Rising Sun Times, Volume 2, Number 72, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 28 March 1835 — Page 1

BY ALEX. E. 42 LEX X. A IIl.MHtlO YEARS IIEXCE. A hundred years hncc! What a change will bo made. In politics, morals, Religion nml lr;w!e! In itatcsmeii who wrangle Or ride on the fence How things will bo altered A hundrd years hence. The heads of the ladies Such changes may find We tlo not speak now Of mutations of mind From three buhel bonnets To snug litt.'e hats, The scoop?, navarinors. The Gypsies and flats. With furs and with rihbonds With feathers and (lowers Soiik- f.ishintitd by arlist", ijonn- phi'.ki-d from the lKwer, But heads will he changed too, Li SLience and sense, Before we have nuinl.ercd A lr.iiuire.1 years hence. Otr laws will he then Corupnl;ory ru!e Cur prirom he changed Ir.ts national schools. The pleasures of vice Arc a silly pretence, And people will know it A hun'lr.d ) ears hence. K vi.-e will be een hen the people awake To rife out of lolly 'T is all it n.i-take Tlie 1 iwyeri aad iloctors And i:iii)i.i!t'ii too, Will have I'm thii-king, Bill l.tllo to do. Tht ir careful atl ntion Thy then may bestow; On raiin; pot.itncs Or turnips on know. Or any employ nient 'Flu y choose to commence, Tor ;i:i will he many A huii'lrrd years htnee. An I you ntr! I, reader W Lire s!ia;l we be found? Can any one tell, Whc i that time will coino round! Ia tran;pnrts of ple.isure, Or sorrow intense We'll know more about it A hun.iied years heme. ESilSTOSllCAL. EAltLY TINES IX THE WEST. The story of AJ;im Poe's desperate encounter wilh two Indians, ;is told in MctcaU's Indian Warfare of the West, is one rf the most charactei istic traditions cf the Ohio. It was about the close of the Revolution lliat a paity of fix or seven Wyando'.t Indians crowed over to the south hide of the Ohio river, fifty miles below Pittsburgh, and in their hostile excursions among the early settlers, killed an old man, whom they found alone in one ff the houses which they had plundered. The t:owssoo:i spread among the white people; seven or eight of whom seized their rifles and pursued the maraudeis. In this party were two brothers, named Adam and Andrew Poe, slicng and active men, and much respected in the settlement. They followed up the chase nil l.ig'ii, and in the morning found hom?eles, as they expected, upon Ihe tight track. The Indians could nov bo easily followed by their traces on the dew. The print of one very large foot was seen, and it was thus known that a famous Indian of uncommon eize and stiength must be of the party. The tiark led to the river. The whites followed it directly, Adam Toe excepted; wlio, feaiing that they might be taken by surpiise, broke olF from the rest. His intentio.i was to creep along the c Igc of the bank under cover of the trees and bushes, and to fall upon the savages so suddenly that he might get them between his own lire and that of lils companion. At the point where he susneclcd thev were, he saw tlie rafts which they were accustomed (o push before them when they swam tlie liver, and on which they placed their blankets, tomahawks, and guns. The Indians themselves he could not see. ar.J was obliged to go partly down the bat;!; to get a shot at them. As he dcJccnd.'d w ith his rifle, cot Iced, he dinovere I two the celebrated large Indian nnd a smaller one, separated from the others, and holding their rifles also cocked in their hands. He took aim at the Urge one, but his rifle snapped, without giving the intended fire. Tlie Indians turned instantly at the sound Poe was too near them to retreat, am: had not time to cork and take, aim a gain. Suddenly he leaped down upoi them, an J caught the large Indian by the clothes, on his breast, and the smal one by throwing an arm round the neck; they nil leii logeuier, but ro was uppermost. While he was strug glir.g to keep down the large. Indian the etna one, at a worn spoxen n m .ellow-savage, slipped his neck out of

