Rising Sun Times, Volume 3, Number 123, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 19 March 1836 — Page 1

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THE FAMILY 1511$ LE. (lit REQUEST.) How painfully pleasing the fond recollection Of youthful connexions nml innoernt iov.

When blest with parental advice and ailccliort, surrounded with mercies and peace liomoa high. I still view the chairs of my father and mother, The scats of their offspring as rang'd on each hand, other, And that richest of books that eco" l cery The Family IJible that lay oa ihe stand. The old fashioi.M IJiLIe, the ever-bh st Hible, The Family Bible that lay en the rtand. That Rible, the volume of God's inspiration, At morning Bin! evening could kid us delight; The prayer ol our sires was a sweet innovation, For mercy by day and for sai'ity by night. Ourliyinnol"tl)ank.-givi:igHith harmony swilling, All warm from the breat of a family bind, Half raised us from earth to that rapturous dwelling, Described in the Bible that lay on the stand. Yo scenes of tranquility, long have wc parted, My hopes almost gone and my parents no more, In sorrow and sadne.-s I live broken-hearted, And wander unknown on a fardtant t-liore. Vet how can I doubt a dear Savior's protection, Forgetful of gifts from II I s bountiful hand; O! let me with patience receive His correction, Aud think of the Lsiblo that lay on the stand. Blest Bible, the light and the guide of the stranger, With it I seem circled by parents and friends, Thy kind admonitions shall guu'.e me from danger, On thec my lat lingering hope then depeuds. Hope ripens to vigor and rises to glory, I'll hasten and llee to the promised land; nie, And for refuge l iy hold on the hope set hi lore Ilevcaled in the Bible that lay on the stand. Hail ! rising the brightest and best of the morning, home, The ftar which h;u guided my parents sale The beam of thy glory my pathway adorning, Shall scatter the !arkue.-s uud brighten my gloeni. As the eastern sages to worship the sti anger Did hasten with testacy to Canaan's l;u.d, I will bow to adore llmi, but not in a manner, He is seen iu the Biblo that lty on the Hand. Though age and misfortune press hard on tny feeling", I'll flee to the Bible ar.d trust in the Lord, Though darkness should cover His merciful dealings, My foul is still cheered by His heavenly word. AuJ now from things carihly my soul is removinc, " hand, I soon shall shout glory with Heaven's bright And with raptures of joy be forever adoring Tho God of the Bible ti.atlav on the stand. MISCELLANEOUS. From Alilman's History of the Jews. TEMPLE OF JERUSALEM. ITS INSTRUCTION EY FIRE, CSDLa TIT CS It was on the 10th of August, the 1 day already darkened in the Jewish calender by the destruction of the former Temple by the King of Ba) Ion; it was almost passed. Titus withdrew again into Antonio, intending the next morning to make a general assault. The summer evening came on; the setting sun shone for the last time on the enowwhite walls nnd glistening pinnacles of the Temple roof. Titus had retired to rest, when suddenly a wild and terrible cry was heard, and a man came rushing in, announcing that the Temple was en fire. Some of the besieged, r.otwilhHanding the repulse in the morning, had sallied out to attack the men who were employed in extinguishing the fires about the cloisters. The Romans not merely drove them back, but entering the sacred space with them,

lorceu tneir way io uie me i empie. the outer cloister, in which G,000 unA soldier, mounting on the shoulders armed and defenceless people, with woof one of his comrades, threw a blazing mcn anj children, had taken refuge, brand into a gilded small door on the These poor wretches, like multitudes noi th side of the chambers, in the outer cf oliieis, had been led up to the Tcmbuilding or porch. The flames sprung ?c Dy a faie pr0phct, who had proup at once. The Jews uttered one daimed that God commanded all the simultaneous shriek, and grasped their jcws to go up to (ne temple, where he

swords with a lunous determination ot revenging and perishing in the ruins of tlie lemple. I itus rushed down with the utmost speed; he shouted, he made tigns to his soldiers to quench the fire; liis voice was drowned, and his signs uniioticeJ,in the blind confusion. The legionaries cither could not, or would not hear: thev rushed on, trampling cah other down in their furious haste, or stumbling over the crumbling ruins, perished with the enemy. Each exhorted the other, and each hurled his blazing brand into the inner part of the edifice, and then hurried to the woik of carnage. The unarmed and defenceless people were slain in thousands; they l y heaped, like sacrifices, round the altar; the 6tcps of the temple ran with blood, which washed down the bodies that lay about. Titus lounu it impossible to check th race of the soldiery; he entered wilh his officers, and surveyed the interiorolthcsacreucaiuce. inespicnlour filled them with wonder; and as tho flames had not yet penetrated the holv place, he made a last effort to save it, and springing forth, again exhorted the soldiers to stay the progress of the conflagration. The centurion, Liber-

