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The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1857-12-17

WASHINGTON, Dec. 'll-Senatur Bigler,
IN order to correct pprehension, stated
the meeting, 10 which he alluded in his
speech of Wednesday, as having taken
place at the house OF Mr.. Douglas TO consult
on the Toombs Kansas Bill, was an official
rather than private meeting of the Com.
mittee ON Territories, and to which other
Senators had been inv ted. ....
The Democratic caucIs to-day agreed on
the Standing Commuters Senator Mason
of Virgihi !, is to continue as chairman o
Committee on Foreign Affairs; Douglas, oI
Illinois, chairman of Committee on Terri.
tories; Hunter, OF Virginia, chairman ot
Committee on Finances; Stuart, OF Mchi.
gan, chdirman of Committee on Public
Lends; Bayard, Of Delaware, Chairman oI
Committee on judiciary; Brown, of Misss
sippi, chairman oI Committee on District o.
Co!umbi5; YuIee, OF Fot Ida, chairman o
Cotnmittee on Post Offices. An effort wal
made to ele;t new offers Of the Senate, bu
the proposition wos postponed.
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The School Law,

There iS enc feature in the present school
Law which, In our judgment, requires amend
ment. By it's provisions the Board Of Edu.
cation In the Townships, is permitted to cx.
ersiss power and authority which may, and
does oitentimes, become absolutely oppres.
sire to the people. It 10 true, that where
the members of the Board are mca Of high
intelligence, integrity and prudence, their
sstion may beia all respects satisfactory
bot where fhese'q qualities ire wanting. their
ticisl acts may SAVIOR very much 'ef>dicta.
,lon and tyranny. A wise limitation ol
their powers In some particulars would be
productive Of beneficial results.
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The Next Legislature.

The next legislature will assemble on the
ant Monday in January. Its proceedings
will be looked to with intense intereet by
ths people. We hope the session will be a
short one, and that the members, when they
enter upon their duties, will occtPy the
time in hard work instead sf idle declAma.
lion. windy speeches and empty resolutions
Our statute book is twice as large 'as ].
ssghi to be, and if II were trimmed down,
corrected and revised by an in,elligeH, gen
sral assembly, to one.haf its present COM
pass. II would be blessing to the people,
We have Soiumes of-useless Legislation.
There are but one or two subjects where
new legislation is required. First and fore.
'm6bt among the acts which should be pas.
ssd, Is the Independent Treasury. ifa law
is framed SO as TO divorce heSttts Frtasu.
'ry from the banks, and secn.e asafs cepos.
81 fSr the 'pabI:cifsnds, similar to that by
which the moneys OF the general govern
msnt are received. kept, and dis bursed, it
Mill bs the most valuable winters work ey.
Or performed by ihe-gencral assembly, sinse
Ohio became an independent Stale. This
should be dons II there ia rothing else at.
tended TO-: ...
There 10 very much bad legislation which
sught to be repealed. Let our Senators
and Representatives NEE. at Columbus,
pass an Independent Treasury raw, repeal
soms Of the dissraee:ul cnactments already
upon the statute books, dmend few others
make the proper appropriations and adjourn
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Ayers Cathartic Pills.

