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The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1854-11-01
Emigrants attackeSt> by tlle INdi-
anS-ScVcral Amer leans Killed.

The steamer George La,o, from Aspinwall,
has arrived. She brings California mails to
October I'd, and $l,862 ,684 IN treasure, aud
$50 passengers.
The steamer Yankee Blade left San Fran.
cisco In company with the Sonora. She
had not been heard of at Panama up to the
sailing of the George La,c from Aspinwall.
Fears were entertained that some accident
had befallen her.
By the arrival of the steamer Goliath, Los
Angeles papers to the 18th had been receiv-
ed at San Francisco. Also the Sandiego
Herald of the 18th.
A report was current that company of
fifty emigrants from Texas was murdered
on the 3lst of August by the Indians. Sew
eral women and children were doomed, it is
feared to more horrible fate. Six hundred
head of cattle were also carried off. The
news was brought by small train in the
rear, which happily escaped. r..,...s.. ......
Other parties of Americans encountered
the Indians and one American was killed.
Twenty-Five Americans perished from the
want of water. 81
The Star Of the West connected with the
steamer Cortez which left San Francisco
on the 3Oth. She brings $sOO,OO on freight
and 352 passengers. 3aE' I|'
The Congress of New Grenada had COM
menced its session and was installed by Vice
President Obella with an inaugural mes.
sage. e. ..........
All accounts agree that Melo is on his
his last legs. | 2
The George La,o has reached her dock
There is but little news from California.
From Oregon we learn of terrible mas
sacre Of overland emigrantsby the Indians
on Boys river near Fort Boys. I2a
The persons killed were Alex. Ward,
wife and children; Samuel Mulligan and Mr..
Babcock of Lexington; Dr.. Adams and
brother, from Mich; Mr.. Arnold, and Mrs.
White and child, from Miss; and two Ger
mans and Frenchmdn, names unknown.
The Indians carried off 40 head of cattle,
FIVE horses, and 1000 or 1000 dollars,
A considerable force had been sent in
pursuit of the savages.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1854-11-01

= OTA writer in the London Daily Nea0s,
who has visited the United States and exam
ined into the various plans and processes of
paper making in this country, says that the
consumption Of paper here is just four times
per head what it is in England, and may be
put down at 800 100000 lbs. annually.---
american manufacturers, he says, have re-
course to substances scarcely known abroad,
and straw is employed, strengthened with
stronger fibre, for thin and thick woven pa
pers, as we'll as for mixing with white paper
pulp; the waste from palm leaf manufacture
ers, swamp canes, wood shayings and other
materials are employed in making paper
and white paper is more abundant than
brown by the latter being employed foi
many purposes in America that it is moi
abroad. sgrast aHfg .yE#r;p reE
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1854-11-01
We Kn0M Nothings.

Every day new evidences are furnished in
regard to the designs of this secret party,
and as fast as they are made known, they re-
ceKe the positive disapproval of all the
friends of the constitution, and of civil and
religious freedom. Were the purposes OF
this party fully consumated, they would in
troduce at once, war of races and religions
akin to the prosecutions that ragged at differ
ent periods during the dark ages.
Our forefathers planted the tree of liberty
in this country, that under its shade the op-
pressed and down-trodden of all nat ions, all
languages and all religions, might find a
shelter and home. This proscriptive order
whose movements are so silent, and yet pow
erful, is apparently laboring to subvert the
very end and aims of our government. They
seem to be conscious of this, and therefore
carry on their work under the cloak of Sc
crecy. If their designs are honorable-if
their cause is one which will command the
appreciation of good men-if their principles
are founded in reason, why the necessity of
this secrecy why not let their doctrines
be known, and furnish an opportunity for
open, frank, and full discussion Of their mer
its? Surely truth will bear the light. Err
ror only, needs cloak to hide its deformi-
ty.
As we stated in an article which appeared
in the Sentinel some weeks ago, we be-
leve that there are many of those who be-
long to this order, who are upright honora-
BILE citizens, and that they were led into the
scheme through an honest but msdrected
motive. We have proof of this, in the fac,
that SO many who first espoused the cause
now come out and denounce it.
1t has ever been the boast of the Demo.
cratic party, that all its principles and move
ments were open to the investigation anc
criticism of the public; and the Democratic
presses through the country with perfect
unanimity have condemned the creed and
course of the Know Nothings. At first, d
majority of the Fusion presses favored the
proceedings of this order, doubtless for the
purpose of securing the Know Nothings as
allies in acquiring the victory this fall. Blu
the partnership is proving rather disastrous
to the Fusionists themselves. The Nativ,
Americans it is feared by them, will swal
low up and overwhelm the Abolitionists.
Some of the leading Free Soil papers be
gin to perceive this, and the consequence
is, that the National Era, the New Yorl
Tribune and other presses of like grade, ar
growing bitter in their denunciation againS
the Know Nothing party.
Know Nothingism has welded powerful
influence in the elections this fall, in Ohio
Indiana and Pennsylvania But the periot
OF its successes will be of short duration
We have full confidence in the intelligenc,
and patriotism of the American people, ant
we believe, that though error and intolerance
may reign for while in the land, yet in th'
end, civil and religious liberty will triumph
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1854-11-01