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alis, endeavored to force obedience with his stalF of office; but even respect for the Emperor gave way to Ihe furious animosity against the Jews, to the fierce excitement of battle, and to the insatiable hope of plunder. The soldiers saw every thing around them radiant with gold, "hich shone dazzlingly in the wild light of the flames; they supposed that incalculable treasures were laid up in the sanctuary. A soldier, unperceived, thrust a lighted torch between the hinges of the door; the whole building was in flames in an instant. The blinding smoke and fire forced the officers to retreat, and the noble edifice was left to its fate. It was an appalling spectacle to the Roman, what was it to the Jew? The whole summit of the hill, which commanded the city, blazed like a volcano. One after another the buildings fell in with a tremendous crash, and were swallowed up in the fiery abyss. The roofs of cedar were like sheets of flarna; the gilded pinnacles shene like spires of red light, the gate towers sent up tall columns of iiame and smoke. The neighboring hills were lighted up; and dark groups of people were seen watching in horrible anxiety the progress of the destruction; the walls and heights of the upper city were crowded with faces, some pale with the agony of despair, others scowling unavailing vengeance. The shouts of the Roman soldiery, as they ran too and fro, and the bowlings cf the insurgents who were perishing in the flames, mingled with the roaring of the conflagration and the thundering sound of falling timbers. The echoes of the mountains replied, or brought back the shrieks of the people on the heights; all the walls resounded with screams and waitings; men. who were expiring with famine, rallied their remaining strength to utter a cry of anguish and desolation. The slaughter within was more dreadful than the spectacle without. Men and women, old and young, insur gents and priests, and those who fought and those who intrealed mercy, were hewn down in indiscriminate carnage. The numbers of the slain exceeded that of the slayers. The legionaries had to clamber over heap3 of dead, to carry on the work of extermination. John, at the head of some of his troops, cut his way through, fust into the outer court of the. Temple; afterwards into the upper city. Some of the priests upon the roof wrenched off the gilded spikes, with their sockets of lead, and used them as missiles against the Romans below. Afterwards they fled to a part of the wall, about 11 feet wide; they were summoned to surrender; but two of them, Mair, son of Belgo, and Joseph, son of Dalia, plunged headlong into the flames. No part escaped the fury of the Romans. The treasuries, with all their WC;iIt!i cf money, jewel?, and costlv robes the plunder which the zealot's l.-.j ia;j UD uere totallv destrovod nothing remained but a small part of Would display his Almighty power to savc h;3 people. The soldiers set lire to tae building; and every soul perish cj JOHN Q. ADAMS. I John Quincy Adams is certainly the most extraordinary individual of the I present times. Not the most extraordinary for talents, for we could mcnHon a dozen who are Ins superiors; nor perhaps for learning, for he haS a half a score of equals, though he has no small stock of it; nor yet for poetical nlilities, for he has been fairly matched by the author of "Kyle Stuart;" nor yet for eccentricity, for John Randolph could exceed him; nor even for turncohiVw, though he has been and is no small dealer in that 6ort of craft. But J for aij i,csc qualities combined, and for many others we could name, we can venture to sav that John Ouincv Adaim is the most extraordinary man of the age. The biographer, who at tempts to delinnaln his character, wil have no easy or enviable task. If there is a leadinc trait in hi mind, which we very much doubt, it is, that he never knows what to be about. If any man can act without a motire, that man is

