Rising Sun Times, Volume 3, Number 128, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 23 April 1836 — Page 1

THE

RISING

SUN

TIMES.

BY ALEX. E. GLENN.

FIRST DISCOVERY OF COLUMBUS. [The crew of Columbus, having lost all hope of land, and finding that what he had thought so, proved but clouds, begun to murmur against this bold Italian, and determined to give him only three days longer to fulfil his promises.— The first of these days he became convinced, by the sunset, that land was near—in the night he espied lights. Two hours after midnight, 11th of Oct. 1403, land was clearly visible.— The island on which they landed was Guanahana which they called St. Salvador.] The howling wind forbid us To trust the fatal main— Oh turn our wand'ring vessel To harbor once again! Why to this 'hold Italian' Our lives, our hopes confide ? IS'o cohlen land awaits us Beyond the shoreless tide! How long shall he deceive us With bo.isti'ig vain and loud; And when we gaze for land, He cau show us but "a cloud."1 The gallant leader heard, Out he listen'd uudismay'd, Tho1 he saw their furious glances, Aud their dageers half display l, Nor fear was in his tonl, lint hit heart was wrung with woe; Shall he tjiiail before their manners, And his glorious mtcd forego? Had he braved the ocean's terrors In darkness and in night; And shall he furl his sails With the promisM goal in sight? For ho look'd tow'rds the horizon An. I marked the setting sun ; And, by its ruddy light, He knew his toil was done! 'Twas in the deepest midnight. As they cut the yielding wave, When not n star was shining To pui.le them or to save, As in awful, hopeless silence, Their onward course they steer 1'nr in the murky distance Lo! glimmering lights appear! l:t hreathlesjoy and wonder They watch the op'ninj sky ; A in I with the morning ri-es Their r?ipturoiis certainty. Thro' silvery vapour clcatiiinr, F.xtends the welcome strand, Ami trees, nml rocks, and mcuntains, I'.cfore their view expand. They breast the foaming surget And shmitinj: leap to shore, While ev'ry echo answers 4,God ! and Saint Salvador." HISTORICAL. Till: ART OF riUNTlSG. On i!ic tenth and eleventh days of Ju1 v, it i customary at Haarlem, occasionally lo celebrate a festival in commemoration i f ihe invention of Typographical printing alleged to have been made by John La wrens Ivoster of that place in the year 1130. Although it is cer tain that the Chinese and Japanese, ahoul a thousand year ociore me cm is- . I 1 a ! 1 I, I . . i i i nan era, unuerstoou ana pracuseu me art of printing from carved wooden lalles, (called technically xylographic p:i!)lig,) jet it is equally certain thai the Europeans had no knowledge of the existence of this art among the Chinese and Japanese until the beginning et the sixteenth century, l was not until about the year 1498, that V-c ie vjami uiscovereu ui imi i Last Indies by sea, ana it was irom tne navigators w ho succeeded him, that the nrsi correct lucas oi uie tun: i.ma were obtained. ihe honor of having given birth to

lypograplucal printing wiinmoveacie.f rrin(ing wag introduced; tne firsl

types, is Claimed uy i.iice uuw,ii.lem, Strasburgh ana lucntz. n is perhaps not very material to decide, beiweei. wicm. uk uuiui tui.r.. ""- question proved neyona oispme m vor of Koster. Many of Roster's imnow to be seen: and Sheltemaand Konines, have, it is thought, shown conclusivtly, as late as 1823, that these imprcssions were with moveable types. It is not 405 years since Roster's genius produced this useful art. What wonder has it not already accomplished, and does it not promise to accomplish. The press has been called, and not in-

aptly, "the lever which moves lhe Pescha, which is also derived from the ! woiid." What revolutions in the po- Hebrew Pesech, meaning passover; liiical and moral world have not been and hence we have the English word cfli.'cled by it! With it is intimately paschal, applied to the lamb, which connected, and to it, do the free of all formed part of the evening meal, the nations in a greater of less degree owe last of which our Savior partook, before the liberties and privileges they enjoy, his death, with his twelve missionaries. The rich legacy left by John Lawrens This day is held as a festival in honor Koster iias descended not only lo the of the resurrection of Christ, which Hollanders, but to the inhabitants of the look place the third day after his exewholc civilized, did we say ; nay, even cution. Easter day is observed all over the uncivilized nations of the earth Christendom with peculiar rites. In the are beginning to reap its benefits. Catholic church, high mass is celebraWe copy the following remarks from led and the host is adored with the a little work on the fine and useful arts greatest reverence. The Host, derived

