The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-02-14
Indianapolis Correspondence.

l fearlessly declare it none of my business,
and leave you and them to settlesit as you
can.
l notice one or two particulars however.
1t must strike any reader of the proceedings
with surprise to see the anxiety manifested
in almost every portion of the State, for
some effective legislation against sheep-kill-
ing dogs. None but those who have suffer-
ed loss from worthless ours of that kind,
could imagine the amount of property des-
troyed in that way every year. Several en-
prising farmers, members of the present
House, have declared that they have been
compelled to retire from the contest, and
give up the attempt to keep sheep
1t is a burning shame that the State
should suffer in so important an interest as
that of wool-growing, in order that swarms
of sneaking, vicious, hybrid ours may live
and fatten on the spoils of the fold and the
pasture For it is not the well-conditiOned
and respectable dogs, whether kept as ne
cessity, or only from fondness for the ami
NAL, that commit these depredations 1t is
the lean and skulking starvelings of the
cabins of the poOr-whOse taste for such
companions is apt to be in inverse proportion
to their actual ability to indulge (which
do the mischief But there is hope, in the
feeling manifested by the Legislature, that
some stringent protective measures will be
adopted. And meanwhile every WOOL
grower would do we'll to follow the advice
of the member from Franklin county, who
is physician, and makes free use of strich-
nyne.
A L. 4 6,
providing for letting out the State printing
to the lowest bidder. 1t was referred to
the committee of ways and means, whose
stalwart and sensible chairman, (Branham,)
| took it under consideration, and, with the
assent of his colleagues, brought in brief
but well-digested report, recommending that
the present system be adhered to. The
| principal reasons given were, that practical
printers had informed the committee that
| the present prices afforded no more than a
reasonable profit; that any reduction in the
/ prices would not lessen the profits of the
/ contractor, but the wages of the journey
men and finally that the State had once
/ made the experiment of the private contract
system, and after a fair trial, had returned
to the present plan. The report was order
ed to be printed, and the subject was refer
red to q select committee. So the end of it
is not yet
The House has adopted the one session
| system, meeting at and adjourning at l
/ aud the more important committees are
| holding laborious working sessions after
/ moons.
The Treasury is still empty, and many
| CHASTITY jokes are cracked by honorable
members" with lank pockets, who in spite
/ of the protracted collapse of the public chest,
cheerfully hope there is good time COM
ing.
But l have written all this and said moth
| ing about the duel! Perhaps in so doing
have unintentionally, but truly, reflected the
public mind, in which the quarrel between
| Messrs Heffren and Moody does not seem
to hold very prominent place. 1t is I'M
questionable that the assault of Mr.. H.
in the debate was gross and uncalled for
also that Mr.. NJ. gave opportunity for a
manly retraction of what was offensive and
untrue, and most evident of all that the par
ties, accompanied by iona. W. Gordon,
Clerk Of the House, and Col. J. G. Walker,
left by the Cincinnati road, on Thursday
night, for Covington, or Newport, or some
spot adjacent to one place or the other, for
the purpose of a hostiles meeting A dis
| patch this morning from Cincinnati said
| that the belligerents bal crossed the
| river, it was presumed to consum-
mate the arrangements, and that dep
utatiou from the police had crossed likewise
in pursuit The matter rests there for the
present, so far as reliable information is
| concerned Numerous rumors are floating
| about as to the particulars OF the meeting,
the kind of weapons chosen, and the like,
but nothing is certainly known of those
points. do not propose to write honily
just now on the subject of duelling, but 1
cannot regard it as other than a notifying
fact that such an occurrence should take
place in legislative body. 1t is a strange
anomaly, though unfortunately not very
| rare, to see men who are selected to make
the laws, violating them in a way so pest
ferrous in its influence and example. At
this age of the world the duel deserves no
! place in the practice of civilized men, 1t
is one of the bald and bloody relies of a
semi-barbarous age and if allowed at all in
ours, should be shut up to those who know
! and care for no higher development than
! that of brute courage.
/ We have had a visit and a lecture from
! Horace Greeley. The latter was good and
| the former short. The night was severely
| cold it was also the time of the usual week
| ly religious services, and members of the
legislature had their own engagements
So that only small audience heard the
lecture
This evening at or about five, we look
| for q visit from the President elect on his
way to the trying scene ofhis future labors.
The city is alive with eager and anxious
multitudes but the particulars of the visit
must be the theme of another letter.
SCRIBE.
PS 1t is reported that Mr.. Gordon.
Moody's second and principal Clerk of the
House, has returned, having been telegraph
ed to do so in consequence of serious illness
in his famiy-w which, by the way, was the
case when he left home He reports, so it
! is said, that the duel was to come off some
where in Kentucky yesterday, SUNDAY
morning, at 6 Weapons, rifles distance,
| 40 PAGES. A duel on Sunday is, ! be-
lieve, something new in the annals
| of abomination. | have no disposition to
| comment on it. The facts are before the
world. Let justice be done. S.
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