The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-12-28
indianapolis Correspondence.
EVANSvILZE. l
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. %, 1860

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. %, 1860.
EDIFoE JOURNAL The date l have just !
'ritten reminds me that this is Z" Forefath-
rs Day"-a day sacred in the memory of
IL loyal sons Of New England; but have
10 rhetoric to waste on that subject just
low, when all your available space is need
sd for the --latest by Telegraph from South
Carolina But ito put myself right on
he record" as the lawyers say, must dis
avow one word your compositors made me
use in my last missive. 1 spoke of the
probable patrons of the HeenaE demonstra-
lion, then about to come off in our Theatre,
as hleaT-eyed, among other physical and
Coral characteristics. Your types make
me call them BL4e-eyed. Now the blue eye
has been too long deifed in song, as an ele-
ment of beauty, and an accompaniment of
loveliness, specially in the female persua-
sion, for me to desecrate it by its use as
mark of the class of whom / was then speak
ing. And hope all fair owners of that
personal attraction among your readers
will exonerate me from the evil-speaking
yoar types would make me chargeable
with
In late number of your paper you refer
to notice by our Daily Journal of alecture
then recently delivered by Dr.. Durbin in
our city, to a meagre audience, in cOnnec-
ton with which the Journal repeats a. re-
mark of Barras, an actor, that represent
alton of the Last Supper, with an original
cast of the twelve Apostles, would not draw
a crowd in indianapolis, if a Niger Con-
cert was in the way. That remark of the
actor is likely, by the aid of the Journal, to
have fair run, though not to help the
cause of the Theatre in our place much,
among his own profession. Though not
destitute of smartness, ] for one accept it
as on the whole creditable to our commu-
nifty; for while l do not regard Niger
+ Concerts" high order of amusement, by
any MEANS they are innocent, at least. But
Theatre is simply plague-spOt in any
community, and If every one in existence
was blotted from the. earth to-day, the great
interests of virtue and morality would be
advanced in wonderful degree. As to the
smallness of DIR. Durbin's audience, the
Doctors forte is not as a lecturer, and his
subject was one not calculated to interest
the popular mind greatly. And further,
large proportion of our citizens
buy season tickets to the Lectures Of the
Young Mems Christian Association, and
so care less about mourning extra expense
in attending lectures furnished under other
auspices DR.. Durbin came under arrange
ment with another society, a respectable
one, but less prominent and energetic than
the one named, and incurred disadvantage
on that account so far as large audience Is
concerned. So that neither the tewness OF
the Doctors hearers, nor the sarcasm of the
actor should be received as proof that our
citizens are Indifferent to the pleasure and
profit to be derived from able lectures and
scientific musical entertainments. For it is
not the Ethiopian style of music alone that
bears away the palm from theatrical enter
tainments here. Such companies rs thS
Continentals, and especially the Old Folks
always dTat0, and even concerts gotten vi
by the amateur musical societies among orr
selves, always fill the house. ---A
A Republican Union meeting was helC
in the Court House thi5safternoon, aud wa
attended by crowded auditory. Roter
3. Duncan, Esq, was called to the chair
An able letter from Cassius NJ Clay wa
read, and speeches made by Judge Coburn
Messrs. Harrison, Fishback, DR.. Thompson
and some others. Appropriate resolution
were also passed, which, with the letter 0
Clay, and the whole proceedings, you will
see in the due course of the papers. tn
spirit of the meeting was enthusiastically
tor the Union and its preservation Som
of the speeches were trihing, but others, 4
COburns and Harrisons, were noble vindi
cations of the Republican party and il
principles Yours - e
SCRIBE.