Rising Sun Times, Volume 1, Number 52, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 8 November 1834 — Page 2

Communication. For the Timet. THE COUSTT SEAT. Messrs. Editohs You no doubt are el acquainted with the familiar construction of a tcagoti Tcheel. You know that the spokes all project from the centre to the circumference, are supported by the centre or hub, and gfct support to the Circumference That being of

equal length the pressure is the same j on all, and hence it is one of the strong est patterns of mechanism of which we have knowledge. But if we destroy the true circle of the wheel by making some spokes longer than others, we at the same time weaken it in its general structure; because the longer spokes w ill have to bear the heaviest burdens and must necessarily have a proportional increase of strength or a fracture is the natural consequence. And thus it is with bodies political nnd civil a well as bodies mechanical. Whenever we destroy the true centre of interest by giving it a lateral direction, we destroy the equilibrium of the whole; for while some parts will feel the burdens light like the short spokes of the wheel others cannot fail to be broken down by their weight unless gifted with a proportional increase of means. And now permit me to apply this simile to the present condition of our county The Seat of Justice, its proper huh and support is not in the centre where it ought to be, but occupies a lateral position in the wheel. Hence the burdens of the people are unequal, those at the greatest distance having to bear the heaviest, while others near at hand scarcely feel their weight at all. 13y this means the equilibrium of interest is broken up, the balance of power is destroyed and the structure of the 7vhoIe is necessarily w eak. And who does not know that this is the fact ? Is argument necessary to prove that which is self-evident! Is it necessary to inform those living in the remote parts of the county that their burdens are greater, their taxes heavier than they would be were the Seat of Justice at the centre? They know too well from sad experience that this is the fact, and ncej no other convincing evidence upon the subject. The grand object of republics is to distribute the duties and taxations necessary for their support equally and impartially among the people, and at the same time to secure to them equally and impartially all the privileges and advantages that arise I'rom the nature of their government To be lavish of the fruits of liberty to one portion of the community and miserly saving of them to another, savors not of freedom but of despotism it is nothing better than the robbing and impoverishing of the one for the enrichment and aggrandizement of the ether. and cannot l.ul lc thwart the purpose j of free institutions and reduce them ! at length to a slate of positive ah-; solute rany. Hence, it is necossan j that every individuals riultt should" he ! guarded and protected with fccp'tiny i and exact precision. I And now let me ask my fellow citi j zens if that is the case with D-arhorn

county, or ever In? been? Are heris'w ,vc,e thivaloiied, till they 'acre i

burdens equally borne and are her pri Vileges equally enjoyed by hei ciliz -vis? lias not the balance of "political influence and favor always filleu upon one point to the neglect of all others t What f frtll ?Mo ll:IC Is.i.itt vtl.-jM n- lt' I . vs.,.....,. umvu n.m " ini iiuie. j consuuieu ia legislating upon g upon matters) one pljce in tlie j ?at disadvantage ! that are to benelit but w hole count v. to the grer nnd injury ol all others? Lawrencenurg i is me only place in iVm !orn j county that can boast of any public ad-( vantages woilh naming. Th it place J has its roads, its bridges, its public hull- j ding, its Bank orr, and aims soon to have its railway and canal to complete the catalogue. And what have wcin turn? Nothing!! And upon what grounds is it that that place has been o signally favored above all others? I; pen no other than, that it is the Cbwn.'v Think yon, fellow citizens, ft coul J ever have b.elJ out such pretentions but for this? Take the Courthouse out of Lawrencehnrgh and who t:i their sense? of those &Kt ore not t be rspccirtUy benefited by ihe ml would er think of terminating a railway (here, or a canal cither? It is really become a matter of eivjs reflection, that a pi n o hke .aw

lencehurghj to secure all Ihe privile -There is nothing iu.he Principles of jof Robert Temnl " V " UrP? ,S "Wl geSof the cou,;!y ami a town be bu ll republicanism, which makes tlie poor form-rlv Vvni V V-'r'"N tip there netwilhs :mling all its local obnoxious lo the. rich, or the rich to Ihe the Buik of l,iil. V ' 1 csidtMil of cbjections-andthisiodel.aricroflhHlpoor.-Xor does the spirit cf liberlv wealth I i ,e ;J . ? m of &cnl very people who are to support it!! It J encourage outrage, or promote licen- part ofYlio co ntra YJatju :,r lhat cannot, it surely will not h. The cycshiouness. Where, ibeo. irt i.l I At?to.t e l,as ,H'cn de-

of the people are already open. they j for the cau-e of an c(fet so lamentable liae een, felt and talod enough of j and disgraceful. We answer, in somesu. h proceedings lo induce ihent to a-1 j thing which is becoming al n mingly and (hey will act; and their lir-l f-i piivalent in this country devotion to fort will result in the removal of (hoir wen. This is the crving evil, the accueat of .luetic? frotp the spot where i! ! muhtinc "in, of lhed.iV. It is a fact.

