The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-05-04


Mr.. 81 kles' counsel were TO night compIi
men,ed br serenade
A large crowd oatI cred hef,re the Nation.
al Ho FL. when Messrs Stanton Brady, Ma
gruder, ane Chiffon hrifY re'u'ned ihanks. fr
"a NEWS OF THE wEEK.
A note from Paris, dated April a, states
that Senator Sumner has lefr Montpelier for
Rome. He was. at last accounts, in a very
bad condition of health. Fl
Elk President Pierce. and his wife are in
Rome. and expect to remain some weeks there.
Mrs Pierce's heeltb is decidedly better than
when she left America.
The New York Times mentions "a the
cause of the retirement of Sherman NJ. Booth
from the editorshin Of the Milwaukee (Wiscon-
sinsin) Free Democrat. that he had heen in
dicted for the seduction of girl # fourteen.
an inmate of his family. He was man of re-
puted talent and prpmise-hu' alas! what a
mise rahle fool if the story he 'rne. His in
finence il forever gone in that State. What
would he not give to expunge that page from
memorvi ~ 1
Conflicting reports come from the Kansas
gold mines One returning miner reports
that large Numbers are returning. and that
half of these there are .liscontented. and Uanld
come back if fhev had any way of caming--
A German saws that the mines are rich erd
tha, III can he foun in anv place an'iiin quan
titles sufficIent TO pay a man with merely
| pick and pan, from two dollars TO Ave dollars
per dav steadily with the prospect of striking
rich leads' from which fifteen to twenty dol
lars per dav have heen taken. He SAYS that
verv few are dissatisfied. except those whe
, are too indnleni to work.
Yellow Fever has appeared in the New
York quarantine; it was imported direct on
Rio. . -ssa-f aa .Es
Mr. Abrams of Heprico Virginia, has an
nounced himself as candidate for Congress
on the platform of characterization in Virginia
The Ohio canals are 10 he leased at public
auction. oa the steps of The State House, or
the l5th- of August next, to the highest bid
tCE, ib' N 'C sst ~ IL Z .NEn'Ss tif--
Bill has .heen introduced into the House
of Assent " of Canada fer the protection Of
spendthrifs and he custody and disposal o.
their real and personal property 55
A aoman. at n certain village in Eng land
went for arsenic with which to OF on her bus
band, hui the apothecary gave her soda. and
informed the husband The latter took the
poison and pretended TO sicken and die, and
when she supposed him fairly dead the wife
put a rope about hi< neck aud undertook to
make it appear that he had hung himself
He could not 81 and thai. ard came 10 and used
The rope 10 give her right good hiding r
The oyster business has suffered terribly in
France Ont of twenty three oyster banks
on The coast of Rochelle. eighteen have been
ruined. and the rest much injured by an insa
sion of muscles. And it is very much with
all the banks along the Atlantic and Mediler.
ranean coasts. &, x I,
The widow of Christopher Holly, q free wo
man of color, died in Mississippi recently -
She died owning thousand acres of good land
ed as d gentleman Fl lily and his wife were
as black as any of their slaves, and always
conducted themselves well. 5ate..- aa+-s >
The New Orlraus True Delta. discussing
States, and the disposition in Louisiana to
initiate it. in regard to free negroes, says:
There is large native, resident population
correct in their general department. honorable
in their intercourse with society. ard free from
| reproach so far ns the laws are concerned, moi
surpassed in the inof1ensiveness of their lives
| by any equal number of persons in any place
\ orth or Snn.h. teaab Hsa r7a.
We published few days since. saws the N
Y. Times, a telegraphic dispatch announcing
the burning of honse at Lee. Me. with al
| the inmates bu, one who made his escape
! through the eindow. Subsequent circam
stances induced the belief that this one who
escaped was guilty OF the murder and robbe
ry of the four persons who peri.hed and that
he SET fire 10 the house TO conceal his tprfibie
crime. The clothes witch he wore we're fnnnr
to be bloody. and he had in hls possession q
sun of money which was known to have he
longed to his brothers. He vas arrested IL
New Brunswick while attempting &c. make hi'
escape .gaii la fseai1asi r 7:gR :
| The Charleston rs. G. J. Mercury says o
the mex Presidential Convention. 'nnless- il
is limited exclusively to Delegates from the
South, it will be 90 Convention of the Demo
cratic party , 55 a7a1s = 7-z '-ia.s' =