lately published by M. S. Perry, M. D. We think they will prove interesting to those of our readers who are notacqiiainled with the fact9 here detailed, 'Koster, called also Laurentius, went to

walk in a wood near the city as was the On the night before his execution our custom of the opulent class; once, when Savior took bread, and blessing it, diihn. hp heean to cut some letters upon vided it amnna Ki mUinnrip t hut the

the rind of a beach tree, which for fan

"I WISH NO OTHER HERALD, NO OTHER

KISlXtt SUX,cy's sake he afterwards set and arranged in order, and put the words upon paper with the heels up, and so impressed and printed on paper one or two copies, as specimens (or his grand children to follow in writing. This having hapily succeeded, he meditated greater things, as he was a man of ingenuity and judgment; and first of all, he invented, with his son in-law Thomas Dieter, a more glutinous ink, because he found Ihe common ink would sink and spread. And then he formed whole pages of wood, with letters cut upon them. Laurentius mas a man of fortune, and held a lucrative office under the government. He commenced printing with wooden blocks or plales, on which he engraved or carved the words for several volumes. He employed several workmen, among whom were John Geinsfleich, who communicated the art to his younger brother, Gutenberg, an ingenious mechanic, who lived at Strasburgh. After having stolen a part of his master's appratus, Geinsfleich went (o Mentz, his native place, and commenced printing about the year 1440. He was assisted with money at first by John Fust, Fausf, or Fauslus, and afterwards he entered into partnership with his brother Gutenburgh. The two brothers united their endeavors to invent a front of metal types with cut faces; they succeeded after many years, and in 1450 a part of the Bible appeared from the press. The partnership between the brothers and Faust was dissolved in 1455. Faust continued the business, and took one of his servants Peter Schocfler, into partnership. In 1556, Schoelfcr completed the invention of metalic types by casting them with faces; he likewise cut matrices from the whole alphabet, with which Faust was so much pleased that he gave him his only daughter ia marriage. The story of the Devil and Dr. Faustusoriginaled from I he followingcircumstance. Faust had printed a beautiful edition of the Bible, which was an exact imitation of the best manuscript. He look h number and went lo Paris, whcie he at first sold them ror Ove Hundred crowns each. At last he lowered them to thirty crowns each, and all Pari?, perplexed at the number of copies produced, and their exact uniformity. They accordingly believed that Faust j ' )ad made a c.,ue Wlth lhe Devli and 3 he was accused of being a magician, Knowledge of the art was soon oblained nomVt atld ,he Rornan lVpe WM inlroduced in 1467. ,n lhc reign cf IIeir, he s;xlh) R Mourner and William Caxton went to Haarlem to learn the art. These gen ,cmen pursuaded Corsellis, an under WOrkman,to go to England, and a press was set up al oxrord in the year 1471 T f . . . . , . ., r;n .iisn h..nguage was the uistorv of Troy, lranslated from ,ne French by William Caxton. Ireland was one of the last Europcan COUntries into which the art w0,k executed there was in 1551 prinling was practised in Mexico about ,,e car , 569. The first printing press in the U. States was established by c.nnn nav , Mn . Vtn uAfnrA commcnccd printing in Philadelphia in ' - ,. ... EASTER SUNDAY. Easter day is distinguished by its pe culiar name, through our Saxon ances tors, who, al this season of the year held a great festival in honor of the god dess Easter, piobably the Astarte of the Eastern nations. The French call this festival Paqucs, derived from the Greek, from the Latin word hostia, meaning a victim, is a consecrated wafer, of a circular form, composed of flour and water. Both substance and form are regulnted by custom of very ancient date. - 1 bread he took was not ordinary bread,

