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The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-09-06

RuAoR--Is is reported that President Pierce
has recently bough; farm Of 500 70 900 acres
near Colesville, Montgomery county, Mary
land-a few miles from Washington, as hi.
future residence. Il is also reported that in
the event of his receiving the Democratic
nomination for the Presidency in 1856. he will
run as Maryland aud not as New Hamp-
shire candidate We give these rumors for
what they are WORTH American Organ.
The Paducah (Ky.) Democrat of Saturday
says that the corn crop is superintendent Ia
Scott county the present year and contracts
are making at fifteen cents per bushel- Hog
and hommony are bound to be cheap
~ AUSTIN NJ PuK1T. ofPsrk county, Ia.
has been appointed by Gov. Wright Trustee
of the Wabash and Erie Canal. Ihis u gooo
appointment
The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-09-06

DEATH SPRING.-A late California paper
mentions the discovery of spring in Ell Do
RADIO county, in that State. whose waters flow
from bed of arsenic. The mineral deposit
is thirty feet thick. and crops out Of the sur
face OF the earth Veins in it abound with
gold, and specimens of this auriferous ore
have been shown to the editor of the Placer
vile American. The name Of Death Spring
has been given to the stream. The existence
of 1t is supposed to account for the mortality
among the gold miners at the early period Of
the California epidemic.
The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-09-06

Hxs The old line Commissioners of Ohio
county in this state, have heretofore obsii-
na.ely refused TO appoin, Agents to sell IL
quors in that county, as authorized by the
prohibitory law. The citizens of one Of the
townships peti,ioned for an Agency, but the
Commissioners declined 10 act in the case,
when they Were arraigned before the Circuit
Court to show cause for their neglect of duty.
Their defence was, that the law dill no. posi-
lively require them to appoint Agents, but
merely permitted them 20 do so if in their
judgment they thought best; but the Judge
taking common sense view of tina. clause OF
the law which says "they may appoint
Agents" held that it was impera:ive-thst
they mast appoint. These free wh,skey Com
missioners will thus be foiled in their efforts
to&ender the prohibiiory law unpopular with
the people.
The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-09-06

EgIt seems that President Pierce is no,
popular even among the Squatter Sovereigns
in the Kansas Legislature. correspondent
of the Missouri Republican. writing from the
Mission on the 18th says: This afternoon.
sharp debate sprung up about naming a
q county Pierce. in which the President got
fits. Some thought it = Disgrace: others
thought that it was springing old party issues
upon the Pro Slavery party; but finally. it was
named Wise. In honor of the Governor cleo
ted of Virginia"
The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-09-06

% The New York Herald says that q
suite of rooms have been secured at the Ne
tropolitan Hotel in that city, by a Mexican
gentleman, for party of distinguished Mex
Jeans" who are expected to arrive shortly L
is shrewdly conjectured tina. the distinguish
ed Mexcans'' are none other than the ex- Die
tator, Santa Anna, his family and suite. who
it is understood, expect to reside for time in
New York
The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-09-06

@A Springfield Mass correspondent
of the New York Evening Post states tina,
Southern merchants send their orders TO the
North. requiring the goods to be stamped with
the name of some supposed mandatory a,
the South Such stamps applied to hard
ware as well as to the products of tie loom,
and even inc table cutlery is manufactured in
Massachuset,. and stamped according TO or
der as if made in South Carolina.
The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-09-06

PROLIFIC BoUGH OF ApPLEs.--Joseph F.
Stanton, has lef, a. our office cluster of ap-
pies which exceed any thing we have seem
They grew in the orchard Of William Addle-
man. adjoining the town of Hillsboro, in this
county. There is 50 apples and weighing 10
pounds. They are as close together as
a cluster of grapes. The curious can see
them by calling at our office.
The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-09-06
From Philadelphia.

