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Proposals for building Light. House on "sev
en- foot Knoll" mouth Of Patspsco River
Maryland.


TREASURY DEPARTMENT, !
OFFICE OF LIGHT HoUsE BOARD
Washington, ID. T.. March %, 1855.
PROPOSALS will be received until the 10Th sf
l. April next, ION which day the bids will be
openedl for furnishing the materials (ofwroueht and
asst iIOn) and building a light house, upon screw
pile foundations, on "Seven foot Knoll" 81 the
mouth of Patapsco river, Nd by the SOh Ct Dscen-
Der next.
detailed drawings Of the plan Of the light house
IN be seen at this office mo. e. WiRder's Build
ing1
Should any bid be accepted, a contract viii be eI-
ecuted at once.
No payment will be made until the whole work is
cOmpleed and before il is received IL must be a-
proved by the agent Of the Government appointed
ruperintend the work-said agent having power 20
REJECT all materials and workmanship not in accord
ance with the terms ofthe contract
The right is reserved 10 reject any and all bids
chat may not be deemed advantageous 70 the public
interest.
All bids should be sealed and addressed to the un-
designed, endorsed proposals for Seven-foOt Knoll
Light House"
EDMD. l.. F. HARDCASTLE,
mar2S-eOlm Engineer Secretary.
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LfoR RENT-THE WAREHOUSE IN THE
l. farnum buildings, on Louisiana avenue, re-
Gently occupied by Messrs. Rothwell & Brown. The
store and cellar will be rented apart from the other
stories II desired. SILAS H. HILL.
ap St
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DOOMS FOR RENT-TWO OR THREE new
H ly furnished and very desirable Rooms Tor rent
with board, at 4O3 F ST., Union Row.
mar 26-2w*
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A CERTAIN CHANCE To MAKE A FOR
"A tune "A lady having acquired competency
in the Millinery business is now DESTROYS of dispo
ing of her establishment, and retiring into private
ife Her location is of the best in the city, and
is rare opportunity for one acquainted with The
business. For terms and particulars apply at this
office. mar 29-lm
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MARKET Prices To-DAY.-Beef, fresh, II,
1sc. per pound; do. salt, 8al2c do. dry, 10.
salt loo. Rock fish, 25s. per bunch; shad, SEQ
per pair; herring, lSc. per bunch; perch, 25c
per bsnch. Potatoes, 50a75c per peck; but
Yer, Sla44c. per pound; eggs, lSa2Oe. per do:.
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BUILDING LOTS FOR SALE.-A VARIET
DOT Building Lots in the vicinity of the City Hall
Also, in all other parts of the city, accommodat
ing terms Enquire at Mrs. ADAMS Boardin
House, opposite to Browns Hotel, 10 be seen from
TO , m, or to PM Afro, an address through
the Post Office will rec GIVE attention.
mar 5-eo2m DAVID MYERLE.
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The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-08-11
FusiOnists Changing Ground
their bid for Foreign VOteS--EHy-
DOCriSV EXPOSED.

ave are wrongfully accused, by unscrup-
ulous men, of wish and design to disfran-
chise our citizens of foreign birth. This is
false. 1t is most gross, wholesale mis-
representation.
Read the 7th article, in the above ere
publican Platform of Principles" sPrin-
ciples and character, NOT BIRTHPLACE, are
the true standard Of qualification for citizen
ship. To this we yield, and ever have, an
unreserved assent.-Portage County Demo-
crat.
The foregoing, is an un5lushing false
hood and is no more or less than a bid for
the foreign vote. The proprietors uf the
Portage County Democrat, and their imme-
diate political associates, are all members
of the Know Nothing Order, and have ta-
ken an oath to persecute and prescribe all
foreigners whether protestant or Catholic.
1t is strange that they should have the i'm
pudence to call themselves the friends OF
the naturalized citizen after having combi.
ned together to rob him of bis civil rights
and make him their slave. A few extracts
from the columns of the Democrat showing
the position which they have heretofore oc.
cupied, will present them to the eyes o.
community in no very favorable light. VIZ
call the attention of our naturalized citi
zens and others, to the following, takeI
from the editorial columns of the Demo
crat:
| ave look upon it (Know Nothingism'
as the commencement of a healthy reaction
There is we believe more of political phi
losophy, more of deep and momentous i'm
port in this mysterious movement, than tht
casual superficial reader has yet dreamet
of. We respectfully suggest, that it is 4
topic WORTHY tF SERIOUS CONSIDERATION
and PROFOUND TUDY."-Portaae Democrat
Sept. Is, 1854.
Here is an open and bold endorsement
of the character and movements of this
oath-bound order. But again, speaking o.
Gov. GARDNER's election, the Democra
says:
We deem It important to put these views
OF the successful gubernatorial Know Moth
ing candidate on record, to show the drift
aHd tendency of the much misunderstood
and maligned Know Nothing movement
t& y H this is Know Nothingism ant
these are its1 results, g5Ue US more of the
one and no less of the other. GREAT II
Ksow NoTHIEGIsM, AND OLD MAssAcHU.
SETS is IT'S PRoPHET!--POrtgge Democrat
NOp. 90, 1854.
"The New York Iri5uHs 10 pursuing the
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-08-11
The Kansas Legislature.