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but unleavened bread, such as is used by the Jews during the passover week in the present days. This bread is composed merely of flour and water, no eaven during the festival of their passover being permitted to enter the houe of a Jew. It is a kind of buiscuit of a circular form, and the Host thus, by its form and substance, brings us back to the recollection of the Catholics, and the lite celebrated by our Saviour, it is the representation of the cake, or uneavened bread, which is to this day eaten by that nation duiinir the passover week. The Protestants have de viated from this custom, and in their churches use leavened bread without regard to form, and they cut it with a nue into small pieces, lometline that our Saviour broke Ihe bread. The day before Easier-day is in some parts call ed 'Holy Saturday.' On the evening of this day, in (he middle districts of reland, great preparations are made for the finishing of Lent. Many a fat len, and dainty piece of bacon, is nut into the pot by the cotter's wife, about eight or nine o'clock, and woe be to the person who should taste it before the cock crows. At twelve is heard the clapping of hands, and Hip invnns . . ,. , augh, and all is merriment for a few liours, when they retire, and rise about four o'clock lo see the suti dance in honor of the resurrection. This irmorant ma. (om is not confined to the humble labor er and his family, but is scrupulously observed by many highly respectable and wealthy families, different members of which have been heard to assert positively that they had seen the sun dance on Easter morning. VIEW OF THE TIELD OT WATEULOO. "The only alloy to the universal rapure which prevailed, was the number of the wounded. The houses were insufiicient to contain half, and the churches and public buildings were littered down with straw for their reception. The body of the duke of Brunswick was brought to the quarters he had alely occupied. I was powerfully af fected when I s-?w the corps- f mc so alely blooming with vouth and health; but my eyes soon became accustomed to horrors. On Monday morning, June (he 19th, hastened to the field of battle; 1 was compelled to go through the forest, for the road was so completely choaked up as lo be impassable. - 'The dead required no help; but thousands of wounded who could not lclp themselves, were in want of every thing; their features swollen by the sun and the rain looked livid and bloat ed. One poor fellow had a ghastly wound across his upper lip, which gap ed wide and showed his teeth and gums, as though a second and unnatural mouth had opened below the first. Another quite blind from a gash across his eyes sat upright, gasping for breath, and murmuring 'Del eau! del eau! lhe anxiety for water was indeed distres sing. The German 'wasser! wasser!' and the French 'De l'eau, de l'eau!' still seem sounding in my ears. I am convinced that hundreds have perished from thirst alone and they had no hope of assistance, for even humane persons were afraid of approaching the scene of blood, lest they should be taken in re quisilion to bury the dead; almost ev ery person that came near being pres sed into that most disgusting and pain ful service. 'This general burying was truly hor rible; large square holes were dug a bout six feet deep, and thirty or forty fine young fellows stripped to their skins were thrown into each pell mell and then covered over in so slovenly a manner that sometimes a hand or foot peeped through the earth. "One of these holes was prepann as I passed and the followers of the ar my were stripping the bodies before throwing them into it, while Kussian Jews were assisting, in the spoliation of the dead by chisseling out their teeth 1 an operation which they per formed with the most brutal indiuerence. Hundreds of fine horses were gallopping over lhe plain, kicking and plunging apparently mad with pain, while the wounded wretches who saw them coming could not get out of their way, shrieked in agony and tried lo es cape from them but in vain. Soon after. 1 saw an immense horse (one of the Scotch Greys) dash towards a Col. of the Imperial Guard, who had his Up shattered j the horse was fright fully wounded and a part of a broke, n

KEEP MINE HONOR FROM CORRUPTION."

ince still rankled in one of its wounds. t rushed snorting and plunginc past the Frenchman, and I shall never for get his piercing cry as it approached. new instantly to the spot but ere 1 could reach it the man was dead; for mongh I do not think the horse had touched him the terror he felt had been too much for his exhausted frame. "Sickness with the immense heans of lai n, which spread in nil directions as far as the eye could reach. I was preparing to return, when I was attracted y a young Frenchman who was lay ing on his back, apparently at the last asp: Some open letters were lying u ound, and one was yet grasping in,his and as though he had been reading it to the last moment. My eye fell upon the words. 'My dear son,' in a female hand." Reader, how many ties, think you, were torn asunder on that held of blood? Husbands, fathers, sons but c , lorbear. BRILLIANT EXPLOIT IN THE REVO LUTION. It was on an evening during the

