Rising Sun Times, Volume 1, Number 39, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 9 August 1834 — Page 1

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J LIU SAI.E.II. Queen of Jnciea's stricken I. mil, Thy ptrlnuil f.tlkn from thy brow, Lies wither' d on the desert's all!, And trampled by the Arab now I The Imrcl hon-h of Le! anon, fctili hruih the blue uti'j-otted sky ! The ir pinnies s-li 11 tinier in the smi, tY.'iich lijrl.ts tl.y ruin- from on l.ih ; lint oil thy brow sk ('.u-.ihite, Jrecins sim;! thu Mailing s-eal of Fate. rricl.t Kci'r.'U's l.rook "tiil ilmv? alone, In odor? "neM'ti the palm tn e" futile, I'timitidl'il of tin- iLrun's nr!i, I' poll its baiik- -ail wt e; -ir.!; laid ! Ami (lelli-eniane".- f; ic bow'r-, Tr.il their low ines upon the sroiil:.! ; V iiher'd ail'! hhi-ted are it- llow'rs, Wl.ii h ov.ee ?w rt IuU"l theirodois 'round ; K ought cr.en- ihe eniM and mil clod Save where peithnnee the Saviour trod! Tut r.O'i.ht will o r thy bio .d--tuin"d brow Bright vae it- verdar.t, Uooianig head, Nou.ht but the J al meteor? nl"W, l.irh' tip the eily of the i.ci i! Thou I'a'len tj'iecii, lh lv:e i- broke. Which tlii i Til to thn.e own (lo t alone! No linger to th i 11 ; 'i ri n stroke, Of monarch minstrel mi the throi.e, Its cords of gratitude rewound, tr breathe tin ir hullow'd notes around. Above the column's monhhrin form, The ivy twiiitf in fnn'ral uloom, "SN I il-t hi the gli-tenin sunbeams warm, The scorpion basks upon the tomb! Tli J innr! le I, all where limbic tollM, The silent stn et the re-al donn-, Of thousand spins of elitt'iins; uold, Are Dow tin: savage JackalTs borne ; And o'er the tt tuple's sacred shrines, A wreath of J oath the ivy twines! Where wav'.l the Cherub's glorious wins-, Oi'brnrl.t, and. C od vvroth t jowt-l'd . .Id ; The lonely bitttrn mournitd ri i.irs His r ijiiiem niu-ir free an i bold ! Whtre (Jod's own spirit va-t hatti dwelt l urlaiii'd around by vesture bright; Where oft J (idea's tribe hath km it liciiLath the holy lamps of ri-ht, The si rj ent ro:.rs his rrest alone, l:i ridc.ipon h: niniilJerir.: throne! For o'ei thy brow Jt rusaleni, crs; C.ih arv "s -tnin'd height in vengeance tow1 he flood which drop'd from Jesse's .-li m, St. 11 redden, in C ethu mane 's how "rr ! Hut shall the dc-ert's tun no more, Shed it' bri.ht rays 'round .Nature's tomb ? Shall not the star which tlitti r'd o'er, The heathi n linrht of blacke-t ch.oin, Again deaia round its om'ra'd light, Ajraiu dispel Jndea's night? Rise! rise! Imperial Salem ri-e! l.o! on thee dawns millctiial morn! I.ook ti.! loook up upon the skies! See! see its herald star new boin, Hane o" r thy hiow a brilliant token, That the dread curve's s;.eSl is broken! ES B STO II I V A li . hati i.i: or lii: vndvw im:. The battle of Brandy wine was fought on the Uth of September, 1777; and l ifted all the day long. It was a Moo'it allair to us, and had wtll-tiigh been fat tl todteenc and Sullivan. Wc had beenin the saihilc about four liouts. under the intrepid Pulaski, who. with his own hand.cx tir.ined our points, pistols, and other furniture, as if assnled that the struggle would be a deadly, and long continued one. The day was one of the mot beautiful that ever broke, over tb.e earth. We were about lialfa mile from the main body ranged along green slope, facing the wot; our horses, in number about four hundred, standing as patiently as so many marble creatures just as the eastern sky began to redden r.nd undulate; and loud after cloud to roll up, and heave, like a great curtain upon the wind; and the whole heaven seemed discharging all its beauty and brightness upon one. spot I happened to turn about and khv tin; tall Pole bareheaded, tilt ing hi horse, like, some warlike presence torn 'j up out of the solid earth, to worship upon the very summit of the hill, behind us; it 'might be for the noble carriage of the man, the martial bearing of the soldier, would permit cither interpretation it might be, in the awful employment of devotion or in the more earthward one, ol mar liai observation. out, suddenly, he reined up his chnrger, shook the heavy dew from his horseman s cap replace it, and leaped headlong down the hill, just as a bright tlash pased away on the horizon, followed by a loud report; and the next moment a part of our ranks were covered with dust and turf thrown up bv a cannon ball that struck within hundred yards of the place that he had just left. 'Jar horses pricked up their ears at the sound; and all at once, as it a hundred trumpets were plavinsr in the wind, came the enemy in his ad vanre. Pulaski unsheathed his sword call ed out a select bod v, and set off at a ful gallop ton more distant elevation, where he saw the enemy advancing in two colum; one under Knyphanen, which moved in tremendous steadiness, like n dark solid mass, in a direction toward Maxwell; the other under Comwallis which seemed to threaten the right

