The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-08-26
indianapolis Correspondence.
CORRECTION,

letter, I eomplimented- General Kim
ball, our popular and efficient Treas
urer of State, upon his faithful atten-
ton in person to- the duties of his
Office. [ said that he had moi learned
the Ohio system of running his bust
ness by deputies. The printer made
me say he had gust learned that
system. 1t is seldom worth ones
while to call attention to Topographic
cal blunders, even though they max e
the writer appear before the public as
a greater idiot than nature intended /;
but when they change merited COM
pliment into a censorious expression.
their prompt correction is simply an
act of justice.
LOGIC.
A celebrated literary man" with
out {" a wooden leg, but possessing all
the other accomplishments of the re-
powned Silas Veg, is the pet and
pride of large proportion of our
citizens. As logician he stands
without a peer The ornate elo-
quence of his flowing periods : makes
countless thousands laugh. As a
specimen of his argumentative powers,
take the following delivered at
meeting of teachers:
You cant draw wine from empty
bottles; you can't make brick with
out straw; hence, you can't have good
schools without educated teachers"
There is parallel to this, "a fitting
companion piece, in the argument Of
a negro preacher of the olden time.
before education had started the col
ored race on the march of improve
ment, and frightened the Democracy
with the well grounded fear of negro
Eph was holding forth to a de-
lighted crowd of his sable :" brethring
and sistring'' on the subject of st.
Paul's nautical experience. He
deemed it necessary to go behind the
records and prove the fact of that
well known marine disaster. Eff
Adam was the first man." said he
with Undesirable solemnity and dig
nifty, and eff Eve war the next, it
follers that St Paul war shipracked."
1t would be difficult to detect any
element of superiority in the logic of
the !" literary man over that of I'm
Gle Eph." The conclusion in the lat
ter case is just as inevitably the re-
suit of the premises as in the former
ANOTHER LITTLE STORY"
In the days that tried mems
soul" NOT long. ago-this " literary
man and many of his worthy fellow
citizens were picked up" by the in
evitable draft There was weeping
and wailing, hiding under beds, fee
ing to the mountains ana lighting
out for III. B. NJ. s adjacent provinces.
But our hero scorned ignoble flight.
He could not go to the wars in person,
nor could his highly respected fellow
citizens, but they could enlist public
sympathy in their behalf and raise a
fund wherewith to buy substitutes.
A meeting was called at Masonic
Hall to consider the exigencies of the
case, and the literary man was called
to the chair. OF course he made a
speech. He gushed with lachrymose
and oleaginous eloquence. Rising to
the sublime altitude of the patriot
scholar, he said: Fellow citizens,
look upon these, the best men of your
city, and tell me if you want them to
go down to the Southern battle
fields and fall before the deadly
rites of rebel sharpshooters. Shah
their noble forms be laid in unknown
graves and .moulder back to kindred
dust where no pitying tear can ever
bedew the grass that waves above
their heads?" at this point, there
was slight interruption A bronzed
and hardy veteran, fresh from the
front, jumped upon bench and deliv-
cred himself thusly: L tell you. Mr..
President, and all of youg sort, that
many a id sight better men than
yois have been Killed by the Johnnies.
and you had better dry up that kind
Of talk" The, chairman" dried up"
butasubs. were bought for all the af-
dlcted, and those best men" saved
their bacon. EH1Es
MUSIC HATH CHARMS"
Indeed it has, and torments also
tor the. Cunappreciative. Sleep in q
room directly under the room of a
IA dysWhois serenaded six nights out |
Of seven, bet the room on your right |
be occupied by a romantic youth with
q violincelloi have lady in the room
on ,yoursleft drumming away on a |
piano from daylight till bedtime. and |
the gentan the room opposite you |
!usf-aeross The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ing on the fute. and tell US that such
: music hath Charms to soothe the
savage breast. " Imagine, all these in
,.sgms9ts. Is sFga as these Of The fsrs7
! 5IItS, s bassopn, e going at
once, leach essaEing a: different tune.