revolutionary war, when a number of picturesque, was common, and he tumWhigs had assembled as usual to talk ed his head, without knowing mhv. tn,

over the events of the day, in Craw-

lord and JJouelston Insurance orhce, in red youth then smiled; and his quesMaiket street, that the circumstances tion 'Do you not know me?' explained

of the General Monk being the Dela ware Uay, capturing or overwhelming the coasters, came under considera tion. It was resolved that a committee be appointed to obtain money and pur " " .v. wpivoo pui I'vCW I M Cr n l'OCi'l I r r lha ovntnec ti wnncn I oi capturing the ueneral Monk. I I r XT J-i i i .-v, .j.Mr wi.iiuvu iiuiii nu'cuca, anu inesunscriplions from a few merchants. The Hy- , ana me tornmand of her was given to Capt. Barney, and a crew of volunteers chiefy Irom the regular service, were engaged; secrecy was fortunately pre served as to her destination; a commission as a letter of marque was duly isued. In a week 13arney was ready w ith his young officers. The Hyder Alley sailed. Darney coni..WnJ.,l.l,o command you lo board, lite coolly and deliberately and with effect, and when I order you lo fire, then do you board.' bhe went down the bay in iral-I ... ... ... t " , ant style, with two pilots on board, one on deck, and the other below in case of accident. Darney saw the Gen eral Monk, and pretended a desire to escape: he saw he could out sail the General Monk and ordered the drag anchor lo Hp thrown ovprhoard . the .... mn-.A fl the General Monk. Darney in a loud 1 1 ' 1 . and authontive lone, cave orders to er of the General Monk directed his I j rP a A , . men to line the side of the vessel, and , ... , j -i i rnu repel the expected assailants. lne v ... 1 . ,t moment tney were ai ineir uosis, uiey J .... . J rarcurnH 'i tirmfl trnm inn I 1 V f I ( ' I rni. - .I I. j J ..mn 1 lie SHOCK was Miuuen rtuu ecvtic. T-l o.l0n nfthp r.,n,.rl Monk. A IIC CV1IIUM111UV-.I v uiv. ' - f ana several outer ouiceis ieu humii . ineuen. monK reiuiueu uie mc, uui im r-, hi i ...i j 4 u r, u.,t ll ws iuu irtic iu iv-n.t.o. When Darney ordered his men to tire, they ooaraea wunoui . t 1 11 ' . 1 A. ' . a horrid sitht met their view; near a horrid sight met their view; nearly Ill 1, 100 killed and wounded lay upon her deck; the blood ran in streams, lhe Gen. Monk was armed with 3 nine pounders and a full and disciplined The. Hvder Alley was armed with four 9 noil nders. and 120 landsmen.

The General Monk lost in killed and drong of Medfieldj and the spicy Magwounded about 100, the Hyder Alley of c Ann Whal spectacle lost 4 or 5 killed and one or t wo wound- be mQre magmficent than lhat ed. The victory was obtained in 15 egenled by our wooda on the banks minutes, and was one of the most brill- rf Conneclicut when lheir Bhady iant achievements during the war. reccsses are absoiutely illuminated with The General Monk was afterwards pur- brUIiant and ciustered blossoms of chased by the Government, and the the Mountain LaureH Above all, what

Hyder Alley was reiurneu ou i f whom she had been procured, the money nppiuFiiw.was repaid by tne uoverumem. was rcpai j Philadelphia Paper. ANECDOTE OF AN INDIAN. . '.. . r:.K; il,. nV,et hna rnn.

iribuled "Some accounts of the Barba- mistry is insufficient to arrest and rer ar of the North" to the London New tain itThe Rose has been long de-

i. j i tnihlv. comprisinc the results oi nis "hVervaVons during a recent journey to, observauuusu .i j j Zgh ' nSiVha Wlowlng Aboriginal SSSote, related to the writer by our Amba ador at St. Petersburg, Hon. wTmam Wilkins, which posseB an .nailence in Moscow. V e hnd a i i in - I Interest ouite dramatic:

