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The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-04-18
Democratic State Convention.
Rooms OF THE Dem. STATE Cen Com. i
COLUMBUS, April 6, 1860

Rooms OF THE Dem. STATE Cen Com, J
COLUMBUS, April 6, 1860
To the Democratic Voters ofthe State of Ohio
You are hereby notified that the Demo.
cratic State Central Committee has designa.
ted THURSDAY, THE OATH DAv OF MAY NEXT
as the time for holding the next Democratic
State Convention, at the City OF Columbus,
for the purpose of nominating candidate fol
each OF the following Offices, viz:
Judge of The Supreme Court
Attorney General of the State of Ohio;
Member of the Board of Public Works
Also Ticket of Electors of President ana
Vice President.
The Democratic voters of the severa
counties within this State are respectfully
requested to proceed to appoint Delegates to
represent them in said convention, on thu
following basis, one Delegate for every fv'
hundred votes cast for Judge RANNEY fo
Governor in October, 1859, and for every
fraction of two hundred and fifty votes ant
over, one additional Delegate.
By order of the Committee.
GEO. w. MANYPENNY, Chm.
| A, MCGREGoR, Sec'V.
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The Election fund Of 1856.

The Covode Investigating Committee are
likely to find out much more th3n Mr.. Covode
expected when he started out. Mr.. Wins.
low, it is said, is about TO apply for sub
poenas directed to Horace Greeley, Thurow
Weed, and other Republican uotabities >,
for the purpose OF examining them as to the
amount and final disposition Of the Repubi.
can contributions in aid OF their cause at the
Pennsylvania election Of 1856. The political
effect OF Mr.. CoVode's movements thus far,
has been greatly damaging to the Repubi-
can party. In Pennsylvania whare John
Covode is known, it is regarded as ,aD ex.
cellent joke to put him upon q Committee
of political vice and immortality. His prac.
tices as politician, probably recommend
him to his party as suitable man for their
purposes, on the principle Of "set thief to
wotch thief"
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More Revelations In Regard to
the John Brown Raid.

The New York Herald contains an addi.
tonal series of revelations in regard to the
John Brown conspiracy. A correspondence
is given purporting to having taken place
between Gov. Robinson, Redpath, and 9th
ers, relating to affairs in Kansas and the
John Brown raid, which contains some Curl
Gus developments. The correspondence
duplicates the leaders Of the Republican
party in the Brown conspiracy, and shows
that the events 10 Kansas were but prelimi'
nary to the raid at Harper's Ferry, both be-
ing parts Of the same scheme of revolution
concocted and organized four years ago.
When Robinson was examined by the Sem
ate Investigating Committee, he asserted
that John Brown and Redpath were the only
leaders in Kansas who avowed revolutionary
designs, and that the Free State party haC
no connection with them, and would no
obey them. 1t appears from this correspond
ence that Robinson himself was one OF the
most ultra revolutionary leaders, outstripping
in atrocity even John Brown himself. No
only did he endorse him by certificates anC
an address "to the settlers of Kansas" bu
he "CoIdly proposed to him to assassinate al
the leading officeholders in Kansas" L
further appears that Robinson sought tc
bring all the Northern States into the ciVi
war which was about being inaugurated ir
Kansas, and that he proceeded thence tc
the East for that purpose. The following
is an extract from the letter of Redpath tc
Phillips -
"You, perhaps, remember, just before the
(sack of Lawrence by the border ruffiane
that Robinson started Est. l, for one
could not understand why he should want t
: leave at such time, and urged him strenu
n ously to stay; and when pressed for rea
v son as to his departure, he told me that h
saw the whole country was going to be in
volved in civil wor, and that that he was &C
: ing to the Free States to rouse the Cover
!, ORE and the people of hem to arms, go thu
Il when the army came on US another couI
= strike our enemies elsewhere, if necessary
I at Washington.
Every day brings out new facts, whic
more and more fully convince the countr
!, Of the completely of the leaders of the r
e publican party with the desperate attempt
: John Brown to create a servile war.
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Democratic Victory i'm Albany.

