Rising Sun Times, Volume 1, Number 24, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 26 April 1834 — Page 3
Saturday Morning April 26. 03-Turii OutLco This day the people of Dearborn will meet at Wilmington to nominate candidates for the Legislature. Their
choice will be made from among those favorable to removing the seat of justice from Lawrenceburgh to the centre of the count-. How many of our villagers will be there! We have received the first number "JN- of the "Indiana Whig,'1 published at Lawrenceburgh. It is printed on an imperial sheet and neatly executed. We are pleased with the title and editorial article on that subject. Our friend, the editor, appears to be a wholehog bank-man, but without further comment, at present, we wish him good speed. The "Indiana Whig" announces Col. Johnson Watts for the S.;natc. We presume Col. Watts is the people'' s man and will go wherever they call him.
We have given a place to A. J. Cottons communication; but under existing circumstances cannot support him besides that by the expressed conditions of his being a candidate, we consider him already withdrawn. Some people do all by talking. This will not do us. We should like to receive the lotig talked of communications from some of our friends. 07" I Taccinate your children. Small pox is said to be prevailing to some ex tent at Vevay and in the country back Several fatal c ases have occurred. THE CONCERT. We have not for a long time been more agreeably entertained than at the concert of music held in the Presbyterian church on the 19th inst. The per formance far exceeded our most san guine expectations, and awakened reflections of a highly pleasing and interesting character. Jhe thought that here, where but fetv years since nothing of melody was heard save the music of the wild and native Krcst, and that only by the j uJe and uncultivated ear of the wanderiii"- savage, now the harmonious notes of the band fell in melting accents upon the refined sense of civilized man the idea would naturally spring lore most in the mind and swell the soul with elevating joy. It must not be expected that we should tie so agreeably entertained on this ocalthough it was one of much o interest and called out a large and re jrtectaMe audience. The .members of the society were mostly young and in experienced in music, and hao! lately conic together as a band. We expect ed to hear jarring discord instead of j J sweet harmony but here we werel' agreeably disappointed. On entering the church we took a position in front, in order to be at as great a distance from the orchestra as possible. There we were comfortably seated, and unmolested 6ave by a gang of ruby-faced boys who, unfortunately for us, made choice of the 6ame situation and occupied our right. These rogueish boys seemed more effected by the music than were we; and it produced on them an opposite effect from that usually observed. Quietude with them was an impossibility. Their mischievous propensiticsappearcd tobebroughl suddenly into life, and in spite of all we could say or do, their handy little heels would beat time. It seemed almost an involuntary act produced by the charms of music operating on their tender ner vous systems. We scolded but that will never do for boys. So we only re membered that we were once a boy, and said not another word. On our left sat an aged gentleman of three score and ten a veteran soldier -of the revolutionary war. We could not but be forcibly impressed with the marked contrast between him and our yotmg companions on the right. While they were full of life, merriment and mischief so strikingly characteristic of the period of their lives, the BiWer
haired soldier was quiet as the walls
that inclosed us and seemed as inflexi bly fixed to his seat. The marks of age were upon him. His locks were whitened with years. He was, as it were, a monument of time long since past away, and a living witness of their deeds. He had come to listen to the beat of the drum and the swell of martial music sounds with which his ear had once been familiar, but to which it had long been unaccustomed. No doubt it awakened in the bosom of the aged soldier sensations and feelings to which we are entire strangers. But to return from this deviation to the subject. Music is an art that is worthy of cultivation It softens down the harsher feelings of our natures and melts them into tenderness and love. It imparls beauty and sweetness to our devotional exercises, and makes a ten fold impression upon our sympathies. It trains our thoughts (o move in holy concert with the favored mue, and gives a buoyancy and elasticity to-our fancies that nothing else can bestow. But the beauties and powers of music have been ably painted by a Lite correspondent: so, we shall close our remaifcs by wishing the society a happy progress in improvement. C O M M IT X ICATIO N S . For the Rising Sun. NATIONAL IDEAS OF A PARADISE. ' "For a blissful Paradise of Godr t.den s carten was. The natives of Turkey believe,. ac