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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1859-04-22

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This statement shows the gross appro-
priations made at the session Of 1878;
and includes not only those designed for
the service Of the year l8j8-0 but also
certain Deficiencies then existing, and
which were paid out Of the treasury be.
tween the passage Of the deficiency bills
and the beginning Of the fiscal year
1889 on the lst July, 1858. The
statement embraces two deficiency bills.
One Of these appropriated S34l ,ls0 for
printing, which was paid Immediately
after the passage Of the bill, and is in
cluded in the scycnty-onc millions of dol
lars we have shown to have been actually
The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-05-11
The Rescue Trials at Cleveland.

The case of Laugston is not yet decided
Four of the prisoners, namely, Vaudeville
R. Cummings, H. D. Miles and D. Williams
have plead Guilty, or, which is the same, tht )
entered the plea of noiie contenderessfun~il
ling to contend.) and have each been sentenced
to imprisonment for twenty four hours, ane
fined twenty dollars and costs.
The Leader hears it stated that U. s. Mar
shal johnson has exhibited letter from AT
torney General Black, iustrucring him 10 resis
to the uttermosi the service of any writ o
habeas corpus which may be issued by ou
State Court. 81 zfa @
Our gingerly Supreme Court, out of "comi
ty to the q. 8 Court, would not issue a wri
of habeas cor pus.while the cases were perd
ing and this letter of instruction to th
Marshal is the reciprocal comfy of the Unitet
States Every day sdevelopments brings th
position of our Supreme Court into create
contempt. i'i u -
The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-05-11
Mr Pren.iss Witharsvs

By the following note, il will be Observed
that G. PRESTi S, Esq, who has been so gen.
orally, spoutan. ousiy. and favorably spoken of
in connection with the candidacy for State
Treasurer declines entering the list of cand.-
dates for nominate on, his large ans. extensive
privste business absorbing so much of bis time,
that in the event ct nomination aud election
10 State Office, his relinquishment of his own
business and necessary residence ID Columbus
would cause sacrifice which he feels he would
not be justified in making His refusal ol
the use of bis name will be received with re-
gret by numerous friends, who know his adni
rabe fitness for tie duties of the Office, and BIZ
stern. oubendipg integrity
In ardent devotion to the cause OF Republi
can freedom, MIR. PRRNTI<s has no superior
For long years he has been faithful hoer"
and intelligent CO. worker in the cause OF hber
al, humaniziDg free principles, against th'
proscriptiye aud destructive dogmas OF tn
Slave Democracy, aud many who have Know
him longest and best desire, in some way, t.
bring his large experience. his intelligent az
probation of the genius of our free institution
and his unbending. iucorruptible integrit
Into he public service-and it is to be hope
that bis services may be secured in plbil'
official position. whose duties would not o
incompatible with due attention to his privai
interests 5s5la l
Last week Mr. PRENTIss addressed to us tf
following note: ssH 9toa -
E To the Editors of the Portage County Democrat:
GENTLEMEN:-I have noticed that you, vii
others. have used my name in connection vii
the State TreasuIership, and presumiug th'
it is the intention of my friends to present
, to the coming Republican State Gon7entlo
ii seems proper for me to communicate n
views on the subject.
feel duly Sensible of the honor conterre
). upon me BY my friends in presenting my nan
for so honorable and responsible an Office, al
| would cheerfully comply with their reque
could do so consistently with due rega
to my private business; but careful reyis
r of the whole matter, has induced me to decli
y having my name go into the Convention as
Is candidate for the Office named. :, i4
5.Fr G. PRENFISS.
e RAyEssA May 5. 1859, 5..,--
The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-05-11
FOREIGN NEWS.

