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The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-10-04

Jay Cooke & Co.'S failure is spo-
ken of with evident satisfaction by
the Democratic press. just as the
genuine Bourbons hate and detest
the memory of Stanton, the great
war secretary, for his services to
the country during the rebellion,
SO they hate Jay Cooke, the great
financier of the same period, who
fioated our bonds during the dark
est day of trial. Now they sneer-
ingly remark that ia, Cooke made
an immense fortune by his agency
in this matter and that any one else
might have sold the bonds as easily
as he did-that in fact the bonds
sold themselves. But the people
have hardly forgotten those dark
days when Copperheads, Butternuts
and traitors decried the credit OF
the Government, and the energy
and skill used by Jay Cooke to dis
pose Of our bonds despite their ef-
forts. And Jay Cookies financial
difficulties now result from his eff
forts to push ahead a national enter
prise. Fisk & Hatch, another great
/ house, has fallen from a like cause.
He has narrow mind who exults
in the failure of such houses, mere
ly because they are powerful. Many
of the great enterprises of the coun.
try are accomplished through their
agency, and their destruction is a
national calamity. Jay Cooke may
have erred in making his last ven
ture, yet he was pushing an enter
prise which he considered ofnation-
al Importance No doubt he had a
selfish desire to increase his wealth
and power, but there are few per.
sons who can cast stones at him on
that account.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-10-04
Letter From the President.
Executive MAN On, Sept. %

II. B. Clafin & G. l.. Anthony:
GENTLEsEN--In response to the
news you have communicated to
me. touching the present emergen-
cy in the money markets of the
country, and the necessary steps to
restore confidence and legitimate
trade and commerce, I have the
honor to communicate the follow
ing:
Government is derious of doing
all in its power to the relief of the
present unsettled condition of bust
ness affairs, which is holding back
the immense resources of the coun-
try, now awaiting transportation to
the seaboard and a market. Con-
fdence on the part of the people is
the first thing needed to the relief
of this condition, and to avert the
threatened destruction of business,
with it's accompanying disasters to
all classes Of people. To re-estab-
lish this feeling government is
willing to take all legal measures
at its command; but it is evident
no government efforts will avail
without the active co operation of
the banks and monied corporations
of the country With the fourteen
millions already paid out in the
purchase OF government indebted
ness and the withdrawal of their
large deposits from the Treasury,
the banks are now strong enough
to adopt liberal policy on their
part, and by a generous system of
discounts to sustain the business
interests of the country. Should
such course be pursued the forty
four millions of reserve will be con-
sidered as money in the Treasury
to meet the demands of public ne
cessity, as the circumstances of the
country may require. Close atten-
ton will be given to the course
pursued by those who have the
means at their command, of render
ing all aid necessary to restore
trade to its proper channels and
condition.
With the view of strengthening
the hands of those who carry out
the measures above indicated, or
ders have already been issued for
the payment of interest ACQUIRING
in November. q. S. GRANT.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-10-04

The Chicago Inter- Ocean has the
following lengthy sermon compressed
into nutshell:
Banks that do business lend out
their money. If they do not they are
Of no use to the community. No bank
that does business has currency
enough on hand to pay off all its de-
positors at once. If any institution
or its claquers circulate reports in
times like the present of its great
strength, set it down for certain that
it needs help. a
We must stand or fall together.
Nothing is to be gained by bluster and
and bravado.
All need mutual assistance"
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-10-04

It may not be generally known that
the last Legislature passed an act in
regard to the collection of delinquent
taxes much more stringent than the
one formerly in force. The law of
1872 provides that the County Treas
urers shall, Immediately after their
April settlement, proceed to call upon
delinquent taxpayers, and, if neces-
sary, distrain property for the collec-
ton Of delinquent taxes; and each
Treasurer shall annually, on the 18th
day of December, file with the Audi
tor of their respective counties sched-
ules of such collections, verified by
affidavit.
By an act of the Legislature ap-
proved March 8th, 1873, the time for
settlement above named was fixed for
the 18th day of November instead of
December, and the act still further
amended, provides.
First, THE County Auditor shall
not be authorized to credit the Treas
urer with any uncollectcd delinquency,
unless such Treasurer shall show by
proper returns, verified by his oath,
or affirmation, that he has in each case
for which he claims credit, diligently
sought for and has been unable to find
any property from which to collect
such tax, or that property was levied
upon, offered for sale and failed to
sell; or, having made levy, he was
enjoined, or otherwise prevented from
making sale or collection by court of
competent Jurisdiction"
Second, That in all cases where
property shall fail to sell for want of
bidders, the County Treasurer shall
have power to remove said property
to some other township in the county
and offer the same as in the first in
stance"
These provisions of the statute have
peculiar significance to the people OF
Wayne county just at this juncture.
Heretofore, the delinquent list has
been carried along from year to year
very much to suit the convenience of
delinquents.
The Treasurer was only required to
make affidavit as to the correctness of
his returns, and cases of distress and
sale Of property for taxes were very
rare. But under the amended statute.
that officer has no discretion. The
requirement is peremptory, and he is
refused credit for uncollected delin-
&qaencies until he makes oath that he
has exhausted all the means provided
by law for its collection. The delin-
quent can not throw himself upon the
generosity Of his neighbors, relying
upon the want Of bidders for relief.
for the Treasurer is empowered to
carry the property into another town
ship and offer it.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-10-04
RICHMOND,