cording to their promise, that when they depart front this life they will be wafted by pleasant gales to a blissful paradise, there to revel in all the de lightful pleasures and sensual appetites of man. The Mexicans formerly be lieved that those whs were drowned went to a cool and enchanting abode, and there enjoyed all the happiness and bliss that thought could picture to them; those who died in- battle or captivity were wafted to the palace of the sun and led a life of endless delight: that they were visited from this earth by animated birds of beautiful feather and sweet song who ascended up to heaven to Euck delectable flowers and warble angelic songs. The Tonquinese of India, imagine their forests and mountains to be peopled with a peculiar kind of Genii, who exercise their influence over the affairs of mankind; their ideas relative to a future state of happiness arer a delightful climate, an atmosphere surcharged with the most delicious odours, and a throne profusely covered with garlands of flowers, styualed on a- sucamit of celestial felicity. The Arabs believe a fine country, abounding- with shady groves, will form the principal objects of their promised bliss. The heaven of the Celts in Ancient Wales was called Flathinis, the island of the good and the brave; their hell, Ifurin, the island of a cold climate. There is a tribe in America, who believe that the souls of good men are conveyed to a pleasant valley, abounding in guavis and other delicious fruits. The Osage Indians of North America, believe that from a beaver they came into exist I ence, and to a beaver they must return for Jheir future happiness. The Muscoguhje Indians believe their paradise to be situated on the islands in the vast Pacific ocean. The Laplanders imagine a paradise to be located in the centre of the snows of Sweden. The future happiness of the followers of Pythagoras, was in transformation after death from the human to the animal form. The Druids or Ancient Britons, as we are informed by Ar minius, believed that the souls of good men were wafted in a progressive course from planet to planet, enjoying at each successive change a more sub lime felicity than in the preceding, And lastly, heaven born religion points to her followers the paradise oi eter nal love and rest. M. TO THE VOTERS OF DEAR CORN" COUNTY. Fellow citizens: In suffering my name to continue before you as a can didate for your suffrages, at the ap proaching August election, I deem it both idoneous and due to an concern ed, that I should say a few words on reference thereto at this early day, Having been a candidate before you a number of times already, and having as often failed, it will doubtless be asked bv some what does the man meant Does he intend to be a candi date forever! Will he take no denial Whv then does he wish to stand ano ther Dollt Has he not already fair ly tested hia political strength?
These inquiries demanJ f me severally a categorical answer. Jn- the first place I answer that I do not intend to be a candidate forever. I will take a fair denial that is all I ask. P have not as yet foirly tested my political strength, as will be easily made to appear. This then is why I wish to stand another poll this- then is jwst what I mean To give eve the pursuit under these circumstances, and have it said that I could not be elected, when at each succeeding election I have made a handsome advance, properly considered, and with prospects infinitely more flattering than on any former occasion, is not perfectly congenial with my feelings is what few men would do. Reader, pause with care weigh deliberately, and judge impartially upon the following expose, and then say whether I act prudently or imprudently in the course which I have marked out as the rule of my own action. In '29 I stood a poll for Representative, and received just 200 A 1 An P 1 - I 1
vuies iuw Qt wiuen t received m Manchester. The year follow ine I was re-nominated but declined being at that time on the eve of departing to isic my parents and Inends in Maine While there I was put in nomination for associate judge and received 3 or 400 voles in Manchester was second best The whole was performed in my absence 1 did not return until Nov. In '32 most unexpectedly the county convention gave me a nomina tion for seminary trustee.. I should have declined but for the remonstrance f my friends, because I apprehended that the election would be both local nd sectional and so it was. Will any man suppose that 1 1 votes are all could get in Laughery township at a lair poll? iNo. Consequently I was defeated Add to this it may be well doubted whether it was possible to have found another man in the county better Known and more vustly respect ed, and better qualified for the. office, than the gentleman with whom I had to compete;, and-with all, he was one of my much respected friends, and is to this day, notwithstanding he was lected over me with a majority of one to two hundred votes; yet, in our own district