The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-06-17
INDIANAPOLIS CORRESPONDENCE.
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THE JOURNAL,

vi uti MISUNDERSTANDING CcidOi&Sh
ments, those which manufacture pub
lie opinion are perhaps the mos
important. The organ of the domi
nant party may be considered as tht
leading Institution of this class il
our State, and it may be interesting
to your readers to know something Of
the brain power employed thereon
Hon. Horatio Newcomb fills the
position of editor-in chief He is
thoroughly posted in the political
history of the State and nation, a
Presbyterian in religion, a Rad. in
politics, logical and convincing in bis
style as writer. but more remarkable
for force than smoothness. Though
a jealous partisan, he never permits
his zeal to get the start of his
discretion, but, like a iudicious
navigator in dangerous waters,
allows his personal convictions to
pioneer at safe distance his public
utterances.
Col. w. r. Holloway, an ex-
perienced journalist, is the managing
editor. He has the direction and
control of reporters and correspon-
dence, and Yields the pen and scis-
sors in the general news and mis-
cellaneous departments. Being a
man of exhaustless energy, he in
fuses something of his spirit into all
his subordinates. When occasion de-
mands it, he can furnish a leader on
short notice, and is equally at home in
politics, commerce, news and fine arts
Acquainted with every politician in
the country, from Cabinet or Senate
rial magnates down to pot-house
oracles; posted as to all factions and
rings, be is an invaluable acquisition
to party organ.
Mr.. A. III. Conner, though princi-
pally engaged in other business, dis
posed Of portion of his time in the
manipulation of Indiana papers, for
State Items, a duty which every
editor knows to be one of The most ar
duous connected with the making up
of daily paper. Columns of verbo-
sity and egotism, inflated with the
vanity of little-grea men in one horse
towns have to be condensed into an
equal number of lines. With the
mercury at so, lit is no easy task to
boil down fifty or hundred pages to
half column. ratEf-
e. w. Halford, Esq, is the enter
prising and gentlemanly city editor;
gentlemanly, not only in his inter-
course with all sorts of people with
whom his varied duties require con-
tact, but equally so in his style as a
writer. He is one of the few locals
who have been able to retain shade
of modesty; for it is a wellknown
fact that the inevitable tendency of |
that position is to plunge one into the
bound,ess abyss of egotism, where
they are hepelessly lost in the laba-
rynthian windings Of vanity and self
conceit.
Joseph Long, Esq, is in the utility
line, and may be regarded as an in
dispensable member of the Journal
editorial staff When he condescends /
to write English, his style is clear and
comprehensive; but sophomore remi-
niseences occasionally get possession
of his mind and pen, inducing him to
soar above the Aonian mount while
he i pursues things uninterrupted yet
in prose or rhyme Though his sue
cess as soarist can not be ques-
toned, it is possible that less display
of photographed learning might be
more agreeable to unclassical readers.
ABOUT THE DIOCESAN CONVENTION.
Your readers have already been
furnished with reports of the more
important proceedings of the Episco-
pal Convention, which held its Both
Annual Session here last week. This
Convention will be memorable in the
annals of the church, not less for the
amount and importance of the bust
ness transacted than for the perfect
harmony which characterized its de-
liberations and controlled its action.
The writer, having been educated in
the simplicity of Quakerism, retains
enough of the effects of early training
to engender a strong distaste for cere-
monlal pomp and ritualistic forms as
connected with religious observances.
He can, however, respect sincerity
and appreciate talent and culture,
aud is bound to admit that the
clergy assembled on this occasion,
were a body of men whose religious
zeal, mental capacity and scholarly
would reflect credit upon
any denomination of Christians, and
are promising augury for the future
of the Episcopal Church in this
State. Next to Bishop Talbot, Reys.
Carver, of New Albany, and Spaldirg.
of Evansville, most fully realize ones
ideal of a pulpit orator. They are
each, men of large mental calibre, ca.
pable of throwing heavy shot at the
enemy, able
1To prove their doctrine ort hadox
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