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VARIETY BOOT AND SHOE STORE.

VAKIEI1 BUUI AND SHUE OIUNE.
Y AIDES ALPINE BOOTS.--Just re-
4 4 ceived superior lot Of Ladies' Black and
Brown Alpine Boots, together with large and
general assortment of Ladies, Gents, Misses,
Boys, Youths, and ChiIdren's Boots and Shoes
for sale by GEO. BURNS
$40 Pennsylvania avenue,
Adjoining Patterson's Drug Store.
Zee (News)
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yILLARD,s HOTEL,

CORNER PA. AVENUE AND l4TH STREET
j. G. g. Ill. A. willard.
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LAMARTINE.

Lamartine is-yes, young ladies, positively
"a pTim looking man with a long face, short,
grey hair, slender figure, and suit of black.
Put pen behind his ear and he would look
like confidential clerk Give his face
more character and he would remind yon Of
Henry Clay. lie has fine head phrenologi
cally speaking-large and round at the top,
with spacious forehead, and scant allot.
ment OF cheek. P.im is the word, though.
There is nothing in his appearance which is
ever so remotely suggestive of the romantic.
He is not even pale, and as for a rolling shirt
collar, or Byrouic tie, he is evidently not the
man 80 think Of such things. Romance, in
fact, is the or iclc he lives by, and like other
men, he chooses to "sink the shop" at least
when he sits for his ortrait
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PgNNSYl .VANIA AVENUE,
WASHINGTON CITY.
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DUMAS,

On the contrary, is bury fellow. His large
red, round cheeks stand out, till they seem to
stretch the very skin that covers them, aud it
looks as smooth as u polished apple. His
black crisped hair is piled high above his fore
head, and stands divided into two unequal
masses, one inclining to the right, and the
other TO the left. His eyes are dark, and his
mouth sensuous, but not to the degree Of vul-
garity. His person is large, and his flowing
mantle red. tie is a gentleman to lay bare
his throat, and look romantic, not Byrouically
50, but practically. Yet he looks good hu:
mored, and like man whose capacity for
physical enjoyment is boundless. His negro
blood is evident enough to one who knows he
has it but'it would not be detected by one
who knew it not. 1t appears in the peculiar
rotundity of the man and all his parts it
crisped and heaped his hair; it made him
dress up in flowing red, to have his portrait
taken. But his complexion is only shade
darker than the average. The portrait re-
minds MS for a moment o! the late Thomas
Hamlin the actor.
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THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, devo.

ryluE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, devo-
led TO industry, Science, and Mechanics.
Published weekly at rs Fulton street, n. ". tSua
Buildings,l by Mum ~ 90.
Terms 81 year; 81 ~ advance, anu tn ii.
inander in six mouths.
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Time between W ashington and Wheeling
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A TEACHER WANTED as Governess
IN in a private family that is competent TO
teach all the branches of English, French and
music. Address p. NJ. Fauquier, White Sulphur
Springs, Virginia
Oct Pitt MAT. lnteL)
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COALl COAII
g,HE undersigned is prepared TO deliver
White and Red Ash COAL Of the best qua.
lily, nj So so per ton t22i0 lbs)
III. G. narrower,
Sd street, Sd door south OF Pa. avenue
July 24--tf
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lie is one Of the smallest legged, smallest
bodied, and most attenuated efhgies Of the hui
man form divine that one could find in a
crowded city during days. walk. And if one
adds to this figure clothes that are neither
fashionably cut nor iastidiously adjusted, he
will have atolerably rough idea Of De Quincy.
But then hi, brow, that pushes his obtrasve
hat to the back part of his head, and his light
grey eyes, that do not seem to look out, but to
be turned inward sounding the depths Of his
imagination, and searching out the mysteries
Of the most absruse logic, are something that
you would search week t. find the mates 10,
and then you would be disappointed. De
Quincy now resides at Lasswade, romantic
rural village, once the residence Of Sir Walter
Scott, about seven miles from Edinburg, Scot
laud, where an afectionate daughter watches
over him, and where he is the woader Of the
country people for miles around.
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Mss- The California Mail steamers sail from
New York on the 9Th and Doth of each month.
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Superintendent Of the Public Printing.
Sept 20-3taw9w
I IntellIRencer Tnion and Evening Star. 3laWQW
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Personalities OF Literats.
JERRoLD.