in the war, and served his country
faithfully, but fortunately having
come out unscathed, but yet who
now has lost an arm or leg by
railroad accident, can not by law
be taken in here, however much we
may wish. He must have been dis
abled in the line of duty-that is,
while he was actually engaged in
the service of the United States in
the war of the rebellion.
"Another case I will give you:-
Take soldier who fought in the
volunteer army and disappeared by
leave, or left and went and enlisted
after he left the regular army, and
was wounded in fighting. He can
not have place among us by law.
Our only source Of revenue is fines,
forfeitures and unclaimed pay of
volunteer soldiers; that pay due to
some poor volunteer soldier whose
only record is an unknown grave,
the green mounds of the South,
comes to us; the forfeitures of sol
diers who deserted their post-nay,
not soldiers who deserted their
post, but those who for bounty said
they wanted to become soldiers,
and ran away before they ever saw
a gun or smelt powder-their pay
and their bounty we have for the
purpose OF sustaining this institu
ton. Now, so long as the support
,, of the institution is from the volun-
teer service, you will see how I'M
just it would be if we took that to
give to the regular soldiers or sea-
men.
s'Now, then, this organization
took place seven years ago, and let
me premise that there is no other
institution like this on earth. We
| may have made mistakes; we had
neither precedent nor guide. We
read the charter and ordinances of
the Greenwich Hospital. They
gave us no light. We sent and got
the envio of the Hotel des Invalides
at Paris, where Napoleon put his
veterans, and that gave us no light.
The soldiers regular home gave us
but ittle at Washington, because
it was simply almost toy, as be-
fore the war our regular army
seemed to be costly toy to the Ma
| ton. Therefore, we had to begin
the oganization from the beginning.
We were told in the beginning, by
well Judging, clear headed men,
over and over again, that we need
make no provision for these sol
diers, as we never should find any to
come to our Home My answer
was if you make home for the sol
diers there will be soldiers to come
to it; if you make it very bad
home you will catch very few in it.
(Applause.)
Under these circumstances it
was determined to build three
Homes-one at Milwaukee, one at
Dayton, and ore in the eastern part,
in New England, and we found this
trouble, that the soldiers came fast
er than we could get ready for
them. Then we lost by five one OF
oul Homes at the east, and had to
sustain our soldiers at State and
city institutions.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-10-04

The beauties of going to law have
recently had q most striking exempli-
fication in Boulder City, Col. Two
parties quarreled . year or so ago
about the metes and bounds of their
lots or claims. The strip Of terra
frma in dispute was sixty feet long
by one and half inches wide! Suit
was brought, a judgment rendered,
and an appeal taken. 1t has gone on
until the third trial has just been had
-and the jury didn't agree. On this
last trial there were engaged one
judge. four attorneys, the Sheriff of
the county and several bailifis, and
nearly fifty witnesses, and twelve jury
meni The costs Of the last trial
amounted to 81 542.65, and the parties
are NO nearer the end of their troubles
than when they commenced.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-10-04

Texas papers say that Nancy Hill,
the notorious female horse thief and
ranger, was hanged about six miles
from Montague, on Denver Greek,
several days since. Her body has
just been discovered, suspended
from an oak post Her saddle and
bride were found lying near upon
rock, and her pony was found a
mile or SO away. It is supposed
that Dave Porter, her consort, was
killed at the same time, but his body
has not as yet been found.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-10-04
-Ex-President Fillmor,