THE MARTHA WASHINGTON CAsE.--Thls
case which has become bore to the public,
seems to threaten interminabiiity. On the
9th of November, the trial of the parties
now under bonds takes place at Helena.
Arkansas, and we understand that Capt,
Cummings, who is held under bail in $1,000,
leaves for Arkansas to-day or tomorrow to
''face the music" like man. There ismlch
sympathy for Capt. c., and we hope he will
pass the erdeal OF the law unscathsd. He
feels confident Of an honorable acquittal.~-
ENQUIRER, Oct. 27M.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1854-11-01

New, MILITARY FoRcEs.-News from St.
Petersburg tells us that two battalions OF
skaters have been formed at Cronstadt.-
When winter comes they are to act opon the
ice. 1--WE have also heard that a seH-taught
engineer of Aberdeen has submitted to our
impetuous Premier the model Of gun capa-
BILE of being loaded with snow balls, to act
agpinst the skaters aforesaid. Further in
telligence states that the Kirg of Prussia.
to show his sympathy with his royal broth
erin law; and to act in concert, as occasion
may serve, with the Imperial Cronstadt
skaters, has originated and drilled new
Prussian force, to be called the Royal Ber.
lin Skaters. itn&y tfa9 g 41lg n
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1854-11-01

A VETERAN EMEeRANT FoR NEBRAsKA.--
The Monroe Qndiana) Sentinel says: Mr..
Powell, an old revolutionary soldier, nine
ty-fve years Of age, with his wife, seventy
FIVE, left there on the 18th ult., for Nebras-
ka, in company with several other citiz ems.
Mr.. P. is remarkably hale and vigorous ca.
pable of chasing dear, with rifle a-should-
er, twenty-five miles day.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1854-11-01

collision AND Loss OF LIrE.--The Ex-
press train which left Niagara Falls on the
Great Western Road came in collision with
a gravel train at O'clock on the morning
Of the 9th ult. Fifty six emigrants were
killed. A number Of others badly injured.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1854-11-01

The BATTERIES OF SEBAsToroL. There
were 722 guns in the batteries Of Sebasto-
pol, on the 9th or January last, ,of which lO4
defended fort Constantine on the north side
Of the harbor, and 192 defended fort Nicho.
las, 80, fort Paul, and 81, fort Alexander, on
the south side. There were at the sane time,
ihharber, two three-deckers, of 50 guns each;
three frigates, two corvettess three briggs. two
war steamers, and two ships Of the line not
fitted. The number Of ships has since in
creased,
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1854-11-01
THE PRISONERS.