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now stands to the centre of the county. I

W e shall then see who will have roads, who bridges, who railways and canals: and I trust, that if we have them at all, we shall all enjoy them in common. JUSTICE. roi.rricAL, mo rs. We trust we shall not be thought out of our province e, in making a lew onset- . . . 1 1 . - I .t Mii'jrei v.11.1.1 ikuii copy tne attention oi all reiiecung men Tlie riots which have occurred at the ! polls in tins country wimni me past ear or two, are really cau-e of alarm, to all w ho value

all who value .he perpetuity of our ! prinoipi cS cf Jefferson, each partv quopublican institutions. 1 he most Hting him with equal 'admiration, and nt. arc those which occurred in I ml- j holding him up as a sage statesman, nnd elpli.a. on the day of the late dec- j piIre repi,hlican. Certain conflicting I - . I ' J- 1.1- I J . 1 1

re cent ad ,oa in lennsy.vama lor delegates to ,7 , , , yei,..u,,r. cuougu vuese were not so i.ioojy as was at hrst represented, anu published -i i.j i. ..-I, ,i our cu papeis lasi wec.M stm nicy i ii i

were mosi oisgracetui oau enougn lojonou h B;lt hat do a mll,0rity of

suuuse eyer a; cem American s cneeu wiin sname. i ne statements are van- j ens, and those of the whig papers conflict somewhat with those of the democratic. The riot occurred in the Moyamensing district, and the particulars are about these: A short time before the period of closing the pells, there was great commotion some rushing towards the ballot-boxes, and verv unceremoniously shoving others aside there was a good deal of hallooing and shouting, a little knocking down, and quite a snatching and tearing up of handbills and election tickets. It appears that the democrats took the largest part ia these disturbances. To them soon succeeded others, in which the whig? were conspicuous and triumphant such as beating back the democrats, who were crowding upon their head-quarters, chopping down their hickory pole, and demolishing an image of general Jackson. The democrats having breathed a while, and had their ranks reinforced by stragglers from other districts, (the whig papers assert roundly that they were sent for .and came on purpose.) commenced a regulai attack upon the quarters of the whigs, put them to flight, carried the furniture and bedding of three or four dwelling houses into the streets, heaped it up, some around the liberty pole of the whigs, (which was burnt down.) other elsewhere, and set lire to the whole mass; the fiames were soon com municated to the buildings, the proivr .... e . . . - . . ' . i , , - i i t ot an industrious and neacea do .. .. I.:l. 1:1. : . i. . i ... . . ' U.. . . l....: .i i wa il urine the ear v part o( thi scene that the dcmoc.au wens tired upon by the whigs. It is said that blank catridges were at first used, until it was found that the democrats were not to be frightened by powder and paper. However this maybe, eighteen or twe:i - ly w ere wounded and cariied oil" in the course of the affray, one of whom died dm mg l!i-j tugnt. When the houses j caught fire, the state-house beil wis j rung, and the different fire companies j of the city repaired promptly to the j spot, but weie prevented by the enra- j eed democrats from extinguishing t!i il ime. Two or three companies com- i nienced operations; bul their uZ w aSi u laimeious places, and theii per- j compel-ed to desist Horn their efiorls. j I no city police weie on the ground , ; but were w holy disregarded. Such, very briefly told, are the prin- j ipal pailiculars of the riiiladelphia ; iot,on the evening of their recent dec-1 ..tf . .... . f - 1 . t . i ex, on me. evening oi ineir recent dec-! tion; a riot. if not the mot disgraceful. ! certainly the most alarming, that has ev(r oci lined in this cenn'irv. A n this, in the nineteeMh century, in the most ctiligiitened nation of the world.

and in the fifty-eighth year of our re- j u'hhos to better hi fortune by emigra public! O, temporal Bv the (ime these i ,io:b we SV, the Valley of the Miami accounts reach Eondon'and Paris, and!'5 l!ie P!acc fr vou; near a good and

are sent off in proof-slips to the provin cial editors, (hey will form a big story, and the fiiends of republicanism in Europe w ill have to hang their heads. Where, or hi what, are we to look for the cause of such riots? Thi irquiry may not be profitless. Is it jn the character of the institutions of our country? Is it in the temperament of the people of this union? Is it in the principles of republicanism? Or, is it in the spirit of liberty? Certainly, in none of these. Oar political institutions are not like those of England, millstones to the poor. The citizens of the United SlaU nave not that mercurial temper- ........ t k . i. fck amcm, wnicli belong to the I renrh.

