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The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-09-26
The Students First Glass.

youth once threw his head upon my knee
in the btterest agony, and said 80 cousin if
/ could only describe to you those awful fee
lings Of Unsuitable thirst It is like ten thou
sand devils gnawing at my yitals - Said
why will you not be persuaded to break off
these habits of drink p He replied 'It is
impossible. would give every thing own to
be able to do it but the raging fire within can
only be assuaged by another drink and another,
and another! and SO it must go on till DEATH!
O! it is hopeless, hopeless!'' - And he noble
youth. with collegiate education and native grace,
of excellent family connection and having just
completed the study of law. with fine opportuni-
ties for honor and usefulness opening before him.
In a few weeks from that conversation he was
found in the street, was taken to the aims
house, and there died in a few days. Is more
than one such record needed to prove the dan
ger of taxing the first glass.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-09-26
Democratic Platform.

On the 8th. Of January last, the
Democracy met in convention at Col
umbus, for the purpose OF nominating
candidates for Governor and other State
offices. They adopted a platform of
plattitudes, of which the following will
be found to be the essence:
Resolped, 1st. That the Democracy Of
Ohio, as always before, are in favor of
repudiating the national debt
I'd. That the Democracy of Ohio, as
they always have been, are in favor of
restoring slavery in this country,
but if that can't be donc-then for
the Government to pay our friends for
tie loss of all their slaves
3D.. That the Democracy of Ohio arc
in favor, as they have always been, of
granting pensions to the widows and
orphans of the confederate soldiers.
4th. That the Democracy of Ohio,
are IN favor, as they always have been,
of the right of secession.
5th That the Democracy Of Ohio,
as they have lately discovered. and for
fear they may be misunderstood are in
favor of paying the public debt, but il
restored to power, will pay it off in
greenbacks, and then declare them "on-
ly rags
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-09-26
iMPEACHM ENT.
The New York Tribune Calls for the
Arraignment Of the President.

The New York Tribune, which has of
late been very conservative in it's tone,
has at last seen the signs of the times,
and comes out squaroly in favor of i'm
peachment. In its issue Of Wednesday,
after enumerating the Presidents ofens-
es, it says: 4
Where will this end The President
means war. The country must stand
and fight, or he defeated We believe
any thing possible Of Mr. johnson His
Administration is record of deception,
cunning, disloyalty-antagoni to the
best interests of the country. He has
made the administration of Buchanan
respectable by showing a degradation
to which even Mr.. Buchanan could not
sink. He has betrayed his party; he
has betrayed his friends he has betray-
ed his country. Nothing is left of his
Administration but few miserable job
bers like those who hang around him,
and few wretched political adventurers
like Black. The men who accepted con-
tumely for his cause like Seward, RAN
dali, and Welles, he is impatient 70 drive
out OF his Cabinet. The savage of Sa-
hara is not insensible to the obligations
OF friendship; but even this no longer
remains with Mr.. johnson. We admon-
ish the people to prepare for stern and
high responsibility. 1t is nearly hum
dred days until Congress meets. Till
then we are powerless. We can only
bow to this dreadful tyranny. The Pres
1dent appealed to the country in his late
message. We join him il the appeal.
Let our friends organize everywhere
Let US make the canvass upon the infa-
my of Mr.. Johnson's Administration,
and having defeated him at the ballot
box, we can prepare, through our Rep
resentatives, to consider the best course
to. he taken TO punish him for his crimes
against the sovereign will of the Ameri-
can people.
VIEWS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES
The New Y ork Times, of August Goth,
says:
Matters have gone too far to render
doubt or misappreheusion reasonable.
Mr. johnson has entered upon course
which shuts out the last chance of recon
ciliatien, and renders all compromise
impossible. Vows and protestations will
serve him no longer. Pretences of CON-
pllance with the law which he is trying
to obstruct, are no longer admissible.
His parrot talk about the Constitution
is laughed at as sheer nonsense and hy-
pocrisy. He stands revealed an enemy
not less of Congress and its laws than
of the country and its peace. Wanton-
ly, treacherously, with no conceivable
hope of success, impelled only by need
less malignity and an insane ambition
he has reopened the quarrel in shape
which renders his fate and the duty Of
the governing party perfectly clear As
between the Executive and the people
represented by Congress, there will now
be neither the giving nor the taking of
quarter. Mr.. johnson has unshcathed
the sword of a disturber and usurper,
and there can be no further pa riley with
him.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-09-26
THE ECCENTRIC UNCLE.

