The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-12-17
Letter from Indianapolis.


EDITOR JoURNAL:-I read with profound
attention, your excellent editorial of some
days since, in which you spoke of the crowd
ed state of your columns, and urged upon
your correspondents the Importance Of brew
ity in their communications. The sugges-
tion is an important one, and it would be
well if all newspaper writers would adopt
the same motto that that stout old Puritan
divine, Cotton Mather, inscribed over his
sturdy door-BE SHORT. You will be graft
fed to know that am in no present dan
/ ger of transgressiug that rule greatly, as
nothing of special note or worthy of record
| is occurring among US just now. 1t is sad
/ to say that coming events seem to be cast
/ ing their shadows Of gloom and trouble al
ready before them, rs shown by the com
parative stagnation OF business, and the
great number of willing hands that are idle,
from compulsion. Yet in spite of this,
doubt not that the Heenan show to come off
at Masonic Hail tonight, will be crowded,
and that by people who may well be sup
posed to have the least money to spend on
superhuities. All that, however, might be
overlooked if the entertainment was one
harmless to public morals. But such can
not be, and the effects of it will speedily ap-
pear in the Increased number of amateurs
in the nmahly art, and broken -noseti, blue
eyed devOtees Of the science. Some evils
seem to be, in n sense, necessary, and have to
be endured, for the time; but it would really
seem that law ought to be potent enough to
exclude brutal and demOralizing exhibitions
from public halls.
A = II
days, committee on the state of the I'm
ion" In other words, public affairs espe-
cially the great theme of secession, forms
the staple of common talk. In the midst of
an endless diversity of opinion as to what
is expedient, it is easy TO see that the minds
Of men are penetrated with painful anxiety
as to what is to come. Our Daily Journal
of this morning, in its '4eader," considers
the disruption of the Union as inevitable,
and takes a gloomy view of the fact, and
the consequences. On the other hand, is
gratifying to know that meetings, such as
that of yesterday in Philadelphia, are held,
and attended by thousands of prominent
and influential citizens. Also, to see that
there is in Congress something of q conserv-
atve element, which, when the first storm
of passion has swept by, may act like oil in
soothing the troubled waters.
l have noted with great interest the pro-
gress of the Rockville Extension TO your
railroad, and have read the notices of its
completion, and the consequent celebration,
in the Terre Haute papers. The men con-
cerned in it are entitled to all the credit
they have received although the work was
a comparatively small one, and had the /
countenance and support of the strong and
wealthy T. II. & r. Railroad Company
But the enterprise is proven to be a success,
and will doubtless add something to the
prosperity Of your city; and that fact sug-
gests the sorrowful inquiry, why could not
that other great railroad enterprise have |
been carried on to success too
Lat promised to be short this time.
Yours, SCRIBE