Rising Sun Times, Volume 1, Number 37, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 26 July 1834 — Page 2

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Zor t(f Kiting Sun Times. LOVCATION SO. II. The consequences resulting from the improvement of mini), both to convnunilv an I individuals, are vaiuihlo. a l..'c.a:id more lasting than time. Frc "I this source have originated d those su'dime svstem of science hich nave created oar art?, facili'.alci our commerce, augmented cur '.uppiness, and given us higher and r.oblcr thoughts of llri who directs and manages the Universe. To this source we are indebted for that science which describes the earth, al'brds us a notion of its shape, an I makes us acquainted with regions we have never seen. To litis source we are indebted for the science of mathematics, which forms the foundation of those, sublime principles which widen the field for imagination's scope, and enlarge our views of creation. To this source we arc also indebted for that ma!i r science w hich introduces us to the Heavens tells us the number ol plane'. toadies us the grand laws by v. hich they are governed informs us of the rd itioa our little earth bears to other wot I Is, and helps us soar beyond the limits cf our own system, w i-.hiii the bounds of other systems more grand, and more indicative of the infinite wisdom an ! omnipotent power of Him vv ho rules and orders all tilings. What was it but mental improvement, directed by the true spirit of Christianity, an J a bcly ambition to do good, that prompted the immoi lal Luther to arise i;j his nnjeMic strength, stem the torrent of public opinion, and commence an in which will be celebrated a the dawn of a belter day, while philinthiopy foims a part of the iharacter cf mm? I low many among the thousands who have graced our woild, and Kit their names enrolled on histon's pane, as benefactors i f mankind, hae 1 ecu destitute of mental culture ? ' V is true, here and there a mighty genius l.as performed some b ih tic i d ami w orthv acts without the aid of iiietital discipline, but seldom hae such individual been valuable and permanent bles sings to human society. If the improvement of mind be practicable, and such glorious results be its consequents, who will not forward even 5 stem of education that has received the sanction of experience and wisdom? Hut the moial powers must not be r.egl :cted ; if they aie, the development of int licet will but elevate to dcMroy. Then lot education and the true principles of sound moral, as they air exhibited in Con's precious and t tcii al word, be universal')- disseminated, and the results w ill be fraught with good to the inhabitants of this mighty globe. Genuine intelligence and moral principle are the mighty supporters and sure protectors of liberty and its attendant blessings: they t arm the true and only basis upon w hich valuable liberty can thrive and flourish. Then let their mutual existence he secured; let them acquire universal prevalence, and sway their heavenly influence, and vice shall no longer have a name crime shall be unheard of in our land, and in their etcad shall exist all that is desirable to m ike man happy, and exalt human nature. Then shall the hostilities and discords of nations be exchanged for Hie mild principles of poaic and friendship. Then shall the lingering mists of antiquity, which have so long obstructed our moral vision, be dispersed by the all powerful rays of a brighter sun, and our world shall stand forth redeemed from all her former thraldoms, without one trace left to maik her present er rors. 1 hen shall mind, the untnorlr.l min'!, freed from the shackles of ignorance, disrobed of the vile garb of vice and superstition, and clad w ilh the rich mantle of improvement, assume its original dignity, impart i(s influence to all within its sphere, and the result shall be a terrestial paradise. Is education as valuable as has been represented? lias it been exhibited in its true character! or has it been lal-e ly pictured, w illi an importance thrown around it of which it is not worthy? If a (rue description lias been given, all are acting a rational and worthy part, who are endeavoring to educate their children extensively. They are pur suing a course that will not only entail upon their olf-pring the most valuable inheritance, but al-o will confer upon community a positive benefit. By such a course they will leave behind them influences that will act extensively when lliey are numbered with the si lent dead. r. It .appears by a late document drawn up in France, that in Russia one child is educated out of every 36? inhabitants in Portugal, I in 33 in Trance 1 in 20 in Autii;i, I in 1 3 m I .ngland, I in t! in Prusti:!. 1 in 6 and in the

T'nitrd States, 1 in 4.