The poor fellows had notion that our
men would murder them if the eye of officer
was removed from them. An old general,
who sat smiling and bowling on bank, with
his leg broken BY around shot, seemed Prin.
cipally concerned for the loss of his gold
snuff. box. This, / believe, has since been
restored to him. The men say they are badly
handled, and had no general to direct them.
The officers displayed great gailantry, and
the men fought with a dogged courage char
acteristic ofthe Russian infantry, but they
were utterly deficient in elan and dash. Our
loss is 2,i96 killed and wounded; of the
French, between 1900 and l,4oe. The
enemy have lost upwards of 900. Had we
had but little brigade of cavslry more we
might have converted the retreat into an ut
ter rout, and taken some 5000 prisoners
guns, and standards, as trophies oi our vic
tory. The uoops bivouaced on the field
not far from the scene Of triumphs. Th'
rifles (two battalions) were sent in front, a
usual. The cavalry videttes secured th'
country, and fell back at nightfall on thei
main bodies, in advance of the rifles. Th
tents of Lord Raglan's headquarters wer'
pitched on fiat close to the, bridge, and t
the left of the hill on which were lying tn
bulk of the killed and wounded. p.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1854-11-01

ANOTHER STEAMER MissrNc. - The splen-
did new steamer Her Majesty, built on the
Clyde, to runon. Lake Ontario, sailed from
Scotland, seven or eight weeks, SINCE, for
Quebec, and has not yet been heard from.-
She had a sailing crew, of course, but 1t is
supposed no passengers or cargo.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1854-11-01

GOLD IN WAsHINGTtE TERRITORIAL
gentleman writing from Boffo Plains, Wash
ington Territory, says ".There is some gold
exc itement in this part of the country
There are about seventy-five men now engag-
edin digging at the footofthe Cascades, ON the
western slope; they report making from five
to ten dollars per day." No statement, is
made in regard to the, particular locality,
but it is probably on the Cathapoodle riv-
ef. = ~ 70 l9T 55s ..-tt- &erGa 9Sf tsAfy 5
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ARREsr.-LYMAN Cole, of Martha Wash
ington notoriety and more recently suppos-
ed to be connected with KIssAEE and FIND-
III ID their extensive forgeries has been ar
rested end taken to New York to await his
tfial aN w ~ I .il.L
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1854-11-01

An EARTHQyAKE.--Shocks Of an Earth
quake were sensibly experienced in Keene,
New Hampshire, on the Gath ult. Buildings
were shaken but no damage was done.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1854-11-01
SCENE AFTER THE BATTLE.


Long after night had closed, faint lights
might be seen moving ever tn frightful field,
marking the spots where friendship directed
the steps of some officer in search of a
wounded comrade, or where the pillager yet
stalked about on his horrid errand. The
attitudes of some of the dead were awful
One man might be seen resting on one knee,
with the arms extended in the form OF taking
aim, the brow compressed, the lips clinched
the very expression of firing at n enemy
stamped on the face, and fixed there by death;
ball had struck the man in the neck. Ply
siologists or anatomists must settle the rest.
Another was lying on his back with the same
expression; and his arms raised in similar
attitude, the Mimic musket still grasped in
his hands undischarged. Another lay in a
perfect arch, his head resting on one part Of
the ground and his feet on the other, but the
back raised high above it. Many men with
out legs or arms were trying to crawl down
to the water side. Some of the dead lay
with calm, placid smile, on the face, as
though they were in some delicious dream.
BEFORE AND AFTER DEATH.
OF the Russians one thing was remark.
able. The prisoners are generally coarse
sullen, and unintelligent-looking men.--
Death had ennobled those who fell, for the
expression of their faces was altogether diff
ferent. The wounded might haye enyiet
those who seemed to have passed so peace
fully.
The soldiers are all shaven cleanly on thu
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ArrivhI on the Pacinc.

NesDs from he Wd1-TAs Allies sending on
moro qtOOps-PrsbaraIiOn' for an attOekOa
the FOrt-RumOred Treaty Jet'Oeen RSssia
and PrussiG-TRe Baltic Fleet on its iOay
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Oasis in 1Ile nesert.

