Rising Sun Times, Volume 2, Number 95, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 5 September 1835 — Page 2

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I.. GI.KW. KMTOR AXO rilOI'UIKTOlt. i'or the times. Mr. Editor In your paper of the 221 August, a correspondent who call himself "I," has, in a vcr h"ppy find Jjrci!1c style, wriltcn two columns to prove that Slavery has "always been detrimental both to families and nations, among whom it has existed." The world at large is certainly under great obligations to him fortius inestimable discovery. This most sage ami learned w riter has doubtless been perusing some of the late speeches of the great Irish agitator, ()Conncl!, that lias opened his mind to the evil effects of Slavery. But, sir, what would ou think of a man who would I ihor to prove, from tho most logical premises, that the waters of the Ohio and the great lather of Rivers, flowed onward imlil they emptied into the mighty deep? Wovild ou not say at once tlx. it: is not a school boy ten years old hut knows this? And who is not willing to admit that Slavery is an evil of the greatest magnitude? A-k th slaveholder of the Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, or of any of the slave states, .-ml they are all willing to admit the l o t. Eagla..J has become fully convinced of it, and has, with that magna nir.iity for which she is so characteristic, applied the proper remedy to tho evil. France, too, not willing that she should be outdone in such noMe acts, is preparing to follow the example set In England. America, also, is awake to the importance of the subject, and appears resolved to wipe the foul stain out of her national character. There is none so hold as to stand forth the npologisi of Slavery; none, whose heart is so obdurate as not to svmpathisp with them in their suffering and miserable condition; none, who would not pay, let tiie shackles be knocked fflhe oppressed, and lei them go free, was it not, that there seems to be a barrier in the way, which cannot be so ai! removed as Xerxes thought .Mount Athos could, when he threatened to cut it off and cast it headlong into the sea. v I's principal object in writing seem to disclose itself in the lasi sentence of his essay. He says: "We may also sc that the principles of im-ue, 7V.f.? emancipation arc fvtu:uled upon i ..-.son, interest, the rights of man, and tho law of God."' Much as we may abhor the -vils of Slavery, and deplore the sad state, of those in bo:ulage,yct who w ould be willing to hazzud the awful consequences lhal would likely follow from turning loose upon society two and a half millions of human beings, ignorant of the laws of God, the -laws of our country, without the m ans of suhsstence, and possessing a fixed and determined hatred against the whites for the many injuries they have received from them! Let the piinciples of those who go for imniidi'iU: emancipation, he carried into chvcl, and such a scene of outrage, violation of the laws of morality, decency, and good order, as wa never witnessed before in this counttv. would immediately take place. We can only judge of tho future bv the past. What were the consequence that followed in St. Domingo, in the year 17'J. when Trance, through her agents, proclaimed general liheriy to the slaves on that M and t Did lin y, like good citizens, tarn their attention to some honest calling for a livelihood? Did they respect tho lives and property of their late masters? If we are to believe the history of those times, they did not. Liberty, equality, and the lights of nun were lost sight of mast seductive and infatuating words were disseminated with the most frantic z ah and thaunted into their weak organ-, which urged them forward to commit the mo-t altrocious acts which the most savage hearted ould invent. Neither age nor sex escaped their fury. Toe proprietors of the soil were cither murdered or farced to leave their hoaics. .-Mid make their soaps1, leaving their all to those who were once their .-laves, hut now become the severest of ma-tci s. Murder, fire, and devastation of property were prevalent throughout this once happy and fertile L'.anl, ai d all oera'ioned bv i n.if di emancipation. X.i'V I a-k if it would be c n-isei,i with rr ?? ;, ?",).'. res? , . rtghl '" vnn, n;7 llf i'trn o" (. to have such scenes a the above do-erihed, exhibited in the United States? Let those z -al anfanatics, who go for ;mor.-: emaia ipation, answer lb q n slion. Q. Reubeo Crand-dl was arresu-d in Washington city, on the. tlth int. and committed to pri-on for circa; ding incendiary pamphlets among the negroes in that place. It is stated that some of the baukin Georgia have it in contemplation to i-snc Lank notes of the denomination of six, ?tvcn, and nine dollars.

