Rising Sun Times, Volume 1, Number 45, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 20 September 1834 — Page 1

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thk dvim; i im.i. All! look, thy laM, fond mother On the beauty of that brow , F or death'!' cold hand i pas.-iif- u'tr Its marble Mil'nc cow ; Thor silken eyelid vi !..hin Upon the srlazcd o e. Arc telling to thy l.ivakii'u heait. The lovely nsse inti-t (lie. cs, mother of the tly in one. The beautiful iiiu-l-,o; The pallid cheek at'.u l'.i(!it;, ; 3 , And tretiiMinc: lift of snow. Are signets from the luunl of Heath, In n unseen ann l come To bear the toure an.i beautiful To their own happy home. That foil white hand within thy own, May never more rtitw inc It arms around the moUm's nt ik, Like tendrils of tho vine Those still, colli linger-, never moie Ahmc tlij" forehead fair, Shall dally with the ravin curls Thatclu'tcr thiikly there. The ila-lu of it spcakin;- eye, The music of its mirth Shall never mere make -la I the hearts Around the parent's hearth ; Then look thy la-f, find mother For the eaith shall be above. And the curtains of that lee; in otic, The first-born of thy loe. lnt let thy burn in,' thoughts en forth And pray that thou mav't meet That sinless one, whe re world' h ill hov Heforo the jnimcnt seat; And pray, that when the win:; of death Is shadowed oa thy brow, Thv soul may be he-Mo the one That slcepctli near thee now.

II I O ti 11 A P V. coMixr.i, D vvi!) tu)t .iirrr. We make (he following extract from the life of Col. (.'roc sktt, written by hiaisrlf. It i the first of his political career, and t'!l- haw the Colonel was fir-t elected to the li -.Mature of Tennessee. About tho lime, wc were ct t i n under good hctvl way in !ir government, a Capt. Mallhc as came to mo ami told me he was a candidate for the cfiice ot colonel of a regiment, and that I mu-t inn for first major in the same rigimcnl. I objected to this, idling him that I thought I had done my shaie of fighting, and that I wanted nothing to do with military appointments. He still insisted, until at last I agreed, and of course had every reason t calculate on his support in my election, lie was an early settler in that country, and made rather more corn than the rest of u-; and knowing it would afford him a good opportunity to electioneer a little, he made a great corn husking, and a great frolic, and gave a general treat, asking every body over the whole counlrv. Mvsclf and familv were, of ml ,1 1 course, invited. When 1 got th?rc, I found a very large collection of people, and some friend of mine soon informed m that the captain's son was going to otlor against me for the office of major, which he had seemed so anxious for me to get. I cared nothing about the office, but it put my dander up high enough to see, that alter he. had preyed mo so hard to oiler, he was countenancing, if not encouraging, a secret plan to heat inc. I took the. old gentleman out, and asked him about it. 1 le. told me it was true his son was a going to run as a candidate, and that ho hated worse to run against me than any nun in tin country. I. told him his son need give himself no uneasiness about that; that ft t Ik. . I m" I should nt run against mm lor major, hut against his daddy for colonel. He. took me bv the hand, and we went into the coaipany. lie then made a speech, and informed the people that I was hi opponent. I mounted up for a speech. I told the people the cause of my oppo sing him, remarking that as I had the whole family to run against any wav, I was determined to levy on the head ol the mes-s. hen the time for tne dec lion came, his son was opposed by ano ther man for major; and he and his daddy were both badly beaten. I just now i i began to take a rise, as in a little tinu 1 was asked to oiler for the Legislature in the counties of Lawrence and Heck man. I offered my name in the month of February, and started about the first of .March with a drove of horses to the lower part of the slate of North Caro Una. This was in tin1 year 1821, am1 I was gone upwards of three, months I returned, and set out cleclionecrin which was a bran-ft re new business to me. It now became necessary that should tell the. people something about the government, and an eternal sight of other things that I knowed nothing more about than I did about Latin, and law and such thine ''s hat. I have sah hi fore that in those days none of us ca led General .iAckon the government nor did hr seem in as fm a way to be