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k,iM:iGi:i to no party's a f n was immediately ?ei.t Washington, ai.d reinforcements called in, from the house that we had left. We kept our position, awaiting for a whole hour the sound of conflict; at last a heavy volley rattled along the sky a few moments passed and then another followed, like a storm of iion upon drum heads The whole air rung with it; another, and another followed", and then gradually increasing in loudncss, and udt. ess; came pe; a her peal upon us; siill it resembled one continual clap of thunder, rolling about under an illuminated vapour. But Pulaski, with all his impetuosity, was a general; and knew his duty too well to hazard any movement till we hould be aide to see with certainty the operation of the enemy in the vapour below. Meanwhile, several little par-tie-; that we had sent out, came in, one after tb.e other, in full gallop, with the intelligence, that Knvp'iauseu had broken dow.: upon Maxwell in magnificent style been beaten back again; but, that he bad finally prevailed and that Maxwell had retreated across the river. A thin vapour now rose from the green earth below us, and completely covered the enemy from our view. It was no longer possible to follow him, except by the sound of his tread, which we could feel in the solid earth, j trring ourselves and our horses; and now and then a rjuick glimmering in the mist, as sonic standard was raised above it 'omc weapon ilourished, or some musket shot through it like a rocket. About an hour after, a horseman dashed through the smoke, on the very verge of the horizon and after scouring the fields for a whole mile, within view, communicated wi;htwo or three others, who set elfin dillerent directionone to us, with orders to hurry down to the ford, where the commander-in-i hief was determined to fall upon Knyphatisen with all bis power, before Cornnallis could come to his aid. It was a noble but haz irdous game: and Pulaski, who.-ewar horse literally ihu.'idered and lightened along the broken and stony precipice, by which we descended, kept Ids eyes warily to the ig.it as if not quite certain that the or der would not be countermanded. We soon fell in with Greene, who was posting, all on fire, to give Knyplausen battle: and the next moment. tw Sullivan in full march, over a dismt bill, (upon which the morning sun ioke out just then as if leaving the leavens tor a while,) to the enemy's llank. This arrangement would have been lata! to Knyphausen; but unluckily there was a slop put to it almost in the very moment when we were ready to I ill upon him, man and horse, by the ilaiming intelligence, that Cornwallis lad moved oil to another quarter. n.ere was a moment of irresolution ouot. It was the death of us. Greene was recalled: and bullivan commanded to halt. Hardly had this happened, mil our horses were covered with sweat and froth fretting; like chained tigers upon the bit; our men covered with dust, and blinded with the wind md sun for it was extremely hot and sultrv when a heavy canonade was leard on our right ilank; and Greene, whose division we had been attached to was put in motion for the support of Sullivan, whom w e h id left some hours before. 1 he truth now broke upon us like a thunder clap. The enemy had passed, concentrated (as we supposed.) and fallen upon our right. 1 never shall forget Greene's countenance, w hen the news came; he was in the road side, upon a very steep bank but we wheel ed where he was dashed down the bank his face white as the bleached maible and calling to us, to gallop forward with such a tremendous impulse that they marched four miles in forty minutes ; we held on our way, in a cloud of dut, and met Sullivan, in all his dis order, nearly a mile from the held, re treating, step by step, at the head of his men, and shouting himself hoarse covered with blood and sweat; and striving, in vain, to bring them to stand while Cornwallis was pouring iu upon them an incessant volley. Pulaski dashed out to the right, over the broken fences; and there stood a while, upright in his stirrups, rcconnoi tering while the enemy, who appear ed by the smoke and dust that rolled before them, in the wind, to he much nearer than they really were, redoubled their tllorts: but, at last, he saw alavor able opportunity. The column wheel

