The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-01-25
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IxD1AxApoLIs, Jan. %, 1861.

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. %, 1861.
EDITOR JOURNAL The Legislature con-
vened at P. NJ. yesterday, apparently much
freshened up by their brief holiday, and
transacted considerable business, for an af-
ternoon.
A communication was received from the
Auditor of State, showing that the Treasu-
~ is in danger of collapse, the amount of
cash on hand being about 1921, 900, which
will require loan to keep the machine of
State running. The communication was
referred to the Committee of Ways and
Means, whose Chairman, Mr.. Branham,
will be very apt to know what has become
of the money, before he has done with the
subject
Mr.. Prosser some days since introduced
bill to repeal the law prohibiting the car
| rying of concealed weapons. This measure
/ excited some sensation, which was scarcely
Iessened when the reason for introducing
the bill was given; namely, that the law
was not enforced, and observed only by
peaceful and orderly citizens, who were
thus left, when assaulted, at the mercy of
DULLES who always go armed. Some re-
cent occurrences in our own quiet
and moral city, give but too much
| weight to that argument, though
hardly think the law will be repealed yet.
But it ought to be more fully enforced
A tact was stated in the House during the
session of yesterday afternoon, which pre-
sumo was new to the majority present and
will be to the majority of the State which
was that one of the signers of the Declara-
ton of independence lies buried at Charles
town in this State, in a grave wholly I'M
distinguished, and recognizable only by the
testimony of few of the oldest citizens
His name was James Wilson. commit
tee was appointed to erect a suitable monu
ment over his obscure and almost forgotten
grave-a most fitting and needful act o.
legislation.
Some incipient measures were also taker
looking toward the purchase by the State o
the philosophical apparatus and geological
cabinet of the late David Dale Owen. 1t i:
earnestly to be desired that such resolu
ton may be passed.
The matter of the Northern PeRitentiary
was again stirred up, and the joint selec
) committee ordered to visit and examine The
tense interest.
This afternoon the flag of the Union is t.
be raised from the top of the dome of th,
State House, with a salute of 33 guns by
the artillery squad, and military parade
The Legislature will of course adjourn fol
that ceremony, which, in the judgment o
this writer, will cost more than it comes to
The position of the flag is an inconvenien
8 one. 1t should have been on the front enc
of the Capitol, where, though not so high
it would have been much more accessible
Placed as it is, at the top of the pepper-bol
which surmounts the dome, it is worth
mans neck to reach it, and has required til,
: removal of the gigantic fOwer-pot Il sup
pose it was) which stood on the top of thu
pepper-box. The staff towering some q
! feet above the lightning rod, will reliev'
: that instrument of all responsibility in th,
thunder season, if it stands there so long
and will be quite likely to bring down upol
the dome and the building, the wrath of th
first anti-union thunder-cloud that may sal
: over it.
But the Legislature expect to he away be
fore that, the gentleman from Washing
ton" (Heffren) and all. Tue proceeding
this afternoon will doubtless be very grand
but the mail arrangements will not ALLOW
me to chronicle them to-day.
= Sheppard completed his walking feat a
10 o'clock on Saturday night, more insan
than rational, and more dead than alive
/ trust tue moral sense of our communit,
: will never tolerate another similar perform
ance. 1t is admitted to be rs demoralizinI
as prize fight.
You have not, l think, adverted to tn
! singular tact stated by our Journal, tina
we have had in Indiana four different gov
> ernors, all in a regular constitutional way
in the space of three months.x SCRIBE.