Richmond palladium., 1845-06-25


Coal is carried the Reading and Philadelphia
plated mprovcme nts will reduce the price of freight
10 cents per ton-A destructive fire took place at Cam
bridge Mass, recently destroying several of the build
ings belonging the Harvard college, in of which
the celebrated panorama of Athens, costly picture
valued at 10000 dollars. 1t presented to the college
by the lamented Washington Allston who spent some
or years in touching it.-During the prevalence OF
the earthquakes in Mexico, recently one town, Nae de
Rio Blanche, entirely swallowed up. leaving only
large where it sood.=The Westminster {Pa.)
Record says: .No white convicted of muir
der within the present limits of Chester the
Norwich and w Worceser Mass rail road, the regular
speed Of the passenger trains is 2 miles per rEns-
sl cutlery is manufactured the of SSo,000n00
innum, and 600 900 peratives fed and clothed
by the busness=The Charleston Courier says that or
been received put the forts in that harbor
a complete state Of defence at once.=Somc Mormons
mcmoriazed the Governor of Connecticut, in IA
of granting the Mormons of Illinois, refuge in that
The n Y. Tribune says young lady III the in
Of the State of n York has Just been marrird to
her second husband. She years old, and mar
ried her first husband when she was cicyenA n ork
paper states lady city has had pairs of
twins in five yearsuenry Clay offers for sale Csc
of land opposite Alton Illnois.=Peaches sold in
London, the 9Th of May, for 81 20 eacl=Ihe Fay
ettcville IN c. Observer says that for 10 months
drought has prevailed in that section of country.An
Orphan fair St Louis recently realized Sl9O2A raft
3O0O00f of pine lumber recently arrived at St Louis
from Wsconsn.-In the short space Of 40 years, the pop
ulaton of the City of Cincinnati has increased from five
hundred to seventy thousand sous-To wash ringworm
in vinegar in which onions have been picked, said
operate eflcctual cure=It is stated that the Miami
Canal last year netted 1-2 per the of
structon A recent meeting of the Connecticut Hstor
cal society closed by series of abeaux. i'll which
ladies and gentlemen took part attred in the costumes
of their ancestorsAn editor having read in another pa
per that there is a tobacco, which if q smoke
chew it, .le will forget that he a dollar the
world nnocently concludes that many of his subscr
have been furnished with the arce.=Ambrose Van
Buren, brother of the expresident, has been appointed
postmaster kinderhook, \. Y.=Joseph Sinclair has
been appointed sub-agent the Miami Indians Indiana,
in the place of Gen. Sam Mlroy, deccased=Somc time
since, sailor of the wharves swearing most
shockngly, when Quaker passing by and hearing him,
said him, very pleasantly, .Swear away, friend
away, till thee gets all that bad stuff of thee
for thee go Heaven with that stuff in thy
heart.=The Kenawha VA Republican, that Messrs
Robson Bibby Downward, the property leased of j.
| c. Mcfarland, Esq, few ago reached large
of gas, the depth of fourteen hundred and tair
ty feet The steady, Of sufficient force to throw
the water fifty feet in the air, and IN sufficient quaint
! ty to boil the water
The of Patents gives notice that after
the first Of July, letter addressed his office will be
taken unless the postage it be paidIhe receipts
at the New York Custom House from the Sd to the tl
inst. show decrease compared with the same period o
last year. Of S27S ,000=A cunidate for Magistrate il
Wisconsin, offers marry all bachelors who will vote
for him at half price, and editors ree=1he following
| happy specimen of orhography:
wunst luvd a nuther girl
=! her murrer
| but betsy deer my luv for
/ is 10 times more hier
convention of colored people to be held in Columbus
Ohio on the 10 day of August next Prof EsPy is now
in Ohio lec,uring his theory of storms-=Wm. Cos
johnson is of observation through the west
He St. Louis the 18th inst