Rising Sun Times, Volume 3, Number 156, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 5 November 1836 — Page 1

THE

RISING

SUN

BY ALEX. E. (SLEX.

THE IRISHMAN. The savage loves his native shore, Though ruile the soil and chill the air; Well then may Erin's sons adore Their isle, that nature formed o fair. W hat flood reflects a shore so sweet As glorious Boyne, or pastoral Bann? Or who a friend or foe can meet, So generous as an Irishman ? His hand is rash, his heart is warm, But principle is still his sruide, Xjne more repents a deed of harm, And none forgives with nobler pride; He may be duped but won't be dared Fitter to practice than to plan, He nobly earns his poor reward, And spends it like an Irishman. If poor or strange, for you'll he'll par, Andculde you safe where you mav be; If you're a stranger, wliile jou st;iv His cottage holds a jubilee ; His utmost soul he will unlock, And il he may your secrets scan, Your confidence he scorns to mock, For faithful is an Irishman. Sy honor bound in woe or weal, W hate'er she bids, he dares to do ; Tempt him with bribes, or if you fail, Try him in fire, you'll find him true; lie seeks not safety let his post Be where it ought in danger's van ; And if the field of fame be lost T will not be by an Irishman. Erin ! loved land, from age to ase, Be thou more Messed, more famed and free! May peace be yours, and should you wage Defenceless wars, reap victory. May plenty bloom in every field, And gentle breezes sweetly fan, And generous smiles serenely shield The breast of'vcry Irishman. TIIE POOR VOTER'S SONG. A song under this title, was circulating tln'O' England, with preat effect, during an election for Parliament. The following spirited verses J are taken from it. " They knew that I was poor, And they thought that I was base, And would readily endure To he covered with disgrace. They judged me of their tribe, Wbo on dirty mammon dole, So, they offered me a bribe For my vote, boys, vote! O shame upon my betters, Who would my conscience buy! but shall I wear their fetters ? Not I, indeed, not I ! My vote! it is uot mine, To do with as t w ill ; To cast like pearls to swine To these walioweisin ill. It is my country's due, And t il give "it w hile t can, To the honest and the true, Like a man, hoys, man. O shame, ice. No, no, I'll hold my vote As a treasure and a trust, My dishonor none shall quote "When I'm mingled with the dust; And n&y children, when I'm gone, Shail be strengthened by the thought, That their father was not one To be bought, bojs, bought! O shame, ic. HISTORICAL. .EARLY TIMES EN THE WEST. ALEXANDER M-COEL. Firly in the spring of 17S0. Mr. A ler mder McConnel, of Lexii.gton, K v. went into the wood on foot to hunt de i. He soon killed a large buck. and relumed home for a horse to bring it in. During Iks absence, a party of five Indians, on one of their usual skulk.ng expeditions, accidentally stumbled on the body of the de r. and porceiv iinl that it had been recently killed. they naturally supposed that the bun ter would speedilt letutn to secure the rteah. Three of them, therefore, took th.r stations lhin gun shot of the d the deer, while the. other two ion.. l"c tr.til of the hunter, and waylaid the I lath bv which he was expected to return. McConnel, expecting no danger rode carelessly along the path, which Ihe two scouts were watching, until he .had come within view of the deer, when he was fired upon by the whol part, .and his horse killed. While laboring o extricate himself from the dying ani.nal, he w as seized by his enemies, instantly overpowered, and borne off asa rnoner. His captors, however, seemed to be .a merry, good nalured set of fellows, and pei milted him to accompany them .unbound; and, what was rather extra ordinary, allowed him to retain his gun and hunting accoutrements. He ac companied them with great apparent .cheerfulness through the day, and dis played his dextenty in shooting deer Jor the use of the company, until they began to regard him with great partial ity. I la vine traveled with them in this manner for several das, they at length reached the hanks of the Ohio .river. Heretofore, the Indians had taken the precaution to hind him at .night, although not very securely; but -on that evening he remonstrated with them on the subject, and complained so strongly of the pain which the cords cave him, that they merely wrapped tbe buffalo tup loosely around his

