Rising Sun Times, Volume 2, Number 69, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 7 March 1835 — Page 2

THE TIttfcS.

A. E. Cl.KNN. EMTOR AND f KOI'ltlETOR.

TI1K .MAMMOTH HILL.

Mr. Cotton It is not a little s urprisir.g to hear the friends of the jnannnoth bill advocate a bad cause and by vague and empty argument 1 ry to gull the people of Indiana into the belief that ils tendency would be to enrich the Slate and advance the intcicsts of all her inhabitants dike. What ts the interest of one, say they. mut neecssaiily he the interest of all since we aie all of

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT. Ma. Editor I see from several numbers of your paper that you are in faor of internal

improvements, but not as urged by many friend of the system. This is the ease with myself. I am in favor of in

ternal improvements, but at the same time I am in fix or of a sy stem of cqualiv to all the eiiiz lis of" the Statr. and

not that one portion shall pay their money for the benefit ol others, and reeeive r.one themselves. This is ntjusi and arbitrary. I wish such k systom as shall benefit all equally alike. How

can this be done? Not Itv making

IMPORTANT PROM FRANCE. New York, Feb. 20. Our pilot boat came up last night, having boarded the packet ship Orpheus, Capt. Bursley, 20 miles south of the Hook. The Orpheus sailed from Liv-

eneeiallv.of that portion of our fellow Urpool on Sunday the I8lh by her the ' 1 . . I ' xt r t r -I.. A J

INSURANCE AGAINST FIRE. The follow ine judicious paragraph

appeared in "Ac United Slates Gazette" and has been copied into the "Baltimore. American" from which valuable :. r., il,. I "..

taper, we transcnue n, iui me ucnnii,

f tl I .

one great lam.iy one nooy , pontic, ov, ,nrcc or fur rea( roa(U cr05sinK the in other words ntizns of the s:in,pk,.., i... ti ....... r ,u0 c..u, c r:0

State. Now, such an argument docs

citizens, whose pecuniary circumstan

ces are moderate we are particularly -truck with the force, and the truth of the remaik that the rich are alu-ays insured. but the poor are rarely so. That

class of our citizens, ought especially to apply for t lie benefits of insurance iind they doubtless xvould do so, did they in general know, that by paying a

lew dollars, thev can be made periecuy

safe from loss aiising from the destruc-

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cu woHcn x, ..-, ou ..cmh c io J loi ronds and

luunu wnie uaie assertion xvilnon', evidence, w ithout a hearing, . s deemed ulliriciit, and conviction is carried by tacit consent, "nemo conlr adkenti" as the saying is. But whenever a sub ;cct asSm(s an

opposite position wi it.,iever jt j? ro'l !

lainy nciore tne people, theie to undergo the sttictct. scrutiny there to be. canvased in : five, open, and int I ligent manner, wilnout fear and with

out favor, it requires a stronger argu

jvernment. This only benefits those a-

al the beat ot go

vernment.

It is proposed to make all these roads on the credit of the three percent fund,

and idcdsiinsr this fund for years to

come: and if a pledge be made the

State is bound, even i I Congress should say that no more lands shall be sold tor twnitv years; then our fund fails, and the debt mut be paid by our children, perhaps yet unborn. It would be unjust to live on the credit of ourchildren

xe would be great at their expense.

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editors cu me new ium amhj v..i tiser are put in possession of copious tiles of London papers to the 17th Jan

uary, inclusive, containing Paris dates

of the 14th; tngelner with Hie latest Shipping and Commercial Intelligence. These dales are eight days later from London, and four days later from

Paris, than those previously received. The news is of the highest possible interest, and of greater importance than

lion of their duelling, their furniture, any that has been received for years.

their coAiN2-,rtheir'oos;or whatever France has recalled her Minister from tangiblepronerty they possess,tothe loss this country, and the American Minis-

i hp v are every moment expo- ter had taken his passports, and was a

seil; and which would deprive them, bout, or had taken his departure for and their families, of all their means of England. This step is considered in

living, and throw them destitute upon 1 Europe as a usual declaration ot W ar.

the cold charities ot the world. I be H e believe mat Hostilities win coinfollowing is the paragraph referred to: mence. " Cin. Gas. The tidings xvill be received through"insuue voun property against FiuE.' ou our COIutry with astonishment and

I liis ic rcr nmmenrial IOI1. XVIUCII il

the sam.fi object, without reference to

what they have already cone, i tie consequence is that publiihers pay a

heavier tax to the public than any other class of men, (according to their means) and their contributions are scarcely thought of. We find that: some pubiiihers are determined to take a stand against this gratuitous advertising considering it in every 6er.e a

thankless and profitless business.

