Rising Sun Times, Volume 1, Number 11, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 25 January 1834 — Page 1

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To "praise where praise is due," ami blame where blame, In spite ol fatliion, pride or other name.

THE RISING SUN U Priitcd and published ercry Saturday lly Iaac Stevens, &, Vc TERMS. Two I) u lahs per annum, if paid in advanee, Two IVlluj 4 and Fifty Cf.xts if p dd in six months, or Thrkk I) oi,lhs at the d of the year. A failure to notify a ili cjiJ iriuntive

-nt the end of time subscribed for will He considered .1 n OCT" Arrearages mu-t to discontinuance. engagement. '0 p id previous Adurtisements not r-scoe.ting one square, one dollar for three weeks, each su'iseq'iint insertion twenty-five cent?, iarger ones in proportion. Letters addressed to the editor, must be prt paid to receive attention. SE fill C T E I TALElsT ffVoui ihe Elgin Annual. MISADYT.NTURLS OF A I .OVER. 1 was very fortunate as regarded pecuniary matters, on my arrival in Car lisle. Oneof mv old and most intimate schoolfellows had been settled there in a respectable way for several year? He at once procured a situation for mc. I lived a little distance out of town, and, in returning in the evening from the day's duties, had to pass by some beau tifol gardens. Sooth to say, I used verymuch to delight in dressing gardens with my own hand, and if the report of menus may be credited, displayed much more loan the average taste thai wav One of the gardens 1 had to pass in re 'Urning houo. .1 aa evening, scemeu to me the very beau ideal of good taste in the science of " laying out." I generally stood dght or ten minutes in the veiling looking over its wall; which, fortunately, was of no incenvr nient altitude, admiring its I eautiful contents. Oae evening, .is I popped my head over the garden w.tli, 1 saw a, new flower an exquisitely beautiful young lady ; one of whom M.lioa would have, w ritten herself the finest flower."' A deep blush tinged her beautiful cheeks w hile her lustrous eyes met mine. I felt a momentary enhancement I wa glued to the spot oa which I stood; but a recollection of Louisa, and the adventure-: connected with her, flashing across mv mind, I succeeded, after a desperate struggle between prudence and love, in getting my logs to perform their duty in removing me home. As will he leadily credited, this harwiing damsel (name at this lime unknown) had a liberal share of my tho'ts that night. I weighed in my own mind w hether, in the event of ascertaining, '.hct, in addition to her personal attractions, she united respectability of character and station in society, I ought not ifir all to make an attempt on her heiM t, as she had already, without any seeming effort, conquered mine. The hea'ing of arguments pro and con robbed me of two or three hours' sleep. The opinion of Sir John Falstaff, that .'.here is dutnity in odd numbers, occured to me, land, 1 believe, would have maie me decide on seeking an inter view, had not the awkward issue, of Jack's third visit to Mrs. Ford shot athwart my mind, followed by a painful remeiiibrance of what had happincd to myself io my two previous adventures. All this, it is right to add, was succeed ed by a recurrence of the afore-men tioned convection that fate had ordained 1 w as never to be mairied. The inter locutor of my judgment therefore was, that I would- sutler unknown to and unpitied by the world, a universe of ardent unrcvealed love, rather than run the h.iiJ ird of making myself anew a laugh ing sloe 1 the public, and the butt of mv a qua. 'Uianccs. Th S then,- was a titled point- And i ' . V hul I resolved to act up to o stricti ,,,,J , . . the leiuv...fmy c?.,a,lon' th than he in nmpla "n wny would i . .i irhl Rrcat sacrilice of f."ibmil to the int, 11 ,r" " , i i .-tiful warden without n.i.vmg bv the beau i1'"1 !-, . , , . i let lmt glance casting a glance at 1v . i i i should encounter the cqis cl" , , nmc form of the living rioter I ,ad hc" fore seen in it. For three uVs e vcn" ings rather, I religiously adhere.' o m v determination; she might, each time I passed, have been again eclipsing, by her presence, all the. other beauties in the warden; but I saw her not. On the third day after, reluming home, I learned by the merest accident the young lady's name, who were her connections, ami what her character and station in society was. On the fourth, while I was as usual passing by the garden on my way home, I observed herLavima wa her name walking slowly, not in th garden, but on th" road outM as