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as notorious as it is disgraceful, that

not principles, but men. are contended for, in most of the elections, which take place for officers of our general and state governments. And what is a h;.d, piobaMy the worst feature in this svstem, is. that the struggle is not for the (elevation of good men, so much as to clothe tiiose with power who will use o.v.n power in the cause of a particular ; putV, how ever blindly that party may e woikmg against the general weal. Oar conntrv, in a political respect. ; j divided i,,io tven tvini,.. ami we hear a great deal said about the ;i::ci..!(J, of ,m;j;,nal policy are held Uy ,ne two .ir,:0S!. anj certain indivi ' l!la ;ire ,ooLea a? the heaJs f)f j ;j- s Lw!ics anj t,c representatives . 0f ,()n.e p.incip es. This is all well I "I : lho5e who arc ,ho most noUv Hf, riot ous on election days, know about the principles for which their leaders, or rattier drivers, tell us they are contending? Almost nothing. Ask them, and they w ill tell you that Jackson is a great tyrant and monarchist, and the weakest man that has ever been called to an exalted station; and that Mai tin Vanburen would be just as bad if he w ere in his situation: or, that the bank of the United States is a monster, which, if not speedily strangled will destroy our liberties, nnd bring ruin upon this union : and that Nicholas Iliddle, and all those w oo are assisting him in upholding this monster, are a set of mercenary scoun drels, w ho would, like Esau, sell their Mirth-place for a mess of potage. Such are the men, influenced it, litis way, and not by the purity of their ow n political principles, or the corrup tion oi those of tiieir opponents, who arc to be found at the polls on election days, lauding this man and contemning that man, hurraing and blaspheming, and creating those riots which are such a ii;;;rae to our country. This is a subject of vital interest and impoilaneo, and we shall recur to it at some future pet iJ. In the mean time, we should like to see an expression of opinion by some of our senior brethren (Of the press, on the subject of slump harangue. 1 his is a species of electioneering, w hich has only of Lite been carried to anv considerable extent in v louiv upon ii as a great c i , . .. i- . . , ' . . - . rv.;.v v i . ... -I ICimill!" Ill l!ll':im r:i I llilm ni v"- inula "i iiic- ui i u i . hiiu are i . -4 i, , ,,. pTP-jo,t "l.ogetlu-G,, .Virrvr. j t MIXMl VAt.l.tv. j This extensive valle,at the present j moment,' presents a spectacle which is ! 11 "'.v :l interesting one; one upon j xv'''ch tlie ce may rest with pleasure, UJ that (ills (he niind with the liveliest jomoiions. Yes. ihis verv willv. (h.-i is Inen for ears avoided, and from which the traveller and immigrant have turned aw ay w ith fear, as from the pl-gue or deadly upas, is now being thronge.d with tue hardy yeomanry of the east, w l.o are coming on prepared ' ael the pa it of pioneers in the works "' '!'r'o M:u-nt in (his delightful re aion. 11 number that anie ami 1 'hp art d ailv fiom our tow 11 for the pur P' Se ot locating in the valley, is ahno incredible. A w ag at our elbow, while we were standing upon the porch of one ol tH,r public houses in ibis place r(m ked, as he stood gazing at the '0,13 ', :,in ' covered w agons, as (hex I. tfwV I. . I .. . .1 '"i'i -.nercu wagons, as tney can-'; pouring into town, that he verily Jlved the ",tAoc rost 'had broken I!1 well indeed, he tr.hdif sann.ir v ippo tifioi t!)0 spectacle certainly justified the ,)0"c! io1 tlie farmer in the east, w ho never failing market, and with as pro ductive a soil as any portion of the wesi can boast of. In addition to the above. we a l l that a more delightful region wu were never in I'crrtpburg paper, FRVtns OX THF. 1T.XSIOX ornrr. Several flagrant cases of fraud on the .SM. vjtuce oi tne United Stab have I itt.lv K.t. .l..i... i h i .. , ..vciiul-u-iu'u. j)osnisi;ie tase mentioned in our columns to d av of the member elect to the Virginia Legislature, an attorney in Kentucky, w ho heretofore had a respectable renutalion iw in confmement upon a charge of infiYnii- .... 1 if . ... I ' . . 3 V n.uia upon this kU naitrnont l (he iroVf-rnmrnr. . i - 'octed in forgeries and fr.,,,,1, poil ." Government In lb, .im.,.,.,. Itn mi. lhat many or, hoe, j w!lw ames (bv means of fcd rertifieotes) ha, been drawing pensions, have e,wcrntycars. ,ssoo,a,h0 found himself f danger of deteclio, o

