Rising Sun Times, Volume 1, Number 36, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 19 July 1834 — Page 1

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to riN"ci!j-c:-;jrc. What lias licomn of u Piiirl.iv'-Hu" ?' 'My own, my cl'.cri.-!.i" l';ic::J, Who often liul us all jinn-.', Willi rhymes so ".vcct!y j.;::t:M. Full many a time I've cave Lhn li-.l.!, When he t i!i.J c-..it.!tu;'" And by that 1 i t . t liroitcti i Some pleasant tliin-ji ri ! ;... Yes by my liiht a loin 1 w -.:;(!, c He wove for his ow ;i brow : Ami, poet-lam.le like, a i ruii n Of fame is dm Liii; i; u . Uut whore's lie now ? vln rc!,;i' he lljv.n? I've waited f.ir l.im Iii I've limited cv'ry hole a;:'! id-. N . Uut still I l.cur no ,; -, Your abeiH'e leaver u.hvi.ry vi !. We never knew b; fme ; O! then eoaie hank th :;r "''Ii'.cl.ii V.n,"' And sing to us once mere. i.H:!iT.i.Nc;-!;ri;. Latighery ra.Vv, Jv! Jt. Tin: ii:vil, am) to?: coo;:. Tom Cook, lie v,:i-a trot'd thief, l'e heard old . mule tell, In petlit larceny did he Moit other tliiees excel. Where Tom w;: horn, or uhcre he died, 1 cannot now find out ; So, ccntle reader, on ll,e-e mints We must remain in iioi:Lt. Tom often from the rich w;e!d -teal, And thin the poor supply, Promoting, like true iU moeral, Complete cijaidity. At a poor widow's he me night, Rrijiiesteil he niiht slay Till nioinitiir, a he was I'uicli tiled, Then for her ki.ihic;s p.n . She owned de noll.in ; h;i 1 t J eat, Or to her children irive ; Says he, "your want- shall be supplied, As surely as I live." He hntened to a neighbor;:; mil!. And quickly there i!i 1 steal, And brinj into the widow's cot A heavy Lag of meal. On liaty pudding they ci ! fea.-t, Tom, widow, e!iiidr ii four; Then slept till iieirn , w hen oi: his w a ' , lie left t'..c wi low 's doer. The widow wn- a woman, so She quickly spread the fame Of Tom Cook's present, all around, A'ot knowing w hi nee it came. The miller heard the now full soon, And rat-ed the hue and crv ; And ire the sun wa down, poor Tom Was safe in custody. They took him to a bar-room, where A crowd all capins st.iod, Of 'sovereign people,' whom Huikc calls A 'swini-h nuillituJe.' Tom walk'd and taik'd among the crowd, Declaring, without fail, The Devil soon would take him oil", Nor let him go to jail. IJeneath I.m dread-nought, old coat, he Had of ptinimw der -tore, A hich, while he w alk'd and taik'd around, lie scatler'd on the floor. Then from the fire-place suddenly A burning coal he took. The pow der toueh'd the room wa- lil'.'d With stilj hnr-sccntcd smoke. Tom diapponr'd the night wr Jruk, The folks wore badly sear'd So Se was fir a-vay, before Tliey to ar-ue him dared. Fh'1 many more there mi'.'ht he to! 1 Of Tom's fam'd tricks so c!ecr; Which for the pie-ent ar.: lit fc:rcd, And probably, forever. BBO 11 A vn V ii i:if.TON am i:ri'.;:. hi 1?U3, Alox iml -r ll uiiilion at t lio :c of 33, rostimt'il the pr.u tin: of tlic law in the city of Ncv Vi ik, an 1 llicro continurJ until the do-o of lii- life. In December of that ycvir his p. r n il ap)iearancc va litis: lie was under rni!ille sizo, thin in person hut remarkably erect, and diniiieil i;t his ileportrn'Mtt. 1 1 is 1)111 seen in so many h i-c, and the pictures and prints of him, nuke known too generally the figure of hifice, to m ike an attempt at de-i i ipti.ui expedient. His hiir w is tiirne 1 back from his forehead, powdered and collected in a club behind. His complexion was exceedingly fair, and varyiiis from this only by the most feminine rosiness of his checks. His minlit be considered as to ll'iirc and color, nn uncommonly handsome face. When at rest it had rather a seiere and thoughtful expression ; but when engaged in conversation, it easily a-snmed an attractive smile. He was expected one day in December, 1795, at a dinner, and was the last who came. When he entered the room it was apparent from the respectful attention of the company, th-it he was a disiinguUhc.il individual. He was dressed ta a blue coat with bright buttons; the skirts cf his coat w ere unusually long. I le wore a white waist-coat, black smallclothes, white silk stockings. The gentleman who received him as a guest, introdued him to such of the company as were strangers to hjm ; to each he tnide

