Rising Sun Times, Volume 1, Number 52, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 8 November 1834 — Page 1

" PLEDGED TO KO PAUTv's ARBITRARY SWAT, We'll FOLLOW TRUTH WHERE'ER IT LEADS THE WAY."

TIIK FATHERLESS.

BV THOMAS HAV.XC3 BAILEY. "Com lii;l.rr, 'l is iliv father, liov ! Rrctive him with a'kiss.'' "O mother, mother! do not iitt On Mich u lUn.eas (Ais: ' Though 1 w.i 5 but a littlu ihll.!, How bitterly I cried. Anil clunj to the;- in :t irony. When my j.or t'uhtr tlii-dY' C'fme, child tl.i n no time to wC., P;irt)ikc thy mother' juy ; The liusbatsil of my choice will prove A parent to my hoy.'' "4 Oh, mother, mother! ?ny not s, I cast no blame on t'ute, But yon t:iy Urnnjir cannot feel A father's loe for me." "Come, boy, "t ii for thy fa'ie I ucii" "No, mother, not lor i.iinc, I do not a?k in the world, One smile of loeave thine. 0 :iy, why i the widow's veil So early thrown aside! The hateful rumor is not trur, Thou wilt not Iv a l ride. "Oh, mother, can-t thou iuite furget How hand in hand ue crept. To my vicn honored father's bed, To watch him as he slept? And do you not remember til, His fond hut feeble kiss!'1 "A!.n! such thoucht" but little suit A day of j.n like this.'' " Of joy ! oh. motlit r, we must part, This is no home for me, 1 cannot bear ti breathe one word Of bitterness to thee. My father placed my hand in thine, And bade me love thi e well. And how 1 love, those liars of shama May eloquently tell. Thou ;n "l yon stranger love thy child ; I see he strives t, p!eace: Hn, mother, do not be his brido, I ask it on my knees. I urd to listen to his wuYe With plea sii re, I confess; p,nt call him hii-bam! ! and I shrink Ashamed of his carts. "Ild ! been o in-er when he died, Si-nroo consi ions of hi death, 1 miidit perha) s h:iv! miled to soo Thy gems an. 1 bridal w realh. My memorv would have lo-t a tie So very liul tlv lirk'd. Ile'ijjninc: that dear form which now Is vividly distinct. Had I bcfw older more inured To this world's cold career, I mirht have nn;ht a festival To check n filial tear. !av banners find pa follower', lut, from their station hurl'd The fay foruet them, nnd pursuo The next that is unfurl'd. 41 Rut I am of an ae to prizo The beintr in whom blend The love and the solicitude Of Monitor and Friend : lie phinn'd my boi -h sports nnd tharctl Knob jov and care I felt, Atid taiisht mv infant lip to prar, As by his side I knelt. " Vet derm not mine an impious grief, No, mother, thou w ilt own With cheerfulness J spuke of him When we have been ahplie. Hut bring no nW father here No. toother, we mast part ; The I'reliir.: that I m l'atheii(-s Wei-hs heavy on my heart. ' the elephant. It is difficult to describe the rxac, ?izi of these at.imals.a-i they have been seen from seven t hllcen feel; and no disciiplion can cuiivey a ju.-t idea of their iintMiitu Je, unices the creature itself has been presented to the sight. The forehead is very high and rising; the ears large and hanging down; the eves small, the back rather elevated, ...,! il.. K -. I.- ... iw I.- -.....t .....1 1 lli UM Ififtl lA.KIMi IU1IUU 11111 I lull. ind..,r.,l will. v:.r-.;v.., Srap ml scratches, which it receives in its pas1. ...... ..t. .1 .1,.. r..... completely0 round at the bottom, and on each there are five flat hornv risings, ...u:,t . t. .t ' .:A m 111v.11 H'j'niti hi nt; iiiu tAii ciiieiies vji i the toes: the hide is only covered with a few scattered hairs; but there is a tuft a foot and a half long, at the end of the tail: the trunk, or proboscis, prop1 -1 . c f n . 1 1 1 ) 1 rr ta pMnif I l-itwvll. .ii... I 1.111 ri'-:iiviii", i3 hi. art's ru, iiitiiiitnv 1 . . toamost singular extent; for,in an Liephant of fourteen feet high, it frequent - ly measures eight feet in length, and five and a half in circumference near the mouth; al which part it is much thicker than any of the rest. This fleshy tube is completely hollow, and please: through this trunk the Elephant breathes, drinks and smells: and, at the. point of it, just above the nostrils, there is an txlcnMun of the skin about five inches in length, formed exactly like a linger; and answering all the purposes for which it is used; with it the animal can lake up a pin, untie a knot, unlock a door, and even write characters with a pen. ti,.iI, hr r.lonhnnt U nn ,jm: -,1.1.. ...nrdirNl with a trunk, vet. w'.tl. . . ii r .C 'it: .-nnKrm-.imn w i. a .,.v;..l,il.-. h nrvlr ll:rl I 1U llll. ll-rk w vwiiiii nuiil"ll,H I III ll'll-JS film u l t - .vi I . , tu. ..v.n .- soihoit thnt it cin jcarcc turn the