if coming directly up to me. She seemed contemplative: there was a touching pensiveness in her look: there wa a hook in her hand. We met, and were in the act of passing each other, when Lavinia, as if suddenly seized with sickru'ss, quivered a little, and was in the act of falling. 1 caught hold of her he-

fore she swooned altogether: the book she held in her hand did fall. " Tray, rtvidam, are you indisposed ?" inquired I, with much tenderness and ruiirprn. I " A little, sir,1' she softly answered, at ine same tme glancing a look at me which it impossible to characteri se. out wiylCh J rrni?t have been steel-heart ed, indeed, not to have.. 1 luted the book from the ground: I ooked at it: U was a novel. The pas- 1 .g; sue nau evuieniiy neen reading I was indicated by the leaf being folded down. The passaee told told eloquenllv, though briefly, of the loves of a young lady and gentleman ; how they eloped together, got married at Gretna Green, and lived a long life of the utmost Happiness. I could not w ho could? be blockhead enough to misunderstand this. I could not in any I circumstances, far less in the eircumstances of that moment, resist it. My dearest girl," said I, " will you

meet me to-morrow morning at ten o'- "1 he three gentlemen!" A rccollecclock, at the S ?"' I lion of the triumvirate of scoundrels

"l will, with all mv heart," was the! brief answer she returned; and that answer was accompanied Ivy a look more expressive a thousand-fold than a whole world of books could have been, had such been w ritten, to describe the young lauy s teelings. We parted that evening; we met next morning at iheappointed timeand place, We set off in a coach and four fori Gretna Green. Jehu was well paid ; ne oia rns uutv aiimwaoiy. e naiicu no longer than w as necessary to change horses, until we reached a stroll Jown within ten miles of thr .lofJnrf rvl On our way Lavinia disrloseH tn m.J how she had been struck by my appear ance ine very tirt time she had seen me looking over her father's garden wall; hut a sense of the delicacy and reservedness becoming her sex prevented her from revealing her affection for me, until the CTening I met her on the road, when she found that keeping it any longer concealed in her breast w as likely to endanger her life. On reaching the small town just mentioned, Lavinia complained and no w onder of exhaustion, in consequence of the fatigues of that day,ai w ell as of a sleepless previous night spent in conceiting measures for making the elopement successful. She begged a little time might be allowed her to recruit her strength. I ordered a snatch of supper. We both ate heartily, having been well appetized by the length of the journey. We had been in the ir.n about hall an hour, when Lavinia, addressing me of course, said, 14 my dear, I think we may go now." These words were delivered in a lone, they were accompanied by a look of affection, which I valued at the lime as infinitely above all the riches of either India. Well, then, my darling, we will set out instantly," was my reply. I rang the bell violently. In about twenty seconds, in rushed a stout wellmade man. " Waiter 1" said I, in a tone w hich indicated that I thought myself a personage of some consequence; " waiter! bring me the bill. Order the horses and carriage to he got ready this moment, and be sure, too, you don't " A shriek from Lavinia interrupted me. She swooned away in the easychair on which she sat at the time. I of course forgot the waiter and every earthly thing else in the plenitude of my concern lor Lavinia. "Lavinia! Lavania! my dear! my angel! what can be ihe mailer!" While in the act of addressing her in these terms of affectionate concern, and simultaneously taking her by her snowwhite hand, I felt some powerful fisl take hold of, and drag me back by ihe neck of my coat. " What insolence, sir!" exclaimed I, l)u'nking it was the waiter who thus intrude.'' on U!S So saying, I turned about my face towards the vulgar, ill-bred lackey of i be public, when to my utter astonishment, ' beheld three fellows heside me. , "Come" said the intruder who first entered the room, and whom I took to be Jehu, "come, let us carry her out!" "The man who presumes to lay a hand on her will bo as dead ai a herring that instunt," icl 1, indignantly.