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L FOLLOW TRI'TH cd the wind swept athwart their van. reveahngthem.like a battalion of spirits breathing lire and smoke: he gave the signal Archibald repeated it Arthur and myself. In three minutes, we were ready for the won!; and, when Pulaski, shouting in a voice that thrilled through and through us, struck spurs to his charger, it w as half a minute so fierce and terrible was his charge before we were able to come up with him. hat co ild he mean! gracious heaven! my hand, convulsively, like, that of a drowning man, reined up for a moment w hen I saw that we were galloping straight forwards, into a field of b; axonets yet he was the. first man! and who would not have followed him! we did follow him, and with such a hurricane of tire and steel, that, when we wheeled, our whole path lay broad and open before us, w ith a wall of fire upon the right hand and (lie left but not a bayonet nor a blade in front, except were under the hoofs of our horses. My blood rushes now, like a tlash of lire, through my forehead, w hen I recall the devastation that we had made almost to the very heart of the enemy's column. But Pulaski he, who afterw ards rode in their entrenchments, on horseback, sword in hand, was accustomed to it; and, having broken over them once aware of his peril, if he should give them time to awake from their consternation, he whet led in ablaze of tire, with the intention of returning, through a wall of death, more perilous than that w hich shut in the children of Israel, upon the Red sea but no! the walls had rolled in upon u, and we were left no choice, but to continue as we had begun. The undaunted Pole rioted in ttie excess of joy; 1 remember how he passed me, again and again, reeking with blood riding, absolutely upon the very bayonets of the enemy"; and at last as they pressed upon him and horseman after hoiseman fell from our saddles when we were all faint and feeble, and even Archibald was fighting on fool ; over his beautiful mare w ith Arthur battling over his head, we heard the cry ot succour. ' succour! 'end felt the enemy give way heave, this way and that, and finally concentrate jeyoiid us: 'Once more! cried Pulaski, once more! and away we went again, reaking in upon them, as they were forming; and trampling down whole platoons in the charge, before a man could plant his bayonet, or bring his acce to an aim: and the next moment we were scouring over the ground. where 1 could see Archibald and Arthur battling it, with four or live of the ene my's horse: but our aspect, as we came thundering round upon them, proved ulhcient. 1 hey took V their heels, tnd we brought them both off, unwouivded unhurt. It was getting dark now, but the hour was that of sunset ; when, in this climate, the sky is like a mass of colored vapor floating over a bath. Greene was forming in our rear, with that tear ful calmness which boded a terrible time, always, to him that ventured upon it. The ground was favorable to urn; and the half hour that the enemy ost by our charge, a mere handful, into lis solid column, was of inconceivable enefit to Greene; for his men were literally out of breath, and ready to drop down at the first onset. But that half hour gave them an opportunity to see their commander s face, and hear lis voice: and, from that moment, they would have stood their ground, though the heavens had rained tire upon them. f have been in manv a battle many a one that made my hair stiilen after wards in my sltep, when 1 dreamt of it but never in one where the carnage was so dreadful the rush of blood and lire so incessant, as that which followed the arrival of Greene: we were unable to strike a blow. The enemy imagin ing us, no doubt, to be much more for midable than we were, had edged in all his exposed points, by a i auk of men, kneeling with planted bayonets; and, though we rode upon them again and again, discharging our pistols in their faces vet not one of them shut his eyes, or fired a shot but, where he knelt, he died; and his place was im mediately filled by another as resolute, so that we could not the thing impos sible repeat the blow that we had given. But one thing happened, within my own sight and hearing, that nearly brought me to the ground, in terror and helplessness. 1 wo horsemen had let upon me; and, while I was doing

