The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1856-07-31
NO. 80.
~ At \ 4th of July dinner. near Charles
South Csrolins, the following toas, was drank


with all the honors:
The Union: May il speedily be dissolved.
and Hen p S. Brooks be the frs, Presiden,
of the Southern Republic.
SiGxIrIcAsr-Brooks thanked his demo
cratic friends from the free States for their
votes 10 sustain and yindica,e his assault up.
on the freedom of debate in the beating
of Senator Summer.
E9r Mr.. George Law. or Live Oak
George" his friends call him. is ou, in
letter. in which he announces that he win
give his support 10 John c. Fremont for the
Presidency.
E< The Louisville Journal thinks the Wing
who can swallow Buchanan. with his princi-
pies Haunted in his face and the old battle-
cry beloved into the ears of his ancient op-
ponents. will perform a fe,c in deglution with
which the affair OF Jonah and the whale stands
in dim and ambiguous comparison.
axSy- How can candidate for the Presi-
dency who has no ionai feclin be friend
of the Inion9
Providence does much to save from real evil
but We must save ourselves from imaginary ones.
" Sugar is high. and the reason is. that
it cannot be successfully cultivated in Loui-
isiana-the crop having recently fallen OH
heavy tax on foreign sugar TO support the
Louisiana planters.
The Quartz Rock CASDIpArE.-lt was
not a bad conceit of the returned Californian
to designate Fremont, the candidate of the
Republican party-Qartez Rock Jack. ''be-
cause said he 1.-The gold in him is pure
and requires process Of amagamatSn to
get IT out
II
his work entitled Nine Years Among the
Convic,s." states that he never had printer
among his congregation in the prison. The
reason is pla:n-printers all go t" the poor
house.
HKRpERr AcourrrxDl-The telegraph tells
us that Herbert. the waiter killer. has been
acquitted. The modus opertnd it does not
give nor does it matter 1t Is sufficient 10
know that though the killing OF Keating was
a clear case Of murder. such influences have
been brought to bear that the murderer goes
unwhpped OF justice. He was gambler
and member of Congress. belonging 10 the
party that makes public opinion at Washing
ton and his victim was only poor lri,hman,
who was guilty of the outrageous offence OF
showing resentment when Herber, called HIM
d Irish son of -
The LATEST DopGE.-The Vigilance Com
mttee Of San Francisco. in the course OF their
investigations into the case OF Coroner whom
they had arrested. elected satisfactory evil
dence that he was in the habit of disnterring
the bodies Of persons who had been buried,
for the purpose OF dropping them in the docks,
and thus receiving the fees attending an in
quest In this way, il is said. one body has
been made to do service three or four times
or as long as it would hold together. This
accounts in part. for the great number of bo-
dies that. but a little while ago. were con
stantly found under the wharves of San Fran
cisco.
kE- AS there never presidential con
test involving greater issues than the present
one, there never was one which created
deeper and more pervading interest. Even
Scholars are called cut from retirement. Poets
and Professors of world wide fame are sum
moned by it to the rostrum. Emerson leaves
the metaphysics of the study for the matters
of fact Of the stump. Longfelow takes the
stump to urge a new and nober Excelsior"
Bryant is on the stump-a ''Thanatopsis" TO
Buchananists.'' Curtis quits his Castles in
Spain, and attends town meetings. Prof.
Felton, leaves his Chair, and instead Of Greek
verbs is dealing out blunt English adjectives.
A Aad Prof. Silliman comes 10 the stump, TO
bid the Kansas emigrant trust in God and
keep his powder dry.
~ portion Of the rock over which the
water falls at the Falls of ST. Anthony. gave
away for distance Of about fourteen feet from
the Minneapolis side, on the 9th. The break
does not diminish the height OF the fall any.
bu' removes that portion OF it sons distance
fur her up stream.
The Western Christian Advocate" published
at Cincinnati has been indicted in Gilmore county.
virginia and the Rev. Levi Parker has been in
dfrtpi for circulating il Slavery hates
pers and free speech, and will supIress them every
where il it is left to go uncheekes. Virginia is
the Mrs Partington OF slavery, and now stands. as
that famous old laky stood, on tae shores OF the
Atlantic, broom 10 hand. vainly striving to beat
back the advancing tide Of Freedom.
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Democratic Ratification.
We observe tha. ratification meetings"
are being held by the democratic party In
different sections Of the country. The ques-
ton naturally arises. What are the de
mocracy ra,ifyinge" We will endeavor to
answer:
!. The disgracefnl and abhorred admins
tration of Franklin Pierce. which is an OBJ
lect Of scorn from one end OF the Union TO
the other.
g The re opening of the slavery agitation
by Senator Douglas, and the violation OF the
Missouri Compromise.
3. The Hartford Convention Of 1918. aud
the nomination of an old Federalist for Presi-
dent.
4. The civil war in Kansas, the burning Of
Lawrence, the invasion OF Territory by
armed citizens of an adjoining Stale, the
crimes and murders which followed.
s. The murderoas assault on a U. s. Ssns-
tor in his seat. The killing of An Irish waiter
by democratic representative
6. The extravaganee OF General Pierce'