WISH NO OTHER HERU.D, NO OTHER

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wrists, and having tied it in an easy knot, and attached lite extremities of the rope to their own bodies, in order to prevent his moving without awaken ing them, they very composedly went to sleep, leaving the prisoner to follow their example ornot.ashe ideated. McC onnel determined to etfect his escape that night, if possible, as on the following; night they would cross the river, which would render it much more difficult. He, therefore, lav quietly until near midnight, anxiously rumina ting upon the best means of effecting his object. Accidentally casting his eyes in the direction of his feet, thev fell upon the glittering blade of a knife, which had escaped its sheath, and was now lying near the feet of one of the Indians. To reach it with his hands, without disturbing the two Indians, to w hom he was fastened, was impossible, and it was very hazardous to attempt to draw it up w ith his feet. This, how ever, he attempted. With much difficulty he grasped the blade between his tots, and alter repeated and long continued efforts, succeeded in bring ing it within reach of Ins hands. To cut his cords, was then but the work of a moment, and gradually and iiently extricating his person from the arms of the Indians, he walked to the tire and sat down. He saw that ins work was but half done. That if he hould attempt to return home, without deslrojing his enemies, he would assuredly he pursued and probably overta wht,n Jlis ;Ue noulJ be certai On the oilier hand, it seemed almost impossible for a single man to succeed in a conflict with five Indians, even although unarmed and asleep. Kt couiJ not hope to deal a blow with his knife so silently and fatally, as to destroy each one of his enemies in turn, without awakening the rest. Their slum bers were proverbially light and restless; and if he failed with a single one, he must instantly be overpowered by the survivors. Tie knife, therefore, was out of the question. After anxious reflection for a few minutes, he formed his plan. The guns of the Indians were stacked near the fire; their knives and tomahawks were in sheaths by their sides. The latter he dared not touch for fear of awakening their owners; but the former he carefully removed, with the exception of two, and hid them in the woods, where he knew the Indians would not readily find them. He then relumed to the spot where the Indians were still sleeping, perfectly ignorant of the fate preparing for them, and ta king a gun in each hand, he rested the muzzles upon a oti within six feet of his victim, and having taken deliberate aim at the head of one, and the heart of another, he pulled both triggers at the same moment. Both shots w ere fatal. At the report of their guns, the others sprung to their feet, and stared wildly around them. Mc( 'onnel, who had run insianlly to the spot where the other rifles were hid, hastily seized one of them and fired at two of his enemies, who happened to stand on a line with each other. The nearest fell dead, being shot through Ihe ceoter of the body; the second fell also, bellowing lotion , out quICH'v rover;, j;lT.ped off into the woods Hv reas ist as possible. 1 he tilth aim only one w ho remained unhurt, darted off like a deer, with a yell which announced ejual lerror and astonishment. McConnel, not wishing to tight any more such battles, selected his own rifle from the stack, and made the best of his waj to Lexington, where he arrived safely within two days. Shortly afterwards, Mrs. Dunlap, of Fayette, who had been several month a prisoner amongst the Indians on Mad river, made her escape, and returned to Lexington. She reported that the urvivor returned to his tube with a lamentable tale. He related that they had taken a fine young hunter near Lexington, and had brought him safely as far as the Ohio; that while encamped upon the bank of the river, a large. party of white men had fallen upon . . I . 11-11 t 111 I hem in the nignt, ana Kiuea an ni: rompaniont, together with the poor de fenceless prisoner, who lay hound hand and foot, unable either to escape or resi s t . Mr Clun r's Sk( teh a. Women in a passion should begin by throw ing into the fire thrir pens and paper as much mischief has been done in the world by hasty letters, as

by the discovery of gunpowder.

