The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-09-22
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who have the means take three months
residence in the country, that they msyife.
cover the health and strength which have
been. lost during the previous niue months
close attention to business or pleasure in the
city. How. many there are who, during the
few days of Summers sun just past, have
looked upon the sallow compilations and dim
eyes of their wives and children, and thought
with deep sigh of the cool and inyigorat-
ing country air; Of the delightful shades and
broad green romPing-grouads, as they real.
ize their incapacity to afford them the few
days away from the city, of which they are
so much in need. To such we have word
to say. Many of you FIVE or ten years ago
were living comfortably in the country, on
the means your labor brought to you. You
owed no man aught. The close of Autumn
found your little cellar plentfully supplied
with potatoes and turnips and beets and car
rots and cabbages--a side of beef had been
consigned to to the barrel under the stair
way, and two barrels of cider occupied con.
venient corner. May be you had COW,
whose milk was never chalk--you certainly
had half dozen hens, and your eggs we're
always fresh. Contentment sat smiling on
the countenance of your wife, and your chill
dren's laugh wus loud and hearty, as they
tumbed about on the floor with your play
full dog "Lion" or watched the kitten ener-
getically chasing its tail. On Sabbath
morning, with motherly pride, your wife
dressed the rising brood in their best, which,
though cheap and plain, was clean and neat
as any that appeared at church or Sunday
school. All around you there-was comfort
and contentment. But ,ou were not con-
tent. Although comfortable, you were not
acquiring wealth. In New-York, according
to the newspapers, there were men who Sc.
cured fortunes in single day; and if so,
why should you content yourself with only
a comfortable subsistence in the country!--
You became melancholy and dissatisfied, and
at length, after many opportunities, you told
~
your desire to try your fortune in the City.
She expressed her doubt, in mild terms, of
the the propriety of moving to large city,
where you and yours would be strangers;
but you clamored about the many who there
made fortunes in day, and wound up by
declaring your determination to sell out and
move to New-York. You sold all you pos
sessed and realized more than you expect
ed. With the means TINS obtained, you
took passage for New York. Every mile,
you thought, brought your expected fortune
nearer; and when you touched the City it
seemed almost within your grasp.
1t is not necessary to recapitulate your
many and grievous disappointments. They
are burned into your memory. You need
not to be reminded that your means were
gone before you procured employment; that
you were obliged to take rooms at an exhor-
bItant rent in filthy neighborhood; that
you were surrounded by those with whom
you had no feeling in common but that Of
hunger; with whom your children could not
come in contact without contamination; and
you need not now to have your attention
called to the unhealthful appearance of your
family, or 10 the unpleasant words, your
children have learned to use. You know
you see, you feel them all; and yet you
struggle on in "a vain endeavor to rise a.
bove the circumstances that surround you
But, like one in the mire, every effor, sink.
you lower than before, Every article you
require, whether Of food or clothing, is ris,
ing in. price every year, and your earnings,
in consequence of the numbers OF your
trade, who like, you have come in to mdke
a fortune in a day., are not increased
probably are decreasing. How, then, can
you expect better, things in the city! It j.
!, worse than folly to harbor such an expecta
ton. You must go down il you remain. Il
is worse than folly, because, as the head o
a family, you have a responsibility whicl
you cannot shake off. If you have takei
them from their happy country home an
made them miserable here, it is your duty
whether they charge you with it or'not, L
return whence they came. You have failed
Sell out again, ifayou have aught to sell
and return to the county. Now is just tn
time to. do it. The rivalry Of the yariou
transport companies will soon be at it
/, height, and you can travel many miles fo
! the amount OF money that would supper
yonr family week in the city Labor is i
/ demand in the country, and consequent
you can Immediately find employment. g
j live in the country, and rosy health will 500
/ drive the present sickiy yellow from the nn
. faces Of your family, Ane comfort and con
i tentment may twelve months hence reshm
!. their long vacant seats within your home.
o N. " Times. isits Ss
Discovery of Dimosads in Va.
IL From thg Petersburg Daily Esprsss
eI On Monday. the 9th Of fAuguts, 4 mos
i Isingular discovery Of two diamonds wa
: lmade at !" Dudiey's Ferry" King and Quee
. county the residence Of WM BRooks Est
A correspondent Of the Richmond N5i