Rising Sun Times, Volume 3, Number 133, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 28 May 1836 — Page 1
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JUL ilia JOL I WISH NO OTHER HERALD, NO OTHER StEAKF.il OF MY LIVING ACTIONS, TO KEEP MINE HO.VMl FROM t'OKKX' l'TION.
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KISIXU SUA', IADS A A A, SAITUSJAV, 31 AY 2tf,
From Z ion's Herald. MILLEXXRM. by wii.i.iam c. nnmvs. Life to death, ai:d death to sin, (Morions t rn usher in! Lo '. the il:iy?pring from on liish, Greets the pilgrim's wistful eye ; On the inj:Mit pnuni-e borne, Hasten on auspirion morn. ISow ve days of darkness (lee! Welcome blood-houuht jubilee, lircak the fettus forged by Jin Then no more shall man delight, In the fierce and bloody tii;ht; Seorn of men from shoie to shore, Drunkenrss be seen no more 'Then the raiisoim d, hand in hand, iSliall be like an anrl b and. Mercy shall the sufferer know, Tears for other's woes wi'l (low. .Life to death, and death to sin, Day of glory enter in I Then thy waste, Jerusalem, h;lll be like a diadem ; Israel's scattered tiibes from far, Hail the bright millennial star; Solids of nicicy greet their cars, od shall wipe away all tears, Karth by angel feet be trod, One t;reat garden of its (Jod.' Come, O blest release from sin, Days of glory enter in! Then the lame shall nimbly leap, Dumb uo longer silence keep, I'.irren deserts sweets disclose, l!ud and blossom as the rose, All shall then sec rye to eye, (loci shall be exalted hih ; Then the song by seraphs given, F.arlh shall echo hack to heaven. Lo! the triumph over sin, Years of c'orv uheriii!
THE M.V. YVIIO C.VltKlUl HIS OYVX IJUXULE. In the dullest part of the dullest county in England is situated the little demi-semi-fashionable bathing tow n of . Bless me! I was almost betrayed by the mere force of habit into the imprudence of calling it by its name . Once upon a time there happened to the said little town, a very dull bathing season every town on the coast beside was full of company; bathers, walkers, donkey-riders, santerers and pebble gatherers, yet the luckless town of was comparatively empty. Huge placards with "Lodgings to let" stared every body in the face, from every w indow in every direction. Thiiu.s of course were very Hat. All ranks of I . . i riM. - -I
people were malcontent, i ue snor
ed so substantial a weapon of offence and defence as the above mchtionned stout oaken cudgle, in a hand that betokened such weight of hone and power of muscle. "Til warrant me, Jack, that 'ere list of his would prove a knock me-down argument,'" said a sailor to one of his shipmates, who was intently surveying the stranger. "Ey' ey, my lad, make yourself sure of that," replied Jack, between whom and the stranger a singular look of recognition bad been exchanged, cn passuni. 'lie's a rum sort of fish, howeer," rejoined the first speaker, "and 1 wonder what wind cast him on this shore: he don't look like a landsman, for all his pepper-and-salt gear. Ala) hap you know somew hat about him, Jack?" "Ala) hap I do,' replied Jack, purs
ing up his mouth with a look of importance; "hut I han't sailed so many years in the king's service without learning
"No, sir, we cannot admit persons of your description on any term?, sir."' "Persons of my description!" repeated the stranger, most emphatically grasping his trusty cudgle, "and pray, sir, of what description do you suppose me to be?'' The Jack in office surveyed thi sturdy stranger with a look in which contempt and alarm were oddly blended, as he replied "Can't exactly say, sir, but I am sure none of our subscribers would choose to associate with you."' "How do you know that, you saucy Jackenapesf said the stranger, becoming a little choleric. " by, sir, because, sir, we make a point of being very select, sir,nnd ney er on no account admit persons of your description."' "But, it seems you do not know of what description I am."
'Why,
sir, no
dently added, was the way in which business was always carried on at the Golden Lien. "I wonder then, Airs, Pagan, that you should do so unhandsome a thing by Jack Smith, Tom Balls, and some Cozen other of )our easterners, as to chalk up such enormous scores against
them as these,' said the stranger, dryly pointing w ith his oak slick to the hyeroglyphics, with which the bar was graced. "Why, sir, lo he sure, these be all "sponsil.de persons,"' stammered Betty Pagan. Her guest mui tired to himself as he passed into the street "Rather hard that my credit should he worse than that of Jack Smith, and Tom Balls, and the rest of Betty Pagan's customers. Faith, I must be a most suspicious looking fellow ! To be sure, reports like these are of a nature to give the death blow to my vanity, if
one can expect to that were a (ailing to be cured by mor-
lilication. 1 am an ugly dog I am
keep these sort of things secret
'What, then, is it whispered about aware, but 1 did not know that my phiz
was 111 lookm
(old smuggler
fiiou
to indicate an
ler, a broken down miller,
keepers were croaking, the proprietors
of lodging houses in despair-, and the few visiters who had ventured thither in the hopes of making pleasant acquaintances and dissipating their dullness were sick of ennui. As for that class of incurables, the resident inhabitants, they, for want of better amusement, applied themselves with redoubled ardor to their favorite winter re
creations of cards, and the most invete
rate scandal of each other.