Il. A more reckless and unprinciped class of
men, probably never met in the form of a
Legislative Assembly. Chosen on account
of their pro-slayery sentiments, elected by a
drunken mob, and led on by the notorious
SrRINeFELLow, who is the prince of ruftians
In that locality, their first acts"were fraud
upon the rights of Kansas, and the closing
scenes of the session are sufficient to render
them ignominious in the esteem of all good
men. We are in favor ofself-government.
1t 10 . principle founded IN justice, and looks
70 the security of the civil and religious
rights of every people where it is recognized.
The citizens of that territory, SO far as do
mestic institutions are concerned, are, and
of right ought to be, their own governors.
To them, belongs exclusively the control Of
their local affairs. Had they not been mo-
Tested in the exercise OF this natural and
constitutional privilege, the evils that hang
over them would never have been known.
The cause of freedom would be safe in their
hands. Two-thirds of the inhabitants are
opposed to slavery. We ever admired the
courage and manly bearing of Governor
REEpER, during the time OF his official term,
and unless some better excuse is given for
his removal, than we have yet seen, we can
not feel reconcied in regard to the action Of
the administration. He is man Of talent,
and in his publ; acts he exhibited high
minded independence and conscientious re-
gard for the good of Kansas. II he made
mistake it was in this: He did not resist
the encroachments of the Missourians soon
enough. He should never have granted GER
tifcates to any of those who were elected by
fraud, and when that body met, and called
itself the legislature, he should have refused
to rscognize their existence. The whole
movement was void on the ground of fraud
and he ought to have treated it in that light
We see no practical way Of. unravelling
the affairs of Kansas and restoring order
there, but by awholesale reputation of the
legislature and all its acts. Justice to the
people as well as regard for principle re-
quires this. In the election, the people
were over-ridden and the constitution and
laws set at defiance. Their rights were
wrested from them, ard the territorial law
violated. There is no excuse or palliation
for such outrages. They are condemned
alike By reason and the principles upon
which our government is based.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-08-11
COLLISION AND
Loss OF LIFE.

PHILADELPHIA, August 6.-Ths steam.
boat Gen. Mcdonald while on an excursion
to Cape May, on Saturday night, came in
collision with the schooner A. G.. Pease-
from Portland, Connecticut and received
great damage attended with loss of life
among her passengers. The steamer struck
the schooner on the larboard side, and car.
ried away the wheel-hohse and all the rooms
on that side of the boat. Some ten or
twelve passengers were in the barber shop
at the time of the accident, all ofwhom were
swept overheard and drowned; owing to the
darkness of the night no assistance could be
rendered to the injured, and there being no
register of passengers it is impossible to
give the names Of those missing, or the
number. The boat is damaged to the ex-
tent of some $4,000. The schooner re-
ceived but little injury.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-08-11
Kansas.Aid societies.

