Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1836-09-24

as the blood retired from her chilled features
b. she screamed in voice that sent4a fose
false friend. Beware OF murder.r then star
of ing up TO clasp me to her breast she fell dow
e. and expired at my feet started and aW0ke
c. My prison walls were cold around me, bu
= my heart was softened by my dream o
r. childhood. and l thought, rs I viewed tn,
st scaifoli that was to end my wild career O
5 crime, chad but this dream occurred in early
o youth, never would have dyed my hands i1
IF blood-in the life circIing blood of an &C.
n cursed false friend.-fCarolina GAIL
E STARCH FROM PorAroEs.--We are informed
that the manufacture OF starch from potatoes
9 has engaged the attention of our enterpris.
: ing neighbors of Vermont, and already be-
I come an important article Of commerce. l.
beng employed to great extent by the New
England cotton manufacturers and calico
printers with much success, as a substitute
tor wheat starch for the purpose Of sizing
and finishing cloth. Its superiority over
wheat starch is conceded, we learn, by MANY
! of the principal manufacturing establish
Inents- 1t gives to fabrics a more brilliant
and elastic finish, requires less in quantity
and bears less price; three important con.
Isiderations, which should induce every man.
ufacturer to try. the experiment of it's use.
The mode OF preparation is similar to that
observed In wheat starch, except that Il re-
quires slight fermentation, which is pro-
duced by exposing it to the air a short peri.
Whig.] @
A WELL STOCKED WALxING SrlcK.---A
walking stick. recently presented to q sur.
veyor in Newcastle, England, contains IN
the dimensions of an ordinary cane the fol.
lowing materials for writing and drawing:
two inkstands, pens, penknife, ivory folder;
lucier matches, sealing wax and wafersi 8
wafer stamp, wax taper, several sheets of
post letter paper and card paper. complete
and highly finished set Of drawing instra,-
ments, ivory rule and scales, lead and hair
pencils, Indian rubber, Indian ink, q Their
mometer, and a beautiful and. well poised
compass. The whole 4are 30 ar
ranged as to admit of any of the instrii-
ncnts being used with great facility.
Some bard in the west is writing poetry by
he yard, in honor of Mr.. Van Buren,. III
,ne piece, he represents him as studying
grammar at night, by the light Of pitch
but the saying of Rucker, the
delegate at the Baltimore Conyen-
ion. s'Gentlemen,' said he, III was fetched
Up poor orphan boy, without no parents;.
md if it had not been for the goodness Of
Divine Providence and two or three odtct
influential gentlemen, there is no knowing.
low should have turned out!7-fPhi. Gas.1
PARRY WoxEs.-Ofall other views q man n d
nay in time grow tired, but in the counte-
ance of woman there is a variety, which
cts WEAKNESS At defiance. The divine right
beauty, says Junius, is the only divine right
man can acknowledge, and a pretty womah
the only tyrant he is not authorized 10 Re-
Ist.
A NovELrY.--Make us a picture Of the
rucifiction to place in our church, said q de-
utation of four laborers from . village III
he south of France. Do you choose the.
cure of Christ to be represented dead. or
Ill living! demanded the artist. THIS was
question on which the projectors Of, The
aintlng had never thought, consulting. to:
ether for some moments, they replied TO
e painter: You had better make It living,
.cause if it does not please Us so, it can s.
He'd afterwards.
CrARLEsroN AND Ono RAE RoAp.--By 4
,iice from the Executive departmentJ u
entucky, we learn that books viii Be opef-
at a number Of places In this State, On the
ird Monday in next month, to be kept open
r six days successfully, for the subscription
10000 shares of the capital Stock. of one
ndred dollars each, in the Charleston and
ITO Rail Road Company. The books will
opened 1t this place, under the suPernten-
nee Of Messrs. Garrett Davis, John Z.
ckr,ar. and Hugh Brent COMMISSIONER
ssse,n Cit.
T.r mrFs.rscE.-When Lord Chancellor
con was on the bench, a criminal by naDe
Hoo. crayed his lordship's mercy. rs b.
nearly related. You are mistaken, re-