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come so as I do now; but 1 knowed so hltle about it, that if any one had told me he was "the government,' I should have believed it, (or I had never read even a newspaper in my life, or any thing else, on the subject. Hut over all my iliilii ulties, it seems to tne I w as born tor luck, though it would be hard for any one to guess what sort. 1 will, however, explain that hereafter. I went fu st into Heckman county, to see what I could do among the people as a candidate. Here they told me that they wanted to move their tow n nearer to the centre of the county, niul I must come out in favor of it. There's no devil if I knowed what this meant, or l ow the town was to be moved; and so I kept daik, going on the identical same plan that I now find is called ";utcomnin.il." About this time there was a great squint I hunt on Duck river, which was among my people. They were, to hunt two days: then to meet and count the scalps, and have a big barbecue, and what might be called a tip top country frolic. The dinner, and a general treat, was rdl to he paid for by the party having taken the fewest scalps. I joined one side, taking the place of one of the hunters, and got a gun ready for the hunt. I killed a great many squirrels, and when we counted scalps my party was victorious. The company had every thing to cat and drink that could be furnished in so new a country, and much fun and good humor prevailed. lint before the regular frolic commenced, 1 mean the dancing, I was called on to make a pcech as a candidate"; which was a buincs'l was as ignorant of as an outmdish neero. A public document 2 had never scon. nor did I know there were such tilings; r.d how to begin I could'nl tell. I made many apologies, and tried to get ofT, for I know'd I had a man to run against w ho could speak prime, and I know d, too, that I waVt able to shullle and cut with him. He was there, and know ing my ignorance as well as I did myself, le also ureed me to make a speech. "he truth is, he thought my bciiiij a candidate was a mere matter of sport; and did'iit think, for a moment, that he was in any dansrer from an ienorant ark-woods bear hunter. lut I found couhfiit get off, and so I determined just to go ahead, and leave it to chance what I should sav. 1 got up and told the people, I reckoned they know'd what I come for, but if not, I could tell them. I had come for their voles, and if they did'nt watch mighty close, ll get them too. Hut the w orst of all was, that I could'nt tell them any thing about government. I tried to speak about omething, and I cared very little w hat, tntil I choaked up as bad as if mv mouth had been jatn'd and cram'd chock lull of dry mush, there, the people tood, listening all the w hile, with their eyes, mouths, ami years all open, to catch every word I would speak. At last I told them 1 was like a fellou had heard of not long before. He was icating on the head of an empty barrel near tho road-side, when a traveller, who was passing along, asked him what io w as doinr that for ? I he fellow re plied, that there was some cider in that bam lafew days before, and he was trying to see if there was any then, but it there was ho could nt get at it. 1 told them that there had been a little bit of i speech in me a while ago, but I be lieved I could'nt get it out. They all roared out in a mighty laugh, and I told some other anecdotes, equally amusing to them, and believing I had them in a tirst-rate way, I quit and cot down, thanking the people for their attention iStit I took care to remark that I was as drv as a powder horn, and that I thought it was time for us all to whet our wins lies a li'lle; and so I put oil to the li quor stand, and was followed by the greater part ol the crowd. I felt certain this was necessary, for my competitor could open government mailers to them is easy as he pleased. He had, however, mighty few left to hear him, as I continued with the crowd now and then taking a horn, and telling cood humored stories, till he was done sncakins. I found I was good for the votes at the hunt, and when we broke up. I went on to the town of Vernon which was the same they wanted me to move. Here they pressed me again on the subject, and 1 found I could get either nartv bv nerecing wiia mem Hut 1 told them 1 did'nt know whether it would be right or not, and so I could'nt promise cither way.

Their court commenced on the next Monday, as the barbecue was on a Saturday, and the candidates for Governor and for Congress, a? w ell as my competitor and myself, nil attended." The thought of having to make, a speech made my knees feel mighty w eak, and set my heart to fluttering almost as bad as my first love scrape with the Quaker's niece. But as good luck would have it, these big candidates spoke nearly all day, and when they qnit, the people woe worn out with fatigue, which atTbrded me a good apology for not discussing the government. Ihit I listened mighty close to them, and was learning pretty fast about political matters. When they were all done, I got up and told some laughable story, and quit. I found ! was safe in those parts, and so 1 went home, and did'nt go back again till after the election was over. But to cut this matter short, I was elected, doubling my competitor, and nine votes over. A short time after this, I was in Pulaski, where I met w ith Colonel Polk, now a member of Congress from Tennessee, lie was at that time a member elected to the Legislature, as well as myself; and in a large company he said to me, "Well, Colonel, I suppose we shall have a radical change of Ihe judiciary at the next session of the Legislature."' "Very likely, sir,' pays I, and I put out quicker, for I was afraid some one would ask me w hat the judiciary was; and if I knowed I wish I may be shot. I don't indeed believe I had ever before heard that there was any such thing in all nature; but still I was not willing that the people there should know' how ignorant 1 was about it. When the time for meeting of the Legislature arrived, I went on, and before I had been (here long, I could have told what the judiciary was, and wdiat the government was too; and many other things that I had known nothing about before.

