Rising Sun Times, Volume 3, Number 132, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 21 May 1836 — Page 1

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Tin: ruisoxnt. Hp stood within In? prison-grate, Tlmt lonely man of crime, Upon whose brow an carl guilt II al done the work of Time For where the baleful pa?ion? boil, Thoiuli form and cluik ate fair, Their poison fumes di-tiiin the charms That Nature lavi-h'd Hare. Then renchins tl.rouvh tlioc iron lar?, The cl.aj l.iti"s haml lie vnui, Who uarueil him of hi Maker's '.vrath, Willi an unfaltering lounge 4iOtu- oi'lion more:" the holy man Tm iioil at hi earnest cry, An. I bi nt him toward that darkened cell, iili juty in his eye.

"Think'st IIhhi that those ho lov'd us here Who now do reiu'" in bib-, I'.'vr from mat cloriou- sphere lovik down To note the deeds of tin!"' "We know not,"" s ud I. is reverend guide. God" volumii t'.oth not say, Hut Nature, moving in our he ats, .Makes atuwer that they may.' Then sorrow sou'd thnt erring man, The stnisrcle shook him sore, Till unareii'tomid tear? fell down I'pon his dungeon door, "O Mot hi r! .Mother ! it thine eye .Iu-t ee thy cherished son 1 fere, "mid the vik-t of the vile , Would that my life were done'.' And Ion;, thoe strained and burning orbs iVuir'il forth the bitter rain. Oh Thounho hcard'st the sinner's cry, Say was the anguish vain! rert-.hanee, t i n then, a mother's prayer I'.reallied o'er his cradle-bed Did win its answer for his soul, And snatch it from the dead. HISTORICAL, Tin: en v or jr.m sLL3i. We lli s week present our reader with a highly' interesting icw of the City of Jerusalem "The blessed City," a? it is t illed even by the Mahommedans the eity that men call "the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth." According to Josephti, Jerusalem was built in the jear 'JO J 3 from the Creation, in a rocky and batten foil, by Mclchizedeck, and w as known ant ientIv by several names. Its file occupied Mounts Moriah and Acra, and it was surrounded with mountains. Its territory and in irons w ere watered by the fpmns of Gc!ion and Sileam, arid by the torient or brook of Kedron. David built a new city Mount Zion opposite to the ancient one, being separated from it by the valley of Mills; he also augmented and embellished the old itv; but Solomon, fiom the number and statelincss of the woiks which he erected, rendered Jerusalem one of the most beautiful citiesof the East. It was during the reign of Tiberius, that Jerusalem was rendered memorable to all succeeding ages by the death and resurrectioti of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who was crucified on Friday, April 3d, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, at the age of 83, on Mount Calvarv, a hill which was then without the walls on the North fide of the city. Jerusalem was taken and destroyed bv Titus, A. I). TO. At the seige, accordion to Josenhus, y?.000 prisoners fell into he hands of the conqueror, 11,000 perished wi! hunger, and the whole number slain iv id taken prison crs during the w ar was 1,400,000. In the vear 130, Adrian undertook to re build the city, and gave it the name of .Eha Capotaliua, which name it bore until the time of Constantino, It was i.-iWfii in CI 4. by the Persians, in bob by the Saracens, aud in 1030 by the i t Crusaders, who founded a Kingdom which luted till HOT, when it was taken down by Saladin, king of Fg) pt. In 1517, it was taken by the Turks, who have keut possession of it ever - - m B since. The modern city of Jerusalem built on Mount Moriah. I he ascent on every side is steep to the north. It i . ....r li.vl kv villev- rrirnm. is a I mils I tuiuiuiiuiu .....v.j-,.. .. liv mountains so that it seems J . . V . "J , to be situated in the middle ot an am phi-theatre. The walls are about three miles in circumference. Dr. Clarke speaking of the appearance of the city sas, "We were not ptepared for the grandeur ot the spectacle which it ex hibited. Instead of a wretched am1 ruined town, by some described as the desolate remnant of Jerusalem, we be held as it were a flourishing and stately metropolis, presenting a magniheient nscmblege of domes, towers, palace? churches, monasteries; all of which glittering in the sun's rays, shone with inconccnauie rj-n nuwi. ttcent traveler. Sir Frederick Ilcnniker gives the following account oi Jerusa lem: .... The town is about a mile in lengt hnlf a mile in width. The best view of it is from the mount of Olives

