Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-08-07

will OF course, add much 20 the agree
ableneas Of our stay here In addition
we have the pleasure Of meeting q Num-
ber of old friends and Gequaintances,
formerly Of Evansville, now resident
here Our New Albany friends are stili
here, and having made some new ac-
quaintances, we have, in spite Of the
unusually dissgreeabls weather (so said
TO bs), spioyed our sojourn, 90 far, very
mach. Though vet and cold ss I have
stated, the effect 10 net 20 uufavorable
TO health - With as In such changes Of
weather. There is a brseing edge in
the stuosphess, which prevents severe
colds and o collapse Of the vital ener-
Risa. People have sickness and die
here, ~ elsewhere; yet, for summer
residence, 7 have been nowhere that the
climate seemed more favorable to COM
fort and health than here. Though not
free from my physical ills, I have had
fswer aches and pains, and better gen.
eral health, than for months before com
ing Having thrown physie to the
dogs," 1t must be the climate which has
eanssd this imPrcvemert Ii all events
the result 10 encouraging, and ! shall re-
main in this region 50 long as ] End
benefit from doing 40.
A few days since the noted Chippewa
chief Hole-in the Day arrived from his
domain, some one hundred and 6fty
miles TO the west, accompanied BY his
family. met him yesterday, and, being
introduced, tried TO hold a council with
hin, but, bis interpreter not being pres
snt, we could not accomplish much. FL
speaks English bat little. he is a 6ne
intelligent looking man, Of fair heigh
and build, dressing half Indian hal
white man-Kossuth bat, striped cottor
shirt, aack coat, buckskin breechss ant
moecasiHs. He 10 said to be . shrewt
man, and not easily overreached il
diplomacy. We have noticed quite /
number Of Indians in the returninl
Minnesota regiments, and they proves
good soldiers in regular warfare.
We have thought some Of making
trip far up the Minnesota river or n
the Missisaippi, into the Indian country
in company with Mr.. Brown and family
It 10, perhaps, rather too much Of q
undertaking, and We sball probably nc
enter upon it. If we do 90 We shall, Q
course, keep under the protection of th
Government forts scattered along tn
routes. 13J 20 = @4 'eH
The grain crops In this section or
spiandid. Wheat aud oats viii yiel
abundantly. The short wheat crops o
The Ohio river will hardly breed
famine. We miss nothing 90 much her
al traits. The spring and early summe
being dry, there has been almost an eE
tire failure in fruits, large and small
Blackbsrriss, whortleberriss, eranbe
riss, peaches and apples are not ofte
seen. A few peaches and apples are In
ported from the sonth--apples being hel
OF Eve cents piece, ard peaches at te
cents each. We have some cucumbel
on the table, aud green corn Of the usui
Northarn size. One ear of Dan. Akin
growing would swallow st least FIVE
these Northern nuhbinE Peas, bear
And new potatoes are abundant I'll
prices OF eatables are, as with us, hig
| The throug of comsrs and goers col
tinues. The hotels are all crowded. I'll
river, however, is getting low, and on
small boats can now reach here, ewir
to shoals al along for twenty miles b
low. This win soon check the arriva
aud thin out the transients. We ha
excellent accommodations as the Int
national Hotel, a wsll-kspt house, az
with capacity for three hundred gusst
Another hetel, the Merchants, 10 near
as large, while . third large hotel VI
recently burnt aud 10 soon tolbe rsbui
These facts suggest an enquiry. II $
Paul, with twelve, thousand inhabitanI
can afford three large, 6rsI-elass hotel
why cannot Evansville, with over tween
thousand, sdord one7 Ileavs the rep
. to those 'uhom il may concern" sA
How long VIC shsll remain here 81
hsreabouts, is among the mysteries
the future. When we do leave, We shl
go to Superior City apd thence By ii
Lakes 20 Buffalo. m
By . letter from Mr.. Garvin, writ
ON hin arrival At Superior Cisy, lea
: that the trip through from this point I
! cupiea,, by stags, four days, and 10
rather pleasant one, and the night sc
ping places reasonably well kept T
distance, as I before advised you,
about (perbApa something overl o
!, hundred And fifty miles. eH -
= Insy now and then write you aga
|. 80 We progress, though probably mc
= briefly. Yours truly, II,
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