Rising Sun Times, Volume 1, Number 50, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 25 October 1834 — Page 1

I'LEHCE!) TO NO PARTY S ARBITRARY SWAY, WE LL FOLLOW TRCTII WHERE'ER IT LEADS THE WAY."

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io.m:haii.e. TW loilou iiii; poem, written l-y tho ool bra-t-l Iri-li liar--i-i, (iirtnac (I'Ktt'li.U m. rr reniarkaMo f..r- ,i ntricity 0f i,jras, j;-,;,,, f(i. jts noetic merit. It va o-a-ionel bv bis bavins lot a watch U I K.maaile, in the comity ol Cork, on his way to h initr.ipoli-. AlasI Itow lii-mal i?my ta!c, I loi my watch in Doiitrai.e. .My Dublin uat.-b, my chain ami -rai, riil'cr',1 at once in I )oii rai!o. May lire a-i'l liiia-toiic ncvvr fail To la! I in -liow'r-. on Domrailo. May all t ho a Mm ticul assail Tho tliiovinc town of 1 lonrrailo. Tho l.ili t.f IViiiijii-y at I harsalc, I0 that thorurso of Dotii railo. .May beef i,r mutton, lamb or vt-af, l'e never l".nn.l in Doneraile. lint jtrlio s.iii;i ami i-urvv kale, He iill th.-i'..,..l for Doneraile. An l f.irwar.l as the ret-pins snail, Th" imbistry beat PoiKraiie. .Jay I leaven a host n enrse entail On rioted, rotten IViDorailo. May sun and moon forever fail To beam their lights on Doneraile. May every ) e-tiloiitial pale I'.last that cnrs'tl spot called Dom raiV. May no sweet cnekoo, thrush or quail, He ever hear. I in Doneraile. May patriots, kinsrs and commonweal Di spiso and harass Doneraile. May every po-t, a7ctto and mail Sad ti.linu' linns to Doneraile. May vent. ance fall at bead and tail Vrom Noilh to South of Doneraile. Mav profit li;ht and tartly sabStill .1 .imp the trade ot Doneraile. May I'vpt's placne at oiKe prevail To tl.iu the Unavi s of Doneraile. May iVort an. I snow, ami sleet and hail Honumh ea !i joint in Doneraile. May wolves and bloodhounds trace and trail The curbed crew of Doneraile. May Oscar with I. is riery flail To atoms lhrih all Doneraile. Mav eve ry mi-chief, flesh and stale, May all liom Ih lfat to Kinsale, Scoff, curse, and hate yon, Doneraile. May neither flour nor oatmeal l'e found or known in Doneraile. Mav want and woe each iov curtail That e'er was known in Doneraile. May no oneco:!iu want a nail '1 hat wraps a rot no in Doneraile. May all t'.e tl.ievi s that rob and ttoal The callous nici t in Doneraile. May mischief hi; as Norway whale O'rrwhelm the knaves of Doneraile. May every transport wont to sail, A convict hriii; from Doneraile. May every churn and milking pil Vail to dry staves in Doneraile. May every chosen ill prevail )er all the imps of Doneraile. Mav curse of Sodom now prevail And sink to ashes Doneraile. May Charon, boat triumphant sail Completely mann'd from Doneraile. Oh! may my couplet never fail To find new woes for Doner.iile. And may trtim Pluto's inner coal Forever crroan with Doneraile. vT fisAfj tuToicv;