IMMANA I.VIKUXAL IJirKGYLMI.XTS. The snbh ct of adopting a general

systim of Internal Improvement in Indi ana, is one ol the deepest importance to the people of the slate; and the pro ceeding? of the t ext legislature, upon ihi point, w ill lie watched with unusual st Ircitude. By "a general system of Internal Improvement"' we mean a system that will, in its results, increase the wealth and prosperity of the whole state. This must be effected bv open ing channels lor the encouragement of agriculture and commerce by the construction of road and canal-, w here the utility of such improvements is apparent and undeniable and by completing, without unnecessary delay, all public w orks now in a state of progression, or which may be hereafter, undertaken by the slate. From a course of legislation like that which was manifested during the last session of the legislature, the friends ot Internal Improvement can expect nothing. Kail Roads, and Turnpikes, and Canals, were proposed from all pu nters, and millions were asked of tiie stale to aid in their consti uetion, even while the possibility of making some of these woiks remained undetermined. Nothing can be gained bv such a system of legislation. It has its origin in sectional picjadices; it exists in excitement, and closes its career byproducing abortions. If the Rail Road Companies which hae already been incorporated by acts of the Legislature ever carry their contemplated improvements into effect, the stale of Indiana will certainly be much indebted lo their skill and enterprise. Companies have been incorporated to make Rail Roads to and from the following places. From Lawrenceburgh to Indianapolis. From Madison lo Indianapolis and Lata vettc. From the Falls of Ohio to Lafay ette. From Lafay ette to Trail cretk in Laporte county. From Ilairisou to Indianapolis. From New Albany to Indianapolis, and thence to the W abash liver. From Richmond to Eaton. From Jcffersonville to Indianapolis. From Evansville to Lafayette. From Michigan city to the National Road in Vigo county. 1-rom v. Aio.iujr tv, Jvirr.r.i-;u. A Rail Road lo run ihro' the north east coi ner of the stale, in ihe direction of Chicago. From Charleston lo some point on the Ohio river. From Indianapolis to Monhiz i-na. From Ihe Michigan Road at Kirke's in Ciinton county, lo Michigan city . From Michigan city lo the Kankakee. Tho foregoing, we believe, is a correct !il of lite incorporated Rail Road. Companies in toe slate of Indiana ; and we leave our readers to form their ow n opuiion-, in regard to the policy of conknir.g charlcis upon these various corp rations. An examination of a correct map of Indiana wi;i show that the natural and acpiiicd advantages of ihe state are pro eminent. Tiie Ohio river borders upon lite counties of Dearborn, Switz iland,.Ieffnscn, Clarke, Floyd, llar-li-on, Crawford, Perry, Spencer, Warrk k, Vandci burgh, and Posey . Hie Waaash liver, w 110 some improvement, will open a navigable, channel to tin: counties of Posey, Gioson, Knox, Suilivan, A igo, Yesmiiho'.i, Parke, Fountain, Warren, Tippecanoe, Carroll, and Cass; and ihe W abash and Erie canal will continue ihis line of navigation through ihe counties of Miami, Wabash, Huntington, and Allen, lo ihe north eastern part of iho slate. The great National Road passes from cast to west, Ihrougti tiie counties of Wayne, Henry , Hancock, Marion, Hendricks, Putnam. ( "lay, and igo. The Michigan Road, from the Ohio river lo L tke Michigan, passes from south to north thiougli ihe counties of Jeffeison, Jennings, :rllio!on;ew, Johnson, Marion. I Lunilton, Boone, Clinton, Carroll. Cass, Fuitou, St. Josephs, and Laporie. The proposed Can;. I from M urn ey town, do-.vn the Valley of White Rier, to the W abash, will, if completed, open a oil iiinel of navig ition fro. n the north-ea-l to the fu il-nvcv, through the Central parts of l!i. state. i ie slate possesses nv.ny oilier ad vantages lo which it is not necessary to allude here; and there are other proposed public work-that deserve the serious consideration of the people. Of those which have been mentioned, the Wabash and Erie canal, and ihe im provement of the Wabash liver stand first in importance. The policy of making a canal down the valley of White River, will perhaps be discussed by the next legislature. Let the discussion upon this subject he free, impartial, and divested of sectional prejudices, and the people of the central parts of the slate

