The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1869-08-31

were educated. very naturally find
themselves better able to carry out the
role of 'fellow-citizen' so popular about
election time. The truth is, that some
Of these people are worthy and some are
not, just as it is among white people,
When hungry they will steal or beg If
they cannot get work, and as there are
great many more here than there is
work for, it is natural that there should
be some complaint against them. The
freedmen's bureau here has provided n
very large number Of these unfortunate
people, both men and women, with
houses and employment in the North
Still there are thousands of them in all
quarters of the city, living in the ut
most destitution, with nothing to do,
and almost nothing to eat, and no pos
sibility of getting away where there is
employment for them. Many of them
live on the 'Island,' as it is called, that
part of the city which is cut off from the
other by the canal. Thousands live in
the suburbs of the city in little novels,
fit only for pigs to roll in. About i've
hundred live on CAPITOL hill in the Lin
coin buildings Passing by that block
able bodied and strong in app earance,
sitting around baking in the sun in
squalor, rags, and no doubt hungry
probably most of them would work if
they could get employment. One Of
them who has charge of the mails re-
ceived from the carrier for the Lincoln
Buildings, very intelligent mul alto, in
speaking of the dark prospect before
him and his friends. said that many of
them were most anxious to emigrate to
the west, where they could find employ
ment. It is harder for the colored men
to find work than the women. Most wo-
men, who are able or willing, can find
washing and ironing to do, and many
whole families are supported entirely
by the labor of the wife at the tub.
while the husband aud father lounges
around, You never see him put his
hands in the suds. He is q man and q
voter. A few days ago I was talking
with an old colored woman who in sla.
very had borne 19 children. She had
lost them all but two either by death or
the auction. One of her girls is mar
ried to a worthless fellow who can't find
fN n &c II,
in-law support him by hard labor ut the
wash tub. The other daughter has a
child by man who wishes to marry
her, but the old woman says mo :, one
husband in the family is as many as she
can afford to support at her time Of life.
She is willing to take care of the daugh-
ter and child, but she will have nothing
to do with the man. Notwithstanding
that the marriage ceremony is insisted
upon strenuously by the colored church
es. and by the more respectable colored
people, it is held in very much disfavor
by many of the women who find that by
the laws of the District OF Columbia,
marriage gives the husband all the
rights over them which their masters
used to claim to their wages, their per-
son, children, DC. The colored women,
at least a good portion of them, seem to
appreciate the demand ofcertain strong
minded women for equal rights. The
reason of this may be that ey have
all their lives as slaves been accustomed
to equal rights with their husbands. h
.s7" PATENTS. Fuga
There was 322 patents issued last
week from the United States Patent OF.
fee respectively to the following States
and foreign countries: New York, l04;
Pennsylvania, 35; Massachusetts,, 25;
Ohio. Is; Illinois. ID: Indiana. 13; Con-
nccticut. 13; Missouri, 8, Kentucky. 9;
Michigan. 6; California, 5 /; Wisconsin,
5; Maryland, 5, Rhode Island, 4; Geor-
gia, 4; Minnesota, 4; Vermont, 4; Iowa,
4; New Jersey, 4; New Hampshire, 4;
Virginia, 4; Nebra ska. 3; Tennessee, 8;
District of Columbia, g.; Maine, 2; Mis-
}sissippi. 2; Louisiana. 2; Oregon, 2; S.
Caroline, Delaware, ] Kansas. ),
England 5 Canada, 2 !; Switzerland, 2;
Portugal, i; Prussia, 1, France, l.
The above list contains the usual
number of patents, on Sewing machines,
Pumps, Stoves, Crates and Car Coup
lings Only two patents on velocipedes
are to be found in this issue. while
there were upwards of twenty for them
in one issue three months since. a5 a.
CURRENCY PRINTING BUREAU. FarTe
The work in the Engraving and Prin-
ting Bureau of the Treasury Depart
Government having tired Of waiting the