SPEAKER OP MY LIVING ACTIONS, TO

OLD III "MI1! I KEY OX Ot XT P.VTIO.V. If I were asked what tends most to mitigate earthly sorrow, with the exception of the comfort derived from di vine things. I should unhesitatingly re ply, occupation. Yes! occupation cures one half of life s trouble, and mitigates the remainder. It matters not of what kind thev may happen to he: troubles always ap pear gieal, and our own cares arc but whether we are afflicted in mind, body, or estate, occupation is the best pre scription w e can take. oupposeyou have had a loss say it is five silver shillings; or as many gold sovereigns; nay, let it be if you like, a hundred pounds, or a thousand, for it is not the amount of our loss that weighs down our spirits, but cur real or fancied incapability of bearing them sup pose you have had a loss, 1 say, why all the sighing and the sorrowing, the meaning and repining in the world, will not bring back a single sixpence of your money again, though it may disqualify you for making an attempt to recover your loss. ou may get friends U vondole with you, and make your loss greater bv loosing vour time in brooding over il. But occupation is the only thing to relieve von; it is the most likely of any thing lo make up yout money again, and if it do not that, it will engage your mind as well as fin gers, and keep vou from despondency. Suppose your body is afflicted, will sitting or lying down, doing nothing. with your dejected eyes fixed on the wall will this, I say, pull out a thorn from your finger, or assuage ihe pain of an aching (ooth, or cure a fit of the gout? Not a bit of it. So long as pain does not deprive you of the power of occupying yourself, occupation w ill be for you the best thing in the world. Let it be suited lo our condition, and jiersevered in with prudence. A weak body cannot lift a heavy burden, nor a confused head think clearly; do something, whether it be much or little, hard or easy; so long as you c.n w rite a letter, wind a ball of cotton., make a quill, read a book, or listen while another reads it lo you, ro long v you can do any of these things, you will be mitigating your affliction. In like manner, if your mind be wounded, apply tbe same remedy. If your enemy has injured, or your f riend deceived you, if your brightest hopes have been clouded, or your reputation blackened, pray for your enemies, and then be up and doing; bettter gather field flowers, plant rushes, weed the garden, or black your own shoes, than be idle. Occupation will raise your spirit, while idleness will bring it down to the dust. Occupation will blunt the edge of the sharpest grief, keep the body in health, and preserve the mind in comparative peace. He that is in trouble must do something to get rid of it. I have known many a man to get to ihe lop of a mountain by resolutely clambering up its rugged sides, w ho would never have got there at all by sitting down and fretting at the bottom of if. And many a hardy sw immer has crossed a rapid river, by sturdily buffeting its rushing waters, who never could have achieved such an adventure, In lespohdingly allowing himself to be carried along by the current: some thing must l,e aone, and done by your self too, when you are in trouble, or otherwise it will stick as close to vou as the skin that covers you. If I had not been a man of occupation, my heart would have been broken long ago. I never could have, stood up under the load of troubles that God in mercy has given me strength to sustain. Old Humphrey is always occupied; his tongue, his hands, his head, or his heels, are in continual requisition, and rather than sit down and do nothing, he w ould willingly break stones on the highway, make brimstone matches, and haw them about from door to door. Time flies rapidly with those who have more to do in the day than they can accomplish; and drags along as heavily with those who have no em ployment to occupy Iheir hours. NORLE REWARDOF INTEGRITY. A farmer called on Karl Filzwilliani to represent that his crops of wheat had been seriously injured in a field adjoin ing a certain wood where his hound had, during the winter, frequently met lo hunt. He slated that Ihe oun wheat had been so cut up and destroy

ed, that in some parts, he could nol

KEi:P MINE HONOR FROM C'ORRl' I'TION.

hope for any produce. ''Well, unfriend,' said his lordship,, 'I am aware that we have done considerable in' tin, and if you can procure an estimate of the loss you have sustained, I w ill pay you.' The farmer replied, that, anticipating his lordship's kindness, he had requested a fiiend to assist burin estimating the damage, and tl.ey thought that, as the crop was quite destroyed, JJoO would not more than repay him. The eail immediately gave him the money. As harvest, however, approached, the wheat grew, and it: those parts that were most trampled. the corn was the strongest and most uxunant. the farmer went again to his lordship, and boingintroducod, said. 'I am come, mv loid. respecting the field of wheat adjoining such ;t wood." His Jotdship instantly recollected the circumstance. "Well, mv fiiend, did I not allow you sufficient to remunerate you for our loss'."' "Yes, my lord. I have found that 1 sustained no loss it all, for where the horses had most cut up t lie land, the cron is the most promising, and I have, therefore. brought tin; .C 50 hack again.' "Ah!" exclaimed the venom!) e car . '-that is 7 what I like to see between man and man. lie entered into conversation with the-farmer, asking him some ques tions about his family, how many chil dren he had, occ. His lordship then went into anot her room, and returning. presented the farmer, with a check for ( 1 00. "Take care of" this, and when your eldest son is of ago, present it to him, and tell him the occasion thai produced it." We know not which most lo admire, the benevolence or the wisdom displayed by litis illustrious man, for w hile doing a noble act cf generosity, he was handing down a les son of integrity to another generation. r.iiglish lojxr. DAVII WORK. Most of our readers probably recolecl that some months since a man na med David Work was committed to the jail of 1 airfield county for Ihe suppoed murder of a boy named Christo pher llockcr, who resided with him. ii consequence of the cxcilenwnt in Pail field, the prisoner was brought to Somerset, Ferry Co., for trial, and on Wednesday last was found guilty of murder in the first degree. Oa Fndav ic was sentenced lo be hanged on Fri day the Mlh day of October, between the hours of 'J and -1 o clock of that y. The evidence against the prisoner was altogether circumstantial, hut yet of a character so perfectly conclusive is to leave no doubt whatever, of the prisoner's guilt. Ileappeared to con nect himself with the circumstances by every precautionary step which he adoplcd, and instead of releasing himself from the suspicion of guilt, fur nishes evidence lor his conviction. Work had formerly sustained a good character and had accumulated a com fortable property, but had recently been accused of stealing some chains, uul the boy was like lo be brought as evidence against him. Hence the mo tive. Il was supposed that he choaked him lo death. We shall now, for the first time have ! i public execution within 18 miles of Zancsvillc, and hundreds w ill no doubt go to enjoy the pleasure of seeing a fellow being choaked to death by a halter; while the preachers will make as much ado as thev can over him, and the newspapers will land him in para dise. Some sixpenny soul will then lawk his 'confession' about the country. Such attending circumstances uestroy all the. benefit of ihe example and harden the base hearted in their w ickedness. He ought, under the aggravated cir cumstances of the case, to be hung with as little ceremony as a shecpjvilling dog. Zmicsvillc Gazelle. EATING. The Americans and the English are the greatest eaters in the world the most voracious devourers of meals, and the most eager for high hot and stimu lating wines. Meat enough is put up on an American dinner table every day to keep a family of Frenchmen, Italians, or even Germans, a full week, il not a month; meat, loo, at that very season of the year the hot season when its slimulous is too strong, and w hen the sy stem demands the relief of vegetable diet. In the south of Fiance, meal is eaten by the peasantry only I once a week; on Sunday, generally.