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"The son of a Delaware chief was brought up from infancy as the play mate and friend of Mr. Wilkins. No difference whatever was made between, the two boys; their dress, their meals, their beds, their education all were alike; and. the lads themselves regarded one another as brothers. When young Wilkins arrived at the years when it was necessary for him to go to college, his companion was in every respect in appearance, in language, in feeling, an Anglo-American boy, and the two friends parted in the hope of meeting again, unchanged, except in the addition of four years to their age, and a corresponding number of inches to their stature. "In four years, young Wilkins returned to the parental home; and while Crnssinpr thp thrpehnld nf ihr hniteo tiio tumultuous thoughts were perhaps fully U .u ;,i u iu r:j :41 -. u .., ..u..t. t u m ma iic who auuui iu 1 usu, as uv .,n r v,..' r.,;i J ""J "'own ui ma laiuci a taiuilj He caught the ejTe, however, of a naked Indian, sitting on the bench befd r& f K r A rrr anrl nancorl oc ho woo bout tr. PntPr. ThP "iprt tV,m,rK 00k at the face of the savage. The all. 'After his friend went to college, and when lie was thus thrown back, as it were, upon his own mind, the Dela ware boy, as he said himself, was beset Kir C f ri nfTA nrtl4 4Vism nt nViiik li -v . - . ' 7 tfrtlllft noilhm. .JooJ A U a n r if . ui i r ho hrf nf Ihn wAAn fh M f. "-iiovii vi niti itwuus a iuuoiiiJfi fpp tho Q;P rif iUa Aaea,t. A f0n sfrilriinrr nn orij a a ni.nnon , ,t,;k t,;0 K;ts tioil persuaded him to be evil, and for lhft PTisfpnrfi nr nu-,rh h rmilrl not in manno nrrnnt u nf Dncrih off his European dress and fled into the wiidernes8. cnnnot can to mind .u nm f Indians but he became j;SSni.ieh..i rh5f : ih-- UK the Enish anrl tV3(! rf.hrated. not ()1.V n.'.rVm but forcunnin?. He ,a .jM,.K c;,cnfoj nf iav:nw faiaft on bo(h Sldes: and M Wilkins on ridin through a wood saw accidently i i.. ru: i r: j i j j l uuuy ui ins c.iiir menu iriiit; ucau nnj i'iui. m,ni nt w ne a L tuJ XYZ hn,1 Wn m.ir. dered by his own countrymen." A FARMER SIIOLLD BE A FLORIST. F" jr iVuc'f -uu 1 '" i - i : .. , c - i r . a,most say, every man in the communtI iv mnvhia il nnrn niclinfrtiicnH ror 1 .".s-"" . . .... , , ri . I tii11 iuiiw view n uu iu iivwastii j .v USJS' than 1 ie contemplation of ine spienaia examuio w intii naiuie nas . r. rr. ... ...... , I sei us in me piuiusiuu viiu nuiui tuu , .. ,r , , , . . has scattered over our land the choicest . , , , , . I IrpMsnrps nl ihp. vpcrptahle world. A" 1 w nnisla- anil aa thf I h" - - - - - , . - .,i, ;f. i,i ln J "'i "tuujr the wondrous works of Raphael or An- . eo . f. j;r nf man5firpnt 1 - - , . llf;flli ianfe rt rmintrV rcr.f mnro ri f Prpsf i n tr nhiprfa lhan ng . ? -,1 r- u0 varief vof indienU0USDroductionv. from I llkll I 1 II 1 1 ( . in lllUU II VjA IT 1 1 1 i U 1 j , ,. cocma . . . I IIIG TIIUOV CUIlllllll MAM. LIouJ to lhe velvet carpeting of mosses which overspreads the margin ot the rivulet. We possess many wild flowers, which want no other recom mendation than that of rarity, to entitle them to rank with the most costly exotics. Witness the 6tately Ithododenouf pond Li ? ft flower rivalling in beauty the far-famed night blooming Cereus possessing, too, a most delicious fragrance, which is al together denied to its kindred in lne Eastern world, and which is so delicate am ethereal, tnai au me power vi tne1 - m . I II A. I f U I . !-,nUr) Kir ita rnncpnt nf (Ha rivil uuuuuau, w, . ized xyorld, tne queen oi uowcr., u . . , . dlgDaraee her pre.i -fi i tensions; but if the choice were now to be made, we might call n pon he x to divide, at least, her roya honors with this splendid nymph ' of ese western waters. aare y vru.

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