Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1845-01-17

RICHMOND, INDIANA, FRIDAY MORNING.
JANUARY II. Is45.
The Legislature

Of this State adjourned on Monday last. Much
business of local nature. peculiar 10 tie organi-
Eat on of new counties, the location OF new roads
&c. transacted; bat little Of general ma
turc or Of interest portion of the State was
done. The law combining voters to their own
townships, in the State elections perhaps as
salutary enactment as any which received the
sanction of the legislature. 1t met with but lit
tie opposition from either Of the two political par
tics which composed the Legislature. The great
and infamous frauds practlced by tho lOcos IN the
late elections appeared to convince all parties OF
the necessity Of some restrictions. Some illegal
votes may have been & wen by the wings. but the
success Of the jocos in thoir schemes of traudu-
lent voting, doubtless convinced them OF the
necessity of restrictions from the fear that wings
in tho coming contest might take them up on their
own game and defeat them. We presume tho
law will receive the appreciation Of tho people
with an unanmity equal to that manifested by
their representatives in tho legislature.
~ charter was granted to tho company now en-
gagged in the prosecution Of the Richmond and
Boston Turnpike company. An effort made
by the ocos to attach the individual responsibility
principle TO it; but it failed. The charter Is q
liberal one and hope tho work viii be prose
""'"-i To a speedy completion. A charter was al
50 granted for the construcriu., 81 T...nniko
road from Germantown. in this county, 10 Ven
ice, Ohio, to ntersect tho Coicrain road TO Gin
cnnat. From the gentlemen who visited lndi-
annapolis for the purpose Of obtaining this char
ter, learn there is probability that the stock
in said company will be taken. and that the work
will be commenced at carly day
A charter was also granted to company foI
tho purpose of making u turnpike from Cam
bridge city, through Dublin and New Castle &c
Muncictewn.
7 A law passed extending tho timo for the
completion Of the East Fork Canal, from Rich
mond TO Brookvile.
charter was passed authorizing company
which may be formed to construct a canal or rail
road from Centrevie in this county to Corners
vile, or my point above that place the white
wator valley canal.
We shall be able in our noxt to give moro
general account Of the dongs Of tho Legislature. by
publishing a list Of the acts passed, which we are
prevented from doing now from the want of
room.
The most important action of tho last legisla-
turc consists in what they DID NOT Do. No cleo
ton was hold to fill the scat occupied BY tho
Hon. A. S. White in the Senate of the United
Stntos. Tho election indefinitely postponed
by the casting vote of Jesse ID. Bright, tho Presi-
dent Of tho Senate. Eight or ten efforts wero
mado by the wings to go into an election, but they
were uniformly defeated by the vote of the par
ty claiming to be Democratic. The matter will
again DO submitted to the people at the next Au-
-
character of our people, :hey will rebuke this ut
tor disregard of tho oaths of thor representatives,
and the law of the land.
The most infamous act of the late session was
the attempt of tho Governor TO break down the
only feature of our government which has hereto
fore escaped the concentrating influence Of party.
We moan the Supreme Bench. Near tho close of
the session Mr.. Whitcomb sent to tho Senate for
confrmation.thc names Of Isaac BIackford James
Morrison and w. w. Wick. The former, loco
foco of the deepest dye in politics, was confirmed
without dissenting vote. Ho received fifty
votes. tho entire number in the Senate. The two
latter named gentlemen were rejected by tho
wings and three locos. In few days tho names
of -fuvrson and G.. II. Test were sent in
by tho Governor. They were also rejected On
Monday last, the names F.. NJ. Chambe rlain and
). T.. Perkins were sent In-they too were re-
Jected. On Monday night, the Governor again
scnt IN the names of Morrison and Wick and the
Senate true to the interests of the State, and the
viii and wishes of nne-tcnths of the people. a.
gain promptly rejected them. We believe the
people of all parties wish the present members of
the Supreme Bench to be retained. not because
they are wings, but because they '.honest and
capable and an honor to the State. and if there
is any thing of which the citizens have q right to
be proud, it is the character of her Supreme
Bench. For integrity and ability, it is no, sur
passed in the West. and perhaps with the excep-
lion of New York and Massachusetts, it is not