Rising Sun Times, Volume 3, Number 107, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 28 November 1835 — Page 1

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From the Xac Yorker. LZZIAII. '.I CIIROMCI.KS, XXVI tHAPTER. The star of Jwla'a kins roJc lugh In plenitude of powrr, Anl lauded was li is sceptre's sway In palace and in bower. Fresh fountain 'mid the divert sands Up at hi bidding prmnr, And clustering vines o'er Cnrmel's breast A broader mantle llmt-. lie hied him to the battle field In all hi yonnc renown, Anil wild Arabia's swarthy sons, Like blighted grass, fell down. lint when within hi lifted heart The seeds of pride crew stromr, And nnaeknow leced idessin-; led To arrogance and wronr," F.ven to the temple's holy place With impious step he hied, And there with kindled ecu ft flood, Fast by the altar's fide But he whoc hi;h and prictlv brow The anointing oil had blest " Cme forth. nrijctie, to rebuke The .uril.uiotn ijiicst: "Ti not for thee," lie'-lernly said, "To tread this h.xllowM nnve, And take that honor to thyseif Which God to Aaron gave. " 'Ti not for ther, thon mighty king, O'er Jmla's realm o-dain'd, T" trample on Jehovah's law, By whom thy fathers rci;iil. '(Jo hence !" And from hi wwfol rc There serin M such ire to llame, As min-led with the thunder blast Yhcn CJo.l to inai came. Then loud the. rockier rannarc.li stnrm'd, And with h gni!t liain!, lie swung the sacred Til": r lush Amid a tr tuldme; band! But whin the burning sign of wrath Did in his foreheml llanie, ;'. hold ! the avenging doom of Uen en, Thvlitiil plague-spot came! And low deelinod hi piincely head In bitterness of woe, And from that temple-; nlc he sped A leper uhi!e as snow! r.. 11. s. BICGUArilY AND HISTORY. ISUAI.I. Ft l'.VVM.

rv i i 'inn in tuij lr;t'M Putnam, who,thrc'tgh a regular higlr enough for a man lo raise himself apaitmcntof the vacant houses throughgradation of promotion, became the upright, nor in any part more than three out the town. The ofiicer, on his return, vnior major-general in the army of the feel in width. reported that Gen. Putnam's army could I hiited Stales, and next in rank to (ten. Having groped his passage to the not consist of less than four or the ihou-

u asmngion, was t.orn at .aicm, iUass. on the 7ih day of January, 1710. Courage, enterprise, activity, and perseverance, were the first character- - r I.:. :..i I I.:. .1: :: 1S11C!" lil ill- IIHUU , .iiiu ins uiyju.Miiuu was as frank and generous, as his mind was fearless and independent. Allho" he had too much suavity in his nature 11 . 1 1 f 1 to commence a quarrel, nenaa too muen scnsihlhly not to Iccl, and too much lionor not 10 reseiu, an riueuucu himui. The hrst time he. went lo Lioslon. he was insulted for his rusticity by a boy of twice Ins size and age: alter bcaimg sarcasms until his patience was worn out, he challenged, engaged, and vanquisiied ins unmannerly ansigonisi, 10 llici great diversion ol a crowd of spec-

. tators. V Inle a stnpliug, !us am nion

I was to pei form the labor ol a man, and

to excel in athletic diversion. la the year 173J, he removed (rom

Salem lo Pomfrel, an inland fertile town f in Connecticut. Having here purchased &. msiderable tract of land, he apolied himself successfully lo agricul-

turc. Oar farmer, sufficiently occupied in lf.iil.ti.vr : I.oikp and barn, fell ins: wood tnakingVenres, so-.iug grain, planting on hards, and takimr c a, e of his stock, had to encounter, in turn, the calami-

i tic occasioned by drought in summer,

f I ,ci i.. fiiA-ocf. ws n att e n winter,

' and tiie desolations of his shcepfolJ by tvn'vpe. In one tuUt he had seventy

fine sheep and goals killed, besides ma

py lambs and kids wounded. 1 his hay- ; nc was committed by a she-wolf, which .. ii!, I, or .-m.m.il tvlu'l.w. had for several

years infested the vicinity. 'im.:. ...Iir ii,.,ii, h..r.tme such an Ml? nun ui iciiui - intolerable nuisance, that Mr. Putnam 4Milcrcd into a combination with live of .Kn I 111! tj?t I t; ItiW I M 1 i 3 11 L I 3 I VI.' i: .t.. ......... n... . r n,;. Si III,ib un- i" y i in n ir 1 1 cious animal. Having followed her Connecticut river, and found she had j

