Rising Sun Times, Volume 2, Number 90, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 1 August 1835 — Page 2

THE TIMES.

K. Cl.EXN, EDITOR AND I ROPRIETOR. FOR Til C 1IMCS. Mr. Eoitor There lias been much said, written and printed w ithin the last tighteen month?, on the subject of the County Seat, and some may think that the subject is exhausted, and others may hae grown tired of hearing so much said. Buf, sir, do not belong to either of these classes. When 1 seethe old and ancient enemy of the rights and libeities of my fellow citizens, drawing p and drilling their forces for the approaching contest leaving no stone "inturned, and resorting to every low artifice, stratagem, and intrigue holding out this inducement to one man, and that inducement to another, to effect their object and more especially when I look at the past history of our county, and recount the wrongs we hnve borne with, and the evils we have suffered, it invigoraiesmy pen, and stimulates mclo move forward. We have submitted to the yoke of our lords and masters, until forbearance ceases to be. a virtue: and if wc now give up what we have ob tained, it would, in my judgment, be good evidence of our want of firmness and Jack of patriotism. But let us again convince them that this is not the case, and that we have the poxcer and the trill to hold them where tlioy are. I was much pleased with the contents of your last paper. It was gall and wormwood to the poor Burghers thev can stand any thing but truth, and when that is sent home to them, it would do you good to hear them let oT omc of inc venom, with which they ixrc constantly surcharged. I have heard how they let out on Aurora, the Jlising Shiners, (as they contemptuously rick-name the people of Rising Sun.) snd on Wilmington and Hartford; and in fact on every porlion of the county where a man is to be found possessing courage and independence enough to oppose them in their wild career. The address of the Wilmington committee is a good document, and I earnestly hope it may or has been read by every voter in the county, and especially by those whom the Lawrenceburghers have attempted to gull. (Jan any man, afler dives-ling himself of prejudice .'Mid self interest, read that address and say that we ask for more than justice? or that we ask for more than is our right? No: that man cannot be found, unless indeed it be a Lawrencehurghcr, or some one of their supple tools. I might content myself by simply risking people to read this address; but it is there asserted that the object of the Burghers is to get the late law for re-location repealed. This is a fact worthy of great consideration. The people of that town have boasted that we never could and never should take the Court House from them. This is ample proof of their object and shall we permit their vain-glorious boastings lobe realized? Shall we suffer their iron rod to come over us again? No, never let it be said that we gave up to threats and boasts or that we have not sufficient stability to govern ourselves. This is always the language of the aristocracy; and if it is not the sentiments of the people of Lawrenceburgh, it is the principle upon which they act. There is another statement in the address worthy the attention of the lower end. It. says that when our courts are held at Wilmington, the people of the county will have about an equal number of streams to cross, though the people of the lower end will have one the most. The crossing of streams to get to Court has been a source of just complaint for many years. It has been inconvenient, and often very dangerous; and many of our citizens have saved their lives only by being expert swimmers. And how many ol the people of Union and Randolph townships have been compelled to go as high up as James' mill, (and even farther,) to get round the back waters of Laughery and the Ilogans, when under the necesfity of being at Lawrenceburgh thus performing a trip of some 25 miles? They had to do this, or else peril their lives in crossing high water. And then again, look at the ferriages a large portion of the people in the lower end have to pay; and yet we have silently borne with all these inconvcnicncicg for thirty years or more, expecting that the enemy would be willing to "give and lake;" but we wailed in vain. Let the county seat go to Wilmington, and it places us upon something like- an equality il will be somewhat near "equal and exact justice" to all. And if Ihe people will elect the Wilmington lickel, the court houe must and will leave LawrcnceLurgh. I was well pleased, too, with the productions of " Honesty" and "Justice." These writers, I know, feel a glowing interest in the happiness and prosperi

ty of our State, else they would not write as they do. It is astonishing it is indeed truly astonishing, that any man possessing common sense, can support the mammoth bill a scheme without a parallel in the annals of our history. But so far will avarice and selfinterest lead men that it has its friends. Yes, there are men in oilr State, in our county, who, for the purpose of enhancing the value of their real estate a few dollars, would mortgage the State of Indiana for European Gold! People of Dearborn, think of this before you vote foi the Lawrenc-burgh ticket. On looking over the review of my second article by the Palladium, I discover that the editors ask me,"when have the people of Lawrenceburgh done anything prejudicial to the interests of the county ?" I will answer by asking what

