The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-09-25

I prosperity. Perhaps ought to say in in
tellectual progress also, for, after all, your
crowded warehouses, and busy wharves, and
whirling machinery, are not go great glory
to you asyour Public Schools. You should
bless the cause-whether it was farNsighted
policy, or only happy blunder-that kept
! you under the Old Charter Indianapolis
/ snarts yet to-day, under the blow inflicted
( by the Supreme Court that struck down
her Public Schools.
The papers have told you, that Gen. 10.
Lane, of the quasi ticket of Breckenridge
and Lane, has made our town short
visit, and a little speech As a man he is
! well esteemed here, and was welcomed
by citizens of all political parties. You
have read his speech, aud need not at
tempt synopsis of it. For some reason
the reporters did not set down some of his
most caustic expressions, as for instance
when he referred to the President, as THAT
miserable creature now at the head of the
government" The quarrel in the Demo-
cratic family must be very serious
A new campaign paper made its appear
ance yesterday, called the American Flag,
and is to labor in the Bell and Everett
cause. | sympathize with some worthy
members of that party insyour city, who,
I know, will consider the first number of
their organ, very dull sheet.
This reminds me of fact lately learned,
that your contemporary, the Enquirer, has
gone under. Can any one tell how many
Democratic papers in Evansville have brok-
en- down? 1t seems singular that. a healthy
existence to paper of such politics is an
impossibilIty in your city. But the fact is
an instructive one.
The new chime of bells on the Episcopal
dry times on the Sabbath, and occasionally
on other days. Some of the bells are of ex-
cellent tone, and all give exactly the sound
they were intended to give, making the
complete musical scale. 1t is fashionable
among some of our people to admire their
performance greatly. Others, of more stol-
id musical susceptibility, can't recognize the
tunes they play, and can't discover half as
much music in them anyhow as in a good
hand-organ. To this respectable class, the
present writer humbly claims to belong.
The State Military Encampment began
yesterday. Our three companies mustered,
and four others came, ALL l think, from
places west and north. These have taken
up their abode on the tented fields The
weather so far has been unfavorable. Last
night was chilly and rainy, and short
violent storm swept over US this afternoon.
The whole thing so far is wildly suggestive
of coughs, chills, agues and a remote, though
fair, prospect of the beginning of consump-
ton. #
Preparations for the State Fair are going
on. The grounds will DO ia fair order, and
the Offices, halls, and stalls unexceptionable.
The carriage paths will not be very smooth
the first year. Nothing is doing to increase
the railroad facilities so as to make an ap-
proach to the grounds by that medium
The walk will be long one, and riding
thither by horse power inconvenIent and
somewhat expensive. AS you are aware,
our american, Good wins paper, is down on
the whole arrangement.
-.'-- Yours, -.-la SCRIBE.
SMrs. PartinSton says, the " tainted field" In
this instance the blunder is the more correct des-
ignation, considering that the Military Ground
where the Encampment Is located, is only square
or SO from 9 large pork slaughtering establish
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