EEfFE seEnFsf H Chemistry and Medicine have ten
Il taxed their utmost to pruuce this Lest perfect
purratiye which is known to man. InnunsraJle prools
H., 81, =, ,.osa III; % H., -. y;r,,.. which .,r,,.. In
are eno"" '''''' '','' ~ '' ', ~ ~ 80 y, r
excellence the ordinary ineuiheS ana 'hat cy WIN n
precedentedly upon the esteem of all men, They areAe
and easant to take but powerful TO cure. Their pene
ta,, sr;,nuate te vital actiy of the bdv
remove the ol.tructuns of fits or,ss ,ry the blood,
and avn. disease They nrpe ont 1idu,stsNttrh
breed AM, grow distenrcr, stimulate sluggish or ,scr.
Yy6,o N atifroT action Nn i,att healthy
nne with strength to the whole system. Not only DO
they cure the everyday complaints Of every hdy. Tut
also sorn's and dangerous: Diseases ,l~. ..,. .n,s
S ~ =, Htr ne ," same timc in iIshsd doses. n.
Sast and best plysic that can be- enplwed for children
B.i, surarcoated ey aro pleasant to take: aud being
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New YoRK, Dec l2.-The associated
banks Of the city OF New York unanimously
resolved last night to resume payment In
specie on obligations this day. Private in
formation from Boston to-day says that the
banks there are prepared to follow the move
ment.
President does not contemplate removing
any OF the federal officers Of the city, except
NJ McKeon, who incurred his displeasGre for
his course at the recent election.
Dispatches were yesterday received at the
War Department from Colonel Johnson, OF
the Utah Expedition, dated South Pass, Oct.
| l'lSth, conveying intelligence of the same
tenor as that received via ST. Louis. The
greatest exertion was being made to form a
junction of The different branches Of the ex-
| pedition, prior 10 going into winter quarters,
but seri6us delay was experienced BY the
i cold snow. t..
Colonel McGraw, Of the S1uth Pass Wa.
gon Road Expeai Ton has rendered number
of men and fifteen good teams, mules dhd
wagons, which have been accepted und. will
be Of great service in the emergency. Sew
eral of the supply trains were yet behind
with provisions aud clothing, Of which the
sdvance were greatly in need.
Colonel Johnson intends to form a%junc
ton with Colonel A lexander at The mo0th O
Funtenelle Creek, about thirty miles from
that officers present camp al Hams Fork
and not far from seventy miles from his owr
camp at South Pass. "-
He will winter at Henry's. Fork on Greer
River, where he hopes that Colonel Cooks
command, with whom is Governor Cum
! ming, will join him. Col. Johnson thinks
| his force bsrely adequate to the protection
OF supply trains, and predicts that the con
testwll be a prolracted one unless large re
inforcemtnls be sent him. He speaks 0
the impossibillly cf making retrogud,
movement.
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AGairs iSl WashingtOn.

For the past ten days ull eyes have been
turned to Washington. The city is said to
have been crowded with strangers, who were
on hand to see the organization and to par.
tic,pate in the gayeeies ahd "wtre pulling OF
the National Capitol. asa as
Judge Douglas appears to be the " lion at
Washington. Upon bis arrival last Friday
he wos welcomed by a salute of cannon, and
the blsziBg Of bon fires. In the evening he
was sefenaded al his magnificent residence,
which.was brilliantly illuminated. :
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y1dgc Douglas and the Rcpubli-
cans.

