The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1857-05-07

A few days since the Cincinnati CONNER.
eiay had a rigmarole about the National Ho.
tel poisoning, and drew dolorous picture
Of the condition OF President Buchanan.---
Az matter Of curiosity we give it, not that
we believe there is word oftruth in It, which
by the by is not very material with the Com.
msrcial: ta Eay. ,a1
Mr.. Buchanan, il Is we'll known, has suf.
fered terribly from the prevailing epidemic,
and is by no means at this timein good health.
A gentleman Of our acquaintance, passing
through Washington few days sincesN Nhap.
pened to hess confirmation OF this fact from
Mr.. Bucha0sn himself. He was in the vi.
cinity Of the Treasury Department building,
about nine O'Clock ia the eVening-when-
we take the liberty ofquoting from private
letter: 9 ~
II saw, passing gas light, couple Of
gentlemen-one Of whom, although had
not seen him for over sixteen years, almost
knew TO be the President. ] stepped along
side, and a glance informed me that was
not mistaken. The old mon totters. His
legs are weak. A half stamble drew some
remark from his eo@ponion which | did not
hear. His reply was: II am not right. My
health is not recovered" adding in sort
Of begging tone, "But am getting better"
His voice is weak and his legs are weaker.
He is going. depend upon it. A few more
weeks, and be will be no more. A vain
young orator from Kentucky will be tn.
acting and his friend, Stephen A. Douglas
The s;:a, .s:a, .irsiGent OF the United States"
The other portrait is from the Enquirer,
and reminds one very much Of the pictorial
contrast illuminating the powerful effect ol
certain nostrums-full, round faced, joyous
hilarious beauty insteod of the moping hypo'
cbondriac, lean in flesh, nprey to constant
and gnuwiag hSmors, and wearing away:
<'Conversing in full but rather gentle
! and delicate vSice, to at least forty persons
in the course Of two hours, without ex'
hibiting the slightest wearinesr; and only
withdrawing from The endless converse o.
friends and solicitors to engage Ia CabiWet
session of several hours, from which he vii
proceed to the other end of the Capitol "a
sit down TO table, loaded with the verJ
best meats from the Philadelphia markets
and with a few old friends proceed to dis
cuss the same, with the hesrtiness and zest
/ (not forgetting the invuriable pint or bal
pint of good English Dock Sherry3 ans
then after dinner, smoking his two regalius
and chatting and joking most pleasantly with
his friends until the hour prrives when hi
labors must be resumed, and the doors opel
to all who desire to enlighten, to amuse, Of
to torment him-making in all about twelv'
hours day which he gives to the dryest
dullest, most wearing exhaastiog and KILN,
business that any old gentlemen, in th'
neighborheod Of three score and ten, ha
had imposed on him. And this is the ol,
gentlemen, weighing fully two hundred ant
forty, with we'll developed corporation, erec
form. who isis going" and ofwAon, in fev
weeks. it will be necessnry to write th
obituary" 4.r s4rE as,s. eli. ...
Gould anything be more sniike than tines
two portEaitss and how much more agreeabt
to contemplate the latter, which is beyon
persdventnee much nearer she trae repre-
sentatioa of the venerable and hale old gen
tleman who Ellis the Highest office in th
world. inspiriag the affection and admiration
Of his friends, and commanding the respec
| Of his CppoRents .--Sgatessua. }-