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a forma! bow, the tcrenuiiv o! s hands hot being observed. T! of Hamilton had readied every one who knew :my thing of public men. His aprearanco and d 'not linent aeccrld wi;h tile nUiv'd diiii: tn-n to w hid: he ' t.ici attained in pu biie p i : iieu. in uuiiicr, w lie never te . ! . . . t i i!i i'c i; ct s itioii everv one listein i: :.; v.- v i ,,...,! vldliiei ale sei i oils', ;ti:ii n V; or:g.';;';'.i iisaiit In l!:e e. . i Hie sac.ie ,ia , ho w of I)i)i;i M Xcs; at- in a mixed a-sei;-and tiit: tia: imi;1 r;.m i i e i.o'iicc i at 1 1 . e g; en piuce to a ;.!; :.or, a- iho in t;:;; ti'JMs ta c xr-. . di; t .. ne r tai:! . ii.'U! i:: inwas K:ne a f,,. , C TT "1 ... I.. ""I I . immon was ;uu !;Tc i iirlV ; to ! comm.ii.iliiiL; : 1 !;e s be ii.id no eniue nucl : 1 nut ill iHinui-e f a gi ."at and i n , lie na ii;g Ira lilt! iC opp i lui.il v to bi a::-ei li'ii'mt d jit e liar, or in popul I! D 1 1 ; i hose u ;:o ( 'I Mild M) ak of us manner from the best otmoi (uni ties to observe l.im, in public and private, concurred in pronouncing birr, to be a frank, amiable, high minded, open hearted, gentleman, lie v;is capable of inspiring the most alijetiona'e attachment; but he could make those whom be opposed, fear and hale him cordially. He was capable of interire ar.d cii'.ctual application as it abundantly proved by his public labors. I'ut he had a rapidity and clearness of perception, i:i which he may not have been equalled. One who knew his habits o study, said that when lie had a serious object to accomplish, his practice was to n tlect on it previously; and when he had gone l!.ioi:g!i this labor, he retired to sleep without regard to the hour of the night; and having slept six or right hours, rose, and having taken strong cGllhe, seated himself at bis table, where he would remain six, seven, or eight hours, and the product of his rapid pen icpiired little correction for the press. He was among the few, alike excellent whether in speaking or in writing. In private and friendly inten curse, he is said to have been exceedingly amiable, and to have been iiliectionateiy beloved. Aaron Burr was at this time, (Dec. 17'Jj.) probably about Hamilton's age. lie had attained to celebrity as a lawyer at the same bar. He was of about the same stature of Hamilton, and a thin man, but dideretUly formed. His motions in walking were not like Hamilton's erect, but a little stooping, and f ir from graceful. His face wa- shot I at.d broad; his b!a k eves u'.comiuoniv piercing. His manner gentle and seductive. 15.it he had also a calmness and sedatencss when these suited his purpose, and an eminent authority of manner, when the occasion called for it. He was said to have presided with great dignity in the senate, and especially at the trial of Judgi ('base. Though eminent as a lawyer, he was not s lid to be a m m of distinguished eloaueuc.-, nor of luxuriant mind. His speech? s.weie short .and to the purpose. H imiltoii considered him, both as a m in and a politician, much as he proved to be in after life; and was not careful to conceal Ins opinions. In short, he hold lurr to be an ambitious ana dangerous man; and vva indi-creet enough to have expressed his opinions in such a manner as to enable Burr to '.ike olfence, and to call him to account. It seem-, that a certain Dr. Charles D. Cooper, had written a letter to some one, in which he said, "-General Hamilton and"1 (another person who need not be named) "have declared in substance that they looked upon Mr. Burr as a dangerous man, and one who ought not to be trusted with the reigns of government."' "I could detail to you a still more despicable opinion which General Hamilton has expressed of Mr. Burr." Oil the lCth of dune, 1S0-1, this letter had some time after i 1 3 publication, come to Burr's knowledge, and on that day he sent a copy of it to Hamilton, by Mr. Van Ness, in which h" demanded " i prompt and unqualified acknowledgement or denial of the ue of any expression which would warrunt the assertions of Dr. Cooper." On the 20th, Gen. Hamilton made a reply of some length, commenting on the. demand made on him, and on the expressions imputed to him, and con eluded by saying, "I eland ready to avo.v, or disavow, promptly and explicit ly.any precise or definite opinion which I may he charged with having declared of anv gentleman." "It cannot be cx-

