Rising Sun Times, Volume 3, Number 108, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 5 December 1835 — Page 2

Till T1JIKS. , K. GLEXX, EDITOR AND lTvOVRirTOB.

the rirriTio.. Rclnw will be found the L:wrt-nccburili poti' titio, which is now in circulation in some parts j of lli is county. Y ak llit pnMic to pernio it attentively, and thin till if they hac ever met with document so replete with falsi hood f.ora beginning to end. To the honorable Senate and limine of

Rcprcscntativcs of the State oflndi jminglon is on a high ridge. Well, that ana, to meet in General Assembly at is jmue than we can say of LawrenceIi.diannpolis, on the tiisl Monday in ! burgh: and besides it is a place where December, 1G3". j i he "hogs do not get drowned when the The undersigned, citizens of 'water is up. But it is in the forks of township,in Dearborn county, respect- j Hogan creek and difficult of access fully represent, that ihe location of the i hen the Ohio is high. This is not se.it of justice near the town of Wil- ' the fact, f.r there is not ten days in the mington, by the commission! rs appoin- 1 year that you have to go half a mile ated for that purpose by the General hove the Slate road. It is not true that Assembly at the ir last senior, was very ''lie place is badly supplied with water, injudicious, and manifestly calculated There is not bi tter water and more of it to do great injustice to lue county, be- I according to the number of wells, in aing eleven miles from the south end cf ' ny place in Deaiborn county, Lawtlie county and seventeen from the i renceburgh always excepted when vvaiiorth, and within three miles of the j ter is the subject. Water can alw ays cast side of the county, on a high lidge ; he had !y digging from 16 to' 2o feet, in the forks of llogan creek, very !;!it- and there never was an individual callcult of access to threc-foui (hs "of ihci'd in Wilmington but could get water people, badly supplied with water for 'enough for himself and horse; and as to family use, so that at some seasons of ' the roads, with the same labor, they the year it is difficult for a stranger to jean be made as good as any roads in the get a drink of good water, and some ounty. The travel through the place parts of the year the roads are so oh jis more than through any small tow n in slrucled by hack water from the Ohio the county; more than 100 wagon; in the two brandies of 1 logan. that the !havc passed through in one day. But

place cannot be npproaihed from the north or south.there being neither ferry or bridges; nor is there any probability that this difficulty will be remedied, ;i

the hills are too high and the trav e l so and their only chance of succeeding is little, that the county would not be jus- J by stirring up the disaffected, and gctlifiable nor able, with her resources, to j ting all points arrayed against Wilmingmakc a load or erect bridges to enable j ou. For this purpose they have to rethe people to pass over said streams in jsorl to all species of falsehood, which time of high water. jlhev arc m ister hands at ; and should

We, therefore, your petitioners, ask j your honorable body to rev iew the act of last session, and repeal so much of said act as makes Wilmington the county seat, and cause polls to be opened on some suitable day, (not on the day of t!ie general election.) tor each citizen to come forward, in the township where he reside, and register his name and the place where lie would prefer the county scat to be located; and in case there should be a failure to procure a m ijority on the first trial, that there may be provision made to repeat the trial until a majority shall decide in favor of one place; or if thought more advisable, we arc willing to have a vote taken to go direct to the center of the county. And further, we individuals pledge ourselves that we are resident legal voters in said county, or rcident freeholders, and we ask that all such and no others shall be permitted to vote at the polls for establishing the county seat. Your candid attention to the foregoing petition w ill confer a lasting favor on your petitioners. ron THE TIMES. Mr. Editor For the purpose of correcting a number of falsehoods set foith in a petition now circulating in this countv for a iclocalioii of the county seat, put out by the citizens of Law renceburgh, or more properly, the intucrstib'e lulc, I shall spend a few moments, not with the expectation of convincing the an- I thors that they are in error, and that to acknowledge it would be a virtue, but to prevent honest people from being duped by their lo v, grovelling intrigue, I which has heretofore been plaved oil with too much success, but which is now not likely to succeed as well as . formeily. "Just as the twig is bent so is the tree inclined ;" w hen individuals turn their whole attention to any particular object, they can in a greater or less degree exec!!. The mind is drawn in to one continued current of thinking, and the whole strength of intellect brought to bear on one object, which seldom fails to make the individual perfectly master in whatever pursuit hemay turn his attention to, or whatever object he wishes to obtain, should it be the amelioration of the poor, the s tillering of the afflicted, the aspiring after fam, the humble walks of the christian, or the lowly, grovelling, base pursuit of wealth, to be obtained at the sacrifice r,f honesty, truth, charity and virtue. The latter appears to be the pursuit of the individuals who have got up the Law renceburgl) petition, and who have wilfully sent forth a paper among the citizens, containing little or no truth. They first set forth that the location at Wilmington is injudicious and calculated to do great injustice to the county. This is not the truth; Wilmington is within one half mile of the center of population, and in live years from this time the imjorily will be below the Napoleon road from Aurora. We have twelve miles from the mouth of Hogan creek on the river, in the lower end of the county, and they have hut

