Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1849-07-04

the mint. in Philadelphia. the \. y Tri- +
bun learns that the value Of California
gold. received there TO the 9th instant. is .
S36o.192. We also learn that the com /
age of gold dollar pieces. began on the .
eth ult. has each TO the number of SSl5,
700. and that il exceeds. by more than .
500 600 the demand made by depoStorS.
MoRE STEAMERS SoLp.-The United .
States steamer Fashion. which cost the .
Government forty thousand dollars. has
thousand dollars and the Telegraph which +
cost eighteen thousand dollars, sold for .
nine thousand dollars.
GENERAL CAss TO RESIGN The Nash !
vile Banner assures lis readers. upon the .
most "uuqustionable authority that Gen.
Cass will resign his seat in the United .
States Senate rather than obey the instruc-
lions imposed upon him by the Lcgisla
ture of Michigan. /
AN ACCOMPLISHED MlNIsTER.---The |
Washington correspondent of the Eren- |
ing Post says of Hon. George p. Marsh |
who is announced to be the successful
candidate for the mission at Constantine |
-.Perhaps he is the only man among
speak Turkish lie is tho American
Mezzofanti.''
WEAR OF NIAGARA FALLs-The no. .
600 tons Of water which each minute pour
over the precipice of Niagara, are estimat-
ed to carry away foot Of the cliff every
year. Taking this average, and adopting
the clear geological proof that the fall once
existed at Queenstown, four miles below.
we must suppose period of 10000 years
occupied in this recession Of the cataract
TO its actual site: while in the delta of the
Mississippi, nearly $4,000 square miles in
extent, an estimate founded on its present
rate of increase, and on calculation of the
amount ofear,hy matter brought down the
stream. has justified Mr.. Lyell in alleging
that 6 900 years must have elapsed since
the formation Of this great deposi. began.
Quarterly Review.
O-An invention is announced called
the .'Galvanic Watchman,,' to protect
houses from robbery. wire is ar
ranged that when thief touches the lock,
inside or out. a galvanic battery knocks
him down and rings bell. The thief Is
secured before he RECEIVERS from the shock
nrSecretary Ewing has appointed Col.
John w. Foster, Of Ohio, and J. ID.
Whiteny, Of Mass achusetts, to complete
the surveys of the Mineral Lands border
ing on Lake Superior, commenced by DIR.
InoLa~n
CA Greek named Debolli, recently
deceased at St. Petersburg, left $25O,OOO
to the Greek government. portion Of
| this amount is to found University.
"Thc Newspaper may be destroyed at
night; It may light cigar. or may curl a
lady's hair; but the thoughts that are in its
columns may influence ten thousand for
good, and produce effects which volumes
Of essays, sermons, or narratives, could
never effect, and especially where they
could never reach"
| The above paragraph, from the L. S.
Gazette, is copied into the Philadelphia
Journal, and the bachelor editor of the
latter paper. overcome by his feelings, in :
continently bursts forth into the following
rhapsody
The very thought Of ones lucubrations
nesting down at night among the ringlets
Of a sweet girl, keeping watch over the
midnight slumbers, well as curling her
hair, is enough to infuse poetry into the
pen and make the traces along the sheet
frantic with sentiment.
CONCLUSION.
Is there heart that never sighed2
| Is there a tongue that never lied!
Is there eye that never blinkd?
Is there man that never drink!
If SO, then heart and tongue and eve
Must tell most COMPOUNDED lie.
Practice virtue, and it will make you
love everybody. The really pure look
r. FL, c,l1 FOL
a lenient eye, The men who can find
act oftheir friends and neighbors, are only
!, anxiously searching for mirrors Of theil
own souls in those Of others.
Az Irishman was sued by a doctor fo
the amount of his bill for medicine and at
tendance. and Paddy being called upor
TO state why he refused to pay, made the
following reply:
"Wha, should pay for! The medi
| cine was no use to me, sure, and he sen
me two emetics, and nary one of ZEN
could | kape on my stomach.
"The world owes US living but like
many other debts, in these times. it il
pretty hard work 10 collect it, as man,
find.
: !, IS said that "a man should not speal
5 his mind on every occasion" Very true
/. for half the time nobody cares what hi
e mind is.
There is fellow somewhere who carrie
his sense Of honor 50 far, as to spend hi
time in perfec, idleness. because he doe
not like to take ddrdntage OF time.
The chief use Of bachelor, accordin
TO the Baltimore Americana is TO count on
i'm the census.
The Detroit Free Press says the Stat
, debt of Michigan is only so,516 ,533, en-
the State is rapidly paying it.
5 Tom Moore, the poet, Is said to be a
fiicted by disease of the brain, by whic
he has entirely lost his memory. Iii
T brilliant genius has long since been Gea