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In Filmland, the poorer classes, who are far tile healthier for it, do not have it more than twice a week, and often not even ot.ee. The French so mingle 'ir meals, souses, vegetables, &c, that but very little is eaten, though much mav seem to be. A Fi.oat;.(; Fa km Yakd. The following tkeifh cf a family floating down the Ohio, on a laft, is at once highly giaphic and tharactciistic of our inland navigation. 'To day we have passed (wo raffs, la, bed together, by which ample conveyance several families from New Fngl -;r-.d wne transporting themselves and t!;t r property to the land of promise in the western wood. Each raft was GO or 90 feet long, with a small house erected on it, and on each was a stack of hay, round w hich several horses and tows were feeding, while parraphanalia of a farm yard, the ploughs, wagons, pigs, children and poultry, carelessly distributed, gave to the whole more the appearance of a permanent residence, than of a caravan of adventurers seeking a home. A respectable looking old lady, with spectacles on set on a chair at lite door of one of the cabins, employed in knitting; another female was at the wash-tub, the men were chewing their tobacco w ith, as much, complacency as if they had been in the land cf steady habits, and the various avocations seemed to go on with the steadiness of clock work. Io this manner our western emigrants travel at slight expense. They cany with them their own provisions; their raft floats with the current; and honest .Jonathan, surrounded with scolding, squalling, grunting, lowing and neighing dependents, floats to the point proposed, w ithout leaving his own fur side; and on his arrival there, may go on shore with his household, and commence business with as little ceremony as a grave peisonage, who on his marriage with a rich widow, said that he had "nothing to do but walk in and hangup his hat.'' Iwl. Farmer. THE DAIRY. We have recently witnessed a method of making cheese, which although not of recent invention, may be new to many dairy women within the circulation of our paper. It is something after the manner adopted in the manufacture of j)ine apple cheese. The curd is prepared as in the ordinary vay,and put in a piece of coarse canvass, a portion of the threads of w hich have been drawn out to make it open, and allow the whey lo escape freely. It is then hung up in the cheese room, and requires no farther attention, as the cheese fly will not attack it, and it is not subject lo mould. We have the authority of those who have tested the experiment, in saying that this method is a great saving of labor, the cheese matures sooner, and is a better quality than if pressed. The whey is allowed to drain oil ; and it will do o effectually, instead of the violent pressing, which all dairy women have observed forces out a portion of what should remain lo add substance and richness lo the cheese. The bag tocontain the cheese should be made in ihe form of a beef's bladder. It is sometimes knit in the manner of a fish net, with small meshes; but the most ready method, is to take a piece of coarse linen, and pull out three or four threads alternately; both of warp and filling, and put it in the proper shape. S'ori!tcrn Ucni. A Ttxtn IIuxtku. I jocosely asked (says Col. Crocket) a ragged hunter, who was a smart active young fellow of the steamboat alligator breed, whether he was a rhinoceros era hyena, as he w as so eager for a fight with the invaders. 'Neither the one nor t'other Colonel,' says he, 'but a whole menagerie in myself. I'm shaggy as a bear, w olfish aboutthe head, active as a cougar, and can grin like a hyena, until Ihe bark will curl off a. gum log. There's a sprinkling of all sorts in me, from the. lion down lo the skunk; and before the war is over you'll pronounce me an entire Zoological Institute, or I miss a figure in my calculation. I promise to swallow Simla Anna without gagging, if you will only skewer hack his ears, and grease his head a little.' Iii nine i ases out of ten, men owe their influence more lo their habits and their conduct, lhan cither to their talents or their acquirements.

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