IHILADELPHIA, SEPT. 5.
The jIry in the case of the men arrested in
the matter of the illegal rescue of Wheeler 5
slaves, have returned verdict this morning,
declaring all the defendants not guilty on the
first count. charging them with riot but on
the second count, which charges them with
assault and battery, the verdict is not guilty in
regard to all except Ballard and Curtiss. who
are pronounced guilty.
The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-09-06

WHITE DEER-Two white deer arrived in
this city on Tuesday. from st. Louis. They
were caught in the Rocky Mountains. They
are perfectly white-not colored hair is to
be seen on the body of either. One is roe
and the other is bucE The head Of the lat
ter is adorned with very respectable pair Of
antlcrs, which are covered with smooth vel
vet coating. as pure and unspotted as the body
OF the animal which wears them. The deer
were purchased in this city for $4,000. and
are 10 be exhibited.-Cin. G1zette
The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-09-06

Es- Rev. Geo. B, Jocelyn, \. NJ. has been
elected President of White w alter College
Mr.. J. is man of strong mind. and We think
well adapted to the responsibilities of that
office. He has our best wishes for eminent
success and usefulness.-Li6erfy Herald.
The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-09-06

AT late term of the county court in Perry
county, Indiana, there were twenty-five sp-
phcations for divorce, seventeen of which
were gransed.--EransriileJ Journal.
The Louisville Times says that. in the same
county last year there were leo marriage
licences issued. and some 65 applications to
the circuit court Tor diyorcss
The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-09-06
Cincinnati Market

Tufsps,. Sept 4
Flour SIS 1926; Broom corn. seo9leo ? wheAt,
81 100 Is. Corn, ESQ., Oats Soc Beef Cattle dull SO
81 70 E
BALrIAoRE MARkET.-Sept 4.-Flour dull.
and prices declined csc per brl: small sales OF
Howard street at 81, so. Wheat and Corn
dull and dropping, with no quotable change in
prices.
The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-09-06
Trouble IN the Camp.

In referring to the resolutions Of the old
liners. of the 3Oth ultimo, which are given
below. the indianapolis Republican makes
use Of the following language:
The National Democracy though as i'm
mu.able and eternal as the pillars Of Heaven
and the foundation of the Universe. is never
theless, dreadfully wind shaken. and internal
storms are producing most fearful commissions.
The bright prospects opened up before the
raving oligarehy on the 99th inst, have been
suddenly clouded. their peace and harmony
has been turned into di<cord, and the non.
committalism Of their lodging platform is des-
pissed. rejected and spit upon. Bob Nc Celery
and Dick Slater. both members Of the Senate,
dessrve. and should receive, great credit fol
their open avowal OF, and earnest devotion to,
the whisky cause.
Their darling child has been put in irons
and thrust into prison. (uneonsfitutionaHy)
and they are determined to open the prison
doors, preach deliverance to the captive and
let the prisoner go free
This is the aim. the fixed purpose, the
settled policy Of old -lineism--of which Slater
and McCleery are the fcitifR opponents. bu
the late Convention. if it may be called such
had neither the honesty or the courage to ave-
the same openly, or to insert it in their twee
die dumb platform. But the trick is detected
and exposed. This double dealing wont VIII
among the Whisky boys. and the sneakins
treachery, and dishonorable and dishones
lodging of weathercocks and demagogues, il
treated with scorn, and rebuked with tina
outspoken fearlessness which hot toddy alone
can inspire This is right. Let them speal
out like men. They have spoken, and ne
talse modesty. no sycophantic and cowardly
spirit will ever deter them from publishing t.
the world what never should be denied, tina
the 'immutable Democracy is now. AS ever
esernally opposed to the arrest and mprison
ment of free chisky. Let them nail it t,
the mast head. and their gallant old leaky yes
sci will navigate the troubled waters like
thing Of life until the Temperance ship, ik,
a man of war. shall take from her all her sail
and rigging-her best, her choicest men
and drive her upon the desolate rocks of help
less and hopeless despair"
The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-09-06

@ Lady Melvin famous trottin g
mare has been sold in the South for 81 600 to
Charles B. Melvin. She cost S62 year or
two since.
The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-09-06