Some two or three miles from the IT.
tie town of Aylesbury, England, there
once lived three cousins of the family
name of Barrett. They were all mar
ried and settled on farms, within mile
of each other, and each Of them had
grown up children around them. They
were no. rich but in fair circumstances !;
each had expectations An eccentric
uncle had gone out to India when quite
a Young man, and rumor told them that
he had become very wealthy. and would
pro5ably die q bachelor. Who, then
but themselves would be heirs to his
property they being at that time his
nearest kin.
One day the three families were
thrown into great commotion by each
Of them receiving q letter which con-
tanned, besides date and signature, only
these words;
81 am rich. Fools call me a nabob.
l wouldn't give such name to q cat.
No matter-I shan't live asways-and
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-09-26
Salaries of the Clergy.

The meagre salaries paid to many of our
deserving clergymen have frequently been a
subject of remark in these columns. In a Con-
Eecticut journal we find report that in the
neighborhood OF New Haven, faithful and
capable minister who is now in the decline of
life, having preached for more than quarter of
a century, has been obliged to leave his congre-
CATION and the work of the ministry because his
salary was SO pitifully small, and to labor at
the bench of carpenter. lie never learned
the trade, yet his natural ingenuity enabled
him to obtain wages which amount to about
$500 mere per annum than the total amount
of his salary while preacher. He graduated
at college by the most idomitable efforts,
saving wood and laboring out cf study hours,
to obtain means by which to support himself
at the university. Yet now, after so long a
labor at the ministry, he has been compelled
to give it up because he cannot live on the mea-
gre salary paid him.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-09-26
Do You Know wha. You Con Do .

1t was evident thxt Jones had very little
conception Of the powerful man he was to fight
Until McCool threw off that sloucIling suit and
manner, and standing erect, displayed his rigan-
tic proportions to their full advantage, The
difference in Jones' appearance before and after
McCooi had stripped, reminded US Of the follow
ing incident:
We have men of very long bodies and very
short legs. and men Of very long legs and very
short bodies. One Of the latter class, who,
while sitting down. looks like small man, but
who towers like giant when he gets upon his
feet, once edited country paper near Cincin-
natl.
One day a man who had no acquaintance
with the editor, and who had become greatly
exasperated at certain article in the journal
rejecting upon himself rushed into the editors
sanctum in a terrible rage, vengeance in bis eye
and the paper in his hand-espying a quiet
looking little man sitting by the table writing
he rushed up to him and exclaimed
:" Be you the editor of this paper ?'
!" am. sir, was the reply.
Did you write that infamous article on
me % pointing to the editorial in question.
II did write the article you are pointing at.
SIR returned the editor, quietly
"Then. sir" exclaimed the enraged man,
pulling off his coat. 'do you know what you
can do go
Raising himself slowley upon his feet until
he lowered at least foot and half above his
would-be adversary, and bringing his fs: down
on the table savagely, he said, well, sir what
can do ?r
The man eyed him from head to foot for
moment in utter amazement and then slipping
on his coat again, exclaimed
What can you do ? We'll, stranger, ics'
think you can give me the gol dsrndest maui
ing that man ever got,'' and he hurriedly
shot out Of the office.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-09-26
Hold on, Boys!

Hold on to your tongues when you are just
ready to swear, lie or speak harshly, or use any
improper word.
Hold on to your hand when you are about
to strike steal, or do any improper act.
Hold on to your foot when you are on the
point of kicking, running away from study, or
pursuing the path of error, shame or crime.
Hold on to your temper when you are angry,
excited OK imposed upon, or others are angry
about you.
Hold on to your heart when evil persons
seek your company, and invite you to join
their games. mirth or reyelry.
Hold on to your name at all times, for it is
more valuable to you than gold, high places or
fashionable attire.
Hold on to truth, for it will serve you well,
and do you good throughout eternity.
Hold on to virtue-it is above all price. to
you in all times and places.
Hold on to your good character, for it is, and
always will be, your best wealth.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-09-26

The Money!ess Man.

