Rising Sun Times, Volume 1, Number 13, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 8 February 1834 — Page 1

I i

II ilii JJld

To "praise n lure praise is due,;' and blame where blame, In spite of ttikliioii. pride or other name. Tlu '1.

THE RISING SUN Jr Primed end publisfod every Saturday By Iaac Stevens, fc Co TLRMS. Two Dunns pet .maurn, i l" pai ti in .id v.-iii i , Two Dollars ad Kirrv Cents if' f - i i in six months, or Fukkl' Pjli. vks at the erdof the year. A fiilure to notify a di-,cori:iiiU-i:;ce at li io cud of the lim- subiilcd for will he con-iderod a n-.v engagement. (rj" Arrearage mu-:t be ..vld previous to discontinuance. Advertisements r.ot exceeding r.e qmr,6r.e dollar (or three weeks, each snheiuciit insertion twenty-five cent?, larger ones in proportion. Letter? addressed to the editor, must be po?t jrnl to receive attention. S V. I AWT E II T A I. H S .

HANNAH LAMOND. SV l'ROl K-:0U WILSON. Almo-t nil the people in t lie parish (:! leading in their meaduw -ha v tin: line day of the mid-ummer, so drying the sun-hire and the wind and huge, he lped up t"'fl.. thrA almost hid t"rm vi. the ho.es tint drew them ilo.N tn' 'urd, beginning to gel green tsrJ'U fCC0Dt growth, were moving in all i;lt(.'io: toward the snug farm yard. Ntver k,,lV-' r,;,risu seemed before so ' j,,Cu. d vOy l ,! ahny air with laughter. v.hil!e. .V son- Hut the treer.o.eons threw shadow one o'clock . 'i tic t on dial-fricc "f tlie earth the or?e were v.nvoked ;e;id took instantly o fr:z;nc; i:nitifo( mvn. women, lads, bsses n:.d children, collected under rove and bush, and hedge-row; graces wor, i. renounced, and the great Heing them mat eiav uieir daih ISr.vd. IroV'd down irom ins ciernai thrV.u. -rpr v.'ea-id with the pic of Sis tiv.ntlul cre ure?. The area- GoU Eagle, the pride and pestPf th: pari:.. :l ,,w,.u and flew a-vav with Sor;.mS .l" h,,e ilc'i,-. 0;.e singh Midden lcm;ue b:;v -and then shouts nnd otnCIiets it a cH.m h-f-pire had tumble' do u on i congregation at a haci'rtmp,',t' "Hneiih Latr.ond'j hairn! Hannah Lamond's bairn was the loud, fa -t pef dinger). ;Tlie eaele's taken oil' Hanndi Lnnond'e bairn!" and many hundred t.et were in another instant burning towards the mountain. Two miles of hill and dale and copse .;t.d shingle, and many infeiseeting brooks lay between; hut in an incredibly short time, the foot of the mountain was alive with people. The eyrie was well known, arid both old birds were visible on the rockdede. But who shall scale that dizzy clill which Marl Stuart the sailor, who had been at the ftominir of mutv a for?, atlemnted in fain? a i t -ill kept ii?f weening, wnnijinu tif hand? in vain, rooted to the ground, or rntii in hack and forwards-, like so nuny ants in discomfiture. k hat's the Use what's the use o' any pooi human means! We have no power but in prayer!'' and many knelt down fa thers and mothers thinking of their own children, as if they would force the deaf heavens to hear! Hannah Lamond had all this while been i-ittin on a rock, with a face per frctly white, and eyes 1'iKe those of mad lierson, fixed on the eyrie. No body had noticed her, for strong as al sympathies with her had been at the swoop of the eagle, they were now swal lowed up in the agony ot eye sight "Only la-l Sabbatn was my little swet baptised;"' and on uttering these word she tlew up through the brakes, anc over the huge stones: up up up ,. lister than eter huntsman ran to death frurles? as a goat playing among preci i'ce. No oie doubted, no one could doubt that -.hr; would soon be dashed to pici es. Hut have, not people who walk in their sleep, ohejicnt to the mysterious guidance of drea ms, c limbed the walls of old ruins, and found footing, even in decrepitude, along ti.e end of unguarded battlements, and di.own dilapidated stair-ea-e deep as dr.iw-well and coal pits, and returned with open, hxed and unceing eves, unharmed, to their beds at midnieht! It is all the work of the soul, to whom the bodv is a slave; and shall not the agony of a mother's passion who sec hrr infant hurried off by a demon to a hideous death bear her limbs aloft, wherever there is dust, till she reach tKat devouring den, and fiercer and

