The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-04-01

l+-
requested 10 inform the Senate what action
has beer had Under said Joint resolution Of
! April l2fb, l859-whether the one-third Of
said fuHd belonging toather State has beencol-
leeted--if not, what has become of it--and
what steps are necessary to collect il. M
LETTER Fuosf CAgsP CHASE
By request we insert the following extract
from a private lsttersrIt speaks for itself,
i and .Samedary'' too.-Ed. Dem. s. stsza
/ Our noble regiment is at present under
cloud. in consequence of an injury done by
some of its members to citizen Sam Medary.
About one hundred of them being possessed
of the insane idea that they enlisted to put
down treason. proceeded to the city and ssz
verely ventilated the office of that patriotic
journal, the Crisis, destroying great many
copies Of that admirable sLeet =
For this foul deed all passes for menbers
of this regiinentare sfeseinded, except to those
who will sign a paper, stating that, upon their
honor. they didsnot participate ia that attack
and have no positive knowledge of it. So
you see. We are pfeveilted from visiting ttcaa.
city.os Now did not 5oinsin this mob, Meth
err have 1 any positsue knowledge of it, but
! for certain good reasons I object to signing
any such paper To tell the truth do nots
Justify the deed, for / am opposed to mob zaso
IN any ahope.a thought at the time, and
! think know, that the demonstration made
4 that might helped Medary and his paper more
than it hurt them, for this reason. It made
a ahaartyrof him, and in this age martyrs ife-f
Pceiye the sympathy of thousands who other-ss
wise, never give them serious thought. .A-e
4 As an example look at old John Brown. If
he had continued his horse and Niger steal-a
ing raids into Missouri, he would have had
no more sympathiserss than Jeilnieon and
Montgomery have but he transferred his op-a
erationss to a civilized country, was arrested
and executed as felon, and this made
a martyr of him and T he has BEEN
canonized as a saint, and is now worshippeds
by millions It is the same with Medary,
every one knows that he never would have
beengmet at the Depot by haudreds' OF friends
and followers, and dragged through the streets
4 in triumph if it had not been for this mob
but this is a'fact on his return from Cincin-
natl the day after the attack upon ais oficea
his friends met him unhitched his horses
from the carriages and dragged it through the
Streets themselves. 81 This was a. more tri-s1
fumphal entry than that of Christ into Jeru-.ie
salem, for he was=berne by only one ass, but
/ Medary was bornesby hundreds e'ik
4 saslaoafs 5ees I'D. ST.
- s-zel 4-a-e-4ss.s go elii
- sz5z7se For faer Portage Comfy Democrat.s g
sCEs AND sPEpEs, FoR mxLK AND &
| 551=S@ WINE.
/ Eg -o'F .essaIs gI 80 .egsls
Icanfeel for you, dear Ruth, in the infiic- e
ition7of the fashionable party you describe. It :
lis. one of the prices you pay for the many
pleasures and profits of city living In our
social country village if we. are not electrified
twice week by the bursts of. eloquence -
! and e flashes of wit,' of the most popular
/ lecturer of the tines,n neither astoundea by
/ presdigitators, or carried off our feet by sing
! ing Patties, We at least are not compelled to
Listen. to the jarring sound of fevelry by night.
/ from saloons and crowded bathrooms, when
the heart is aching with the thought of pre- :
cious eyes growing dim, and warm hearts
esasing to beat, by some lonely ground
lor on the rudely tended couch Of a far-away
hospital. = p g -
L Oh, I can close my eyes. and see your fash
ionable soiree, Ruth Precisely what it was =
last year in insipidity of conversation, in
magnificent externals, and general got-up-to-
orderlness. What magnificent dresses Your
heart seems ,uraccountably to have got loose
from something, and futters in a wonderful
way, as your eye takes in the glittering groups
and then rests sdoubtfully upon your own
palmer apparel You feel warm and breath
less, and begin to wish you had worn your
other dress which was little better than this.
and wonder if it is possible that although
worth makes the man. dress makes the
woman. Oh, know all about it, Ruth.
Occasionally there is achange in this pro-
gFamme. Now cones an announced q Mr.
and Mrs. Smith. the Misses Brown and Mr.
Jones perhaps. They enter. All here
is something besides clothes. How differently
the room looks and feels. You smile at the
foolish fears that oppressed you. What now
do you care for the crinkling taffetas and trail
ing Brocades for the jewels and laees, while
the glamour of those eyes. and voices is upon
you? Possibly they are strangers, but that is
of little consequence. You feel a thrill of
recognition to the finest chords of your being.
You know that virtue has both gone from and
entered into you. An electric current of sym
pathy circles and sparkles about you, and what
now do you care for the. e.non-conductors? =
You think-ah, how delightful to be al
ways in this society 70 With such you would
live, labor, study. worshipl With these you
would visit the Old orld-I,ondon. Paris
Rome, and the Holy, Land. With this one
you would bend the knee in dim cathedrals,
or listen tor the avalanche among the frozen
silences OF the Alps, or bare your head before
the conflict Of Niagara This voice should
read to you Milton and Shakespeare but only
this one Tennyson and the Brownings. All, t
these are the wines blooded - A
p Was it Strange youeaught a chill from con-
tact with those in whose veins flows only
watery dlnton, that can never warm the
heart or viyify tho brain2 And which, not
irreverently be it said. car. never be changea
exeeptby a miracle ifke that wrought at Cana
of Ga1ilee. T, -..7s,sfs s. ~ $3.50 +
You feel all this--zyoui feel itswhen you s.
,,or+ ond Uo,,r fnet ,,,a,,d a,rax, f-o,, +La;--