In there no secret place Oh the face Of the earth
Where charity dweleth, where virtue hath birthf
" here blossoms in mercy aud kindness will heave,
And the poor and the wreched shall ask and receive7
Il there no place where knock from the poor
Will bring a kind angel to open the door,
All search tie wide world wherever you can,
There is no door open for a moneyless man!
Go look in yon hall where The chandeliers light
Drives of with its splendor the darkness OF night;
Where the rich hanging velvet, in shadowy fold,
Sweeps gracefully down with its trimming of gold,
And the mirrors Of silver take up and renew,
In long lighted vistas, the wiIdering view
Go there in your patches. and find, if you cam
A welcoming smile for a moneyiess man!
Go in Won church of the cloud-reaching spire,
Which gives back to his same look OF red hre
Whore the arches and columns are gorgeous within,
And the walls seem as pure as soul without SIM
Go down the long aise-see the rich and the great
In the pomp and the pride Of their worldly estate
Walk down in your patches, and find, if you can.
Who will open pew to . moneyless man!
Go look to yon Judge in his dark flowing gown
With the scales wherein law weigheth equity down,
Where he rowns the weak and smiles on the strong
And punishes right, while he justifies wrong:
mere
To render verdict they've already made
Go there in the courtroom, and find, if you can,
Any law for the cause of moneyless man!
Go look in the bank, where Mammon has told
His hundreds and thousands of silver and gold;
Where safe from the hands of the starving and poor
Lies pile upon pile of the glittering ore;
w ak up to the counter-ah, there you may stay
Till your limbs grow DID, and your hairs turn gray
And you'll find at the banks not one OF the clan
With money to lend to a moneyless mani
Then 20 to your howell raven has fed
The wife who has suffered to long for her bread;
Knesl down by her pallet and kiss the death frost
From the lips of the angel your poverty lost;
Then turn in your agony upward to God
And bless while it smftes you, the chastenng roo
And you'll fnd at the end Of your LIES little span'
There's welcome above for the moneyless man.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-09-26

There is man in New York who has chick
en- stall at one of the markets. He is now re-
ported to be worth $4,000 600. He lives in q
lage brown stone palace. on Brooklyn Hights.
the furnitures for which cost $4,000. He
attends to the sale Of his own chickens, never
taking his breakfast u. home, but coming over
to the market in New York city, every morn
ing, between 4 and O'Clock A. III.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-09-26
from the Atlantic Monthly for September
The Blue and the Gray,
BY r. Z. FINCH.

By +. Z. FINCH.
Tho women of Columbus, Mississippi, animated
by nobler sentiments than many of their sisters
have shown themselves impartial in the offerings
made to the memory of the dead. They strewed
flowers alike on the graves of the Confederate and
National soldiers"
By the fow of the inland river,
Whence the fleets of iron have fed,
Where the blades of the grave grass quver,
Asleep are the ranks of the dead;
Under tho sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day;
Under the one, the Blue,
Under the other, the Gray.
These in the robines of glory,
Those in the gloom of defeat,
~ All with the battle blood CORY,
In the dusk Of eternity meet;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day;
Under the laurel, the Blue,
Under the willow, the Gray.
From the silence of sorrowful hours
The desolate mourners 60,
Lovingly laden with flowers,
Alike for the friend and the foe;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day;
Under the roses, the Blue,
Under the lilies, the Gray.
So with equal splendor
The morning sun-rays fall,
With a touch impartially tender,
On the blossoms blooming for all;
Under the sod and dew,
Waiting the judgment day;
Broidered with gold, the Blue,
Mellowed with gold, the Gray.
So, when the summer calleth,
On forest and field of grain,
With an equal murmur falleth
The cooling drip of the rain;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day;
Wet with the rain the Blue,
Wet with the rain, the Gray.
Sadly, but not with apbrading,
The generous deed was done;
In the storm of the years that are fading,
No braver battle was won
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day;
Under the blossoms, the Blue,
Under the garlands, the Gray.
No more shall the cry sever,
Or the winding rivers be red;
They Danish our anger forever,
When they laurel the graves of our dead!
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day;
Love and tears for the Blue,
Tears and love for the Gray.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-09-26