six; the river will always have the population. Their petition says ilminglon is 1 1 mile from the south end. This is not the truth it is 14 miles,

and 16 to the north; the south end is three miles wider than the north, which will make Wilmington two miles south of the east and wen line, and two and a half miles from the east side. And where is Law re nceborgh ? Out of the Stale at high water mark! But Wilthis is not the object we must all go down to Jerusalem to worship, or not ;U all. If the court house is not at the j Liu rah, they care but little where it is. they all fail, Judas like, for thirty pieccs of silver they will hang themselves. Tin: TWO HOGANS. Ill K li EJIOXSTRA XCE. A remonstrance to the Law renceburgh petition, of which the following is a cop-, is now circulating among our citizens for ttieir signatures, and will be presented to the approaching session of our Legislature. To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Slate of Indi ana, in General Assembly convened The undersigned, inhabitants, freeholders and voters, of the county of Deaiborn, in said State, most respectfully represent to your honorable body, that in the fall of lS31,;a petition was got up and signed by a large, majority of the citizens of said county, praying that their seat of Justice might be relocated, which was presented to your honorable body at its last session; that in accordance with the prayer of said petition, a law was passed, and James 11. Cravens of Ripley county, William Bramwell of Jennings county, Win. . Campbell of Slulay county, George Land cf Switzerland county, and lidward Rickelts of Decatur county, were appointed Commissioners to select a suitable site for s aid seat of Justice; that said Commissioners met at the time appointed, and, after being sworn as said law required, proceeded to examine the different sites presented to l!i m by the people of Deaiborn county, in j eluding the town of Lawrencebtirgh, land after two weeks' examination adijourucd to meet again in the month of May last; that pursuant to adjournment said Commissioners again met at the house of Stophen Wood, in the town of ilmmgton, and alter further examination, came to the definite conclusion to re-locate the countv scat on lands of Win. Benham, adjoining the town of Wilmington, being the best and most eligible site found in the county, as will appear by the report of the whole Board signed thereunto. It is represented in a petition which will no doubt be presented to your honorable body, that the location of the Seat of Justice at Wiim'.ngtun, is very injudicious, and calculated to do great injury to the county It is also represented that said location is made on a high dry ridge in the fuiks of Ilogau creek; that it is dif tic til t of access to three fourths of the county, badly supplied with water, t.'iat the roads leading thereto are bad ; that the place is difficult of access owing to the back waters of the Ohio river; and that the place cannot be approached from the North or South, there being neither ferry or bridges. To all of these representations the undersigned do remonstiate,and declare them to be wilhoulfhoslightcst foundation truth. It is the opinion of the undersigned that the selection made by the Commissioners is a good one, Wilmington being situated in a healthy part of the county, not fat from the geographical centre, and quite near the center of the present and probable future population of the county ; and it is the firm conviction of the undersigned that a m ijority of

the people of Dearborn county are perfectly satisfied w ith the selection made by the Commissioners, and are w illing that their seat of justice should be at Wilmington. The undersigned also represent that the citizens of Wilmington and its vicinity have erected the public buildings free ofany charge to the county, and according to the directions of the Board fo County Commissioners. Being entirely satisfied, the undersigned there fore most respectfully pray that your honorable body will pass no further law in relation to this unpleasant and vexatious matter. tii iJYit lisii vnr. tiiac: edy The Cincinnati Gazette publishes a letter from D. W. Hullcm, an aged clergyman, the father of one of the five gamblers hung by the citizens of Yicksburg, addressed to the Governor of Mississippi. The letter is an appeal to the Governor for justice. The aged father gives a brief statement of the affair at Vicksburgh, aud affirms that there is no part of the United States, in which the vice of gambling is so generally practised among the officers

