The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-05


might reasonably fear another rising
of the element which seeks level re-
CARELESS of consequences. The waters
have been very high in Wabash,
White, aud Patoka Bottoms and
much corn which had been placed in
pens on the banks of these rivers, has
been washed away or destroyed,
while the people have only been able
to get about by the aid Of skiffs and
canoes. The fish have no doubt had
a glorious time, as they have been
able to considerably enlarge their
range of observation. Indeed, if the
people of these Bottoms, " just as
the waters were beginning to rise, had
proceeded with all skill and dispatch,
to build them an ark of gopher wood
Cor poplar either), rooms had they
made in the ark, and had they.
pitched it within and without, with
pitch, F" even as the great pioneer boat
builder did, in olden times, they would
have been acting with more apparent
wisdom than Noah, who began his
labor in dry season, years before the
high waters" of A. NJ. 1856 But
unfortunately none of them did so,
and some of them have been troubled
by the waters and injured greatly,
while others have been held in dur
ance Vile," by the impossible pillows.
Some of them, after the waters 90
down, will no doubt do as Noah did
in like circumstances, when he began
to be an husbandman," to-wit: drink
of the juice of corn, mot of the grape),
and become drunken. Whether or
not, when they awake from their
a0hisky, they will reiterate the enathe-
ma: Cursed be Canaan" and thus
send the unfortunate son of Ham,
lately freed from the CALLING
yoke of slavery, Keeling and stagger-
ing under the weight of newly forged
manacles, adown the corridors of
coming time, remains to be seen.
There has been some danger that the
large quantity of drift wood at the
aqueduct on White River, where that
great highway of nations-the Wabash
and Erie Canal-crosses the river,
would cause a general break down of
the aqueduct, in which case the White
w
be much endangered. But no such
accident has occurred as yet, and the
great cities of London, Paris, Pekin,
and Vincennes may still congratulate
themselves that their communications
with Evansville are still intact By
the by, Mr.. Editor, that word intact
is very suggestive of story told of
certain Copperhead who lived, moved.
and had his being somewhere outside
of the armies of the Union during our
late war. Looking at the immense head
lines which in those days ornamented
the tops of Geographic columns In
our daily papers, he came across the
following words printed In startling
capitals. Baltimore and Ohio r.. e.
Intact The Captain, upon reading
this, to. him startling intelligence, ex-
claimed, II always knew the South
ern men would play hell with Gov
eminent railroads. S yd
4. Political matters in, our county do
not seem to amount to- much now.
The people are too busy paying their
taxes and store accounts, to pay much
attention to politics. There has been
less talk about the reconstruction
policy of Congress, than we might
reasonably expect, after the passage
Of the late bill. Probably our Dem
ocratic friends are waiting for An
drew the First-and certainly the
last-to geto it, before they can dis
cover wherein it is objectionable It
may be that our conservative friends
are so absorbed in watching the
brilliant and unparalleled career Of
(Jay) Bird, whom they sent to the
Legislature, that they have no time to
notice the doings of Congress. Your
Indianapolis correspondent has given
your readers some insight into the
wonderful powers and capabilities of
our legislator. With his bill . for the
protection of young pigs from foxes
and wild cats, that for the protection
of mankind from Z quack doctors, "
and that requiring teachers to be
acquainted with the fundamental
principles of government" he has
certainly won an enviab1ei fame! ~
las to which set of0' Fundamental
principles of government our teach.
ers are to know-that Of JEFF. Davis,
Calhoun and Brec kinridge, or that of,
Webster, Clay, and Lincoln-he has
lett US in the dark A teacher would
do well to be posted in bo-h. Does a
school teacher who asserts A. on. the
stump that our national debt amounts
to sevela billions of dollars understand
the fundamental principles of gov