FIX President Fillmore, in an in
terview, thinks that President Grant
appointed Cabinet, with one ex-
ception, from men who were extrem
ely obscure, unknown to the people,
and not having any special fitness.
The Boston Journal adds: '.He
should not be too hard, for the
people have sometimes been quite
as careless about their Presidents. :"
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-10-04
Successful Negotiations with the In.
(li0mS,

hon. Felix II. BrunOt, special
commissioner under act of Con,
gress, April %, 1872, to negotiate
with the Utes, accompanied by T.
K. Cree, secretary, and DR.. Phil
hrs, Spanish interpreter, arrived at
the Los Pinos agency. Colorado,
September 5. The agency is loca-
ted in the Cochetopa range of
mountains, $50 miles west of Den
yer, and was only reached after five
days journey in a carriage. The
Utes had been waiting the arrival
of the commissioners for some two
weeks. The Labequanche, Denver,
Muache, and Capote Utes were re-
presented in council. There were
special difficulties in the way of a
successful negotiation, surveying
parties representing the General
Government, the military and the
Territory being on the reservation
in violation of previous agreement,
running lines according to which
certain parts of the reserve were
excluded as such, causing much i'll
feeling among the Indians; in ad-
dition to which the annuity goods
shipped from New York, June /,
had not yetreached the agency, and
the distribution which the commits
sion hoped to make at the council
could not therefore be made The
council lasted several days, and the
result was the ceding to the Gov
ernment by the Indians of all the
mining country, some 100000
acres, being most Of the land lying
between the thirty seventh and
thirty eighth degrees of latitude
and the one hundred and seventh
and the one hundred and ninth de-
grees of longitude, except narrow
strip on the southern side, on which
many of the Utes had farms. On
this it is proposed to gather the
Wenninches, Muache and Capote
Utes, and a portion of the Jicarilla
Apaches, now al TERRA Acnavalla
and Cimarron agencies, New Mexi-
CO. This arrangement disposes of
! the two troublesome sub agencies,
and gathers these wandering bands
of Utes upon this reservation. The
price for the land is to be given most
ly for the support of the new agen.
cy, and for those Indians for whom
there has been heretofore no regu
lar provision made by the Govern
ment. The part ceded is rich in
mines of gold and silver, some four
hundred mines and some valuable
machinery being now upon the
reservation. One company at work
upon the part ceded is taking out
$1,000 per day in silver ore. The
Utes have always been friends to
the whites, and for the two years
have permitted miners and pros
pectors to wander almost at Viii
over their reservation, although the
treaty expressly stipulates that the
Government will prevent all whites
/, from going upon the reservation.
The arrangement with the Utes is
not treaty, but only an article of
agreement entered into in accord
ance with an act of Congress au-
thorizing the negotiation. This is
the agreement which Governor Nc
Cookies commission tried to make
last year, but failed It is second
successful negotiation for a cession
of the Indian lands to the Govern
ment made out by Mr.. Brunot this
year.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-10-04
A report courteous from the

"A report courteous rom Cne
Council Blufs( Iowa. Nonpareil:
An opposition paper in this State,
the Red Oak Record, declares that
s'the truth is, the Republicans of
Iowa have not as yet all been edu-
Gated to the standard of rascality
practiced by their leaders" And
right here is where the mass of the
Republican party differ from the
Opposition" With the latter ev-
cry thing is subservent to plunder.
1t is not surprising, therefore, that
the party acknowledged by its op-
ponents as not being wholly corrupt
should be in the greatest favor in
this country.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-10-04
Seeing The Point.

A boy returned from school ore
day, with q report that his scholar
ship had fallen below the usual av-
erage. "Well,'' said his father,
'you'vc fallen behind this month,
have you 2
Yes, SIR
How did that happen!
4 don't know, sir"
The father did, if the son did not.
He had observed number of cheap
novels scattered about the house,
but he had thought it worth his
while not to say anything until q
fitting opportunity should offer
itself. A basket of apples stood
upon the floor, and he said:
Empty these apples and take the
basket and bring it to me half full
of chips
Suspecting nothing the son obey
ed.
"And now," he continued, put
the apples back into the basket"
When half the apples were re-
placed the son said:
''Father, they roll off. I can't
put in any more"
s'Put them in, I tell you.
"But, father, I cant put them in. =
''Put them in? No, of course you
can't put them in. Do you expect
to fill a pasket half full of chips and
then fill it with apples? You said
you didn't know why you fell be-
hind at school and I will tell you.
Your mind is like that basket. II
Will not hold more than so much.
And here you've been the past
month, filling itup with dirt-chear
novels 70
The boy turned on his heel and
said, "Whew? 1 see the point"
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-10-04
When men talk of the wicket

When men talk of the wicked
ness of the Republican party the
Buffalo IN. W Express desires
them to be hidden .sto look on the
one hand at New England, the era
die and nursery of Republicanism,
and on the other at Kentucky and
Missouri, the consummate flowers
of Democracy"
A good-natured sinner is better
to have around the house than
cross Christian.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-10-04
The Columbus State Journal

pithily observes:
The Cincinnati Enquire has pre-
monitions. It draws a pathetic
picture of Senator Pugh sitting
amid the ruins of the Democratic
party after the election. But it is
not more pathetic than it is to see
the Enquirer sitting amid said ru-
ms before the election.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-10-04
WAYNE COUNTY, INDIANA, OCT 4, 1878.


