Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1850-01-23
THE PALLADIUM.


the Elders OF Israel were asSe Inoieu toSeuheI
by Moses, and informed of his mission TO deliver
his countrymen from bondage There appears
to have been sir Elders from each trib--their
number is stated TO have been 20 or -, and they
were treated by both Moses and Aaron as repre-
sen;atires of the people. In referring to this
fact, at this day. merely design TO show that
the Israelitish practice of calling their repre-
sentatives "EIder.,'' is still practised, tho in
transposed form: the Elder being a representa-
tive-an able, faithful, good humored, INTEL efua!
representative from ..Ot Wayne" as the follow
ing testimony from the Estate Sentinel album
dainty se,te,l, forth and prove,h:
ave met brother Elder with a smile that Mo-
himself might have envied--with a size
proportlonate to the county he represents, and
that ably and faithfully with a richness Of
good humor and intellect comparable with the
richness of that same old Wayne county, (the
richest in the state, but alas: welded formerly
TO her idol Of whggery.)" &c.
Another reason why refer to this Jewish
practice, is account of the number: in lieu Of
20 or -, hoosherjon has but and his cogno-
men appears to be James, instead of John r., as
the following letter from the former individual
will testify "Iouse of Reps,
iianapois, Jan. II, 1850. (
Mr. Davis,-I notice in the ''Pallaiiun,'' Of
the 10Th, which you bad the kindness to Sc nj me,
that You end-avor, (uaiaten,ioaaly, pc rlapsrj to
make the erroneous impression upon Your read
ers, that am the person who proposed to do the
state Printing per cent. lower than the pres
ent prices. such is not the fact. John X. Elder,
of the publishers of the '.I.ocomotve,'' Of
this place. is the man who made that proposition
to the legislature.
This brief statement of the truth about this
matter, you will observe "knocks the sand from
UNDER your article, in which YOU had nicely
made out a Of inconsistency against me.
will further say, that on need entertain
any fears that l will come i'll cOmpe ttion with
you, in printing horse bills at 81 cents. You
may hereafter, as You have heretofore, have all
Jobs at that price. so far US I am concerned.
Very Respectfully, JAMES ELDER"
Not knowing or thinking that there were tpo
printers at the capitol by the Of Elder
didn't know John and did know 'James)-we
understo cd the Reporter Of the state Journal to
mean, when he said "Mr. Elder" the writer of
the above letter, who had proposed to do the
State Printing lower than the present prices
We gratfed to make the correction and to
say that. i'll This case, james Elder has not acted
inconsistent. The doubt lie expresses in his
"unnte ntionally. per,aps7' does not fit us; for,
(aItho' Mr.. Elder and ourseif have not teen on
the most friendly terms, and will not be until he
is willing to act the part Of honest man, and
withdraw certain false and unfounjed charges
and insinu. atoms he has permitted himself TO pub
lish in his paper against u.s. we were honestly
of the belief that he was the party alluded to.
We are at all times ready and willing TO do erea
M Etder justice, and to give the devil his due.
About the time that the printers convention
at Centrevilc was talked Of, Mr.. Elder opposed
1t on the ground that prices fixed by printers had
not nor would not be lived up TO. and stated that
he "kne'r' of a horse-bill having been printed
Tor 'o.4 cents, when the established price call
ed for 50. We tried at that time to get him to
say ~aeJe SO cheap ii job had been done; but
he ntented himself with obscure insinua-
ton that the Palladium office the place.
We kne'o 'ha. such job for such price,
or for Il less sum than 50, had never been done at
our office; and we drew tn, infer ence that, as
he professed to knotc all about the small-priced
bill, he must be the "rat." The last paragraph
of the above letter, comes out a little palmer
the "you may hereafter, as you have heretof1re''
Nc, means sonetbing-it charges us with doing
that job! We have only this to say TO Mr.
james Elder, (and We wish him to undo rstand it
IN It's broadcast sense, that the large SO far as
the Palladium office IS concerned or its pub;sl,
ers, is FALSE. and we respectfully call upou
him Tor The proof If he really kno,cs, it will be
id-nce--someihing else beside his mere assertion
The course pursued by the editors and pub
fishers of the jeff. in regard to Job work, has
always been Of Il raftia.,. undo mining nature
indeed, one Of its conductor, informed a printer
tina, he obliged, in order to get patron
age, to do work for less Price than the Pa,adi-
am office would do it. Enough Of this for the
rresent-we could instance several Gases Of I'M
all goto show that we had good grounds for sup
posing that he Elder, who proposed to under
take the State printing IS per cent. lower than
present prices was nobody else but james. If
he intends TO adhere, hereafter. to the text OF
''the laborer is worthy Of his hire which we
quoted last week and if he does not mean to
twist the "hire" part into lo,cer-ing of regular
prices, no further difficulty in the Job work line
will take place between US. We expect 10 make
living at pri2ing-we only ask living pric es
for our w"rk--and we do despis- a ",af" VIII. tn
err it is big Little one.
The Xenia Torct-Ligh, of the Il til inst says
"A second examination of Doty, who is charg-
ed with partic ipating in the STEELE and KINNEY
murder,) was to have taken place to-day, before
the Associate Judges, but from all the infor,na-
ton we could gather yesterday, think it prob
able he will be discharged withou. further in
vestiga,ion of his case
Mrs. Howard, the actress in a terrible TRACE
dy about year since, ami who was sent TO the
insane as. lum at Columbus, after her trial and
acguital, the Cine innaii Chronicle says, is now
in that city, having regained her usual equilibri-
um Of MIND. She arrived Thursday after
noon and put up temporarily at the Gait House
CHOLERA IN LOUISIANA disease having all
the pathological characteristics Of Asiatic Choi-
era, has made its appearance at Thibodcaux
among the negroes belonging to several traders
+ from Virginia and n orth Carolina