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

Till-: Tiil&KS. A. K. IJI.ENN, KPITOIl AM) IROI'l! II.TOII.

10a THE TIMES. To Of friavh nfjn.-ticc autl K-puil Rights of Dearborn county. Fellow Citizens It is one of the fundamental pi in-; ciples of a republican government that the, majority should yield implicit obedience to the minority; more especially when the majority is large, and they contend for nothing mure than strict justice and equal rights with the rest of their fellow citizen. But in oppoMlion to this great and leading principle, a f("a citizens of Law reiieeburgh. and its vicinity, w ho have too long controlled the nflairs of this county, have, taken it in high dudgeon that you should call in question their right to dictate to the people, and exert that arbitrary and selfish policy they have lonsr pursued: and they have there fore resolved that the will of a large ! majority of the citizens of 1 X'arboru j county, clearly expressed, caning lor a removal of the Seat of Justice, shall be disregarded, and the will of the few be substituted for that of (lie many. Fellow citizens, w ill you sudor t ! ; ; ? Will you consent to again be enslaved ? to have the shackles of oppression once more laid upon jou? to he depiived of privileges which you, as freemen, have a right to enjoy? to become tributaries and vassals to the people of Law rene ehurgh? No! let us rise in our strength ;! divest ourselves ot that lethargy which lias so long hung around u, and convince them that we have flic poieer to assert our rights awl ths zcl! to i.i un! riu them. The note of preparation has been sounded already have our opponents taken the Held with their new auxdiaIT, the 1 uSladium, at their head, wh.cn j

has commenced the onset with more j ,,r; phs, hut, for ouiselves, it has fiileclconragc than discretion. Already arc j , a (li ,.,,:; more than an) in. ident of they rallying their scattered and oi.ee ti. same character eer did before, vanquished forces for the ttppronchiiig The unfortunate person, whose otfence conllicl: Then let our banner lie un- ! is detailed in these paragraphs, it is furled, which bears the inscription cfjtnie, was nothing to us. We know justice and equal rights; let u, come nothing even of ids history, his birth, to the contest with an unbroken front, j ,. parentage, but w hat Ins name, disfor recollect that in union t lie re is j , -ies; but that, in the absence of o'.h-i-trength. We have an active and vig- ! ,.r knowledge, impressed us in advance

ilaut enemy to contend vvi'.h't they lack in number thev will try and make up in generalship. Ti.ey will exert themselves to effect a division ninong ihe late fib r.ds of lemoval, fr their motto is, Divi As u:vl dm m r. No doubt but deep schemes have been laid j

to accomplish tti:s ohject. l.emcmhcr ! p,jVate channel-, of the disclosures now Ihe question is net whether the seat of;ma)jc p!dic, we f.dt as if a brother justice shall go to Aurora or Manehcs- j in,. viehh-J temptation in a tu.kless t.,r- K.if l,..ii,.,. it .i,..n I I. ... : , . ,. ,, .. I i

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Iawrcnceburgh, or not; fr i:in:!iiv!i(,1:

point ia the County will m;U tin m. ! Tiat,and that alone, is the obit et thc

wisli to ctiect. Now, to prevent lhis,ji,;(. incident furni li to :!.:,

let the meetiiig at Wilmington, on the I pt.rons wham (lamimr. in one fojui "r 20lh inst. be fully attended let the jo'ie-r. i- leading to their inin! Ves, to poisons nominated at that meeting have (,. rijiJ: for dentil i not more inevijour cordial and hearty support, and j UlII: (r all the hvinir, than ruin, in

our. nuns win ue crowncj with ccm plete sacccsa. RANDOLHI. At a respectable meeting of the . it7. uis of Lavvrencebngh township, convened at .Mr. ('aide's Hotel on Tlnirs!av, .lunc 1th, 1 Coo; on motion of (Jen. Dill, Doct. Jalx z Fercival was called to the chair and John V. Dunn appointed secretary. On motion, Rnokc L That the Secretary express j

the object of the meeting; w hich was j sure of money. Subsequent inquiries, brietly done, when, on motion, it w as j n : are pained, to state, proved tin: ruii'i owi, That a committee of live i pott in question to be. too true. For 1-e appointed to draft resolutions, ex- j at least a month past, as we learn from pressive of the views of this meeting; ! an authentic sonice, the Baltimore nl.-o, to appoint , suitable number i I'o-t Oi!n e has been in the unpleasant delegates to attend the convention in predicament of hearing the complaints Manchester on the 15th inst. On mo- j of merchants and others, who alleged