For some time it looked as if there were
not single county in Ohio which was not
submerged in the deluge Of Fusion Know
Nothing Whiggery, which swept the State
or, the 10th inst. We looked in vain for q
single bright oasis to dispel the surrounding
political darkness, and had about given it up
when we found that the following counties
were still right side up with care. Here they
are. Their names are destined to glorious
immortality. Look at the list Of Democratic
counties with their m nnaioritiea a annexed:
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chin and cheek; only the moustachs is left,
and the hair is cropped as close to the head
as possible. The latter is very convenlent
mode of wearing the hair in these parts OF
of the world. The officers Chose of superb
or rank excepted are barely distinguishable
from the men, so far as uniform is concernedi
but the generals wore sashes and gold epau-
lets. The subalterns wore merely lace
shoulder-strap instead of the cloth one
of the privates. Most of them spoke
French, and the entreaties of the wounded
10 be taken along with US as the officers
moved up the hill were touching in the ex-
treme. .----
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The Pacific arrived at her wharf without
being telegrsphed with Liverpool dates to
the 18th.
No news from the war. Dispatches such
as they are, conflicting, but it is authentic
that up to the 9th of October nothing had
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1854-11-01
TFrom ns Bangor Mercuty.l

More Of the Fruits of Know Moth
ingisRi--The Outrage on Cath-
oIlc Priest at ELLSWORTH, Maine.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-06-24
THE FISHERY TREATY.

The Washington correspondent of the n.
York Herald learns that the following points
will be made against the fishery treaty in
the Senate "First, that in any commercial
treaty with Great Britain, its provisions
should apply to the whole nation and its de-
tendencies instead of applying only to q
portion of those dependencies and not to the
nation at large thus it is con 'ended that the
action of the so-called reciprocity scheme
should extend to England and all her colo
MES. Secondly, the South will insist upon
sugar being included as one of the natural
products OF the country. Thirdly, unmanu-
featured as well as leaf tobacco will be con-
tended for on the ground that there is no lust
reason why it should be excluded and -four
admitted which is manufactured of wheat.
Here again the South complains of diserini
mating against their products. The admis
sion of manufactured tobacco into England
free of duty would be manifest benefit to
the growers in the United States. Fourthly.
all action will be deprecated until the course
of the English and Colonial Parliaments has
been determined upon. SO that there shall be
no foreign veto TO the Senate's decision.
Independent of this, the Maine Senators
are strongly opposed to the lumber clause.
and the representatives of Pennsylvania and
Maryland are equally opposed to admitting
Colonial Coal.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-06-24

FREE FIGHT.-Last Sunday night, John
Divine and one or two other men, residing on the
South side Of the Basin, started out on bit OF
SPREE and getting far Mrs. Within CHAINS
door stopped and knocked for admission. On be-
ing informed by lady in the house that Mrs w
was absent, and that they could get in the par
ty went to the back gate which was fastened, forced
it open, and was proceeding to Mrs WIS back door
to carry it by storm, when they were met by one
to desst Not feeling disposed to give it up So they
made assault upon the negro, and was handling
him without gloves, when John Phelps, who was in
the yard with his horses, seized stone and let it
fly, giving Divine a cut over the eye which laid
bare the skull bone. At this, the attacking party
decamped, and Divine finding his wayto his board
ing house 10Th street, sent for DR.. Parker, who
sewed up the cash and rendered such other med
cal aid necessary. The wounded man is
rapidly recovering aud the blow he received may
teach him better than to attempt to enter house
by force when admission has been refused.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-06-24
BEATING A NEGRo-Patrick Sullivan and

Edward Murphy were arrasned before the Mayor.
yesterday, to answer the charge of violently as.
saulting and beating Nelson, slave to Mrs, Emma
L. Nottingham, on the southside of the Basin. on
Sunday last. The evidence showed that the SER
want was on his way to the residence of his mis-
tress, when he collared in the street by SulIi
van, and then set upon by a number of others, who
beat him nearly to death, and then took his watch
and hat from him. Two young ladies recognized
the prisoners belonging TO the attacking party
and one of them heard Sullivan say he had beat
the negro with an iron cane, and took his watch
and hat; and that he would run the cane down the
throat ofthe negro if he got chance Mrs Whit
tiugharn stated that she recovered the watch the
next morning by paying reward of So for it. The
Mayor, on hearing the testimony, required the &C
cused to give bail in 500 each to be of good beha
vior; and also to enter into bonds to appear before
the Grand Jury term of the Hastings Court which
sits the second Monday in August next, to answer
a bill of Indictment for riotous and disorderly con-
duet in the street.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-06-24
JAPAN CARRIAeE.-A merchant of this

