Rising Sun Times, Volume 3, Number 113, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 9 January 1836 — Page 1

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the r.MH; it ant's iwm.vt 1:1,1,. Home of my yotilS! hiretvcll f:itiivill! Friend of tnv youth I ; Ion nireuill ! I go where love lier vales are fceii To srect the skies with ro!r of c,reen ; Where briihter projects eh.um t lie eye Where miKler ?priaiis the azure tky. Ami there, wlin Pprinj nnfol-.! her itowvrs When roses h'.ioni in 7iUvooil hover' When Niiture nii!es o'er plain at:i! tvooil, An J peaceful is my folitmle To yon, if;r,; tli.nul-.t 1 11 (line, With speed ns swift as liht'ning's winj: Anil nent my 1 enrt a wreath I II wonr, Anil bathe it with AtiVrtion's tear In memory of thoe thwtr. that bloom In ruy lorakrn, fir-nil' homo ; Ami I will hreathe a fervent t rrtv'r, For those who I loom in brightness there. There is n l:m1 on hith, they say, Beyonil the serrieil Miiky-way Pejotvl yon Lrivdilly be imiiii st ir, That sparkles in the heavens afar, Where parte. I fiirmW may joyous erect, And scver'J hearts a;ain may ie t. BIOGRAniY AND HISTORY. TLWAS. The following skiU-h ef the history and a description of the country of Texas, is copied from nn nppcal to the people of the United States, by 1. II. CAViPiiui.i , pul 1: hed in the Louisville Journitl. It will, no doubt, be read wiih intermit. Texas formeily constituted a part of the province of I Louisiana, and belonged (o the. crown of Spain. The king of Spain, about the 3 ear 1802, ceded it lo Napoleon Bonaparte, then emperor of the Frencl, upon which cur immortal Jefferson, then ihcsidct.t cf the Up.itea Stale?, piotested to the French Government against the acquisition, and opened a negotiation at I'aris, by which the U. Slates became the ownois of the whole country of Louisiana by purchase, in the same slate and to the tame extent that it had been held by the Spanirh Government. About the year I GIG a revolution broke out in the then SpanWh .Mexican and South Amerthe t T ....:.. !,.. I pel sous oi t L.u.iu, .1 vj.tin?, .1 ue.iu, L.nv others, w th their followers,

ican colonies, which the3, the natives, he met his fate. After the adoption of fortune for his adopted countrv-w liilsl ccctnlnc appcarence ol Len Ilouslon, to the wall; but after several attempts, as your glorious ancestors had done be- the constitution, the liberal and enliyhl- Santa Anna, whom Austin and his colo- V f" he ll:TPencd lo visit this city a- was unable to jump back again with lore them, carried on with various sue- ened part of the Mexican people, nisls have helped to elevate to the first Z . 'Ua" "u'r , "'I3! !' G'S P 'neQTecJual efcess, to a glorious termination, a recog- thought their troubles at an end, and office in their gift, unmindful of the fa- ;uldlllo;l by ye.ty of dress he w ould forts, the dog was seen to push the hare nition of their independence by our gov- with that view, they elected to their first vor, and blind to the fate of .V.I t vratits, 'Klve. aU,:,cl 0'OJU Perion alo,;e w,lh ,;1Vnos,e as i;ir as he could through crnment, and all (he enlightened gov- rir.ce, the presidency of the republic, a has declared himself sole JLW,r of considerable notice. He is a remark- one of the holes at the bottom of the ii..;.lrT ft,,.;, j:...:' ..:.i., .1 ...4' .i .a.;i ?,..:.. a-.,; 1 .-1.;, i'.;.-.. -oie large, erect and bold looking per- wall. lie then leaned over it. draccred

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and Pulaski, who quitted the endearing towering genius, 13ustimento, their vice- mediately, al the point of the bayonet, . -J 'f "'n?, .Jk ic gie.i er paitol t-rom scenes of domestic life and Hew to the piesidcut, who no sooner saw that he be expelled from the countrv,and their - ,,lce Vi 'i r eaS "'t l ; l; u. .. i ; .. m.. ; ;.. ... .u n.;. .,' ..r.,..ij i.io .,..,1 u '' tquently thrust his fingers into these whole

