Rising Sun Times, Volume 3, Number 143, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 6 August 1836 — Page 1

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if it "I WISH SO OTHER I1ERM.P, NO OTHER SPEAKER OF MY LIVING ACTIONS, TO KEEP 51 1 X E HONOR FROM t'ORRU PTION. YOLI'JIK IH.--.0. 143.

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THE STREAMS. The ftreams". liow rurei how beautiful, How holy do they seem, When sombre twilight's shadow cool Subdues their golden gleam, Where, .in the willow-curtained pool. The wave-tired waters dream! Whereby the alder-circled cove And round the reedy islo, The peering wild-fowl softly move In many a shadowy file, And swallows dimple as they rove The silent lapse the while. River', when once in thoughtless mood I cast the whistling line, Above thy liquid solitude No more my paddles shine ; Mv oar is in the world's fierce flood, More dangerous than thine. But though life's flowers their leavesunclose Beneath its vernal beams, Yet memory from its whelming snows, A blossom oft redeems, And wafts the" scent of springs first rose Alhwait our winter dreams: And thus, although youth's locks of gold

Are turninc silver-gray

bold

Vision of boyhood's pastime

Around me. seem to play, And by the streams.! loved of old, Mv soul makes holiday.

lUSTOKWAIi.

BKAOIHK K'S DEFEAT.

All accounts agree that the unfortunate Braddock behaved with great gallantry, though with little discretion, in his trying situation. He encouraged his soldiers and was crying: out with his speaking trumpet, 'Hurrah, boys! lose the saddle or win the horse," w hen a bullet struck him, and he fell to the ground, exclaiming 'Ha, boys'. l"m gone'. During all this time not a cannon had been tired by the British forces.

It a at i his moment that one who

It remains still in existence, under the name of Birs Nimrcd. and has been

amply described by Rich and Porter.

It w as formed of eight square towers, one on the other, six hundred and sixty feet high, and the same at each side of its base. Lately its height was one hundred and sixty feet, and the reeds between every three or four layers of brick, were perfectly fresh, while the brick seems to be calcined by fire. Babylon continued for two thousand years after, to be the most splendid city in the world, and so Alexander found it as late as 325 n. c It decayed on the building of Bagdad by the

Cainhs. as better situated lor inter

course, 760 a. i. According to the Jewish annals it was built 2234 rs. c, beautified and enlarged in 2160, by Semi rami?, w ho led from it her armies of all nations. The Euphrates passed through it. It was a square, fifteen miles on each side, with one hundred brass gates, it was composed of twenty-live streets each way, fifteen miles

long, one hundred and fifty feet broad, crossing each other at right angles, besides four half streets, two hundred feet wide, facing the walls, in detached houses, with gardens and pleasure

grounds. 1 he walls were eighty-seven feet thick, three hundred and seventy high.

paid for or not. The services of these people are not, we expect, so well appreciated by the community as they deserve. But for their untiring industry in collecting family incidents, ai d retailing them to the public, we might remain forever ignorant oi what tr.itisfiirnc nmnnnr rwir npiirhhoi'S. A I v i a! V

L J IIIIMUI VUI IIVI,'" of our valued friends sick or dead'? who

so readily bring us the doleful intelligence as they? Has any thing occurred to tarnish your friend's character or blacken his fame? these kind officious beings are the first to whisper il into your ears, accompanied by every aggravation which the case will admit of." A family feud, is pounced upon with as much" avidity as a ilock of vultures would alight upon a dead carcase. But the most delicious uvrrn; u.r f .-.11 i ;i njislrrious aiiuir. involving

the reputation of one or more individuals. What smacking of lips and rubbing of hands! What rapturous glistening of the eye balls at the prospect of such a feast! None are so apt at solving mysteries. Such ominious shakes of the" head such dark insinuations. Wo be unto the individual who falls under their suspicion, or whose character is subjected to their surveillance! Bet-

tor fall into the hands oi a lugi-ivcy rubber. S'ut.

silver, copper and other metals. Cabinet Making. In short, w e could name fifty occupations more val'uahJemore healthy more positive independent, than the range of professional callings and the sicklv, poverty stricken labor of the midnight lamp.