will be satisfied bv the result. We have I

not room for further remarks upon this subject at present, it shall be resumed hereafter. Logansport I ikgrxph. NOKTl I E R N BO lT M A It Y. Tn another part of our columns will be found the Gknerm Okieu issued by direction of the Governor, as Commander-in-Chief, of which v e gave the substance last week. It will be perceived that its object is to ascertain the numbers of cavalry" and mounted rillemen in the several divisions, who are ready to volunteer for such service as may be required of them, and thus to dispense w ith the necessity of a regular Militia draft. So far as intelligence has reached us from the several counties, the call has been patriotically responded to; and we learn that were it not confined lo mount rd n en, (the difficulty and expense of equipping themselves according to the requ.-itie-n being manifest.) cur citizen soldiers are prepared to turn out 01 mas?c. It is plain, from the domineering attitude Michigan has assumed, and her determination not to accede to the terms of our Compromise Bill, that the time for dicussiou has passed by, and that we are now necessitated to act, at least lo sustain the civil au thorites of the Stale, and protect our citizens within our constitutional boundaries. That Ohio has been patient past endurance, cannot be denied. Still it is not contemplated to make war on Michigan, but simply to maintain our rights. The day fixed by law for opening the term of the Court of Common Plea lor Lucas county is the ?lh September next. Is it to be expected, judging from the past.that the Court,its officers, jurors, and suitors would escape insult probably outrage? Their protection has raised the necessity of enrolling an adequate force of volunteers. The boundary line, according to the tenor of the Compromise hill, is also to be remarked. But this does not contemplate takingyonic postcfsion of the disputed territory; for the same bill expressly provides that the citizens. on the disputed ground will be left to their own choice in acknowledging the jurisdiction either of Ohio or Michigan, till ihe close of the next session of Congress. But w e are also hound to lend our aid to those citizens w ithin our limits who choose to live under our jurisdiction, aiKl WllO ilniill (Mil pu'lvA-nvu. llo.v far the course which Ohio has been compelled to take may end peaceably, now depends 011 circumstances beyond her control. The Executive Council of Michigan assembled pursuant lo the Proclamation of Acting Governor Mason, on the 1 7th instant. Of their proceedings beyond the Message of the Governor, we are as y et uninformed. O. S. Journal. a riu.MON or jui.i;:ie- without schools. There are now in the Valley of the Mississippi, nearly one million of children ele-iitiite of elementary instruction. From public documents the following facts h.ne been ascertained. Absolute correctness is not pretended. la Tennessee are about 100,000 children who have no means of education, la Kentucky are 1 17,000 children, and only 30,000 report to have been in school in 1830, leaving 100,000 destilufe of instruction. A report of ihe legislature of Missouri, makes ihe number of children out of school in that state, Gu,000. Sixteen hundred teachers say tiie committee, are wanted to give that state a system of common schools. Ohio has upwards of 100,000 children destitute of instruction. Indiana is estimated to contain 80,000 children of suitable age to attend school, who have no means of instruction, and upwards of 18,000 adults that can neither read nor write. Illinois has perhaps 50,000 Added to this mass of mind in the rising generation, there is a considerable part of the adult population wholly uneducated. Now consider the bearings which those f.u ts have upon ihe success of ihe Gospel and the economy of benevolent ff rt in behalf of the w est. Consider too the bearings of these f it ( upon our political institutions. A million of y outh glowing up in ignorance of letters, alike destitute in most cases of mental and moral discipline! Are these safe hands to be trusted with the power of electing rulers? Canyon eommit your rights as a freeman and Ibe destinies of our republican institutions to such depositaries? Is it safe? Is it prudent? The dangers to which society is exposed with a numerous uncultivated population of this character, in a country where every thing i controlled by popular influence, should rouse our legislatures and all good citizens, tn promote the instruction of the many as a measure of self-defence. Gen. Samuel Smith is a candidate fur the mayoralty of Baltimore. Gen. S. was formerly in the U. S. Senate. I