No man. since the rtsys Of J-ckson, has
received more bitter abuse than Hon. S;e-
phsn A. Douglas. During the debdte Upon
the Kansas and Nebraska b Ii in 1854, he
was denounced as q traitor to his country,
an enemy to liberty, and in short hidsous
monster who had startled the nation BY the
announcement OF q black and dangerous
principle. He Yves butit in efigy oil over
the North. All this was on account ot hfs
advocacy OF the principle Of self.govern.
nent--,he right OF the mujority'to rule
The right Of the people to control their own
domestic institutions. Now in the year
1857. hs rises In his place in the Senate
and declares his unfinching adhertnce to
the same great doctrine Of self.government
which As defended and embodied in the Ne.
brasks bill in 1854, and not only hundreds
but thousands Of the men who denounced
him before, rise up spontaneously "to call
him blessed" Those who slandeted, NOW
fawn upon him; those who denounced. now
praise him; those who burnt him in cffigy,
Aow build bonfres in honor of his achieve.
Dsnts.~. Seward. Hale and Sumner, once
his btttefsst opponents. now abandon their
former ground and voluntarily place them.
ssfveG beside the great champion of popu-
lar sovereignty. und acknowledge them
sslvss his foli0wes. Such is the homage
which the eminent mea Of tbs nation pay
to great principle.
This acknowledgment Of the justness Of
ths position Of Judge Douglas, on the par,
Of the Republican leaders, is so prompt and
sudden that the rank and fle OF that psr.y
can hsrdly understand it. Some OF them
ssem to believe that Douglas has gone over
to the Republicans, and begin to talk Of
supporting hin for the Presidency. The
truth ID, the Republicans have oil gone over
10 him. Douglas is jtst where he was In
1854. Hs stands upon the same platform.
He hes not moved hair from the direct
line Of the N. braska bill.
IN less than one year, there will not be
found man in the whole North opposed to
the doctrine Of popular sovereignty, snd
these who denounced il most bitterly will
b found amongst its warmes. supporters.
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7ERUBABLE SNOW, Mary A. Snow,
II Croton Hawkins, residents of Utah Territory;
AIonzo Canon, Della r. Canon, residents Of Cuyn-
hoga county, Ohio, Lewis Hawkins, Lynn Hawkins,
'und Liias Hawkins, will take notice that petition
was died aga hst them, on the 4th day OF December,
A. D., 1857, in the Court Of Common Pleas of Portage
county, ohio, by George n. Wheeler and Lucy K.
Wheeler, and Is now pending, wherein the said
George n. Wheeler and lucy X. Wheeler demands
partition Of the following real estate, situate in the
township of Streetsborough, Portage county. Ohi",
and known being parts of lots Nos II, l2, 81 and
81 in said township, and bounded follows: Begin
ming at stake placed in the centre Of the turnpike
road chains and 80 links south 81 degrees east from
the intersection Of the Anrora road with the turnpike
road; thence south 81 degrees east Is chains and s3
links 10 pos thence south 46 degrees west Chains
aud 50 links to n pos thence south 81 degrees east
chains to post ieuce 46 degrees west II chains aud
96 links to n post; thence south1 degree west %
chains and 96 links to rOs thencenor s9s degrees
degrees east I2 chains and 81 links tn post; thence
nerh 6g4 degrees vest 10 chains and 10 links tn pOst
thence notth degree east 10 chains and II links;
THENCE south G0a degrees east chains ami 81 links to
a post; thence north 3l4 degrees east chains to u
post. thsncc north4 degree west 81 ehains aud -
links to post; thence north 42t degrees east IS
chains to posl thence north 4l degrees east chains
to the place of beginning conta ng about lC2 acres
of laRd, lso, ccrtap ttheE piece af land s aie In
said township and county aforesaid, known as bling
parts of lot, Nos o. 81 and ~, bounded follows:
East by land decided to Ezra 8. Coble scath BY land
decided to James Butler; west by center OF linkers
creek and land lately owned by Jesse G. Hawkins;
north by land lately owned by slid Bawkins, ,anh
northweserly by land deUedl 10 TO Joseph Harrington
/ and julius kuston-cortaniug ,bout lCGl acres of
land, and that lt The neat term Of said court app-
cation will be made by the said George n. Wheeler
an Lucy K. Wheeler, or order that partition mas
be made in said premises: e., /, w :. u,,r
| Dncember II. 1857 -GWJ F. Plaintiffs itiNs.
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or Thomas 8. Simms had been sppointed
=, s. District Attorney for the District Of
New 0rissas--his predecessor Ras removed
on the ground 81 not using suffieisnt vigi-
lenes u preventing the escape OF Cener-.
- Walker.
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.. Legal. Notice. "a...
TosTAH GAYLORb. William + GAY

oA bOlOb' w u
u lord, Lewis King, Aunls King, Ashla G rane, Gym
thi, Crane aud Mary A. Gaylord will take notice that
petition was died against t!inm, on the 18th day Of
Bocchpbe A. D., 1857, IN the CouEt ut Common
Pleas Of Portage county, ohio, by Jssefh Preston
aud is "endlng wherein the sad Joseph Preston
demands htition Of the followiSg Pei estate stlpte
IN tha township Of Shalcrs lille, in tbe coIuty az P1l
,sc aforesaid, and is known as being parts Of lola
N"+. ~ and So IN said township, aud bounced fob
lows: Beginning at post oh the west side Of the
Satt r. ad loading from Rivcnna to Chardon on lot
No. 43, from whic yellow oak stamp two feet In
diame:er bears south "a dcgr1 east distant 20 links
u white oak stump two and u hrlf feet in diamet,r
bears lcrlh l6 degrees st dstat - links; thence
west II cha'ns aid 70 links TO u post from which II
yellow oah stump two leri III meter bears south Go
?2 links 10 a hisrway; thonce east along said high
Way 81 and 81 links The state road afnrc sajdi he
norhlsterly along said State road 10 ch ins and 50
links t. the place Of ginniGg-c"ntaining 64l
Of iqnd aud that at the next term "f said court app
eiticn EifFbe niadefy an order th,t partition may
Ge made in said premises.
. :, . Gina
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ADVERTISEMENT