Iiv tins course we shall bring into

the line of mechanics an intelligent, well educated, higblv respectable class of American citizens, free (rom radicalism, combinations, unjust extortions or disreputable assoc'alions. .V. Y. I ac. SUr.

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All made of pas-ion, all made of wishes, All adoratien, duty and olwervann All humhitnc-, al'l paliei.ee and impatience All purilv,all trial, and good Ui-Miig. S!AhB-l I'. MIC.

I went to Church last Sunday not

all pioltstant doctrines and practice with equal pertinacity. They avow themselves to be actuated as the early chiislians were before Christianity become associated with politics statesmenemperors kings or w orldly am-

tion. 1 hoy deny authority liom Hea

ven to build churches, or expending

moncv inendov. ing clergyman. Jscc. &c.

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THE (JKEAT WALL OF CIIIXA.

The wall which separates China from Tartary, has been built full two thousand years, and is supposed to be upwards of 12 hundred miles in length;

it height varies according to the cir

cumstances of the surface. It is up-

was with mm at me time. m uniu - - ... ,. . , it I i i-;mn, twentv four broad. 1 he foundation is living, and on whose humble testimony J" " . . .1 ...xu I iMTii cmnrn ct mire - 1 MA cil

I rehVeven with more confidence than '" "l"'" ""fa- , i. " . , . - ,i (.. f l- nerstructure is brick: the center is a on the more imposing authority ot his- ,u l, ;uui' - , . , ' , V ii kind ot mortar, covered with Hag stones, torv, thus describes ashixgtox. M hluuu"""' ' s . i i 1 . Kr-i - fiplil niprf A parapet of no ordinary strength runs saw him take hold ot a brass held piece I t - . 8 .. lf as if it had been a stick. He looked on each side of an embattled wall If hke a furv, he tore the sheetlead from e consider that this immense fabr.ck 'the touch-hole: be placed one hand on covers the widest rivers on arches of the muzHe. the other o.rthe breech, he proportionate size, or. u, the same form, - .,,! t. .t connects mountains together, occasionmil ej with Ins, ana pushed w.tn that, ' , c ' 1 i i i if it had Wn a y ascending the highest hills, or deami wheeled it round a3 it it Had been j - cf , -n. k0

i.olhiix- It tore the ground like a nenumg y""-J'i i,oimiv u to ie Jr The now- most pctive powers of imagination will barsh,re (akindofplo .ugh . 1 he pow I q Jer-monkey rushed u h t he hrc I itu:Uion,however, lhe and then the cannon begai to bark, I J tell von Tnev fought, and they fought; p i, 13 J Itli jou. ioej ioum,.. j a. , runted: and it serves as a military road

and theindiansbegauionoiiai, wncu , . - ana uic inuia.u & hik ofthe om one end of the kingdom to the the brass cannon bade the ba.k oMhe intervals there are irprs iK- Tnd the Indians came down. f t !rhat p ace Xbey ca ed Back Hills, and strong towers placed from whence s,ginatpi.ict.uic t..iicu X3 . repeated, and an alarm may there .hey 600., on bo clVu.fic.cd' .0 the not feui S,0mc ,4c, of the crelt, a J kr ,h A insr which were exercised and ieu in v

.hvpnr of sava-e warfare which oi me te,eg..n..,

tuccceaea uic u busy no dies."

may be git hercd liom tnc svioj...- . . 1 r ...k 5i.:.u K.,,ned from the There is a certain class of individ