Synopsis of the Proceedings Of Wayne Conn.
~ Teachers Institute.
RICHMOND. August Is. 1885.
The Institute met in the Union School.
house. al o'clock. P. NJ.
Prof. W. d. Henkls. who had been PREV.
ously chosen BY the Teachers Association.
Conductor of the Institute called the house 10
order. stated the objects for which they had
met together. and appointed teachers for the
Institute
E. c. Thornton WAS chosen Secretary.
The following programme of daily exsrei-
ses was then adopted:
The Placer herald., 1855-12-01
TERMS:
FOR ADVERTISING:

One square of TEN LINES, or more than five, firs
n nsertion $780, each subsequent insertion, 81 ,5C
Por half square of FIVE LINES or less $500; eac
snhseaucnt insertion S 90.
The Placer herald., 1855-12-01
New Plan for a Pacific Railroad.

The .1mcricdn RdifrO0d JOUyndl publishes
a communication from A. =. Robinson a rail
road engineer to the Hon. J. NJ. Wood. "a
member of Congress from Maine, proposing
an entirely original plan for the construction
of the great Atlantic and Pacific Railway.
BY this plan he hopes to accomplish the fol-
lowing results, viz:
",Ghc easy attainment of speed of one
hundred miles per hour; increased safety,
even almost to the extent of absolute lnmu-
nifty from accidents arising from unseen i'm
pcrfectons in the track, or the breaking of
aXlcs; and increased accommodations and
conveniences, even to the extent of sleeping,
eating, and sitting rooms, with all the com
forts had upon our steamers"
The plan is briefly this: He proposes to
lay four parallel rails of the ordinary pattern
and weight, forming two distinct tracks, each
of Il guage of 2 l2 to 3 feet, and having an
intermediate space of five to six feet He
would lay these tracks upon distinct and sep
arate sleepcrs, having ditch or trench be-
tween them, but so connected as to preserve
uniform guage. The car body would rest
upon four tracks, and be sustained by a sin
gle bearing at the centre of each. With
this arrangement the cars would be con-
structed of a width Of twenty feet, and carry
at least double load, which would be divided
between the four rails. The locomotives
would be constructed double, with two dis
tinct sets Of driving wheels and two cylin-
ders on each side, leaving room between for
boiler of five feet in diameter. The axles
of the driving wheels not extending across
the space occupied by tho boiler, it matters
not how large the drivers are. These are
the prominent features of the proposed plan,
models of which are now on exhibition in
New York. 1t will be seen that any failure
of single rail or an axle could not prevent
the running of the train or throw it off the
track, as it would run on three tracks. The
plan is a novel one and worthy of considera-
The Placer herald., 1855-12-01
Decline of Know-Nothingism.

1t is reduced to moral certainty, that
next spring, at the farthest, will see the Know
Nothing party split into two hostile parties
the dividing line will be Mason & Dixon's
line The Know-Nohings north of that line
will be again divided into two parts-the
national, and the sectional men.
That will be the end of KnowNothingism
as Il party 1t may after that occasionally
fire a Church, or shoot Catholic, but new
party associations and organizations must be
found and formed
A portion Of the fragments of that party
will 90 on with Seward's sectional, ant-sla-
very troop-the national part of them will
adhere to the democrats while the spols-
men, like vultures, will follow whittier their
scent shall lead them.
This new, and monstrous party suddenly
arose-its race is run-its dissolution is as
good as complete M0,YtstoWn Banner.
The Placer herald., 1855-12-01
Democratic Tendencies.