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pected that I sh:i!l enter into an cxpl io;, upon a bais so vague as that villi ! ! Villi ll'H-. M.t.Mit.,1 I ...,.,. .... morc reflection, cu will see the matte UJV. fll I . I 1 1 I ! . fill in the. same light withmc; if not, 1 can only regri t the circumstance, and abide the consequences."' On the 21st, Burr an'vcred, and among other tilings said, 'Political opposition can never absolve gentlemen bom the necessity (frigid adherence ((, the i.iws cf honar, and the rules of decorum. I neither claim such privi!eie. nor indulge it in other-. The common sense of mankind aiiixos to the. epithet nden'ed y Dr. Cooper, the idea of dishonor. It has Ikcu pul lii !y applied to n:e under the sanction of your name. our letter has furnished me w ith new reasons tor requiring a definite iep!v On the 22.1 Gem Hamilton consulted with a friend. (Mr. lendietou)at;d show- j cu to t : i tn an intended answer of thai date, in which he said after some introduetorv remarks, "If bv a definite reply, vou mean the dir ct avow al or disavowal, required in vour letter. I have no other answer to give than (hat whit h has already been given. If you moan any thing different, admitting of greater latitude, it is rcquitite vou should explain." Conversations and correspondence ensued between Mr. Pendleton, and Mr. Van Ness, in which it was made know n to the latter, that General Hamilton could truly say, that he i (-collected only one conversation to which Dr. Cooper was present; and (hat it turned wholly on political topics and did not attribute to Burr any instance of dishonorable conduct; nor relate to his private character; and that in relation to any other language or conversation, which Burr would specify, a prompt or frank avowal or denial would be given. This intercourse resulted in (he express declaration of Mr. Burr's friend, Van Ness, "That no denial or declaration will be satisfuetorv, unless it be general, so as wholly to exclude the idea, that rumors derogatory to Col. Burr's honor have originated with Gen. Hamilton, or have been fi'uly infilled from any tiling he ha said. A definite reply (o a question of this nature was demanded by Colonel Burr's letter ct the 31st instant. This being refused invites the alternative alluded to in Gen. Hamilton's letter of the 20th." Mr. Pendleton made a very becoming answer showing the in!ai'lal requisition w hich this last letter contained ; and perceiving the intention of both Burr and Van Ness to have the matter settled in one vvavT, and none other, appointed a time to receive the communication. On the receipt of "the Message," General Hamilton made a calm, deliberate commentary on the transaction, as far as it had gone, and put it into the hands of Mr. Pendleton who olio rod it to Mr. V;in Ness, but he declined re ceiving it; alleging that he considered (he correspondence elated. In this commentary Gen. Hamilton remarks that if the alternative alluded to is ih finitely tendered, it must be accepted; but that as the circuit court of the United States was then sitting, he could not suddenly withdraw from his parties there; but that the time of meeting must be subsequently arranged. Gen. Hamilton seemed to have a foreboding of his fate. Ou Friday, July the Gth, the circuit court closed, and Mr. Pendleton informed Mr. Van Ness that (Jen. Hamilton would be ready at any lime after the following Sunday. If Colonel Burr was resolved from the beginning, to meet Hamilton, and force him into conflict, as (lie record of this affair would indicate, he had afterwards abundant reason to regret that it was Hamilton, and not himself, who fell. On Wednesday, July 1 1 th, 1 GO i, the parties crossed the North River to lloboken, on the Jersey shore. Hamilton .arrived at 7 in the morning, Burr, as had been agreed, was already on the ground, accompanied by Van Ness and a Surgeon. Hamilton was attended by Pendleton, as his second, and Dr. Hosack. Hamilton was shot at the fust lire, the ball entering at the right side , and passing through the vertebra. When the ball struck him, he raised himself involuntarihly on his toes, and turned a little to the left, at which moment his pistol went off, and he fell on his face. Dr. Hosack immediately came up, and found him silting on the ground, supported in the arms of Pendleton. He had strength enough to