The Cincinnati Commercial, the ablest and
leading opposition paper in Ohio, has an ar
ticle in regard to Aid Societies in Kansas
which is we'll worthy of consideration. Read
it:
"From all that we can learn, we are in
clined to the opinion that the most unfortu.
nate thing for the Territory of Kansas, and
the most unpropitious to its chances for be-
coming free State, are the Aid Societies
that have originated in the Northern States,
with the intent to give an unnatural impet-
US to emigration. Aside from similar efforts
which they have been the means of exciting
in the slave States, and the i'll feeling, lille
climate practices and crimes that have result.
ed, from the conflict of fana ticisms, upon the
soil of Kansas, it is probable that the emf
grafton of q class of people who can be re-.
lied upon to resist firmly, temperately and
consistently, the introduction of Slavery in-
to the Territory has been greatly retarded.
Persons willing to receive the assistance of
an Aid Society, or whose motives for emf
grafton consist in the inducements which
such societies offer, will not, in general, be
found persistent either in their residence or
their principles. They will look upon them
selves as defrauded if the assistance is not
continued, and in too many cases will be
worthless lift is and faithless ifitis not; while
the fact of the existence and exertions ot
such agencies will deter thousands of emigra.
tion by means of their own resources, who
would look upon the aid afforded to others as
a disadvantage to themselves.
Had Kansas been let alone by the propa.
gandists of modern one idea philantropby,
the chances would largely have been in ia.
vor of freedom. Spontaneous emigration
from the North, whose population flows out
into new territory with all the freedom Of
water, would silently and almost impercept
IDLY have settled down in her rich valleys
and, in few years she would have been
knocking at the door of the Union, with Q
free constitution in her hand. Where the
thing is left free for all, the North has infin.
itely the advantage of the South. To vast
bulk Of the people of the North, emigration
is the natural state, while the opposite 10 the
case with the Southern planter. who, en-.
numbered with slaves and plantation, has SO
many inducements. once settled, to remain
stationary"
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-08-11
Start RighI.

Every young man should start right in his
political career. Let himexamine the past
history of parties, and from careful and cam
did investigation determine his future course.
Of action. And whats is it to start right
Is it to unite ones fortunes and destiny with
party with no fixed principles?-that is
one year one thing, and the next another!-
and that in all its existence has never been
the means of adding in the least to the great
ness, the strength or the glory of the coun-
try! Is it starting right to join party that
organizes itself in secret, and holds its meet
ings in barns and caves, and by places, not
daring to throw its banner to the breeze?
that in its secret councils uaduces mems
character, blackens their regulations, and
seeks 10 destroy thier business! If this is
not starting right, then no one should unite
himself with the modern proscriptive, one
idea Know Nothin g" Republican" party. But
every young man should start rig ht in his
political career. He should connect him.
self with and labor for the success of that
party, which has made our nation great and
prosperous, feared and respected by all the
nations of oftheworld-that has added to its ex
tent, its strength and its glory. That party j:
the Democratic party-the only party ofpro
gress, and all young men should be prou'
to unite themselves with party of such
glorious history.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-08-11
THE LOUISVILLE RIOT.

We offer no apology for publishing at
some length, an account of the riot Lou
isville. Read it and ponder upon the fear
ful workings Of secret oath-bound order!
1t is enough to make one shudder to listen to
the Sickeuing details OF outrage and violence
legitimately ehargeable to the. principles
and movements of a secret political organi-
cation. Our Know Nothing opponents
would do we'll to look at such specimens OF
their work.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-08-11
ARRIVAL OF TKE BALTIC
ONE WEEK LATER NEWS.
Preparation fora Grand Attack
on seRastepoI by Sea and Land.
TRs .CGnnonading kept up on both Sides. and
Desperate Serties By the Rassians. 4
Death Of the Russian Naval COMMANDER
and Gen Totteben, the Hero Of Sebastopol.
GEN. SIAAPSONlASKING A RECALL

