Rising Sun Times, Volume 2, Number 83, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 13 June 1835 — Page 1

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1 J. ru:nr.i:n to xo pahty s arbitrary sway, we'll follow tultii miikuk'f.u it leads ntr: ww." KY AM!X. Ii. MM',.

Tin: miti.i: II AM). PV MRS. Mi'at KM V. Tlam vnli?t, my haY.y bov, from slroj. Ami tliroush it5i!kin t'nn-o Thine rve, like ioli t, piro am! ilecp, " (Ilranis fortli in iiznrr- tinro. With frolic ? mil. nml c!;v.!n- meek, Tryrmlittit Lr.nv i i!tvt; "While f.nnllv to t!iv mother's cl. k Thy little hand "is pet. That liltlo hand! vh:.i jirc;cicr.t it Its history may li-oi ru, 1'rc time it tiny hones shall knit With manhood' sinew stem? The arti.-t's pencil -hall it irniilr, Or spread the snow v snil J Or held the plo'uli iih r-iral pride, Or ply the sound:!.;: il.iil ? Threw ;h ni'i'ie'- I.ihvi a tl.i.i:: i:,nr, ,

With thril in; aruor r ne ; Or weave those tender, tuneful lnv, That beauty v ins from love ' Old CVkeor Bhick-tone's learned tonic With weary toil explore. Or tii:a the lamp, in classic dome, "Till midnight's watch le o'er! The pnl-o of LticnM si k:ie-s pr --, ( r such l.i.'u honor tain. A in the pulpit rai-ed to I less A pious li-tei,in; train ? Pa v, shall it f nd t lie eheri-hed era',-, t l" frii-Tid?l.ip"s fervor cold ; Or statlinr, fi 1 the cv.veiimiied clap Of trcacl.ety's serrei.t fold. linked in hal'owo;! union, I lest. Of chaheles love benign. We-- some fair infant to thy I re.iM, As thou t'o-t cliti; to mine ? Tnt oh! nny the Almighty Friend, From w hom onrbein." came. Tl i- dear and powerl. -- band d f nd. I'r. 1:1 ieus of uui't ami shame ; Ironi ertii 1 war".- I'i-colon 1 blade. From w itherin; penurv "s pain; From dark op;-"'i-ioi. direful trade. And from the mi-tr'- tain. Criirt it to dn the ti ar- of wo. Wild folly's com so re-lrair : T-ho alnseof --vmjiathv be-low. Thy righti-ou- eau-e maintain. W-ito v. i-dom on the winc ef time. F.'eli "mid the morn of enlli, A id, with benevolence sublime, l;-pon-e thi Ii.-l.t ol truth. Oi-char.ro a iu-t and ii-ol'ul part, Tlitou :k li.c's mieortain mae, Till on; led with an anvil's heuit, It stiikt s the lj re of rai-c. sr.i.r.crnu inn the Ti.vir.s, v a i.ai-v. t;ii: i.irr. Take, oh take the pi ft I brinr, Not the I In-hiiv; ro-o of sprite.: Not a torn from India"? cave, ,'S. t t i ' cor.li of t!.r w ; o ; "Ni t a v. rt.it!. to deck thy brow, Not a rim to hind thy Vow ; Frit-bier 1- the fift I hri:' Friendship's pure-t oli'i nn:. Take the Cat; oh may it bo Treasured Ion; nml dear bv thee; V'ealt!i may buy the riehe-t toy-, I.ovn u ay wear the bri,-hte-t i -, Hope ma y a sw t-r Say, l'u a-nre -!n d a softer rav. F.ut !u! loy e n. r w -oahh ma twine W'ri-.ith so ure a th: of mii.e. Hope tic r plea-ure spread a hue, 1 la if so la-timr. half so true. Kei p. eh keep, the tifl I luillt It's friend-hip's pure-t ol';' rint-. BIOGRAPHICAL. I.t)IU'.() DOW. Much ha been said of litis eccentric. individual: ami much. Perhaps, which h untrue. M ny have believed, and not. n i iliaos. vviiliont lo.is.v.i. that he . . ' . " ........ i.iiioi cu ti i hi ci a (i'"n'c oi nit -ma i iiai-i lnncination. There is, howeer, an undue propensity in mankind to over rate or exaggerate, when their atten tion becomes fixed n the pci uliarities or circumstance of an indiv idual no mUtcr whether it may be hi wealth, his talents, his virtues, his vices, or hi irrrnlricitirs. Lorenzo Dow was horn in Coventry. in Connecticut, October IGlh, 1777. Iiesides enjoying the advantages of a good common school education, his pa . i.i i - - r ictus nrouiriii mm tin reiieioiisiv. tie was constitutionally inclined to gravity nnd sobriety, for at the early age of three or four years, he refused to join in the sports of boys of the same age. At eight years of age he had the misfortune to be associated w ith a lad who spoke falsely and used profane Iangunge, which vcrv much changed ins whole character. Hut the serious turn which nature and parental dibit gave