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say, "this is a moital wound. Doctor' and then sunk away, and became to all appearance lifeless". He was taken on board the barge and continued insensible until he was about fifty yards from the shore, when be revived' in consequence of the applications made to that end, and said, "my vision is indistinct." His vision became dearer, and seeing the pistol which he had held' in bis hand, he said, "take care of that pistol, it L undischarged, and still cocked, it may go oil' and do harm; Pendleton knows I did cot mean to lire at him." It would thu- seem that Hamilton was ignorant that he had discharged his pistol. As he approached the shore, he said, "let .Mrs. Hamilton be immediately sent for, let the event be gradually broken to her, but give her hopes."' Gen. Hamilton lived in agony until two o'clock in the afternoon of the following day. In (lie closing scenes of Hamilton's life, he says, "the great source of his anxiety seemed to be in his sympathy with his half distracted wife and children." He spoke to me frequently of them; "my beloved wife and children," were always his expressions. His fjrtitude triumphed over his situation, dreadful as it was. Once indeed, at the sight of his children brought to the bedside together, seven in number, his fortitude forsook him; he opened his eyes, gave them one look, and closed them aain until they were taken away. lie alone could calm the frantic grief of their mother. "Remember, my Fdizt, you are a christian," w ere the last word-, which with a firm voice but in a pathetic and impressive manner, he .addressed to her." Sitltiran's Familiar Letters. MIR ACUL01S ESCU'K OF UF.XLlt.lL WASHINGTON. Miijor Ferguson, who commanded a rifle corps in advance of the huzzirs under Ivnv phausen, during some skirmishing a day or two previous to the battle of Brandy wine, was the hero of a very singular incident, which he thus relates in a letter to a friend. It illustrates, in a most forcible manner, the ovei ruling hand of Providence in directing the operation's of a man's mind, in moments when he is least of all aware of it. "We had not Iain long when a rebel officer, remarkable by a huzzar dress, pressed towards our army, within a hundred yards of my right flank, not perceiving us. He was followed by anotheiyiressed in dark green and blue, mounted on a bay horse, with a remarkably high cocked hat. 1 ordered three good shots to steal near to them, and iire at them: but the idea disgusting me, I recalled the order. The huzzar. in returning, made a circuit, but the other passed within a hundred yards of us, upon which I advanced from the wood towards him. Upon my calling, he stopped; but after looking at me, he proceeded. I again drew his .attention, .and made signs to him to stop, leveling my piece at him; but he slowly cantered away. As I was within that distance at which, in the quickest firing, I could have lodged half a dozen balls in or about him, before he was out of my reach, I had only to determine; but it was not pleasant to tire at the back of an unoffending individual, who was acquitting himself very coolly of his duly; so I let him alone. "The day after, I had been telling this story to some wounded officers w ho lay in the same room with me, when one of the surgeons, who had been dressing the wounded rebel officers, came in, and told us, that they had been informing him that General Washington was all (he morning with the light troops, and only attended by a French officer in a huzzar dress, he himself dressed and mounted in ev ery point as above described. I am not sorry that I did not know at the time who it was." 51 1 X 1 1 A Mt S W I V Speaking of the middle ranks of life, a good writer observes: There we behold woman in all her glory; not a doll to carry silks, ribbons and jewels; not a puppet to he flattered by profane adoration, reverenced to-day and discarded to-morrow; always jostled out of the place which nature and society assign to her, by sensuality or by contempt; admired, but not respected; desired, but not esteemed; ruling by passion, not affection; imparting her weakness, not her constancy, to the sex she would exalt, the source and minor of vanity;