The tendency of the age in which we live
is democratic. Its spirit is progress, and
progress is a leveller of arbitrary distinctions
and breaker down Of the barriers of ignor-
ance, superstition, prejudice and bigotry
The steam engine is a leveller, and the elec
trio telegraph propaganda Of progression
The ancient dogmas of the Old School which
it was once considered sacrlege to disturb
and which were supposed by their adhercnts
to be as firmly fixed as the foundations of
the Church itself, have been discarded as the
old guns and heavy metal of a sevcntytour,
are thrown overheard during the progress of
the storm. Old fogiedom in politics is obso-
lete, and the Statesman who clngs with de-
votion to ancient theories of governmental
policy, which were in vogue years ago, will
find himself left far behiud in the race
Progression is the order of the day, and Pro-
gression is Democracy. True, obstacles
arise that momentary check the progress of
the Democratic car, but they are only over
come to add a new impetus to a speed that
bears down all opposition.
1t was sensible remark of wise mon
arch who, when appealed to, to check the
onward course of IA celebrated retormer, an
swered his solicitors with ut is not in the
power Of any monarch in Christendom, to
stop progress"
Democracy is the most progressive Of all
political organizations. 1t is the essence and
spirit of progression, pioneer of all the
great movements for the benefit of the mass
of mankind, it circunscribes time, and an
initiates space, it spans rivers, ,--encompaSses
seas, and levels mountains in its onward
march-going forth conquerng and to con-
qucr.
Other parties follow in the wake of De
mocracy. Slow of decision, conservative in
action, they cannot keep pace with the pon-
eer of every great work Of the age. While
they stop to consider, Democracy has achiev-
ed its victory, overcome the obstacles in its
path, and compassed another great good for
the benefit of the great family of man. The
other laggards in the great race of human
progress, are satisfied to play the part of the
camp-tollower and to fall in the rear and
take up the cast-of policy of the more pro-
gressve party.
The assertion that all the tendencies of
Democratic progression are for the anchor
alton of the condition of the great mass of
mankind will not be denied The Demo
cratic leaven is working up the whole of Eu-
rope, until there is a general up-heaving Of
her aristocratic Institutions. Men cannot
much longer be forced to blind submission
with the light of intelligence to guide them.
The liberty of speech and the freedom of
conscience cannot long be repressed. Most
of all, prescription of nativity and religious
persecution is nconsonant with the spirit of
the age, and the letter of the charter of our
liberties. The monster bubble punctured
with the lance Of Democracy, will vanish
into the nothingness in which it had its in
ception. s. 4. .Sun.
The Placer herald., 1855-12-01

calculated that the commercial value of gold
to silver was 1549 or about Is 10 for |,
although the legal value was only Is IA for
l. Thus while one ounce of gold, worth in
the markets of Europe, or probably in the
commercial relations of France herself, 10
10 ounce Of silver the low said it was worth
but Is IA, thus giving to gold less, or to
silver greater than the actual value. The
legal value was then to lower. The value of
gold decreased in a similar manner, herhaps
in consequence Of the operations of the bank
established by the Regent, since, in 1926, it
was thought necessary to lower the legal
value to IA l-2 to l, at which it remained
during the whole of the Sth century. No
doubt the commercial value changed often,
but no account was taken of those changes.
In 1885, when Colonne undertook a recoin-
age, the matter was more closely considered,
a marked disagreement between monetary
regulation and commercial fact was demon
strated, with all the consequent evils, even
in the preamble of the royal edct. The old
proportion was changed to Is l-2 to L.
This proportion was then no doubt exact,
but was not so long.
w INV NollIC " llt NNdl AL, Niich liiN
present regulations were made A great re-
action had taken place-gold no longer adj
vanced, but fell back to point lower than
it had been since the times of Law. Thus,
scarcely had it advanced, to follow the com
mercial value, than it was necessary to re-
trace the step. The reporter of the law, M.
Lebretor, fixed the average at l to l4.l-l0,
or to Is at most Since then the relation
Of gold to silver is estimated to have been
IS 3-4. Tins each attempt Of the Legsla-
ture to seize that unseizable value only led to
new errors 1t is in vain now to reckon on
that proportion of Is 3-4; however regular
it may appear, accidental variations are not
wanting.
NJ. Charles Coquein expressed himself thus
in 1S44 1t is difficult to admit, with NJ. M.
Chevalier, that the value of gold is about to
fall one half, and consequently to fall to las
to l. 1t ought to be considered, however,
that the sudden influx of gold upon the mar
ket has again caused difference between
the legal and commercial value. The law of
the year AI., supposed a proportion of Is l-2;
if we We're to Judge by what passes in Ame-
RIGA, it s really only IA or l3. 1t would 90
to a lower figure ii, which is not probable,
less manual labor is required in the produc-
ton, or il the mines of silver produce better.
The Placer herald., 1855-12-01
Masonry and Know-Nothingism,