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The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-09-26

A San Francisco dispatch, q few days since,
said that the Democrats had a majority of twen-
ty in the California Legislature. on joint ballot
A later telegram made the Democratic majority
in the House eighteen. AS the Republican
majority in the Senate is twenty, we are not
without hope that harmony may be restored to
the Republican ranks, and a good Union man
sent to the United States Senate.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-09-26

At Fort Sedgwick. Colorado. Government
pays $33 per cord for firewood! Tho article is
SO scarce, only one tree is standing in distance
Of forty-f five miles from the post.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-09-26

The Democratic victory" in California isn't
SO much victory as it was. The Republicans
have o majority Of four in the Senate.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-09-26
Murder.

A terrible murder was committed. on Satur-
day, near Bourbon, station on the Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad, near Fort
Wayne. A German woman Ga widow named
Barbara G. Doll, about fifty-six years old, was
discovered about noon by her son, who had
been at work in the field, about fifty feet from
the house. shockingly mangled with the blows
OF an axe which stood near dead. Her head
was imbeded in the earth by the blows of the
murderer, and mangled as to be almost un-
recognizable. A bureau drawer was forced
open and about 90 dollars in money taken
therefrom, but why murder should unnecessa-
rily have been added to robbery is mystery.
The Rock Island lIIl.) Union, of the 18th,
says that last Wednesday week Mrs. Campbell
Bartlett a. resident Of Browning Township. in
Rock Island County, was bitten on the ancle by
rattlesnake, while looking through water
melon patch. She was Immediately given large
quantities Of whiskey (said to be sure cure in
such cases) and placed under skillful treatment.
Notwithstanding this, the poison spread through
her frame and reached her throat, which swell
led terribly. After suffering the most excrutia-
ting pains, she died on Tuesday last, not quite
week from the time of receiving the fatal bite.
New-York tribune., 1867-08-16

In April. 1884, John NJ. Hall, residing hsp ann
Sparta Buchanan County Mo, was killed Is va" Mr,sins
posed by bushwhackers few days since nss @ aud
ere fond on the farm Of Jake Cox between ess srd
Toas They were identified by the family by k kns hs
suspenders found his person, by cut IN me- asv.
socks and the fact that a too wss missing deoEs'0
Ing lost one years ago
New-York tribune., 1867-08-16

."Right hours to work. aud eight hours " play;
Eght hours 80 sleep and eight shtings day.
hsfOria,d HorkIaans PsDah Song.
Lord Pamersoa IN debate Cul Sosse Examination Proposal
New-York tribune., 1867-08-16

] almost think, when once we have made the
Niagara leap, the better kind of Nobility perhaps
after experimenting, will more and more Withdraw
cal elements leaving that TO such Gloon the Tanner
and Company as IL Tightfuly belongs TO and be far
moro chary Of their speech than now. Speech issuing
New-York tribune., 1867-08-16

.sa.- Hs1sul -isa -t'7 '
Litchfield enquirer., 1867-05-16
The Sentinel

We are glad to see that the editor of the Sentinel has also become it's proprietor.- This arrangement indicates a purpose on the part of that gentleman to make per manent stay with us, fact, that we note with pleasure, and which we have no doubt will give general satisfaction. That his edi- torial conduct has been faultless we have never claimed; like many another, his preaching is much better than his practice; still we should have considered his depar- ture manifest loss to Litchfeld as we'll as to the Sentinel. ''
 Although it can make no difference that we can see with it's subscribers or adyertis- CTS, the Sentinel certainly suffers great loss in the withdrawal of so energetic business man, and so influential Democrat, as MT. G. H. Baldwin. The party which was strong enough, however, to carry the county this spring, ought under any circumstances, to be strong enough to support at least one county paper, handsomely; and we hope its subscription list may fulfil the somewhat sanguine expectations of it's editor. ..
Litchfield enquirer., 1867-05-16
Labor Reform.