" Nevermind the empty threats of the blockhead,"' said the fellow who had spoken already. lie hsd no sooner uttered the words than the vile paws of the trio seized hold, of Lavinia. I felt a kind of madness cr.ming over mv soul. I know I resisted

with all my might: hut what el-e occur ed 1 can not tell. iKexi morning i awoke as irom XT... . . t dream. I looked around in ulU r amaze men!. I fancied invsclf in a new world. luuie inus nowiiucrea, usee a person out of his senses. Boots entered mv bed :i :i . .1 I o i" i . room. I inquired where I was, and was answered, "the Duke of York hotel, in I the town of D ' The same.' I ejaculated with nixself. "the same as that m which Lavinia an. supped last night." "aim wiiere, i asKeclwmi an emphasis of which print can give no idea, u where is Lavinia?' ' Lavinia'." exclaimed Boots, tvidently ignorant of who I meant. "The young l.uly I hroughlhere with nie last night," said I, hurriedly. " Adz, sur, she was carried ntl by the three eenllemons who corned in "such haste in a carriage,'" said Boots, w ith an archness of look which denoted that nature had intended the young rascal for 'he stage. who so abruptly and unceremoniously thrust their hated presence on us the previous night, darted across my mind, But what they were, whither tliey had come, where they were gone, what they I'd done w ith Lavinia. whether they nau "Lurked Her or compelled her to I marry one of their ruffian selves, were an matters as io w sucli I wu m a state of as total ignorance as the child un J born ; nor could any person in the inn n'ia" nun un; mi lunani anu ;-e anxiously desired information. Boots withdrew. I rose, huddled on , rnrt of my clothes, and prepared for sha'.'inc. H3 the reader a superior imacinatio.":' 11 ne liavc lot 5i con ceive, as he besl caii, of my horror, miiuded with nsfnm.iWMit. when, on looking in the glass, I saw my 'yoD'is piece so shockingly mangled mrl fUl; rowed with deep scratches, lhat there was scarcely a square inch of whole skin on it. 44 In the name of wonder, what can be the meaning of this? How have I come by such a face?" were questions I asked myself. They weie unanswerable by me; the matter was involved in as much mystery as the identify of the trio of scamps w ho wrested Lavini t from my arms. What was lo be done concerning my inamorato? what with my face? were two queries which now occupied my thoughts. A little sober reflection advised me that time alone could remedy the latter evil. As for my dulcinea, ! had at intervals a faint hope that she might possibly make her escape from the ragamuffins who had abstracted her; in which case I had no doubt of her return. But this delusion, indifferently pleasing a3 it only was at best, was of short continuance. I he horrible hypothesis would every now and then suggest itself, that oiie of the three, most probably the first who entered the room, was some unknown rival; in which case there was no room for even the slightest hope. However, as the state of my phiz disqualified me from being seen in public, I thought it the most advisable course to slay lhat day in the inn, to see what would turn up in Ihe chapter of accidents. The day passed; but not a syllable about Lavinia. Dante speaks of the ineffable miseries of those who have entered a certain place, on whose portals are written the words, "All hope abandon ye who enter here." Their misery ! It must be happiness compared with my then situation. 1 went to bed as night approached. How I spent the night 1 w ill not say for this good reason, I can not. Morning came. I arose. While pacing to and fro in my apartment, half apparelled, and wholly un shaved, resembling more in my conduct a bedlamite (ban a rational person. Boots, who seemed to be an animal new ly imported from some uncultivated district of the country, entered. "Sur," said he, " would ou like a read of our paper, just prunted?" at the same time holding towards me a damp unopened broad sheet. " Lay it down there," said I unconcernedly; "lay it down there; I'll possibly look at it." I took up and opened the broad sheet.