his neighbors to hunt alternately until her nose, and perceiving her dead, he wlo were but a swords length from along the plain netow; urn i.. v .... they could destroy her. Two, by rota- took hold of her ears, and then kicking him, slopped short; for the declivity the wor ld together, he resembles the tion, were to be'eonstantly in pursuit, the rope, (still tied round his legs.) the was so abrupt, that ihey ventured not deep and broad river constantly pursuit was known thai, having lost the toes people, above, with no small exultation, to follow; and, before they could gain ing its resistless way to the bottom of from one foot by a steel trap, she made dragged them both out together. thc valley by going round the brow of Ihe ocean. Looking over any dchnile ..... b a,M. .i. i ' .1 IK Ti,n Kittle f I.oY'mri tVmnrl Iiit. the hill in Ihe nr.l'm.-irv road. he was far period of time say thc rntcivcuiug

tunica nam .i uiin.i uiuireiuiTiiiiiMciin, ..mi ni." " h v -o , . .i... . k..... i.. i.l . .-i irr., H,-. ihouiDrrnr.

I oriilrct. ii" v iiiiiih:ui.vvit . t-nu nuu : nis cioines, f-. .v.. v.... . nnd bv ten o'clock the next morning, tion. But finding the British retreated treat. As he rode down the precipice, the blood hounds had driven her into a lo Boston, and invested by a sufficient one ball of the many fired at him, went " . ., n j...!... r. .i. r . ' .1. .i.:- .tmpnic l.n il.mi.nl. Kn,cr. lit Hnvrmnr Trv.

den about inree nines uiMni num .u . iorce to waicu niv-i. n."v........ , ,cien,a TI,nn,nnl,.nnnL,m I....1, . f-rtprf.rut. levied a

f Mr. Putnam. The people soon came back to Connecticut, levied a re- on, by way of compensation lor spoil- menced mis arucie nas wrutu cl,Wilh dogs, guns, straw, fire, giment under authority of the legisla- ing his hat, sent him soon afterward as and if, PJP'nc l'c fh',S " 'Zhl , hur. to attack the common one- ture, nnd speedily returned to Cam- a present, a complete suit of clothes. utes reading thus far 120 Ramies8 Vih this apparatus several un- bridge. He was now promoted to be Thc campaign of 17?9, which was spirits have gone to their account , and

I. mien ni iur i utn ..v.i-vvi..v... mciv i vm t - - - -

rollrctrd H II 9U LUINM . 1 ...l.tKiir mv With this apparatus several

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successful efforts were made to force her from the den. The hounds came hack badly wounded, and refused to return. The smoke of Mazing straw had no effect. Nor did the fume? of burnt brimstone, with which the cavern wan filled, compel her to quit the retirement. Wearied with such fruitless attempts, (which had brought the time to ten o'clock at nieht.) Mr. Putnam tried once mere to make his dog enter, but in vain; ho proposed to his negro man to go down iu;o the cavern, and shoot the wolf, but the negro declined the hazardous service. Then it was that the master, angry at the disappointment, .nm ueciarmg mat tie was ashamed to have a coward in his family, resolved himself to destroy the ferocious beast, lest she should escape through some unknown fissure of the rock. His neighbors strongly remonstrated against the per ilous enterprise: hut he, knowing that wild animals were intimidated by hre, and having provided several strip's of birch bark, the only combustible material he could obtain, that would afford light in this deep and darksome cave, prepared for his descent. I lavmg. accordingly, divested himself of his coat and waistcoat, and having a Ion": repe fastened to his legs, by which he ...i.,1.1 I,- ....1I...I I I.... . i i uiie.u i.u iv av it concerted signa:, he entered head foremost, with the blazing torch in his hand. I he aperture of the den, on the east sidc of a very high ledge of rocks, is about two feel square; from thence it tiescends obliquely (ii'uen feet, then runnit!2 horizontally about ten more, it ascauls gradually sixteen feel towards its terminal on. T w sides nf this ci.Ur. raucous cavity are composed of smooth and solid rocks, w liich seem to have,

heen divided from each other by some willing to deny the request. He howformer earthquake. The lop and hot- ever, sent a llag of truce, and directed torn are also of stone; and the entrance, ihe ofiicer to be brought in the night, in winter, being covered with ice, is ex- In ihe evening, litrhls were placed in