hc furion far, in the p.iifn of love

than any bird of prey that ever bathed its beak in blood, throttle fiends, that with their henvy whits would fain flap down the dill's, and hold up her child in deliverance before, the eye of tiie allseeing Cod? No stop iiO st.ty slic knew not that fl:e drew her breath. Beneath her feel Providence fastened every loose stone, and to her hands strengthened every toot. How wa she ever to de-cend? That fear, then, but once erossed her hea 1 1, as up up up to the little image made of her own tlcsh and blood. ''The God who hold" me now from perishing will not the same God save rr.a when my child is on my bosom?" Down came the fierce iuhing of the eagle's wings each savage bird dashed close to her head, so that she saw the yellow of their wrathful eyes. All at once they quailed and were cowed. Veiling they flew off to the stump of an asb. jutting out from a liiT. a thousand feet above the cataract; and the christian mother falling across the ewie, in the midst of bones and blood, clasped her child dead dead dead, no doubt, hut unmangled and untorn. and swad lled up just as it was when she laid it dow n asle p among the fresh hay, in a no o( the harvest field. O. what a pant of perfect blessedness transfixed her heart, from that faint cry. u It lives! it live! it lives!" and baring her bosom with loud laughter, and

eves dry as stones, she felt the lips of the unconscious innocent once more murmuring at the fount of lite and love. Where, nil this while, w as Mark Stuart, the sailor? Halfway up (lie cliffs. Hut his eye had got dim, and his head dizzy, and hi heart sick; and he who had so often reefed the top gallant sail, when at midnight the coming of the gale was heard afar, covered his face with his hands, and dared look no longer on the swimming heights. 41 And who shall take rare of my poor bed-ridden mother," thought Hannah, whose soul, through the exhaustion ol so many passions, could no longer retain in its grap that hope which it had clutched in def-pair. A voice whisperCv. viou. one looueu arouuti especi'5 CI.- I. .1-- I A ; but nothing moved iri - to ' 1 1 r ;J IUUUII IMllllll!, ULU UIHICI i...... , i. ii i, its own weis :.'u - ding rock. Hcf r; )' some secret . i . ? tuinilliv ff fr CAI1I Wl ' me manimale object, watched its " seemed tu slop, not far on, on a plat form. Her child was hound within nor losom she remembered not how or when but it was safe; and scarcely daring to open her eyes, she slid down the shelving roiks. and found herself on a small piece ot tirm, rooi nouni oil, with the tops of bushes appearing below. With fingers suddenly strengthened into the power of iron, she swung hersen uown nv nrieranu oroom, anu near i i i ii ii. . i thcrand dwarf birch. There a loosened stone leaped over the bridge, and no sound was heard, so profound was its all. There, the shingle rattled down the screes, and she hesitated not to follow. Her feet hounded against the hu"-? stone that stonned them, buf felt no pain. Her body was callous as the , en Sleep as the wall of a house waa now the side of the precipice. But it was matted with ivy; centuries old long igo dead, and without a single green leafbut with thousands of arm thick terns petrified into the rock, and coveriiiT it as with a trellis. She bound her babe to her neck, and with hands and feet clung to that fearful ladder. Turning round her head and looking down, lo! the whole population of the parish, so great was the multitude, on their knees! and hush, the voice of psalms a hmn, breathing the spirit of one

united prayer! Sad and solemn was the I furnished with luxuries according, to voring to draw her into a quiet conver- . J . i . i . i l.i I . .i i - . . i i .

