerably injured. He was sitting on the
track near the canal when the train was coming
round the curve, and the engineer observed him
just in time to reverse his engine, but the train
was too near to prevent the accident. We under
stand the little fellow is improving. and it is hop
ed he has received no permanent injury.
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-04-20
Shocking rEuraer at Cuyahoga FANS


A most brutal murder committed at Cuya-
hoga Falls, on last Wednesday night. The vic
tim, stranger who had left Cleveland for Pitts
burgh on the evening train, was induced by the
murderer, by pretended mistake, to get aboard
the Akron Branch train at Hudson, and was car
ried to the Falls where the mistake was discover
ed After remaining there until about eleven
O'Clock, they both set out on foot for Hudson.
The next morning the evidence of most foul
and brutal murder was discovered. Blood, and
marks ofstruggling, the cane of the murdered
man, the stone which was used by the murderer
to effect the fatal deed, detected at the place
where the murder was committed. The body was
thrown from the bridge into the river, and was
found on Friday morning, headless trunk, entire
ly stripped of clothing and everything that might
serve to prove its identity. The neck, we under
stand, has the appearance of having been cut
round and the head wrung off, giving evidence OF
as cold blooded, brutal and deliberate murder
as was ever perpetrated. At last accounts the
head had dot been discovered.
After the deed was committed, the assassin pro-
cured farmer to take him to Ohio CITY. His
clothes were bloody, and his face bore scar,
which had no doubt been received in the struggle.
A man by the name of James Parks, alias,
Dickinson, supposed to be the murderer, was ar
rested in Buffalo on Monday, and brought down
yesterday on the cars to Cuyahoga Falls.
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-04-20

CLoTHlNG.-Greenfelder at the eagle Cloth.
ing Store,' has received his Spring and Summer
stock of Ready Made Clothing. His advertise
ment will appear next week.
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-04-20
Exhibition at the 1sayenama institute

We were unable to be present at the exhibition
given by the pupils of the Institute, Friday
evening last, but from what we hear, the perform
ance was highly creditable to the institution. We
are pleased to witness the prosperity of the Insti
tute, and hope the friends of education will en-
courage it.
The next term of the Institute will commence
ON Monday, May 3D. in Hitchcock's building, un-
der the charge of 3. F. DODGE, Principal.
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-04-20

OFThe Hon. Thos. Corwin and John w. AL
en- intend travelling in foreign parts, and viii
leave for Europe in few days.
Senator Douglass will also visit the old world,
the coming summer.
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-04-20

immense amounts of capital away from us"
where it is now deriving profit of from t,celve
to Jortyour per cent, under the unequal privileges
of capital employed in banking, to seek invest
ment in an Eastern market where it will notrea-
lie one half of that amount!
The whole paragraphs is stale and exceeding
ly morbid attempt of bank influence to frighten
the people into compliance, with the unjust and
UNEQUAL demands of capital. The threat to
Withdraw their capital, has been so often made by
the ao-barons, and their special advocates and
apologists, to inmdate the people, that its scare
is all gone.
| We deny, however,tha the Democracy through
the imposition of this tax, are seeking the destruc
ton of the Banks. We quite willing they
should live out the balance of the days allotted to
to them, though they be curse to the "thrit and
prosperity" of the people, eating out the very sub
stance of the producing masses and growing rich
upon their toll. But if the maintenance of the
law imposing an equal burden eff taxation is to be
fraught with such fearful consequences as the Ed
itor of this Bank organ has conured up in his pro-
life Imagination, if it be the selling Of the DEATH
warrant Of every bank in the State, we say let
them go. The people can better spare them than
to surrender their equal rights and privileges; and
we much mistake the spirit and intelligence of
the people of Ohio, if they can be frightened into
the surreadering of their rights by such "dema-
gogucal bravado."
No. the time has arrived when the people, the
honest, toilng husbandmen of the great State of
Ohio, have become awakened to the sordid at
tempts of banks and bank organs, to deprive
them Of their rights and privileges, guaranteed
them by the Constitution. The day when banks
and bankers were ssseveral thousand feet above
the level of the masses, is gone by. Thanks to a
Democratic Constitution, we can now approach
gold spectacled, silk-stocking, bank aristocrat,
with as much freedom we one of our
honest citizens. And when they prate about
chartered rights, and exclusive privileges, we can
refer them to the opinion, which the united voice
of the people, has expressed in reference to
chartered monopolcs and wholesale swindling
institutions.
/ What may have induced the Ohio Star, the
professed organ of the Gree Democracy" to
abandon the cherished principles of its party
ligent people Of this county, and sell them soul
and body to the banks, is to US a mystery, and
demands at least an explanation from that sheet.
We hope the people will look to this matter. 1t is
for their own interest, and concerns them ALL
1t is time to begin to carry out the principles oi
equality in oppoitsion to vested rights, and char
tered monopolies.
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-04-20