him, was never wholly lost, for so acute freshest horses had enough (o do to was his sensibility to sutlering, and so keep pace with him; and this, too, oeuscenlible the feedings of his heart, ver (lie roughest roads, and through

that he never could w itness the death ol the meanest animal without emotion ; and happening to kili a bird one dav, it filled him with horror. It was, not, however, till the age of thirteen or fourteen years, mat lie wholly lost Ihe vi(ions habits be h id borrowed from his companion, and became settled in a moral and religious course of life; nor was it until, in a state of despair, he had in one instance loaded his gun to take his own life. There is reason lo believe that his physical frame was never robust, tho nothing is said by himself on this sub ject in his Journal, till he had arrived

at iho Jiee of Iwclye year?. At (hat time lie Mates tliat a ronfinr.nl aillima va fastened npon him by diiiikiiig fietlv of rold milk and water while Cteally lieated at labor; from which he never appear to have entirely recovered. Vrom his rihtccnth to his twentieth year, he was often ohligod to it up whel.? nights for want of hreath.' At twenty-thrte. and at thirty years of age, his stilferings arc again mentioned. In the latter iiiM.u.ce (it was while in Kurope.) the attacks were accompanied with spasm-, whi !.to use his own language, 'shook his constitution fo the center." As Lite as the year 1T1.5. he passed in ny .-leepless tiilits; indeed he was not wholly free from this complaint to the year of hi death. Nor was his constitutional infirmity all. Severe labors and exposure often induced fevers and other acute diseases, which brought him to the very borders of the grave. lie also s title red conslantlv for much of hi life, either

from scrofulous ... tumors, internal a deep scaled auscesscs, or lictnorrli auscesscs, dal atloetions. Vet he almost always called himself "wcl!." and fho he underwent enough, one would think to break down any ordinary constitution, he only complained of ill health w hen he experienced positive pain ; and in spite of nil his disease both acute and chronic, he performed an amount of labor, in travelling and preaching, unknown since ihe days of Whitlic-ld, if not to the world. liefore he had completed his twentyfiftii year, he or.ee rode lifiecn bandied miles and held one hundred and eightyfour meeting-, of two or three bouts each, in ten week? and two d;w. About a year afterward, he travelled in the southern states, four thousand mile, besides constantly preaching, in seven months, and finished hi tour without stockings, shoes, or outer garment, and almost without a horse. In ICO."), he supposes he travelled about ten thousand miles. Tor many year, about this period of his I i fe, he states tli.it he travelled from seven to ten thousand miles, and held from six to seven hundred meetings aim. i dly. jnim'tiniff, too, lie spoke in the open tir. and addressed many thousand In Knland, he once held nine meet ing? and travelled hftv miles, in liflyand in another instance, he held two hundred meetings, and trav idled one thousand seven hundred mile in :-it v-seven d.n s. lie travelled throuuh the U. States toin iow i.ngbinu lo the extremities of (he I nion deoiiiia. Morula, or Misouii at least from fifteen to twentv limes. ( )i:easiona!lv lie went also to v anacia.anu once to me uesniimHe made three voyages to I nland and Ireland: twice, at least, (or the im provement ol nis neaiin. inning mese Ion ian excursions, he travi lled over . ' j ... . ........ ....... ... after him, every where, thousands of people, and rivc(in; their attention by Ins pocuiiantie ol person, manner. language and dress. It is thought, and not without reason, that during the thirty-eight years of his public life, he must have, travelled nearly two hun dred thousand miles. It was customary with Dow to send i out. sometime before hand, a series ol appointments (o preach, often in a dis taut slate; and he seldom, if ever, l.ul led of beiiin present, precisely at the day and hour and place appointed. Often three or four appointments, were made for a single da) ; it is believed sometimes more, besides, they were frequently so distant from each olh e r, that he had barely lime to go thro" w ith Ihe exercises, and then (ly to the ne xt town, u e say , lor we have know n him travel, on these occasions. with such rapidity, that the fleetest and marshes and streams. And what may be regarded more astonishing still, not withstanding incessant loil and ihe con slant exercise of his lungs weakenee by protracted disease he slated in I 033, that his health, though not very firm, was belter than twenty or twenty live ve.ars bcloro. Hut lor the last twelve years of his life, he travelled much less than formerly. In addition to his labors in travelling land preaching, he wrote several vol urnes, among which is his "Journal,' or Life, which, including miscellancou - pieces, amounts to seven hundred pa ges or more. The lilies of his books