strain hut nothing dirge-lilte nrcatn-in-r not of death, but deliverance. Often had she sung that tune, perbans the very words, in her own hut she and hei mother or in the kirk, along with all the congregation. An unseen hand seemed fastening her hn,t,.c i il.r rilw of ivv. and in sudden in ' ' ' J T insniialion. as fearless as if she had . ,-. . been changed into a wingeu creature, Atr-iin li. r I'eef touched stoncsaiid earth S . i. .. ia liii-l il hut .i rpmn. !,. trdiMmr vnicn was heard close he .ii.l. l.rr- nnd. lo! she goat with two lil I lo L-iito :il her feet! "Wild heiehts." thought she, "do these creatures climb; l.nt tl dMm will lead down her kid bv w - -- - . the eaiest paths; for O, even in the 1 1 ...... , brute creatures, what is the holy povver of a mother't love!" and turning

round her head, she kissed her sleeping babe, and for the first time she wept. Overhead frowned the front of the precipice, never before touched by human hand or foot. No one had "over dreamed of scaling it; and the golden

eagles knew (hat well in their instinct, as, before they built their eyrie, thev had brushed it with their wins. Hut all the rest of this part of the mountain side, though seamed and chnsmcd, was vet accessible and more than one person in the parish had reached the bottom of Glead's Cliff. Many were now attea nlimr it. and

ere the cautious mother had followed baron gave an order to a male atlendher dumb guide an hundred v aids thro', ant at the door, and beckoning us to

aiinougn among dangers that, enough follow, lea her gently through a small to terrify the stoutest heart, were tra- rope planted with trees, to a room conversed by her without a shudder, the taming a hammock. She checked her head of one man appeared, and then torrent of language as she observed the another, and she knew that God had de- preparations going on, ar.d seemed a-

nvered ner and her child in salety into the care of their A llow creatures. Not a word was spoken e, es said enough; she hudied her friends with her hands, and w ith uplifted eves, pointed to the guides sent by heaven. Small green plats, where these creatures mh Die ttie wild flowers, became now more frequent trodden Sines, almost as easy is sheep paths, showed that the dam had not led her young into her danger; md now the brushwood dwindled awav into straggling shrubs, and the party stood on an eminence abov e the stream, ana forming part of the strath. 1 here had been trouble and agitation, much sooningnnu many tears among the mulI. I : - i . . i .1

iiiuue, wlnle the mother was scaling into the court, where eight or ten wothe cliffs sublime; loud was the shout men in the gray gowns of the establish-

tnat echoed alar the moment she reached the eyrie and now that her salvatioii was sure, the great crowd rustled like a wind-sweeped word. And foi whose sake was all (his alteration of agony ? A poor, humhle crealute, unknown to many even bv name; one who had hut few friends nor widied for more; contented (o work all day, here theic any where that r-hc might be able to support her aged :i:ouiei ctiuj iiei iiiuecmio; ami vvno on Sabbath took her scat in an obscure pew set apait for paupers in the kirk. "Fall batk and give her frer-li air," said the old minister of the parish ; and me circle ol close laces widened round her, lying as in death. "Give me the dear child into my arms," cried first one mother and then another, aid il was tenderdy handed round the circle of kis-es, many of the young maidens hath ing ,:-s i tcew iui tears. " i here s not ..I i : a singic i-ciai!-" ;tooui me poor inuocent, for the eagle. Vou see, must have stuck its talons into the long clothe md the shawl. Blind! blind! must they i - - ne, who see noi uio imgei oi vjoo in thi thing." Hannah started up from her swoon, looking wildly around, and ciied O! the bird the bird the eagle, the eagle! ii. I l : i it i. ii.. i ue uauie oas carried on m n noWalter is there none to pursue!" A neighbor put her child into her bosom; and shutting her eyes, and smiting her forehead, the sorely bewildered creature said, in a low voice: "Am I awake? O. tell me if ! am awake, or il all this be the work of a fever, and the de- . , hrium ol a dream? 1NSANE FEMALES. The foUmcing is extracted from " Willis first Impressions oj Europe. Two of the best conducted lunatic asv lums in the vvorl 1 are in the kingdom of Naples one at Aversa, near Capau, and the other at Palermo. The latter is managed by a whimsical Sicilian haron, who has devoted his lime and fortune (o it, and with the assistance of the government, has carried it lo ureal I extent and perfection. The pool are received gratuitous! v, and those who can afford it enter as boarders, and are ineir means. 1 he hopilal stands in an airy situalion, in the lovely neighborhood of Palermo. We were received by a porter in a respectable lively, who introduced us immediately to the old baron a kind looking man rather advanced beyond I middle lifi of iii.-iimnr sincuhtilv npn. I " 7 r,- J (eel and nrcnossefsing. " Je suis lc I r -il .1 I premier iou , saiu ne inrowing ms arms out. as he bowed at our entrance. I .. - We went into the apaitment of the women. These. lie said, were his worst subjects. In the first room sat eicht or 'I f . . . . .. o ten employed in spinning, while one in furiated creature, not more than thirty. but quite gray, was walking up and I . .. ' ii i i .. down the floor lancing ana gesticulating I with the greatest violence. A young