When ohm Brown and his fellow crmi.
nails were executed, the event was rejoiced
over, here in Albany, by the firing of cannon
by an officer holding place under the State
Administration. Yesterday the people OF
this city had the first opportunity OF pronoun-
cling their verdict through the ballot box and
rebuking treason to the Union and the Con.
stitution.
The result is glorious triumph of patriot.
ism, more glorious and emphatic than we
had dared TO hope. The Republicans, in the
person of John Taylor, had candidate for
Mayor of personal respectsbIity. But he is
defeated by George H. Thacher, the Demo-
cratic nominee, by 500 or 600 majority.
The Democrats also elect Charles L
Austin, for Recorder, and their whole City
ticket.
Ofthe Aldermen, the Democrats carry the
lst, Cd, 81, 9th, 9th, 9Th and 9Th wards, sew
en- out of ten. This gives them decided
majority in the Common Council.
Hiram Perry, the candidate of the bogus
Reynolds. Wood organization, for mayor,
gets only about 258 votes. The Wood perty
in Albany has fzzed. The pretense OF
more than one Democratic organization here
is exploded. The adherents of this faction
worked all day yesterday 10 help the Repub-
licane, both on city and ward tickets. But
they and their Black Republican allies met
with a common defeat.
All honor is due to the patriotic and con-
servative citizens, not hitherto acting with
the Democratic party, who yesterday rallied
by the side Of Democrats to rebuke Repub'
licanicm and secure verdict in favor of the
cause of the Union and the Constitution
They worked nobly, and deserve the graft
tude of our citizens and Of sound men al
over the country.
We do not undertake to give the details
of the returns in this our first edtion.-Al
bany Argus.
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taIl.

Accounts from Utah to the 10th, state
that the severity of the winter had mitigated.
and that agricultural labor had been general.
Iy commenced. Much interest was felt in
discoveries OF coal which had recently been
mate in several localities. The diminution
of the native woods renders the new resour-
ces OF fuel highly important. In Illinois, q
movement OF the reformed Latter Day
Saints, movement which has been on foot
for some time past, yesterday eliminated in
the acceptance by Joseph Smith, the youn.
ger, of tho headship OF the church. The
object of this wing OF the communion is to
put on end to the corruption and evil exis.
ting in Utah, to displace Brigham Young
and to abolish polygamy.
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Earthquake I'm California.

A severe shock of an earthquake was felt
in the Sacramento basin, from Stockton to
Downievile, on the 18th ult. This is dis.
trict in which previously earthquakes were
very rare and slight, as compared with the
vicinity of San Francisco and Los Angeles.
The Sacramentons not long since urged the
frequency of earthquakes in San Francisco
as one reason why the capitol should not be
brought to that place; but that argument
cannot be used now. The shock in Sacra.
mento was more severe, probably, than any
one felt here within the last twelve years.
Clocks were stopped, bells were rung, crock.
cry was thrown down, chairs moved on the
floor, and walls were seen to sway back and
forth, and yet no serious damage was done.
In Sacramento, Marysvile and Iowa Hill,
bells were rung, and in one place goods were
thrown from the shelves of shops.
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Wednesday, April IS, 1850.
Democratic County Convention

The Democratic voters Of Portage county
are hereby notified to meet in their respec.
tive townships on SATURDAY, the 5;h day of
May next, and elect delegates TO a County
Convention, which will be held in Ravenna
on SATURDAY, the 18th day of May, 1860
at 10 o'clock, A. M, for the purpose OF
electing four delegates to represent Portage
county in the State Convention to be held
In Columbus, on the Gath of May.
The number of delegates to which eact
township is entitled is as follows:
Atwater, Q; Aurora, 8; Brimfeld, g.
Charlestown, 3; Deerfeld 4; Edinburg, 3
Franklin, Z; Freedom, 8; Hiram, 5; Man
tua, 6; Nelson, 6; Palmyra, 6; Paris, q
Randolph, s; Ravenna, 10; Rootstown, 5;
Shalersville, 5; Streeisborough, 5; SuGfed
8; Windham, !.
By order Of the Dem. Cen. Elk. Com.
JAMES w. SoMERvILLE, Chairman.
Ravenna, April IS, 1860.
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The Reaction in New England
The Popular Revolution in the
North. q