In this state of utter stagnation were
a (lairs at when one very hot day,
in the middle of August, a stranger
was seen to enter that worthy town
corpoiale. In the dearth of anything in the news or variety which was felt so sensibly at the arrival of a stranger would have been considered
a seasonable mercy, could he have been
approached without the direful risk o
contaminating gentility by bringing it
in contact with something beneath it. But this stranger entered the town in to questionable a shape, that the very fourth and fifth castes in stood aloof, holding themselves peg above him. 1'ven the shopkeepers, mantua-makers, and waiters at the taverns felt their noses curl up intuitively at him. The groups of loiterers collected at the doors of the inns, passed contemptuous comments on him as he pursued his way, and the few fashionables that were to be seen jn the streets cast supercilious glances of careless superiority upon him, for he was on foot and alone, attired in a coat, waistcoat, and
in short, a whole suit of that sort ol
mixed cloth called peppcr-and-salt co-
lored, with a black silk haudkercluel
tied about his neck in a nautical sly lo ; he wore huge scabools pulled over his knees and lo complete the picture, car
ried a large bundle in a red silk hand
kerchief at the end of a stout oaken
cudgle over his shoulder.
Such was his dress: yet to close ob
servers of character, there was some
thine wholly out of the common about
the lonely pedestrian, there was that Tnreesion of cool determined courage
i.. his larcc gray eyes, that whatever
might be the prevailing sentiments of
the community towarus mm, iew wouiu have been bold enough lo o(ler him
actual insult, even if he had not grasp
to keep my own counsel aye, or another's too, on occasion!"' "I'd wager, then, this odd genius is some rascally smuggler that ou have fillen along side of, who has given vou a gallon of Dutch gin to bribe )ou to mum, w henyou see him and I wouldn't mind betting a pint that 'ere bundle of his is full of Injee handkerchers thai he has runned ashore, and has now to sell. I'll just step up, and ask him for the fust sight of cm, for I wants a good tin." "I'd advise you Ben, my boy, to lake another observation of his fist, before you go to crack your jokes on him!' said Jack; and Ben having done so, wisely determined on keeping his distance. There certainly was a characteristic something in the stranger, from the tie of his handkerchief to the slight rcll in
his gait that savored of a seafaring life.
r.ven his way of setting on his hat had
not the look of a landsman. The art of sturdy independence with which he
shouldered his. bundle, and trudged
along, shewed that he considered the opinions of the bv stnnders ns a matter
of perfect indifference. Yet there was sans, ana slept at meuoiden Laon. lions of han.is,or :eals, or haply Iroi
that about him which forcibly arrested 1 hese worthies did not allow him the expression o( the countenances ol
the attention or every one; people w ho time to make their acquaintance, but the recipients, or some hint or exclama-
would not own to themselves that they with an air as it they dreaded injection, tion during perusal
thought him worth looking at once, tney rose and departed. Not the least The unclaimed letter was of a most
nevertheless turned around to look at discomposed by the distance the great tempting appearance, sealed, surmount
him again. men of little evinced for his socio- ed with a coronet to the Right Hon.
The first step he took was to search ' tne stranger proceeded to make (urn- admiral Lord A
(or lodgings; but these though readily se s mucii at Dome on tne nench as by the Duke ot
i( it had been his inheritance. He the surmises offered on the tubied.
who I am ?'
"Whispered! Lord, sir, it was in ev
ery bed) s mouth before breakfast !' (but lor that the pepper-and-salts may
"And what does t'nat important per- be thanked.) a fraudulent bankrupt,
sonagc, every body, say ?"' hiding up from Ins creditors, a returned
"Oh, sir, that you are a broken dow n convict, and a man who, having main
miller hiding from his creditors.'1 And cd thice wives has run away from them
lure he cast a shrewd dance on ihe all.'
thread bare pepper-and salts of the The habitual good temper, and light
stranger. I he stranger regarded him Hearted gaiety ol the stranger was for a moment, with a comic expression rubied; and there wasa compression on
on his features, made urn a ntolound his brow, and an nngrv glow on his
bow, and walk off. cheek, as he entered thai notorious
Not a whit humbled bv this repulse, gossip shop, the Post Office. Toe mail
Ihe stranger repaired to the place of had just arrived, and mo letters bavin
general promenade, and look possession been coiled, were delivered lo their
of a vacant place at the end of the respective claiments. but there was
benches, on which w ere seated two or one letter that had not been claimed.