gill of sixteen, an attendant, and entered into her humour, ctnd with her arm put affectionately around her waist, assented to every thing sht; said, and called her by every name of endearment while endeav oring to pacify her. When the baron entered, the poor eteature addressed herself to him, and seemed delighted that he had come. He made several mild attempts to check her, but she seized his hands, and with the veins ot her throat swelling with passion, her eyes glaring terribly, and her tongue white and trembling, she continued to

declaim more and more violently. The mused w:th the idea of swinging. The man took her no in his arm without resistance, and laced the hammock over her, coveiing every thine but her head and the female attendant, one of the most playful and prepossessing little creatures I ever saw, flood on a chair. and al every swing threw a little water in her face as il in sport. Onc e or twice the maniac alterna ted to resume (he subject of her ravines, but the "hi laughed in her face and diverted her from it, until at last she smiled, and dropping her head into the hammock. seemed disposed to sink into an easy sleep. it? i . . . We lei I her swinging and went out uient were walking up and down or setting under the trees, qA in thought. One, with a fine intelligent face, came up to me and curtsied gracefully wilhout speaking. The physician of the establishment joined me at the moment and asked her what she wished. "To kis his hand,'' said she, " but his looks forbade me.'' She colored deeply, and folded her arms across her breast and walked away. The baron called, u ami ingoing oui I passed her again, and taking her hand kissed it and bade tier good by. u You had hotter kiss an ii)s, said she, you'M never ice me again." She hud her forehead again-t the nrs of the gale, and with emotion, watched us till we turned out of sight, I asked the physician for her history, ' It was a common case." he said. "She was the daughter of a Sicilian noble, who, too poor to marry her to one of ner own ranic, had sent her to a conI ...1 . r. l. l i l -", oei c eomuiemeni nau uriv en ner mad. Site is the as I urn." now a charity patient in The courts in w hich these poor crea tures are confined, open upon a large and lovely garden. We walked thro1 it with the baron, and then returned to 'he apartments of the females. In passmg a cell, a i ti-i. w tf-iut if), iiwi.iti.wii .! ' iuv-u -"j nn i h.iuui.ii ui, commenced an address to the Deity, in a language strangely mixed with Italian anu Ureck. Her eyes were naturally large and soil, but excitement hed giv en them additional dilation and tire, she looked a prophetess. Her action. with all its energy, was lady-like. He . ... w- - foot, half covered with slippers, were well formed and slight, and she had ev ery mark of superiority both of birth and endowment. I he baron took her by the hand with the deferential courlesy of the old school, and led her lo one of (he stone seals. She yielded to him politely, but resumed her harangue, upbraiding (he Deity, as well as I could understand, lor her misfortunes. 1 hey succeeded in soothing her by the assistlance of the same playlul attendant vvno had accompanied (he other to the ham mock, and she sat still, with her lips white and trembling like an aspen W hile the good old baron was endea sauon, me pnysician ioiu me some cu nous circumstances respecting her, She was a Greek, and had been brought to Palermo when a girl. Her mind had been destroyed by an illness, and after seven years madness, during which she refused to rise Irom her bed anu had I ouite lost the use of her limbs, she I I was brought to (he establishment by I I A.: l trior! I oer menus. l.aoji um :m in vain to induce her to move Irom her I . r I -.- 1. . .1. . I .1 1 n.4 1 II I II I OOhll lOll. il last l IIC nitron uetermincd upon addressing .what he con sidered the master passion in all female bosoms. He dressed himself in the I . . . ga)est manner, and inoneoi nei genue I moments,, entered the room with respectful ceremony and offered himself .1 ; I CI.- ..f. l u:. 10 ner in marriage: one ieiuteu nun I with srorn, and with seeming emotion