The following card appears in the Fort
Smith (Arkansas) Ga2ette:
We, the undersigned, having been initiated
into the order called know -nothings, at the
office of DR.. J. ii. 7. Maine, of this city, have
become perfectly satisfied that the princi pies
of said called order are antagonstic to re-
publicauism and in violation of the constitu-
ton of the United States, and also in viola
ton of or obligations of the Masonic fra
ternity, which teaches us "to respect the
constitution of our country, love to God, and
charity to all men,
Having found that the order of know
nothings is not what it was represented to
us and believing it to be in opposition to
good morals and in violation of law, and di-
rectly opposed to the obligation of true Ma
sons, we therefore publicly withdraw from,
and renouncc forever our fellowship with,
said party known as know-nothngs
A. ID. GATES.
b. +. GATES.
The Placer herald., 1855-12-01
Benefits of Crying.

A celebrated French surgeon has lately
published II long dissertation on the benet-
cial influence of groaning and crying, on the
nervous system. lie contends that groaning
and crying are the two grand operations by
which nature alays anguish, and that he has
uniformly observed that those patients who
give way to their natural feelings, more
speedily recover from accidents and opera
tons than those who suppose it is unworthy
a man to betray such system of cowardce as
either to groan or to cry. lie is always
pleased by the crying and violent roaring of
a patient during the time he is undergoing a
severe surgical operation, because he is salts
fed that he will thereby soothe his nervous
system as to prevent fever, and insure ia
vorable determination. lie relates the case
of man who by crying and bawling reduced
his pulse from one hundred and twentys to
sixty in the course of two hours. That some
patients often have a great satisfaction in
groaning, and that hysterical patients often
experience great relief from crying, are facts
which no person will deny. As to restless
and hypochondriacal Subjects or those who
are never happy but when they are under
some course of medical or dietetic treatment,
the French surgeon assures them that they
cannot do better than groan all day and cry
all night
The Placer herald., 1855-12-01
Hartford Convention.

Among the resolutions passed by this
noted Convention, we publish the one below.
1t embodies the quintessence of KnowNoth-
ingism. The few Democrats Of our county
who have joined this order, and who have
heretofore opposed federalism in all its guises
should remember that the very men who
few years before the warm supporters Of John
Adams, the head and front Of the federal
party:
Resolred, That no person who shall here
after be naturalized citizen of the United
States, shall be eligible as member of the
Senate or House of Representatives of the
United States, nor be capable of holding any
civil office under the authority of the United
States.
In contradistinction to this we present the
opinions of Thomas Jefferson, the 'father of
the Democratic party" in this Union, who
was elevated to the Presidential chair over
Mr.. Adams, because of his just and liberal
princip pcs-contending for the rights of all
as guaranteed under the Constitution of our
common country. Mr.. jefferson says:
"Our civil rights have no dependencies
on our religious opinions, MORE than
our opinions in physics and geometry. To
prescribe any citizen as unworthy the public
confidence by laying upon him an incapacity
of being called to offices of trust and emolu-
ment unless he profess or renounce this or
that religious opinion, is depriving him inju-
riousl y of those privileges and advantages to
which, in common with his fellow citizens,
he has natural right. 1t tends also, to cor
rupt the principles of the very religion it is
meant to encourage, by bribing with a mon
opoly of worldly honors those who will ex-
ternaly profess and conform to it. Every
person has an equal right to the honor and
confidence of his fellow-ctizens, resulting
NOT FROM BIRTH, BUT FROM HIS AC-
TIONS, and their sense of them"
TO this we add the endorsement of George
Washington:
"The bosom of America is open to receive,
not only the opulent and respectable stran-
ger, but the oppressed and persecuted of ALL
NATIONS and of all RELIGIONS, whom
we shall welcome to participation in ALL
OUR RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES"
We invite every Democrat who has
thoughtlessly connected himself with the
Know-Nothing order to consider well the
above, and be sure that he has not entered
into compact with set of men whose
highest aim is to overthrow the principles of
the Democratic party.