The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-02-22
CORRESPONDENCE CE. !
.RoekPoRT, IND., Feb. 19, 1861
From Spencer County.



Editors journal zs-sraarasasseaa
Rain, rain, mud, mud, j. the cry
wherever we go, and the weather fur
nishes the staple topic of conyersa-
ton in every circle. Many of our
farmers are put to great inconvenience
and some loss by the food, which has
spread oyerythe bottoms on both. sides
ofsthe river. Most of the stock was
driven to the hills in good time. but
there will be some loss of corn, crib
bed on the river bank. z Most of it.
however, had passed into second
hands, 80 that the loss ewiHo not fall
heavily on the tenants who raised it.
The sss7, 900 bridge across Lake
Drein, just. above town, on the
Grhhdyiewf road, is reported to
be in a very precarious condition.
The. levee is said ODE settlingin such
a way as to spread out the wing walls
of The ,abutment, and fea1s are enter
tanned that they viii topple over into
the water, in which case the bridge
win be sure to follow. So much for
the concentrated wisdom of the Dem
ocratic party embodied in the County
Commissioners who projected the
structure, and expended the money
of the people with such recklessness.
Why, the interest on its cost would
have built a bridge there which, for
all practical purposes, would have
answered equally as well as the pres
emit one, and renewed it every ten
years for all time to come, if it
had been necessary, The roads
are Vim $50 nearly an impossible
condition that but few of our farmers
can getto town; but they all agree in
the. statement that their prospect of a
good wheat crop was never better at
this season of the year; and | am sat-
isfed, from the best information / can
get, that there was more than the
usual breadth sown last Fall. Fruit is
uninjured as yet, except peaches; they
have suffered somewhat, but not seri-
ously, and the best informed say that
there viii be an abundant crop if the
present warm weather does not swell
the bud too rapidly and expose it. to
severe frostin March. sa1sSo .gerseI
Our people are elatsd ,at the idea of
being freed from the Incubus Of Dubois
and Martin. as proposed by the appor-
tieumeut biii=now pending in eur
Legislature, and strong hopes are en-
tertained that Veatch or a DeBru-
Ter will yet be rewarded for the many
glorious battles they have fought for
freedom and justice to ALL by being
honorably elected to Congress from
this district; and if that change in
the districts made, we shall assaredly
claim, and most justly too, that one
or the other of those champions, who.
have SO often led the forlern hope,
shall be our standard bearer, and
lead us on to a still more glorious vic
tory. The Grand Army Of the Re-
public is just pow the one thing which
troubles the Democracy of this county
more than anything else. It was Just
so9however, during the war. Iheard
a stery-the other day of. a Democrat
whs~as frying To- persuade:a aSsfeaR
from re-enlisting, and urged, as a
clincher, that their only object was
to break dpEpstAe, Democystie party
us that SOP" said the vet. Yes It
is.R1IssWell, 'isays veteran, if that
is reanyithetAse, III gorieht Of, land
have my name put down twice" The
G.. A. R. expect to have a good time
on the 22d-an address by Gen. ~ rC.
Veatch, in the afternoon, at the Court
House, and aIs6cial re-union at night,
intheif' Hall, where all are expected
to enjoy themselves hugely.
Yours, truly RooKPeRT.