Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1837-1839, 1838-02-17
From the Cleveland Adv. Feb. =.
THE PATRIOTS.

night. We have seen and cOnversed with some
Of them. 1t appears that all of them are ma
,ives Of Canada, who are now banished from
their homes, and prescribed by the laws Of their
country. There are among them. aged men.
whose care-worn countenances indicate honesty
and intelligence, who were at home, men OF
property and standing, and are here only to es-
cape The dungeon and the prison house that con- /
fine their friends and relatives They were char |
ged with being suspected, and reward offered tor
their heads before even moving a finger against
the authorities Of the land. Others Of them
have been in arms, and avowed determination TO
stand fall in the cause they have espoused. 1t
may be that they are misled, and have brought
themselves without Just cause. to their present
condition If SO, they to be pitIed. Had
they succeeded in their object in raising the
standard Of liberty in Canada, aud obtaining for
her citizens the privileges OF frcemen, they
would never have been considered misguided,
nor branded with the epithet of Pirates-but the
whole world would have joined IN admiration OF
those deeds, and pronounced them patriots and
phianthropsts. Now, that they have failed, and
mis- fortune has driven them from their homes, and
condemned them to be wanderers III a strange
land--ihey must endure the too common fate OF
those who have friends to faiter and sTnile on
them in their prosperity, and neglect and frown
upon them in adversely.
BANK RoBBERy.-Ve learn from tho Vim
cennes (indiana) Gazette, of the 81 inst, that
the Branch Of the State Bank, in that place, was
entered in the night OF the preceding Friday, and
robbed Of 50 800. The thief entered through
trap door in the garrett, which gave him easy
access 10 the second story, where he had moth
ing to do but to descend flight Of stairs and alb
stract much money as he wanted. The Gaz
says: "Thc Bank has 01ered reward Of $500
for the apprehension 6 tie theft and restoration
sion were such as but few could imagine, yet of
the easiest accomplishment when once thought OF,
as the clerk slept in room entirely separated
by a partition wall from the one liz which he (the
thief descended"
The QUEEN OF THE GYPsIEs.-Dlsraeli hav-
ing met Charlotte Lee, tho present Queen Of the
Gypsies, she was trav elling along in her Don
. kew cart, gathered from her much of her history,
and Immediately set about writing her life. 1t
will be published soon, and will no doubt meet
an extensive sale in England.
DrsraEss,Nc--The Indiana American, printed
at Brookville, saws: 1--WE learn that among the
, number Of lives lost at New Orleans, at the
great fire in that place on the Sd ct January last
was that of Edward F. Jacobs, formerly of this
place When the fire broke out MIR. Jacobs
, with four other men were in the 4th story of a
, large building aslcep--all OF whom were consnm
. ed"
, predictions about a mild winter The chiefs, now
on visit to that city, say 1t Is true the otter
beaver and other nmphibious animals did not, tht
last autumn make their usual preparations agains
the winters cold. Who know better than thess
} animals, taught by the unerrng instinct HEAVIER
has given them, which needs not the meterolO
gcal tables Of human science.
A wild car. weighing twenty -niuc fuu"a-, an
measuring three feet ten inches in length, wa
shot by Mr.. M'Guirc, OF Luzernc county, Pa.
ON the morning Of the 18th inst, not tar from hi
: paper mill.
The Nantucket Inquirer, in noticing the arrva
: Of an Episcopal ciergymcn at that place, men
tons that the regular Episcopal service had nevc
: been performed on that Island
: The members of congress now paid in VIVA
= may be termed a mixed currcncy-two thirds spe
Gle and third Treasury Notes.
Richard K Frost the Thompsonian practitioner
r who was lately convicted of mansaughter by hi
: practice in the city of New York, has been sen
}. fenced to ten years Imprisonment, and to pay
l. fine OF five hundred dollars. -
e CAPITAL PuN.snMESr.--Thc House of Req
u resentatives of Rhode Island, have passed bi
abolishing capital punishment, and substitutin
Imprisonment for ife
Strong efforts making in the Massachusetts, Legislature
" TO abolish punishment OF death for all crimes b,
murder in tho first degree.
), The Colonization cause is going on prosperous
d Nv in Mississippi and Louisiana, NOTWITHSTANDING
the depressed condition OF pccuniary matter
The Rev. Mr.. FindIey, general agent Of the s.
c cictv. writes from New Orleans that anothe
ii vessel with emigrnnts will be despatched for
It rica in March,
n ExpEDIr1ous TRAVELLING The Philadelph
"a Wilmington, and Baltimore Rail Road Compan
and the Bll,iiuorc and Washington Rail Roao
l. Company, have concluded an agreement with til
~ Post Office Department for the transportation
y; the United States Mil between Washington an
10 this city. aiiorjng 10 travellers the facility
> leaving Washington in the morning, brcakfastn
i! in Baltimore. dining in Philadelphia, and surpin
e i, New YorA the same day.
n IMPORTANT FROM EscLAND-Her Majesty {
Rs Victoria sneezed at precisely two minutes an
half past 3 O'Clock. p. NJ. Of the Attn Decembe
&c No damage done.-Boston Express.
'e We learn from the Toledo Gazette, that Ii
ot receipts of the Adrian and Kalamazoo railroa
Dr. ga miIes) and above all expenditures, hav
$. for the past season, amounted to $4,000.
Of
\ Ou1o's DEBr.-'rhc present debt Of Ohio
generally estimated at ten millions of doIla
"a mere bagatee compared with their rich,
y, and great public work.