three of those important people who J which excited general curiosity
had from time immemorial, invested According lo avariable diurnal cus
themselves with the dignity of head torn, all the town-people who had no-
nciiuns in i.ii; mace, n is naraiy pos- iiuii" to do, w ere assembled in or near
sible to suppose such people would con- the Post Office: those who expected
descend to exchange a few remarks letters, to receive them, and those w ho
wiin a stranger ol w hom the only par- did not, to lake note of the epistles di
ticulars known were, that fie trudged rccted to their neighbors, and obtain,
into tovTu carrying his own bundle, if possible, some clou whereby t guess wore a thread-bare suit of pepper-and- iheir contents either from obst-rva-
l'-are pepper and salts of the independent individual before thorn. "We arc surprised at your impudence in demauling this letter, which is franked and sealed by the Duke of A , and iflldiessed to Admiral Lord A l . .i .i ... i.i
"l am t tic gentleman, returned trie stranger, m iking a sarcastic obeisance all around,"! see you do not think that the son of a duke can wear such a coat, and carry his own bundle on occasion. However, I see one within hail who can witness my idenlit). Here, you, Jack Braceyard, have you forgotten your old commander? "Forgollrn your honor! No, no, my lord,"' exclaimed Jack, springing into the midst of the circle. "I knew your noble lorshin the moment I seed you; but I remember your honor's humor too well (o spoil sport by saluting, when you thought lit to hoist foreign colors.' "Jack, yon are an honest fellow '.and here's a sovereign to drink my health, for we have weathered many a hard gale together, and here's another for keeping my secret, old heart of oak. And now, gentlemen,"1 continued Lord A. B. "if you are not yet satisfied that
the letter belongs to me, here are I trust sufficient proofs!"1 as he spoke he pro
duced from his pocket book a bundle of letters, bearing the same superscription. The post-master immediately handed him ihe letter, and began a string of the m-)st elaborate apologies, which his lordship did not stay to listen lo, but walked back to the Golden Lion, leaving the assembled population of mute with consternation. That afternoon, the whole corporation, sensible too late of their error, wailed in a body on Lord A B to apologize for their mistake, and to entreat him to honor the town with his presence during the remainder of the season. Lord A B was busily employed in tvii'g up his bundle when the deputation entered, and he continued
B and franked
A . Many were
found, were not so easily obtained. Itwas in vain thai he applied to the proprietors of every lodging house, it seem
ed as though he carried a bill of cxclu
m
mo
drew from his pocket a box with an Could it be possible that a man of hi
apparatus for igniting a match, lighted high rank meant to honor them with a segar, and smoked for some time with his presence for the season? Bat then
sion in his face, people shut their doors gieat apparent relish. he had not engaged lodgings. No mat-
on his approach, and from the genteel At length perceiving a new set of ter, there were plenty disengaged, marine villa to the most paltry cabin, he loungers on the promenade, he hasti- The most noble duke evidently suppos-
could not find a roof that would afford ly despatched his segar, and approach- ed that his uncle was actually there, shelter lo him and his bundle. The ing one of the other benches, addressed and it was impossible for so great a
innkeepers were equally inexorable, a few courteous though trifling obser- man to make a mistake. Lord A
and it appeared doubtful whether he rations to its occupants, three ladies B would doubtless arrive that day
would be permitted (o rest the soul of and a gentleman; but had his remarks with his suite. It would be the salva
his foot in the hospitable town of been either of a blasphemous or indeli- lion of the town for the season to be
Our pedestrian might have despair- cate nature, they could not have been able lo announce such an arrival in ed even of obtaining a night's lodging received with a greater appearance of the country papers the presence cf
in a place where the tide of popular consternation by the ladies, w ho rose, my Lord, was pei haps the prognostic of
opinion seemed to set so hard against alarmed at the liberty tiie pepper-and- la visit from the duke and the niightv
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him, but he was no sentimental novice: sail-colored man had taken, w hile the Duchess.
