The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1870-03-29

fails TO get up laugh, ssy "oho0 Fly.
A subscriber writes to 10 editor 81
don't want your paper any longer"
To which the editor replies, II wouldn't
make it any longer il you did. It's
present length suits me very we'll
Mr.. Burlingame's temporary success
sor is Mr.. McLeary Brown, Chief Sec
retary of the Embassy. He is an Irish
eral years, and speaks the language fu-
emily. a ~ 49,
The House Committee on Territories
has devised plan to govern Alaska, by
annexiDg it as q county to Washington
Territory, allowing it one Judge, one
Councilman ahd three Assemblymen-
the entire expenses not to exceed S8,-
900 per annum. ~
As specimen Of California produc-
tions, the Santa Barbara Press reports
that Mr.. II. Lilly, three miles of that
city, ''has raised the finest sweet pota-
toes we ever saw. Fhreeof them weigh
nineteen pounds, and one weighs eight
pounds and are perfect potatoes sound,
finely shaped, mealy, good favored and
rich.''
ister to Liberia, James w. Watson. He
is q mulatto, and resilient of Chicot
county, Ark, where he is now largely
engaged in planting. He is = graduate
Of Oberlin College, Ohio, and also of
French national school at Paris, and
served throughout the Crimean war as
an officer in the French army IN -
THs FsMALx JURY. and gen
tlemen of the grand jury, it is an inno-
vation and great novelty to see, as we
do today. ladies summoned to serve as
jurors" were the opening words of the
Chief Justice of he Wyoming Territory
to the first panel of grand jurors in
which women have figured in this coun-
try. This same jury we're four days
trying to agree on case last week.
The only s'last ditch" which the De-
mocTacy have to fight in is ''that, as tho
Southern States were coerced into the
ratification while held to be States out
side the Union, all such ratificatons are
unconstitutional and cannO. stand"
Considering that the amendment abol.
ishipg slavery, which has been recog-
nized by the Supreme Court as a part
of the Constitutioa, owes it's vitality to
Southern States that were secoerced' in
to adopting it. we do not see that our
Democrat friends can do better than ac-
cept the situation, mourning as they
may, over another "cause" that has been
'lost." 9s5 t sia@ $3.50
f. RELIGIOUS ADJUSTMENTS Grace NJ
E. church, at Newport, KY, has passed
j q series of resolutions, condemning the
spirit of 1evity and frivolity among pro-
Tossing Christians, and declaring that
many amusements introduced into So
cial and domestic gatherings are of a
i doubtful proprie' y, and exert blight
ing influence on true aud vital piety
IS It was resolved, also. THAT we will
do all in our power to render our church,
social and fireside gatherings, refined.
intellectual, and religious, and we will
endeyor to maintain the well-defined
line of demarkation, as required by the
Scriptures, between the Church of
Christ and the world that lieth in the
wicked one'' 1u@ saa eas
The London Times regards the pro-
posed Darien Canal as Utopian; but
when it is remembered that the same
great authority regarded the Suez Canal
project, for long time, in the same
light, there is no occasion for despon-
dency on the part of the friends of the
first mentioned enterprise.
1 We learn by late English advices that
the West India and Pan anna Telegraph
Company has just been fully organized
in London, with capital Of -E65O,O0O.
It proposes to start from the South
Coast of Cuba, run thence to Kingston,
JAM, whence one line will be run to As
pinwall, another by San Domingo and
porto Rico to st. Thomas, thence by
! Guadaloupe, Martinique, to Bayo and
Trinidad to the coast of British Guiana,
thence to Surinam, where it is expected
to connect with coast line through
Brazil to Buenos Ayres, thence crossing
the Continent to Valparaiso and the
South-W estern coast of the Continent
TO Panama.
VENERABLE CHURCH IN NEwARK.-The
Newark, N j., Advertiser says that
Trinity church, in that city, was built in
1884, parts of which still stands.
The base of its steeple remains as solid
as when first erected, and the old front.
in Grecian style, has not been disturbed.
''Here.', remarks the writer, .sthe brave
Col. Schuyler worshipped among the
people whose benefactor he was. Here
] the bleeding, wounded ana sick soldiers
Of the Revolution were nursed to COM
valescence. Here hundreds came.
whose memories are now revered among
as, and with musket in one hand and
prayer-book in the other, filed up tho
long aisle of stately elms, that yet re-
main, and took their places in the sanct-
uary. Through the arehed doorway in
the solid tower, built century and
+ quarter ago, and that now forms prom.
inent part of present edifice. Washing
ton, Robert Morris, Robert Livingston,
Gen. Lord Stirling. and other illustrious
men, once passed and partook of the
communion
The TRANSIT OF VENUs.-A rare and
important event in the astronomical
world is to take place in December,