he begged forgiveness and left her. The next morning, on his entrance, she

smiled the first time for years. He continued his attentions for a day or two, and alter a little coquetry she one morning announced to him that she had re-considered his proposal, and would be his bride. They raised her from her bed to prepare for the ceremony. and she was carried on a chair to the garden, where the bridal feast was spread; nearly all the other patients of me hospital being present. The iraietv of the scene absorbed the attention o'f all ; the utmost decorum prevailed and when the ceremony was performed the bride was crowned, and carried back in state to her apartment. She recov ered gradually the use of her limbs: it.... her health is improved and excepting an occasional paroxysm, such as we happened to witness, she is quiet and contented. The other inmates of thf sylum still call her the bride And !he baron, as her husband, has the greatest influence over her. Wrhile the physician was tellins? me these circumstances, the baron had succeeded in calming her, and she sat with her arms folded, dignified and silent. He was still holding her hand, when the woman whom we had left swinging in the hammock, came stealing up behind the trees on tiptoe, and putting her hand suddenly over the baron's eyes kissed him on both sides of his face, laughing heartily, and calling him by every name of affection. The contrast between-this mood and the infuriated one in which we had found her, was the best comment on the good man's system. He gently disengaged himself and apologized to his lady for allowing the liberty, and we followed him to another apartment. It opened upon a pretty court, in which a fountain was playing, and against the different columns of the portico sat some half dozen patients. A oung man of eighteen, with a very pale, scholar-like face, w;-s reading Ariosto. Ne:r hirn undei the direction of an attendant, a fair, delicate girl, w iiii a sadness in her soft blue eyes that might have oecn a sfudy for a " mater dolorossa,"' wr.s cutting paia upon a hoard laid across her lap. She seemed scarcely conscious of what she was about, and when I approached and spoke to her she laid down the knife, and rested her head upon her hand, and looked at me steady, as if she was try ing to recollect where she had known me. " I can not remember,1' she said to herself, and went on with her occupation. I bowed to her as we look our leave, and she returned it gracefully, but coldly. The young man looked up from his book and smiled, the old man lying on the stone seat in the outer court rose up and followed us to the door, and we were bowed out by the on roil nd his gentle madmen as politely and kindly as if we were concluding a visit to a company of friends. Choosing lo be hanged rather than mar tied. It was formcily a law in Germany, that a female condemned to a capital punishment should be saved if any man would marry her. A young girl of Vienna was on the point of being executed, when her youth and beauty made a great impression upon the heart of on'1 of the spectators, who was a Neapolitan; a middle aged man, but exceedingly ugly. Struck with her charms, he determined to save her, and running immediately to the place of ex ecution, declared his intention to marry the girl, and demanded her pardon ac cording (o the custom of the country. The pardon was granted on condi tion that the girl was not averse to the match. The Neapolitan then told the female that he was a gentleman of some properly, and that he wished he was a King, that he might oiler her a stronger proof of his attachment. " Alas! sir," replied the girl, " I am fully sensible of your affection and generosity, but 1 am not mistress over my own heart, and I can not belie my sentiments. Unforlunately they control my fale; and I prefer the death. with which lam threatened, to marving such an ugly fellow as you." The Neapolitan retired in confusion, and the woman directed the executioner to do his office. Consciences. Judge JefTeries taking a dislike to a witness who had a long heard, told him lhat if his conscience was as long as his beard, he had a swinging one: To which I he countryman replied, "My lord, if you measure consciences by beards, your worship hai none at ft."

: (