5. To NER voUs SUFFERERs.--A retired cler
qymar, restored to health in few days, al
ter many years of great nerv Gus suffering
is anxious TO make known the means Of
cure. Will send (free1 the prescription
used. Direct the Rev. John N. DAeNALL,
No. 1876 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
November -, 1857 -3m-PSYA.
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WAsHGycToN, Dec. lit is stated in
col tidentia circles that the Democratic del
rgatidn from Indian, hive had long inter-
view with President Buchanan, in the course
of which they said that on lu' consultation
they could not support the Lecompton Com
stiution after the expose o. Mr.. Dougas
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GTTbe Lancaster Gessits says that Ed.
ward Fox wss frozen to deaih d few miles
from that city on the night Of the 26,h ult.
Hewas seventy years old, and 10 supposed
that whitkey had something to do with it.
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specie Payment Rcsun.cd.

Ths Albany and New Hsve7 banks have
resumed specie payment. All ths New En-.
gland banks, except one or two III Rhode
Island. huve come to similar resolution,
end will commence to pay gold and silver in
few days. This is an excellent idea.
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9TThe new wing Of the Capitol OF
Wsshingtos. which has bsen constructed
for the bsneit Of The House Of Representa-
tires, was ready to be occupied last Wednes.
Day.
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..-. ,STRAW DER SsyHART,
December n. ISJ7z5w3 PI intif's Attts.
PROSPECTUS FOR THE SESSION

l. STATESMAN. In the existing situation of our
State Affairs, the 'pioccedrss Of the next GeAerni
Assembly Will be regarded by The Ople with Unusual
int. rest. An unsettled and depreeiatcd currency
and deraDged and dlsor2Grcd finances, may yet do
mand that holiness Of treatment, to be expected,
wien necessary, only from q dominant Democracy.-
Tho measures OF the majority In the ensuing Icgsla-
ture will perhaps be lew and simple; tul that they
will be marked'gy such ygor and effect us tho con-
tnuancs of the prcsvn. trsis would demand, forI
assured. 1ha. their action, however whoicsope will
eneounteri the indiscrlminatsS aud predetermined
censnro Of a partisan opposition, We have been APP
prset in .d,ance; and It will bclpove Democrats,
In order their yiidicatioi TO spread tire re.
cord of their transactions before .he people. -
In any event, us at ail times, it viii be Of great
sstauce to the Legislature ITSELF in tho discharge Of
its responsibilities, aud equally source of satisac-
tOn and safety to the people, that the daily action
the body should have concurrent and extensive
publicity. II vai
Statesman Will carefully eMbody, d"rng the session.
succinct but reab c reports Without umbaring the
paper with minute parliamentary details, We shall
present the spirit and substance OF the say and
iigs of members, Upon every leading and Important
measure. Ne. e.a .sa.. ,ga.F sE,
The Statesman will be the only Dcniecratic paper
In Ohio which will csntoin regular reports We s6n
publish the session paper al such terms as will enable
every Sitsen TO- noFm himself oithe action Of Sena-
tors and Representatives. WITHOUT missing the snb.
sOn e viii he
gree, upon proper knowledge b. the pc ople OF tho
conduct Of the Democratic majority in the Ecgslat
ture. Our reports viii c0nSl.thte eHch history us
WIN frnish this Knowledge, andthe session States
man shou haYe very wide circulation, 81 that no
Democratic voter need be ignorant Of the important
events ,f the session. .g -. i.
The Kansas and other territorial questions, the
probable admis ssion into the Uniou of three 'hew
States, and the organization of three new territorial
governments. togeth with tho deliberations "f Con-
gress upon the disastrous financial crisis will lond
peculiar interest to the action of that body. The
regular daily publication OF th, telegraphic abstract
of Con as well as such other
current history of National Politics as we shall col
tcct from the best sources, will give special value
tho paper. aud make additional attraction to our
sion p irons.
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III Payment n. aRteasss in fadSaats. p. @
Post Masters Members Of the Legislature, Editors,
and the friends Of the Statesman generally, are re-
quested to act as Agents 10 procuring sqbssSbsrs:
1t Is very desirable that the lists be forwarded ear
ly, n order enable to prepare maeern!s forthe
additional issue. A.....,,,. -, y
Write the nalics Of Subscribers and Post ohlees.
plainly. .,F a ss.. ADDRESS, .,sa,.,...,
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During the last fiscal year, 1885 Offices
were established, 7o4 discontinued, being a
net increase Of 1901. Number of postmas.
,ers appointed during the yeur, s. $50, Of which
+,767 were to fill vOcanies, occssioned by
resignation 1881 by removal; 638 by death;
269 by change Of names and sites, and l,725
by the establishment Of new cflces. Total
number Of Offices at this time, 27,l4s; oi
which ss8 are subject to appointment by the
President. .,.
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AYERS
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PECTORAL,
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Colds, Coughs, md
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not do 10 tsunt him with once voting for o.
measure he Would not vote for now.
After further. debate the matter was p post.
poned, and the Se1Ets adjourned.
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Report OF the Post Master GcHeiaI.