FVom the Lynchburg f'irinian. JIl'RHEL THE IXSUitilECTIOXIST. In the accounts which have been recently published of the slave agitations in the South West, our readers mayhave noticed allusions to one Muriel, with whom tiie leaders of this conspiracy are said to have been confederated. This Mum I was tried in Jackson, Madison co. Tennessee, in June 13.31, was found guilty of negro stealing. or, more properlv speaking, de

coying negroes form their masters, for the purpose of selling them for his own profit, and sentenced to ten year's imprisonment in the Penitentiary ol Tennessee, where he is at this time. We have now before us a pamphlet con taining a detailed account of ihe arrest of this daring freebooter, by Virgil A Stewart, early in the vear 1831, in the truth of which however, so startling was its character, we placed but little con lidence until the romantic narrative had been partially confirmed by recent events. We did not believe that such an incarnate fiend lived on the face of the earth. But we can no longer doubt its truth, or withhold fro n Mr. Stewart, his captor, the credit due alike to his ingenuity and intrepidity. Mr. Stewart, i:i order to ascertain whether Muriel had stolen the negroes of a friend of his, (Parson John Hennir.g, of Madison county, Tennessee.) deter mined to pursue him to a point where it was supposed that he had concealed them. Falling in with Mum 1, on the very day that he started in pursuit Stewart feigned entire ignorance of the name and character of his companion, and, by the mot ingenious stratagems, wormed himselfso completely into (he confidence of the villian, that he obtained from him a succinct history of the exploits of his past life, which had been one continued series of robbery and murder, perpetrated under various circumstances, and concealed by the most artful maneuvers. While, however, Mum 1 was daily loading his soul with crimes of this character, he was meditating a scheme of v illainy, 011 the most extensive, scale, and which, had it been only partially successful, must have resulted in the most appalling consequences. This diabolical scheme, was nothing elie than a Servile Insurrection, to he consummated on the 25(h of December, 1 833, in all the slaveholding States and Territories, from Maryland to Louisiana. 1 or puipose of preparing for this great stroke, he had traveled first to New Orleans, thence, vit Cincinnati, to Lexington, Ivy., thence to Richmond, Va., thence to Charleston, Milledgeville, Savannah and Augusta: from which place he returned to Williamson county, Tennessee, his native place, or, as he calls it, his '-old stamping ground." lie says, 4I:i a!! the route I only robbed eleven men; but I pn ached some fine sermon", and scattered some counterfeit U. States paper among my brethren." Ihe hend! Covered with crime, and y et daring to ascend the pulpit, as She messenger of the Most High! Did he not fear (hat he might he blasted by the lightnings ol heaven! He goes on lo say that he regarded this plan ".is the sure rod 10 an inexnauslihle for tune to all who would engage in the expedition;' and he adds: ''My heart hegan lo heat high with the hope ol being able, one day, to visit ihe pomp of the southern and western people in my vengeance, and of seeing their cities and towns one common scene of devas taion, smoked wall, and fragments." Fortunately, however, his career of iniquity was about lo be terminated, at 1 m . f ieisi ilu a se.ison. iwr. Stewart alter obtaining from him a full confession of the Villanies which had signalized his career, and a development of his future plans, succeeded in bringing him if not to lull justice, at least to temporary pun ishment. And it is lo be hoped, should he survive his present confinement,: he permitted ayain to go abroad in the world, that his footsteps w ill be dogged and Ins maneuvers vigilantly watched by every community w hich may be cursed with his presence. Mr. Stewart also succeeded in obtaining from Murrell a partial list of his con fed e liites in different slaveholding Slates; Murrell remarking, on handing it to him, "there is not paper enough lo make a proper list, but when you come up to my hous, we will have time to make, a complete one, and this will do until then, as you will not travel any until you go with me a few trips -and learn the routes; and there is not near all the names on this list, but there is no more paper to write on. I want you to be with me at New Orleans on ihe night that the negroes commence their ravages: I intend to head the company that attacks that city myself. I feel r.mbitiou ta demolish the city which was defended from the ravages of the British army by the great Gep. Jackson." When we first" read the