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my best to return their visit, I saw that they were only a part of a squadron w hom we had not seen before, or who had but just been brought into action; and that several were upon Archibald, who, while I was looking upon him, reeled in the saddle, and took a blow, I thought, that cleft his head, for his bearskin cap flew, and his horsa broke from the encounter, and dashed olF to the right; I followed, and soon came in ccntart with Wcedon's Virginia brigade, which soon relieved me from all apprehensions on my own account; for the enemy fell before them, rank after rank, like flax in the blaze; they were supported by a body of the Pennsylvania militia, near the head of whom 1 saw La Fayette; the reins all loose wounded in the arm his scarf shot away, and streaming in the wind yet showing the same unaltered front; and leading the raw militia up to the very eyes of (he enemy, while a sheet of fire scorched their faces. The narrative then relates the discovery of his wounded brother, and the conversation that passed between them, during which the battle had closed, and the two armies moved away. We crossed the river and moved up toward Swede's ford; while Sir William Howe, who seemed to be satisfied whenever he fought us, without being beaten, and was never prepared to follow up any advantage, halted three days upon the field of battle, to contemplate the havoc that had been made; while our cause was never in greater danger. We had lost nearly twelve hundred men, and tsn brass field pieces. THE MOTHER. "A mother's sorrow cannot be coueivM, But by a mother. I marked a mother at the tomb of her son. iler sable garment coincided with the deep gloom that hung heavily round her heart. Iler declining head, her close clasped hands, her fixed position, her tear beelewcd check, bespoke the intensity of her thoughts and the sor row of her soul. The scene struck the .-tiling jf sympathy, and rt voiitspondent tear (lowing ,rom the impulse of a similar feeling,tricklcd down my cheek. rancy lent her creative power to my mind, and methought I heard the griefmspircd soliloquy of the heart-broken mother, as she revolved in her depres sed mind these thoughts. "Ah, yes, my child, thou art numbered with the dead ! The curtain of my hopes has suddenly dropped, and the thick cloud of my soul-rending despondency shuts the light of joy and tranquility from my mind. When feeble infancy was thine, with what rapture I watched the pleasurable smile playing on thy health flushed cheek; it was then my heart bounded with ecstacy, and ante-dated the joys of yo'vth and the happiness of manhood. I thought thou wouldst have been the pillar of my old age; I thought thou wouldst have supported my tottering, declining life, when the extinguishing hand of time had quenched the fervor of vitality. But ah! these leve-built hopes are gone forever; they are buried in the humid earth with thee. No more I hear thy voice, no more I mark thy sprightly eye: thy voice is silent as the grave, and thy eye fixed by the rigid power of death. Scarce more than eighteen years had rolled around thv head before the "grim monster. ' came and snatched thee from the world. Thou wert stricken as the tender sap ling scattered by the lightning's fiery bolt. O Death! thou art the destroyer of a mother's bliss! But still arnid all my sorrow 1 will say, "Worms may banquet on thy frame, And ruin Iced on what, was fair: Back to the skies from whence it came, The soul recalled, shall flourish there.'" With these word sshe ended, and ta king her little daughter by the hand, she slow ly retired. rrivriN"cTcFTNfs. Dr. Franklin, believing that these little creatures had some means of com' municating their thoughts or desires to one another, tried several experiments with them, all of which tended to con firm his opinion, especially the follow ing. He put a little earthen pot, con laining some treacle, into a closet, where a number of ants collected and devoured the treacle very quickly ; but on observing this, he shook them out; and tied the pot with a string to a nan, which he had fastened into the ceiling, so that it hung down by the string. A sinrrle ant. bv chance, remained in the not; this ant ate till it was satisfied, r 1 . ... m .nr :i 1.1 but when it wanted to gei on, u tuum