tion, iW;r,, That D. S. Major, Lane Dunn, Major Hunter, W. Armstrong, and F.ia Ferris le that committee. The cemmiltec, after retiiin some time lelurned and reported the follow-1 lag prcamale and resolutions; which, after be'tn read, were unanimously adoptcd: However desirable it may be to every citizen of the county, "that all ihe s-trife and local pnjudices which have so long distracted Us, and enervated our political inihience in the Legi .tmc, .-hoi.. be laid aside, that we miht unite an I with one mind, and one spir it engage in tho-e I approvements, which

M'.uU b: ;vo,lhv ol rT"'"!'-doi!:g so he was ,hilv nifhin the" reaeh and weal-oy county of Dearborn; still, of the tables on whfcl, the letter mails hehevm toat the Ute location of the are spread. Complaints of the loss o( seat of justice made in May last, at Wil- letters within a few das past, were a.n,a;pon, not only g.ves great dissa.is-1 gain repeated, and the suspicions of the act.oa to a very large m ,,or.ty o( thejehuks were at length dinged towards

people of the county, but will be a It ard-hip end inconvenience not to heendured by a I irge poition of the citiz u.s in ihe iiorli.ein put T the county; we f (l it our solemn duty to take m;l:i measure as wi l insure, another J ...;-,. en , J .1,1, ol 1,,, uat of justice, that it

may be fixer! in some spot, that, as near as possible, may give general satisfaction; and quiet those murmers which have so long disturbed our harmony:

Therefore, Rcsolvcl. That wo will use the best exertions to elect men to the next Legisl.iture. w ho will pledge themselves to use their induence to cause a relocation of the county seat of Dearborn county, more consistent with justice and mure agreeable to the feelings of the citizen of the county, than the present location at Wilmington. '.'Wit.. That we approve of a convention to be held at Manchester, on the 15th hist, for the purpose of nominating candid. iis for the text Legislature. Rj!vt!, That we will support the candid i( nominated at said convention, and will make u-e of every reasonable and honorable effort to insure their election. RrsohrJ, Tint ten delegates be ap pointed from this township to meet in said convention J'hc following named gentle man were then nominated and appointed delegates to the Manchester convention, viz: S irau -1 1'vans. Jesse Laird. John P. Dunn, Walter Arm-tiong, .laee!) Dennis, l-aac Pro!, nan. J aeob Hayes, d. A.Ferris, Lemuc I G. FJdcr, and James Cloud. ()a motion, i'r.. That t!-.e proceedings of this mc ting be publ'.hed in the Palladium, and that the Rising Sun Times be requested to give them an iasertioi O.i motion, Reso've.-l, That, the meeting adjourn. .1 ABKZ PF.ROI VAL, Prohicnl. deux P. 1 ii'vv. .See"'. i:ohh:::iy of tih: K.vi.Ti;io::r. lsi-or; ( ;:. We know not with what sensations our readers may receive the informatjOM contained in the subjoined p ir !- f.ivoral ly ot his cuaracter. ihisimwas not lessened, certainly. M cs-inn by the evidence of ability and genl'.omntdv lordi'i-'s which he has exhibited in the edito: i d department of oiie of the best daily journals in our country. When we heard, therefore, through iour, ani i.i.jen irom a stuiion wiacti and h onore V.' hat an .j. 1 even awful waining do ;.;);' ir lais; nees oi lamenta.nanny I one torm or otner, to the ir!curib!e vo taries i t that no less fatal than infatuating pa- ion. ,A.7. .i,',. I'.-n.n the .io,-c .2i;-,-Y(.-.-i M,j.; 23. No small degree of astonishment and regrt t pery.nied this community yesterday, as the report circulated rapidly through the city, that the editor of the Bahimou; (;:,( (te. Win. tjwyiai .Jones, !iad been arrested yesterday morning on the chapo'. of havii"' rolihed the Post O'liee of letters containing en. Io that their letters, sometimes containini money, had failed to ci. me to hand. In several instances it was ascertained that letters thus mi--ed had been regularly mailed at distant ofiices, .and as they had not reached the individual.hero to whom they were ad lresed. the position of the cleik in the office was leni' ied extremely unpleasant. The mi-sing let ters w ere uniformly, w e l lieve, tho-e A a-, by the Souihrea and We.-tern mails, the delivery of which was in the morning. Mr. Jones was accustomed to visit the Tost Oilice at a very e ally hoar in the morning, and obtained his pipers before the 'office ................. I " it- i .i 111 ii r ti'ii,.r i . 'ivriv l .Mr. .J. On I nuisday tnorning he went as usual into the Post Office, and when he retired, certain letters which had A . .... been placed in a particular snot near ! i . I t. mill, hail also i1i;-innri T , .,, ,.. : i . V n ' 11 '"' ou wen imagined, was truly astoundin-j to the cle.L, but as