APrilENTUUS. THE MECHANIC ARTS. If we would desire to counteract the pernicious influence of Trades Unions and Radicals from abroad, w e must teach our sons the Mechanic Arts, and

bind more of them as apprentices to

substantial and profitable employment than wo. are now in the habit of doing

We are all wrong in underrating the

value of Mechanical occupations we nm : irrnnir in makinir all our sons

Doctors. Lawyers. Divines, and 3lcr

chants. Some branches of the family should be mechanics, and if when thev are out of their time, w e can give

j . . them some money to commence business with, we at once set them on the

road lo indenendence to solid inde

pendence, weight, and influence. Km

piovment labor, healthy refresi.iir;., mnxhn.i labor is the craiid secret to

keep boys correct and moral, to keep them out of vice in every shape, to

make good sons and good citizens ui them. There are many poor widows with boys from ten to thirteen years of age, who are not probably aware that if they are good and industrious, can earn from one hundred to one hundred and fifty dollars per annum, and have

steady employment. This is much more profitable in every respect, than

running about the streets after soldiers

sketcn. wnicii was oiiwn.u " i , . -n infnf Vashin.ton himself and is now uals in every town and village, whose

first i rcented to the public: greatest pleasure consists n prjing m"Oneda" ; si Washington, a. we to the affair, of their neighbors, and were traversing a part of the frontier, 1 JZ

we came upon a single Iognouse,si.mu- .u.6 n. y, - in lhe centre of a clearing, surrounded interred benefactors of mankind, know i -II s:de 4 swc approach- more of your own business than you do c he. r'd e cport of the yorK and will rela.e to .vou event. lUl"L 1 f . . r.. il,tl Lnnlro.! vnnr miispnn d.

uual signal of coming norrors. uu. i..um.i. ...i.:,.i.u .. -":.' party crept cautiouslythrough the un- of which, but for their laudab.e v.gidc wood, until we approached near lance, you might have remained in perM,ouh to see what we had already feet ignorance forever. I here is nothforeboded. A smoke was slow ly mat rg that escapes their observ ation, from U its way through the roof of the the cellar to the garret. The multifahcTuse while at the same moment a nous transactions of the laundry, which party 'of Indians came forth laden w ith to me, were always as mysterious as Hunder,consi-ting of clothes, domestic the complex doctrine of nul hficalion, rtensils household funiture and drip- or the machinery of a steamboat, are rung .calns. We fired, and killed all as familiar lo them as to the presiding J 1 ..,: i . nWav. hut Deiiicsof vour ryots. kcUks and wash tubs.

cm one, wno mtu i t.- ji i . was soon shot down. rhe most insignilicant and unimportant i - .. .. o ciohi samnrrs of the drawing room are treas-

M7U enierin" iuu nut . ..s,.. ' i i i tint though we were familiar with ured up by these indefatigable butl at, uiouB.i ,h,9,i si bodies, and circulated throughout

Mood and massa re ..u -., - - earnestness,

rnyse wan ,eeng5 which ould Beem to impIy that their than J had experienced beloie. "i .i i J , bed in one corner of the room lay a very existence depended upon their young woman swimming in blood, with dissemination.--1 hey usurp alike the igash in her forehead which almost prerogative of the chambermaid and boot o -v lJ. r. t 11 tUr. mill I.

separated the head into two parts. Un L "CJ " ". . t.VM-.. her breast lay two little babes, appa- ty of cream or sugar which every mem ic iv,-, ii,c her of vour fimily uses in his tea

rClllIJ It.03 limn in lUUIUIlJ I J J old, with their heads also cut open, whether you drink out of china or por n..:.:..n( Ki.-..i ttbtK i.. a I rohiin whether you breakfast a ouar

Xlieil 1IIIIVIVUIH. wiwvj, iiiib nau nt v-i. j . ji i : ncnrklci,.j ir hpfnrfi six. or eleven minutes and

and misery, but this cut me to the soul a half after nine o clock. 1 hey know ftrr lifo did 1 rair I thp dimensions of VOUT Coffee pot, the

mv hand against a savage without cal- color of your night cap, and can tell ' i . .i :.U tail. I , :K . ....rriti.T rrrrision the

linr to me mouiei w in uti niuc i.n iuc mon im.nif, iJ Jr heads cleft assunder.' number of holes in your stockings. J Paulding's Washington. They are intimately acquainted with " - -- all your habits, tastes, and eccenlriciT1IE TOWER OF UA1IEL. ties and can cniHnerale evcry article Babel, or Balbel, was a lofty temple 0f y0ur wardrobe, describe its quality, built at Babylon, by Belus, both as an and tell what it cost, where it was observatory, and a temple of the sun. purchased, aud whether it has been

nrlirp pntrinrs. We have often won

dered that so few sons of gentlemen of

tortune oiler as apprentices to some Mechanical nursuit. for example to the

printing business a business which is light and agreeable, and combines eo manv advantages. It may be asked

what are the benefits of this branch of

the Mechanic Arts. The sons of per

sons in easy circumstances who can board and lodge them without cost, until thev are out of their times w ho

