The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-08
CORRESPONDENCE.
The Cutoff above EyansVille-Cir-
cult Court and the Carlislcs case
Death OF a Union Soldier.

visit Rockport.
1t may not be that the people OF
Evansville have ever had serious APP
9 prehensions of cutoff" above
g your city, but it is barely possible
that it will yet be the case, at least ii
may be so if the water should fire.
quently be SO high as now. Those
who observed the water at Evansville
the last rise know well that the cur
rent was not half so strong as usual,
Z and all, perhaps, accounted for it on
the principle that the Wabash River
was the highest. That was not cor
rect; the great tide of water passed
across the neck of land above the city;
the current was there.
Circuit Court is in session at this
place, Judge Parrett presiding. The
docket is large. There are already
100 cases registered, "a of which are
criminal. The docket cannot be
cleared this court. Yesterday morn
ing the Grand Jury was impanneled,
and Judge Parrett delivered the
charge in an able manner. But little
of Importance to the public has as yet
transpired, save that change of
venue has been granted in the case of
the CarlisIes. 1t goes to Posey Coun-
ty, and will be tried there the second
week of the court. A true bill was
found against them, and they will be
tried for murder.
1t is rumored here that one jesse
Laird, the pink of propriety," who
is not altogether unknown to fame, at
least for his eCtrenae Indifference as to
the success Of the rebel arms, and his
surprising anxiety for the success of
the Federal cause, has of late mani
Tested great deal of legal anxiety for
the acquittal of the Carlisles, so much
SO that he made trip to Greensboro
a day or two ago in their interests. 1t
is not stated that his brilliant legal
talent is bought for Uncle Sans
greenbacks, nor that his wonderful
oratorical powers are to be employed
in the defense of men who are charged
with having murdered in cold blood
man who had served his country well
and faithfully, but lit Is suspicioned that
jesse is acting as voluntary aid -
not regularly mustered in it is true,
but as a sort of an Independent scout
. =" going it on his own hook" &c.,
guerrilla fashion. ~
In what striking contrast is the con-
duct of this :. limb of the law'-too
early severed from the main branch
with that of those heightened and tall
ented gentlemen, General Veatch and
Hon. L. @. DeBruler, who each of
them refused fee of 81 900 to defend
those charged with the murder of ar.
honorably discharged Federalsoldier.
Yesterday Capt. Miner, soldier of
the AID Indiana, was borne from this
to his last resting place. Entering
the army as a private soldier, by his
good conduct he was promoted to Cor
poral, and from Corporal to Sergeant,
and 50 on up, till he gained the hon.
oorable title of Captain. He was mus
tered Inland outwith the regiment, and
tor the greater part of the time he
carried a musket-was always ready
for duty, whether called to the deep
throated cannon 3 mouth when death
and carnage was all around, or at the
darkest hour of midnight, to scout
the enemy's front. Honorably he
J, econ and proudly he aoore the title he
was laid to rest with. His mod
esty was proverbial. While living,
and in the field, with true soldier
pride, when commissioned to higher
fc grade of Office, he scorned title he
had not legally received, not allowing
2 himself to be called by that which his
g Government had not mustered him
to- but aohen mustered, by valorous
conduct he nobly sustained himself
A title thus won, and thus honorably
maintained, is not an empty and un-
: meaning name. It is worth living
and dying for. hummer" z
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II tFrom the Cincinnati Gazettel1