The Royal Mail Steamship Niagara has
arrived with Liverpool dates to April 23d. !
Political news is alarming.
Austria has sent an ultimatum to Sardinia
demanding her dsarmment and the disposal
of her volunteer troops Three days were
given her in which to reply, and if she refused
war would be declared.
Eighty thousand more Aust ians were or,
dered to the Ticino.
Austria had rejected Euglands final propo'
sition.
French troops were moving towards Pied
mont.
There was panic on the Paris Bourse.
The English government had telegraphcd to
Vienna strong p' otest against Austria's me
mace to Sardinia and it was rel ored that Aus
tria replied refusing to reconsider her determi
nation aud that she had already prepared a
manifesto to accompany declaration of war
10000 more Austrian troops had been or
dered TO the banks of Tlcino.
The French troops were in process OF rapid
concentration on the frontiers of Piedmont
|
aud al Toulon. tl
The final proposition, made by England to
Austria was for disarmament by means o1
commissioners, inc ud,ng Sardinia and for the
admission of the Italian States to the peace
Congress as at Loyback. To this proposal
the powers gave assent except Austria, who
reiecled it. The occurrence of the English
holidays prevented the full development of the
effect of this news.
The French funds tell three per cent and
there was general panic in the Bourse. 81
In the Liverpool market Breadstuffs were
steady, with an advancing tendency.
i In London Wheat was firm at an advance
of Is. The London Money market was IN
changed. ,-.a .s..-.5
Bnllion in the Bank of England had de
creased g345 900.
The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-05-11
The Imbecile o, 5. pistr, Ct Attorney.

District Attorney BEIDEN acknowledged
his incompetency to- discharge the duties o
his official position by employing oil SwAyNF
Of Columbus to argue the habras corpus
question before the Supreme Court of Ohio
That was too deep water for the small minded
District Attorney. But in the matter Of
hurling dirt and slang at the 'Oberlin saints,
he needs no assistance. In that department
he stands as the first red letter in the Calei
dar. .js la afgairf eiasl1
The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-05-11
An Established Precedent.

It will be remembered that Margaret Gar
ner, a slave mother escaped from Kentucky
to Cincinnati with her chiidren-that she was
pursued, discovered and arrested under a
warrant from o. s. Commissioners under the
Fugitive Slave Law-that in her desperation
she undertook to kill her children to prevent
their being carried hack 10 slavery-that one
Of them she did succeed in killing-that sht,
was arrested uuder our State laws, for murder
that while the case was pending U S.
Judge issued writ of habsds corpus, upon
which she vas taken from the custody of the
State ofi"ials, and delivered into the hands ol
q. s. officers, by whom she was returned to
slavery. sT
Here is a precedent, established by a u
s. Court, which our Supreme Court mighl
have followed in the OberliD rescue eases, and
issued their writ of habeds corpus, had they
so chosen.
Our Court decided that the application for
the writ of habeGs corpus was premature, be
cause the rescue trials were still pending.
Judge bpaVlCt,d d y. . ouoSe' ueciueu III 'hs
case of Margaret Garner that her case, though
pending, under a charge for murder, inter
posed no obstacle to the issuing of a writ o
habeds corpus.
But our Judges have too much reverence
for pr found order to follow such a precedent
even into the very Court which estabi shed it
They fear couflict between State and Ma
,ional auhori,ies-and in The spirit of coward
ly timidity, AS we must believe. refused to in
terpose any shield for the protection of ou
citizens.
The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-05-11
Tieut Govsrnor.

The name OF the Hon. WILLIAM SLADE, OF
Cleveland. has been added to the list of CAN
didates for nomination for Lieut. Co ernor
We wish rot to say one word 10 dispar-
agement of that excellent gentleman, and yet
we must in candor say, that his present nomi-
nation for that Office does not appear to US, TO
be one fit to he made;'
If the Hon. WILLIAM DENsIeox. or a gen
tleman of like anteceden,s should be nominat-
ed for Governor it must strike every reasona
ble prudent man. that not oply the fixtures
of things but an absolute political necessity
will require candidate for Lieut. Governor
of oiner antecedenss than those of Mr.. SLADE
say, freedom-loving, Democratic antecedents
Mr. DRNNIsoN is our choice. ana so far al
we know and believe, the choice of the BE
publicans of this County for Governor. A.
representative Inan of certain ancient pref
erenees, aud as man true to the principle
of the Republican platform, and with abilit!
to sustain them, it is iuently proper. tina
Mr.. DRHkIsoN should be our candidate, and
is proper, that the second officer in the Stat
Government should he a representative ma
of other former preferences, while equally dc
voted to Ihe Republican side Of the issues Q
the present day.
There may be, there probably are othe
reasons; @e thiuk we could name several, wh
Mr.. SLADE should not be nominated, but
the above stated objection should be, an
probably will be decisive. it is unnecessary
enlarge
i, is indispensable that our State ticket
not oHIy distributed throughout The State br
that it, also, be we'll arranged in regard to otl
or imnorfaut considerations
The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-05-11
Out on Bail.