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J. Q. Adams. lie has been engaged in all sorts of pursuits, with every variety of success. He has espoused all sorl3 of parties, till no part' will own him. He has been a friend to every man, and an enemy to every man, till no man looks upon him as worthy either of his friendship or enmity. He has been a Professor in a College and affected the manner and hearing of a slip-shod, absent-minded recluse, and walked about the streets harchcad to acquire the character of great learning and mental abstraction. lie has also been in Europe and acted the dandy. He was in Congress and acquired great character for deep and profound research by his report on "Weights and Measures." He then turned poet and acquired still greater character for stupidity and bad taste by his "Dormot McMorrough." He has produced some of the ablest documents, and silliest effusions, of any man in the country. He has done as many big things, ai d as many Utile things, as almost any other man. He has been President of the United States of America, and a petty quibbler about the secrets of the Masonic craft. He labored to open a great communication bet ween two quarters of the world, by cutting through a Continent, and he strove with equal zeal to prove that the Masons used a human skull to drink out of! He has been the bitter enemy of Henry (-lay, and afterwards his fellow chum in back-room consultations. He was as thick with Mr. Burgess as two birds in a licet, and afterwards wrote a letter to insult him, when he was defeated. At one time he was the most formidable and bitter enemy General Jackson ever had, and his victorious competitor for the Presidency, and then he became an awkward flatterer of the man who defeated him. For a long time he was Martin Van Bureirs political leader, and then, alter having veered to all parties, and abused his best friends, and flattered his worst enemies, and had his Cngers in every man's pie, he has at last whipped into the Van Buren ranks, in hopes, we suppose, of pcttuig a share of the "spoils" and Lr this "mess of pottage, he has turned traitor to old friends, and become the humble retainer of a little man. And we should not be surprised if he should become the champion of Aboli tion, before six months, and should be seen a la mode Arthur Tnppan, and Dr. Cox, gallanting some greasy faced belle of the kitchen, along Pennsylva nia Avenue, and handing her into the obby to hear the debates. Such is John Ouiucy Adams. Had he not een so Utile, he would have been the greatest man of the times. Had he not been so great, he would have been the smallest. When he dies his epitaph should be: "Here lies J. Q. Adams President of the United States of America; and author of Dermot McMorrough." JVashville lie publican. a MEitnv During the Revolutionary war, when a corps ol the American army were en camped near the borough of Elizabethtown, in New Jersey an ollicer who was rather more a devotee of Venus than Mars paid his addresses to a lady of distinction, w hom he was in the hab it of visiting nightly, in the cultivation of those kindly feelings which love so cordially inspires. On a discovery of the cause of the repealed absence ol the officer, and of the place where his inter view3 wilhhis dulcinea where had, some waggish friends resolved to play off a trick at his expense, which should de ter him from a repetition of his nmo rous visits. Ihe officer, it appears, rode a very small horse, of the pony kind, which he always left untied, with the bridle reins over his neck, near the door, in order to mount and off without delay, when the business of courting and kissing was over; and the horse remained until backed by the owner, with out attempting to change his position Oa u certain very dark night, when the ollicer had, as usual, gone to pay his devoirs to the object ol his allections and was enjoying the approving smiles ot the lovely (air one, his waggish com panions went privately to the door o the house where the olHcer was, took the bridle and saddle from the horse which they sent quietly away, placed the former on the tail, and the latter on the back of a very sober ruminative old cow, (with the crupper over her horns) who stood peaceably chewing her cud near the spot. Immediately thereat-

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the house, and separating, give the oud alarm that the enemy hnd landed, and were marching in full force into the pillage. On hearing the voice of the uarm, the people ran out, greatly ex cited, and consternation entering every dwelling, found its unwelcome way peedily into the household temple where our official hero was worshiping. Taking counsel of his fears, and snatching a hasty kiss, he started from the lady's chamber, and rushing rapidly down stairs, shot out of the doors with the elocity of a musket ball, and owing to the darkness, not seeing the interesting change in the conformation of his nag, mounted hastily upon his saddle, with us back towards the head of the cow, utd plunging his spurs deeply into her sides, caused her to bawl out with ex cessive pain, she darted oil in callant tyle, and in her best gallop made to wards the camp. The officer still plyinir his trusty spurs and whin to the kin and bones of the suffering old an imal, and with all his love and wine on board; finding himself hurried rapidly backwards, maugre ail his efforts to advance; and hearing the repeated bawlingsoflhc tortured and affrighted beast, ie imagined that he was carried oil by magic, and roaring out most lustily that the devil had got him was carried in this stale of preturbation into the very alignment ot the camp, i he courage ous sentinels hearing the noise, anj imagining no doubt that Hannibal and his cxen weic coming, discharged their pieces and lied as if the devil had cha sed them; the alarm guns were lired, the drums beat to arms, and the officers ft their quarters and cried out! turn out! with all their lungs. The soldiers started in their sleep as if a ghost had crossed their dreams and the whole body running, hall naked, together, formed is quick as possiole, presented to repel the terrible invader. H hen So! the Iu dicrous sight soon prepared itself to their eyes, of the gallant officer mount ed on an old cow, with his face toward her tail, and this appendage sticking straight out behina her tongue hang' uiir out, h er SlUOa lacerated with the grcvious gigging of the spurs, and him self, owing to his excessive fear almost deprived of reason, and half petrified with horror. A loud and general roar of laughter broke from ihe assembled band, at the rider and his steed the whole corps gave him three hearty cheers, as he bolted into the camp and ic was seized and carried to his quar ters in triumph, there to dream of love's metamorphoses, backward rides, stern away advances, and alarms of invasions, and thereby to garnish his mind with the materials of writing a splendid treatise on the novel adventures of cowology. OLDEN TIME. In 1 627, there were but thirty ploughs in all Massachusetts, and the use ot these agricultural implements was not laminar to all the planters. V rom the annals of Salem, it appears in that year, it was agreed by the town to crant Richard Hutchison 10 acres of land in addition to his share, on condition "he set up ploughing." 1G30. A sumptuary act of the Gen cral Court prohibited short sleeves, and required the garments to be lengthened so as to cover the arms to the wrists and required reformation "in immode rate great breeches knots of ribbon, broad shoulder bands and laylee silk rases, double cuffs and runs. 1G39. "For preventing miscarriage of letters, it is ordered that notice be given that Richard h airbank, his house in Boston, is the place appointed for all letters, which are brought from be yond the sea or to be sent thi ther, are to be brought upon him and he is allowed lor every such letter Id., and must an swer all miscarriages through his own neglect in his kind, provide that no man shall be obliged to bring his letter thith er unless he pleases. 1G 17. The court order, that if any young man attempts to address a young woman without consent ol her parents or in case of their absence, of the Conn ty Court, lie shall be lined l. for the first ollence, 10. for the second, and be imprisoned for the third. 1049. Matthew Stanley was tried for drawing in the allections of John Tarbox's daughter without the consent of her parents, convicted, and fined 1 57. lees 2s, 0. 1 hree married women were fined bs. each for scolding. 1G53. Fairbanks was tried for wear ing great hoots but was acquitted. .Vittiuna! Eai;is