e had passed the meridian of life, and gentleman observed with a most arisfo- All present were impressed with the
was too well acquainted with mankind cratic demeanor, that he labored under necessity of calling an immediate town
not to know that while he could call a mistake in addrersing those ladies, meeting, to proposcprescnlinghim with
lo his aid a lew ol those potent little "Sir," said the stranger, "you are the freedom ol the town, in the gilt
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agicians called sovereigns (una me right: I took you for persons of polite- box, winch doubllesshis Lordship would ost despotic sovereigns they are) he Less and benevolence. Discovering lie polite enough to lake for gold. Du-
could ensure himself any thing he pleas- my error, I crave your pardon, and re"- ring the discussion, in which by thi
ed in the little corporation. In fact, hire." I lime the whole town was engaged,
theprudential doubts of its inhabitants, Although any reasonable person there were some whose curiosity to
as to tne probability ol his carrying might have been satisfied from these know the contents of this important e
any metal ol that shape and in the specimens of the inhabitants of pislle was so great as to betray them
queeiiy cut pockets ol Ins thread-bare that It w as not a spot for a friendly un- into the endeavor of forestalling Lord
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pepper anu sails was the whole and known individual lo pitch his tent in, A B in reading all that was
sole cause of his cool receptions. I still "the man who carried his own rnmeatihle in this letter: but the en-
The witness of a sovereign, lo which bundle" persevered in his endeavor, to velope was folded so as to bailie the
the stranger as a dernier resort appeal- find some liberal minded person therein. I most expert in the worthy art of round
ed, procured him a supper and bed, let, from the highest to the lowest a readings.
and all things needful lor rest and re- general leehng ot suspicion seemed to How lair the ardor ot making dis
(reshmcnl, at a small public house, pervade the bosoms of all, and the luck- coveries would have carried some ol
whose crazy little creaking sign prom- less stranger resided in the town a them, I am not prepared to say; per
ised to travellers "Good entertainment whole week without finding a single haps it might have led lo felonious at
lor man and horse. exception. Nay, worse reports still tempts on the sancity ol the ducal seal
The next mor ning, being disencum- than being a bankrupt miller got a- and frank, had not the stranger, (who
hered of the unpopular bundle at the I float. had remained an unnoticed listener in p .t . i . . - i i i i I ht: i. t a.. r r., .. t I.i i ii i 1 1.. 1 1. .. i.i
end oi mat oaucn cuugic wnicn ne I mine nusiess or tne vjuiuuii ljion tne crowu, anu nan iiuteiiy seen ua-
still cither grasped or flourished in a served up these on dits with all their ter passing from hand to hand through
most nautical fashion, he entered the variations and accompaniments to her a large circle,) now stepped into the
reading room. guest at his meals, protesting in the midst, and making a low bow, said
"It is no use pulling down vour true tone of all dealers in such matters, "Genlfement, when you have amused
name, sir, for y ou cannot be admitted her total disbelief in every thing that yourselves sufficiently with that letter,
nerc; ' was the answer he received irom wa saiu to inc prejudice oi uei guest i will inanit you 10 nana, u ovei iu me,
the pert superintendent of this place of a guest who shewed so much taste as to its rightful owner.
fashionable resort. prefer her house, and sufficient honesty "To vou !" exclaimed the whole town
"Not on my paying the usual sub- to pay for every thing before he con-J and corporation in a single breath look sciiption?" demanded the stranger. sumes il which to be suie she pru-ing unutterable things at the thread
K adjur-l it nil the time they were
peaking. When ihcv concluded, hav
ing tightened the last knot, he replied
is follows: "Gentlemen, I entered your town
with everv intention of thinking well
of its inhabitants. But, you will say
that I came in a shabby coat, carrying my own bundle and took up my quarters at a paltry alehouse. Upon my
word it was the onlv place vou would
give me admittance! Your reception
of me would have been very different
had I arrived in my carriage; gentlemen, I doubt it not; my rank, fortune
ind equipage, will procure respect anv
where from people of your way of
thinking. But gentlemen. 1 am an odd
fellow, as you see, and sometimes try
whether I can obtain it, without these
tdvenlilions distinctions; and ihe man
ner in which you treated me, while I ap
peared among you in the light of a poor
and inoffensive stranger, has convinced
me of my error in looking for liberality
of construction here. And now. gen-
tlcinen, I must inform you, that I estimate your polite attention at the same value that 1 did your contempt, and that I would not spend another night in your (own if you would give it to me for nothing, and so I wish you a very good morning." As his Lordship concluded, he attached his red bundle to the end of his bludgeon, and shouldering it with a droll look at the discomfitted corporalion, he trudged out of the town with the same air of sturdy independence that he had trudged in. The sagacious town and corporation remained thunderstruck with the adventure. However, their conduct in the aflair had been (oo unanimous to admit of their recriminating on each other (he blame of this unlucky mistake, so they came (o (he wise resolution of making the best of a bad business, and digesting the bitter rebuke as well as they might ; moreover, they determined that their town should not lose the credit of a visit from so distinguished a personage, and duly announced in iho country papers. Lord A B 's arrival and departure from the town of . 1
A reward is offered by the citizens of Winchester, la., for the delivery to Ihe Jailer of Randolph county, of two men, whose names arc James Burke and Wm. C. Walker, charged with causing the death of a man named Allen Wall of that place.
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