WHITE IU-'.AK OF THF. TOI.VR REGION'S. In the caves of ihe rock, or in the hollows of t!tc ice, dwell ihe tno?l formidable of an -.lictjuadnipcds, the Greenland or Polar Boar. This fierce tyrant of t!ie c 1 1 tPs and snows of the north, unites the strength of the lion with the untameable lietcencss of the hyena. A lonp; shaggy coverirg of white soft hair, and a copious supply of fat, enable him to defy the winter of this rigorous climate. Under the heat of Britain he sutlers the most painful sensations; Pennant saw one, over whom it was necessary, from time to time, to pour large pailful-: of water. Another, kept for some years !y professor Jameson, evidently suffered severely from the heat of an Edinburgh summer. The haunt of the Bear is on the dreary Arctic shores, or on mountains of ice, sometimes two hundred miles from land; yet he is not, strictly speaking, amphibious, lie cannot remain under water above a tew moments, ana he readies his ma ritime stations only hy swimming from one icy fragment to another. Mr. bcoresby limits the swimmtne reach to three or four miles; yet Parry found one tn the centre of barrow s strait, where it was forty miles across. Thi Bear prowls continually for his prey, w hich consists chiefly of the smaller cetacca and of seals, which, unable to con tend with him, shun their fate hy keep ing strict watch, and plunging into the depths of the w aters. With the Walrus he holds dreadful and doubtiui encoun ters; and that powerful animal, with his enormous tuks, frequently heats him otV with great damage. The whale he dares not .".Mack, but watches anx iously for the huge carcass in a dead slate, which affords him a prolonged and delicious feast; he scents it at the distance of miles. All these sources of supply beini precarious, he is sometimes lelt lor weeks without food, and Ihe Ai ry of his hunger then becomes Iremen uous. ,t stu n periods, man, viewed by him always as his prey, is attacked Willi peculiar iirrceiifss. The ar.nals of the north arc fillei with accounts of the most perilous and fatal conf.icls of the Polar Bear. The first, and one of the. most tragical, was -attained by Barentz and Heemskerke tn .s. dunng their voyage for the

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discovery of the north-east passage. Having anchored at an island near the strait of Waygalz, two of the sailors landed, and were walking on shore, when one of them felt himself closely hugged from behind. Thinking this a frolic of one of his companions, he called out in a corresponding tone, "Who's there? prav stand off." His comrade looked, and screamed out, "A Bear! a Bear'." then running to the ship, alarmed the crew with loud cries. The sailors ran to the spot, armed with pikes and muskets. On their approach, the Bear very coolly quilted the mangled corpse, sprang upon another sailor, carried him off, and, plunging his teeth into his body, began drinking his blood at long draughts. Hereupon, the whole of that stout crew, struck with terror, turned their backs, and fled precipitately to the ship. On arming there, they began to look at each other, unable to feel much satisfaction with their own prowess Three then stood forth, undertaking to avenge the fate of their countrymen, and to secure for them the rites of burial. They advanced, and lircd at first from so respectful a distance that they all missed. The purser then courageously proceeded in front of his companions, and, taking a close aim, pierced the monsters skull immediately below the eye. The Bear, however, merely lifted his head, and advanced upon litem, holding still in his mouth the victim he was devouring; but seeing him soon stagger, the three rushed on with sabre and bayonet, and soon dispatched him. They collected and bestowed decent sepulture on the maneled limbs of their comrades, while the skin of the animal, thirteen feet long, became the prize of thesailor who had fired the successful shot. The history of the whale-fishers records a number of remarkable escapes from the Bear. A Dutch captain, Jonge vees, tn 1668, undertook, with two ca noes, to attack one, and with a lance gave him so dreadful a wound that his immediate death seemed to themineviblc. Anxious, therefore, not to iniure the skin, Kccs mcrelv followed th" ani mal close, till he should dropdown dead. I he Bear, however, having climbed a ittle rock, made a spring from the dis tance of twenty-four feet upon the cap tain, who, taken completely by surprise, ost hold of the lance, and fell beneath the assailant, who, placing both paws on his breast, opened two rows of tre mendous tcelh, and paused for a moment, as if to show him all the horrors of his situation. At this critical instant. a sailor, rushing forward with only a scoop, succeeded in alarming the mon ster, who made off, leaving the captain without the slightest injury. In 1788, captain Cook of the Arch angel, when near the coast of Spitzbcrgen, found himself suddenly between the paws of a Bear. He instantly cal led on the surgeon, who accompanied him, to tire, which the latter did with such admirable promptitude and pred ion, that he shot the beast through the head, and delivered the captain. Mr. Hawkins, in July, 1818, having pursued and twice struck a large Bear, had rai sed his lance for a third blow, when the animal sprang forward, seized him by the thigh, and threw him over its head into the w ater. Fortunately, it used this advantage only to effect its own escape. Captain Scoresby men tion s a boat s crew which attacked a Bear in the Spitzbergen sea; but the animal having succeeded in climbing the sides of the boat, all the sailors threw themselves for safety into the water, where they hung by the gunwale. The victor entered triumphantly, and took possession of the barge, w here it sat quietly, till it was shot bj- another party. The same w riter mentions the ingenious contrivance of a sailor, who, being pursued by one of these creatures, threw down successively, his hat, jacket, handkerchief, and every other arti cle in his possession, when the brute, p tusing at each, gave Ihe sailor always a certain advantage, and enabled him finally to regain the vessel. THE RATTLE SNAKE. The Rattle Snake finds a superior foe in Ihe deer and the black snake. W hen ever a buck discovers a rattle snake in a situation which invites attack, he loses no time in preparing for battle. He mrvLoft nn to within ten or twelve feet of the snake then leaps forward and aims to sever the body of the snake with his sharn bitu rated hoofs. The first onset is most commonly successful, but if otherwise, the buck repeats the (rial