we see her as a wife partaking the cares and cheering the anxiety cf a husband, dividing his (oils by her domestic diligence, spreading cheerfulness all uround her for his sake, sharing the decent refinements of the world without being vain of them; placing all her joys and her happiness in the man she loves. As a mother, we find her the affectionate, the ardent instructress of the children whom she has tended from their infancy; training. them up to thought and virtue, to piety and benevolence; addressing them as rational beings and preparing them to become men and women in their turn. Mechanic's daughters make the best w ives in the world, . T1IU ;ilAVIi VARI7 I love to steal away from the busy scenes of life, and pay a visit to the dark abode of the silent dead; the thoughtful melancholy it is so well calculated to inspire, is grateful rather than disagreeable to my heart. It sends no thrilling dart through my soul to tread upon the green roof of that dark and lonely mansion, down whose chambers I must soon go to return no more. From choice do I often wander to the place, where there is neither solitude nor society. Although the folly, the bustle, the vanities, the pretensions, the pride of humanity are all gone, it is no place of solitude. Men .arc there, but their passions are hushed into everlasting silence, and their spirits arc still; malevolence, with all its kindred vices, has lost all its power of I larming; ambition, the cause of many a fall, lies low, and at best is forgotten; anger has done its last work; all disputes have ended, and the darkest sins are covered by the thickly piled clods cf the valley ; vice, that monster of the low er regions, is dumb and powerless; and virtue, robed in innocence, is waiting in silence the voice of the arch ungcljand the trump of God. Depth of the Ocean. One mile and sixty-six feet is the lowest depth to which the ocean has been sounded. Where the coasts is rugged end high, (he water is deep. All the surface covered by seas is three limes greater than the dry hind, being 148 millions of miles. If the medium depth of the sea be reckoned at two miles, there must consequently be 296 millions of cubical miles of water. The quantity, therefore, is sufficient to coverall the known dry land on the globe to the height of eight thousand feet: and further, were all this mass of water thrown into the shape of a bull, it would bo eight hundred miles in diameter. Philosophers of enlarged views generally believe, that the present beds of all oceans were, at a former period, the habitable parts of the earth. There is no other mode of explaining the presence of such immense masses of marine productions, quite in the interior of all the continents as are continually brought to light, than by supposing they were once covered by the sea. A Flat Boat Robbed. We learn through the medium of a letter received by a friend in this place that a flat boat loaded with Lard, Whiskey, etc. in descending the Mississippi river, having grounded on a sand bar, about ten miles below Randolph, was robbed of about $1500 worth, by a gang of robbers from Arkansas side. A company of armed volunteers from Covington and Randolph had succeeded in arresting ten or twelve of the gentry, and were in hot pursuit of the others. This is the second time, within the last cightceu months, that depredations have been committed upon boats in the Mississippi river by a band of villians from the same neighborhood. It is high time that cllectual means should be" taken to prevent similar occurrences for the future. jYushzille Rep. Rivers. An ingenious writer, after having mentioned the fact, that in the old continent, there arc four hundred and thirty rivers falling into the ocean, and calculating the probable quantity of water which must be carried onward (o the ocean, by all the rivers on the globe, says, that were all the known seas drained, it would require a period of twenty thousand years to rc-lill them, by all the rivers now existiug, running at their present rate. , . . it 'Z ;i The King of France, it is reported, has pledged his private fortune, for the payment of American claims on that Government, should the Chamber of Deputies again refuse. This is spunky. Louis Thilippc must be a Jackon man' 1 1 Fadi Ihtnci.