uiviueu ny a paniuoti vvunin siue, ana sum. u.M..m,c uun ertU. uu.ei, ,u.av b ht down lo the humblest level; is compo-ed of such n variety of muscles man can easily pass between; and there chUd wUh scarceiy cjothcs to and nerves, as enables the creature to is only one great passage left open, h nakedness, may rise to the move it in any direction it may through which the Elephant can easily . ffi f government : and

head, and must w heel round lo survey an enemy in the. rear; the legs are likewise very stifi", and will scarcely bend at all when the animal is far advanced in age; and, when that period arrives, it always stands lo repose; the feet upon which these massy columns are supported, from a base that is but little broader than the legs; and though they are. divided into five toes, they are entirely concealed by a covering of skin. The enormous tusks which the creature uses as a defence, frequency annoys it by the immensity of their weight and it is obliged to make boles in the walls of its stall, where they may rest, and by that means enable the animal to support the cumbrous weight. These tusks, which proceed from the upper jaw, sometimes grow six feet in length; but the method of chosing the best ivorv from them belongs rather to the Artist than the Naturalist to describe. Though the lips nnd tongue assist other creatures .-.s well in drinking as eating their food, to the Eleplant, in those cases, they are wholly useless, as the trunk completely supplies their place. The chief sustenance of these quadrupeds is of the vegetable kind: and they seem to have an antipathy to every species of animal food. When one of the number happens to light upon a fer

tile spotot ground, he instantly gives a loud signal lo the rest,by way of invi ting them to partake of his luxurious fare, though extensive, indeed, must be the pasturage that would afford to any number a competent supply : it is not merely the quantity they consume, but, fur their enormous weight, they ue destructive to the land, and tread iti mare corn than they are able to cut In their natural state, thev dcliirht to live along the fides of rivers, and alwavs disturb the water before they be- I

gin lo drink; they divert themselves by bottom of the mines, a thousand feet befilling their trunks to the brim, and low the earth's surface; it is in the mill,

then spouting it out like a fountain or stream: the extremes of heat and cold seem equally to affect them; and, to avoid the former, they seek the most impervious shade, or retire lo the banks I of some well-known river, r.nd for hours together either swim or bathe. I Though the Elephant is the strongest as well as the largest of all quadrupeds, yet in a state of nature it is neither for! midablenorficrce; but, mild and peaceable in its disposition, it neither exerts .t.vrronnr.lrnll, lr it 3 n-it!.-.. An. I ,, ,i- .1 ii t I serts tins animal is spmnm sprn :ilmir I t..... 'n,,, m. r i 1 i t j L-i , 1 " 4 wavs conducts the band, whilst the next X IU- I'ltltri Ul lilt; l.UIIIL'ltllf Cl l I I U cnniv t ir nn t v Th e . 1 ii I ordr i mp c v nresened when tlicv I ire nnnn their marrh. Hirprtmor tlipir I 1 . ... e' . . pvnerc iney expeci to nave men- pro-

"j . 1 . r . 1 , going back to the rude atres peded bv the proprietors ofj& rn.

