The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-08
Fson TaE CArITAL.
Legislative ConfusiOn-POOr PresI.
ding OficeF-NeWSpaper SuSpeB-
.siOn-S0jOuPneFs at the Capital =
Klser as Popular lecturer, &c.
INDIANAPOLIS March z

! So5O u Oil Va d Hall sCOIuuTOJOU
swamp road sThe Senate, under its
excellent presiding officer, and with a
emi-consciousness of its comparative
| dignity. manages to preserve a. tolera-
bic degree of fdecorum most of the
time, and occasionly has particularly
lucid intervals, when it appears to de-
cided advantage. 1t has, atall events,
been an Industrious body.
The House, under the management
of Speaker BRANHAM, presents an
indescribable scene of turmoil and
confusion. Your correspondent wit
messed both the first and second
Bull Run, !" and many specimens of
tall skedaddling on the part of the
rebel armies, but his freshest and
most perfect conception of riotous
disorder has been derived from views
of this House. 1t is not the fault of
the members. for they are certainly
not worse than their predecessors,
nor is it the intentional fault of any
one. 1t comes of having the wrong
man in the Chair. Mr.. BRANHAM
on the floor might have been a useful
member, as he has been in years past;
but as Speaker he is "a spectacle to
gods and men, y as he stands in help
less iTresolution under a torrent of
motions and points of order, while
the hall and Hobbies echo with all the
sounds of Babel. Under such cir
cumstances business progresses slowly
and unsatisfactorily Most of the
members will be glad when the gavel
falls for the last time,
And silence like poultice, comes
To heal the blows of sound "
The EUening Gazette, of this city,
is understood to be on the eve of final
dissolution. 1t has lived for some
time past " at poor, dying rate,
and the lapse from such life to the
s long, dreamless Sleep" will be
scarcely perceptbler The present
proprietor, Mr.. WILDER, some weeks
ago agreed with the Journal Com
pany to give them the material of the 4
office, worth about twelve hundred
dollars, and money due for papers
supplied to the General Assembly,
about two Thousand dollars, on con-
dition that the Journal Company
should run the paper till the close of
the session. 1t has been mainly an
evening reprint of the morning Jour
nal, and has not been bad specula-
ton to the proprietors of the latter
paper.
The Normal. School appropriation
passed the Senate this morning by the
very decisive vote of 80 to z. Mr..
JACQUES has given his influence to
the support of this important auxili-
airy to our educational department,
and in this, as in all other matters
that have come before the Senate, has
shown that it is no part of his voca-
ton to sit on the shirt-tail of pro-
gress.' 1t is to be regretted that
JOHNSON, of Spencer, in this instance, !
found himself one of the small mi
nofityiopposing the Interests Of public
Instruction. It will not be claimed
that the teachers of his section have
attained SO high a, degree of profici-
encyrin. their calling as to be beyond
the influence i faque Of a normal school. +" q
I Amoag the tEyansyillians ltempora7
rily sojourning here are ROBERT A.
HILL Esq, and "A: I. WHITrLEsEY,
p. NJ, which is Postmaster. y No
1t is not suspected that Mr.. HILL
has any hatchets or other cutlery to
grind. His object is to learn parlia-
mentary lawlfrom watching the pro-
ceedings of the House. x Ia Q
+" Our mutual friend tuWHIT is too
fresh from the congressional to re-
quire the legislative grindstone. He
bears his blushing honors with mod
est grace, and avows his intention to
administer the affairs of his office
without regard to the interests of any
: party. - WHIT decidedly objects to
having his name. associated with that
of Squire =" MoBRIDE, and this OBJ
lection does Infinite credit to his good
SENSE: ys E.k.'gss- 0gTE
A telegram from Senator MORTON,
dated at Washington, this morning,
informed his friends that his health
had greatly improved since he left In