.V ii:r:P t Washington' A writer i the New York Knicktrb',cj.rr gives t!,e follovint graphic sketch of so.iie of llic most i'.is(iit;.:iiis!icil members el" ,..R Semite ar.l House of 11 q rt?er,f.Uiv 0f tb f into I States. Its kngth s'"0 ,;.;i not vWr 0Ur reader? from g-vin; it rt perusal.

is thisf said I, '-the House of representatives? Those men, there, with hats on, buzzing and chatting, whispering and laughing reading the newspapers, hemming and coughing are thru the law-makers ol our twentyfour States?' A member is speaking, but nobody bears him: and the louder he talks. the louder the buzzing. "Sir," says he: "S.'Y," again in a vet louder tone: '"Sin " and now in a voice. like 'Mho wrv-uecked fife." The Spa aker pricks up and yields his ears: "Sir, I call the attention of I lie House to tin important fact, ' By this time. unless the orator i a f..vorite, the Speaker's head is again dropped, and (In yawning member., it may be, have fal Ion into a quiet sleep. I borrowed ; glass for one can see but little with uaaided eyes athwart the wide-ex!on nod hah to lake my neon at a few ol the talked-of. the written-abeut "the -Till t l,nv,s. - i nore, sunt ir.v cicerone. ' is .-.Ir. Ad.ims. the Kx President in his faded frock-coat, and white woollen stockings plodding and plodding, ever plodding. He is always in his seat. perpetually at work keeping a journal, it may !k or writing poetrv in a voeng lady's allium; perhaps studving. to ascertain whether Ilesiod is an older poet than Homer; knowing every tiling, inteieslid in everv tiling a buv spit it, clogged in col l lav a small Vesuvius, with a peak of snow .villi a hen t ol lire ai d a hand of ice. "Am w ho," I inquired, "is the other unquiet slaw, nvq.ii-g, head dropping body, v. ho si eii.s to live by himself, commune with mnw I., ami an.l (tails on las own lb--lights.:" " That is Gouge M Duffle," answeied mv cicerone. "You have hit him oil to the life. When he opens his n.outli the noisy House is silent .as a scpulcher. Political friends and :iu are i. like still: r very whisper is bushed, everv head erect. every eve - i -i ... i open. n il nave no n.ca ol me cii.ilion (hat little ft lh.vv can create. He rolls out his words, and bites them off. and thrash s and slashes as did old Horalius Codes, when, with his battle axe, lie stood upon the bridge, and with his single arm defended Home." That toiil built man, a little to the right McDutlio, with a snow v head and of a Reman nose, is Barges, the "Bald Eagle of the House," as lie has been called a man adroit at all sorts of weapons. He resembles one of the old soldiers; he fights on foot or on horse, w ith heavy or light arms a battle-axe or a spear. In modern warfare, lie is at home in the artillery or the infantry ; the cavalry or the engineers; a broadsword or a pistol, a kings-arm or a spade are equally funiliar to his hand. There i ,li hnson,l!te gallant colonel the Indian killer. 1 le has a fun: head, and a good countenance. He is writing kind ihings (o his constituents. He has hah a dozen messenger-hoys at his side, trotting at a w ink, sending his letters, folding them, or hurrying away to stamp them with the "IX S." seal. Then; is VAw ard Kverell, the accomplished scholar, the fine vv ri'.or! Indeed, you might as well throw the mu-e of history into a caravan, or put him on a "broad horn" on the Mississippi, with a large pine for a rudder, and a cane-brake for a bundle of quills. Crockett. Mere, is a belter Neptune, and holds steadier trident. And when a man can grin and fmbt, nog a steamboat, and whip his weight in wild cats, what is the use of reading and w riting? There is Wayne, an accomplished man; and Wilde, a fine scliidar, a poet, ami as civil as a Georgian too. Binny is there a grave looking man a mighty logic chopper. But I must pause, f r what a mass of representatives are here! What singular samples of our vast country! Here sits a Tonne. scan, and there a Missourian, educated among InifTatocs, and nurtured in the forest as intimate with the passes of the Rocky Mountains as Ihe cit with Broadway who lives where hunfers and trappers have vexed every hill, and lie wha cares no more far a pawnee than a professed beau for a bright plumed belt, lime is a man from the praii'es, and there an aher from the swamps and morasses, whose blood the musk foes have utterly torn away. There is a sallow face from the rice grounds, and lu re is the flushed check from the mountains b) his side a man from the pine grounds, the land of tar and turpentine. What . people we are what a country is this of ours! I low wide in extent, how rich in production, how various in beauty! I have asked in my travels for the West, in the streets of the Queen of the West a fairy city, which hut as yesterday was a wilderness. They smiled at my inquiry, and said it is among the