pamphlet giving the detail of MurrclPs

mlamous career, we were disposed to look upon it as :ve do the biographies of villains generally, with 'many grains of .allowance and n? to las list ol con federates, we had 110 doubt that it was vastly exaggerated in number, and indeed that many of the names upon it had no liv ing representatives. But. on examining it, we find that fiivi of the Mississippi incendiaries (Cotton and Hunter) are upon it, and we have therefore less reason to doubt the accuracy of the remainder. The numherof these confederates amounted, in Tennessee, lo Cl; Mississippi -17: Arkansas 20; Kentucky 2o; Missouri 27; (among the number in Missouri is the cilebraled Stephen W. Foreman, who was some months ago apprehended as the head of an extensive gang of counterfeiters); Albania 28; Georgia 31; South Carolina 35; North Carolina 32; Vhginia 21; Maryland 27; Florida 1G; Louis iana 22; "Transienters, w ho (ravel from place to place," 22, among whom is (he renowned Phelps, who" was some months ago apprehended la Mississippi, as a highway robber, and shot in an attempt to escape from jail Making a grand total, on this incomplete list, of 15G! HA LLOOXIXH. This subject is exciting much interest both in this country and in Europe, and the question is, Can it bo made of practical utility? Some have believed that by adding to the balloon the steam power, machinery may yet ne invente.il by which its movements v ill be controlled. If so. is it not easy to imagine tiie advantages that may arise from it. As evidence on this subject, let the reader examine the . following statements. Frmn the Ismdon Scientific Journals. A prize being offered for tiie discovery of a horizontal direction in aerostation, M. Mingreli,of Bologna, M. Pietripoli, of Venice, and M. Lemher, of Nuremberg, have each assumed the merit of solving this problem. It does not appear that any one of these hits come forward to establish by practical experiment, the validity of his claim: but a pamphlet has lately been reprinted at Paris (first printed at Vienna) on this subject, addressed to all the learned societies in Europe. The following passage appears to be in tho work: "PiofcMor Robertson proposes to construct an arostic machine loO feet in diameter, to be capable of raising 72.051 killograms, equivolent to 138,037 pounds weight (French.) To be capable of conveying all necessaries for tho support of G ) individual--, scientific characters, to ,-ry. selected by the Academicians, and the :erial navigations to last for some months, cxploiing different height and climates, etc., in all season. If, from accident or wear, the machine, elevated :.boie (lie ocean should fail in its functions, to he furnished with a snip (hat will insure the return of the ierotiauts." A OsJAMATlO CUU.UCH. V e find the following pithy passage in a bile number of the" Irish "Christian Examiner: The church of Rome is dramatic in all its features. It seen s to be ils office, and its very essence, toad Christianity and to hold out in extei lor exhibition lb.it which in its inn: light 110 eye but God's can see. No wonder the church ol Runic is fond of sacraments when the definition of one so admirably suits herself she is "an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual church." his, in a word, as I said before her pari and province to act Christianity. Thus, with her repentance is changed to penace because the hitter is to act the former. Thus to gloty ihe cross of Christ is, with her, to kiss," and kneel to, and carry in procession a material crucifix. Thus our Lord's humility, in washing his disciples' feet, is, wilh her got up as a grand performance, in which the Pope annually acts theprirt of Chri.-t. In full keeping with all this, the celebration of the Mass is an apparatus, calculated altogether to engage the senses. Artificial lights, odoriferous incense, enchanting music, costly decorations and all the sacred charms of mystery such are the stimulants with which the worship of the Mass supplies the place of rational and spiritual devo(Mon. Sou. Churchman. A spn of Bishop Oiiderdonk, has been convicted in N. V. for forging his father's name, by which he raised large sums of money. The court thought the ends of justice might be attained, by sending (he prisoner to sea on a long whaling voyage. Cauvinc. "Shnll I rut this loin of mutton s.-i(!dlctui?M s.id n trrnleman. "No," said one of hi? guests ;'cut it bridlewise. for then I mnv chance to ecta

hit in my mouth."