went to Washington, and endeavored to bribe the Clerk to make such alterations on the face of the books as would screen him from detection and punishment. The young man affected to give into the plan, and promised a compliance with his wishes for a stipulaled sum of money. But as soon as Temple had left Washington, the Cleik revealed the matter to his superiors. An agut of the Government was despatched to Rutland to arrest him. As soon as Temple learnt this and discovered that the consequences of his i!l:mv were about to hurst upon his head and overwhelm him, k,he went to his house, took his gun, retired to his stable, and shot himself through the heart."" Col. A. C. lV-erini. who accompanied the delegation of chiefs from the Prairie Polawalamies, on their late visit to tlie country w est of the .Mississippi, preparatory to emigration, lecenllv pas-ed through this place, on his return to his residence in Deai l orn count v. The chiefs, he informed us, were well pleased with the country they visilcd, and will make a fuvoinMe report to their tribe. It is supposed that five or six hundred will emigrate during the next season. Indiana Donocrnt. Biours of Women. Tiie Savannah Republican contains an account of a public ct lebration, by (ho ladies of the State Rights paity in Georgia, at whirh near a thousand of "the patriotic daughters of Georgia" attended. The toasts are published pcrfixed with the names of the fair toasters. It is not .added whether any of the fair jyo'itieinncsses were "overtaken in liquor." We presume not however. We rejoice to see the ladies asserting their natural rights of equality, which have been too long withheld from them. They are as good as men nay better as w ise, as virtuous, as numerous and fir prcUio: Why should they not take n put in politics, in business, in w ar and in legislation, be farmers, merchants, law

yers, dociors, statesmen, heroes and WE.VU lilUiF.CHTS. ,W. jr. iroOsIKH AM) MAMMOTH l'CSPklXS. We s.iw a load of pumpkitis last week, brought lo our market from Indiana, among which were a number ih it measured three feet in length, and three feet six inches round the swell, or Largest place. After the preceding was written, we mentioned the fact to a Yankee friend, who laughed at us for bragging, and assured us that the fill before he left New england, a pump kin was grown in a garden in Boston w hich was fully as large as an ordinary sugar hogshead, and the seeds of w hich sold for a dollar a-piece. It w ill readily be supposed, thai this staggered us; but we were subsequently convinced o! tlie fact. It was an extraordinary season for pumpkins; and they were very frequently seen in the iVew englaii 1 markets, (hiii fah of the size of a whiskey ban el. A common wagon load consisted of two; a third could net be put on. without being in danger of rolling over, .and pei-adven'ure breaking the w he h. or killing the horses. We are. glad that we did our pumpkin galhciingin Oiiio. We shall soon begin to place some ;.t!iii hi me st-uy m.,t was told us in our !:;rsery days, of the flock of sheep that once wintered in a pumpkin, and had enough left when spring came, to shelter them during thumb r storms. Vin. .V'Vror. m:sm roil hoys. A lad from Bucks county, was placed as an apprentice in one of the newspaper cilices in this city a few cars ago. whose short career furnishes a striking evidence of the miserable consequences of boys indulging in irregular practices. His evil habits had their origin in an inveterate fondness of running out after Light, which, as a matter of course made him acquainted with vicious boys of his own age, such as are witnessed every night lounging about the corners of our slree!s,often swearing and drink ing, lie fell gradually but irreclaim .ably into their habits, and soon became a worthless boy; and not long since made his escape, went otf to sea and in one ol the West miia Hands fi ll ; victim to his intemperate indulgences b far lus case may be only that of many oilier. s who have been equally imprudent and paid as severe a penally for their follies; but it is rendered more striding from the circumstance of his having been sought for within a few weeks by one who communicated the intelligence lo his fiiends hereof his having been bemioalhcd nronerfv lo the amount of $-10.000. . N. ( ,;.rWf. Crwi: KonniNci. 'ii,.. ii. t. t.azetic says, lhat at Ihe. last tern, ol tlie. court of common ideas. young men, W.and.I. F. I)aggel,w ere convicted 011 circumstantial evidence, ol disinterring the remains of the dead i were sentenced to throo , 'nnptch,aa topay a,cof 5-"W)and costs of prosecution.