were usually as cccentrfcas their author. One, for example, as nearly as can be recollected was. "How to Lie. Cheat, and Kill, accorditu to Law." Another, The Chain of Reason, w ith five Links, two Hooks, and a Sw ivel." Lorenzo Dow was twice married. There are many stories in circulation tn regard to his manner of selecting a companion, but they cannot, we think, be fully relied on. 1 lis first w ife, Peggy, (who also wrote a history of her ow u hie.) whom he married at Western, in the Slate of Now York, died in Sept. 1810. Jy this marriage lie had one child, but it died early. lie was married the Second time in Montvillc. Con. This lady survives him. He ended his career at Georgetown, D. C. Feb. 2d, 1G.31. in ihe 67lh vear of bis as;e. "oi it otvx cor.vritw The following is the peroration of a writer on ''Our Own Country,"' in the May numlu rof the Knickerbocker Maoaztne. There is an eloquent sublimity, in its periods worthy of the subject on which the author treats. ''There is, it cannot be disguised, a tendency to mulltr rather than to viin'h A few choice spirits keen alive the ves-

t tal fire, but the mass ofour countrymen demand what is practical rather than w hat is intc llecttiah This i visible in the universal scramble for property in ihe adoration felt for wealth in the neglect of fine art in the 1'ttle reward that genius has hitherto received at the hands of our countrymen, while it is cherished every where else. l?ut what more could he expected? We have jul finished laCmg the foundation of an empire. Ye have had two wars to light, both fierce and bloody. The war-whoop i not ct over. The infernal yell of the savage h is just ceased lo startle u. The musket is now laid down, and the pen, the pencil, and Ihe chisel, begin to be taken up. The (rent West is opening its livers and praiiics for a reading and thinking population. Anon, this will be the great est nook-mart in the world. I -Mature is already heccminir a pio.ession. As wc grow in our grow (h. then, and ! trengihen in our strength, we. build upon the foundations our fathers left us. We will rear the fabric of J"nr Gov ernment to the skies. We will adorn md embellish it, and make it beautiful in the eyes of all men. We w ill kindle uch a light on the American shore, as hall illuminate the earth. Da not lere accuse me of prophecy. lVophev has ever done us inju.-tice, and for very cowardice faltered behind (he dav. magination, even, cannot picture the lestiny that awaits us, if we preserve )ur Liberty and our Union. Cod ha u'onused a removed existence, if we will but deserve it. He speaks the womise in the sublimity of nature, h resounds all along the crags of the Aleghanies. It is uttered in a thunder it INiagara. It is heard in Ihe roar of tw o oceans, from the great Pacific to the rocky ramparts of the Bay of Fun His finger has written it in the broad expances of our inland seas, and traced it on by the mighty Father of Waters. 1 he august 1 emple in which we dwell was built for lofty purposes. Oil! that we may consecrate it (o Lib erty and Concord, and be (ound lit wor shipers within its holy halls: THF. SEW TO.IISJ OF WASHINGTON. The ancient family vault, in which the dust of Washington first reposed as situated under the shade of a little grove of forest-trees, a short distance from the mansion house at Mount Ver non, and near the brow of the precipitous bank of the Potomac. Small and unadorned, this humble sepulchre stood in a most romantic, pic. luresqe spot and could be distinctly seen by travellers, as they passed in steam boats up and down the river Within a few months the ashes of the father of his country have been re moved from the place, now designated by a white picked fence, to one near tho corner of a beautiful vineyard, w here the river is concealed (rom view This site was selected by him during life, for a tomb; mid here, arc now deposited the remains of that great man, who rendered to the American republic the most important civil and milita ry service it ever received . It is archee over, and with the ground about it covered with grass and shrubbery. A lew trees ot cedar are scattered a bout it; but they do not afford much shade, many of their branches havm