Three of the Wellington rescners have given
bail for each other 10 the sum of $500 each al
the United States Court and thus let them
selves ou. of jail. They are Lorin Wadsworih
Daniel Williams and Eli Boice.-Cferetano
Leader, .fpril 20. ~ s57e
This is wise, and the remaining prisoner:
should do the same, if they can have permis
sion. Our careful. cautious Supreme Court
not only refuse relief, but obstinately refra'r
from the intimation of any opinion unfavora
BILE, to an infamous. tyrannical. aud clearlI
UNI 0NS1iII Ut ONAL law, by which III
free cit zens of Ohio are deprived of their per
sohal liberty, for the heinous crime If ODE, ins
the best impulses of The human heart.
Let the Fugitive Slave Law take its course
II is foolish for citizens to resist single haded
as did those of Lorain, for, as things notD are,
they are sure to be crushed. Rely no longer
upon aspiring easeeiosing, judicial officials
NotatilI men can rely upon themselves, il
combined force sufficient to be effective fo
their own proteciop, should efforts at esstanct
be made. s r=s.l a 5na
Let no man reckIessIy throw away bis lif
or liberty. When the conviction become
fastened universally upon the minds of the
people, that he ballot box has failed as
remedy, anotheriremedy llhe sure 10 be ap
piled. What that remedy will be, time vii
develop. =. r58 .sr,.
A torcible writer has said,. Revolution i
the Genius of the world 7 a eaaa FH
The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-05-11
NEW YORK CATTLE MARKET.
REMARKS. :

The market opened most nauspiously for owners and
brokers' there being large supply hand, with but
few butchers, and poor prospect of realizing sasae
tory prices. There but moderate demand at the
opening, and but few buyers in market, many OF them
being kept back by the ain which fell in copious show
during the greater part of the forenoon. The oe
inss of good quality, and prices
declined the first qualities fully half cent po md
while there average decline of not far from
cent There several droyes of very ne Cattle for
which brokers' made extra exertous to obtain l2c per
pound but compelled TO accept the ll35c, which
was about the highest price paid The range being from
to lkc and the average price about loo. There
sold at Bergen Hill Monday, only about $50 head at
from to l1lc
Cows and calves dull but unchanged.
Veal Calves yey plenty, and very dpu at last
weeks quotations.
Sheep lambs in moderate request, and the
rage prices what lower, though the range
about last week. with but few sales at the
outside prices.
Swine dull at previous prices
The total receipts of all stocks at all tie yards for the
week and last week were rs follows:
The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-05-11
THE wooL TRADE.

| IdE WOOI fThADE.f
NEw YORK, April Sc,
The market this week has been rather more active
and have note sales of $50 bales nne Mestza AZ c
SIS do Buenos Ayres washed 500 do East India low
TO medium quality; 500 bales California embracing
Ali ner shin Peruvian, terms not made public Do
mestic moves slowly the sales include $1,000 HIS Fleece
At 4s6a60 cents nisium grade TO sakony RULED Is
freeiy offered price current previous 60 the auction
ai m 0o0 hs superior and extra and some lots No.
brought 3s@ss: ,,,.,,r, .A.r,. rs...
d, sar demand. with sales the past week of l25oO0
,S ,nnstly puled, at prices in the range Of quoted
IT,. Incuded In sales about $4,000 lbs extra
n,sd At Soc and fine fleece at soc, for the New
York market. There Is very little Fleece Wool In the
msrker and 1t is in consequence held firm IL foreign the
alas comprise lss bales Mediterranean ard South Amer
can and ballots Peruvian al prices in the range Of
quoted rates. -
RAvENNA-Look to our Price Current this week
A Important changes in the prices of some commodities
have been made. Business somewhat Inactive, the
beautiful and favorable weather employing almost every
body at home But when the Spring business lu!s,
look for numerous visitors village and extensive
examinations of the large and beautiful stocks of
chandse, now exhibition and which have been pur-
chased at unusually great advantage the benefit OF
which will inure 10 customers.
The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-05-11
s..e For the ROrese County Democrat.