If anything can touch our SYM
pathy, it is the sight of an honest
Democrat struggling to shield the
rascaity of bis party behind his
own responsibility. We feel like
taking the deluded man aside, and
telling him that his efforts will be
loves labor lost. But we have
tried the experiment so many times
that we have concluded to let the
faithful follower of Democracy pur-
sue its shadow until he gets tired,
and stops of his own accord. When
he drops from sheer exhaustion
then we shall pick him up, advice
him calmly, and do our best to help
him across the threshold of the
Republican party. There are thou.
sands of honest men still left in the
Democratic party. They live in
hopes Of seeing it once more re-
stored to it's Jeffersonian days.
They refuse to believe it lost be-
yond redemption, and so cling to
its sinking fortunes, in hopes that
something will turn up to bring
about the radical change they de-
sire. They forget that the days of
miracles have past; that the ele-
ments of power, honesty, and patri-
otism, which once impaired glory
to Democracy, have long since de-
parted from the old shell, and are
found today imparting vigor and
purity to the Republican party. Oc-
casionally this fact dawns upon
some honest, well-intentioned Dem
ocrat, and he makes haste to enroll
himself under the old banner
that represents his old time princi-
pies. There is still room for more.
The doors of our party are contin-
ually open, and all who believe in
justice, equality, and an honest ad
ministration of the government,
are invited TO enter. We have but
little room for office hunters, but
for the men who desire to labor for
the nation, we have some reserved
seats in the temple of Republican
ism.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-10-04
The "Graphic'' Balloon.

The Graphic balloon has come to
grief. Like the Democratic party,
its material was too rotten to hold
the gas needed for its imitation. It's
prospects were brilliant-on paper.
1t was to cross the ocean in sixty
hours; stop a few days in Europe;
again enter the eastern cur. ent and
continue it's course around the
globe, returning to the United
States, by way of California. But
this great achievement must be
postponed. The balloon burst be-
fore it was fully inflated, and the
hopes of its friends exploded with
The gas it contained. Like the
Liberal Reform movement, it pro-
missed too much There was too
much gas and too little substance
about it. If the balloon bad gone
up it would have burst in mid air,
or given the Professor and his staff
cold bath in the Atlantic. So, in
a humane point of view, we are
glad that this foolish enterprise end
ed where it commenced. It's failure
may be useful as a lesson to those
erratic politicians who think they
can initiate a party with gas and sail
into power on the current of public
opinion. For a few years to come we
advise our friends who wish to cross
the ocean to avoid this aerial trip
and patr0nize the staunch steamers
that move in the face of wind and
tide. Air ships may be construct
ed in time to travel like birds thro'
space, but to depend upon current
of air to watt you across the ocean
is to expect a log thrown overheard
at Sandy Hook to make the trip to
Liverpool. We have as little faith
in these inflated air ships of the
Graphic pattern as we have in the
honest intentions of Democracy.
They may do to gull the public, but
for practical results they are equal
ly deceptive and treacherous.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-10-04
a n.ssseS IN musroRY-A. D.. 1900.

It was summer evening,
Old Mr.. Smith had come fT
From San Francisco by balloon
To his suburban home
Where by the shore of Klamath lake,
His pleasure he was wont to take.
He saw his grandchild, Colfaxine,
While playing at croquet,
Roll something large, and smooth and
round
To her brother, Henry Clay,
And ask the young sport If he knew
Where that queer pal@ozoic grew.
The old man Smith stepped up and took
The relic in his hand,
And shook it till 1t ratified out
A gill or two of sand.
"sTis some squaw Modoc's skull, "quoth he,
"Who fell in that great victory"
"Now tell us what twas all about"
Young Henry Clay inquired;
While on her mallet Coifaxine
Leaned with a look inspired. -
"Come tell US who the warriors were,
And why they killed each other here"
'slt was the Yankees" !" said old Smith,
who made the Modocs run,
Because they coveted the lands
The red men hunted on.
It's somewhat mixed, but all agree
That twas a famous victory.
'Men, babes and women, fifty-three,
Followed the Indian chief;
One hundred times as many whites