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It commands the exact shape, and nearly every particular viz: the church of the holy sephulcre, the Armenian convent, the mosque of Omar, St. Stephen's Gate, the round topped houses, and barren vacancies of the city. Without the walls are a Turkish burial ground, Ihe tombs of David, a small grove near the tombs of the Kings, and all the rest is a surface of rock, on w hich are a few numbered trees. The mosque of Omar is the Saint Peter's of Turkey, and the respective saints are held respectively by their own faithful, in equal veneration. The building itself has a light pagoda appearance, the garden in which it stands, occupies a considerable part of the city; and contrasted with the surrounding desert, is beautiful; but it is forbidden ground, and Jew or Christain entering it must forfeit either his religion or his life. Lately as a traveler was entering the city, a man snatched part of his luggage from the camel, and tied here for shelter. A few days since a Creek Christain entered the mosque, he was a Turkish subject, and servant to a Turk, he was invited toj change his religion, but refused, and was immediately murdeied by the mob. Hi body remained exposed in the street, and a passing Musschnan. kicking up the head exclaimed "That is the way I would serve all Christain;." The fountainof Siloa is so inconsiderable, and water altogether so scarce, that when my friend, .Mr. Gre, inquired the way to it, the person refused to tell him.givinghim as a reason, "You will wiite it in our book, and I vow that we shall have no water next year." The tomb of David is held in great respect by the Tuiks, and to swear by it is one of their most sacred oaths. The tomb of the Kings is an inconsiderable excavation in the reck; three small chambers, in w hich are the receptacles for the coilins; the lid of a sarcophagus, of tolerable workmanship, remains vet unbroken, as also a stone door. In the Aceldama, or field of blood, is a square building, into w hich ire thrown the bones of strangers who may happen to die there. This side of the mountain is pock-marked with sepulchral caves, like the hill at Thebes, concerning these, Dr, Clark has made mention. 1 he burial-place of the Jews s over the vallev of Kedron, and the fees for breaking the soil afford a coniderable revenue for the governor. file tomb of Jehosaphat is respected, but at the tomb of Absalom every Jew, as he passes, throws a stone, not like the Arab custom in so doing to perpetuate a memory, but to overwhelm it with reproach; among the tombs is one Slaving an Lgyplian torus and cornice, and another surmounted by a pyramid on a Grecian base, as of the geniuses of the two countries had met half way. As in Ureece there is not a remaika)le hill without a fable, so in Palestine there is not a cave or stone w ithout some historical anecdote from the New Feslament. The generality of Pil grims to Jerusalem are Greeks; and they bring accepting offerings. They ue probably unable to read, and there fore the method used to mike them ac quainted with the life of our Saviour is rommendaole; even the Old Testa ment is not forgotten, though Titus is. The pool of Bersheba and David's Power are still pointed ont to believing pilgrims. 'I'M la ." 1 l ne population oi Jerusalem nas been variously estimated at from 1 4,000 to 30,000. The inhabitants derive their principal support from the visits of pilgrims, who, it is said, leave be hind them C0.000 pounds annually. PALKSTINE. The Rev. Dr. Kussel, the author of this volume, has been very successful in his attempt to give a condensed ac count of the history of the Jews to gether with a description of the land which once was theirs, abounding as that land does in natural curiosities of eve ry desciption, and sanctified as it is to us as well as the Jews, by religious associations. The following; extract win reward perusal: In advancing, the aspect of the country still continues the same hite and dusty, without tree, herbage or even moss. At length the road seeks a lower level, and approaches the rocky border which bounds the Valley of the Jordan; when, after a toilsome loumey of ten or twelve hours, the traveller sees ilrelching out before his ryes the uead sea, and the line of the river