The Reaction in New England
The Popular Revolution in the
North. 81
The late slections in New England prove
that reaction has begun in the popular
mind there, which is the foreruuner of a
great political and moral revolution in this
country.
As long as things 60 we'll with him, there
is no man that puTsues an abstraction with
more vigor, or follows sn impracticable jdea
further, than your true Yankee but no soon.
or does its operation begin to affect his In.
terest, to interfere with what he pithily calls
"the main chenoe," than his conservative
feeling is-at once aroused, and he turns on
his course with all the agility of a practiced
gymnast. This is the result that is begin.
\ ming to show itself in New Eagland. The
| people OF that section Of the Union have
followed the teachings Of the practical abo.
| litionists and fanatics until one set of the
rogues in politics, the remnants OF the old
broken down Wing party, have come to be-
lieve that abolitionism was fixed and per.
manent idea, which could be turned into a
hobby and ridden into powerful party or.
ganization and political rule. They mount.
ed it forthwith, and commenced to ride IL
with whip and spur. But the Union that
has been consumma ted between the abolition
fanatics and the political rcgues, and the
manifest tendency OF their aims to sap the
guarantees of the constitution and DESTROY
the Confederacy, has alarmed the South and
begun to awaken the conservative feeling
everywhere. New Hampshire is too remote 3
from the great tides of commercial and in.
dus,rial interests to have experienced the
effect Of the new dangers. But Connecticut
and Rhode Island are in close contact with
the commercial metropolis of the Union.
q and in them the bonds of interests have al.
f ready begun to draw. Here are the results:
1860. 1oga
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C-Tho Reporter of the Memphis Aval

67-The Reporter OF the Memphis Avail
ache was present lately at the disinterment
OF the body Of young lady who had been
buried more than five years. 1t was closed
in metallic case, which, when opened, reveal
ed the following singular phenomena: The
body was in an excellent state Of pressrva-
tion-the hair, particularly, was very life.
like; and, what was more astonishing, full
blown camelia japonca, which some affec-
tionate hand had twined in the tresses of the
hair, was remarkable fresh looking-the
leaves retaining their soft ereenish hue to
perfection.
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0TIn one Of the towns of Connecticut,
on the line Of the New Haven Railroad, the
Republicans took charge OF a town pauper,
from Friday, paying his board, expenses, &c.
They felt 30 sure Of his vote that they gave
themselves no further trouble about the vote
till Monday, when the vote came up missing.
Upon inquring into the absence, they found
the pauper in bed; some of the Dsmocross
had stolen his pawtGtoOSs, and the Vots vds
lost! #
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The National Convention orIs5G.

AS matter of general interest at this
time. we reproduce the ballotings at the
Democratic National Convention held at
Cincinnati in l856-which Convention nun
bered 296 members. Under the two.thirds
rule, 1856 votes were required to make the
nomination for President. The ballots were
as follows
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A MOTHER, IN SPORT, KILLS HER CHILD |!

line Hamilton COZ Telegraph says:
Last Tuesday, little child OF Mrs. Shsf
fer, (sister Of Mr.. Campbell, who resides in
the Fifth Ward,) who lives in Germ nntown,
got possession Of an old pistol and snapped
it 10 her mother, and said in playful man.
ner, "me, mother % Mrs. Shaffer took the
pistol ond pointed the muzzle towards her
child and pulled the trigger, exploding the
cap and sending ball through the child's
head, killing it instantly. The pistol had
not been discharged for a year, and was
supposed not to be loaded.
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LIFE OF JUDGE DoUGIAs.-Mr. Shee-
han, the able editor OF the Chicago Times
is'now is New York revising the proof.sheets
Of his Life Of Judge Douglas, which will be
published in about three weeks, by The
Harpers. t ~a *.
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OESo few members OF Congress have
been elected delegates to to the Charleston
and Chicago Conventions that there is every
probability that there will be no formal ad.
journment for either Convention.
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Total popular change, l9.727
Here we have a total popular change of
nearly fourteen thousand votes in an aggre-
gate OF little over one hundred and eight
thousand. The most remarkable feature in
this great movement is th,t it has been pro-
dured almost without assistance from the
politicians and self-styled leaders of the De.
mocratc party. x
Bu; the people Themselves, assisted bv an
independent iourna ism, have begun the re.
action against anaticsm and political rogue.
ra. Their eyes are beginning to be opened
to the destructive tendencies of such politi.
cal philosophers as Lysander Spooner and
Theodore Parker, such politicians as VIM.
H. Seward and John Brown, and such fa.
natics as Wendell Phillips and VIM. LLOYD
Garrison. 1t is clearly eeen that these
blind leaders aim to destroy the fraternol
commerce between the North and the South.
as they have succeeded in breaking the fra.
ternal ties Of religious communion and party
fellowship between them. 1t is clearly
seen that the principles of the Black Repub.
ican party are utterly destructive to the
constitution, which is now the only safe~
guard OF our Union, our liberties, our peace.
our commerce, and our prosperity. The is~
sue comes home to every merchant, every
manu- acturer, every farmer, every banker.
every laborer or artisan, every MINER and
every ship owner. Whoever has material
stake in the present, and whoever has sona
to whom the future must be preserved, has
direct interest in the coming political ia
sue. The people of New England, with
whom the sentiment of material evil ia an
quick, have perceived the danger, and have
begun the reacti,n against The mania Of
Abolitionism, which ia destined to fall be-
fore the rising conservatism of the country .
as have its preceding manas of anti. mason.
rry' temperance, Know Nothingism, and their
kindred falacies.-New York Herald.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-05-30