until he cuts the snake in twain. The rapidity and fatality of his skilful m.tnrevre leave but a flight chance for its victim either to escape or inject its poison into its more alert antagonist. The black snake is also a more than equal competitor against the rattle snake. Such is its celerity of motion not only in running, but in entwining itself round its victim, that the rattle snake lias no way of escaping from its fatal embrace. When theluask and rattle snaks tire about to meet for battle, the former darts forward at the height of his speed and strikes at the neck of the latter with unerring certainty, leaving a foot or two of the upper part of his body at liberty. In an instant he ensircles him with five or six folds, he then stops and looks the strugling and gasping, foe in the face to ascertain the effect produced upon his corsetted body. If he shows signs oflife,the coils are multiplied and

the screws tightened the operator all ! the w hile narrow ly watching the countenance of the helpless victim. Thus the two remain for thirty or forty min utes the executioner then slackens one coil, noticing at the same time whether any signs of life appear if so the coil is resumed andjretained until the incarcerated wretch is completely dead. The moccasin snake is destroyed in the same ty;iy. REASON IN WILD DUCKS. While engaged in improving the grounds of Hedgei ley Park, 1 was much amused by the movements of a great number of wild ducks on the opposite side of the lake, where fifteen or twenty of these aquatic birds were constantly swimming, diving, and violently agitating the water so as to prevent its becoming congealed by the frost. This they effectually prevented, although the ice on the other parts of the lake was sufficiently strong to bear ten or twelve men. When these ducks became weary and retired from the wa'er, they were regularly relieved by a..oct the same number of others w hich had been nestling among thu rushes on the bank; and these again after a certain time rclinquisdecl tiieir labors to another party, so that the water was kept in a constant state of agitation both night and day till the frost was over. I observed that when the fresh party of ducks entered the water their first object was to swim close to the ice in a semicircle form so as entirely- to prevent it congealing any where within their boundaries. But what struck me as the most extraordinary circumstance was, that when the well known whistle of the keeper pro claimed the feeding time, it had !;o effect on the ducks then on duty, though all the others flew as usual to the spot with their accustomed clamor. A part however soon returned to the lake with a loud call - for those then in the water to change situations, which was performed with an alacrity and regularity, that would have been a lesson to well-disciplined troops. The ducks appeared nearly regardless of the workmen, although at other times a single footstep would have alarmed the whole flock and put them to flight. Horticultural Reg. WOLVES. The following narration may have before met the eyes of many of our rea ders: it is certainly of a nature not to be easily forgotten. We may premise that in Russia, during a severe winter, the wolves are often induced by hunger to prowl around the city of St. Petersburg in search of food. Travellers from St. Petersburgh to Constandt, a distance of about twenty miles, have often been attacked by these animals. The circumstance related below was told to Mr. Lloyd by a gentleman of rank at St. Petersburgh; it occurred in Russia not many years ago: A woman accompanied by three of her children, were one day in a sledge, when they were pursued by a number of wolves. On this, she put the horse into a gallop, and drove towards her home, irom which she was not far distant, with all possible speed. All, however, would not avail, for the ferocious animals gained upon her, and at last were on the point of rushing on the sledge. - For the preservation of her own life and that of the remaining children, the poor frantic creature now took one of her babes and cast it a prey to her blood-thirsty pursuers. This stopped their career for a moment; but, after devouring the little innocent, they renewed their pursuit, and a second time came up wilh the vehicle. The mother, driven to desperation, resorted to the same horrible ex-