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and manv oiners, w uii i.ieir louoiveu, man ne iixeu ms neai i uposi me him, co, .u m uc.i ui .nu,.,.; "" appeared all one n:ece of hair Hiwho fought tide by side with the native and by the intrigues of himself, the brutal soldiery tocarry this unrighteous, 'co.ltiVJls nfso , d ' 'rej and deemed to Mexicans against the Gotchipins, and priesthood, and traitors to liberty and tyrannical edict and order into eilect. be maj0oul ;f n J biinke( Qn

tiicir savage ana canniuai aiiio, me i Ito ed in their armies, were given liberal donations cf hud, an; i invited to incorporate themselves wita the new government. About the year 1813 or '10, during i -:., AT.., i.a... n ' J v. Adams, Secretarv ol tate, tor some one. Or l!y:j.UMI i:i lf.lll.uiui llic ivrii.;.. i.t; f 1 . . 1 i. i.i.. ; i ., i ii... f., reason, viz: to appease the bpaniih ... i-. t. I .l : VTOV CI llllieiil Hill. j.n,irua I i.i 1 1 1 taken possession of the 1' loridas, his ignorance ol existing treaties, the geography of the country, or design to stop the farther extension of the Southern Stales, improperly and ii junouly to his own country, negotiated, and entered into a treaty stipulation with Don Onis, the then accredited minister at Washington Irom toe court of M idnd, bv which he agreed, on the part of our government, to accept of and establish. .ven millions of the people's money in i.liiion. .md oi.lv ret iii i el urn a corsev a ail firnvition to the Pine hills ol the 1- Ion das, the good lands of those two prov"v ' - - inc.es li n ing previou?lv been covered by Spanish grant. " . .. - r. 1 Put he, soon auer uying anu a t..u,. revolution navnig tHKeii pi.ue, his ..ii . i ... i. ..1 . i. .ii.' i. r..V-.-i ..k..i iraci was lieni m: loneuru ni-uiii the year went on and renewlate father

ckers,or Caronkiways, Camanches. virtuous Fadrassa, (rom the presidential on their borders; and should he not I Tliii.,)or nt;::rr"":::

ana oirnr tuoe5 who uu .. t u.uuanu nlS eoi n.: . . .,u.....SuuS.u ...... - iu tention whilst there than the play, or tier 1'ope Julian; no less than 100,000 Fecf.on of the country; and on the er- an asv lum inour beloved count,), where spect to Ins number , he and In, whole (ie , Nolwilh3taIldin; hu were nnMncred,bj the Frcnth in' the mination of the war w tth the mother he remained, making observations on command are now at tins time prisoner, ?( vJrQ h of tIl,.ce Juh lhe Waden8e9 country, or cessation of hos iht.es many our government, manners, customs, and of war to the Tex.; ns; b ut oub J e 1JodouM but Gen. Houston is a man of who perished amounted to 1,000,000;

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a5 our western I'ou: .d try, the Sabine l)e Santa Anna, up to that time a dis- Irom v'J degrees norlhi aliiuue 10 oj ne- 01 gratifying it, and you can naruiy laii and now there are Lodges in all the l iver, thereby ceding to Spain a tieaty tinguished general, and an enlightened grees and a rich mineral region of gold of making him a happy man, unless, in- principal towns of every State in the right to Texa-, and forfeiting or giving republican patriot, declared against the and silver ; that it once clearly belonged deed, you put into his hand a most Union. In this city there are five Lodaway a coun'.iy worth ten Flotidas. Uu-timento administration, took the lo the United States by purchase from perverse selection of books. You place ges, and the number of Odd Fellows is He did not stop here but gave them field in person, and marched against France, that it was improperly surren- him in contact w ith the best society in at least six hundred. The institution,

boui this tiiiv Maes AuMin the fa- soon as the I exians heard ol Santa An- negotiator has been prevenieu noni uo- been creatcu lor mm. iner intemperance or slavery is prothcr of the present emprcario or cover- ha's having taken the field, in the de- ing so by (he jealousy and suspicious of It is hardly possible hut lhe charac- duclivc of the most evil in the United ror of one of the Texian colntvec pro- fence of constitution and laws, against the Dictator, Santa Anna, elicited by tcr should take a higher and better tone Stales? A worthy deacon contended cccddtothcrity of Mexico and there Buiimcnlos usurpation and tyranny, the interference of the British emmissa- from the constant habit of associating against the former, and proposed to with the provisional 'or or" mic govern- they by one impure, det lared in favor ries in that country, their capitalists in thought with a class of thinker?, to show its effects on its victims "in eterniment of the Mexican llepublic contrac- of his plan, and for the reinstatement of who have loaned that government large say the least of it, above the average of ty." "Slop, stop," cried the chairman, ted hr Wo present colony of utin the constitution and civil government sums of money, their merchants who humanity. It is morally impossible but "that's out of the United States."