Douglas Jerrold, a well known contributor
to Punch, and editor of various publications. is
a man abont fifty years of age, and in person
is remarkably spare and diminutive. His face
is sharp angular, and his eye Of a gFayish hue.
He is probably one of the most caustic writer's
OF the age, and, with keen sensibility, he often
writes under the impulse of the moment arti.
cles which his cooler judgment condemns AL.
though believer in hydropathy, his habits do
not conform to the internal application of
Adams ale. His Caudle Lectures have been
read by every one. In conversation he is quick
at retort-not always refined. He is husband
and grandfather
MACAULAY.
The Hon. T. b. Macaulay is short in stature,
round and with a growing tendency to alder
manic disproportions. His head has the same
rotundity as his body, and seems stuck on it as
firmly as pin-head This, is nearly the sum
of his personal defects; all else, except the
voice. which is monotonous and disagreeable,)
is certainly in his favor His face seems liter
ally instinct with expression; his eyes, above
all, full OF deep thought and meaning. As he
walks, or rather struggles, along the street, he
seems in state of total abstraction unmind-
full of all that is going on around him, and sole
ly occupied with his own working mind. You
is not mere profession or pursuit but that it
has almost grown a part of himself, as though
historical problems or analytical criticisms were
a part of his daily food.
BAILEY.
A correspondent of the Tribune, writing from
Nottingham England, says:
II have seen Bailey, the author of 'Festus.'
His father is proprietor Of the Nottingham
Mercury, and the editorial department rests
with him. He is thick set sort of a man; Of
a stature below the middle size; complexion
dark, and in years about eight-and.thirty. His
physiognomy would be clownish in expression,
if his eyes did not redeem his other features
He spoke of 'Festus and Of its fame in Anne
RIGA, OF which he seems very proud. In Eng
land it has only reached its third edition, while
eight or nine have been published in the Uni
ted States"
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K r-ss At. SOUI FHDNsHtT,
No. Ill Chestnut ST., Philadelphia.
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1854-08-16

RATHER SPIcY.-A lady of San Francisco, be-
ing invited to send in toast to be read at the
anniversary celebration of the landing. ..of the Pill
grim Fathers, furnished the following. 1t is spi-
cy enough to flavor half d dozen anniversary din
ners:-"The pilgrim Fathers forsooth! What
had they to endure in comparison to the Pilgrim
Mothers! 1t is true they had hunger, and cold,
and sickness and danger-foes without and within
but the unfortunate Pilgrim Mothers! they had
not only all this to endure but the Pilgrim Faith
srs also and yet their names are never mention
ed. Who ever heard of the Pilgrim Mothers!
Who ever gave dinner in honor of them! Who
ever writes songs; drinks toasts and make
speeches in recollection of them! This self.suf-
fciency on the part of men, is beyond endurance.
One would actually suppose that New England
had been coonized by men and posterity pro-
vded for by special act of Providence! Only Mrs.
Hemans has ventured to insinuate that there ever
was woman in the case-that the Mayhower ever
brought anything but men across the Atlantic.
l assure you, my dear friend, that am perfectly
dsgusted with the self-conceit of the men; they
appropriate everything to themseves-even the
settlement of a colony, and the peopling of a
whole continent. l did hope there was one pre-
rogative they would leave to women. We have
submitted quietly to their inventions in suppressed
ing us in many things, but we will not tamey
submit to be deprived of this one privilege; we
will not ourselves be deluded into the belief that
New England was settled and peopled entirely by
Pilgrim Fathers. How could they have been
Fathers if there had been no Mothers! And
hope, dear Captain, that have succeeded in con-
vncing you that you will be lending yourself to
an act of great injustice toward us, if you do not
propose for your toast The Pilgrim Mothers 2"
Daily Minnesotaan.
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REMOVAL.
Griffin Il BOStWiCk

TTAvING removed their Furniture to their new in
III the Phoenix Block, directly Bostwtcksd dry DDS
Store are prepared to wait their customers to hng u
their line, our took consist in part as follows:
Sofas from $25 to Jenny Lind $5s Tcte-e-tere ace to
face suits the young exactly Mahogany chairs, Marble Top
Tables Quartet and card tables what not Bureaus Mahoga
ny cottage bcds Marble top wash stands, Piano Stools, foot
stools, &c.
Also, i fine lot of Hall Stands they beauty.
Also, splendid lot of Looking Glasses, from Is to $l8
Also, Pictures rnd Picture Frames.
fine lot of Hair, Cotton and Husk Mattresses our HAIR
Mattresses manufactured in our own vicinity (by Mr.
McIain of Rootstown and warrant the Hair to be the
first quality long Horse Hair; the Husk and cotton,
comingi into general use in many placss.
Also, plenty of Bedsteads with Hinkley's suspension
Bed Bottom These beds have been thoroughly tried
and all who have used Them pleased with he we have
improved the bottom by making them thicker than at first,
sell them from $3.50 and upwards every person who
would beead buy at least for themselves
and we assure them they will buy no other after.
We have full assortment of common furniture, cane seat
of all kinds om SIS and upwards bureaus from So
and upwards Stands and upwards and some cord beds
cheap people will have em Tables 49, and other work in
proportion.
We have been considerable expense in fitting up
roos and invite all to call and what we have. We
know sell cheap to say the least OF II, AS IN Cleve
land elsewhere; if the people are satisfied that this is the
will they sustain room of this kind by purchasing at
home All work purchased in the village, will be delivered
at the House of the purchaser
Rnvenna, March IA, 1854. 45J-u
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The LARGEST RATTLEsNAKE YET.-On Fri.
day last, says the Cleveland Herald, Mrs. HENRY
CLARK, in returning from berry party in Med
ford, was suddenly notified, by the noise of his
rattle, that she was within few inches of an
enormous rattlesnake. Nothing daunted, she
Immediately procured stone, with which she so
far disabled him, that she could fasten cord
srouad his neck and drag him to her home, much
to the astonishment of her frightened husband.
His snakeship measures nearly six feet in length,
and has twelve rattles indicating that he is fifteen
years DID,
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NEW FIRM,

