The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-01-05

formerly member of Congress, died at b resi-
dence in Pittsburg. on Friday last. He "a vic
tim TO Observation-Disclosures Mortonan / )
times as the Democratic candidate for Gvernor
of Massachusetts,, and was defeated everyIme-
he was, however, elected the sixteenth trl. by a
majority of one vote out of hundred nd two
thousand votes given-The Brennan Texas
Inquirer OF the 28th ult, has the anneed an
nouncement: We learn that a numberof per-
sons were baptised by immersion Sunday last,
at Independence, among whom was Gea. Sam.
Houston. Three thousand two hunGed and
Hamilton county, Ohio. during the psf year.
Indiana FIVE per cents bonds are worth ~
cents on the dollar in New Yark.-lrrson is
to be hung on the 11th Of MAY next-It is
thought Congress will make grant of 1000, 600
of acres of land 10 private company TO con-
struct a subterranean telegraph from the Missouri
river to San Francisco.-It is stated that Au-
ditor Dunn has made $50. 900 fees by tie return
Of bills of the State Stock Banks.-Cs-..
pers agitating the questin- f0"s
T. ~ Ctah that the denise of a
married. mo- adequately mourned- One of the
Mo--.on Elders. recently deceased. is dsplored
by twenty inconsolable widows. In speaking
Of the hard times the n. Y. Tribune says of
Printers alone, there are now, il is stated, not
less than FIVE hundred in this city out OF employ
ment, with q fair prospect of seeing the number
increase, as men who cannot sell their lbor
not by either books or newspapers. -Wads-
worth & Sheldon, bankers, Of n Y, failed to-
day. Their liabilities are set down attwo mil
lions dollars, with assets of about fv, hundred
thousand They were agents for the ontral Il
Enois Railway. and consequently the pvment of
interest on its bonds not forthcooing this
mornng.-The Laporte La. Union.dyocates
the election of Solomon Meredith for L S Senate
The New York Tribune confdentr predicts
the reelection of Governor Seward t the Uni
ted States Senate.-Itis announced tht Messrs.
Belcher d, Co., large Sugar Refners OF 81. Louis
have failed for over two millions of dciars--
Charles Sigourney, one of the Oldest and most
respected merchants of Hartford, Com, died of
apoplexy on Saturday afternoon last He was
the husband of Mrs. L. H. Sgourney, the poet
ess.-Tde Kennebec (Me Journal announces
that Charles J. Perry, late Postmaster It Orland,
Me-, has been removed, because he WA a Know
Nothing, and Stillman Cotton appointed in his
place.--The Richmond Wig of Thursday
contains long and able letter from tie pen of
the Hon. John NJ Bolts in defense o his posi-
ton on the Nebraska btll. Mr. Bolts was one
of the most able oppoeents of that n.farious
measure THE Pension roll of tie United
States during the past year amounted to about
Ia 900 names. There were 600 Revolutionary
soloi-,s. 1890 widows of soldiers, md 5,OO6
lnvallds During the year the list has been de-
creased 643 names, W deaths-M.ssrs Rob (
ms & Lawrence at Windsor, VT, have ,-eouted
an order for Minnie rifle guns, amounAng to
$50, 900 for the British government. dessrs.
Buck, of Lebanon, N. H have just executed
Nngland-The Schenectady engine house on
the New York Central Railway was damaged by
fire to-day to the amount of S35, 900, including
the building and locomotives.--TheL lafayette
Journal wants tn know if some Wall street Neal
Dow cannot devise Maine law for the money
market to prevent it from getting hght.-Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher says / like to ny Sab
bath congregation laugh, when there is scasion
for it. and verify believe there is no mom harm
in laughing in the church than in ones private
parlor.-The ague RACES SO in some parts of
Iowa, that people are obliged to sleep with corn
cobs in their mouths to keep from shaking their
teeth out.-Snooks says that ha best sewing
machine in the world is one about seventeen
years old, with short sleeve dress, pretty little
feet with gaiter boots.-A Yankee editor says:
The march of civilization is onward-onward-
like the slow but intrepid tread of jackass to a
peck of oats-The New York Jours1l of
Commerce, it is said, is to reduce its size one
third the LIST of January. 1t ought to have
been cut down long ago. Such a monstrous
sheet is nuisance.