Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-11-09

ss~,r ITEMS.
.sssss Matthew F. Ward author of English Item,
,S : shot Prof, Wrn. Butler at Louisville, on tn
=. morning ofthe 2dinst., the bullet taking effect
~ :he left breast, causing dangerous wound TIL
~ difficulty was caused by Butler chastising small
s !. brother Of Wards, ...5: II s. &
GrThesBank Of the State of New York wa
robbed the afternoon of the 3lst ult., of ST.,
s.sG00.a Is i II a
O-JAMEs F. KERR, Esq, member of the
Pittsburgh Bar, who has been travelling in Eu-
e rope the past season, and who was on his way
home, died recently, at Malvern England, after a
q brief illness. :. z<S .zi
go 95-The Directors of the the Chrystal Palace
have determined not to close in December, as at
fifst contemplated, but to continue the exhibition
during the whole winter. The receipts average
about $4, 600 per day, and the expenses $500.
@ss-- ': O.- Ii is denied that Ole Bulls Norwegian
=! Colony in Pennsylvania has been abandoned.-
The best men that went there at first still remain
there and it is said that Ole Bull has got into no
law suit, and lost no money by the enterprise.
So To-day the Editors of Connecticut hold
& Convention at Hartford. An Editorial Conven-
ton is also to be held at Springfield Ill., on the
Esd inst There has been some talk of gather
ing Of the kind in Ohio. Wnat has been done
Ahoutit!-
~ y the 9Th of. August, there was snow
stormlin Buenos Ayres, sight not seen there for
twenty years.
era very disastrous fire boke out in New
York the morning of the Both. 1t originated
= in an edifce opposite the Herald Office, on Mas
sua ST., and swept eff Six large buildings. The
: loss is esthnated in round numbers, at FIVE hun
dred: thousand dollars, Of which about one hun
!. dred thousand are covered by insurance.
20" E- A terrible crowd of locusts ravishing
Southern Mexico, for the distance of hundred
miles, destroying the indigo and corn crops.
..se1a- The Missouri Legislature has under con-
alteration bill providing that no one shall be al
lowed to endorse note without the consent of
hi. wife. =. -. =.
Or BENNETT Editor of the New York Herald,
has commenced libel suit against the Times
The Times has been pitching into his "cbarater,
of late.
or The officers and owners, OF the steamboat
Henry Clay, which was burnt months ago,
upon.the Hudson River has been acquitted upon
the charge of manslaughter.
nA- The Washington Star Of October 81, says
that letters have been undoubtedly received in
Washington, from which the conclusion is drawn
that a large French and English feet will be dis
patched TO the Gulf as circumstances will
.permit-and that the Union has good grounds for
It's assertions in regard to Cuba.
- Or The number of offers Of aid to the Turk
ist government, from Poles, Hungarians, &C., is
elmost incredible. The offers not confined
20 the refugees in France; they have come from
the United States, from Hungary, Poland and It.
ally. ~
IL or Oregon and Minnesota will soon be asking
admission into the Union as States Thirty thou
sand inhabitants have been deemed hitherto a
sufficient number for that purpose and both these
serritories will come up to that mark in short
time.
= .,sfeerHen. r. w: JOHNSON, late member of the
House of Representatives, has been appointed
United States Senator by the Governor Of Arkan-
sas, to supply the vacancy occasoned by the res
iSnstion of Mr.. BorIand.
asf.r The Western Pententary Of Pennsylva-
mia, contains one hundred and ninety-,wo per-
cons. The. Ohio Penitentiury fTe hundred.