Mioosicrs" of Indiana, or "the suckers"

of Illinois. Then I journeyed along; I crossed great rivor and broad prairies, and again I asked for the West. Thev said it was in Missouri. I arrived at its capitol. They complained that the were "too far down east." "But go," they said, "if veu would see the West, davs and davs, and hundreds and hundreds of miles up the Mis.- uri farther than f:om us to rsevv Ia:gland, and hevond ihe Becky Mountains among the Snake Indians, and you may find it." h was the vvoik of a dozen vears to find the West, and I turned anout ia despair. Indeed, 1 have found no hounds to mv counlrv. I have seari Led f.M- them for months, in almost every clime under the torrid zone of Louisiana, the land of ihe orange and ihe olive, and beneath the cold sky ol Mai re. I liiv e seen tl e rice p! a ute i gather rich treasures from a bountiful soil, and the li-lie! man anchoring his little balk on the Uockv island, dropping his hook as carefully as if the ()- cean were full of pearls, and net of inackarcl. 1 have seen the mill man saw ing a piece of wood in all the vari ety of forms, on the farlherest soil of New hngian !; and I have saw the same wood floating down the Savannah, or the beautiful Alabama, in the strangest metamorphoses; it may be in a clock, regularly ticking otTlhc time; in a pail; perchance in a button; and for aught I know, in a tasteless ham, or an urfragrant nutmeg! I have never been oil the soilof mv own country; and vet I have seen the sun go down, a ball of sire, w ithout a moment's tw ilight, flinging over the alluvial lands blooming witii magnolias and orange trees. a robe )( gold; and again I have stood upon the hare rocks of colder climes, and when the trees were pinched by the early frosf, I have marked the same vanishing rays reflected from the leaves as if a thousand birds of paradise were resting in tae branches: and when the clouds, streaming with red, and purple, and blue tinged and tripped by the Beautv were floating afar like rainbows in motion, as if broken from their confinement, now mingling and interlacing (heir dv os, and glittering arches, and anon sprinkled over, and mellowing the whole heaven then 1 have fancied that I was indeed in a fairy land, where the very forests danced i golden roues, responding to the setting sun. as ihe statue of tho fabled Memmon gave forth its welcoming notes, as the ra)s of the morning played upon its summit. I have been where the dog star rages, scattering pestilence in its train where the long moss hangs from the trees; where the pale faces and sad countenances jive admonition thai this is the region of death. 1 have stood by the wide prairie, and beheld the green billow s rise and fall, and the undulations, chequered with sunlight and shadow, chasing one after (he other, afar over the w ide expanse. And I have gone amid the storms of winter, over the high hill, upon the loud cracking crust, amid the music of (he merry sleigh-hells. And here are the Representatives fiomall these regions here in one grand council all speaking one language all impelled by one law! Oil, my Country, my Country! If our destiny be alw ays linked as one if (he same llag, vitli its glorious stars and stripes, is always the flag of our Union, nev er unfurled or defended but by Freemen, then poetrv and prophecy, stretching to their utmost, cannot pronounce that destiny ! But to return from our digression. We have re-threaded the cork-screw-galleries, and are in the Senate Chamber. 1 lore is a different body from the one w e have just left. The Senators seem older than the Representatives; hut so many of these bald seniors exchango gray heads for black ones, that it is diflicult to determine. They sit with their hats off that looks better. They hustle about less that is more agreeable, if you would hear a speaker. "Show me the lions," said I to my cicerone. "Where is Van Buren, where is Clay, and Webster, and Calhoun?" My first query was answered by pointing to the Vice President's chair. I should have much (o say of Mr. Van Buren; but they have elevated him to a high office, which, like all other oflices. has its draw-backs and its advantages. "He cannot figure," said my guide "in debate; his mouth is shut, unless opened lo say 'The ayes have if,' or 'The memorial is referred,' or something of the like." His manner is calm and bland, and he presides with ease and dignity. And there he sils, wit It no opportunity for display, (humping with his mallet when the galleries arc out of order, having occasion only (o remaik now and then, that "the question is so and so," &C. The newspapers talk of his shrinking, cowering, Idushing. This is all the veriest romance in the world. He. lives in the Senate like an embodied abstraction.