LATER FROM EUHOPE. The New York Mercantile Advertiser of 23th Oct. received, by the packet ship Independence, which'nrrived the previous evening from Liverpool, regular advices includring London papers to the 23d of September. They contain, however, nothing of any great political importance. The accounts from Spain were very contradictory, so as not to be. relied on. An eruplion of Mount esuvius had occurred, of which the following is aii account: Mocxr Vi.si vus. The most a feeling de tails cf a lecent eruption of .Mount Vesuvius have reached ne. In i former account we stated lhat in Au

gust an eruption had taken place, which Oi uif een:i;g ot me Volli began tosubscide. On the 27lh, 2Clh, 23l!i, new craters opened, and produced ravages awful to contemplate. Thousands " of families were ill i:;g from their native land, old and young, dragging through heavy masses of heated cinders. Fifteen hundred houses, places, and other building.--, and 2.500 acres of cultivated ! ir.d. have been destroyed by the fire. The village of St. LVli'v. I,.-.",! .,1 ,.,! oecn ananiionci i . i ,i, - - 1 1 1 1 v. 1 1 Cl ) J'he lava soon noureu upon lins p u-o, and in ihe course of an hour, houses, ( lunches and places, were all destroyed. Four villages, seme detached houses, countiv villas, vii es, heaulihil groves, and gardens, which a few instants before presented a magnificent spectacle, now resembles a sea office. Oil tlie 3d insf. nothing hut stones i ana aimers were ejected, am every prospect ( i-t( ... j i il el fin-i erunlion hemoi - i soon ai a cl r ... o. The place of the i mice of Attavauno. and oOO arms r.f u) " 'i.' u' snoveo. 1 ne cinders fell during an entire night over Naples, and if ho. lava had taken lhat direction, (here would have been an end lo that fit . I'llw i i ii .1 j J mi Taking t:u; world i:sv. The editor of the. New Market 'JYIegrnph, a queer concern, published sowemhere in the mountains of List Tennessee makes the fallowing laconic apology for the non-i-suance of his paper: "There will be no paper published at this office for ihe next week the printers intend going lo Tazewell to see llieir friends and also to at tend a ca impmeeting in that quarter."' Fhis ( minds US of :i simil wc iciouect lo iiavc seen somewhere. "No p iper will he printed next week. The boys want lo go a fishing, and the II .1 7 ar excuse ditor lias (o muse a sick b In the vicinity of Galena, a mother presented her husband, at a birth, a hov and two ,1,, w,0 XVrre all health v and doing ,,;. 'pu, c;;,ei,ian y: And the most interesting pari of it" is, lhat she was alone at (he time, and fer some hours afterward-. One of the members elect of ihe Virginia S!a(e Senate, has, siia e his election, been detected in the commission of frauds o (1(J IVnsion Ollice. by means of forgery on a large scale. 11,; lias since absconded, and. report says, coDimilrd suicide. A wakxin;. .t the ite teim of the rardvlin Circuit t; ourl, al.ss L assander J hu rel obtainet 1 verdict of one tfi"vs ;n ! d.d'ars . igainst Hiram Allen, lor a breach of tin marriage conlract. Tlllc Ami lit I ..ill 1 I .1 . ... , win neai int: lair ones broken heart. A man by ihe name of.John Fd wards, at Lu vx pool, off. is I, i ho bound hand and foot and he thrown i ito ihe liver when he wi'l cxtiicate himself and per form sin h feats, in rotation as no mortal ever tinl befort. Potatoes are worth in New York (10m seventy-live to c-iirlit v-seven :ml half cents. In Citiciiinali, ihe centre of western luxuriance, the best vegeta ns market in tin; country, they may he had at from eight) -seven 'and a half cents to one dollar. In 1774 there were six Methodist ministers in the world, there are now more than three thousand and above a million laymen. Mrs. Paul Fry loal has been at Baltimore. SI,,. saysVs a dirty hole; alas for Cint i nnati, were t he to isit it! An F.nglish pnpei iccominends to those afraid of Ihe cholera to abstain from herrings and cabbages and be attentive to daily prayers. Aaron Hurr and (he son of lilennerhassel, now occupy rooms just opposite each oilier, ,1,,. coi nerf (hld and I-ulton stivcts, New Y01 kprobahly without being aware of ihe circumstance themselves. MritOKit and Si n iiu:. A man by the name of Ladre, a fencing rnasfer, was shot dead at New Oilcans, on ihe 22d nil. by a man named (lentil, while crossing Ihe threshold of his door logo dut. fiYntil. after committing the deed, drew from his pocket a pistol and blew

out his own hrttins.