of the law, from the Supreme Judge dozen to the Comtablc. His appeal for justice concludes in the following tcrm: "These are startling truths, and 1 allude to them not to paliate the of fence, but to show that the recent crusade at Vicksburg was not so much the result of a deep and abiding sense of justice and virtue, as it was of wicked hearts, bad passions, personal revenge, and a reckless spirit of msub ordination to the laws. As an evidence, one of the principal actors was in the constant habit of visiting gaming houses, and who had previously, by his seduc tive arts, contributed perhaps more than any other man, to lead the unfor tunate v ictim of his personal vengeance into these sinks of iniquity. "Enclosed are the names cf sixteen persons who were engaged in this hor rid tragedy, and the names of nine wit nesses of the fact, which I humbly trust you will forward without delay to the Attorney General, or other officer at V icksbmg, charged with the prosecu tion of the defendants. Respectfully, LUKE W. HULLUM' LATEST FROM TEXAS. New Orleans, Nov. 3. By the arrival of the schooner Pearl, eight days from Metamoras, we are put in possession of a few days later intelligence than heretofore received. We obtained no paper, but we are informed by a passenger in the Pearl, that several skirmishes had taken place, which had resulted uniformly in favor of the Texians. A report that was prevalent some weeks since, that the Camanche Indians would join the Mexican forces, is totally unfounded, for an engagement had taken place between the Indians and Mexican soldiers, and, like many great battles w e read of in modem history, victory was claimed 1)3' both sides. Be this as it may, our informant says that he saw on the field of battle several dead horses and Indians. Our informant furthermore stales, that the Texians had resolved to have Santa Anr.a or his head, and to that effect were about pulling the Mexican ports in a state of blockade, and the moment that the Dictator entered the province of Texas, to establish such a force on their frontier as to make escape hopeless. Bulletin. CHEAT KAIL ROAD PROJECT. The project of making a Rail Road to lead from the city of Cincinnati to Charleston, South Carolina, is beginning to assume some importance, l'ixaminationsof routes have been made, and reports and calculations have been submitted to the public to show that the work is practicable that, if completed, it would present the shortest and easiest line of communication between the Atlantic and the Great West. The distance from Cincinnati to Charleston, by the way of L'aris, Ivy. Cumberland Gap, and Columbia, S. C. is G07 miles. The distance from Cincinnati, to New York city, by the way of the Lakes, is DoO miles. To Philadelphia, by way of Pittsburgh, OoO miles. To Bait imore by way of Wheeling, 650 and to Mobile, by the valley of the Tennessee, 7C0 miles. It has been estimated that upon the proposed rail road, goods may be transported from Charleston to Cincinnati in two days and a half: To transport goods fiom New Orleans to Cincinnati requires at least ten days from New York ten or twelve from Philadelphia eight or (en, and from Baltimore, with the aid of a rail road over the mountains, at least four days. The enterprise of the American people knows no bounds it quails before no barrier and works of ihe most stupendous magnitude arc conceived

and completed without exciting any especial wonder or admiration. The Internal Imnrovement policy was nev

er more popular in the United States than it is at present. v e are sorry io sav that with the earliest and the ablest ;idvocales of this policy the case is dilfe re n t. Loga n ."port lei c graph . A Case. Some two or three weeks since we noticed the fact, that at the last term of the Rush Circuit Court, a vountr man mamtd llenru Utnis, was arraigned for stealing two horses, con victed and sentenced to two years imprisonment in the Penitentiary; and also, that owing to the youth of the piisoner we believe he is but 17 or lb years old and the belief that he was unwittingly induced to take the horses into his possession by older persons, much sympathy was created in his behalf, and a petition for his pardon, numerously signed, was forwarded to the Governor. In the meantime, the youth, under the escort of our Sheriff, proceeded to Jcffersonville, and was delivered over to the care of the worthy superintendant of the Penitentiary. Here he remained hut a short time, for the Governor had granted the prayer of the petitioners, and a pardon reached him about three hours after he had entered the walls of the Penitentiary. He was, of course, immediately liberated. From Jeffersonville he went into Scott county, where we understand, he has relations living, stopped a short time with some of them, took a couple of horses belonging to a neighbor, and left the settlement with all possible expedition. The owner of the horses, not approv ing of this abrupt manner of doing business, immediately started in pursuit; but so far as our knowledge extends, without success. liushvillc Herald. An opinion has been given by the Circuit Court of the United Slates for the southern district of New York, in answ er to an inquiry by the Grand Ju ry, that it is not a violation of the sixth section of the act of Congress of the 20th April. 1818, to hold meetings in the city of New York, and appoint com mittees "lo provide means and make collections for the purpose of enabling the inhabitants of lexas to engage in a civil war with the sovereignty of Mexico, now at peace with the United States." This section, the Court says, applies only lo military expeditions and enterprises to be carried on from the United Slates against any foreign Power with which we are at peace. Donations in money, or any tiling else, lo the inhabitants of Texas, to enable them to engage in a civil war with the sovereignly of Mexico (says the Court) is in no sense beginning or setting on foot, or providing the means for a military expedition from the United Stairs or their territory. We understand, that the I'resident speaks with the utmost coolness on the French Question. He has not no man can reasonably suspect him of having the slightest disposition to plunge his country into a War with France. What possible motive can he have? The President wishes to preserve the peace of his country, if it be consistent with her rights and her honor. He can make no apology; for he has been guilty of no transgression. It is the interest of both countries to enjoy peace. But we must not sacri fice our honor even for peace itself. The President w ill, probably, make a lull, fuminious and frank statement of the whole question, in his next mes sage; adopting the explanations of Mr, Livingston sanctioning them with his approbation. This course he will in all probability pursue, unless the recent language of France should prevent him. With these facts before them, it is for France to confess wheth er she is satisfied; and for Congress lo pursue such measures, as may be required by the rights and honor of their country. The people desire peace; but thv?y will never consent to purchase it by any dishonorable conces sions. Jx. i . paper. It is expecled that the foundation of a monument to W ashmglon, will be laid on the next anniversary of his birth day. It is to be erected at Washington, and to be from 5 to 600 feet high, constructed of materials collected from all the different States of the Union, with an Observatory and Lanthorn at its summit. EM Hi RATION FROM VIRGINIA. Independent of pre-existing causes. 1 1 - . abolitionism is to be thanked for im parling an increased impulse to the migrating mania. It is actually allpervading and alarming. Thousands have gone, yet more thousands are preparing to go, and still increased thousands are revolving the expedi ency of doing so. Nor can the most active imagination fix the limits of the