did they do with the Michigan Road? their actions in regard to that road ought to shut their mouths forever. When the Burghers found they could not get the road to terminate there, they instructed Mr. Jackson, their rep resentalivo, to vote against evert other point in the countir; and when Aurora was named, Mr. Jackson, true to the in sinuations of our lords and masters, voted against it! And yet the editois ol the Palladium, that pink of purity and consistency, have the face to ask when the Lawrenceburghers done any thing prejudicial to the interests ol thecoun ty ! And where is the man who believes that if this rail road or canal was to terminate at Aurora or Rising Sun, the Lawrenceburghers would support it? I hat man cannot be found. I hev would oppose the improvements, under these circumstances, tooth and toe nail, and run them olfto Vevav or Madison, as they did the Michigan road. You, Mr. Editor, ought to have been at the great celebration last week the humbug dinner, which was got up to make votes. The Burghers calculated that the people would come there, and after eatingdi nner would go home and say "Them Burghers are a clever set of fellows, and I'll vote their ticket." Bui I have yet to hear of the first convert on that day. Upon the whole, it was rather a dry concern thefcg men of the three States "come up missing," and there were no great speeches. The boat, which was raised on wheels, to haul a load of clav, broke down with its own weight. 'Pis said that "coming events cast llieir shadows before;" and ttiia is viewed by some as a very unpropituuH omen. You need not be astonished to hear tell of some addresses from the Lawrenceburgh candidates, making their appearance a day or two before the election. I have heard that there is at least one in press at the Burgh, from a candidate w ho once recommended finger boards to an individual now running on the ticket with him. They will beaslate as possible in circulating them, to prevent their being answered. Bui to the people I would say, be on your guard be cautious about believing their honeyed stories: thev are only meant to entrap you: you have been deceived by them time after time, and they will deceive you again if it i-s in their power. I have lost all confidence in the people of Lawrenceburgh and their tools, and I know tluy will never deceive me again. And let me urge upon my fellow citizens to he careful about believing what they hear on the day of election. i cannot close this article without congratulating my fellow citizens on tin: reformation which has taken place in Manchester. People may be deceived for a time, but "the majesty of truth will triumph;" and the woi kersof iniquity w ill find themselves, if I mistake not, driven from the field, covered with shane and disgrace. You may hear from me after the election. For the present, accept my thanks for the use of your columns. TRUTH. IXSUilRECTlO OF SLAVES IN MISSISSIPPI. A merchant of .Nashville received a letter this morning from a gentleman of respectability in Mississippi, tfivinsr an account ol an extensive meditated insurrection of the slaves in that Stale; which was, fortunately, discovered a few days before the intended massacre took place. The writer says: "An insurrection has, it appears, been on hand among the negroes, for the last six months, headed by white men. The massacre whs to have commenced on Ihe 4th of July. The plans were well laid, and no doubt but that thousands of the whites would have been murdered, had we not been saved, only a week before the time by a faithful negro man, who was in all the secrets, and was to have been high in command, and who revealed to his master the whole plan; and to convince him of its reality, placed his master in a situation

where, from his place of concealment, he could overhear one of their night meetings, at which the whole scheme was discussed. A great many negroes were, in consequence, taken up in Madison county, from whom the committee found out who the white leaders were. About ten negroes and five or six white men

