Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-21
correspondence or the Journal.


The following spicy letter, from
"gay and festive" pupil of our River
Editor, should have reached us on Satur-
day night, but has been on rowing COM
mission, and only got in last night:
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. Is, 1864.
Editors Journal:
The world wags, and we wag with it.
This will strike you, no doubt, as very
original and highly edifying observation
At all events, it will answer as " gay
and festive" commencement of short
letter.
l left home on Thursday, the 7th inst,
on the "high-headed and "magnif-
cent E. & G. r. R., and met no aeci,
dent in going to Terre Haute, except a
bad dinner at the railroad crossing at
Yincennes. This, however, is an acct
dent that happens there so often that it
is hardly worth mentioning. e8 Vi
At Terre Haute had the felicity OF
meeting our neighbor H. Q. Wheeler, or
perhaps, following high authority, should
say, my "good looking, affable and salu-
brious" friend Wheeler; but Mr.. Wheeler
. being respectable man do not think
1t necessary, nor in good taste to beplas-
/, ter him with adjectives. Before this time,
E 1 dare say, he is making the people glad
g with some of the new currency, to OBJ
tain which he had, l believe, been to
t Washington.
!, The weather has been too cold for my
|. views, and it is yet cold. Yesterday it
thawed and rained little. Last night
/ it showed, winding up with q freeze.
e Notwithstanding the unfriendly weather,
e indianapolis is alive and active. The
e town is overrun with shoulder straps
], and blue coats. The railroad depot, the
% hotels, the saloons, the streets are over
! run with soldiers, and still they come
re Indianas quota of troops is still shor
lie about three thousand, but no doubt is fel
% that the deficiency will be made up with
= out draft
" A great deal of indignation has beer
r. expended at the poorness of Evansvill,
as hotels. Whether this indignation has beef
- fully deserved l shall not discuss l an
n very sure, however, that if they are a
n mean as the hotels here, they ar
ar a nuisance, and should be abated. Hay
n
u n ing tried the leading ones here, speal
in from a knowledge of them. My expert
tn ence has induced me to take a change G
Up venue, which, having arrangements 70
g sleeping myself, was able to do | tax
f. my meals at a grocery, or, to be NOR
ad polite about it, at restaurant, and ar
'st succeeding favorably. If any of N
az friends come up here and cannot max
- private arrangements for lodging, I &C
"a wise them to sleep in the Market House
is or in the State House Square, and boar
IN at my grocery
81 81 The Board of Directors of the Bank {
We the State has been in session this weel
by Mr.. Rathbone was unanimouslyre-electe
m President The Bank, asusual, is stron
a, y; in every way, and has done well the la'
to. six months. Good dividends were d
las clared in all the branches but ,thret
ed which did not ask for them The div
icy dend of the Evansville Branch is fv
I'D per cent. There is great unanimit
mol among the branches to maintain ii
10 Bank intact, doing business as usua
At and leaving others to test the exper
oln ment of the National system. Thel
oil will, however, be no hostility to the ne
the system, which win be left to stand {
emit fall on its intrinsic power to realize Il
TOR advantages claimed oft.
oar Hoping to be at home in a few day
oh and to have genial wag of. yol
agreeable hand, and "complacen
,o;- view of your fascinating" countenanc
md l remain yours, truly, OCCASIONAL.