He lakes Clay's jibes, and Webster's thrusts, as the ghost of Crusa received the embraces of iCncas. He heeds them not. lie leans back his head, piles one leg upon the other, and sits as if he were a pleasant sculpture image, destined for that niche all his life. That massive forehead, those prodigious eyes, those, heavy shoulders, that

iron built frame, point out H ehster. How like Satan himself he can look, and what a malicious smile! He talks as if he were telling a plain story, not enthusiastic, but concise and clear. His arm comes up as if lifted by a spring, lie speaks like one from the grave, so solemn and so severe. Anon the lion is roused. What a voice! The sentences leap into life, with well limed metaphor, skillfully interwoven, and perfectly wrought out. Yet Webster is a man of no imaginations. He has a well disciplined taste, and give him a clue, to a figure, and he w ill trace it out with force and beautv. That slender-built nan, apparently about fifty years of age, in a blue coat w ith bright buttons, a frizzly head, and an eye like a hawk, erect and earnest, w ith month partly open that is Calhoun. He is not an orator, yet few command so muchattentiomnouc more. His voice is bad. His gesticulation is without grace. He is zealous and enthusiastic, without being frantic. His apparent candor, earnestness and sincerity, command attention. His voice struggles in his throat, and you almost understand the thoughts swelling (here, and they soon rush out as fast as words can convey them. He speaks in debate as a farmer, in earnest, would talkto his boys, or a merchant to his clerks. He steps about, stands here and there, and if a man looks inquiringly at him, he asks, "I am right, am I not'.'" "But as I was saving, this conservative principle" "It hurls mo to speak to-day; I v e got a cold," iVc. This is much the manner of Mr. Calhoun. If an idea comes into his head, out it comes, without regard to rhetorical polish. Mr. Calhoun's power is colloquy animated conversation. Men are willing to listen to a man w ho talks well, whose declamation might he insufferable. Calhoun links words together, bites oil' ihe last syllables, ami oftentimes eats up. as it were, whole sentences, in the rapidity of his ennuiK iation. That tall, well-formed man with a w ide mouth, and a countenance indicating every change of thought within, is Clay. He has been so ofien described, that I shall dwell upon him briefly here. Nature made him an orator to figure in a free government. In a despotism, his head would have reached Ihe block, for his impudence, before hewas thirty. He is good at every thing. I have never heard such a voice. It is equally distinct and clear, whether at the highest key or lowest w hisper, rich, musical, captivating. His action is ihe spontaneous offspring of the passing thought. He gesticulates all over. The nodding of his head, hung on a long neck, his arm, hand-, fingers, feet, and even his spectacles and pocket handkerchief, aid him in debate. He steps forward and backward, and from the right lo the left, with eiToct. Every feature speaks. The whole body has its story lo tell. That is Forsyth, with his arms a-kimbo, head thrown back, spectacles on, laughing at what somebody has to say, w ho is speaking over (he way. I cannot describe his figure but it is a handsome one. He is all r ase and composure; is never thrown oil his guard. He is ever ready, and the less prepared, the better, for the fight. lie eludes with the utmost skill all manner of weapons. No member of Congress is better at the reconnoitering and skirmishing of debate. That tall, red-headed man, with a large manly figure, and full face, is Preston, the new member from South Carolina. He look? as if he had long liv ed under the rays of a Southern sun. Preston is; sui generis. He talks poetry all in rich array, and gorgeous sentences. When there is a storm in the Senate, they hang him out as a rainbow, and although the rough clouds often darken his glittering hues, before ihe storm is hushed, vet tempests are cooled, and spirits are softened, by the dazzling arch, and the rich interlacing of its how. His is unpremediated eloquence. He dees not, like Sheridan, mark in his orations, the place to introduce "(iood (Sod! Air. Speaker." The incidents of debate suggest all his fine sentences. His gestures are admirable. No American orator is more graceful! few have more art: and yet few understand so well (he "art above arts." Such a man was necessary in the Senate. All the kinds of eloquence that Cicero describes, are now exemplified and illustrated in that body and no two arc formed on the same model.