found it was the country paper, r.ewlv

issued Irom the press. I care b ss v glanced over tiie insid-' suifice. The lead, " F.lopemeut Lxtraordinaiy," be log in lare , was 1 1 alien! i' lt rsi thing li w as as that attracted mv follows. " On edt:rdav uhe paper was da ted Friday,) an elopement cxtraordina ry took place from Carli-le. The e.ung lady had oidv returned the other da Irom a fashionable boarding-school . whore she had been Freuciied, danced, taught siv.isic, the use of th.- globes, and in pne. every thing ihat'b i.f ces?ar to make a perfectly cdeoated female. Of late she had been wondrcuslv mvph to the reading of novels. The gay Lothario was one of the most .sheepish looking bipeds under the sun. The folks m tiie neighborhood very emphatically characterised him as the 'than as iiVd to be seen popping a Jong nose over the garden wall, at the good people's daurter.' The fugitives took the high road iu vi i una, ui iiicu niace tnev w ere within one short stage, when the young lady's brother, accompanied by two police ollkcrs, overlook tho matrimonvaspiring couple at the head inn. When the brother and assistants entered, thev found the loung Mis and her clumsvlooking swain sit'ini: quite comfortably at a table, on wh'u.h in beautiful confu sion, were aisn av.d the iV.xrmf-r.u nf an excellent supner. When fiio vomur my recognised lu-r . . ' . J ciated a very unique sort of shriek, and swooned away with wonderful m.od grace, in tiie easy chair she occupied at the time. Her clownish Lothario, who eviden.iy mistook ivlisss brother, when he entered, for the waiter, gallantlv llew to the assistance of his dulcinea: and on the intruding parlies taking the lainled beauty by her taper waist, as i lo carry her lovely p.-ison away In swore that the very first man who'dar ed lo touch h-?r tliev had touc.hrd hr already though should, in a moment, be sti etched at full length on the floor. As if determined to suit the action to fne word, the love sick swain, in tl un, in the pureiiy of the moment, seizing hold of !.....-.. ..C.I... . i huge tom-cat that was lying purring 1 on an easy chair, and evidently uncon sClOu."' oi me nature of ins weapon. brandisheu the animal about his own head, previously fa ii ihcting a supposed mortal blow o:i that of his adversary. At this moment his inamorato's brother presented a pistol to the boobylover's breast, exclaiming, 'Villain! presume to offer further resistance, and Til blow your brains out" The poor unfortunate wight steed sfupitied, resembling a man whose w its had all of a sudden taken lo themselves wings and flown away. The. caf, smarting from the harsh gripe of ihe noodle, turned about by a sudden jerk of his body, and inserted his talons in sundry pai Is of the lover's frontispiece. The claret flowed profusely from divers fountains; and the poor fellow, like his heart's hesf treasure, also swooned away. lie wa afterwards carried to bed in an insensible state. Miss was taken away, put into a carriage, and carried bac k to pa' and ma' who, it is hoped, will cure the young lady of her foolish passion." Here, in this wild print, was too glear a solution of the several enigmas touching the three intruders the absence and destiny of Lavinia and the horribly disfigured slate of my face. My eves turned in their sockets be fore I got to the end of the odiou: paragraph. My w hole frame trembled All things reeled about me. The house appealed to be (ailing: I felt as if the woild had come to an end. It was long before my consciousness returned. V hen it did , my hrst inten lion was to cover my disgrace from myself, and lo end my earthly woes, by put ting a period to my existence. What were the best means of accomplishing my purpose, was the first query which demanded an answer. A razor? I had lost too much blood already, my face was too much mangled by feline talons, lo think of mangling my throat with a razar. To speak a truth, after what I had seen of gore in the case of my face, I had no wish to see more of that claretlooking commodity, whether drawn by a razor or any other instrument. Drow n myself? That could not be accomplished without an ample supply of water; and where this was to bo had, I knew not, being a complete stranger in the place. "1 might have inquired," ihe reader might say. Had the reader seen my face at that time, he would neither say nor think any such thing. made it impossible for me to think of going) out of doors in op.-n day, on avy errand.