been cutoU'ln visitors, and taken awav as mementos. The front of the rentetry is constructed of brick, and has a plain Iron door of the usual si?.e. In the wall over the entrance, is a small slab of while marble, with these words inscribed upon it: ' Washigton Family." lielow is another stone, containing the following brief passage from the scriptures:'! am the resui cction and the life: he that believeth on me though he were dead, yet shall he live." Such is the simple tomb of Washington: No other monument marks his grave. Yoiwc ?;i:x. 'It i clear llial tiie voting man of the present age is altogether a clillerent person from the v oung man vi the last. In his habits, pleasures and p-irsuits. he is altogether a d liferent being. The: title of boy has now no application. The gradations ofdress ftom boy to man exist no more. The lad of eighteen (loesses as expensively as the greatest gentleman in the land hi boots rosl just as much his roats are from patterns eually as fine in fiicl, whatever money can do, is done. Now we are. not opposed to neatness of person, for he w ho is careless in dress is very apt (o he careless in other respects; liul il is to the excess of dand)isin that we object. We olject to the lavish expenditure ot so much money on the persons of our voting men. Let the computation bo made, and lite mortifying result will be that I he cost of dress from fourteen lo twenty cue, would have been sufficient lo have defrayed the entire expeuice of a college ed ucation in ihe first Cniversity of Kurope. Hut the mere !o-s of so much money is comparative ly nothing. Kxeessive attention to dress product's a host of bad re sults. All the propensities of the premature gentleman are developed while the inte llect which ought to have been so assidiously cultivated in the spring of life is en-

ervated impoverished I tuned. l:iteliecttnil pleasures have no charm for the votary of dress. The 1 i u ' of the igar is the star In it gv a ;n, aiHl tlieator of acl'icai is t'u uity. I'y ..lo! by he becomes engaged I ' a II in business on ins own account, j le is soon married to one it is fair (o pre sume as empty headed ns himse lf, for lie lias not wit enough to aspire to the land ol a woman el sense, who e.ven it he were favorably disposed towards dm, would first put him on the peniten tial .-tool. We'll, tne nonev moon has massed a moon w hose, light was like It I - . i run'o darkness and in Hie course ol time the eludes ol a lather devolve upon him. Put alas! such a mind seeks nojoy rom the elomestic. hearth. Domestic pleasures have no relish for i .i ti. .ti such an appetite the gambling tanie md the bottle become his altci and his (iod. His wife withers away, and hi ren even when their father is abovc the sod, are the veriest orphans and outcasts of the earth And w hen leath overtakes the misguided being. w hen the clods ot the valley are cemi . . ii cealing the degraded elnst from the sight, it mav be that the indulgent mother, the kind fulver, rejoices in the midst of their sorrow, that the world will no longer behold the degradation of their worthless son. How often has such a scene been presented to their view ! and all, all bowing from the gratification of youth in false and fleeting pleasures, and the evil habits produced by such indulgence.' rorriiY. The second edition of the numbers of Bruins, or Foreign Consju'rucy against the United Slitcs. has just issued from the press, and is for sale til the bookstores. The reality of this foreign conspiracy can no longer be rationally doubted. The more this subject is discussed, the more its political importance, becomes maifest. This erroneous notion that the question of Popery is merely a religious question, is fast yielding to the solemn conviction, that no subject has ever been presented lo the consideration ol (he American peo pie, which more vitally a fleets all the " .... I 14. i J .1 IT. 1 political institutions ot me united States. Some independent editors in Ihe West and Last, and in this vicinity, have already become, converts of thi opinion, .and have taken their stand against these foreign enemies, determined fearlessly lo do (heir duty. Were others less timid, tho evil which they affect to dread of bitter religious crimina tion, would be found a chimera of their own creation. No editor is fit for his