neither of them could testify to the fact of hav ing seen him take the letters, it was deemed prudent to it further developements. Yesterday morning Mr. Jones again entered the Post Otiice for his papers, and was seen by a cleik w ho was on the watch to take a large double letter, the address of which had been previously noted, lie also was seen to take from the table live entire packages of the southern and western loiters whic h had

net vet been opened. Immediately afterwards he left the . flieo, and as he was proceeding to his ow n office was arrested bv a deputy marshal who had been in waiting for the purpose. The double letter, and also the entire pack ages containing from fifty to a hun dred letters, were found in his possession, lie subsequently made admissions w hich show the purloining of upwards of a thousand dollars from letters at various times. The unhappy man, who, opto this period, has enjoyed a full share of public confidence and respect. has been committed to prison, to take his trial at the regular term of the V. S. Circuit Court. n rr.A.tj suj.vt i)s.vr,T2:n, Oa Friday, the 1 .nil May, the steamer Majestic, vvith about seventy-three passengers, just touched at this port, on her way up to St. Louis; after leaving, performing a few revolutions vvith her wheels, she was stopped for some purpos; whilst in this altitude, the passengers, it seems, come on the side next the sown which cleaned the boat and thereby displaced the water in the boilers, and on leaving the second time the boat was trimmed, sinking hula lick or two w hen two of her flues collapsed, throwing off the caps both of the stern and how ends, throwing out a volley of sSeaai upon and among the deck passengers, consisting of men, women and children, deck hands and crew. The cabin parsengcis escaped or sustained no damage fortunately, although the water and steam were thrown up through the housing of the fly wheel and was thrown through the cabin, prostrating some of the passengers with the force of steam and water. The partition which was between the engine and the after part of the boat was literally laid prostrate; behind w hich was the room of the un fortunate deck passengers; some of w hom jumped out, some blown out into the river, w hilst others that were injured so mu; li so that they fell on the; deck; none, however, died forthw ith ex cept those that went over board, which. Irom the best information, seems to he lilteenin number; there of whom were saved, two of them saving themselves; the third was saved in the very last extremity, he on es hissalv ation to the dexterity of M r. Z. Fdmuials. From the nature of the ol curieuce it is almost iuipo.-sible to come at the prec ise number that were lo!. The humanity and liberality "vineed bv the citizens of liiii place towards the unfortunate sufferers, who were very indigent the most ofti'.em. will redound almost immortal praises to their philanthropic dispositions. The corporation made an appropriation, and the citizens of the town made up a sum of ;3o0. Sui'iee it to say that every thing has been done lo make them comfortable ami to alleviate their sufferings ; nevertheless thirteen have d;--d,and we suppose that about the same number was lo-t ; making the whole loss 2.j or 30. Memphis (Jazillc. v:.i:i;n:i.s: uu. stoiim. Fxtracl of a letter from a gentleman, in Merom, Ind., to his friend in Yincrimes, dated May 23, lo.3a. "Oa yesterday in the afternoon we had a terrible hail sioi m ; it lasted about thirty minutes; when over the hail did not lay so very thick, the ground was well besprinkled, but not covered. They were unusually large 1 weighed one. lh.it was perfectly solid and neralv rou. id that weighed precisely one pound and a hall" an hour after the storm was over. Several were, picked up of equal weight, and it is believed that immediately after the storm, they might have been found that would have weighed two pounds ; ihe principal part would have weighed f rom four to eight ounces. A little north of us it fell in a greater abundance, but not so large. A little south of this on the road was a man with a learn, who found one that measured 17 inches in circumference, and one fell oa one of his horses licit drew blood. I took a walk on the commons this morning and I saw many places where the hail had struck and broke a we ll set blue gras sod, and penetrated the earth .-ome three inches, the size of the cavity in many of them hoin 3 lo (5 inches in diameter. T,n. email in this plac e was caught out in it, one of the hail stones struck his hand and injured it severely; it broke and penetrated through the roofs of the houses that were a little old. Fortunately there was but little wind, or the

