Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1842-06-25

Bruce. lately attempted % perPetFae his rascail-
ty III s.. LOUIS. He first possessed himself Of a
valuable horse and then presented sight bili OF
exchange on New Orleans for 500, to Messfs
Eenoist & Co., Tor sale The bill purportei 10
have been drawn BY JancS I. Birch aud endors
ed by .F0hn Perry. lie gave fictitious name 10
Nr. Beno.st, and whilst counting the money. e
gentleman, Who entered the office at that moment
/ addressed him by the namo Of Bruce. lie imme>
diately stopped counting his money, md having
peck ted IT. walked off. On inquiry, Mr.. BenoIst
asccrtajned that the rogue had negotiated the
draft under assumed name, md on looking a
second time at the endorsement, no became salts,
fled that it was n forgery lie subsequently
arrested and committed 10 prison.
From the St, Lon, l2rissaas5) Republican.
MORE AB0lI THE E0RGl.R.
Tho worthy, Of whom we made mention in yes
ferday'= Republican. as having satd forged check
70 Messrs Benoist & Co.. underwent an examIn-
alton Yesterday before Justice We'more, was
committed for further trial before the Criminal
Court, and proves to bo nephew OF the nou.
Thomas II. Benton.
From gentleman m whom rely. we
have derived tho following interesting bogfaPhl
cal items of our hero:
Several wears ago Thomas Beuton Bruce came
to MaysvilIe, Ky, about fue, noble looking
fellow as might Dc met with months travel
in possession If "a splendid iron grey charger, rich
Iy caparsoned upon which 10 frequently sh'aed
most brightly to tho admiration Ut al beho2efs;
and not only to admiration, but to ct'cct; for he
took captive, bv means of these exhibitions, IN
conncxion with profuso display Of other graces,
as we'll tho grace Of possessing fine horse,
tho heart of u rich widow in tha1 itt'lo city,
whom ho married in some two Or three months
after his arrival there.
After marriage, they took j7unt to Saratoga
and B4lIston Springs. in New 1orK, where he
dashed around Ike n true nobcman, during the
t&t.
his new and comfortable residence as NaysyliFo.
On their return, they stopped u Pittsburgh,
where The lady's father reeIded and seJourncd
there several days.
But it came 70 pass, upon his arrival at home,
that he was taken down with tao smaii-pcx, The
had received in Pittsburgh But what was worse
than the smallpox if no, for him at least for his
wife, during their absence, intelligence had reach
ed maysviIIe that through the inileace Of tho
uncle Of this Mr.. Bruce, the Hon Ihos II. Ben
ton, OF the u. s. Senate, he had il by gone years
Caroliaa.-and Tint for making rather free with
tho contents Of the mail bags, he had been elect
cd .or goodly number Of years to tho Penlten~
tiary of that Stnte--for a period terminating
soInewhere in tho teens; Gen. Jackson, however.
supposed to be through the nterPositon Of the
honorable uncle of this Abstractl9nist set him al
liberty. aud nj tho moment speak Of, no
finds himself very comfortably located in Mays
vile, batting the smallpox.
tTpon tho receipt of this information, his wife
Instead Of informing him thereof, wrote On TO Gov
ernor Chambers at Washington who then
the representative in Congress Of the M1ysvi;e
(Nyl district, to procure for her all the informa~
ton he could respecting the matter and 10 CON-
inunicate tho same TO her. Before the gentleman
was half we'll, or IN travelling order, she Tecejv
ed an answer from the Governor, confirming the
report in oil its details. After he had so far re
ha- t1 tn tn
himself he was night very politely escorted
to steamboat at the wharf. and very significant
" charged TO put out arr never show his face
in MaysvilIo again-a charge which no has ever
since reigiously obserY ed, so far Is known.
The next information we have Of him is in
Scott county in this State where he marries an
other rich widow, whose property he swamps, by
a mortgage to the tune fsome fifteen or twenty
thousand dollars The mortgage being foreclos-
ed by the creditor, somebody not known who, toI
Il certainty, went and poisoned the trees of fine
Young orchard of choice fruit which grew upon
the morfgaCed premises, and set fire 10 and burn
cd down the building thereon. Who did this is !
not exactly known; but about the same time the
gentleman decampcd, and left his innocent and
suffering wfe-not only minus her estate, but i
also to be arrested md undergo an investigation /
upon the suspicion Of the commission Of crime
Ct his own some one else's.
Such Is the biography Of our hero rs far as it
has been narrated to US. The hiatus, between the |
time OF his decampment from Scott county and
his trlnmPhal entrance into our CITY, remains TO +
he filled up BY future developments. Wish the {
foregoing, we dismiss the gentleman, with the ha-
zardnr of the prediction, that If conrictea. bis
is destined to exercise very imp9r- f
tant influence in the election Of tho next Sena-
tor that IS tn be co-reoresent tive with Col Ben
ton. Of the State of Missouri IN the Congress Of
the L. States.
CoNSEcrIcrr ScHool FUND.-The report af the
Commissioner Of the Connecticut School Fund
gives the number Of children between four and