The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-01-27

The word military satrap' is again
coming into use, and what is strange
about it is the fact that the same fell
lows use it who had it at their tongues
enc in 1851!
A telegram from the United States
District Commissioner, at Charleston,
West Virginia, states that not a single
negro il allowed to take his seat in
the Legislature, and the Commission
er asks for troops.
There are three kinds of men in the
world, the Wills, the Wont's and the
Cant S. The first effect everything;
the others oppose everything.
will" builds our railroads and steam
boats; Il won't" don't believe in ex-
periments and nonsense; while L
can't" grows weeds for wheat, and
commonly ends his days IN slow diges
ton of bankruptcy. 1t is a lamenta
BILE fact that the latter are to be found
in all conditions of society.
The Chicago Tribune says: The
furious howl of simulated indignation
against Gen. Sheridan which North
ern Democrats and Southern ex-rebels
are now making does not grow out OF
any acts which that gallant and patri-
otto soldier has committed, but out of
words which he has uttered in his
last dispatch to the government
His words, like his blows in times
past, have struck SO sharp and quick
that they have struck fire. His keen
eve detected the cause of the trouble
in Louisiana as soon as he arrived in
New Orleans to be the White League,
or the "banditti, as he aptly calls it
in his dispatches, and with plain,
blunt speech he asks for the privilege
of crushing it. This cause is not an
ideality, but a fact, and the sooner
that fact is recognized by the Ameri-
can people and dealt with decisively,
the better will it be for Louisiana and
the whole country.
A man should never be ashamed to
own he has been in the wrong, which
is saying. in other words, that he is
wiser to day than he was yesterday
Pope. sH IiSi
The Peru Republican gives the fol-
lowing yarn: During the year 1874
the Peru Wooden Mills were kept run
ming 301 days, of ten hours each, com
mencing on the 18th day of January.
In that time they made 500, 900, 600
yards of yarn-a string 454 ,545 miles
in length. This would be sufic ent
to reach round the earth eighteen
times and still leave a string long
enough to connect New York with
San Francisco. 1t would twist ca
BILE of 100 threads, reaching from
Boston to Liverpool It would keep
one girl busy / 1913 years to spin this
on the ordinary wheel, allowing II
cuts to the day, and 300 working
days in the year. IF Methusaleh had
commenced the job when a sportive
youth of SO years, and worked dill
gently the rest of his natural life,
there would still have been enough
left to keep Noah busy for about 800
years.
In the election for President in
1876 the thirty seven States of the
Union will choose 366 electors. Those
States in which slavery lately existed
will choose 1873 of them. The New
England States, together with New
York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey,
will choose 113, and the twelve States
lying west of the Ohio, in which
slavery did not exist will choose the
llC. H ~ %s
A pure bred merino ram, owned by
a Mr.. Gibson of Tasmania, and reared
by him there, was sold In Melbourne
a short time ago for the sum of $50
guineas. While the ram was in Mr..
Gibson's possession the amount of
money raised by the animals male
progeny alone was estimated at up
ward of 5 900 guineas. Merino rams
and the breeding of merino sheep
seem to be almost as profitable in
Australia as gold digging.
Mrs. Hairless, who sued one John
Cain, a notorious saloonkeeper of
Union City, this State, for selling her
husband liquors, got judgment in the
Darke County Court, on the 14th
inst, for 81 600 and costs. Mr.. Har-,
less was killed last summer while ill.,
toxicated. This is considered tenn
perance victory.
The suggestion of General Sheridan
that Congress declare the White
League banditti, so that their ring
leaders at least can be arrested and
tried by military commission. affords
the only practical solution of the
trouble. These men are outlaws, but
the State of Louisiana is powerless to
deal with and punish them. There
will be no quietude, no respect for
law, no recognition of equal rights,
until this organization is broken up,
and the United States Government
must undertake the task, ,1s
The following is the vote which
elected .Iosenh T. AIcDonald