damage must have been great, as it was a number of glass was broken. Figs, fow ls, fcc, stood no chance unless they could get a shelter.' LATEST FltO.lI FKAXCr. Nf.w York, Mvy CG. Our news men boarded the packet ship Napoleon, Cap'. Smith from Liverpool, yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock, off Fire Island, and anived in the city at 1 1 o'clock, bringing us London and

Liverpool papers to April 2oth, con taining the long pioioised news, that the Indemnity Bill had passed, and by a larger majority than had at any time been anticipated. 1 he vote was ta ken on Saturday, April loth. The foling, from the London i imes ol April 21st, gives us the patticulars. 'The Paris papers which we receiv ed at a late hour tins morning bv ex press, put us in possession of the whole ropoit of Saturday's proceedings in the Chamber of Deputies, by which we find that the debate on Ihe'American claims has been brought to a close. The bill, as amended by t lie commit Ice. proposing a grant of 2 j.OOO.OOOf., w as voted by a majority of 2C0 against 137. Accor ding to an amendment proposed by Gel oral Vala.e, to which Ministers assent ed, and which was agreed to by the Chamber, the indemnity is not lo be paid until after the v rench Covern ment shall have received satisfactory explanations wiui regard 10 me message of the president of the Union, da ted, December 2, 10.31. Two other amendments one, that no interest should be paid, and the other, that the interest should only commence from the dale of the passing of the hill, were both lost, t' roiii some observations in Journal ties Debats upon the passing o this bill it would appear that .Mr. Liv ingston is not expected to remain at I aris in his diplomatic character; nor letiirn thither as Ambassador, should he go to Amei ica. The Journal thus expresses itself "It is probable that Mr. Liv ingston w il think proper to be the bearer himself to Ida Government of the account of all that has passed here, in order to ex pose himself a second time to the in convenience of having his corrcspon dence published. It is possible, also that the American Government wil think proper not lo send him hack to France, in order (o spare luin the inevi table embarrassment under which he must labor, after the written expres ; . it,..i i 1 1 1 i . . . . i . i -uuis i.i.u imm: ueeu iuwiouieu lo 111111 in the course of the debate. We do not blame ihe American Gov ernment for having given so complet and so proii.pl a publicity to Mr. Liv inston's letters; perhaps il was dem md ed by the forms and prac tice td" her in stilutions; but such publicity must of ten have the eilcet ol sacrificing indi viuu.il negoiiato; u I'Cilto require (nut the negotia .r who 1. spoken public!) ill of the country to which he is accredited should ornithine to be well received by the people hehas oilended. These are the reasonwhich induce us to look upon the longer stay of Mr. Livingston in Paris as very difficult, and his re turn very uncertain." The condition thai tin: Pre-ident Message at the opening of Congress shall receive a satisfactory explanation will of course make no trouble. r VSSACF. OF THK. IXKF.MXl TV 1111.1.. Yesterday's mail brought us the highly important intelligence of the passage of our Indemnity Bill, ty a vote of more than two lo one but accompanied by the extraordinary proviso, that tin; indemnify shall not be paid until the President Of the United States a))!) i:rs (o the French gave iment for the language used in his annual message! If this piece of French etiquette be intended for any thing' more than a shallow cover. ng for "wounded pride," matters are no nearer a settlement now than they were three ears ago for neither ihe President nor the American government have any idea of "chawing llieir o vn words," or of swallowing French notions of "honor." But this vaporing of the French must end in smoke. l is averse to our dignity as a nation, contrary k our nature as a people, and inconsistent with every principle upon which our independence is based, to be forced into any terms with any nation. The President did not address himself to the Chamber of Deputies nor lo the French government. He merely discharged his duty in laying the subject before Congress. An American President npologiz ; to a French Chamber of Deputies! Monsieur has certainly made "von grand mistake;" in his calcnlaion of the independence both of our peo ple and of our President. I he American people make an apology! (Jen. Jacl vsou make an apology! In the language of a distinguished citizen of this