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not for some time find the way out. It ran fibout the bottom of the pot, but in vain; at last, after many attempts, it found the way to the ceiling by going along the string. After it was come there, it ran to the wall, and thence to the ground. It had scarcely been away half an hour, when a great swarm of ai.ts came out, got up the ceiling, and crept along (he string into the pot, and began (oeat again. This they continued to do until the treacle was all devoured. In the meantime one swarm running down the string and the other up.. HABIT OF HEADING. Whoever has acquired a taste for reading, so fixed that it has settled into a habit, has become in the highest sense independent of all other sources of amusement, and sufficient to himself. Fashion and society may set up their ephemeral idol, one day admitting, and another day excluding him, according to their unsettled caprices. They may give the sunshine of their favor alternately upon the rich, witty, learned, young and fortunate, and gay, and he may not be able to claim to be either. But if he have learned really to love study and to hold converse with the mighty dead, he may set all their deci sions at defiance. He can draw his supplies of interest and amusement, and those of the highest order, which lifa can furnish, from his own perennial and exhaustlcss fountains. Neither need he envy the possessor of the most magnifi cent apartments, in which to deposite his splendid copies, with their gaudy engravings, gildings and bindings. To a real lover of books, a stall, so that it be amply furnished, is as good as the Vatican, and nature offers him her universal ticket of admission to the grand apartments of her reading room; and, seeing him enter satisfied with his book in his hand, her composed visage will always meet him with a ready welcome. DIFFICULTIES OF EDITORS. The truth is an editor cannot step without treading on somebody's toes. it lie expresses his opinions fearlessly and frankly, he is arrogant and presumptuous. If he states facts without comments he dares not avow his sentiment. If he conscientiously refuses to advocate the claims of an individual to office, he is accused of personal hostility. A jackanapes who measures off words into verse as a clerk does tape by the yard hands in a parcel of stuff that gingles like a handful of rusty nails and a gimblet, and if the editor is not fool enough to print the nonsense "stop my paper; I won't patronize a man that's no better judge of poetry." As if it was patronage to buy a paper at one half more than so much waste paper would cost. One murmurs because his paper is too literary another be cause it is not literary enough. One grumbles because the advertisements engross too much room another com plains that the paper is too large, he can't find time to read it all. One wants types so small that a microscope would be indispensable in every family -another threatens to discontinue the paper unless the letters are half an inch long one old lady actually oflered an additional price for a paper that should be printed with such types as are used for handbills. Every subscriber has a plan of his own for conducting a journal, and the labor of Sysiphus was recreation when compared with that of an editor who undertakes to please all. Jl. Y. Trav. Master and Apprentice. At the conclusion of the war between Great Britain and the United States, Gen'. Washington having taken leave of the army, addressed the late Marquis do Lafayette, who was then only 23 years of age, and had been serving in America during the revolution, as follows: "My young friend, you have served an Apprenticeship to Liberty; now go home and set up for yourself.'''' He did setup for himself, and became so excellent a boss that his workmanship is recognized in all the civilized countries on the globe. Singular freak op Nature. A pig has been exhibiting at 420, Broadway, New York, the face of which resembled that of a human being. The forehead is round and well turned; the teeth on the lower jaw are very regular and perfect, and there is a small hair mole on its cheek. It also has five toes on its left foot. It is a most singular production of nature.

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