high and responsible station, who is ignorant of the first principle of political Ireedom, or of the inherent despotism of Popery :,s a religious and ns a potitiait system, and we can only say that a spirit is awake among the people thai will soon demand from (he conductors of (he pre, a course more in consonance with the s(. ife of public opinion. That the subject is exciting, no one can doubt; but Americans will not purchase quiet, at the price of their liberties. If the conductors of the press manfully and seriously do (heir duty, avoiding unnecessary exciting language, or oflcnsivc personalities, the bitterness of feeling which may accompany controversy on a subject which must sooner or later he thoroughly discussed by the American people will be avoided. It ought to be universally understood that the P npi:li r)n!rtjvcra is not of our choosing: The (art too, undoubted, is that Despotic Kurope is most vigorously engaged in spreading Popery throughout this country. We may deprecate (he necessity of examining its politico', claim toner reception, but wc cannot avoid it. It is cowardice unworthy of an American lo shrink from its examination. Wc have no doubt that Austria and her holy alli(s would be glad to have us receive the everlasting system of Popery in silence. The cry of. religion' cent rovers-, therefore, when its y,:'iiii(',l character is under review, is precisely the cry we should expect from hor emissaries here. Let our inli lligent editors think well of their own course, and assure themselves if w In n Popery as a political system and its doings in all parts of (he country ate alluded to, they are not aided and abefling the cmis.-nries of foreign despots against the liberties of their country through theit false conceptions of the subject, and their groundless charge of converting the secular press into an arena for religious conlro-

vcry. it should not nc lost sigtu oi, lhal tho subject of Popery is essentially f.'.u ( tntinly political, .V. Y. Jcv.r" Cciii a Nji ie.vA;i: r,im. The Catholic Miscellany has had the impudence to adopt as its device the American Kagle with the shield and stripes, holding in the right talon across, and in the oilier a popish chalice This desecration of our noble bird, in making him, while he stands forth as the emblem of our political Union (o hold out the emblems ef a state religion, and that the most Oppressive which the wot Id ever saw, will be little relished by the native born sons of America. Our Eagle wears no mitre, and holds no chalice filled with the hitler dregs ol imposture, pollution and tyranny. Let the Catholics remove, our shield and stripes, and they may then hold up their eagle as they like. He will then be an Austrian bird, rind the emblems he holds will set forth the iron govermcntthey represent. hut tiie stripes and the chalice not yet no nor ever. A . 1 . Jour. Lvm. T:TOS. .TKFFI.ltSOX S Ol INIOX OF FARMERS. "Those who labor in the earth," lie early declared, 'are the chosen people of God, if ever lie had a chosen people, w hoe breasts lie has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators, is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has found an example. It is the mark set on those, who not looking up to heaven, but their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsislance, depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality sullocates the germ of virtue, and ptepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. Thus, the natural progress and consequence of the arts, has somelimes, perhaps, been retarded by accidental circumstance; but generally speaking, the proportion, which the aggregate, of the other classes of citizens bears, if in nny Slate, (o that of its husbandmen, is the proportion of its unsound to its healthy parts, and is a good barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption." A New Voik paper says "During the last three or fourmonlhs, probably about eighty to a hundred foundling children have been picked up or dropped down at doors and sloups in various parts of the city."