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SVX, tomahawk. The laige Indian at this moment threw his arms about Poe's body, and held him fast, I hat the other might come up and kill him. Foe watched the approach and the descending arm of the small Indian so well, that at the instant of the intended stroke lie raised hi foot, and by a vigorous and skilful blow knocked the tomahawk from the assailant's hand. At this, tlie large Indian cried out with an exclamation of contempt for the small one. The latter, how cver.caught his tomahawk again and approached more cautiously, waving his arm up and do wn with mock blows, to deceive I'oe as to tlie stroke which w as intended to bereal and fatal. Poe, however, was so vigilant and active that he averted the tomahawk from Lis head, and received it upon hip wrist with a considerable wound, deep enough to cripple but not entiiely to destroy the use of his hand. In this crisis of peril he. made a violent elFort and broke loose from the large Indian. He snatched a rifle, and shot (he small one as he t an up a third time with his lifted tomahawk. The large Indian was now on his feet, and grasping I'oe by the shoulder and leg, hurled him in Ihe air, heels overhead upon (lie shore. I'oe instantly rose, and a new and more desperate struggle ensued. The bank was slippery, and l hey fell into the water, when each strove to diown the other. Their efforts were long and doubtful, each alternately under and half-strangled; until I'oe, fortunately, grasped with his unwounded hand the tuft of hair upon the scalp of the Indian, and forced his head into the water. This appeared to be decisive of his fate, for soon he manifested ail the symptoms of a drowning man, bew ildered in the moment of death. Po-j relaxed his held, and discovered too late the stratagem. The Indian was instantly upon his feet again, and engaged anew in the fierce contest for victory and life. They were naturally carried farther into the stream,and the current becoming stronger bore them beyond their depth. 1 hey were now compelled to loosen the;r hold upon each other, and to sw im lor mutual safety. Both sought the hore to seize a gun; but the Indian was the best swimmer,' and reached it hist. Poe then turned immediately back into the water to avoid a greater langsr meaning to dive, if possible, to escape the tire, r ortunately tor him, the Indian caught up the rifle which had been discharged into the breast of the smaller savage. At this critical juncture, Poe's bro ther Andrew presented himself. He tad J ail left the party who had been in pursuit of the other Indians, and who had killed all but one of them at the expense ol lliree ol their own lives. He had heard th.it Adam was in great peril, and alone in a tight with two a-ga'n-?l him; for one of the whiles ha I mistaken Adam in the water wilh his tdoody hand for a wounded Indian, and tiled a bullet into his shoulder. Adam now ciied out to his brother to kill the big Indian on the shore; but Andrew's gun had been discharged, and was not airain loaded. The contest was now between the savage and Andrew. Lich labored to load his rifle fiit. The Indian, after putting in his powder ind hui lying his. motions to force, down tne ball, drew out his ramrod w ith such violence as to throw it some yards into the water. While he ran to pick it up. Andrew gained an advantage, as the Indian had still to run his built t home. Cut a hair would have turned the scale ; lor the savage was just rai-ing his gun to his eye with uneriing aim, when l.i received the fatal fire of the back woodsman. Andrew then jumped in to tne river to assist his wounded bro ther to the shore; but Adam, thinking more of earning the big Indian home, as a trophy, than of his own wound, urged Andrew to go back and prevent the strugghngsavage from rolling him self into the current and escaping. An drew, however, was too sohciloui for the fate ol Adam, to allow him to obey; and the high souled Wyandot, jealon of his honor as a warrior, even in death and knowing well the intention of his white conquerors, succeeded in retain ing life and action long enough to reach the current, by which his dead body was swept down beyond the chance of pursuit. London is estimated to consume near ly forty million pounds of butter ani.u 'illy, at 1 shilling per pound to the ma ker, or two million of pounds sterling

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IXDIAXA, SAT IKDAY, 3IAKCII 28, 1835.