q One Day with the heScuerE
Before | visited the glorious band of devo.
ted patriots and true heroes in the Cleveland
jail, thought to look in upon that remdrse-
less engine of despotism. the United States
Court for the Northern District Of Ohio. II
was in full blast when entered. endeavoring
to crush the free spirit of the men of the
Western Reserve. Hiram V. Wilson the
Judge is large, fat, gray headed man between
fifty FIVE and sixty years old. He may have
as man, heart and human sympathy, but
as an instrument in the hands of the Slave pow
er he ignores both. However he does not seem
to enjoy with the keenest zest the outrageous
part he is playing in these trials. He presides
with dignity, and at times with soaie show Of
fairness Mathew johnson very genial
gentleman is Marshal. He has great deal
of scaveDger work to do in order to retain
his place. aud he performs it, as he would any
other dirty job. His place and not his heart
compels him to pack jurors of men who i'll
surely do the behests Of the slave power -
George w Belden is the District Attorney.
He is a man Of small intellect; be is between
forty five and fifty years OF aga. Unlike Jobu.
son, he glortes 10 his own infamy a tyrant,
by nature, he has now large field for the ex
hibition of his inherent viciousness. He has
the Slang OF the pert bar-room orator, but
lacks that gen.tiennns refinement He likes
the thing just as it is, but wond like it far bel
ter if with his ready Judge, 'obedient Marshal,
perjured witnesses and packed jury be could
send the Rescuers to the stake instead OF the
prison.. But of these men enough. Posteri
ty will so loath their acts, as to mention the m
only as we do Jeffries, with utter abhoreuc-.
A short distance from the Court House lands
The cleveland Jail. To that repaired. The
The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-05-11
Judge spalding Candidate for the Supreme
Rennh.

We observe that the Hon. RUFUs P.
SPALDrHe, of Cleveland, is much talked of as
the Republican candidate for Supreme Judge
If mind we'll cultivated if varied learning. if
a profound understanding of legal principles.
if ripened judgment and experience, if sincere
homage for the greatrights of men, if a burn
ing love for liberty and well tempered zeal
for the application of its great principles and
fea less and judicious proclamation of such
principles in all his positions Of activity tit Q
man. at this conjuncture of the times, for u
seat upon he Supreme Bench of Ohio. then is
Judge SPALDIsG emineutly fit for, and deserv
ing of that position.
In his former Judicial career be adorned
the Bench, and would again be its brightest
ornament. 7a 5s77 aafs
Let the liberty-loving citizens of N1rthern
Ohio see to it, say we. that this profound law
lawyer, and fearless and able advocate of man'>
dearest and most sacred rights, has his name
duly presented to the nominating convention
in which case all portions of the State will dc
themselves honor, we doubt not by hearty
and favorable response
The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-05-11

g.ess, dsmpen the ardor. dash the spirits. aud
destroy The hopes of treemen.
Aud such are the results, the out workings
of Reprblican struggles, Republican sacrifices
ard RepabIicsn victories
Hsv3ong shall it continue to be thus
Let the people answer. er.---..-
The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-05-11
The Conservative Spirit Of fossilized fogyisul-
What will come Of 1t.