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will superintend their comioria tnu morals, and feel, as they ought to feel, an interest in their advancement, may

realize the following advantages:

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1st. Thev learn a business wmcn

ranks high "in the cultivation of the ' . i - u : -i. . i

human mind a business oy w hich iney t nnm liprftmp familiar with the moral

nn.I nolitiral rondition of the country

the advancement of the mechanic arts-

the progress of internal improvements a business which made Doctor Franklin the great man he is by the whole

world allowed to have been.

9d. The Printing business includes a

knowledge, of proofreading some ac

quaintance with paper making, and in a

newspaper olhce where a ooy is intelligent, quick, ambitious to cxcell, be 53 ' ... ... i-..i

becomes familiar Willi cditoii.u pursuit and when out of his time be

comes proprietor or part proprietor of

a city or country paper, and u pruuent, temperate and industrious, may become a conspicuous politician, and till any of the high offices of the country, as we see at present in beholding Printers Senators in Consiress and members

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ol the House ot Uepreseniauvcs. ou much for nnr own profession, but there

are manv noble mechanical pursuits,

which should be cultivated by young men of good family and education. The builder, which includes the beautiful science of architecture. The Ship Builder, a first rate and most respectable calling. Workers in gold,

thu richly cushioned Trinity not the gorgeous Duane not tlx neat Si.

Thomas nor the fastidious (irace nor the incense burning at St. Patrick's.

went to a private family church. - i it i . I ....... i

which as-cmules in a pna;c mm-i; .u

't). Sullivan street, on the same

independent piinciph: on which Mr.

fitourette lias created his congrega

tion in the Bowery. At half past ten 1 entered a gateway mounted a stall ;

opened a door, and found myself in a small neat rectangular room divided

into two parts, with about a dozen ol

adies neatly dressed, sittinr around a

larsie table with green cloth at the up-

nor (Mtl of the room. 1 always con-

i - . sider myself in civilized society when I

find myself in the presence ol colored

bonnets, with leathers on one side or a moss rose on the other. 1 I .t . I I - ...

Aiounu me lames wen: .ui.t"u about a dozen bibles and Hymn Books. At the upper end stood a silver cup with too handles; and a slice of common bread on a salver a small box with an apperture. Outside the enclosure a number of pews were erected, each having also a Bible and Hymn Book-, beyond this was a stove to keep the apartment warm. The heathen,

i the unconverted, and pretty young girls.

from two to ten years ot age, sat outside. I sat among the latter cherubs

;is eajrer, as curious, as simple as the

children themselves.

At the proper hour, the Chief of

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the congregation entered a tall, good

ookimr personace. lie turned to tne

left, and after bestowing a kiss on one

of the prettiest girls present, (piety has

always a natural attraction to pretty

faccsAtook his seal at the upper end

of the table. He immediately stood

Up rcad a chapter in the New Testa

ment and afterwards said "lUen ant brethren let us pray." A very gooi prayer was the consequence. After this was closed, he began a sermon

which was short and sweet. This

done he read a passage from the New

Testament, authorizing the breaking of

hrearl then taking up the slice of

bread from before him, he broke ol

a small piece, put it into his mouth, and

handed the remainder to lus lett liant

iieirHibor. The slice w ent round the

table in this way, each breaking oil a

smn hit. as if it had been wedding

cake, till it reached the administrator

at the head of the table. Another prayer and another hymn.