Irordincrtv shnnerv. It is in on t.l ir-i. I horizontal part of the den, the most tert ify ing darkness appeared in front of the dim circle of light alforded by his torch, It was silent as the house of death, v !... j r i. .1 ij iione. Ulll IIIOII!ieis 01 UIC ueseil liaa ever before explored this solitary mansion of horror. He cautiously proceeded onward, came to the ascent, which 1 1 1 i i . . 1 1 1. 1 1 ne siowiy moumcu on ins nanus and lenees until he drscovercd the glaring e)cuaus vi uie won, wuu was siuing ni the extremity ol the cavern, startled at the glare of fire, she gnashed her teeth and gave a sullen growl. Assoon as he had made the necessary discovery, ho kicked the rope, as a signallor pulnng mm our. 1 ne peopie ai me mouiu ol the den, who had listened with painlul anxiety, Hearing me grownng or me wolt, and supposing their mend lo be in the most imminent danger, drew him forth with such celerity that his shirt was stripped ever his head, and his skin severely lacerated. After he had adjusted his clothes, and loaded his gun with nine buck shot, holding a torch in one hand, and the musket in the other, he descended the second time. When he drew nearer than before, the wolf, assuming a still more fierce and terrible appearance, howling, rolling her eyes, snapping her teeth, and dropping her head between her legs, was evidently in tne atiuuue, anu on cue point or springing at him. At this critical instant he levelled and fired at her head, - Stunned with the shock and sulTbcatcd with the smoke, hc immediately lound himself drawn out of the cave. But having refreshed himself, and permitted the smoke to dissipate, hc went down the third time. Once more he came w ithin sight of the wolf, who appearing very passive, he applied the torch to S.J lt.tn;.Ul r.f ntrrin.ill,.. :,! tiur III llillll III III- b..vu.v...i :L..:.. i.Mmnrli-ilv imm. lonrn'.ntr u - i mi ii iHHnv.Mi..tMj v..,...... to fatal rencounter, he left his plough the middle of the field, un)okcd his I miiltr.ni w:itmnr f n rtinnirp un - 1 bridge, lie was now promoted to I . I J

rUTYS ARBITRARY SW.W, WELl i'Ol.LOW TRl'Ttl AVIIEUF.V.n IT LEADS THE WW."'

a major-general on the continental establishment. Not long after this period, the British commander-in-chief found the means to convey a proposal, privately, to Gen. Putnam, that if he would relinquish the rebel party, he might rely upon being made a major-general on the British establishment, and receiving a great pecuniary compensation for his services. Gen. Putnam spurned at the offer; which, however, he thought prudent at that time to conceal from public notice. r. 1 1. i... ni.. f ti tt-ii i in uiu uaiue.oi DU'iKcrs iJUi lie cxhibited his usual intrepidity, He di reeled tiie men to reserve their (ire tiil the enemy was very near, reminded them of their skill, and told them to tako good aim. Thev did so, and the execution was terrible. After the ittreat, he made a stand at Winter Hill, and drove back the enemv under cover of their ships. When the ar mv was organized by Gen. Washington 'at Cambridge, Putnam was nppoinlcd to command the reserve, in August, 177G, he was stationed at Brooklyn, on Lorn' Island. After the defeat of our armv on the twenty-seventh of that month, he went to New York, and was v.m-v serviceable in the city and neighorhood I r . i - . . 13 in ucioucr or lNovcmiicr he. was sent to Philadelphia, to fortify that city, In Jnnuaiy, 17:7, hc wa9 dircck.d o lake post at Princeton, where hc continued until spring. At this place, a sick prisoner, a captain, requested that a friend in the British army at Brunswick tnidil be sent for to assist him in making his will. Putnam was perplexd. Hp hart hut fiitv mr-n ...W lic command, and he did not wish to have his weakness known: vet l.o was unall the rollpcro uiml.iwc .....I i. sanu men. In the spring he was appointed to the command of a separate army, in the highlands of New York. One Palmer, .. li ..1 nf 1 U !..: " ireuiumiii in nit; iuij ue- w ie:vi, was detected in the camp; Uov. lryon reclaimed him as a British olliccr, threatening vengeance if he was not restored. 11 lir wis tinl rf c I nvati . . - ... .1 i vjcu. i uin.un iuiu me iuuum mg tum 1 : i'.,i., ., r..,. 11,., r,M,..:.... . -1 I. .. I cpi . oir, iiui.iii i nunei, n i.emeui" i-i.'cu.. my camp as a V , ne as men as a sp ; he was condemned as a spy ; and H "e nangcu as a spj. i. o. iiicrnoon. ic. is uaiigeu. Alter the loss ot l ort Montgomery, trie couunau'ier-iu-c ruei ueiermineu 10 huild another lorliucation, and lie directea rutnnm to nx upon a spot. t o him belongs the praise ot having chosen West Point. About the middle of winter, while Gen. Putnam was on a visit to his outpost at Horse Neck, he found (5 overnor Tryon advancing upon that town with a corps of fifteen hundred men. To oppose these General Putnam had 0nlv a niouct of 150 men. and two iron field-nieces, without horses or drasr ropes. He, however, planted his canLol, OM the hi-ih mound by the meetinc house, and retarded their approach by hrmg several times, until perceiving the horse fsunnorled hv the in antrv atiout u charge, he ordered the piquet to provide for their safety, bv relirinji lo a swamp inaccessible to' horse, and se cured his own by plunging down the steep precipice at the church upon a full trot. This nreciincc is so steen where he descended, as lo have artificial stairs, comnnsed of nearlv one hundred - . ....... . stone steps, for the accommodation of foot passengers. There the dragoons, J riiOtDrU 1P OUtl ilii lP ro:cu I IC COIl I r "j " Hip liuiieil his rnntr. unmolested, to Stam in ford ; from whence, having strengthen ed his piquet by the junction ot some I milit in. If mm. h.Trlr niMiii. and. in t - ' -t t,.pn.m.rS..i..l r.niMnni-Trvon ii lis ... .... ,.v.b.. ...o v . , . ..v .. j re - on. bv wav of comnensation for spoil I 'rf j - I . he ihe campaign