The Conservative Spirit Of fossilized fogyism-l
What Will come Of it.
The conservative spirit of the present day.
would have produced (had it then prevailei.)
a larger crop of tories than existed 10 thel
American Revolu' ion--and the sway Of the
British Government would not have been
thrown from the Colonies
We are approaching the conclusion, that
the peaceful Influence of the ballot box viii
never restore our Government to the princi-
piles of freedom, Justice and equality on which
it was founded, and from which it has so far de-
parted by the infusion of the tyrant power Of
the South, aided by the miserable, corrupt
dough faces of the North. and The scarcely
less crimiGal conservative HD,idifies, whose
awful reverence for hoary crime. fortified by
usage, and established precedents would
be amusing, if the spectacle we're not too sad
to admit of Ievity.
Important, radical revolutions are not ordi
narily effected without more or less civil com
motion. In vain may the pages of history be
searched from our own Re volution backwards
| or forwards, for radical revolution in gov
ernmental IDEAS usages and principles, which
has been bloodless or devoid of warlike dem
onstratious-and we are not of the opinion
that the world is yet SO good, SO pure. so e!e
waited in civilization, so wed to justice and to
right. as to be prepared for miiIennial glory,
We advise all the citizens of Ohio, oui
of jail. not needlessly to throw themselves
away on point of punciilously conceived du
i ty, in the hope or expectaiation that high
/ officials, elevated by their votes in the august
name of God and Liberty will interpose
in their behalf.
| A vaunied good citizen, may disregard al
obnoxious or wicked law, and in q law abb
ing spirit may rot in JAIL but that is kline
of martyr like passisity. which neither Got
nor grace requires, and which will neither ad
vance the cause of right, nor elevate mankind
We ask the reader to burnish up his histor
ic recollections, and tell US, from the days o
Magma Charta, when the fierce, eager, resolul,
and unyielding old Barops forced from d re
luctant monarch important concessions to lib.
erty, down to the bloody strife on the plains o
Kansas where freemen have triumphed, wha
important advantage has been gained for free
! dom, what enlarged enjoyment of inaIienab'
rights has been secured without direct ant
positive force either in attack or defence.
/ Let no cheek pale then. at the prospect. il
! the not distant future of revolution no
bioodless!, The time has not yet come, bu
the dough faced servility, and couservativ,
timidity, and corrupt, cringing sycophancy o
! the times, are fast Fastening the day. Lettht
day come. and God speed the right.
/ RESISTANCE TO TYRANTs Is OBEDIENCE tt
j GoDi
The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-05-11
Ravenna Republican Township Meet.
'Sos O441S
ing.


VTNhe Repuhlicans of Ravenna requested to meet
at the. Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, Court
Housed Saturday evening May 18th inst, at
O'clock sppoint three Delegates to the County Con-
yention. be held in Ravenna, on Saturday, May
2Ist inst. appoint five Delegates to the State Con
yentiou, to be held in Columbus June I'd, 1859. A
full attendance of the Republicans o. the Township
earnestly solicited j. 8. HERRiCk, Up. Com.
10th 1859.
The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-05-11
Political n Offices.
Republican County Delegate Csnyen-

h6pUUuCdN OUUHIy U6I0SdIU VVHH6H.
ton.
The Republicans of Portage County requested to
meet in their pective Townships
On Saturday. the l4th Of May.
to elect delegates tend the Republican County Dele
gate Convention, to be held in Ravenna
On Saturday. the 21st day Of May
to select Five Delegates represent the County of Por
tage at the Republican State Convention, be held
Columbus on Thursday, the I'd Of june
Each Township will be entitled to three delegates to
the County Convention. full attendance is requested
By order of Republican County Cent. Com.
D. L. ROCKWELL, Chairman.
HALsEY R. W. Hall, Sec'y.
Ravenna, May Z. 1859
The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-05-11
oFrIcIAL PAPER or THE COUNTY

TElS ,baying tte LARGEST Clk
CULATEnE of any Paper rnhfisbed IN
the County of Portage. renders IL q nost
advanfag e0us and desirable medium
for AdvertisiDR. Business Men Will
take notice.
The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-05-11

The steamship Anglo Sa1on has arrived with Liver
pool dates April 9th. The crisis in European aE
fairs continues but yet there has been decara-
ton of Austrian and French troops moving
and immense warke preparations going forward In Lis
erpool Breadstuffs tending upwards, In London
the money market slightly stringent. There was
a rumor that Frsnce ard Russia had entered into an
alliance offensive and def nsive
The steamship ddelaide has arrived from Galloway
with dates April 5oth Hostilities bad almost CON-
l28 600 Austrian troops had crossed the Tic
ino. The French troops were pouring into Piedmont
Tuscany had Joined France and Piedmont. The Kinl
Of Sardinia had issued defiant proclamation agans
Austria, and had gone join the army at AIsssandrs
England