We have received an advance copy of the
annual Report of the Post Master Geneaal,
which was laid before Congress yesterday.
The total number of post Offices created from
1897 to 1s47 was but Sl46. The number
established In half that time, from fsI7 to
1857, was ll,444. The total number oi
post offices in the United States at different
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Legal Notice.

T ANCASTER'S Kid Glove Cleaner-for
Ia sale at the RAvEENA BOOK STORE.
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Tn. message o. President Bud hsisn b
an able sOeuaslt. The lsaypissis plain,
simple and expressive. The subissts .rea.
cd are Of the ersvest importance, and the
manner in which they are discussed is calm
clear and statesman.like. To attempt any
thing like a review Of the message would
exceed the limits of the present article
We propose. however, to glance at some Ol
the leading features, and leave others to
discussion hereafter.
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D
and Nebraska at; and they seem to glory
In the idea tina, there is wide split between
Judge Douglas and the President. None Of
these representations are true. There is no
tsplit between Judge Douslus sLd Mr. Buch.
ansn. There is no difference in principle
between them. Tho latter of these gentle.
men may possibly hold tl,a, as the question
or slavery is the only one about Which there
|'is any discussion or difference, either in or
obt Of Kansas, it is beet to admit the state
/ as soon as this question is satisfactory set.
tied, in order to secure public peace and
tranquility, but he is firm in the belief, that
ell domestic Questions, that is, the wto!e
Constitution should be submitted to a vote of
the people. The following passage from
his messOge will set this matter at rest for
ever. We call particular attention TO the
/ Presidents language:
"The Convention proceeled to fnme a
j Constitution for Kansas, and finally adjourn
4 ed on the 7th day OF November. But little
difficulty occurred in the Convention except
| on the subject Of slavery. Thetr is that
4 the general provisions of our, recent Etate
Constitutions are 50 similar--and, may add,
90 excellent---that the difference between
them il not essential. Under the earlier
1 practice OF the government, no Consultation
/ framed by the Convention Of Territory,
preparatory TO its admission Into the Union
as State, had been submitted 10 the people.
/ I trust, hopsusr. Ae era1apk SCI BIZ DE Iast
CosSress, rsqsirfHy natMe Coastitafioa Of
Ifinaescfa "shoad Be subject 10 the dpprorai