I received more than two to one voles. Last year I stood a poll for Representative, being the second time for that office, and received 833 votes 201 of which 1 received in Manchester; which, when compared with the first result would stand thus: n Manchester, in '29, 100 in '33, 201 a little more than two to one. n the county, in '29, 200 in '33, 838 a little more than four to one: in all, a net advance of 638. I now ask in candor is that not a pretty fair advance? Would any man who had ever suffered his name to be thus used abandon the field without a third effort? But let him be aware of the third. Fellow citizens, am I too aspiring in calmly submitting my claims to your consideration once more? If so, proclaim it at the ballot box and it shall suffice, (for the present at least.) But should you. decide in my favor, I frank ly declare that 1 will not cling to office "with a life tenure. And here let me ask you- to consider the disadvantages under which I labored last year. As my luck would have it, there were too opposing candidates ui my own township until the election- morn I say opposing, because none of us beteved that more than one could be elected consequently there was a la boured effort made w. every part of the county to persuade the 'sovereigns that this man would run best, feeHence there was- a division of senti mentsy consequently as the people thought me or Heustis the Manchester man, and the most likely to succeed, so they voted f and as a consequence, we were both defeated that difficul ty cannot exist this year the question is fairly settled through- the ballot box. My friends, in the different town ships, tell me that if it had been known that I should have run so well at home, I should have been elected without remaining doubt. Others have had the frankness to say that they did not vote for me, because they had been made to believe that I was far from being the choice of Manchester. They were willing to give Manchester ne Representative and no more, and they wished to go with her in the selection. What could be more honorable? Tins I believe to be the true merits of the case. 1 believe either iieustis or should have been elected single hand ed. Both running was the misfortune I deem it due to myself to say that should not have been a candidate had not Mr. II assured me, in the most unequivocal terms, that he should not be a candidate we talked the subject over more than once. It was with surprise that I learned from him that he should " go ahead," a few weeks only before the ejection. 1 had then gone
too far to decline, else I should have done so I did not become a candidate to oppose him; nay, I was his friend, and viewed him as being mine. In fine, it was bad management, without bad intention We defeated each other unintentionally let that suffice. I do not attribute my defeat to any po
litical party management Some of the most prominent Clay men were among my most zealous supporters. This I know to be a fact. For instance in Jackson township I received every vote except six. There is, in all probability, three times that number of Clay men in Jackson; nor is it probable that every Jackson man voted for me. In fine, was as well pleased with the result as I could well be, and not be elected I suppose I should have liked that a little better and not so very httle neither. However an election this year would do me belter, but there is something in getting it that is the rub. Be that as it may, the voluntary assurances which I continue to receive from the different parts of the county since the last election, and not unfrequently from those who then opposed me, warrant the belief that if I can ever be elected, it will be the present year; and hence I wish to try my luck once more, and be done with it. This is a fair explanation of my case. All of which is respectfully submitted, With respect, A. J. COTTON. Manchester, April 10, 1834. P. S. Should the county seat question be made the pivot on which the election is to turn, that is to say, if there is to be two full tickets made out the one pledged for and the other against the " Removal,"' I shall postpone my claims, if any F have, until the storm is blown over. My friends, therefore will make no effort in my faor until that point is settled, at which ime they may hear frcn me again. And should f see my way clear to go ahead," I intend neither to write, say, or do much m an electioneering ine of business shall passively sub mit my case without much debate hall diligently apply myself to the culivation of my farm let opposing can didates alone speak evil of none. without iust provocation, that is to blazon their real faults. If I am eected, let it be the free will offering of the people, founded on my humble merits, and on merit alone. A. J. cotton. The Chickasaws. The following is an extract of a letter to the editor of the National Banner, dated Pontotoc, Chickatow J"ation, March 1 8. Dear Sir: The ereat National Council of the Chickasaws is just over and