Felix. Grundy is a happy man. There is not a more jov ial, benevolent face in Christendom thati he wears. lie was an actor upon tlic stage of public life, long before my remembrance. His head is now all gray, and his step begins to filter, and bear the marks, of age, hut his mind has lost nothing of Us v igor, and he none of his humor. He is happy at a retort, skillful at a thrust, and good humored, even in the angriest debate. He has a mind happily tempered for political warfare. Leidi i a new-comer from Virginia; a round, thick built man, vv ilh a iifile sharp eve, that snaps at times like a

span; el fire. He is something of a lion of the National Menagerie. Perhaps my metaphors might seem objectionable, were it not that we "Republicans," have a right to talk of our "Servants,'' as we please. Wright has a line person and countenance. No ose exhibits more calmness and dignity, or more narrowly watches the progress of debate. I would tarry here; had I time and space, to serve up the stout-framed Benton, and give you a touch of his manner of speaking so odd to (he Northern eye and ear, but doubtless the mode in his Missouri, where his heart unquestionable is. I w ould have something to say of Senator Smith, who in Ins dress connects (his age with the days ef our fathers and grandf itliers of Porter, with his Irish face and Irish eloquence, a worthy son ef (he green ifle of Iain, and of Wilkins, too, Who hates a joke; but I must pause. And here let me remaik, that I should like the Senate better, if it were not such a prodigious snuff-box, and the snufl-ta.kcrs less numerous. "Give mc your snuff-box," says Clay to Prentiss: and "yours," and "yours," and thus a snuffbox performs a journey for a whole day, from Se nator to Senator; without ten minutes' rest. And by the w ay, in a long (iaj's session, let me add, the hungry Representatives bring in crackers and cheese, and gingerbread into the House, and spread them out as for dinner, upon their mahogony desks! If I had (lie pen of a Trollope, how I would lash them! And indeed, why may I not undertake the reform before some Hamilton comes in among us, and murders us all, for the few who, having been hut recently caught, we have not had time to civ ilize, so well as by the time another session comes round ? "OlT wilh your leys, (hen, gentlemen, not from your bodies, but from your desks! Offwith your gingerbread, your crackers and cheese! Cease your snoring and sleeping in your seats! Up from the sofas and no longer repose there, sprawled out like leviathans! Men will talk, whisper, tramp, rustle their papers, and yawn; this you are permitted to do; but I insist upon it, you shall not sleep, nor snore, nor "feed," nor make a stable of your magnificent hall for if you do and the many Englishtravellers, who have been hanging on this session taking notes, don't print you all, I will!" I should like to turn Ortheopist, loo, and teach the Yankees lo leave off some of the breadth in their pronunciation of the short words, and to give the long ones more longitude and less latitude. The natal twang of some of them is abominable. And I would teach the Southrons, likewise, some of them, that stairs were not slars$ and elcar weather not elnr weather. And I would say too, that although 7nighh' smart ,and a mighty smart eliancc, mighty big and mighty little, was excellent "nigger" dialect, yet it was not so refined as an orator might use. But after all, albeit you can see in Congress peculiarities of speech and pronunciation enough lo indicate what portion of the country a member comes from, yet no country on earth can assemble pec--pie from such a wide domain, where one language is spoken more correctly. The English, talking Irish, Scotch, Berkshire, Lancashire, and all manner of dialects, ought, of all nations, to be the last to laugh at us for our very few: peculiarities. Mississirri. The Mississippian, published at Jackson, informs us, under date of the 27th ultimo, that that town is entirely free from disease, and that '(here has been no serious case of sickness for the 'last six or eight months among the citizens; and no deaths. The crops are very line in Hinds and the. adjacent counties, and indeed the prospects of the planter throughout the State, so far as we have heard, are highly flattering." Mkxuo. A National Conventionhas been called in Mexico, for the pur pose of amending Ihe present constitution. Among other alterations nroposed, is one regulating their religion. It is proposed to strike out the words "Roman Catholic." :ind insert in i( stead. "Christian," with the view of tolerating all denominations- of Christians.

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