The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-02-18

Bey@The Richmond Enquirer continues its
fierce criticisms on the Presidents policy,
and a late number contains letter from
Washington, which is spiced with the fol-
lowing remarkable paragraph 81
ait is the current rumor of the hour that
the President has determined on making the
thirty-million bill and modification in the
tariff in favor of specific duties, test ques-
tons OF the Administration. If so, then he
makes direct issue with the South, whose
principles have been always opposed to the
extravagant expenditure of the public money,
and tariff of protection in place of one of
revenue. One would imagine, that after his
experience on the Lecompton test a SINH
lar attempt would not be repeated during
the remaining half of his term of Office.
The hopes, however, of every national DEM
| ocrat, of seeing total abandonment of SO
haza: dous process of coercing the indie
| pendence of freemen to a servile concurrence
with the Executive will, are not to be real
| lied during the existence of the present Adj
| ministratioH. This is certainly an epoch of
tests and test6iess, of petulance, pride, and
| the persecution of honest differences of 0pin-
| ion on political questions of no intrinsic
value to the Democratic party, in a party
| point of view, if we except the tariff, which
| it is sought to alter for the benefit of the
protectionists. What is to be the end Of
| this policy it is not difficult to foresee. With
| Douglas testified out of the party at the
North, because ne refused to swallow Le-
| compton, a cheat and a fraud as it has been
since then pronounced by Mr.. Hammond, of
South Carolina, in his Barnwell speech,
though he spoke and goted for it, hnowiag
it to be what he describes it; and Clingman,
Slidell ct I'd OBane geitus, testified out of it
at the South for opposing the President 5
views on the tariff; where does the Admin
istTation stand? No where, but in a state
of betaoeenify, not knowing to which section
of the country to look for support in its
difficulties. Verify, at no time since the
days when .----...
"Pyrrhus cursed his testy courtiers with kicks
has the Executive of nation foot-balled its
parasites about with SO serene an indi6er-
ence to their convictions of duty to the
country as Mr.. Buchanan. 1t is either Lee
compton or the guillotine-the thirty mil
lion plumber fraud, or the same, and the
modification of the tariff in favor of protec-
ton or there is no room for the rebels to
it i'll his affections. 1t is time, surely, for
this state of things to cease, and for him to
carry out in good faith the principles of the
party as enunciated in the Cincinnati plat
form, and thus save it from dissolution, up
on the verge of which it now stands, and
which it is destined TO suffer if the leaders in
Congress do not forthwith come to its res
cue. ....t ts-
DISTRESSING SuIcIDE.-We published an
item, few days since, respecting gentle
man who had shot himself while a passen-
ger on the last downward trip of the Moses
Mcclellan. The following particulars Of the
melancholy affair is furnished the Louisville
Democrat by one of the officers of the boat
STEAMER Moses McLELLAN,
II Feb. IA, 1889, 94P.M.
Early this morning there came on board {
gentleman, and his wife and child, named
Scott, who took passage for St Louis. We
noticed that he was in trouble about some
thing. short time before our departure
from Louisville he retired to rest, but wa:
unable to sleep Being uneasy, he sent fol
Capt Erwin, and told him he was sick and
had been taking quinine. The captain came
forward, aud getting some blue mass, gave
him some. Duty calling the captain OF
. deck, he left. AS we were landing at Bran
;; denburg ii pistol shot was. heard. Mrs
Scott, who had been previously continual,
3 at her husbands side rushed in and behell
| "A sad spectacle-her husband lying in the
last gasp OF death, his child in one arm, ant
t a Colts revolver in the other. The las
4 | words he had uttered had been request I,
: his wife-that she would get him some tri
fling object, in order to get her away-sh
> | vet held the knob of the door in her hant
: whenthe fatal shot fell on her ear. 80
t Mr.. Scott was resident OF Owentown
= Owen county, KY, also his wife and the pa
e rents of both. Mr. Briscoe Mrs. Scott
; tather) had spent the day on board wit
them. l was present when the farewell wa
IS spoken, also Mr. Joe McCann, who ha
Ia been singing some ballads, which highl
g delighted them. MIR. and Mrs. Scott appear
b ed to he deeply affected at parting with Nj
q Briscoe, all shedding tears @As
Re The fatal deed has east a gloom over al
: on board, AMI the d ebest sympathy is fe
y for the unfortunate Wife "a lain Erwin
a Immediately on hearing of the occurrenc,
lie headed the boat up the river and returne