The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-05
CORRESPONDENCE.
FROM TIE CAPITAL.
Judge Hughes and the BOhemlans.
Agricultural COllege-H0use or
Refuge-NOrmaI School = COrre-
SDOndent Threatened.

ments of an ass, was an object un-
known to the ancients, and is seldom
seen in modern times.
Such a phenomenon may be wit
messed at almost any hour of the day
in the House of Representatives of
our General Assembly, and is de-
cidedly the most striking and pic
turesque specimen in that remarkable
menagerie. This nondescript halls
from Monroe County, and the COM
plimentary prefix to his patronymic
indicates that, at some period of his
illustrious career, his majestic form
has been graced by judicial ermine."
Tt is possible for great men to bring
themselves into contempt by foolish
acts, or rather, it is possible for mind
possessing great qualities to be sup
Piled with variety of mean streaksp'
The Father of his Country, when his
ire was greatly provoked, was wont to
relieve his mind by the utterance Of
few emphatic baths. The immortal
Webster" would tarry too long at his
cups, and under the influence thereof
would sometimes talk dwelling nom
sense on great public occasions.
These and many other respectable
precedents should not be forgotten
when we find the gentleman from
Monroe, who is in many respects the
ablest man in this General Assembly,
masquerading in an ass-skin for the
J amusement of the Hobbies, making stale
his grand oratory by using his best pow
ers on thousand .trifing occasions,
ard diluting his reAly fine rhetoric to
the thinness of aqua gallina.
~ Not content with the demolition of
Corey-which was simply using Nj
agara to run kitchen coffee mill
the repeated hagellation of Kiser,
and constant hammering away at
McFadin, he must clap the climax of
pitifnl puerility, by shaking those
long ears at an anonymous newspaper
correspondent, who had been guilty
saof criticising the proceedings of the
4, gentleman from Monroe, and some of
his co-Legislators. As satirist,
Judge Hughes is a stupendous sue
: cess. He knows how to. mingle the.
oleaginous and the ascetic in power
full compounds, and his unctuous ora
tory was never more superbly dis
played than in this terrific onslaught
ON nameless Bohemian.
But, seriously, it is time for this
gentleman to be informed-if truth
can penetrate the. alligator scales of
his vanity and self-conceit-that his
a universal diffusion, his meddlesome
attempts TO run everybody's machines,
and his sublime egotism, have been
carried far enough, and that this last
effort is the silliest of many foolish
acts. He. should be informed, since
he seems to be laboring under an
Y erroneous impression on that point,
that the, acts of himself and other
members of the body which is digni-
lied by his august presence are legiti-
} mate: subjects of public discussion,
and that even the fear of his terribly
scathing sarcasm will not deter a
journalist who knows his rights and
I duties from giving the public such
sketches of legislative dignity and
wisdom as he may deem proper.
The telegraph has already informed
your readers of the indefinite post
ponement of the Agricultural Col
lege question: It is proposed by
y. y many friends of education to memo
Congress to permit this grant
, ( 10. be diverted from its original pur-
pose andWapplied to our common
school fund.- There is little doubt
that, could the money be SO diverted,
i,itwould beymore satisfactory to the
~ people generally than any other dis
posal that can be made of it. The.
yexed question of location would
thus be avoided t&g EAA Rp
1t is feared that the House, of Ref
'OH uge Bill will fail. The House in
80 Committee of the whole has amended
the Senate. bill in so many respects
that there is little hope of an agree
s ment between the two branches. The
author of these amendments talks
loudly of his friendship" for the
Solabill, but suchla friend is little better
4 than were those Of which Job COM
% planned SO Bitterly. -
But little doubt is entertained that
the Senate will pass the Normal
School Bill, which went through the
House yesterday ~ .cL X
.olaThe indianapolis correspondent Of
Cincinnati paper is just now in re-
celpt OF sundry anonymous communi-.
cations from the friends of public
functionary, threatening the cowhide
and other bodily torture in punish
ment for what has been facetiously
styled "a currying" administered to
z that funetionary through the press.
Those friends must feel that the case
of their patron is getting desperate,
when they have to resort to such means
y in,its defense. MARK TAPLEY.
.B9aGibsOn County Matters.