pedient, and threw her ferocious assaiiS ants another of her offspring. To cut short this melancholy story, her third child was sacrificed in a similar manner. Soon after this,, the wretched being, whose feelings may more easily be conceivedthan described, reached herhome in safety.. Here she related what had happened, and endeavored to palliate her own conduct, by describing the dreadful alternative to which she had been reduced. A peasant, however, who was among the bystanders, and heard the recital, took up an axe, and with one blow cleft her skull in two; saying, at lite same time, that a mother who could ihus sacrifice her children for the preservation of her own life, was no longer fit to live. This man was committed to prison, but the Emperor subsequently gave him a pardon.

A III? AVE AVOMAX. An amiable lad', the wife of a sea captain , accompanied her husband several times across the Atlantic. On one of these voyages, the captain became dangerously ill. At the SHrrrc crisis, the vessel was overtaken by a severe gale, which I) ley for several "days w ith tremendous violence. For a while, the brave sailors endured the greatest hard ship and privations withoutcomplaining.

At length, however, they became dis- dismal, and reached, upon a computacouraged, and refused to obey orders, tion,. near fifty miles in length.' The alarmed mate immediately made Truly, the old adage, "fire is a good

the captain's wife acouainted with af fairs; and begged that the captain might if possible, come on deck; for, added he, the sailors will break open the spirit room, and if they do, all is lost, and not a soul on board can be saved. Ordering the mate on deck, the lady seized her husband's pistols, and placed herself before the door of the spirit room. Soon the desperate tars came rushing down together; but before they reached the bottom of the stairs, their attention was arrested by the sight of a female, and they became suddenly to a stand. Pointing her pistols at the foremost, and raising her voice, she assured them that the first man who dared to lake another step should be laid dead on the floor! And then, in a mild and winning tone, sho said, h(W, my lads, you have done bravely; the blow-is almost over; run to your duty; the ship shall be saved, and you shall not lose your reward." t illed w ith admiration of the conduct of the female, rather than with the fear of death, the sailors gave three cheers, and returned on deck. The gale soonabated,and she ship was saved Ladies! shall the ship be saved? or shall she sink? If saved at all you must guard the spirit room COLI WATER. I have know n a swelling upon a child's forehead, as big as a pigeon egg, occa sioned by a fall, and because there hap pened to be no tttmj'hr.r in the bottle, the sympathising mother had nothing to do but to sit down and weep over her child. Now she should know that cloths dipped in cold water, or if in winter when it can be obtained, a snow ball wrapped up in a piece of cloth would do more good than a gallon of camphor. 1 have known persons to heat rum to wash the face with, in vio lent head-aches, when showering it with cold water" or a cap of snow would do a great deal more of good as we might expect. I have known a good nurse put on boiled wormwood, steeped in boiled vinegar on a bruised ancle to keep the swelling down, but according to the laws of our nature, all hot applications, in such cases do hurl. We must apply cold to do any good. Let pitchers full of cold water be poured from a height upon such an ancle, and the inflamatiou will be very soon subsided. Education Reporter. HOW TO SUPPLANT A RIVAL. When Doctor Franklin first set up a printing press in Philadelphia, he had a rival in one Keimer, and afterwards in a David Harry, Keimer's successor. In order, therefore, to secure his credit as a tradesman, Franklin took care not only to be in reality industrious and frugal, but to avoid the appearances to the contrary. He dressed plain, was seen at no places of idle diversion, and never went out a fishing or shooting; and to show that he was not above his business, he sometimes brought home the paper he purchased at the stores through the streets on a wheelbarrow. Thus being esteemed an industrious thriving young man, and paying duly for what he bought, the merchants solicited his custom, and he went on prosperously. In the mean time, Keimer's