Til: wivl of l.a fayi;tti . The follow ing is taken from that por tion of Mr. Everett's beautiful tribute to the memory of this friend of Ameri ca, and champion of liberal principles. w hich relates to the attempt of his w ie to effect his liberation from tlie dun geons ol Ul.nuiz : 'Relieved from anxiety on account of her son. the w ife of La Fayette was resolved, with her daughters, to share his captivity. Just escaped from the dungeons of Robespierre, she hastened to plunge n.to those of ihe German Lm)eror. This admiiablc lady, who, in the morning of life had sent her youthful hero from her side to tight the battles of constitutional freedom beneath the guidance of Washington, now goes to immure herself wiilmi fhr olm.mv ells of Olmutz. Born, brought up. tceustomed to all that was refined, lux urious and elegant, she goes to shut lersell up in the poisonous wards of his dungeon to partake his wretched tie; to share his daily repeated inulls; to breathe an atmosphere so nox ious and intolerable, that the goalers, who bring them their daily food, are compelled to cover their lace as they enter their cells. Landing at Altonaon tlie Oth of Sep tember, 1795, she proceeded with an mencan passport, under the family name of her husband (Motier,) to Vienna. Having arrived in that city, she obtains. through the compassionate good offices of Count Rosemberg, ar, interview with the Emperor. Fra;ieis is not a cruel man. At the age of twenty-live he has not yet been har dened by long training in the school of tate policy, lis is a husband and a ilhcr. The heroic wife of L i Fayette wilh her daughters, is admitted to his )iesence. Sue demands onlv (o share er husband's prison, but she implores Ihe kmperor to restore to libertv the - J atiier of her children. "He was, in deed, Sire, an officer in the armies of epulilican America; but it was at a time when the. daughlcrof Maria Theesa was foremost in his praise. He was indeed, a leader of the French reolutioc; but not in its exee-ses, nor in its crimes; and it was owing to him aonj, that on the dreadful 5th of Octo ber, M trie Antoinette and her son had not been torn to pieces by the bloodiiirsty populace ol Pans. He is not the prisoner of your justice, nor your urns; but was thrown by misfortune ulo your power, when he (led before the same monsters ef blood and crime, w ho brought the king and queen to the nhVid. I hree ol my lamily have peried o;i the scatFold, my aged grand )rent, my mother, and my sister. Will the Emperor of Germany close the .l.ii k catalogue, and doom my nusband to a dungeon worse than death ? Relore him, Sire, not to his army, to his lower, to his influence, but to his shat tered health, his ruined fortunes, to tlie alFeclion of his fellow-citizens in America, where he is content to close his career io his wife and children. The Emperor is a humane man. He hears, consider, reasons, hesitates; he tills her 4 his hands are lied" by reasons of slate, and permits her to shut herself up, with her daughters, in the prisons of Oimulz! Iheie her health oon fails; she asks to be permitted to . . t . - r : pass a moutii at v leuna io iei.i uu n, and is answered that she may leave the prison whenever she pleases; but if she leaves, it is never again to return. U this condition, she rejects the indulgence with disdain, and prepares her self to sink, under the slow poison of an ifFeclcd atmosphere, by her husband s ide. liut her brave heart ni partner for a hero's bore her through the tri il though the hand of death was upon her. She prolonged a feeble existence of ten years, after their release from captivity: but never recovered the effects of this merciless imprisonment. THE END OF GREAT MEN. Happening to cast inv eye upon n printed page of miniature portraits, the personages who occupied the four most conspicuous places were Alexander Hannibal, Cassar and Bonaparte. had seen the same unnumbered limes before, but never did tlie same sensa lion arise in my bosom as my mind hastily glanced over their several his tone?. Alexander, after having climbed tho dizzy height of his ambition, and with his temples bound wilh c.haplets dippei in the blood of countless nations look

ed down upon a conquered world, and

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wept that there was not any other for ' him to conquer, set a city on fire, atid died ia a scene of wretched debauchery. Hannibal, after having, to the astonishment and consternation of Rome passed the Alps, after having put to (light the armies of this mistress of the world, and stripped three bushels of gold rings from the fingers of the slaugh tered knights, and made her very foundations quake fled from his country, being haled by those who once u-! nited his name to that of their god, and ailed him Hannibal and dieJ at last y poison administered by hisown hand, nilamented and unwept, in a foreign ind. Caesar, after having conquered eight j mndred cities, and dyed his garments in the blood of one million of his foes, fter having pursued to death the only ival he had on earth, was miserably 1 issassinated by those he considered his nearest friends and in that very place, the attainment of which had been his greatest ambition. Bonaparte, w hose mandate kings and opes obeyed, Jifter having filled the tarth witu tlie terror ot his name, after laving deluged it w ith tears and blood. md clothed the world with sackcloth, closed his days in lonely banishment. ihiiOst literally exiled from the world, yet where he could sometimes s?e his country's banner waving over the deep, but which could not or would not bring him aid. Thus four men who, from l'e pe culiar situation of their portraits, seemed to stand as the representative of all those who the world calls Great those four who, each in turn made the earth remble to its very centre by their sim)le tread, severally died one by in toxication, or as some suppose by poi son mingled wilh his wine. one a sui cide one murdered by his friend and one in lonely exile. "Hozoarethc mighty fallen .'" SING U I. All Clkl CL'.liST AX Cr. Extract of a letter to the editor of the Philadelphia Saturday Evening p;st, dated Murrili's Shop, Nelson county, Va. Feb. 9, 1S35. lur. hditor l send you an account of a very singular circumstance w hich occurred here a few days since, which, if you think worthy a place in y our pa per, you are at libertv to publish. It will, no doubt, prove interesting to some of the friends ot temperance. A man who was addicted to habits of intemperance, went into a store in th county, to procure a jug of whiskey. The merchant filled his jug, ami as there was no stopper to it, he requested the merchant to furnish him one. The merchant, unthinkingly, took up a paicr which was lying convenient, rolled it into a proper form, and stopped the jug. (The paper was a lemperance Recorder.) Tlie man proceeded homeward with his jug; and when he arri ved he took the stopper out to lake a drink of the whiskey. The appeal ance of the stopper arrested his attention; he unfolded it and laid it before tne hie to Irv. When it had dried sufficiently he look it up and read tho contents, w hic h v. powerfully convinced him of the .,' .- r . r .... 1 .... evil resulting Horn me use oi arueni spirits, that he set his jug asitle, made no use of its contents at that time, and is resolved never to use I he liquid poison as a drink again. Thus, thro' the influence of a jug stopper, has the individual become a temperate man, and the merchant lost one of his best cus tomers. roil IlOUSLKEEi'iJKS. A short way to make old bread new, or better than new: Bread that is se veral days old. may be renewed so as to have all the freshness and iigmness of new bread, by simply putting it into a common steamer over the lire, aim steaming it half or three quarters of an hour. The vessel under the steamer containing the water, should not be more than half full, otherwise the wa ter mav boil up into the steamer and wet the bread. After the. bread is thus steamed, it should be taken out of the steamer, and wrapped loosely in a cloth to dry and cool, and remain so two or three hours, when it will be ready to be cut and used. Il will then be like irnad new bread. By this process we may work such a change in old bread as will make it in nil respects new, except in its deleterious qualities and thus at the same time gratify the taste, Mnd subserve the purpose of health and economy. Now brcad.it i well known,