1820, Col. Stephen F. Austin numbers, reduced and captured three anoui sixty inousanu; ui-i wuoie way t... .. ut ... ...... ? ' - ... . i in,..;-!., r dm Mvi.-:iii Stslp ;a 1 1 ... o IiILpiI .-lii.l rnixturlpd themselves "No. whvi' inouired the penlleman.

in person lo me city ot Mexico iMrongiy lortiuca posts, miMsru urcn n.ui,i.iUuUi ..v. i.. - ..... - - , - , 0 - 11 I J - . . . I . . . J . 1 . i I i :ii: t in C. A.. .. rl- . .!...: :.,l.... ..,:K a.h n hpr. PU hv licc-inca I lliiiiL- iI'j a Inntr tl.

ed the contract of his then brethren who were m manacies, re- oout ten minions, not ".. ... .mjr ui in nicu uuchuuijc -v, ............

in his own name, it having I stored them to their immediate inenas, wnom can reaa or write, mat nine i mere is a geuue, out uctuj ,..i,-li!luiM1aunnT, v mnnci,

been left to him by his father's will, and I

returned and commenced the settlemeat of the colony, under as great pi ivations, hardships, and dangers, as ever any people encountered in the settle-

meat of a new country, having to sub- the city of Melimoris, threw himself upsist almost entirely for several years on on his own sword and expired giving,

u.e wild game; and, at I lie same time defend them-clves against the continued t II 1 . r . M"C,U! uep,eu.uo.oi ne powery rimiL Ul nv 1 1 1 1 mi t'l I (,11 Hit; tuull" try. Hut as early ns 1 G30 they had overcome all those obstacles, and were fist nlvar.cing in civilization, wealth, and euueinen,, tne iuexica.i . ptaics naving . . . - immeu national anu ouue governmeals, precisely on the model of our own, with (lie exceptions of the subjects cf religion and shivery. As lo religion, (lie constitution piovides "that the Roman Catholic religion shall be the religion of the Mexican Stales; that just and humane 1 uvs, and by ligid and evcre ones shall prohibit the exercise f any ether." That part in relation to slavery, declares, ''that slavery or ino!un!ary servitude shall not exist after 1830." Dy tiie National Constitution the province of Texas is added to (he slate of Cahuila, for all state purposes, until it shall be able to exist as a separate and independent state; at width time the inhabitants are authorized to call a convention and form a State :oernment. Though the National and State constitutions of the Mexican government and Slates ate republican in form, they have ever remained a perfectly dead .1 1 . ..11 .-..:....i ii 1 iie. iui 1111 im aei.i.M iiui iuse?, iney 1 nVmht as well never have been adopted ; under the Spanish government every thins w as ordered bv the priesthood,

and enforced by the military in Mexico, his friends, assisting them with Ids enUnder the imperial rciirn cf Ilurbidc, lightened and virtuous counsel, and

it was revolutionary and despotic, and r. i J -i ...:il.: :r ior me secoim oiueu wiuuu men tm, than h, fived his heart unon the first uieir country, ne expeueu me goou aim time as president had nearlv expired. lmmediatf.,v on padras5a-s expulsion from the presidential chair of Mexico, licf;,.i i,n , .,-tim fm;r,i,wuiiuivuiw in wan i v- 7 'ic ui v 1 miniMi - - - . ' and desro'ic rule, which was revolting 1 1 i 1I n, 0 I . 11 . comphslied general and towering tyt. , .;i;i...,

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and governor ot the States bordering I -f J: 1' IT ! I itii m l .1(1. llililUtli j I truitrlimbed a cordon ot military posts round the entire province ot l exas, and supplied them w ith troops, ordnance, arms, and munitions of war, and for the-r support, they plundered the colonils,until the patience of the latter w as exhausted, when some of them complained, they were immediately arrested and loaded with irons; at this lime, or a littie antecedently, iz: on the 3d day of I. January, at Vera Cruz, general Gomez the tyrant general Tyran, whom he met and overpowered ; and pursuin-r his triumphs to the city of .Mexico, he overthrew Bustimento, recalled Padiassa, . p and put him upon the chair a few weeks prior to the expiration of his term. As ..r ii .ir.. Al Ho, iff nrrn . . ..j. m--" I iviiiMiA --i I n ci I i i I rn ii iivi z a iv mi.