NEW STORE, NEW GOODS.
DALRYMPLE& d MUNYoN, having entered into co-part,
II neFshp in the Ready-Made Clothing business, would
respectfully iRite the attention of their friends, customers
and the public generally, to their stock of SEAS0N3BLE
CLOTIN adapted to every, taste and profession
Also Boys and youths Clothing for all sizes and conditions
of emile community and eXeons will continue to
be made keep this department complete as possible
OUR FURNISHING GOODS,
embrace full and complete assortment of Shirts, nekes
Gloves, Hosiery Suspenders Stocks sears CraVas Neck
Ties Hdkfs., &c.
THE CUSTOM DEPARTMENTS contains a greatyarle-
Cloths, Cassimerers, Vestngs, &C., embracing almost
every article seasonabe goods for Genemcns Garments
which will be made to Oder at short notice. at reasonable
prices, in tasteful and fashionable style.
Thorough workmanship and uneXceptOnabe fits warrant
ed in all cases
, The system OF terms is price, and no deviation
The price of garment and article is marked in Plain fig
urcs and small but regular profit upon each article BY
this system one however inexperienced, is liable to pay
above the market prices.
n. b. All goods sold, will be warranted represented
Ravenna MAY %, 1861 DALRYMPLE Il MUNYON.
d65-tf one door east of the Brick Block.
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For the Snrisag Trade.

GROCERIES PROVISIONS AT WHOLESALE
TENE Subscribers respectfully invite the attention of Mer
chants throughout the county Of Portage, and the trade
generally, to their stock of GROCERIES kept constantly
hand and to which additions daily made. Our
prses every thing usually kept in Grocery and Provision Es-
adjustments, which we are prepared to sell as low any
house in the county Being working men ourselves defy
competition.
Feeling grateful to friends for their liberal patronage
extended to them that offer them greater
inducements this season, than before.
The following comprises portion of our stock
CoFFEE.
Rio and Laguara, Cuba, and Old Government Java.
SUI GAR, MOLA sEs AND SYRUP.
N 0. and p. K. Sugar; Granuated do; Powdered do !;
Crushed do B. and G. Coffee do; Double refined Loaf sugar.
New Orcaus Molasses Cardcna do; Green STARTS SYRUP
SPICES.
Cloves; Nutmegs; Ginger; Mace; Box Mustard Can do;
Pepper Sauces Cassa Ground Pepper Spice and cinnamon
FRUITS.
Boxes NJ Rasns; Layer do; Cluster do; Seedless do ;
Boxes and Drums Figs Almonds; Brazil Nuts; Filberts
English Walnuts Pea Nuts; Cocoa Nuts Lquorice olive
Oil; Lemons and Oranges.
TEAS.
Young Hyson Gunpowder; Imperia Old Hyson; Black;
FISH.
Goldfish; Macnerel; Whteash; Trout Pckerel; No. and
Scaled Herring.
Kentucky Six Twist; Sweet Cavendish; Baltimore spun;
general assortment of fine cut chewing; Tin foil cut
and lb papers smoking Warwick Bryans can; Spanish,
half spanish and common Cigars Snuff &c.
SOAP AND CANDLES. .
Fancy Shaving Soap; Bar do do; Burwes chem wash.
Candies; Sperm do; stearine do; Taow do.
o L.
Linsced; Sperm: Lard: Sweet.
s U N DIR s.
Bed cords; Painted Pals; Tubs British mstre Coppcras;
Alum Chalk Rosin Tar; Madder; Canddwick; Whipping
twine Cordage; Indgo Pickles; Sardincs; Tapoca Mae
caron; Rice -four; Baskets; Whip Lashes Cream Tartar;
Sup. Carb Soda; Sal Soda Tartarc Acid; Whiting; Putty
Flour Sulphur ottar; satpetre, Batting; Spruce Gum;
Backne Glassware; 6oneware; Paper Ink; Brooms; Lines
Matches Powder; Capdies Salerats; Starch English split
Pea Usage Orange Seed for Hedges Toys; Wallets;
Boxes Steel Pens; Lead Pencils States; Slate Pencs Mop
Handles; Faucets, &c. ..... s.5.N
DIVISION
Flour; Buckwheat do Corn Meal; Potatoes; Vinegar;
Beans; Drad Bcef Lard; Hams; Shoulders Pork; Fish;
Butt Turnps Peas; CorRed Beef Cheese Rice Craekera
onions Beets; Tongues; Maple Molasses do. Su
gar: Honey, &c. #a..
we Keep assortment fresh and full throughout the
season. and solicit examination any disposed
purchase.
b-Cash paid for all kinds of country Produce,
exchange FOR Good at rates which will be satisfactory
Ravenna, April 18th, 1859 ~ :, - ~. 8
IRONING Hats without extra charge All hats nure6ased
extra charge. I.r rr''T 'YYfS-'- 1855
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To FARMERs.-Tbe Hartford Times mentions
. Farmer who took up fence after it had been
standing fourteen years, and found some of the
posts nearly sound, and others rotted off at the
bottom. Looking for the cause, he discovered
that the posts which had been inverted from the
way they grew were solid, and those which had
been set as they grew were rotted off. This is
certainly an incident worthy of being noted bv
our farmers. -
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sheriff Sale.