NATIOXAI. CHAUACT-'.K. " When Gen. George Rogers Clark, the Hannibal of the West, captured Ivaskaskia, he made head quarters at the house of Mr. Michel A , one of the wealthiest inhabitants. Michel liv ed in a capital French house enveloped with piazzas and surrounded by gardens all in the most approved style. He was a merry, contented, happy man, abounding in good living and good stories, and as hospitable as any gentleman whatever. The General remained with his guest some time, treated with the greatest kindness and attention, and took leave of Mr. A. w ith a high respect for his character, and a grateful sense of his warm hearted hospitality. Years rolled away; tjen. Clark had retired from public life, and was dwelling in an tumble log house, in Indiana, a disap pointed man, I lis brilliant services had not been appreciated by his country; lispoliticalprospcctshad been blighted ; he was unemployed and unhappy a roud man, conscious of merit, pining iway his life in obscurity. One day, is he strolled along the banks of the Ohio, he espied a circle of French boat men, the crew of a barge, who were eated round a fire on the beach, smo king their pipes, and singing their mer ry French songs. One voice arrested his ear it was that of his old friend Michel ; he could not mistake the blithe tone and ever buoyant humor of hi former host, lie approached, and there sat Michel in the garb of a boatman, with a red cap on his head, the merri est of the circle. I hey recognized each other instantly. Michel was very glad to sec the General, and invited him to take a scat on the log beside him with as much unembarrassed hospitality, as if he had still been in his spacious house surrounded by his train of servants. He had suddenly been reduced lrom atllu ence to poverty from a prosperous gen tleman, who lived comiortauly on his estate, to a boatman the cook, it we mistake not, of a barge. Although ; man of vivacity and strong mind, he was illiterate and unsuspecting. The change of government had brought in new laws, new customers, and keener f peculators than the honest French had been accustomed to deal with, and All chcl was ruined. But he was happy as ever; while his friend, the Genera whose changcofcircumstane.es had not been so sudden or complete, was a moo dy, discontented man. Such is the diversity of national character." Ilatl'x Sketches otie fl rsl.

"and Tiioir an. 'st dii;." ,vIt is appointed unto all Men ome to die." Thus speaketh the Almighty, whose Fiat produced this beautiful world with all its glories. The voice divine is, "Dust thou art and unto dust thou shalt return." And no earthly power tan alter the sentence gone out against our fallen race, or wage a successful war with the Hoary Monster, whose heavy tread shaketh down the sturdy monarchs of ihe everlasting hills and withers the prettiest blossom that grow- in nature's veivet bosom. Sometimes he rides furiously on Ids blood stained chariot over heaps of tlain, rioting amid

the spoils of suffering humanity, and like the detested ISero basking in the blazes of the funeral pyres which his own hands had fired. As he passes along on his exterminating work, the flow ers of Spring w ither, the beauty of Summer passes aw ay, and the plenty of Autumn vanishes forever. Consternation taketh hold on all ranks and degrees of men. The tender mother presses nearer to her bosom the dear idol of her nliections and love, imprinting another and a warmer kiss upon its pure lips, trembling for its safety and learful of a separation. The arms of the fond wife, like the tender ivy that clingetli around the venerable oak, grow closer to her mate, and every tie that binds man below, seems to adhere w ith an unwonted tenacity of feeling and strength. What the anguish and grief of the first mother must have been, when the cold white death strode over her darling sen in gloomy triumph, the Bible says not; probably no language could have done justice to the tide of sorrow that the burst from the smitten heart. His was the first lived course that mingled with the clods of the valley the first spoils won from the rosy fingers of lovely hope. And O what a havoc has since been made among her miserable offspring! truly this planet may well be linked to a Golgotha. What a elrangc country we sojourn in, peopled by innumerable generations, whose images and deeds have long since passed awa-, but whose ashes remain, some ingloriously huddled together without a single memento remaining to point out their place of rest. How unfeel ingly we tread on their dust nor pause to inquire whence are ivc and ii hithcr arc zee goin?. We have warnings on every hand, and none of us arc strangers to sorrow, ind if it comes not home to our own carts, we see its effects continually hefore our eyes. The sound of death rings in our cars frcqucntl, and around us fall almost dailv-, the friend, the. brother of our heart, the companion, the neigh bor, the very one perhaps with whom we used to take sweet council. We ive too in sight of the cold memorials of mortality, as they rise up in the crow ded church yard, the silent, though elo quent monitors, whose very looks speak volumes. The weeds oi mourning bear their part in reminding us of the dark ness of the tomb, and of the much ne glected truth, that after we have played our parts in the great Drama of life, it will come to our turn to be shutiled oil to make room for others. Dover Gaz. VI KITE. Virtue is the brightest ornament of youth. As on the one hand religion never appears more lovely and enga ging than when it dwells on the hps and is exhibited in the lives of young pco pic, so on the other hand, young per sons never appear so amiable, and de serve so much esteem and confidence as when they are religious; when they walk in the paths of virtue, honesty, so briety and integrity. Always interest mg in itself, youth is rendered doubly so when associated with the graces and tempers of tho gospel. A young man or a young woman destitute ol religion may be very estimable and worthy on account of the amiablcncss ot their dis positions and the propriety of their dc portment. But where the spirit and the graces of Christianity arc added, it is like adding life and motion to a statue which we have admired lor its proper tion and decorations. JLJut a young person of elegant form and engaging manners, who lives in proiugacy, impu rity and blasphemy, deserves to be com pared to a finished statue,, streaming forth corruption and poisoning the at mospherc with contagion and death. Fashion. There is a deceit in fash ion that enchants the heart, disturbs the reason, fills the mind with a succession of disorders, and makes the world hospital of enthusiasts.