New YoRK, Augusts.--The steamer Bal
tic arrived this morning II 81 o'clock, with
Liverpool dates to the 2Sth July.
The news from the seat OF war is not very
important. 1t is rumord that Gen Ncimpson
and Omar Pacha have resigned their COM
mands. -
The French continue their ap prodch upon
Malakoff, but there have been n either sor.
ties nor assaults.
The positions occupied by the Allies aud
Russians in open field are unchanged.
The British fleet in the Sea of Azoff has
destroyed the bridge of boats at Kertsch,
without incurring any loss.
The operations in the Baltic have not
been important 't.
The preparations for q campaign on the
| Danube continue.
The Bashl- Bazouks at Constantinople
have mutinied and committed great excess
| es. r
A formidable insurrectian has occurred a.
mong the Araps in Tripol.
The Russians remain near Kars, but have
not invested the city.
The French loan has been ell taken.
The uneasiness in Spain has been mostly
allayed..
The British Ministry having made mar.
row escape from defeat on the question o
the Turkish loan bill, will be able to retain
their position. The bill is progressing.
The Russians made sorte on the Gath
July, but were repulsed. The loss is moi
mentioned in the dispatches published.
1t is rumored that a secret expedition il
preparing, which is to attempt to force &
passage into Sebastopol at the same time
that grand assault will be made by land.
VIENNA, hursday,-General Totleben,
commander at Sebastopol, is dead and Mel
nekofF succeeds to the defence of the
place.
TRIESTE, Thursday Russians have
suddenly Withdrawn after approaching Ksrt
and firing a few shots into the town. The,
had dispersed some Turkish detachments
near Bayarid and taken 100, prisoners.
Cen. Muravieff it is said intended to at
tack Erzeroum at tho sams time he invested
Kars.
10000 Turkish troops were on their way
to reinforce Erzeroum. A letter from Err.
eroum states that the Russians had occupied
the village Of Geniklore, containing larg
stores and provisions for the Allied army a
Kars. The Turks are completely block
AIDED at Kars, the Russians occupying tb
entire plains.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-08-11
what was the Issue,

The Fusion press in. Ohio are represent
ing that the issue in the States of Tennessee
and North Carolina, was freedom against
slavery. This is untrue. Slavery did not
in any manner enter into the contest. The
Democratic party was on one side and the
members OF secret oath-bound order were
on the other, The defeated candidates on
the Know Nothing ticket, are each and all
of them pro-stausry in their sentiments and
uaost of them are slave owners. No doubt
II they had been elected the abolition papers
Of Ohio would have pronounced it a a"Re-
publican" victory.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-08-11
Immense Public Land sales.

The National Intenigeacer states, and the
official returns show, that l3,835,730 acres
of public lands have been sold during th, fis-
cal year ending the sOth June last for which
there has been received IN. cash and scrip
the sum of $l0,57O 3S6. This ID exclusive
of the land located with military boun-
ty land warrants in the same period
The aggregate Of the public lands the title
in which has thus far been transferred from
the Government to individuals was never 60
large before in single year. Even in the
great year ofspeculation in the year Of pub
lie domain, 1886, the whole quantity sold
ana otherwise aliened was not as great.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-08-11
The second volume oft6e sentinel

The Second Volume Ofthe Sentinel
We publish to day the first number oftne
second volume of the Ssntinel. Our prospec-
tuswill be found in another column. 1t con-
tains statement in brief, of the political
doctrines we shall advocate. We have full
confidence in their correctness, and shall la
Dor with our might to secure their approval
by our fellow-citizens. Read them careful
ly. Are they not right! To our political
ouponents. we say, examine our PLATFORM
Ii it is wrong in any particular, point out
what you deem to be the error. We will
discuss the matters in controversy, candidly,
fairly, and an intelligent public shall Judge
which party is right and which, wrong
Anopen honorable discussion, conducted
with courtesy and yet with energy, has al
ways beneficial influence upon community.
To our brother Democrats, you who al
ready endorse the doctrines laid down in our
platform, we would say, read and study the
principles of our political faith and labor to
extend their circulation. Every man has an
influence, and by proper exertion of the
influence you possess, much can be done to-
wards the dissemination Of Democratic SEN
timents. Every subscriber to the Sentine
can do something towards increasing its cir
culation. Talk with your neighbors ant
friends, and labor by all honorable means tt
win them to the support of those measurer
which you believe the general welfare OF tn
people requires. :
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-08-11
Tmtlian Fight OH the Plains.
the Omahas and Pawnees by the