....Fuy. u, v.. . ... liiosc grounds they arc going to lay waste. Although the eyes of this animal are peculiarly small, yet they are completev exnressiveofwhal the creature fee s. nn.l .vhpn fn.nir.CT ihem nn an aTr. 4 ' I " " ! -I' tionate master, it is astonishing to obsrrv how murb t tidprtis lliev rpvpal ' . . .w...... Its sense of smellinjr is ikcwise allowcd lo be delicate, and it evinces a great fnnno fr nHnrlfcrmK flnvvPra- the r - . . hearing is also remarkably acute; and no animal is so exquisitely affected by the .nrh. I We have hitherto been describing this sagacious quadruped in the state which Nature intended it to be placed; we are now to behold it reduced tohunrt'it. 1. ,1 1 n 11 . 1 4......! 4 n 1 1. A .. hI . unii uui u n. iiv.it. mm iiaiui;u iu iiic u la I . . ol war, by the instruction of man. In 1 order to take them wild in the woods,! a spot oi ground is hxed upon, which is surrounded with a palisade made of the thickest and strongest tiees, secured by I cross bars, which tend to increase their strength. These posts are fixed at come, which is contrived on such principle as 10 ciose upon tne creature .i as soon as it has passed. To decoy the animal into this snare, it is necessary to conduct a tame female into the woods, which its keeper compels lo set up a cry that instantly attracts the attention of one of her male friends, and induces him to lollow the alluring souna until tie .. . Ii i I U .. A imuis inmseii euui'p-u utjuuuutni. Th -Wiiinir nhiert of his solicitude Ufill . nntimiP to lament and cry. and 1 i..- intrt so confined a nass 5a, w i mnn hip for him either I HC UUISUCa lltl I i. lit LIU1I II II Illiyv.-uiwv to proceed or return: uur,wuu c pci

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reives her let out at a private door, he begins to show violent marks of indignation at the deceit. The hunters fn the mean time fix cords around his body, and endeavor to soften bis resentment by throwing buckets of water upon his back, pouring oil down his ears, and rubbing his body over with fragrant leaves: two tame Elephants are then introduced to him, each of which alternately caresses him with their trunks; afterwards a third is brought forward that has been taught to instruct the new comer, upon which an officer of some distinction rides. The hunters then open the inclosure, and the tractable creature is led captive along, until they arriveat a massy pillar, to which, for about four-and-lwenty hours, it is tied. During that period its indignation begins to subside, nnd -in the course of a fortnight it becomes completely tame, acquires an attachment for the person who attends it, and thoroughly comprehends the different sounds of his voice. Gcldsmiih. . STEAM? In comparison with the past, what centuries of improvement has this single agent comprised, in the short compass of fifty years ! Every where practicable, every where efficient, it has an arm a thousand times stronger than that of Hercules, and to which human ingenuity is capable of fitting a thousand times as many hands as belonged to Briareus. Steam is found in triumphant operation upon the seas; and under the influence of its strong propulsion, the gallant ship "Against the wind, against the tide, Still steadies, with an upright keel." It is on rivers, and the boatman may repose on his cars; it is on highways, and begins to exert Uselt along me . . . . f .i courses of land conveyance: it is at the and in the work-shop of the trades. It rows, it pumps, it excavates, it carries, it draws, it lifts, it hammers, it spins, it weaves, it prints. It seems to say to men, at least to the class of artizans, "Leave oft your manual labor; give o ver your bodily toil; bestow but your k,U and reason to the directing o! my power, and I will bear the to.I-with scle to grow weary, no nerve W TP , , )V hal Jfur!he.rl. improvements may still Ue "UK illtj VJSc Ol UllS .ISlUUlSUlllg power, it is impossible lo know, and it ' ' ' 1 :.. 11 Jknow, is that it has most essentially al . - - iY - . lerca me tace 01 miHirs, and mat no . L ,U,M KrHU1 UW its progress is seen to be impossible. It I & ...... r ' if we were to miss it on the water and in the mills, it would seem as if we were Daniel Webster. ELEGANT EXTRACT. "In, our country the highest man is " a,)OVe ine PcPP,e; " ulG. nc" ue SiUU 10 1Mve rtUU'uu,k" ... have HOI aUaillOliai power . !!.. Nor does it distinc ... . f. . a;.,; eauu hb numtion of families. Those who are weal . 1.1 thy to day pass o the tomb, and their .... ....... ........ . ..... .lI'ii.ic w 1 .1.1 ... ' """.""T 1 ty UlUS IS divided 3S fast aS it aCCUmUchildren divide their estates r lates No fam.ly can ,, without Us own exertions, stand erect for a long time under our statue of decent and distnbutions, and only true and legitimate law. It silently and quietly dissolves the mass heaped up by the toil and dil igence of a long life of enterprise and industry, froperty is continually chan . .. A r -1I iTinir libo th nmv'pt nt thft spur nne h 13 ,. n j wave rises, and is soon swallowed up in the vast abvss, and is seen no more Another arises, and having reached its destined limsts, falls gently away and is succeeded by yet another, which in Upj richest turn breaks and dies gently on the shore. the roor man, while he taucs his in fant on his knees, may jusuy indulge the consolation, that if he possesses tal ents and virtue, ihere is no office be yond the reach of his honorable ambi tion. DYSPEPSIA. If a man of business wishes to get I .l.or tl.n A ctul rial a . lie ITlUSt (MVP. luS p..v... ...v u;.rr-, - o stomach less to do, and aoove an, nis brain less to do. It will be ot no service - 1 to follow anv particular regimen to I J . i . Y hve on chatl-oreaa 01 I 0 , - w. ".i o