State '-we will war it with her to cost of the last dollar, and to the slaughter of

the last man,'' rather than our country shall present to the world, the humili ating and degraded spectacle ot an aitolorrisl, at the feet of a French monwchy Culiimhiw Ilcmiyhen: Sn.K. The following act of Massachusetts so creditable to the patriotism oi mat aunmonweallh snoulu re generally known, as an example for the Legislaf nres of other States. Rr.Ki.!.(i Su.K. The new law for Ihe. encouragement of the Reeling and Throwing of Silk, has gone into operalion. It provides that any person who shall reel or cause to be reeled, or throw or cause to be thrown, from cocoons, produced from silk-worms raised in this Commonwealth, merchantable silk, capable of being manufatured into the various silk fabrics, shall receive fifty cents as a premium from the Slate, for every pound of silk so reeled or thrown. We triisl this wil! he a sufficient inducement to our farmers to 'give, more attention lo this important branch of ccono.ny than they have hitherto done. ScnomiY i the Wkst. 1 1 is gratifying to Western piide, lo be aide to record such instances of the exercise of surgical skill, as the follow ing: Dr. Alban G. Smith, of this city, professor of Surgery, in the Medical College of Ohio, took oil" the leg of a man, at our IIospit,d, the other day, in less than thiily seconds, from the liioe that the limb was bandaged f r operation. We are informed by a gentleman, who was present, that nothing can exceed the .-redness and dexterity with which the Doctor handles his knife only three motions of the hand were made, before tiie leg was laid bare, to (lie bone, and a stroke or two of the saw, removed entirely the decayed limb. The patient, although much reduced by disease, is now doing well. Cin. Y'tlii. C.m ti'k:-. of a Spanish Si.avkr. A Spanish brig, of three hundred tons, named the Formidable, which had acquired no small notoriety among the British cruisers on the coast of Africa, by her own speed and the boldness and dexterity of her captain, was captured on the 17th of December, oiVthe mouth of tin; old Calabar river, by his Britannic Majesty's biigantine Buzz ml. The action was commenced by the slaver, after a chase of some bonis, and was maintained for some time vvith great spirit on both At length the briganline ran the slaver on board, and the l itter almost immediately surrendcud. The captain of tin: Formidable, an ( Hieer of the Spanish navv, behaved with gioat gallaniry, fighling and encouraging his m-n until disabled by thiee musket wounds. The raplors found oa board the prize, seven rt.-oc ((.'(.' ic.-f, and a ciew of six!v-si men, armed with mu-kets, pisiois, and cutlasses. The battery of the slaver was eight guns. Four of the Spaniards were killed, and eleven wounded: of the Bri!ti-h, six wounded. Fr.u u,k Coxvn-rs. The Legislature of New York, at their recent ses.-iou passed an act for ihe erection of state prison building? fr female convicts. The buildings are to be so constructed as lo contain not less than (oiiy separate cells each., and to be; so laid out that the number may hereafter be increased. A very proper enactment. The Rev. Mr. Smith, of Kentucky, last week gave a lecture before Ihe Moral Lyceum at Lowell, in which he staled that in Kentucky more than one half of the children of the whites grew up without learning to read and write. "Heads I win (ails you loose." A bundle of raccoon skins were lately sold to a gentleman of St. Louis. On opening the bundle, he found that they were about half Opossum tkins, with raccoon (ails tied to them." A young lady at school engaged in the study of grammar, being asked by her preceptor, w hether the word "kiss," was a common or proper noun, ihe girl, blu.-hing deeply, with hesitancy answered, "It is both common ami proppcr sir." A case of assault and ha fiery has been died at Williamsburg, Va. where the jury returned a verdict that the plaintiff should he taken to the public whipping-post, and there receive thirtynine lashes on his bare back and that his Itr.vyer should pay the cost of prosecution! Chief Justice Marshall, (says the National Gazette;.) was, a few days ago, alarmingly ill at Richmond. We fear that the next tidings will he worse. Thre is a very strong emigration to Texas from the United Slates. Forty persons from Baltimore, many of them females, recently arrived at New Orleans, on their way thither.