FLoATIve TnIRrY MILES ON A CAKE OF IcE.
The Green Bay Advocate relates a thrilling
ice adventure Henry Martin and Isaaac
Gagnon, one with a load ofhay, and the 9th.
er with load of corn meal, were travelling
on the ice of Little Bay de Noquet. About
o'clock p. NJ they discovered crack
which cut them off fro u the shore, and that
the ice on which they were, was floating
them out into Green Bay towards Deaths
Doore. They embarrassed their hosres and
let them go, aad took the box off one of the
sleds to use in case they got into the water.
At midnight, being exhausted, they lay
down to sleep under a hummock of ice In
the morning at o'clock they saw land which
proved to be Washington Island, aud they
landed outside Deaths Door They had Uhus
been driven thirty miles across the Bay in
one Of the heaviest gales that ever bowed
The horses after being loosed, followed the
men in their rambles on the ice until coming
to a weak spot they went in. Two hours
later one ofthe horses swan up to the cake
on which the men were. put his head on the
ice, looking beseechingly, but they could not
help the poor bruth.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-05-30

SToCK FROM SoNoNA CoUNTY.-Any one see
ing the immense number of cattle that are
being driven from Sonoma county almost
d lily through Napa city to the more eastern
sections of the State, will form high esti-
n:ate of the grazing facilities of that county
Within four weeks six thousand head of beef
cattle must have heen driven through this
place from Sonoina and Mendocino counties,
besides many horses, and some few sheep
Napa Rerortsr
Daily national Democrat., 1860-05-30
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
WAsnINGToN, 10th April, 1860.

TIE CALWoRNrA MAILs.-The Washington
correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette says
The Assistant Postmaster General, Dundas.
estimates the weight of the California mail
matlerat one thousand pounds daily. This
might lie transported hy three Overland
routes by dividing it up into daily pony ser
vice for letters, and weekly service for more
bulky matter. Under such an arrangement
a twelve or fifteen day schedule between
New ork and San Francisco would be prac.
ticable for letters.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-05-30

A Chr OF THE OLD BLOCK The heir ap-
parent Of Great Britain has already satisiac-
torily proved his legitimacy by the most un-
exceptionaGle evidence. The Lady Clara
Vane has brought suit against him for sednc
tion and breach of promise Of marriage. To
show that the defendant is Guelph, would
be proving up half the cause in any well reg
uated tribunal.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-05-30

IDLEYEss is the bane of body and mind, the
nurse of naughtiness. the stepmother of dis
cpIine, the chief author of all mischief one
of the seven deadly sins, the cushion on
which the devil chiefly reposes, and and u
great cause not only of melancholy, but OF
many other diseases; TOR the mind is natu-
rally active and if it be not occupied about
some honest business, it rusheS into mischief,
or sinks into melancholy.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-05-30

iHE SHEREBAcK CLAIM.-ln the u S. Dis
Iilct Court, motion for new trial in this
c"se mas been filed and will be argued in a
lew days The Telegram says that five of
Tue witnesses, whose testimony helped to
eonnFm the Shereback Claim, have made
'lndaVlts that their former testimony was
gwen in the expectation of receiving a re-
ward The claim covers large portion of
'ne Southern part of San Francisco city.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-05-30

A NEW textile material has been brought
out in Russia, which is highly eulogized as a
substitute for cotton. A Russian is said to
have discovered IA new and successful method
for dressing it, so as to rende it very valua-
ble The plant is a species Of silk weed.
There are no less than three varieties found
the Middle and Southern States
Daily national Democrat., 1860-05-30