emigrants, or foresee when the dreadful drain of the heart's blood of Virginia is to cease. Until the shores of the Pacific arc reached, and the intermediate world we may almost call it parceled out, we see no probable reflux of the tide. Nor is this the worst, had as it is. The bulk of the emigrants, arc the best of our population men of intelligence, worth

and property, and it is still that class among which the mania is most conta gious. The great Western thoroughfares are thronged with the mighty host, who, bidding adieu to Maryland,'North Carolina and old Virginia, proceeding lo seek their fortunes in the expanded regions of the West. The numbers astonish the observer, and far exceed all former example and the next fall will undoubtedly witness a yet greater number. Meantime it becomes our Legislature lo reflect deeply on this melancholy stale of things, and to seek if some remedy may be found to diminish the ruinous evil. Virginia Jf hig. ROAD TO WEALTH AND VREFEUMENT. A few years ago, and but a very few years, for it is within the recollection of so young a man as the writer of this paragraph, there might have been seen in one of the obscure towns in Western Massachusetts, a steady but vouthful adventurer, with health and hope in his countenance, and a bundle suspended from the handle of a broad blade, an implement of his craft, over his shoulder, bidding adieu to friends and home, and commencing a journey with a light purse and lighter heart, to seek his fortune. After the lapse of the aforesaid few years a splendid pageant is exhibiting in the geat commercial metropolis of our country, and the people arc doing honor to an individual who, with great industry and probily'of character, has won their esteem, nay, their love and confidence, and they .fre bestowing upon him their highest municipal dignity and honor. Toil, and care, and lipening years had each its distinct maik in his manly and cheerful countenance, but they had not so far changed it that an old friend could not di-cern there the lineaments of that same vouthful and obscure New England adventurer. Gideon Lee, (he Tanner and Currier, is now h member of Congress, from the City of New York . JMzcuurgh Telegraph. Moas. The editor of the Baltimore American remarks with great force and justice, that all the rich and the poor,, the strong as well as the feeble, are alike interested in maintaining the supremacy of law. Destroy this supremacy, take away the consciousness of its might, and society breaks up into its crude elements industry, deprived of protection, relaxes its efforts moral, unsupported by public authority, quickly yield to emboldened passion progresion is stayed civilization fallsback, and by degrees darkness will overspread the land, broken only by t lie lurid Hashing of civil conflict. Sentence of Death. This awful sentence was pronounced, at the term of Boone Circuit Court, which terminated a few days since, by his Honor Henry O. Brown, upon Elvira, a mulatto gul belonging to irrison Hawkins, for the murder of ner infatit child. This horrid deed was perpetrated upon Ihe infant, immediately after its birth, by thrusting it violently under a pile of wood lying in the cellar of the house, thereby mashing its head in such a way, that instant death was the consequence. The inhuman creature received the awful denunciation of the law w ithout any emotions of sorrow or fear. The execution is to take place at Burlington on Friday the 11th day of December next. Covington Enq. State Bank of Indiana. The second instalment was paid in on the tenth inst. this was done in our district by the stockholders borrowing money from the people at six per cent lo loan out at ten to favorites. For this they gave mortgages Iho properly, in many instances at three times its value. Ve receive the branch notes at par, except the Lawrcnccburgh notes, which we take at five per cent discount, much of their money being loaned to negro speculators in Kentucky, must be lost by death, runaways, &c. Consequently those notes must be of doubtful value. Jt'cekly Messenger. A decision has been lately come to at New York, that steam boat and rail road companies are accountable for the safe conveyance of baggage, notwithstanding their advertisements to the contrary. At Lo.gansport, Iiuh, Flour is selling at 9.50 per barrel.