Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1842-10-15
Your Change, sir.


Ooe of those nondescrip, specimens Of human
i,y. called dandles travelling through Connecii-
cut a few DAYS since in his own or borrowed con
veyance, was brought up with "A ground turn" at
a toll gate, which he designed 10 hove passed
without paying the usual fee. When he found
himself "a limbo. from which he could not escape,
without .'forking over,' no impaired Of young
lady who was in attendance at the gate, how
much no had to pay before he could pass the for
midabe barrier.
"Three cents Sir, is the charge for sing le wag
CONS" replied the young lady.
'Three cents is n threepcnce, the bali OF SIX
pence one Of tho smallest bits of silver IN use,
.h. young woman--am right? sa'd the dandy :,
feeling in his pockets for his change
"Thrce ccnts, SIR, if you please sad tho la
dy.
..In your Office Of hghway man, young woman,
Won Will subtract tho amount Of your demand
from this piocc, and return me the balance as
conveniently quick as your ordinary l"c"no-
ton will allow" said the dandy gen''cman, at the
same tins purposcly dropping II shilling piece IN
10 tho mud beneath his wagon. "ih! there it
is in the mud | declare. | woOldn't dirty ny fin
gers for twenty of them
The young lady took the shilling from the mud
where he bad dropped IT, went lu'o tho house,
and returned with niue cents, which she piacec
Immediately under the wheel where she had Ia
ken up the shilling.
"H,lIo, hilo young woman, what is il you
mean" said the dands. why don't you put that
coin in my hand ehPa
Tho pirl archly replied, .Ssir, found your mo-
nov under the Wagon Stherc you Will find your
chanpe''-and she turned TO go nto the house,
she gave the fellow most significant smile, and
added. 81 wouldn't dirty nv fingers for twenty of
them, would you, Mr. Dlndy Aman? ha. ha. ha-
there, your ohaoso, - .nd shn sod tho doc"
The gentleman dl snounted picked cup his cop
pcrs" aud was off at full speed, impatient To get
ou, of sight and hearing. If he should ever hap
pen in that country again, he will take care how
10 '"'"' IN. Y. Sun.
THE Past once (.ag-The New York Com
mcrciai Advertiser states that within a lie" days
past, gentleman of that city was shown let
ter from the Post Master General, IN very near
Iy tho following terms:
s.WA-uI~GToN,-. 1872.
s.Sir-If your post-n,"s'er, (nr any of MS
clerks} DARE To TONGUE ag'inst The ad
ministration, let me know aud the procedure
will be corrected"
The letter is Of piece, with hundreds that
have been sent to persons IN this city, from the
authorities at Washington. This system of cspI
onago is nearly perfect. and wagging tongues,
and even shaking hands are procedures which
have been, and are to be corrected
MANY wears ago. in Connecticut, n certain jus
tee was called to a Jail to berate worthless
DEBTOR by receiving his oath that he was not
worth five pounds. We'll Johnny said the Jus
tice rs he entered, 'can you swear that YOU are
not worth five pounds and never will be| Why
answered the other, rather chagrIned at the quos-
ton, swear that ! am not worth that at
present. Well, WE'LL returned The Justice i
can swear TO the rest, so step forward Juhny.'
QUAKER WIr-A Quaker having bought a
horse which proved unsound, OF a man named
Bacon, wrote TO inform him Of H., but received no
answer. lie shortly after met the man and
qnested him to take back the beast, which the
9TH eli IN do
monstrances of no avail, the Quaker calmly said,
Friend ,hoe has doubtless heard of the devil
teriug the herd of swine, and hud that he sticks
IN tho Bacon. Good morning 10 thee, friend
Brr OF H1sroRy.--The fort called the +
"Rip Raps' near Norfolk, was orig inally nam
ed castle Cahoun,' in homo of the distinguish. /
ed South Caronian, who was Secretary of War
under Mr.. Monroe, when the work was commen /
ced. 1t was changed to the Rip Raps, are
informed by the Norfolk Herald. in the first term
OF Gen. Jackson's presidency, after the rupture /
between the General and MIR. Calhoun. MIR. Q. /
was not then quite such fnvorite with "Tha I
Democracy" as he is at present.
" y. American
ANrr-TARIrr:-The Hamilton (Ohio) In,elli-
gencer saws, thata locofoco orator IN speech at
Hamilton made the following Conclusive argu-
ment agains, the tariff The speech is gwen rer.
6atim.
II tell you now. nv friends tariff is the ruin
Of my country. | am miller; send my -four to
the southern market. Well, last winter | sent
flour to New Orleans, and found could no, get
over six dollars a barrel for it. ! then heard il
was worth sixteen dollars barrel at Havana
You all know where Havana is-Is one Of the
West India Islands!n Well thought I'd ship ;
my -four there, and make a handsome speculation {
On IL. so WILL but had nine dollars duty to pay
'n each barrel. SO you if it had not been
or shat contounded Tariff Id have got SIN
zen dollars barrel for my four INSTEAD Of six."