credit, declining daily on account of his negligence and intemperance, he was forceil to sell his printing house and removed to Barbadoes. David Harry had able friends and a good deal of interest with them ; but he was very proud, dressed like a gentleman, lived expensively, took much diversion, and pleasure abroad, run in debt and neglected his business; upon which, all business left him and he followed his predecessor to Barbadoes. This is the way Franklin supplanted his rivals.

TEN THOUSAND HOUSES BURNING. A writer, who witnessed the burning, of London, which begun Sept. 2nd, 16G6, thus quaintly describes the awful, scene: "God grant that my eyes may never behold the like, now seeing about 10,000 houses all in one flame. The noise and cracking, and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of the people, the fall of towers, houses, and churche?,were like a hideous storm, and the air all about so hot and inflamed, that at last one was not able to approach it,sothat they were forced to stand still and let the flames burn on; which they did for near two miles in length, and one in breadth. The clouds of smokn servant but a bad master," is correct. We have seen the burning of fifty or sixty houses at once, produce more distress than wc could ever describe. But what are 50 to 10,000? How careful ought we all to be, to guard against the ravages of this stern devourcr. "Behold how great a matter a little fire kindlethP Economy. It is the duty of every man, whatever may be his circumstances in life, to be economical in his expenditures. Uninterrupted health and ability to earn, are not guaranteed to man, neither is good fortune the certain concomitant either of enterprise or skill in any profession. Poverty may overtake a man when he least expects it, and then if hs has been lavish in his cxpen 1M tires, they will bethecauscof most bitter regrets Public opinion is so much a slave of fashion, that cases may occur in which it will be truly economical for a man to wear a dress that costs eight or ten dollars per yard it would perhaps be very injurious to his prospects if he did not, but such cases rarely, if ever, occur in the ordinary walks of life. . Generally men dress more expensivelythan the strictest prudence would dictate. Such a person is not thought the better of either by his neighbors or the world. Farmer's Gazette. Discovert of Indian Corn. Previously (o the settlement of the Puritans in New England, they formed parties for the purpose of exploring the country. Captain Miles Standish, who may be called the hero of New England, commanded one of them consisting of sixteen men. In their progress they met with several small hillocks supposed by them to be burial places for the Indians; but as they advanced, finding many more, they closely examined them and discovered that they contained Indian corn. Being buried in the ear, it excited their curiosity, and by some of the party it was thought a valuable acquisition; while othersrwho ate it in a raw state, did not relish it, and thought it worth little or nothing. They secured, however, some for seed in the ensuing spring. Squanto, a friendly Indian, instructed them in the culture of it, and it was probably the means of saving them afterwards from famine. Origin of Cock Fighting As Themistocles was leading the forces of Athens against the Persians, he met some cocks fighting; on which he commanded his army to halt, and thus addressed them. "Fellow soldiers, observe these animals; they do not assail each other for the sake of their country, nor for their paternal gods, nor for the sepulchers of their heroic ancestors, nor for glory, nor for liberty, nor for children, but for mastery. How then ought you to fight, who have all these things to contend for?'' This homely but upt speech is said to have had a powerful effect in animating the Athenians to victory; and in order to perpetuate the memory of the incident, a law was afterwards passed, that "there should bo a public cock match on the stage every year." And hence, says Fdian, arose the pastime of cock-fighting.

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