have been hung without any form of law or trial except an examination before the examining committee. They are still going on trying and hanging. It appears, from a confession that Dr. Cotton made, that their route was to have commenced from some place above this and proceed thence through the principal towns to Natchez, and then on to New Orleans, murdering all Ihe white men and ugly women sparing the handsome ones and making wives of them and plundering and burning as they went. Dr. Cotton, after being condemned upon negro testimony, made a confession and disclosed the whole plan. He is an old confederate of a man by the name of Murrell,now in the Nashville Penitentiary. J'ash. Ban. nisTl'KBAXCE OX THE CANAL LIXE. An enmity has existed for some time between a portion of the hands, employed on the canal line in the vicinity of Peru, and others engaged on the work near Huntington. The preparations which were making by both parties for a general battle induced Mr. Burr, one of the canal commissioners, to interpose bis authority, and to send to Foit Wajnc and to this place for volunteer forces to aid in preserving the peace, and in arresting some of the ringleaders. The Logansport Guards, accompanied by a number of volunteers, marched from this place on Tuesday morning last. The following extract of a letter from a gentleman at Peru, contains all the information we have received up to the present time. Logansport Tel. Peru, July 15, 1835. "The volunteers from Logansport arrived here last evening, and were joined by those fiom Fort Wayne, under Col. Spencer and Major Edsall. Several persons have been arrested ; and I understand that all who are known to have been concerned in the late disturbances on the line that have not fled, will he arrested, and committed for trial. So fir not a drop of blood has been shed. The military are aiding the civil authority to discharge its functions. We have between two hundred and three hundred men under arms. The companies commanded by Capts. Wines and Ferry, from Fort Wayne, and Caps. Tipton and Miller from Cass, do their duty in a manner that is highly creditable to themselves and their counties." The Philadelphia arcade sold last week for 119,000. The Masonic Hall, Chesnut street, with the glassworks, for $1 10,550, to Mr. Swaim. Fortune has dealt most capriciously with the individual who has become the owner of this $'100,000 hall. Some fiftcen.or certainly within twenty years, Mr. Szvaim, then a journeyman book binder, was nflicted with a scrofulous disease which resisted all the ordinary efforts of Medicine. Afier exhaustiii" his means of support, and still lingering with w hat was called an incurable disease, he was taken to the Pennsylvania hospital. While there, he prepared a medicine, the ue. of which soon restored him to perfect health, with his constitution unimpaired. Having cured himself, Mr. Smaini commenced the preparation of his panacea for the benelit of others. It immediately acquired reputation in Philadelphia, and but a short time elapsed before the information of its healing virtues spread through the union. Soon, too, its fame crossed the Atlantic, and Mr. Swaitn was solicited by the government of England, to proceed to London, (as he did) and adiriini-ter his panacea to some of the members ol the royal family. For the list twelve years, the reputation of (his panacea has been rapidly extending. The amount sold is wholly unprcccdeiitcd. The profits of the proprietor have been enormous. It is but a few months since we heard of Mr. Swaim's purchasing an entire and valuable block in the heart of the city. Now ho appears as the purchaser of a splendid .$100,000 hall. We frequently, and with great satisfaction, find his name associated with the charities of Philadelphia. Perhaps", in the history of the world, there is not another instance of such an extraordinary change of destiny and of fortune an instance where a man has been raised from extreme poverty and hopeless disease, to sound health and princely fortune! Mysterious indeed are the ways of a Providence which raised from his dying pallet in the Pennsylvania hospital, a patient upon whom the golden mantle of Stephen Girard seems to have fallen!

TEXAS. The Mexican authorities of Texas

have addressed an official remonstrance to the War Department at Washington against the removal of our Indian tribes to the West, in such a manner that they soon become residents, and of course trespassers on the territory of Mexico. It appears that many hundreds of the Choctaws recently pushed across the Mississippi have taken up their quarters within 25 miles of Nacogdoches, and avow their determination to remain there, while many others are about to follow the example. Colonel Bean the commandant of that post, considers this intrusion, if connived at by our authorities, a violation of the existing treaty stipulations and of the laws of nations, and demands that it be promptly redressed. It further appears that some scoundrel)' speculators have been selling the Indians large tracts of land in lexas, to which they had no kind of right, or title, and of coarse they could not give any. The Indians are thus swindled out of the pittance they had received from Government for their lands, and left utterly destitute among strangers and among enemies. JVew Yorker. THE FRENCH NAVY. There is a movement making in the French navy, which it may be well enough to look at in reference to our relations with this country. It "19 stated on the authority of a letter from Marseille, that a number of French ships, are fitting out at Toulon destination of course unknown. There is no cabinet in Europe the measures of which are taken with so much secrecy as that of the French, and these naval movements may be made in reference to the course which our administration may adopt relative to the required explanation. We see nothing in all this to encourage us in the belief that our affiirs will be amicably settled, but are more convinced lhan ever that peace very materially depends upon the amicable feelings of those now intrusted with the administration of our affairs, and that a false slep may be dangerous. In a trial for forger, in Ameshury, Massachusetts, objection was made to the competency of a witness, Enoch Winkley, on the ground of his being an Atheist, which objection was sustained. We do not feel disposed to record the evidence given on the occasion, but content ourselves with the opinion of the Court. Fredericksburgh Arena. Jndge Strong said the evidence is satisfactory to my mind that Mr. Winkley is an Atheist; that he does not believe in a God. It is (rue he says he is not an Atheist and that he believes in a God, but at the same time he gives such explanations as clearly prove that he does not use term in their common and proper acceptations. As near as I can learn his views from the testimony, Mr. Winkley is a materialist ; one of the sect which has grown up within a few years, and w ho do not believe in a Supreme intelligent Being, who gov erns all events. As I understand "the law, he cannot under these circumstances, be permitted lo testify in a Court of Justice; I therefore shall not admit him as a witness. THE osikb wii.mhv. It is worlhv a place on evrv fin because it takes up very little ground, rm. ii it-quires very little care, and furnishes the best materials for baskets, which are indispensable to the farmer. This like all, the willows, is readily propogated by cuttings. Where it" has good root, its shoots, in good ground, grows from four to eight feet in a season. These shoots should all be taken off every winter, unless very large willows are wanted, and the number is thereby annually increased. The art of fabri cating baskets from them is easily acquired, and may be practised in evenings and stormy days in the winter, without cost. For ordinary baskets the Osier is used with the bark on ; but for neat house baskets they are pealed. The best way to divest them of the bark is to cut, sort and tie the osiers in small bundles, say early in March, and place the bundles in a pool of stagnant water; and at the season the leaf huds are bursting, the bark will readily strip otf. The osiers may then be laid up to be used when leisure will permit. A well made osier basket is worth three or four made of splits. We have them which have been in wear years, and are yet good. To give them firmness and durability, a good rim and ribs, of oak, hickory or other substantial wood, arc necessary. Quarterly Obs. In the city of Mexico tumbrils are sent around bv the police to take un r those who are drunk. They are kept at night, and made lo work in (hp streets for three days with a ring round ineir ancie.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL. Mr. Marshall was born in Virginia, on (he 24th of September, 1755: and, as early as the summer of 1775, received a commission as Lieutenant of a company of minute men, and wa? shortly after engaged in the battle of the Great Bridge, where the British troops, under Lord Dunmore, were repulsed

