Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1833-10-26

"A
mount Of $4,000 to be invested in
the establishment Of cotton and other
manufactures, was opened ut Peters
burgh, Virginia, on Tuesday week,
ard the whole sum made up in two
hours. The In:elligencer says that
$685. 90 more could be obtained if ne
Cessary. The Legislature is TO be
applied to for charter, and the bust
ness of manufacturing commenced II
right earnest.
The British Foreign Bible Society
Of England have been obliged to EN-
ploy the printer Of the King to print
their bibles and testaments, which have
been published since its formation
and in consequence, as they say, have
paid at least 500, 600 pounds sterling
seore than it need have paid il this
branch Of printing had been equally
open to competition as the others. So
much fos monopoly.
An English writer calls New York.
Boston and Philadelphia, the CONNER
eial. the Unitarian, and tire Quaker
CAPITALS Of the u. States.
In travelling To = place called White
Pigeon, about $50 miles west ofDetroit'
agreat many lakes are seen fFomoEe
to FIVE miles in length, and some Of
them very ,aDdsome-the banks are
&c ,erally slop;ng to tb. water, which
IS pure and clear as chsystal, and many
ofthen abound with fnc fish.
The famous horse Sir Charles, lately
/. died at the Southwark. The day be-
fore he was taken III, his owners,
(Messrs. johnson & CgaigJ would moi
lsas~ taken $4,000, perhaps not 49,
100 .or bim.
A letter from Charleston states, that
~ rs to the recent tides, which broke
.!se hanks, the ricc-planters on Cooper
River, after their rice hac been stacked
ia.d "a great part Of their crops washed
away.
DR. Dekey ia hi.~ Sketches Of Iurkey.'
says that tic use Of Opium is Increasing
IL Nc United States. This drug IS much
used IN foshiossn6ie socieiy-"sors than
people isrgsine-asd particularly ty Je-
males.
ora chestnut tree was feilcd last
fall, upon the farm Of Mr.. Warner, OF
Liverpool, Medina county OHIO. which
yielded 5000 eighteen inch shingles,
30 rails, and wood enough tomakc one
hundred bushels OF COAL TIE circuns-
ference at the base vas l6 feet.
Gen. Shelby, Of Lexington. sold a
herd Of l6O Mules, raised On his own
plantation. for Sii,S cash in band
This, the Lexingtcn intellieenGer,v very
naturally heads agricultural thrift"
John r. Langdou, postmaster Of Sui
Ivan, Me who was recently detected
in robbing she mail, has been convicted
on his own confession, before the u.
=. Court at Wiscasset, and. sentenced
to ten years imprisonment in the Jail
at Casino. 4 petition has been got
ten up for his pardon; bat it is very
much to be hoped that it may be
unsuccessful.
The superintendent in advertising
6orcontracis for building the Baltimore
and Washington Rail Rord, gives mo-
tice that "ardcnt spirits will be totally
excluded from the work.
In several instances, remarks the
Journal Of Commerce, the same course
he's been pursued by contractors upon
the eastern Rail Roads, and always
with greater advantage to the interest
Of the contractor.
Ga the appearance Of the Cholera
an Millersburg, Ohio, the physicians
lefl, and recommended also the flight
Of the citizens-tor which conduct
shey have been severely censurcd, and
We think justly.
There are 933 dialects in Asia. :5S77
in Europe, DIG in Africa, and 1864 in
America.
Tits agitated in New York paper
to remove the seat ofgovernment from
Albany to Utica.
IL il in contemplation BY the citizens Of
Philadelphia. without stisetios Of parties
to offer the Hon. W. J. Duane = public
dinner Immediately on his return to this
city. He is fully entitled to snch a COM
plisnent.