xVnolher prayer another hymn another small discourse and then came the crowning glory of the whole ceremonies the "Kiss of Charity. The leader got up and said, "brethren and sisters, let us according to the Lord's appointment, greet each other with the holy "Kiss of Charity." This e.:1i. 1 ovcry nerson male and female,

arranged round the table, kissed each

o her right and left, men and womenwomen and men. It was not either a

mere dry buss of the cheek but a

i-.-.!-. ,'pam power smacK, mat .-u uciv

heme to the ear most charmingly a

cm.irk of the hp to I'P. ' almost

said involuntarily "egad I wish 1 was

a communicant for one day hy particular desire, I would take my seat right between two pretty girls in white feathers and braided hair- but being only a heathen, I sat and mourned among the children, beyond the outer railing as the ancestors of Ma jor Noah did by the rivers of Babylon. . r. ji. I.: ......... i lia.l r!o-

Alter me Kissing iiifui iiiivii ed, the whole church went to work and snnf a nrettv psalm of praise for

the mercy vouchsafed in that delight

ful crremonv.

I L-i,nwnotthe name of this newsc.ct-

but they profess to reject all catholic

;i.t.nis or iir.Airii. Litlle girls should be careful, whether walking or silting, to turn their feet on!. The habit of turning the feet toward each other is extremely awkward. The practice of shrugging the shoulders is more so; they should always be carried as low as possible. These things are of veiv little consequence, compared with what relates lo the mind and hear!; hut we cannot help acquiring habits: und it is better to acquire -good than had ones, even in the most trifling .

tilings.

Clean the teeth as much as twice a

day, with a brush and pure water.

TIih habit of always cleaning lhe teeth hemic retiring to rest lends greatly to their preservation. The beauty of the hair depends greatly on keeping it perfectly clean and disentangled. Washing the hair with a litlle soap in it, and a thorough brushing afterward, is much better than the too frequent use of the ivory comb; many, who take excellent care of (heir hair, do not use an ivory-comb at all. No woman in the world arc

more distinguished for fine and glossy hair than the Southsea islanders; it is said to be the effect of frequent bath

ing.

Tin: Ock.an. The sea is to the land,

in round millions of square miles, as one hundred ami sixty to forty, or as

lour to one. lhe narrowest pari oi

the Atlantic is more than two miles deep. In other parts it is about one

mile and a halt. 1 nc bottom ot the

sea appears lo have inequalities simi

lar to the surface ol the continents; the depth of the water is therefore extreme

ly various. there are vast places where no bottom has been found; but

this, of course, does not prove that the

sea is bottomless, because the line is

able to reach but a compan lively small

depth. It- w j were lo louna ouropini i . i i

ion upon analogy, we might conciuue that the greatest depth of the ocean is

equal to the height of the loftiest

mountains, that is, between twenty i . i f

ind thirty thousand leet.

A Fortune made from a Misfor-

tuxe! Lundy Foot, the celebrated

snuff manufacturer, originally kept a . , . T -1

small tobacconist s shop at JimericK. One night, his house, which was

uninsured, was burnt to the ground. i . i

As he contemplated the smoking ruins the following morning in nutate bordering on dispair, some of the poor neighbors groping among the embers for what they could find, stumbled upon several cisterns of uncomsumed but half-baked snuff, which they tried, and found it so grateful in their noses, that they loaded their waistcoat pockets with the spoil. Lundy Foot, roused

from his stupor, at length imitated their example, and took a pinch of his own property, when he was instantly struck by. the superior pungency and flavor it had acquired from the great heat to which it had been exposed. Treasuring up this valuable hint, he took another house in a place called Black Yard, and preparing a large oven for the purpose, set diligently about the manufacture of that high dried commodity, which soon became widely known as Black Yard snuff; a term subsequently corrupted into the more familiar word Black guard. Lundy Foot, making his customers pay literally through the

nose raised the pi ice of his production, took a larger house in Dublin, and ul

timately made a large fortune by hav

ing been ruined.

Artm.v n of Mind. The last in

stance on record occurred on Thurs

day night at the Quackinbog hotel, and

was attended Willi lamentable consequences. C. B. , Esq., one f !. hoarders, on retiring to rest in

a state of 'bctn:trnitii. put his boots to bed,

and placing Ins neck in the jacK pulled his head oil"! Motion Transcript. No man w ho loves his family fails to take anewpaper, says a contemporary. Very true; and no man who loves his t Intruder, f.nU to py for it.