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But the landscape, however grand, admits of no comparison to the scenery of Europe. .No fields waving with corn no plains covered pith rich pasture present themselves from the mountains of Lower Palestine. Figure to ) ourselves two long chairs of mountains, running ia a parallel direction from north to south, without I leaks and without undulations. Tut-. eastern, or Arabian chain, is the highest ; and, w hen seen at the ditanc of eight or ten leagues, )ou will take it to lea prodigous perpendicular wall; resem bling Mount Jura in its form at 7. HC color. .Not one summ:t. not the surli est peak can he distinguished; you merely perceive slight infection here and there as if the hand of the Painter, who drew this horizontal line along the sky, had trembled in some places. The mountains of Judea form the range on which the observer stands as he looks down on the Lake Asphaltites. Less lofiv and more unequal than the eastern chain, it diffeis In .in the other in its nature also, exhibiting heaps of chalk and sand, whose form, il is said, bears some resemblance to pik-s d' arms, w aving standards, or the tents of a camp pitched on the border of a plain. The Arabian side, on the contrary, presents nothing but black pret ipitctis rocks, which throw their lengthened shadows over the waters of the Dead Sea. The smallest bird of Heaven would not Ihsd among these crags a single blade of grass lor its susten tnc.c; every thing annouces the country of a reprobate people, and well fitted to perpetuate, the punishment denounced against Amnion and Moab. The valley confined bv these two chains of mountains displays a soil resembling the bottom ot a" sea which had long retired from its bed, a beach covered with salt, dry mud, and moving sand, furrowed as il w ere, by the w aves. Here and there stunted shrubs vegetate with difficulty upon this inanimate tract, their leaves are covered with salt, and their bark h-vsmokv smell and taste. Instead of vhts ) ou perceive the ruins of a few towers. Fi ike twiddle of this valley flows a discolored river, w hich reluctantly throws itself into the pestilential lake by w hich it is engulphd. Its course amid the sands can be distinguished only by the willow and the reeds that border it; among which the Arab lies in ambush to attack the traveller and to murder the pilgrim. M. Chateaubriand remaiks, that when you travel in Judea, the heart is it tirst tilled with profound melancho ly. But when, passing from solitude to solitude, boundless space opens be fore you, this feeling wears oil bv de grees, and you experience a secret awe, A'hich,sa far trom depressing the soul, imparts life and elevates the genius. Lxtraordinary a ppearances every where proclaim a land teeming with miracles. I he burning sun, the towering eagle, the barren tigtree, all the poetry, all" pictures of Scripture are heie. F.very name commemorates a mystery every grotto announces a prediction every hill re-echoes the accent ot a prophet. God himself has spoken in these regions, dried up rivers, rent the rocks, and opened the grave. "The desert still appears mute with terror: and you would imagine that it had never pre sumed to interrupt the silence since it heard the awlul voice ot the Lternal. The celebrated lake which occupies the site of Sodom and Gomorrah is called in Scripture the Dead Sea. Among the Greeks and Latins it is known by the name of Asphaltites, the Arabs deuote it Uahar Lot!), or Sea of Lot. M. de Chateaubriand does not agree with those who conclude it to be the crater of a volcano; for having seen V esuvius, Solfacara, the Peak of the Azores, and the extinguished volcanoes of Auvergne, he remarked in all ol them the same character: that is to say, mountains excavated in the form ot a tunnel, lava and allies, which exhibited inconteslible proof of the agency of tire. The Salt Sea, on the contrary, is a lake ot great length, curved like a bow, placed between two rauges of mountains, which have no mutual coherence of form, no similarity of compo sition. They do not meet at the two extremities of the lake; but while the one continues to bound the Valley of Jordan, and to run northward as lar as Tiberias, the other stretches away to (he south till it looses itself in the sands of Yemen. There are, it is true, hot springs, quantities of bitumen, sulpher, and asphalos; but these of themselves

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are not sullicient to attest the previous existence of a volcano. With icspect indeed to the enguiphed cities if we J.dopt the idea of Michaelts and of IJusching, physics may he admitted to explain the catastrophe without offence to lehgion. According to their views, Sodom was built upon a mine of bitumen. a fact which is ascertained by the U'sihm ny ui .'i.e$ and J osephus. wimspakocf the v.chsof naptha in the valley of Sichiim. Lightning kindled the combustible mass, and the guilty cities sank iuto the subtei raneous conllagraiion. Malte Brun ingeniously sugges;ed that Sodom and Gomorah themselves may live been built of bituminous stones, and thus have been set in ilutr.es by the lire from Heaven. According to Strabo, there were thirteen towns swallowed up in the Lake Asphaltites: Stephen of Uxzantium reckons eight; the book of Genesis, while, it names live as situated in the Vale c f Siddim, relates the destruction of two only; four are mentioned in Deuteronomv, and live are noticed bv the author of Ecclesiasticus. The marvellous properties usually assigned to the Dead Sea by the earlier travellers have vanished upon a more rigid investigation. Il is known that bodies sink, or iio it upon it, in proportion to their specific gravity ; and that, although the water is so dense as to he favorable to swimmers, no security is to be found against the common accident of drowning. Josephns, in deed, asserts that Vespasian, in order to ascertain the fact now mentioned, commanded a number of his slaves to be bound hand and foot and thown into the deepest part of the lake; and that so far from any of them sinking, they ill maintained their places on the sur face until it pleased the Kmperor to ave them taken out. But this anec dote, although perfecly consistent with truth, uocnot justify alltne inferences which have been drawn from it. "Be ing willing to make an experiment," savs Maundrejl, 'I went into it and found that il bore up my body in swimming, with an uncommon forces but as for that relation of some authors, that men wading into it were bouyed up to the top as soon as they got as deep as the middle, I found it, upon trial, not (rue. Edinburgh Cubimt Library. WHAT WILL THE WOULD SAY. "Fool! what mailers it to thee what the world may sav? Hast thou settled the subject with thine own conscience mi) convenience? Is it right? Is it agreeable? Then let the world talk let its wits and witlings laugh much good may it do them! What carcst ihou about the world, if thine own con science condemn thee not? Art thou not a free man? Or art thou the slave of the fashions and follies, the opinions and prejudices, of those around thee? "1 pity the world weather man the miserable menial of nmrcmshonlc the veeiing weathercock which never points except with the popular breeze. His is a servitude more intolerable than that of the galley slave. He toils in a tread-mill of his own creation, and hugs the chain which galls him. Such a man, however great his intel lectual endowments, and however ardent and pure the intentions of his heart is he, can he be. a great man? I answer no. He lacks the chief re quisite for the conception and execu tion of lolly designsand extended pians; the fixed and decided purpose of a determined mind. Like the painter w ho forsook the happy inspiration of his own genius and exposed his productions to the censures and alterations of spectators, he not only abandons, nt every suggestion, his own projects of greatness, but also fails to obtain even the temporary applause for which he seeks. k"H hnl rriil tte World sat ? Did Luther ask that question? Had he clone so, the earth might have been groaning under the weight ol Papal dominion. Had Columbus been deterred by the scoff's of the sceptical and the name of a visionary, a new world had never opened upon his ocean pathway. Had Howard or Watt regarded the ridicule of those who call themselves Mhe world,' I ho deeds of the one had not stood upon the first page of the records of benevolence, and the other had never disclosed a new empire to the career of human enterprise. "The man whose only rule of action and standard of conduct is the opinion of the world, can never be (1 repeat it. a great man much less a good man