DY virtue of writ of Fl Fa directed and delivered
ID from the Court of Common Pleas, of Portage county
Ohio have levied and shall expose to sale public
due ,on the premises,
on Saturday, the 26h day Of August, neat,
between the hours O'Clock A. NJ, and four o'clock p
NJ of said day. the following described lands and enements
to witt situate in the township of Ravenna, and the State Of
Ohio and which also in the county of Portage and known
being village lot No thy-sx, and the south half of vii
age lot No in the village of Ravenna the
laid down in the plat of Tappans addition to the vii
lge of Ravenna East Recorded the Portage county Roc
orls, be the more or less.
Taken in execution the property of George McElwan
at the suit of John Medium. Appraised ut $900,00.
Sherf's Office, Portage Co.,l JAMES WOODARD, Sheriff.
InlV Inv II. AJrJp annt
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Sheriff Sale.

Y virtue order of sale to directed and delivered
ID from the Court of Common Pleas of Portage county,
Ohio; and writ of Pu Fl Fa to directed and delivered
from the Court Common Pleas of Summit county Ohio
shall expose sale at public venduc the Coart House,
in the Town of Ravenna,
on Saturday, the 9Th day Of September, neat,
between the of ten O'Clock A. and O'Clock p NJ OF
said day. following described lands and enemens to wit:
situate in the township Brneld in said county and is
known by the East half of lot No Is, and bounded follows:
the East North and South by the original lines Of said
lott and the by line drawn through the center of
said lo from North to South and containing ninety-
acres of land.
Taken in two exc cutons as the property ofJuus A. Sum
mer aud al
Appraised at Eleven Hundred Dollars.
Sherif's Office, Portage Co. JAMES WOODARD,
August T. A. d. 1854, 415-5w Sheriff.
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Farm for Sale.

- The sc otage Hill Farm" q miles east OF Raven, %
fHEES na on the Warren road, containing 43I acres OF
EEaER land 275 of Improvement 1O OF whTh
bottom land, and will cut very heavy grass lhe pa,
ance in fine timber This Farm is unusually well wateted
with never falling springs, and the MahOning River runs
through the of and is considered one Of EeI
best farms in the county, either for stock grain raising
The buildings consist substantial Stone House, built at
large outlay with fine well of soft water at the door dnee
inc them Also Carriage House, Horse Stables and all 9th
e necessary outbuildngs and all in good repair one
half the purchase money can remain on mortgage lot
term of wears required The above property will be sold
low az the occupants desirous Ofremovtng east.
For further particulars apply TO Darius Lyman ESQ ha-
VIENNA or Daniel Curtis Co., No. Ill Pearst New YORK,
or of the Subscriber, the premises. ,
Ravenna, Feb. 81 1854. 451-u y
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Affecting EpitsapEa.

"SHE.-'Grieve not for me, my dearest dear,
| am not dead, but sleeping here;
In patience wait, prepare to die,
For thou must shortly come to L.
"He.-I do not grieve, my dearest life
Sleep on-I'Ve got another wife;
therefore c9sRot come to thee,
For must stay to comfort she."
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GFMrs Partington advises all young per-
sons aiictioned with preparation of the heart, to
apply the cataract of mustard to draw out the in
spration, and she says she has never known
failure where this device was followed