TuREE MEN DROwNED.-A correspondent
of the Alta, writing from the town of Mendo
eino under date of May 2lst says:
Mr.. Charles Scott, first mate, Mr. Charles
Rich second mite, and Messrs. Henry Nelson,
and Michael McMahon, sailors attached to
the barque Iwanowna, now lying in this har
bor. loading, started, on sunday last, in the
ships boat, in search of birds eggs, which are
said to be found in abundance on the rocks.
Il short distance from the main land. On
their return. the boat was struck ly sea,
carsiziug her, and Messrs. scott, Rich and
To reach rock near 10y, to which he clung
until assistance renched him from shore. He
is still alive, but it is feared he is injured in
ternally.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-05-30

GIVE Us CREDT.-Tbe marysville DEMOCRAT
calls the Truckee Turnpike "Iaworths road
from San Juan to Virginia City" 1t is hard
ly fair to come in at the eleventh hour and
claim this for Marysville enterprise. when
it was originated and is now mainly prose
cuted 10y men in this vicinity. For a long
time we W 'rked for it alone, relieving pre-
cious little sympathy from our big sister OF
the plains until Mr.. Haworth, one of her
most sagacious business men, lent his influence
in its aid and secured that of several others
More than two-thirds Of the capital stock of
100000 is now held 10y the mountain men,
and to them belongs the chief credit We
hate to make such small complaint as this,
and will not again Hydraulic Press
Daily national Democrat., 1860-05-30

THOMAS BAY We find in the Capital City
Fact. paper published at Columbus, Ohio,
the following paragraph; Thomas w. Bay,
a resident of Columbus, Ohio, lately deceased,
leaving his estate to his only child, Thomas
Bay, now supposed to be residing in Califor-
MIA. The last time he was heard from he
was in Sacramento city Should this notice
meet his eye, he will hear of something to
his advantage 10y addressing the adminstra-
tor Of his fathers estate, John Short, Colum-
bus, Ohio
Daily national Democrat., 1860-05-30

WE regret to learn, says the Alameda Ga
1e'te' that A. W. SWEET, Esq, of San Antonio
wa was severely and dangerously injured on
monday evening last, by cick from a Cali
,oFn'a mustang. Mr., SWEET received the full
iorce OF the blow on his breast and loins, and
was Tor some time speechless, suffering great
y, At last accounts he was slowly recover
Daily national Democrat., 1860-05-30

MISSIONARY SHps.-There are now five
missionary ships in the Pacific ocean: The
Morning Star, owned 10y the American Board:
the John Wesley, owned by the English
Wesleyans; the John Knox, the Southern
Cross and the John Williams The last is
the Oldest and largest, having been in the
service nearly fifteen years. 1t sails to Eng
land every three or four years, with the chill
dren and wives of missionaries, and the con
tributons to the cause of missions from the
natives Of the South Seas, and returns with
passengers and supplies of Bibles and other
books, and material for printing purposes.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-05-30

pEsTITUTIoN-In the district of Erris, coun
iy Mayo, ireland, twenty thousand people
are said to be in a state of absolute destitu
ton, and the able bodied of both sexes are
running for their lives from the famine
stricken locality.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-05-30

COOP TEMPLAEs.-Lodge No. IL, indie
pendent Order of Good Templars, was or
granized at North San Juan, last Thursday.
The following officers were elected for the
ensuing year: Alex. j. Elder, w. G. T.. ;
Miss 0phelia johnson, w. V. T.; DR.. T.
CrOssctt, Sec'y.; Louis Buhring, Treas Miss
Frank Johnson, l. G.; P. Cain. o. G ; W.
Heaton, NJ; NJ. Pixley, F. s. Mrs. Dornin
and Mrs. Heaton, 4, 81. HIS
Daily national Democrat., 1860-05-30
TnE CALIFoRNIA DELEGArEs AT CHARLESTON

The CALIFORNGA DELEGATES At CHARLESTON.
The New York Herald has the following:
Mr.. Rafferty, of New Jersey. presented a
protest signed 10y part of the delegation
from that State agninst the action of the
Convention in al nulling the Instructions to
the delegates from that State to vote as a
unit.
Mr. Bidwel of California, said the delega-
ton had viewed in sorrow the proceedings OF
the past two days He then proceeded to
explain the position of the Democratic party
of California.
Mr.. Austin E. Smith of California, denied
the authority of any one to speak for him, or
seven-eighths of his delegation. He styled
Mr. Bidwell as a black sheep, and Northern
Democrats, he asserted, were trucking to the
same side of the question.