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He is governed by a mere concomitant of the consequences of his actions, rath er than by their nature or legitimate re sults. And when his Victualing standard faikhim when the restraint of public sentiment is removed, or the hope of secrecy or concealment ccrne in to aid t he whispers of temptation, lie scruples not to plunge himself in'o the lowest depths of debauchery and crime. "Blush not now it is too late,' said a distinguished Italian to his young relative, whom he met issuing from a haunt of vice; -you should have blushed when vou went in. J hat heart alone is sale which shrinks from the slightest contact or conception of evil, and waits not to inquire, "Whet rvi'l the Wvrld sayf .Ycie Yorker. AUISTUCR.VFIC TP-IDE. Among all the varied forms and phra ses in which pride exhibits itself to pub lic view, there, is none more disgusting and ridiculous than that aristocratic or dandified form which it assumes in the persons of those who seem to consider it an indignity to be seen laboring with their hands, or performing any of the diudgeries of life. They think it abovc the dignity of a goillevum, in which character they would like to be considered, to soil their delicate fingers with a mean employment, as they engage in toearn, with honesty, their daily bread. These men of starch, and rullles, and bergamot, would look upon it as an everlasting disgiace to be surprised by their consequential acquaintance in the act of rolling a wheelbarrow through the street-;, in the transaction of necessary business, as the immortal Franklin used to do through the. streets of Philadelphia; or in carrying provisions from the market, or in tilling the land. This foolish pride is often a heavy tax, levied upon the purse of its possessor, for, often do we see such a person, in order to keep up appearances, expending his money, and subjecting himself almost to starvation, and to every domestic inconvenience, to prevent his pride from being mortified, and to support his fancied dignity. Such dandied fops are the mere insects of society, as perfectly useless as the gilded butterfly which hovers about the flowers in the sunshine of summer, but is swept away by the cold blasts of autumn. We are remarkably well pleased with the rebuke w hich William Gray of Boston, familial ly termed "Billy Gray,1' once gave to this butterfly race. He happened to be at market one day, when lie heard a spruce young lawyer, who had jiist opened an office for the practice of his profession, inquiring for some one (o carry home a piece of meat for him, which he had been purchasing. Stepping up to the man of law, said "Billy" to him, "Sir, I w ill carry your meat." "Very well," was the reply as it was handed to him, and the lawyer led the way through the streets, while he followed, to the no small amusement of those who happened to know him. Having arrived at his house, the attoney inquired w hat was to pay. A shilling, sir," replied the carrier, which, having received, and bowing politely, he thanked the lawyer, and told him that whenever he wanted a similar service done again, to call on "Billy Gray." As might have been expected the man of law was astounded at the announcement of the fact, that a man worth as many millions as he was tens had condescended to this piece of drudgery for him, and so great was his mortification at the rebuke he had received, that he never again sought for another person to do a job which he could as well do himself", if the whisperings of pride were only silenced. We would say to all fops, fools, and dandies, "(Jo ye and do likewise," and make yourselves decent, and useful members of society, instead of being a laughing stock for men of sense. Pittsburgh Visiter. falsi: aotioxs. Owing to a sad defect in education, too many young ladies consider themselves to be more for ornament than usefulness; and they cultivate a taste for display far more than a taste for the sober duties of life. To these (here is a painful waking up in after life; and too many find themselves ulteily unfit for the discharge of obligations which they have taken upon themselves to fulfil. But there is no retreat for them, and too often life's most pleasant anticipationsare found to end in bitterness.

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