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cannot be eaten with perfect impunity, until it has undergone tlie process of ripening and indeed physicians say it ought not, as a general rule, to be ea ten tin tne day alter it is made. A wa y is pointed out above, by whjch a as lor new bread may be gratified, whiioa'i. exposure to injury. n e have received tne above suggesioiis I rem ;:n experienced housekeeper, vho has often tried the experiment, and to our knowledge, with complete sucand we publish it for the benefit of others. Springfield Gazelle. 1EATII OF TX2E YOUSG. Beautiful is the season of life when w e can say in the language of the scripture, thou hast the dew of thy youth." But of these flowers death gathers mamany, lie places them upon his bosom, and his form is changed to something less terrilfic than before. We earn to gaze and shudder not: for he carries in his arras the sweet blossoms of our earthly hopes. We shall see them again, biooming m a happier land. l es, death brings us again to our friends. Thev are wailinir for us: and f-y --7 we shall tiot long be separated. They nave gone before us, and are like the angels in Heaven. Thev stand udoii the borders of the grave, to welcome us with tho countenance of affection, which they wore on earth yet more lovely more radiant more spiritual. THE GEE AT WEST. No part of the world presents such a magnificent spectacle of internal communication by means of navigable rivers, as the western, or what will one day be the Central portion of our requblic. The Mississippi, (he parent stream, is navigable for steamboats, three thousand miles; the Missouri about the same distance; the Ohio twenty-five hundred; the Tennessee fifteen hundred; the Arkansas fifteen hundred; the Red River one thousand. In addition to these, are the Cumberland, the Illinois, the Wabash, the Muskingum and others, nil of w hich flow at last into tho same mighty channel, and are navigable, on an average, more than five lm rail red miles, for steamboats. New Orleans must one day become the grand commercial mart for the innumerable cities and villages which will spring up on and near the banks of these mighty streams. So far as moral eye can see, or human probability teach, ENew Orleans must one day become the greatest city in the world. ijoston Iv lug. PRIDE. OI: 1 my sister, beware of pride. She is the destroyer of innocence, and the handmaid of discontent. She visiteth the bosom of the vain, and driveth piety from the heart. She sitteth at the door of fools, and vanity is her atten dant. Envy pursues her, and she hath none to mourn over her. Ruin follows in her (rain, and want is seen in her step'. Shame comes after, and the sons ' md daughters of prudence and modes ty look on with pity. Modesty did I say? yea, my sister, punish pride, vain pride, from thy tender bosom, and let modesty be thy constant attendant. Ivcep it as a rich jewel constantly be fore thine eyes, and study its precepts. Follow her wheresoever she goeth,anu clothe thyself w ith robes of her selec tions. Take her with thee in the as sembly of the great, and she will not forsake thee in the cottages of the humble. She U the sweetest of flowers. and is r.ot destroyed by the frost of old age. She dwclletli wheresoever she is kindly received, and giveth joy and comfort to the possessor. Kl'M N MFn ESTIMATED BY TCLSATION. An ingenious author asserts that the length of a man's life maybe estimated by the pulsation he has strength enough to perform. Thus allowing 70 year9 for the common age of man, and 60 pulses in a temperate person, the nurriber of pulsations in his whole life will amount to 2, 207,520,000;. but if by intcmoeranee he forces his blood into a mi re rapid motion so as to give lo pulses ill il minute, i'"- ...- . pulses would he completed in 56yer8; consequently the life would be reduced M years. The Oracle of Health., Good Manners is the art of contrit bitting to the enjoyment of those with whom we have intercourse, by putting them at ease nnd causing jhem to be pleased (not with you, but) with tbeqj-clres.

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