The class of our citizens who are engaged in mechanical and manufacturing employ ments is of great and growing importance. If they need legislative protection they should have it at once. Nor do we alto gether dislike to see the interest politicians of all descriptions and creeds, take in them. It shows how thoroughly our politicians are subservient to our people, which is infinite ly better than that our people should be subservient to our politicians. Still servil- ity, even of the representative to the con- stituent, is not pleasant spectacle.
 The great difficulty of this question lies, we imagine, in the fact, that the working men do not themselves know what legisla- ton they need, and to what they are enti- tied Those who expect that legislature can make employers pay them the same wages for eight hours which they can afford to pay for ten, expect what no legislature can give. Itmight with proprie- ty enact that three pecks of grain should ulAAe UuSnei Uul no ISSlSIlGuro IS con- potent to enact that every man shall pay as much for bushel of three pecks as for a bushel of four.
 Time only will show whether working men will best consult their own interests by working but eight hours each day. If with eight hours hard work they can earn enough to supply all their material wants. and have the remainder of their time to devote to their mental improvement. then an eight hour law will prove a beneficial enactment. There may be kinds of work. too in which eight hours of intelligent labor would he really worth as much as days work of ten hours will now average. Then, the time taken by tine workingman for the improve
 ment of his mind tells directly on the value of his labor. There may be kinds of labor also. in which a mans physical energies are as much exhaustedin in eight hours work, day by day, as he can endure without injury unless by taking slower pace he consume more time than is necessary. In either
Litchfield enquirer., 1867-05-16
CORNwATJ.A

Eddie Watts Blake. the younger son Of James Blake, Esq., of College Street. met with fatal accidenttat the School House of the l7th District, on Monday, thes12th inst, at about o'clock, P. M.
 After school, tho lad had gone out into the field -MheDe4 his father was at-WoGk, and after talking little while, said he would go overto his uncle's and bring home the horse: After putting the horse in the barn, he went on towards the School House, for the purpose, las the family then supposed: ) of dfiiving home the cows About fifteen or twenty minutes afterwards, as one of the neighbors was returning home, he saw Eddie at one of the windows of the School House, on the opposite side from his fath- er's and,When he came near, he, spoke to him. but received no reply, and on reach ing him found the body entirely. lifeless.
 It is presumed that the little boy had gone to tho School-Hous for his Geogra- phy, as this book was found on the ground a short distance of. It seems that the scholars have been in. the habit of getting i'll through this window, as one of the fas- tenings vas not secnre. Appearances in. dicated that he had taken a piece of rail about three feet long, and placing it against the house, had climbed up to the window
 when the rail probably fell down. When found, his head was on the edge of the in: ner sill,| the sash resting upon his neck
 while his chest was across the outer sill i The sash was so firmly fixed down upen him, that he could not be removed until il was broken in. Medical aid was iunmedi
 ately called, but there was, ID token of life remaining. ...r..! ru- s.3- ea ...,I.:; > r.. Eddie would not have completed his 10tt year until July next. but he was 6 very manly lad, and seemed much in advance o his years. He was aAgood boy an excel lent scholar, and altogether, one of! the most promising little fellows onr town af lords. His shocking death, leaves fearfu void in the family circle, and fills the hearts of many with sadness He wa: much beloved by all who knew him, ant was the joy of all his school-nates. !
Litchfield enquirer., 1867-05-16

Z CHARLES c. Wn1nMs, the Norwich child whipper and starver, is now at work black ing shoe5soles at Wethersfeld State pris- lon. ,. A gentleman from Norwich who late ly visited him, says that he has recovered from his insanity and is as rational as anybody.
 TIE largest blast ever made in the Mid dletown quarries took place last week at Shalor and Hall quarry, with three kegs of powder. Fourteen thousand four hundrtd d and twenty-three 14,423) tons of stone were thrown out, as much as m ordinary gang of thirty men could getout in eight ! CAPTAIN FARREN, of Falrhaven, had his pocket picked of s260 in the New Haven depot on Friday last. .. .....
 IT is said that Pres ,Ient WooIsev, of Yale College, IS to fam Sn soon some arti- cles for the New .Yu, H Ls}gsr.e