The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1852-09-30
DAILY JOURNAL.

DAILY Jul hN hA'
Awe make the following extract from
en- article in the Louisville Journal, on the
subject of Petit. The incident of Pettit's bru
tally given, we have often heard before, and
from such sources as render it undoubtedly
true. But it is no worse than fifty other things
he has been guilty ofin public places, either
.inspeech or action.-[E Ed. JOURNAL. !
MIR. john Petit.
This man. one Of the Locofoco electors of
the State of Indiana, has published "a card'
addressed to the senior editor. of-this, paper
in the Lafayette Ind.) Courier, -andhas en-
closed copy of it to us in a letter. 1t is
Just such card as any one would expect from
the greatest beast in Indiana. m Ae
A few weeks ago, we received letter from
Indianapolis informing Us that Petit wasde-
'nouncngus in his speeches as liar, andthat
ne was proclaiming his deter mnation to.call
Us liar in such loud voice in a speech he
was about to make at New Albany that we
should hear him in Louisville. We at once
said in our paper that he needn't split his
lungs OH our account = that, if he would
send us word that he would quietly callSus
liar on meeting. Us in the street, we would
20 over to New.Albany to give hin the OPP
portunity. Petit was spoke to about our.
paragraph by gentleman of New Albany
who expected to see US aud did see us within
two hours, and p. said he had read it, butks
he'd no ,cord to sead to us. He went eff with
out sending any. And now afterthe lapse of
a month, he publishes Us a "liarHs aud 'copad
at distance of several hundred miles, and in
due form eneiossy us his scarf" If our leg
were as long as from here to L.afayatte, we
might kict ham, but he inst worth going that
distance to kick. We Thoughts ne were esti-
mating him ut his full value in Ihaking up
our mind to go as far as Hsr A1aay 20 give
him ga fire in the rear?'' ~
Petti;t has, we admit, very goodfrcason for
not being partial TO the Louisville Journal.
While he was in Congress we used to COM
ment in proper terms upon the infamous in
'fidel speeches by which, at the commence
nnent OF each session, upon the motion to en-
'ploy a chaplain, he used to dfgust the
House and disgrace himself and his State.
Moreover we well remembers, that a speci-
men of his horrible brutality, exhibited on a
steaml oat upon the Ohio river either IN goin g
toWashington or in returning from that city,
was given and commented on in our columns
by gentleman ofvery high responsibility.
i've wish we had the statement now, bat
we have not time look for it, not remern-
'bering in what year the occurrence t..ok
place Petit and his estimable vile and
their sick child were on boat. 1t was late
at NIGHT. The wife and the sick child were
i'll. their state-room, and Petit was drinking,
swearing, and gambling at u card-t table. HIS
wife seut a messenger to him TO say that
their child was much worse and TO request
that he would come and see it, He made
a -heartless answer and kept on playing
cards. His wife sent again to say that she
was dreadl.lly frightened about the child aud
TO beg that he would come to it. He swore
mt the Message and kept up his gambling.
After the 'Itpsc of perhaps halt all hour his
wife sent once more or went herself we
forget which, Ito Say that she thought the
child was dying Tie answered with re-
revolving. oath and with, vulgar. abuse OF
womankind in general, and would not have
left it had not those who were playing with
him, shocked and disguised beyond al
power OF expressio. by the brutality of the
Monster, started up by a common impuss
from the table and left hin, alone We sh II
not attempt to apply fitting epithets to sucl
"A human being, if indeed IA cat be consd
cred as belonging to the race, for we are
AZURE eii'tt Tie tChgush ftHguagc, uDunuaul
and strong as it is in epthets to describe
wretchcs and miscreahts of almost ever,
grade, has not one adaptedte hih.
IMPROVEMENT OF RIvRRs AxD HARBjas.-
"A bill passed the last Congress and wa
promptly approved by the President-ap
proved, of course, because BIr. Fillmore is
Wing, and it is cardinal policy of the Wh
party that the government shall do all it GU
TO develope tho resources OF the country =
But If Gen. Pierce had been President wha
would have been done! The following dec
laraton of what he would have done, whic
we copy from the Richmond Republican,
conclusive:
We learn that Mr.. yenable, distinguish
democratic Representative from North Car
oiina, IN his late speech at the Unversalis
Church, in Richmond, congratulated the De
';nocracy that after tis election Of Gen. Pierce
Rirsr and HarJOr Bills could become Lr,rs.
Here, then, we have it frankly proclaime
iby one of Mr.. Pierce's warmest supporter
what ii he had been President, he would hav
vetoed the bill which passed the last sessio
'of Congress, for the improvement of River