with great gallantry. He was subsequently engaged in the memorable battles of Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth; and, in 1780 obtained a license to practice law. He returned to the Army shortly after, and continued in the service until the termination of Arnold's invasion. In the soring of 1782 he was elected a member of the State Legislature, and in the autumn of the same year, a mem ber of the Executive Cour.cil, and mar ried in 1783. In 1788 he was elected as Representative of the city of Rich mond in the Legislature of" Viiginia,and continued to occupy that station for the years 1789, 1790, 179!, an5 upon the recal of Mr. Monroe, as Minister, from France, President Washington solicited Mr. Marshall to accept tl e appointment as his successor, but he respectfully declined. lu 1799 he was elected and took his seat in Congress, and in 1800 he was appointed Secretary of War. On the 31st day of January, lC01r he became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, which distinguished station he continued to fill with unsullied dignity. nnT pre-eminent ability, until the close of his mortal career. Phil. huj. The New Albany (Indiana) Gazette, of July 3, says "We learn that Mr. Ladd, the editor and publisher of the Indianian at Corydon, Harrison county, on Tuesday, the 25th ult., attempted to kill his wife. After stabbing her several times, she fell; and supposing her death immediate and certain, he slabbed himself, the dirk passing thro' his heart. After he had fallen, he discovered his. wife still alive, and endeavoring to rise; he made another pass at her w ith the dirk, and exclaimed, kl believe I shall die first.' The blow was warded off by throwing up her arm, which received a severe wound. He survived but a few moments; and his wife, from the last accounts, was still alive, though little hope of her recovery was entertained." Cholera. Maysville, in Kentucky, and Nashville in Tennessee, have beer visited by the disease this season, both places lightly. A portion of Warren county, Ohio, has suffered severely; alarge majority of fhe cases terminated: fatally, and many of them were unattended with the iisoal premonitory symptoms. Cases have aNo ocrurreij in some of the counties on the Wabash, in this stale. There is, however, we think, much less of the disease in the country at (his time than there was at the same period of last year. hid. Herald. At the conclusion of the last war, in 1815, the national debt of Great Britain, amounted to $1,050,000,000. In the prosecution of only four of the many wars during the last W)0 years, between that kingdom and other nation?, nearly 3,000,000 of human beings have been sacrificed. What enormous expenditure! What a picture of human butchery! Western Spy. At a meeting of the Bar of Philadelphia on the 9th nil., a resolution was. unanimously adopted, that it be recommended to the bar of the United States to co-operate in erecting a monument, in some suitable place in Washington cily, lo the memory of the late John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United. States. For more than three years there has not been a single indictment for crime in the county of Loudon, Virginia. The county contains a population of 22,000. Ii is stated, as might have been naturally inferred, that little ardent spirits is drank in the county. The Catholics had commenced building a nunnery at Rochester, (N. Y.) and had got it partly completed, when from some cause unknown its further construction was suspended. The building is now to be converted ir.to a dwelling. The Steamboat Ohio, on Sunday week performed the distance between Delaware city and .Philadelphia, (fortyseven miles.) in two hours and twentynine minutes, or at the rate of nineteen miles per hour. It is thought that the hot springs which have recently been discovered in (he Territory of Arkansas, may be ran ked among the most valuable mineral waters for invalids that aro known to exist in either hemisphere.