Besides had I asked any body the way to a river, my face would infallibly have generated instant suspicion of what my intentions were, and consequently prevented their being carried in o effect. Hang myself? The only objection but it was an insuperable one. which I had to that mode of ma

king my exit, was, that all the offscourings v f society, every lackey and chimney-sweep who get tired of life, end it by means of a rope, a handkerchief, or some other susyender. At any rate, it is indubitably certain that no gentleman swings by his own hand. Pistols? Well, I concluded, blowing out one's brains is certainly the preferable mode of doing the business, of any yet mentioned. But the evil of it was, I had no pistol: that had already proved my misfortune. It was the most grievous error I ever committed, that I omitted to take a pair of pistols with me. when Lavinia and 1 quitted Carlisle for Gretna. Had I taken these implements with me, she and I had been, by this time, man and wife. I should in that case have instantaneously scattered, in a thousand directions, the brains of a couple of the trio ol insolent intruders, when Iney presumed to lay bands on Lavinia, and the thud would, coward-like, have taken to his heels. But regrets were unavailing now : tiie ciuestion was, how to procure a pair of pistols for my present purpose? I could rot, for the reason already mentioned, venture out myself in day light to any shop to purchase the articles; and to Lave sent any other person would have awakened suspicions, and consequently defeated my purpose. I thought, in all the circumstances, the best way would be to wait until dark, when I might go out myself and procure Ihe implements I wanted, taking care, while in the ironmongers shop to keep my f sce shrouded, by means of my pocket handkerchief, from the unhal lowed gaze of the shopmen. Evening came. I had left money to pay my bill, and w as in the act of going down stairs to procure the instruments wherewith to execute my rash purpose, when I distinctly heard the sound of a coach horn. "Holla! holla! here's the London coach!" vociferated Boots to some holster-looking figure at the door. The London ( each ! thought I. It is dark; no one w ill sec or know ir.e in the coach: I will go to London, where I am all but utterly unknown: perhaps 1 may after ;-?H, by observing a prudent conduct for the li.'ture, be a happy man. I ran up stairs for the money I had left, inquired how far on the way to London the coach would be by daylight; was answered; took my seat for that place, and z-ot off. By confining myself in a room in one of the Inns of the respective towns all day, and travelling all night, I reached the metropolis after f(Uir day's stoppages by the way. .1 Farm-yard Sailor. By the bursting of a dyke in Holland, the country was suddenly flooded, and the cattle and other animals perishen. Among the few fowls lhat had the good luck to escape, was an old rooster, who had the adroitness fo jump into a large wooden howl, containing some barley, in which he sat, and quietly floated till the flood had subsided, having not only a good ship to carry him, but provision on board during his voyage. Ddicate Appetite. A dandv having ta ken it into his head to eat no vegetables, and being asked by a lady if he ever eat any in his life, answered "Yes, Madam I once eat a pea" A pair of good old dames were not long sine", regaling each oilier with the wonders of their childhood. One observed that w hen she was born she was so small that they put her into a quart tankard and shut down the cover. "Why. la me!" exclaimed her astonished auditor, "and did you live?" "Yes, they said 1 did, and that I grew nicely," was the reply. A letfer of recent date from Putnam county Illinois, states that the Poftawo(amies are giving great trouble (o Ihe settlers. They have liberty, by the (crms of (he treaty lo hunt in those parts for (he term of ten yours; and they linger in the neighborhood on account of game, which is said to be more abundant there than elsewhere. They annov the settlers by setting lire to (he grass in the woods and praries, hunting on their grounds, and in various other ways. The crop of Indian corn is very eood this year, and a large quantity has been raised. In the middle counties of (be stale it is delivering at (he disfilleri! i for ten cents per luh I.