Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-04-04
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENTS.
CurcAan- March OIL 1850

occasions. When a man falls at his post,
as he has done; when the chief executive
Of sovereign State is removed from his
high pos ition by the hand of death, it is |
right and proper that suitable expressions
Of respect should be given; but yet, must |
that in most cases these NANTES |
tatlons appear TO me cold and pitiless
ceremony. If, upon this occasion, there |
has been, as there really appears to have
been, very general feeling of genuine
sorrow at the event, il is 10 be attributed
to the character of the deceased rather than
to his position. Bravery. nobleness and
generosity, with their usual attendants,
modesty. kindness and simplicity, were
the qualities which endeared him to all.
On The battle field. on the floor of Con
gress. or in the position from which he
has just been removed. he was courteous,
but firm; deferential. but fearless, digni-
fed, but modest; in brief. he was man
for the times, and as such, he met his re
sponsibilities. That is saying more than
to write pages of panegyric.
Gov. Bisselll committed one great error
A man Of known and tried courage, he
had not yet sufficient ge to refuse TO
accept challenge. Perhaps had the diff
ficulty been confined to himself, and had
the issive come from a different source,
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the honor of his regiment was involved
more deeply than his own, and that in
vindication of the honor of his brave com
rades in Mexico, all personal considera-
tions were to be foregone. The challenge,
too, was from Southern man, the son in
law Of the President Of the United States,
and his lofty spirit qusiled at the thoughts
Of the taunts he would have to endure from
that quarter, il he declined its acceptance
Had it come from different quarter, and
from more obscure source, he might have
had sufficient courage to have refused
Defenceless as was the act, there was a
circumstance. connected with the affair,
which showed the character of the man
General Taylor, well knowing that Col.
Davis was in the wrong, and that, what
ever might be the issue, no honor was to
be gained by his son-in law 10 such con.
troversy, exerted himself to the utmost of
his ability to bring about reconciliation
| The parties were to meet at six o'clock
the next morning. The President had
spent the night in his endeayors to
induce Colonel Davis TO withdraw the
challenge. About four o'clock he sue
cceded, when, with a company of friends
he repaired to the room of Col. Bissel
whom he found sleeping as quietly as a
child in its mothers arms. Notwithstand-
ing General Taylor had bestowed the high.
est econiums upon Col. Bissell for his gal.
lantry at Buena Vista. probably nothing
that occurred on that field of death gave
him higher conception of his GOODNESS
and intrepidity than this incident.
MARCH 22nd, 1860.
The inauguration of the new city gov.
eminent has taken place day. Metro.
politan Hall was filled upon the occasion
the ladies filling the galleries to their ut
most capacity. Mayor Wentworth, in his
inaugural, takes strong ground in favor
of reduction Of the expenses, economy in
the administration o: the affairs Of the
city, and vigilance in every department
Especially, he requires Office seekers To
present their requests before 6 A. M
Awful,
A disease of a somewhat peculiar char.
acter appeared in this city just before the
late municipal election. Quite a number
of persons, about that time, were attacked
more or less violently, with Union saving
The disorder has not become epidemic
and is not likely to. in this locality This
disease has regular diagnosis, -dispo
sition to climb fences being its pathogno
monte symptom. Its origin may geuer
ally be traced to coup diuna. 1t first ap
peared in the country about six years ago
under the following circumstances:
A gang of hands had been sent TO worl
on Uncle Sans big farm. They worked
on for while, about as hands commonly
do, some brisk and some idle. There was
a high fence running along the North side
Of the big pasture, and in the pasture
were divers i'll favored animals. such al
tigers, hyenas, hippoPotami, and othe'
beasts that inhabit the tropics. While the
rest of the hands were busy at their work
some OF these idle vagabond fellows, who
must be always be getting into mischie
of some kind or other, set themselves, on,
of pure devilment, to pulling down the
fence. Well, then the other hands qui,
the work they had been set at. and wen1
about trying to stop them. They had 8
long quarrel over the matter, aud while
they were quarfeling the work didn't ge
on at all; the fields run to crab-grass
thistles and poke bushes; the fence cor
ners got full Of briers, and Uncle Sam
who had lots of cash at the start. got head
and ears in debt. and is getting worse of
every day.
While the hands were quarreling about
the fence the party that was for keeping il
up said the reason the others wanted te
pull il down was because they wanted tc
let these animals in among the grain. and
over the plowed ground, and the othei
places where the work was mostly done
but the other party denied it. and said they
wouldn't 60 there at all, because they
didn't like the range; that they didn't
care about The fence, only they just wanted
it GU. Of the way to see what would hap
pen.
At last they got it down sure enough.
and the next they knew ali the varmints
were 10 there, and then these chaps set up
great hullabaloo, and insisted that these
outlandish creatures had Just as good a
right to be there as on that part of the
farm they used to run. Some said hyenas
were good thing; that they were divine
institution. Others said hyenas were no