the Delegation sets out to-day for Washington, for the purpose of endeaonng, as it is understood to effect an alteration in the treaty as it regards the manner of taking reservations. They now wish to take them in fee simple. My opinioa is, however, that the treaty will stand as first made. ine surveying is progressing very rapidly, and 1 have but little doubt at this time,that about one hundred 1 own ships will be ready for sale as early as October next, a considerable part of this country is beautiful ; the sou is fine, and the water good. There are alrea dy a great many respectable settlers lere, and as soon as the lands are sold, am sure the population will soon be come dense. ROBBERY AND ATTEMPT AT MURDER!! Columbia, (Tcnn.) April 12. t A daring and horrid outrage was perpetrated here last night. A few minutes after 10 o'clock, the groans and vomiting ot some person, who seem ed to be in deep distress and agony, ar rested the attention of one of ourciti zens. It was raining and excessively dark. To the enquiry, "what's the matter," he answered "I am sick." The voice of Parry W. Porter, the Cashier of the Union Bank, was recog nized. He was wet and covered with blood, having received a violent blow on the head, and a stab on the left side. mi a t 1 1 1 nese wounds naa been mulcted about seventy or eighty feet from the door of the Bank where his hat and pocket knife, &c. were found. How long lie had remained insensible is un known. He had scrambled about hal the way back, marking his path with blood. The keys of the Bank had been ta ken from his pocket, the vault entered and $19,G00 taken. Energetic meas ures were instantly adopted to detect the perpetrators of this bold and crue piece ofvillany, but no circumstance has yet transpired to direct suspicion to any body. W e only know that mur der has been attempted and robbery effected. Mr. Porter only remembers that he slept out on business, and knows nothing of haying been knocked down
He thought he was only sick, and never knew he was hurt till he was brought to the light and saw blood. He is badly injured, but it is hoped not dangerously: No sort of blame is imputable to him. No honest man in this orderly community could have feared such an outrage. The Bank has no where a more careful, a more faithful, or a more competent officer. lie is not only a man of business habits, but every inch a gentleman. V. Banner.
August Election 1834. FOR GOVERNOR JAMES G. READ, JVOAll XOBLE. FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, DAVID WALL. ICE, D. V. CULLEY. For Senator, Horace Bassett. For Sheriff, Alex. H. Dill, James W. Hunter, John Weaver, William Dils, Martin Trester, For Representative. Alfred J. Cotton. ii :w a o ois. THE subscriber having just opened a new stock of Dry Cioorts, Groceries, Hardware, CUTLERY, GLASS, QUEENS WARE, &.C., in the store room heretofore occupied by Mr. E. S. Bush, on Front street, respectfully presents his compliments to his patrons and promises with all cheerfulness to attend to their calls. M. TURNER. Rising Sun, April 5th, 1834. FTjAX seed. 17 X CENTS Cash per bushel will be given for clean Flax Seed at the Rising Sun Mill until December next. on 11 AND, 2. Bushels Flax Seed, which will be let for sowing at a moderate ad vance to take seed again in Autumn. April 5th, 1834. TIN WARE! A. IVAII.EICiH, RESPECTFULLY informs the people of Rising Sun, and vicinity, that he has opened a shop on Main St., near the corner of b ront, where he is prepared to manufacture Every variety or Tin Ware. Being an experienced workman, he has no hesitation in assuring general satis faction to his friends, and those purcha sers who may favor him with a call. Country Produce will be taken at the market price for Tin Ware April 26th, 1834. 12w (KrSALT! SALT! LCO IOO Parrels KANAWHA SALT just received and for sale by HAINES & LANIUS. pri vs7s rti rifti tr tc It. K. EATON, fc CO., HAVE just received an additional' supply of Spring and Simmer Goons,among which are the following: HANDSOME CALICOES, SILK & GINGHAMS, DRESS HDKFS., &c. Also, HARDWARE, QUEENSWARE, GROCERIES, MEDICINES, &c. &c. Also, IO Da rr els Mackerel, All of which they will sell low for Cash, or country Produce. Rising Sun, April 5th, 1834. Wholesale & ICetail HAT MANUFACTORY. BENNETT As MORGAN RESPECTFULLY inform the citizens of Rising Sun and vicinity, that they still continue to carry on the Hatting business in all its various branches, at their old stand one door from the corner of Front on Main street; where they intend keeping constantly on hand, a general assortment of Hats or the Latest Fashion; which they warrant, for neatness and durability, inferior to none manufactured east of the mountains; which they will sell wholesale or retail on accommodating terms. B. & M. return their sincere thanks to the public for their former patronage and earnestly solicit a continuance of their favors. fcSrII.Ts made to order at the shortest notice.
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