Boston nnig.

ment to car ry ;t point than singly thus ; for ,ne ro:us Would be worn out before

it is. Ssnr.ie 'proof will be required at mn( (jmc and (hoy Imi5l renew them

the ham4, of those who aver the truth There are 1 went

ol so S'.rong and imposing a position

their mere sau so xx ill not do. It must

be verified by facts, and not bolstered up with surmise. I was led into these rcmaiks by an article in the 'Palladium" of the 2isl inst . in xx Inch the editor of the Times'

is called on to explain in what mtnnei

correspondent of the United Slate:

i Gazette urges with much earnestness

in the columns of that Journal. The

advice is excellent, and if it xvere more n. I 1 !. I U

iwentv-four dollars paid R -crany aitenueu . -

from the proceeds of every section of eiy ie o. me eu. e....g

land sold by Congress, for making roads this is eight hundred and sixty dollars for each six miles square. The

citizens of the tow nship pay the money,

and ought to receive the benefit.

This three per cent fund ought to be

"under the principles rf Acmnmmotm

ril.L, I Miall undertake to explain; nor do I think I shall be under the neces

sity of itsoitirg to any "new mode ol

applied to all the common road-, and

certain internal impioxxmcntstoulJ.q)- , Hereby improxe exerv section of the

crate to enrica theao and impoveri-n State. We want to "travel to other the many. Suppose the editors mea:;t. j pni (s a5 wej :is to the se;1, o( Goxern-

ment. If I want to go to Vevay or to VTemon, do I not as much need a good road as if I should travel to the St at of Government? If so. can there be anx

U ao.M:;- ciUier. 1 he edi ors xvi.l j co,(j r0:lson for taking our money to juitnit, I presume, thai the revenue. ofjm.,ke : Cood ,oad from Madison to the the b:a!e is tlie common fund of the;S,,.lt ot- Governmrnt? ! think not. people. This being adaiitted, I think j pi)i? j? onjv H (o jn .)u!,ir

jlile, to let them know that the fanners arc beginning lo 'bink about the matter j I mean those farmers who do not live Ion any of the proposed great roads, for those who live there are provided for land need not trouble themselxes, for

it will require no "new mode of icasoningM to piove that the unequl distribution of that fund xvould be not only

an ineq iitao'e, but an ui.juMiliable I act. Can you apply a common fund J to the benefit ot the fc:c, exclusively. w i l.out da.ii aging the may? It would J rcp.ie "..cv in .f ie:i-oiing,1" in- s deed, to ati'xver tile latter iniei rogatory i in the affirmative. 1 1 xvould be jit a 1 reasonable to say the people f our dis

trict should be taxed to make the roads and highways of another. In fact il is eaying it, though in a roundabout way. I xvould ask the editors of the Palladium, of what benefit l!ie improvement of one is to another distant and discon

nected part of the State? and whether ;1 jt . i . ... it ..U. .:,.-. i v ;...:

tnai oeneiii, u any , is suiimvm iu j fv a LegiUture in levy ing a (ax upon j

the hitler for the advancement of the form.tr Or, in other tetm, I xvould ask the editors, of what benefit a railway from Midison to Indianapolis, and another from Liwrenceburgh to the

now so often xvitnessed xvhen the raven

ous jaws of the destructive element swallow up ,iu an hour or two, the hard earnings of years of industry. In the course of his remarks the writer says:

"In making this suggestion 1 do it for the poorer classes solely. The rich are almost ahcays insured, xvhile the poor are rarely s-o. While their means are small and they liable to be ruined by a fire, they take risk, themselves, but as soon at they have accumulated a tolerable property, and can afford to loose

a part of it, they find out the advantages of insurance and avail themselves thereof. One reason and a very important one, is that a very large portion of those xvho xvould require insurances of two, three or rive hundred, or a thouind dollars, do not know that they can be insured, or for hoxv small a sum it can be done."