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brain is in a stale of constant excitement. Let that have proper rest, and the stomach will perforin its functions. But if he pass fourteen or fifteen hours a day in his office or counting room, and take no exercise, his stomach will inevitably become paralyzed, and if he puts nothing in it but a cracker a day, it will not digest it. In many cases it is the brain that is the primary emise. Give that delicate organ some rest. Leave your business behind you when you go to your home. Do not sit down to your dinner with your brows knit, and your mind absorbed in casting up interest' accounts. Never abridge yotirself of the usual hours of sleep. Take more or less exercise in the open air everyday. Allow yourself some innocent recreation. Eat moderately, slowly and of just what you please provided it be not the shovel and tongs. If any particular dish disagree with you. however, never touch it nor look at it. Do not imagine that you must live on dry bread nor eat meal porridge a reasonable quantity of nutrious food is necessary to the mind as well as to the body. And, above all, banish all thoughts of the subject. If you have any trealise on dyspepsia, domestic medicines, &c, put them directly in the fire. If you are constantly talking and thinking about dyspepsia, you will surely have it. Endeavor to forget that you have a stomach. Keep a clear conscience, live temperately, regularly, and cleanly be industrious too, but be temperate in that. FEMALE RESPONSIBILITY. There is good sense, well expressed, in the following from a popular periodical. Females are involved in great responsibility, and probably more than they are aware of. To them is committed tho training of the infant mind. To them is given the power of forming their characters, either for usefulness and honor to their country, or for a disturbance to community a blot upon the fair page of morality. They can implant in their useful hearts, the principles of virtue and integrity, that will stand by them in their earthly career. Before the years of maturity have arrived, they can sow the seeds of good ness that will lake root and spring up, from which incalculable benefits may

be derived, and which will, in a great measure, influence their future course of life. Go visit the abodes of wretchedness ind poverty! Go visit our goals, our insons, and our almshouses, and with out hyperbolically speaking, you can say these are the fruits of the negligence of mothers those arc the liv ing examples of tho inattention of parents to le morals of their children and indul gence to them in vicious practices. 'here are many youths, who are now le inmates of houses of correction, who are now writhing under the tormenting stings of an afflicting conscience, who were born the heirs ot wealth and noility and possessed a title and superioi ank, which would ensure the respect ind good will of all. There is, no doubt, many a young man of promising talents, who gave sure indication ol becoming great and eminent in the world, is now the occupant ot a dark and loathsome cell, the just retribution of his crime, merely for the want ot u mother's sum ary counsel lo restrain nun in his on ward career of sin. How important is it then that you be informed of the fact. A single tear, a single reproof, may save many a pang, and your son from the gal low-;, a khiu admonition, and alieciionate enut-diy may save from filling a drunkard's grave. Mothers! upon you depend the future welfare ot your cnuaren. Vmi ran see them the abject sons of poverty and shame, or springing up like a well watered piani, io uun last days with happiness and peace CHILDHOOD. The green hills, the joyous gambols, the pure friendships of childhood, all . . . m i a thrill through the heart. I ne ancient man sits in the midst of a generation thrice removed from his own; heappears insensible to those around him he is deaf, and participates not in their lOV he beholds their sorrows with a cold, unfeeling eye. dui wny aoes ne at limes convulsively grasp his staff" and why does an unheeded tear occasionally trickle down his furrowed cheek? He is looking back beyond the existence of the present generation ; perhaps the image of her who hath slept in dust for half a century--she to