principally spent in strengthening the works at West point, finished theVilitary career of Putnam. A paralytic aiTcxtion impaired the activity of his bod)-, and compelled him to quit the army. The remainder of the life of Gen. Putnam was passed in quirt retirement Mth hi family. He experienced few interruptions in his bodily health, (except the paralytic debility with which he was afflicted. retained full possession of his mental faculties, and enjoyed the society of his friends until the 17lh ef May, 1790, when he was violently attacked with an inflammatory disease. Satisfied from the first that it would prove mortal, he was calm and resigned, and welcomed the approach of death with joy, as a messenger sent to call him from a life of toil to everlasting rest. On the 19lh of May, 1790, he. ended a life which had been spent in cultivating and defending the soil of his birth, aged 72 vears.

SAGACITY OI' THE l)Ofi. Mr. Edward Cook, after having lived some time with his brother at Togsten, in Northumberland, went to America, and took w ith him a pointer dog, which he. lost soon afterwards while shooting in Ihe woods of Baltimore. Some time after, Mr. and Mrs. Cook, who continued to resident Togsten, were alarmed at healing a dog in the night. They admitted it into the house, and found it was the same their brother had taken with him to America. The dog lived with them until his master returned u ,me' whcn l!,c' ,n,llu;,"' recognized eacn outer, mi. ook was never able to trace by what vessel the dog had left America, or in what part of England he had been landed. During the late war, when the Lender frigate was stationed oil' Halifax, in Nova Scotia, there was an old Newfoundland (logon board. lie had been attached to the ship many years, and several instances were recorded of his extraordinary sagacity and sense. The sailors one and all declared that he understood what was said, and the follow ing circumstances would appear lo prove, it. lie was a great favorite of the crew, and of course had been kind ly treated. Hc was lying on the deck , (hp nnliin n issimr l.v sait, ti san bc eor ,0'do n ,)llt , iut 'h'.iv Ng 'lunc s)or 3as lle b 'elti )lld i . . . . -- and infirm.' Whether there was any ij,;, ;n ihe tone of voice which frihtcncU ,jlc j C;1VC reader to mUnt ie immediately afterwards im . overboarJ, and swam to a ship tiat was no;ir l!ie Le;inder. If the dog ,m ppencj (o hc on sllore? al)(i ay o( her boat's crew came near the place Kvlcre he was , he immediately made oil anj nothing could make him approach x-xs acquaintances. The lady who ,0jd mo me a!lccJ0ie Was at Halifax at tlc time, where the circumstances I am relating was the subject of much con vcrsation. She herself heard it from the captains of both ships. -r .-.- MOltTAI.ITY Ol-' MAN. According to the most accurate ca dilation, an astronomical year contains 3G5 days, 5 hours, 43 minutes and 43 seconds. Suppose one individual lo die every second then you have GO every minute, 300 every five minutes, 3,000 every hour, GG,400 every day, and 31,5ob,22 every year; and in iniriy years, yiowur,o-w. s ruis lasi iium ber is about equal to the present popu ulation of the earth,and as thirty year - arc calculated to be the period of one generation, it seems prooame a.so, mai taking the world at large there is a gen eral uniformity in the doings of death In particular places, at diU'ercnt times, Ihe movements of this destroyer are . - . like the rivulet, now rushing down the mountain's side, then moving sluggishly UIII l.llvlll'-l tin J YCHrS bclWCCll U)C UCHIU Ol lUISl and 1 .i t.i r r m . i ( j - the present moment; we should not hnd i . . - an hour, nor probably a minute, in which some nu ...... u.cu. x..C mi... I since we have commenced those c.ucu -- . ... . , . . . i ip. .it ntis has witnessed probitblv tlie de- --- . ., r i parture to the wotld of spirits of no less than 3,600 human beings; and even I Jie sit.rr rt minute since the reader com- - -c , ,ii ir r.n. - menced this article has can led oil oU, I