sincere regret. W e have given copious

extracts from the English Journals, sen- j sible that every line, even the specula- j lions of the press, will be read xvilh ! profound a! tent ion. From the London Morning Post, Jan. 16. Anextraordinary express has brought u the whole of the Paris journals ol

Wednesday. The Moniteur publishes in its official part the following important article. The King has recalled M. Serrurier, his Minister at Washington. The Minister for Foreign Affairs has notified the resolution to the Minister of the United Slates at Paris- informing him at the same time thai the passports

w hich he may be in need of, in conse

quence of that communication, are at

his disposal

"In execution of the engagements

entered into bv France, the protect of

law relative to the American claims

they appear to believe that no one ought to be benefitted but themselves, and even think haid that others differ vx iih them in opinion. A.

IXSUUAXCU AGAINST FIUE. Mr. Editor

In several instances recently we have been admonished of the danger ol a devastating fire. Hitherto, but a few, comparatively, of our citizens have

ix ailed thorns Ives of the benefits of in-

uraiico.and the question naturally pre

sents itself. Why? When an office is established at their Very doors, they have rot generally availed themselves of the benefits xxhic.h it offers. The only tational icply which can be made is, because they are not apprised of the

danger to which they are constantly

timn nl ir nriA ;i r-:innl ?imn the X.1-

i . ,e ' vn;,..ivi.f,.rnf xvh.it he.,, (it i exposed of having every dollars worth

.I ror.lr-mnl.itcJ improvements can'.of beir properly (the result of years of

... .!, inhabitants of the interior : ,ahor-) WT S,W!,J" n :l 5in?l(

W ditaut from the routes of those thoroudforcs? Noxv, ibey would advantage the interior, ceitainly tmht be taxed (though not then xrUhout consent.) for their construction: bit if they are to confer upon it benefit, no privileges I sav nothing but anarbilra-

ry principle would ever impose a tax j upon it for such purposes. i

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of my life, that those xvho expected to occupy the head of the table to share the first slice, reap the honors of the day and run off with all the loaves and fishes were, generally, foremost in getting up the feast. And just so it is wnli this mammoth mix. Those who expect to be benefitted by the measure are the persons, and the only person.

to be found warmly engaged in its sup

port; while all others aie opposed to ! ' J It n !winr r.mi rti:iht trk thr mi rn twin, i 1,1

ci. les of UenubhcaniMT,. and di s rue ! n hc M,,,Jcl to 'W' its value.

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nour: u is a common case to near those who have lost their all by a single .ire, lamenting their ftdly in d I tying insurance until it is too late. No position is susceptible of clearer illustration than that exery man xvho has pro peity liable to be destroyed by fire, ought to have it insured. This position does not rest on the opinion of

'-ose interested in fff cting insurance;

it is one of r""lllM lm,r'l "

i im v xtt xj 'i v. vntx vi tux. iiiii demonstration of its truth is to be found in the general practice of the most prudent and calculating men in our country, and indeed throughout the civilized world; and I repeat it, because il deserves the most serious consideration, that the reason why every man who has property thu exposed, has not ob

tained a policy of insurance, is because

ias not been sufficiently enlightened

FIKF.S. Cincinnati has almost entirely es

caped the ravages of fire this season. We have had but few alarms, and in one or two iiiftnnrcs only has damage been sustained, and that has been inconsiderable. We can go to bed and sleep

soundly, for we are so unaccustomed

of late to the thrilling cry of fire that we do not entertain apprehensions. During the two or three past winters, we remember xve xvere particular in the disposition of our xvard robe before lying doxvn, as wc expected to be roused from the depths of our slumbers before daylight. Other cities, however, have not been alike blessed. In New Yoik fires have been numerous. This has been the case in other places. But Baltimore has recently been the severest sufferer. The Alhencum and court houses, both ornaments of the monumental city.

have, been burnt. In the destruction of the Alhencum many useful societies

will be presented to-morrow in the Chamber of Deputies. A clause will i . . . i i .

be added to it, intended 10 pioieei (garantii) eventually such French interests as might be endangered.1' The Journal des Debals inserts the foregoing article, the impending publication of which, having been rumored on Tuesday evening, is noticed in the most of the other journals of Wednesday morning. The Temps cannot persuade itself that the bill will be presented to the Deputies.