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advic:: to a youm; ladv. A young lady at eighteen, often needs a warning voice to point out the quicksands over which she is speeding ler tr.ougiitless career. Ilicaryou an; beautiful and have many adu'.ircrs. I mi sorry lor it. A voting woman whose conduct is marked with strict honor and rinciple, cannot have many admirers. rheiu is nothing that more certainly marks a bad heart, and depraved mor al principles, or worse, a thorough des titution of it, than the cruel and guilty encouragement of honorable love. A young man is never long attached to a young lady without her being aware of it; commonly, indeed, before ic is himself aware of the nature and extent of his feelings. The knowledge is almost intuitive. From the moment. if she be persuaded that she cannot re ciprocate his sentiments, her course is plain before her it i ct ol, utideviatmg, unhesitating repulse, on every occasion place and manner. Love will die with out hope. Io crash love in the bud is sasy; but triile and tamper withilill it has taken root in the heart, and its destruction is attended with the extinction of the heart's best and noblest feelings. I ever lorgei itus prime maxun in T ' I it these matters, "not to discourse is allys to encourage." Your choice, 1 will not, I r!& not bias, liul l nau rauier hear that von are engaged to a man ol goo;i cUaracid industrious habits, than the wealthiest man without ihjrm; for in this country, these are always a sure pledge ol hnal success. A mean and culpable shecies of co quetry, is the practice of lot giving de cided encouragement, oil repulse, with a view of keeping yourf slave tilLyou have learned (to use tme cant phrase) you cannot do better. I know not an expression that betrays imore despicable meanness. She who uses it, shows a willingness to sell her lpand to traffic her person for value received, that is revolting m tho highest (degree. No one, not even a rbarcnt, can icll what character will render any lady happy, but herself on llerself, on her self alone then, must an-zl ought to rose the responsibility of her choice. Ladies too often atteynpt to gain hus band?, as anglers calcl -by draw ing the bait, as he approaches it, till he is impelled to grasp at levery hazzard; but she who angles for si husband, may find too late, that sheihas gained the man at the expence of! the husband s contideuce in her principles and heart. Simplicity. Some years since, a so ber, zealozs Connecticut pjarson, went to chatcchise a family in hidj parish who were not so well versed in the rudiments of divinity as many are; when arrived thought proper to begin with Lois, the eldest daughter, a girl about eighteen years of age, and buxom as May; whose charms had smitten the young village swains with an epidemic. Well, Lois, said the parson, "I shall begin with you: come, tell me who died for you. Lois, with a charming flush in her cheek, replied, 'Why, nobody, as I know on.' The parson rather sur prised at her answer, repeated the question with increased zeal. Lois, rather irritated at the inquisitive parson, again replied, "Why, nobody, sir; there was Tom Dawson lay bedridden for me about six months, but folks say he has got about again.' Ancestors. The number of ancestors a person has is astonishing at first sight, two parents; in the 6ccond four, the parents of his father and mother; in the third eight, the parents of his two grandfathers and two grandmothers; by the same rate of progression, 1,024 in the tenth; and at the twentieth degree, or at the distance of twenty generations, every person has above 100,000 ancestors, as common arithmetic will demonstrate. No man can tell, but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversations of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammerings, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities arc so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that he delights iu their person and society. Jeremy Taylor. Never feed out your best potatos and plant the refuse nor sell your best sheep aud keep the poorest.

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