Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1854-04-12
Emgy Burning.

1t is sure sign with intelligent men of the
impotence of a cause when its devotees are COM
PEELED to resort to such conduct as has lat ,ly-
characterized the opponents of the DOUGLAS bill.
Instead of standing up before the people and in
calm argument displaying the merits of their op.
position, if it has any, they resort--or at least
many of them-to tie pitiul ond sneaking bust
ness of dressing up in old rags an efigy of the
distinguished statesman who as chairman Of the
territorial committee in the Senate, reported the
bill. In order to express their Indignation, these
rag-a mullins hang up the image they make and
proceed to burn il. ...
They write over the image ran mottos cx.
pressive of their sense, or want of sense; and
think that an admiring people behold their rowdy
proceedings with great satisfaction. Our te!.-
graphs come to us, announcing that at Auburn
New York, and at divers other places, the Sana
tor from Illinois has been burned in ~, Con-
sequence is sought to be gained from such con-
duct and it is heraided as an expression OF public
opinion There never was greater mistake
| Perhaps there is no better sign Of the courage
and honesty of Il true man, than these exhibitions
of blackguardism by his revilers. Its etfec, up
on the minds of the best men, is always to help
the cause it is intend ID to stignatiza. Time
was, when JEFFERSON, JACKSON and other promi
nent Democratic statesman were thus trcate -
The result Of this funutical cffigy burning will
react in favor of Senator DOUGLAS and the cause
of popular sovereignty with which his name is
so indissolubly connected. No decent man--no
man of sense or dignity-can for moment en-
courage such proceedings.
| For ourselves, we have the most hearty con-
tempt for such lame attempts to bring into disc
pute cherished Democratic principles. Yet such
conduct is the legitimate consequence Of the
! reckless conduct of CHASE, and his confederates
wings, Abotionsts, und pseudo Democrats
who have misrepresented and abused, in utter
recklessness of truth, the principles of the DoUG
LAS bill. These exhibitions of petty spite and
miserable meanness, attach to the men who have
led the opposition to this bill, for their opposition
is that of the unthinking blackguard, who knows
no argument but the swill-pai, and no logic but
that Of the fish woman.-[ statesman.
THE PROSPERITY OF OUR COUNTRY.-The u
S. Economist says, that notwithstanding the im-
mense sums which have been expended in our
country for home Improvements, withi2 the past
six years, the amount of Amerlcan stocks held
abroad has not ncreased-thus showing that the
sum Of these expenditures are in reality an expo
nent of the increase of capital in this cohntry.-
The number OF houses in the United States is,
by census, 3,363,42 and free families 359S.240
or nearly one house for every family. The
nuUD6T Ol HOUSES Uullt Wlt1lH tH6 past yeuTS
was probably 663,0O0. which, at an average valu
alton of 81 900, would, with their furniture, ex-
ceed in the aggregate $7OO.ooo,Ooo. Nearly g.
600 900 tons Of shipping have been built, W. i,
at moderate computation, $ll5,2S6,34O. The
value of new railroads is $287 ,0OO, 900; of new
bank capital, $65,OOO,OOO. These items alone
make an aggregate of ,l67,2S6,34O, for our
increase of domestic capital, all of which has
been derived from home resources. And in ad-
dtion to this, are vast sums which have been ex-
pended for improvements, insurance companies,
mines, &C., without any perceptbe incfeos, in
the amount Of stock held abroad. =" sa
| STEAMBOAT DIsAsrERs.-The steamer Monroe,
bound from Yazoo City to New Orleans, sunk a.
bout FIVE miles above Natchez, on the night of the
26th ult., and between fiften and twenty persons.
including the mate are reported to have been lost