Siour Indians Chief Of The O'nahas Killed;
COUNCIL BLUFF, Iowa, July as; 1855.
Logan Fontanelle, the late head chief of
the Omaha Tribe of indians, was buried this
afternoon at Bellevue, N. T. He was half
breed of intelligence, had enjoyed the advan-
tages of good English education, and had
long been noted for his courage and prowess
in the Indian warssof the Missouri border
He was killed about week ago in a fight
which took place between his own band and
a band of PawDees on one side and the Sioux
Indians, on the other. The Omahas and
Pawness left their residence near the Mis-
soufi about month since ON Buffalo hunt
toward the Rocky Mountains, When about
It's miles west of the river they were at
tackled by strong party of the Sioux and a
desperate fight ensued, resulting in the COM
plete defeat of Logan's party. Nine of the
principal Chiefs of the Ofnahas and ten Of
the Pawnees were Killed, nearly all their
horses were stolen; and the remainder of
the bands returned with great precipitation
to the Missouri bringing the body of their
favorite Chief with them. 1t is also reported
that the village of the PaWnees on the Platte
river has been burned and their crops de-.
stroyed by the Sioux and Pancas, who seem
determined to carry on war of extermina-
ton against the unfortunate Pawnees and
Omahas. The effect Of the fight and defeat
will be to leave these two tribes in most
destitute condition. The Omahas. especiai-
ly, are exceedingly poor, and will have no
means of support left them. The annuity
paid them last spring by the General Gov
ernment was nearly all expended in the pur-
chase OF horses, and as these have now
nearly all been stolen from them they are lit
eralIv left without food or clothing or any
means Of support. Unless the Government
interposes for their protection they will be
reduced 10 state of ,destitution and stafva-
ton sad TO contemplate. The PaInees
who reside on the Platte river. further west,
will be placed in nearly as bad phghts
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-08-11
Ohio ANA me Union-An EIoquens
Extract.

EXTRACT
The following remarks upon the rela-
ton of Ohio to the Union. is an extract
from speech delivered by Hon. GEo. Z,
PueH, in Cincinnati April 9Th, 1856. Mr..
PueH is tho Senator elect from Ohio to
the U. s. Senate in the place Of s. p.
CHASE. Although young man he has al
ready taken rank among the first orators
of the country:
"The continuance of the Union is
matter of vital importance to the people OF
Ohio. That is the term of all our great
ness and all our hopes. We came into be-
ing State, under the auspices of the Fed
eral Government, and as it may stand or
fclI, so must our fate be. II any Aboli'
ZIONIST wiILcalculate the value of the Un-
ion 10 us, or even to those who may fill our
places hereafter, let him behold the pros
perity ahdzhappihess which have fallen to
our choice. Let him depart from Sandus-
ky with the morning train=first having re-
newed his patriotism a: the sight of those
islands near which the immortal victory OF
Lake Erie wa4 achieved-and let him jours
ney hitherwafd until the sun declines
What vision will greet his eyes! The
noble State of Ohio, but fifty years old, and
yet containing two millions Of Inhabitants
great, rich, and enviable, will have passed
before hm--a State which is not merely
indebted to the Union for peace and pro-
lection, for means of access to the sea,
but even for its political existence. Ar
rived at this capital of western trade and
power, this queen of cities, which glasses
herself in a river proverbial for beauty, let
him contemplate here triumph of indus
try and enterprise as superb in design as
it is magnificent in proportions, which, but
for the Unions aid, but for the Unions
continual care, would fade into despair
and ashes. Let him go hence by the agen'
| cy of that subtitle minister which enlivens
so many wonderous forms of mechanism
until he has reached the States which lie
upon our southern border-those fertile ant
sunny lands through whose alluvion the
Mississippi cleaves hundred outlets tc
the gulf. That, also, is hts country! There
amid the fields of verdant cane, or in the
groves of citron and olive, or where the
fg-tree casts its clustering shade, will bt
found men and women to whom Washing
ten is likewise guiding star-whose hopes
are bound up with his own hopes-whos'
fortunes depend en- his fortunes--over whose
homes, as over his home, the Government
which Washington established-the Gov
ernment which Washington administered
the Government which Washington be
sought us to NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. forth Ut
protecting and victorious arm. If there b
an American who would dissever thos
kindred aspirations, common liberty an
. the joint Inheritance which so great nam
conspires thus closely to unite; if there b
an American who could even wish thes
things were otherwise, pity his heart
pity his head-I pity the father and til
. mother who are compelled to own him
pity the soil which his very footsteps cor
taminate--I pity even the day whose health
full sunlight was dimned and eclipsed b
such birth of undying shame"