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whom his youthful heart was "garnered up p, appears before his memory as or.ee she bloomed perchance the mother who watched or wept over his eradie, and enhanced the joyousness of hisearly life, is breathing in his ear or the bosom friend or companion of his youthful wanderings smiles upon him, with the truth and ardor he has so long been a stranger lo where are they ?--Another people have grow, up to maturity since their graves were first sodden. Their memory has perished, except in the aged man, whose long dried ountainsof sensibility gush forth afresh. as such recollections rise within his mind. DEATH AND FAME. It has been said, emphatically, but with more of poetry than of truth, that' "Death loves a shining mark." The arrows of the grim tyrant are ever directed with impartial aim. They pierce alike, the weak and the stronp the mighty and the humble. With equal velocity they reach the proudest eminence, or div ide the clouds of the darkest obscurity. No height is above, no depth delow, their dread certainty. It is oniy as tne "mark" is more "shining," that the arrow's flight is more observed. The memory of him whose life had been unadorned by audit of brilliant exploit, uncharacterized by cheouered event, or unmarked by exemplary exucnciiee, may soon lade away from the minds of men, save where it is cherished deeply and devotedly, but unobtrusively, in the hearts of the bereaved Mmiiy circle, and embalmed by the tears of the few fond friends. But the world knows nothing of the loss which las Dccn sustained, and she sheds no ympathising tear with the mourners that are left behind. A few hours, perhaps (a few days, at the most.) glide by, and the grass grows above the remains of the deceased; and no one pauses to inquire wno moulders beneath; the wild briar may cluster, in tangled luxuriance, around the marble destined to perpetuate his name and fame; the damp moss may hide the chiselled story ; and the incurious eye coldly glances on the spot, w hile no't a hand is stretched forth to avert the ravages of time, or rescue lrom oblivion the memory of its unconscious victim. Such has been the fate of the great mass of mankind, from the creation of the world until the present day; and such will it be, through all ages to come. To this general and sweeping destiny there have been numerous exceptions; many for good, many more for evil. b ame is not always honorable, and obli vion would be sometimes a blessintr. which the world denies. The page which tells of the excellence of an Adrian, proclaims, loo, the vices of a Nero, the trumpet that sounds the good ness ot an Allied, rings the infamy of a Richard ; when thesnow-topped moun tains ol Switzerland resound with the virtues of a Tell, the echo of the Avalanches returns the tyranny of a Gesler; ind the spirit-stirring story which de picts, in colors of living light, the patriotism of a Washington, reveals, in darkeningshadesjthe treachery of an Arnold. It is well that it should be so. It is thus that before us are held, that we may mark and mistake not, guiding stars to lead us to good, and beacon lights to warn us from an evil. Forcible appeals are thus made, not merely to the selfish interests and prejudices, but to the purer and holier feelings of men. We may not all attain the greatness, but we may emulate the goodness which we admire; and we may certainly avoid the ill which we deprecate and abhor. Peace of Mind. The highest happiness which is capable of being enjoyed in this world, consists of peace of mind. The wise mortal who renoun ces the tumults of the world, restrains his desires and inclinations, resigns him self to the dispensation of his Creator, and looks with an eye of pity on the frailties of his fellow-creatures, whose greatest pleasure it is to listen among the rocks to the soft hmrmurs of a cascade ; lo enable, as he walks along the planes, the refreshing breeze of the zephyrs, and to dwell in the surrounding woods, on the melodious accents of the aerial choristers, may, by the simple feeling of his heart, obtain this invaluable blessing. Conundrum. What t""1 is most likely to captivate a young lady? Answer A for lime.