Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1843-04-29


non Ut debts from them. Their circumstances,
they say, such, at this time. that thew cannot
pay what they owe; md If their creditors exe-
cute and sell their property and goods they will
he LEFT without the accessories OF life and home
To avert these ests, portion of them have UNI
led, and are determined TO prevent any sheriff or
coossabIe's sales taking place 10 their sect:sn of
the state.
Mr.. John Joshua Ashley. lately British ar
my agent, has been transported for seven years.
for having stolen silver spoons aud forks from the
United Service, and other clubs. of which he
a member. The convict moved in The highest
society in England, and was generally esteemed
aud respected.
A seamstress in London it appears, is paid / /
d. for making sailors Shirts. Bv working yer:
hard land finding her own needless" she may
thus earn iid day. The price OF The cheapest
quartern loaf she can bus is Did. A loaf of bread
is Id. dearer than her whole-day's work.
Sr DoMISGo.-ESD THE REvoLuTIoS!i-A
letter from Port Prince, under date Of March
81, has been received in New York. which con-
firms The Intelligence of the abdication Of The Press
ident. The following Is an extract:
"PresiGent Boyer has abdicated and is now on
his way England, on board the English man-of
The government Is now administered by u
committee OF twenty .hse, appointed for that pur-
pose until a new President can be elected. To day
the Patriot army of ten TO fifteen thousand men
entered and took possession Of the city
CnISA.-It is shown by The late terrible and
destructive riot in Canton, that the Chinese PEG
pie entertain feelings of bitter hostility towards
the Bslish--and will manifest those feelings when
ever an opportunity occurs. The attempts to
smusgle opium and other goods, in spite OF the
proh bitory laws and severe penalties Of tho Chr
nese, must also inevitably tend 10 keep alive a
feeling of animosity ,he part of the govern
ment-and doubt not that the BRUSH will
aka n
! the prohihitory laws relating TO opium. Indeed
in the "Friend of China" of Dec. 18th, the
following is the language which Is used: "Ali
aHicufIles might. however, be removed, all OBJ
stacles overcome, If. now, tie import and sale of
OPIUM ,oere ieeafi@ed! To this complexion II must
come at ast.''
LITERARY INTELLrGENcE.--[E Extract from let.
ter from friend near Boston, dated 10Th inst
There IS but lIttle doing. just now, by the Bos-
ton Publishers. Little 81 Brown have Just begun
the printing of Mr.. PREscorr's work on
Mexico, Che Life of Cortez) but will not publish
it before October.
"Mr. BANcRoFT's two volumes on the Revolu-
ton are in active preparation, but will hardly be
published be fore winter. lie has had great ac-
cesson of new materials from Gov. EVERETT,
who has sent him many original unpublished lot
tiers of DIR. FRANKLIN, BURKE, NORTH, GEORGE
III, &c. Mr. Ii. has besides come into possession
of SAMUEL ADAMS Journal and papers, including
all the letters of the Committee of Correspondence,
and the answers of every town in New E0gnnd,
and Of many Nova Scoiian and other British A.
INC rioaa fuWns--ai Dreaming rshnliia..
spirit. These volumes will richly deserve TO be
the most popular of any ever published ia Amer
ica. They will probably bring the History down
to l7S7.--Cia Gazette.
LARGE PEAR TREE The Western papers speak
of a pear in Knox CO., Indiana, near Vncen-
/ mes, which measures. one foot above the ground,
ten feet in circumference, and has top sixty
nine feet in diam'er. II planted some 80 or
40 years ago by Mrs. OcKLETREE, and bears al
every year about 135 bushels of choice fruit.
Boston Journal
/, is said that HENRY A. WISE, in a speech
lately at Hampton, (Va) declared that "if his
hand were pat a vice, and he constrained,
under insntferabIe torture, to cast his vote be
tween Martin Van Buren, and Henry Clay, he
would for Mr.. Van Buren,"
NORTHERN BANK OF KENTUcKY.--We learn
from the Licking Valley Register that a meeting
of The Stockholders OF this institution held 10
Lexington last Friday IL tho largest rep
resentation of stockholders had, upwards of
five thousand votes being present. The terms Of
the late law providing for 500, 900 TO be loaned
in each Congressional District, &c were accep-
ted The Bank commenced issuing tho new
oans the 18th inst. Thus will our neiphbors
be supplied with sound safe currency, IN guam
ity amply sufficient for The business wants Of the
country. The Banks of Kentucky are lppreg-
nablv strong; but understand that the North
Bank lately made a reinforc ement of 5000
600 in specie to her already strong coffers-[Cn
Gazette,
ATMOSPHERIC ENGISE---J. II. Lanine's Atmos
pherIc Vacuum E8gtne now exhibiting in this
~, although in a rather crude state, is certainly
one of The greatest discoveries yet made IN me
chanlcs, and must ultimately supercede the steam
engine, IRON the many advantages II possesses
1t will cost much less no, weigh half as much
boy attend to it, can be started with Eve min
ues' notice, and the last though least consid-
Grafton is, tina, there is danger OF collapse
explosion. As /, works entirely bv the pressure
of the atmosphere, every should see IT'D.
SPLENDID BIBLE--Harper & Brothers in
New York, are about 10 publish, in numbers. a
magnificent edition of the Holy Billie, illustrated
with sirteen hundred historical engravings.
The artists have been work upon these enpra
wings for the last SIX years. They will cost D.,