o. The 8: Key to Uncle Toms Cabin'' is out
and for sale at HALL's Book Store.
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-04-20
News Items.

0AHrThe Pittsburgh Post, publishes the follow
ing statement of the receipts of the Cleveland and
Pittsburgh Railroad, for the month of March
1853, furnished by Mr.. Prentiss, President of the
Road:
Ftom Passengers, $13,l4O O5
Freight and Mails, 1889 81
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1853-07-13
EXCHANGE BANK
UF Il 4 Il 1890
SELDEN, WRITER'S, & CO.,
WASHINGTON, D. C.

rTsHE undersigned respectfully announce thai
u they have formed aco-partnership TO transact
a general Banking and Exchange business in this
City, under the fra OF SELDEN, WRITER'S & CO.
and are prepared TO deal in
Forsiyn una Domestir Erchcnges, Fime-Bilis, Pro-
nissory Aoses, LerfiGeotes Of DePossfe, Letters
Of Cved1, Ba,ak Notes and Com
We undertake to make collections and prompt
iy 10 remit the proceeds 70 any designated points
within or without the Union
Mr., William Selden, member oil the firm. and
for many years pas. the 7rsasarey Of the United
States will give his careful personal attention 70
all financial business which We may be employed
TO transact with any of the Departments of the
Government.
The business which our employers may require
us 70 transact will be conducted with fidelity and
and upon the most reasonable terms
WILLIAM SELDEN,
Late Trsasuser Of thsU. s.
JOHN WRITER'S,
81 alexandria, Va.
r. w. LATHAM,
Of Harrington, d. G.
L. p. BAYN2
Of Baltimore, Ma.
Washington April 27 Is53.--em
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1853-07-13
JUST RETURNED

LR0M Baltimore with fresh supply Of Gro
i ceres &c, such ns N. q. Sngar, Cuba do
Loaf do, @ Molasses. Portland and York Syrup,
Rio Coffee q. a. and Fine Salt. Pepper, Alspice,
Cloves. Cinnamon Bark. Mace, Nutmegs, Gunpow-
der, Black. and Young Tyson Teas, Adamantine
Mould. and Dipt Candies. Eiherel and Patent
Whale Oil, CASTLE, Resin, and Fine Toilet Soaps
Ground and Race Ginger. Logwood, Mustard,
Chip'd Nicaragua Alum, copperas, Birthstone,
Snltpetre. and EPSON Sslts, Uandlewick, Cotton
Irvine. Masons Hacking, Vinegar, Bar Lead.
Shot Of different sizes. Percussion Caps and Bea.
ty's Sporting. Gunpcwder, and Silver Sand &C.
% 0INl2 q gTI noIYAl2E1, % q,
Candies of all kinds I,uisins Figs Oranges and
Lemons, Soft aud Hard Shell Almonds English
Wanuts, Filberts, Palm and Ground Nuts, Citron
Also. Chewing and Smoking lob icco and Sesars.
Of all kinds. also Scotch Ale and Porter put up
in pint bottles, Tor sale by
April 81. G.. RAENHAL.