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Tin: i.aihi's. There is one excellent trail in the female character which is admirably a dapted to their condition in life. We allude to their happy hack of making ihemsches contented at home, and en dcavoring to imparl that content toothers. Most men seek pleasure in vaiiety. for their habits will not allow them to occupy one spot too long; the monotory of the scene becomes wearisome, hence their desire to roam abroad. Not so with the generality of females; their home is a little world to them they can find employment everywhere, either mentally or bodily, and if nothing else is done, they will begin deranging things that they may again be "sitting to l ights." The patch work of a quilt embroidery, things which men consider a waste of lime.constitute social employments, which w hile they consult economy, give fairy wings to time. To a man the day is long and tedious io a domestic female it is too short there are a thousand little things to be done for the gootl government of her narrow empire. An industrious mother is sure to (rain up good children, for they w ill naturally imbibe her habits, and loathe idleness, and w here idleness is, we may in vain look for redeeming qualities, for it generally, if not always, begets all the evil propensities to which llcsh is heir. Da I unorc f 7. itor. j'ioit.Mxt; iiidi::?. What can be more delightful as well as beneficial, to the man who is engaged in the active duties of life, or the woman who prizes the mellow tints of beaut , than to rise with the orient sun and mount the "prancing steed,"' to leave the gay city with its thousands of inhabitants locked in the gigantic embrace of Sornnus, to enjoy the pleasures of a morning ride in the country, to breathe the pure and wholesome air that, bears the treasured sweets of the wild flowers cultured by nature's band, to be cheered by the warblings of the merry songsters that float from the leafy roves, to behold the capering of the innocent lambs upon the velvet grass, to hear the lowings of the herd, and to sec the humble and contented husindman scattering his seed from which ic expects to reap a respectful harvest. o view early in the morning so many equestrians, as may be seen going forth o greet the rising sun, is really a pleas ing sight, and shows that they prize their health far above the sluggard who is only awakened from his slum bers by the breakfast bell; to sav no thing of the bloom it adds to the check ind sparkle of the eye. EXGL.ISII STOCK. All the improved breeds have been made from cattle not originally superior to our own. It is about fifty years mcc much attention began to be paid to the subject in England. Mr. Bakewell is mentioned as the first who made i systematic business of it. His object was to raise a breed of cattle that would come to maturity earlier would fatten easily, and would have most flesh on the most valuable parts. To eflect this object, he selected the best animals he could find. He then observed wdiat were their defects in what respects their shape was not perlect, and where in they had a tendency to take flesh on parts of inferior value. He then pro cured others which excelled in those particular points in which the first were deficient, and by mixing them he ob tained descendants that partook of the excellencies of both. By following the same course through a sufficient num ber of generations, lie obtained a breed far superior to any that existed before. In the same manner, from the com mon English sheep he raised the supe rior breed called the Dishley sheep; of which it is said that the wool is long and fine, and weighs when they arc killed at two years old, eight pounds per fleece on an average, and that they latten kindly and early on ordinary pastures. Since Bakcwell's time, many other persons have followed the course pointed out by him, and several new breeds have been raised. Of these the. Durham short horns arc generally considered the best. The estimation in which they are held in England will appear from an account of some sales made, in 1810. Seventeen cows were sold for JC2802, or more than $730 apiece. One cow, nine years old was sold for irG3; and one ball for 1000 guineas, or ,S' lf)70. There, had been 500 deaths of Choi I era at Montreal, up to Aug. 1.