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sent the Mexican captured troops out of Texas, and returned to their several homes and domestic occupations. Up on hearing of these events, Tyran, the despotic general, rave up in despair at one would think a sutncient lesson to St. Anna, or any other ambitious tyrant. , A , G33, the Trxh.ns believing that their numbers and wealth, -rave (hem, as it evidently did, the right un der their Federal Constitution lo sop"ltV llltlt iUIIULIll I M mcnf from of Cahuil , elected n,mUo ,,),., i,i.i members who held a conventional San Fillippe Do Austin, the capital of the colony of Austin, when and where (hey drew up, ;nd adopted a most excellent constitution for the anticipated State of t tmr f..rf I v in nrr.'.ri!'inrn will f ; it fo;,eraV r national one, except that they said not one word about religion or slavery in it and selected r. I. Austin, their empresario or colonial governor, to go on with it to Mexico, the seat of government oi the nation. and where their national congress was in session, for the purpose of obtaining lis ratification and the admission of the State of Texas into the Union on an equal footing with the original Slates. JNo sooner was the object ol his isit to the seal of the general government made known to St. Anna, than he was ordered (0 be arrested, which order w a executed and his person incarcerated in a loathsome calaboose in the city of Mexico, for nearly two years, without their being able (o establish a solitary ..1 . ... r .. ,1 - 1 uai fie mijiiiiim iumi ui i ei i.uwi.ii ui umloval nature to his, government, lie has latterly been released, and is again at the head of his colonists, and amonsrst ,,.,,, periling his valuable life and splendid I 1 ,1 n,;., ''., I: ,r.,nr.,l.uiucicu um: i " 1",ll,u" &-'"-""-i Cos. at the head of a mercenary and vo, s e;n ij .is mc i:iui ynuun, n.i: ly inferior to what they really were, ? he m r the rdti,t fr"s ,llto. an ambuscade and cap'ureu mem, in which event mc iovei . . i t lm.imr iworni in bo mui'1 0 fl ilncrt. I lauon, me remainuei oi om u itruua in . .1 : . . i f r..: i, :.. Ih:t f-niltilrv cl:iil(T htrrPil. or drive'i out. , . "j - ' . , ' " '""-u J " lo those who are not acquainted w im me geograpny oi i exaa .is wen as myseii (many are. imicn oetiei nououoi,; I would say, that it is a tract of the Imest country on the continent 01 Aorlh America, equal in extent to six Stales like Kentucky, has a sufhciency ot aranie land to sustain a population 01 ten millions of people that it contains the best cotton and sugar land yet discovered on the continent that it extends dered to Spain by a treaty stipulation of John O. Adams, as I have before ex1 . . . . ... , plained ; that our government is oelieved recently to have m ule use of its best endeavors to purchase it again from the Mexican government ; that our ... ... 1 ,1 " , I - wi i In moooiHt izo ineir iraue. ana i unpsi iifititi Mil t'liiii ui iiitu t nr A meiiran nonu ation in an 1 exas is now . r. .... .i . .

tenths of them are bound slaves to the

priesthood, or (heir great men; ami that Santa Anna has onwards of one thousand himself in servitude. ui;:. nouiiTo.w The following sketch of the eccentric Gen. Houston, commander of the Texian forces, we find credited lo the Union I .mes: -i iio mystery m which the conduct of this distinguished individual is shrouded, has frequently led to sur-miscs,-and some not verv f.vura!!e ones. I After serving Tennessee in the Con gress of the United States, fir several successive years, partiality cf hh con stituents elevated him to the Executive chair of that state, which he tilled with distinguished ability; but before the expiration of his teim, he unaccouutably neglected his olheial duties, deserted his wife and family, and proceeded to Washington eily, where he flogged a member ot Congress in a most cruel manner so much so thai his lib; was I' or lids act the General was brought before the House, when Speaker Slccentun, of Virginia, reprimanded him. The next inlelhgence of our hero, found him among the Creek Nation of Indians, running for a seat in their Council, lie was however defeated : whereupon he again sctoutfor Washington atti.ed in full Inu,..u uiMumi, mm a lom.inawiv and scalping knife dangling at his side, cut-

ting sundry "fantastic pranks." Since in this way conveyed it to his master, which nothing K,s been heard of him, A gentleman of mv acquaintance wituntil the war in Texas broke out, lo ncssed the following occurrences: lie

