The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-06-29
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1xD1ANAPoLls, IND, June 2S, 1862.

has been thrust in" Notwithstanding
the great number of young men who
have laid aside the implements of hus-
bandry for those of war, and have gone
( ON our State to battle for the integri-
ty and indivisibility of the Union, there
appeared to be no diminution, so far as
my observations and inquiries extended,
in the quantity of wheat sowed last Fall,
while the yield has been unprecedently
large. The grain is unusually full and
plump, and the "heads are filled to
their utmost capacity. 1t is glorious
sight-those waving fields of grain-and
well calculated to fill the pious heart
with gratitude to the Great Giver of all
good that He has so crowned with sue
cess the labors of the few who have been
left to till the field as to permit no de-
crease in the yield of the staff of life
Of course labor is scarce and high,
and were it not for the machinery which
is now coming into general use large
amount of wheat could not be harvested.
The huge Keepers, however, soon journey
over the large fields of wheat, leaving in
their course the grain cut nicely and
smoothly. On all the farms every avail
able hand is employed-in many cases
not excepting the wonderland among
them the crop will be secured In some
places the men with the reapers are
compelled to stop the machines in order
to bind and shock the grain already cut.
But we are satisfied that, by hook or
crook, it will all be gathered in, and none
be lost. The weather is exceedingly
propitious, and we are confident that the
amount of wheat harvested in Indiana
this season will exceed that of any other
year.
The corn in the immediate neighbor-
hood of Evansville and Princeton does
not look so well as farther north. Nor
is it SO we'll advanced. This may be ow'
ing in part to the great want of rain ex.
perienced in the early part of the season
in the lower portions of the State. But
the recent rains have brought it out, and
so rapidly is it springing up that its
growing may almost be seen.
The excitement incident to the recen'
guerrilla raid and "rumors of raids, y
has subsidized, and all may be said to be
quiet at Vincennes The character anG
variety of the rumers which created such
a furore in the central part of the State
we're only knnwn- in mart hV the peonlf
of Evansville. New Albany, it seems
participated in the scare and the money
in her banks, as we'll as in the banks o
Paoli, Vincenues and at other points
was>sent north for safe keeping At ont
time Adjutant General Noble was re
ported prisoner as well as large por
tion of the list regiment. A battle haC
been fought, it was said, in which The
home guards were defeated with a los.
of 700 killed and wounded. Great con
sternation everywhere prevailed, anC
the expense to which the State was pu
in transporting men and arms from poin
to point will amount to thousands of dol
lars All of this might have been avoid
ed if Gov. Morton's prudent and earnes
suggestions to the Government to builC
a military telegraph along the river, hac
been needed. Itwas known in Spencer
county and at Cannelton that the SECOND
raid existed only in frightened imagina
tons, but they had no means of convey
ing their knowledge to the capital il
tune to prevent the eaPenoo growing on
of the measures that were taken to repe
or capture the supposed invaders. Th
expense thus incurred would very nearl
have paid for the telegraph.
But Notwithstanding the failure of tn
Government to construct the TELEGRAPH
Governor Morton's precautions agains
inroads would have prevented this las
scare if he had not been interfered wit
by the Legislature. If the 9Th Indian
cavalry had been retained on the border
Kinds would never have dared to eros
the river and consequently the excit,
ment eliminating in the reports of
second raid, would never have existed
The antipathy of copperheads to ii
presence of soldiers, is so great that
copperheard legislature could not tole
ate their presence on the border althoug
they were stationed there for the prote
ton of disloyal as well as loyal propert
1t was great gratif cation to me I
learn that no trouble whatever has o
Cured in the first congressional distri
in enrolling the people preparatory
the draft. l regret that the same ca
not be said of other districts. In Il
seventh district-Dan. Voorhees,
third and in one or two localities in IL
northern part of the State, the feeling
very ugly and threats of resistance al
freely made In Putnam county serio,
trouble is anticipated. The enrollir
commissioner has been insulted ar
threatened, and determination to resi-