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hould lie pause three minutes more to wonder or to weep, the number will ave swelled to 300. LOVE OT PARENTS. There is no passion in the human ireast more deep, powerful and last ing than parental love. It lives under II circumstances. The child may de scend into the very depths of depravity. ii maj lorsaKe its home and wander into foreign climes, but still the parent's ove cannot bc destroyed. Amidst the epest alllictton, it will cush forth like the stream of (he fountain. There is one peculiar trail in this love that I hvays contemplate with admiration. Phis is (lie strong and ever active de sire lo reform a wayward child. Time, wealth, and all the energies of the mind will be devoted to the purpose. Ev ery motive will be presented. Each ission ol the soul will be touched. When at last Hope expires, and he is given up to the dominion of vice, the lnguish of the parent is terrible. No inguage can describe the grief that Us the heart. In many instances the mind has lost all its energies and native trength, and self immolation has been ic horrid result. How awful and overwhelming must be the feelings of that child who thus brings a parent to an untimely grave. Greater sorrow an scarcely exist on this earth than lat which dwells in the heart of that child who is called to stand at the grave of an injured parent. A thouand worlds would be given to hear a voice from its depths proclaiming for giveness ! From whence is the love of the par ent? It is a stream from the fountain of iving waters. It is a blessed gift from the great and adorable Author of Creidon. If, then, human attection '13 so trong, how much more mighty and powerful must it be in God, the greatst and the wisest and best of beings! fa parent would sacrifice every thing, ea, exhaust his very being, to reform his child, then how great must be the ove of that being who placed this af fection in the breast? Indeed the re formation of man must be the grand ending object of all the dispensations of the divine government. A parent cannot do a higher glory, than to restore a child to truth and virtue. Some believe that God himself can in no way bc so much glorified as by the complete reformation of all his erring offspring. 1 hat such is his great ori ental purpose is evident; k,ror the ithers of our ilesh chasten us after their own pleasure, but God for our roht, that we may be partakers oilns loliness." ruiKJAxonw The following circumstances is one imong the numberless others of similar characther constantly occuring to prove the outrageous frauds which the Roman Priests perpetrate, and the swindling of which they are constantly guilty. A Papist servant girl in New York lately lost one of her relations, she therefore went to a Priest lo procure the deliverance of thc soul from Purga tory. The Priest demanded hccniy-fivc dollars for the job; and fixed a certain time when it would be finished. On the day appointed the silly girl went to enquire about the matter, and to pay the money, which by begging and borrowing she had procured. The Priest in reply to she gir l's inquiry slapped his thigh with his hand, and pretended to have forgotten the whole matter; and then told the girl, that it would be harder work lo get the soul out of Purgatory than before in consequence of thc delay; and therefore demanded eight dollars more, making thirty-three dollars for the delivery of her relative s soul from purgatory. That sum the girl ac tually paid. 1 hus one en 'Ae Kou.au Priests of New rork not long since rob bed a poor servant girl of thirty three dol- . ... . r if i . I . lars under tne pretence oi eiiecung me release of her friend s soul from purga tory. What do you thinK ot mat : Protestant f 'indicator. Imitetv and its c vuse. A man cmployed in a manufactory at Birmingham, was charged with some misconduct, which he denied, nnd called God to witness that he wished he might be struck deaf, dumb and blind, if he had done it. No sooner had thc words escaped his lips, than his wish was granted; he was struck deatdumb and blind! and in this state he remained until the following day when he expired? Jngijt rYcr.

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