JAPAN CARRIAGE-A merchant of This
city while visit to New York, some few DAYS
since, noticed an odd looking carriage standing be.
fore wholesale house on Broadway, and in order
to learn how it got there, called on the proprietor
and enquired OF him. Our friend promptly
informed that it was manufactured in Japan and
imported to that city great curiosity. OF course
it was held at an extravagant price. The beauty of
the whole affair was that the merchant who made
NE enquiry, had seen the identical carriage in
featured OF broom straw, grown in Hanover coun.
cy, Va, by an old negro. who not only makes car
raees and sulkes, but gets up very neat chairs and
tables OF the same materials. His owners farm
May be called Japan" for all that know but if
not, the Broadway curiosity should hail from old
Hanover, where greater things than strdao carriages
have been brought forward attract attention and
win public appreciation.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-06-24
THE NEW TERRITORIES.

The New York Tribune, the Times, and
other free soil papers, TEEN with articles upon
the new Territories, for the possession of
which, plan of emigration, on a large scale,
has been organized in the North. The 7ri-
bnne remarks But il is to Kansas that all
eyes are especially turned, for it is felt that
there must be the great battle field in the
contest for supremacy, to which the forces OF
Slavery and Freedom are now summoned
The defnitive possession OF Kansas must de-
eide which of the antagonists is finally to car
ry the day in Nebraska and throughout the
country. Make Kansas free State, and il
is morally certain that Slavery can never es.
tablish itself further North; but let the peace
full cohorts of Freedom be put to rout there
by the slave drivers, and the more Northern
Territory: and, indeed, the entire Union will
have no hope of deliverance, except through
dissensions and quarrels in the camp of Sla-
very itself Kansas, then, is the much more
important of the two Territories
The South, forewarned, should be forearm
ed The slave States lying nearer to dispu,
ted ground should anticipate their adverse
ries. We should like to see Southern men
with their property pouring into the new ter
rltory, IN broad stream of emigration The
plan of organizing q large force, not to be-
come permanent cultivators of the soil; but
to make Kansas an abolition State, will not
De successful if the South will respond, as
She ought to the sentiments of the two meet
ings in Missouri Let her people go on and
enjoy the common inheritance, and go pre-
pared to defend their property.
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New REsERyoIR.-It

New REsERyoIR.-It would be good poll
ey in the City Council to purchase at once on
Church Hill, suitable site for reservoir, as the
one now in use will not contain half enough water
to supply the city, in the course of five years If
the corporate limits extended as they no doubt
will be, the residents of Church and Union Hills
will demand, a right, to be supplied with water
and the city will be unable to accommodate them
unless she has an additional reservoir We invite
the attention of the "powers that be " to the SUBJ
iect feeling assured that they will see the inpor
lance OF having two reservoirs and also OF securing
a suitable site, before all the vacant lands are pur
chased and built upon. Money thus expended will
pay handsome dividend to the city but whether
it does not, the wants of the people can be sup
piled in no other way.
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FLAGS AND BANSERs.-Mr. Edward Me

Donald, adjoining the United States Hotel is get
ting up some beautiful flags and banners at this time
We had the pleasure Of examining several of them
one in particular for the German Music Socie.
ty" of this city, which is really magnificent in
every respect and would do credit TO any other
establishment in the country. There were also
two or three banners for the Sons of Temperance
which were not less neat and tasty in general ar
rangement while his Masonic, Odd Fellows and
Grand Division regalias unsurpassed. We in
vite public attention to Mr. McDs establishment
believing that he can supply all demands upon him.
promptly, and that he will do at such prices as
cannot beobiected to-