The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-04-12

William Backhouse, living in Fayette
county, near Connersville seduced IN
der promise of marriage, Miss Mary L.
Lake Mary took the case into the Cir
cui. Court. aud jury set on il, and gave
her 81 900
The Indianapolis Herald saws the re-
vival among the colored population is far
more general in that city in proportion
to population, than among the whites =
Probably a hundred colored penitents re
ceived the sacrament Of Baptism Sunday
forty or more by immersion in the
canal.
The Indianapolis Evening G azette has
new local in the person of Mr.. Ben.
ID. House, late editor of the Home Visi-
tor The leading editor endorses him
us a voung man of excellent moral
character" Nothing remarkable in that.
So far as our knowledge extends it is
characteristic Of the profession.
The election in Center township, Ma
rion comfy (Indianapois) went for the
Union candidates, by majority of
1,207. The opposition employed the
same tremendous efforts to elect their
man as here. The Journal says all the
livery stables whose proprietors were
tinged with Democracy, turned out
their transportation, and every vote that
could possibly be brought out was Civ
en-. All the trading, the bartering, the
chicanery. the fusion, and the develtry
that Democratic Imagination could in
vent, was used for the sccess that the
leaders so earnestly desired Il Lafay cite
journal
Mr. S.oc.lton,S Vote-A Precedent.
Dir. Eparam Bateman II president of the
Council of New Jersey forty years ago, which
the Senate. He the candidate of the
Adams party Tor United States Sena tor and, pres-
dent OF the Council, presided the joint conven
tions Of the Legislature. In November, 1927, DR..
Bateman presided the meeting to elect United
States senator and the being tie he voted for
himself and by that vote secured his own election
The legality ofhs vote questioned, either in
New Jersey, in the United States Senate. though
partisan warfare then very The party in
New Jersey. opposed TO the Democracy, then and
did not complain Of the action Of the present presiding
officer Of the New Jersey State Senate, who made
himself Speaker of that body by his own vote.
= Washington. Union.
HURRAH FOR THE PREsIDFST.If it be true tina
the clerks At Washington from New Ham oshre, were
called upon for coatriL uon 70 the election fund of
that State if il be that clerk refused
tribute if be that efforts made pro-
his removals and if it be that the President
ordered him to be retained and promoted the first OPP
portunty tor his independence, then say, hurrah
for the President ! We desire any party with which
pcrate 10 be free from the corruptions Of poll
tics Cincinnati Times.
The Carlinville TN } Democrat has
been informed by an old nurseryman,
who examined many of the peach trees in
that vicinity, and assures it they are
uninjured.
The New York Evening Post says
that a business man in Williamsburg,
whose safe has been blow open three
times by burglars, now pursues the plan
of leaving the key in the lock. He is
tired of paying for repairs.
THE FREEDMEN BUREAU.-GeneraI
Strong. sent some time time since by
Gen. Howard on an inspecting tour
through the South, reports the affairs of
the bureau as progressing favorably.
Nearly all Of the freedmen are employed
at good wages. and the people generally
acquiesce in the new system of free Ia
Dor In referring to Gov. Walker, of
Florida, Gen Strong says that he be-
lievcs him to be one of the truest and
best men in the South, and states that
he is using all his influence and power to
protect the freedmen and their interests. /