which country he repaired for the purpose, as is supposed of giving suet I ; - 1 I 1 t r r 1,u'"? , mt ; ,u; v" iv.ii.iii forces and in that capacity has signalized lus bravery as a soldier in several tierce and successful engagements. We well recollect the strange and Mson, and had at the time we refer lo, I" and draw them out, and cross them m,prrri. i;i n; , i j r V " Ca C? lcr u"t!1 hls d n.ce malpg V1 ni 'su ,CV- i'r"" sensib!eand interesS.g, 'and s has very attentivelv studie generally Low that licd human nature. Pit Is. Minufaitu rrr. TASTE FOR HEADING. If I were to pray for a tasle which hould stand by me instead under every variety of circumstances and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness lo me through life, and a shield against Us ui, nowever inings migui go amiss anu tne worm itown upon me, u would he a tasle for reading. I speak of il, of course, only ns a worldly advantage, and not in the slightest degree deroga ting from the higher ofhec and sure ana stronger panoply o( religious pnn ciples but as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification, Give a man this taste, and the means every period of history ; with the w iseest, the wiliest, with the tendcrest, the 1 . . ... . 1 ... ... 1 bravest, and inc purest cnaracters u have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations a contemporary of all ages. The world has .. . .1 " 1 ...ii..i....i:.,.,Af e inat llie manners siiouiu tauo n L...-.1 .J ,;,;i;Mi;nn from p . r... i i t'tiuu wit. v-umc t nuiiiiiuw.. havimr constantly oeiore mu c iv I " r I

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si-lib!e coercion in a habit of rondimr. well directed, over the whole tenor of a man's character and rmidnct. li,li 1 . not the less effectual because it works insensibly, and because it is really the last tiling he dreams of. It cannot be better summed up than in the words of the Latin poet. ''Emoliit mores, nec sinit esse feroes." It civilizes the conducl cf mcn ;wd fu(fct s them not to re main batbarous. Sir Humphrey Dary. mA. ... . M !i..,;;gns in- ioi;rs. A friend of mine while shooting wild fowl with his brother, was attended by 1 sagacious isewiountilanu dog; in get ting near sonic reeds by (he side of a river, they threw down their hats and crept (o the side of the water, wher ibey fired. Thcv soon afterward sen U,e dog for the hats one of (hem wa e. cnt smaller than the other. After several unsuccessful attempts to brim? them n a hC)(l, (o-elhcr in his mouth, lbs do-r :,t len-r(h nk,rr,l Sm.-,!lor ; il, r,,. one. nres-erl it dnu-n wi'h Me font nnl thus brought them both together. The f,,ct need not bo doabteL Thrsn in. dividual have both at different times assured me of i'.s truth. I knew an instance somewhat similar. A spaniel was endeavoring (o bring a dead hare to his master. After several InefiectUal attempts lo carry it in his mouth or to drag it along, lie contrived to get all the feet of the hare in his month, and was shootinsr one dav bv the side of a hill, attended by a keeper, and shot at 1 a,ul cuniica a Hare, winch ran through of a stone wall. The keeper sent a famil; in siauini iiujus iiuius iii uie uouom voriteold retriever after the hare. The dog jumped over the wall, causrht the hare, and returned with it in his mouth the hare through the hole on the other and brought it to his master. the high spot where the parties (hey were able to witness the of the dorr's nroceedinL'S. which certainly appear to have been caused i r . i . . by some faculty beyond mere instinct. MARTYKS. According to the calculations of executed by the hangman; 150,000 by the Irish massacre, besides the vast multitude of whom the world could never be particularly informed, w ho were pro scribed, starved, burnt, buried alive, smothered, suffocated, drowned, assassinated, chained to the galleys for life, or immured within the horrid walls of uie baslile or others of their church or Utate orisons. According to some. the. whole numbcrofpersons massacred since u,e riee of papacy, including the space 0f 1400 years, amounts to 50.000,000. Buck's Expositor, - ODD FELLOWS. It is said there is scarcely a town in - Lngland in which there is not a Lodge of Odd I-ellows. It is about fifteen years since the first Lodge in the Uni I ted Slates was opened in Baltimore; we believe, is altogether for benevolent purposes Cincinnati paper. - - - A roiNT of order. A debating socicty in a town dotal east, one evening undertook to discuss the question, wheA Si.r.n.v Tl4T L,,'i vr liat r ; :a .. r , - - r ' h - .- yj ; ! uucu t nine uiunu ui a .1 .-.1. .. i i-

ins re unuei me uukc oi Aiva. oo.uuu were