Ml is this evening affirmed, says the National, 'that the Moniteur of to-mor-roxv morning is to announce that Mr.

Livingston, the American Minister has received his passports, and that M.

i Serrurier, Minister of France in the

United S:ate?,has been recalled. War is therefore declared. But at the same

time that the. Rovalily of the 7th of An

gust gives such satisfaction to ils out

raged dignity", it oroers its Ministers to

present after to-morrow, to the Chamber of Deputies, the Treaty xvilh the United Slates, and in the course of eight days peace xvill he made.'' Our Paris Correspondent obseres that the Monitcur's announcement had excited more deiision than alarm. We understand that information has

DEATH or SIALTIIL'S. By the last accounts from England,

we sire informed ol me ueatn oi ur.

Malthus, the celebialed political econ

omist. Lvery body knows something of his peculiar doctrines in regard to

population. He reasoned himself into a belief that the rearing up of children was about the worst sort of business that could be pursued; and that their increase xvould at some day call upon

government to interpose checks. 1 his doctrine was maintained by him xvitti distinguished ability, and has gnincd many adherents, particularly abroad. One would suppose that such tenets could only find favor in the eyes of that very respectable class in the community xvho linger along all their lives in

celibacy. Cut its author was no bach

elor. The reverend gentleman was

the father of no less than nine children,

at the time xvhen he promulgated his valuable discovery to the world.

In the United Slates a contrary doc

trine prevails. i he maltliusian tenet

have lound but few favorers; inasmuch as xx ith a territory almost limitless, xve

arc capable of supporting a greater population than the w orld ha yet seen subjected to the operation of any one system of government. An industrious and virtuous population is what xve want; and the more numerous we become as a people, the greater is the stability ot our republican institutions; provided intelligence and virtue prevail. Hence, the malthusiiMi doctrines

1 I on population are not calculated for rc-

5 t cention in our country. In some of the

sustained heavv losses. The court

house was a splendid edifice, but it is been received here that French Goods . . I j r I. . i r o-x

now in ruin?, and Ihc los is great.

tivc to the interests and subversive of i " : IMnuiwc,u .S .mpo,,auce ano the rights th .t the generous nature of j ,"Un af"rU,e d'nsions of the danrepubhean governments is wont to con-1 wh,c ' he ,s,cvcr moment expo-

V U, V t; KIIUIV lllrtl SIS' fHMI it tit: IC-

Jer. And, now, the explanation that I h'.vc promised the :ditois is simple as the alphabet ,U1V rbild can underdeist and it. It is this: That whenever n body of individuals, s ij' some fifteen or twenty, luvc a common fund, if -fone two or three of their numb."1" cnv la zzle or run otT with it,'il cannot t) dvmage the rest; or, in the I in-

guige of ihr editors, it can not fail to "eerich the few to the Impoverishment cf the many." JUSTICE. The fivoriU tnodc of robbing $.lores i x N. Voik, present ii by gaining Momittancc ihiongh '.i:e scuttle of the

alizos this, he xvill inevitably reach the conclusion which I have just laid down, and immediately obtain a policy of insurance. There are two situations only in w hich individuals can be placed where they can adequately appreciate the value of insurance these are, xvhile standing upon the ruins of their own

Property, either receiving from an in-

tn;nce office the full amount xvhich they h"ve lost ; or standing on the same spat, surrounded peihaps by a desolated family, lamenling that stupidity and follj which failed to provide against such a contingency. A CITIZEN.

We do not know that we ever eulogised the fire department of this city ; and it needs no eulogy, as ils superiority is acknow ledged by all xvho have inspected it. The promptness and activity of our firemen arc deserving of all praise; and lo their exertions in several instances, ih? salvation ol some of the besi p'rls f our c 's a attributable. BATTLE BETWEEJi THE INDIANS AD POLES. It appears from a letter received this xveek from a respectable Polish emigrant, at Nexv Orleans, that about 20 of his countrymen not meeting xvith any means of support, and totally without funds, departed from New Orleans, for Mexico, by land, through the lexas country. Having no guide, nor knowledge of the wilderness route, they became utterly lost, xvhen they xvere fiercely attacked by a numerous body of Indians. The Poles had but fewguns, but maintained a long and bloody conflict until they had killed a large number of their enemy. They however suffered severely, having had two of their number slain, and the remainder wounded. Only one Pole was able to reach New Orleans. Murder. A Nexv Orleans paper of the 21th ult. gives the following as an accident! "On Saturday night a dispute took place between a Spaniard and a Dutchman, about a rifle. The Span iard followed the Dutchman into Madi son street, and ran him through the heart, nrd then imde 1)H eicnpe."

and Brandies have advanced from 30 to

40 percent, in the New York and Philadelphia markets. Cin. Ga:. N.Wat.. Oar Navy Yard at Charleston, presents at this moment a busy scene. A number of the largest sized guns, and a great quantity of amunition xvere received al the yard xvhile

xve were there a few days since, and we j

unjfsland that more is on tne way, and and that orders have been received "to have the Constitution and Boston fitled up for sea as quick as possible." The former is nearly ready and inC lafler is now in the Dry Dock. She has been newly coppered and is ready to come out. The Independence has been laid up some time, but as soon as the Boston is out of the dock, she is to go in. The "receiving ship" of the lin, Columbia, is also to be got ready. The new Dry Dock is to be begun upon early in the Spring, and a new ship house is also to be erected. AH hands in the y ard appear lively, and from the remarks of a number, we should think a xvar with any country xvould be very agreeable amusement. Boston Advocate.

option in our country. In some

foreign governments, xrh re poverty prevail, and xvho re human suffering U the consequence of human increase, xve

arc not surprised that men should seriously argue the propriety of the intro

duction of checks to prevent an aug

mentation of populat ion and consequent increase of human wretchedness, hi the state of Ohio, the traveler is forcibly struck xvith tiie indications xvhich me every where presented of an antimallhusian tendency. No slate in the union can surpass t his in flaxen-headed, chubby faced younkers. In p issing dow n the river -on a steamboat, the noise of the steam unavoidably draws the inmates from their abodes, and in front of almost every cabin you soon see a swarm of children a spectacle which sets the consciences of single persons of a certain ae, into action. We tecollect our impressions, as we, for the first tin.e, passed down between the banks of the Ohio. We thought, as xve saw every cabin deserted by its inmates, who forthwith paraded themselves in every variety of attitude along the fences and on the sward, that these huts must cerlair.lv be the residence of contentment and a feci ion; where the. voice of discord is scarcely known. And this belief stili prevails xvith us. Wc think that the honest farmer, who has sense enough to be satisfied xvith u competency, and xvho attends to his

lands

and

the

rearing

up

of

a aczen

Free Advertising. There is no class of men, xvho are called upon to do so much in the xvay of charity, and whose charity is so little appreciated, as publishers of newspapers. They are expected to publish notices of all benevolent institutions without charge, and though such publication actually costs them money, they are not considered as having contributed, but are expected to draw money from their pockets nreordiric to their nivins for

children, is about the most useful man w e can meet v. iih.- Satisfied with w hat he possesses, the heats of summer and the storms of winter alike pass by him unheeded an 1 the thousand causes of strife and discord which xve know in cities, are strangers to his feelings. But xve forget out selves. We meicly began this article lo inform our readers that the Rev. Mr. Malthus wa dead, and thai the science of political economy has lost about the ablest of the expounders of its principles.

'A

xvriter at Washington severely

and justly, reproves the rut ." of clergy men to that city, lo obtain appointments as chaplains to congres. We may expect, if thii practice is pursued much further, that political preferences will influence their elections! Thm xve shall feel prepared lo unite xvith any party to abolish the office and such will be the result under fhe circumstance suggested. JWlcs.

We observe by a Bank nofe table furnished for the Cincinnati Courier, by the Cashier of the Bank, that the paper of the Lawreneehurgh Branch of our Slate Bank is at par in that place, hut all the other Branches at one rent, discount. The proximity of that Branch to Cincinnati must account for the difference. The connexion of tho Branches bv the charter ought to equal Zf the value of their paper.