Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1865-1872, 1867-07-19
LETTER FROM onEENspuRo.

bG ST OVW tNEINSDbNts
NJ. Eiiior,-Ibis city Ia rapidly DO.
coming one Of the arat Inland cities Of the
State. Ils Court House, with lie cozy aud
romantic bowery campus Ils public square
on which la chief business Ii transacted,
ils numerous comfortable aud 10 some In.
stances palatIal residences, its quantUm
sgDlei Of good aud spacious Churches, lie
two Banks. lie three newspapers, Ils Bar Of
Lawyers, lte board VI Physicians, with us
groceries, shops, manufactures, general ole.
ments, aud grand future prospeots-nll
make Gfeensburg one Of the iiIsI towns Of
the West.
As IL regards men Of abilities, they have
y pretty fair share IN the different proies.
sions, albeit they may not claim many Of
the hrsl.elnss power. Among their law.
gers, Seoby aud Cumbnek aud Bonner have
perhaps had the beat rank, seoby, though
Is turning his attention chiefly to the sale
of Agricultural Machinery, aud from the
lo0k Of his business one would judge he
was making II pay. scoby is Franklin
County production, and Ia the business
pursuits Of life has proved himself a sue.
cessful citizen. AS lawyer aud business
man 10 reminds me somewhat of my old
friend George Holland, both being good
lawyers and very clever men. Both have
kept out Of politics, and are therefore the
better business mon. viii Cumback is 30
"eycrlastingly popular" as man, that it
will be hard work for him to keep out Of
political Lille. His friends like him for
his talents aud genialiiy, and his political
enemies respect him because he is never bit.
ter or proscriptiye Cumback, in fact, has
more of the genuine elements Of manly
propriety in him aud about him than any
lawyer know in the State. This in con-
nection with the fact that he was born in
Franklin County, certainly makes him
available for any Office or place the people
may take notion TO put him in. Frank
lin has not lost any OF her cid prestige
for grand productions or distinguished
men, aud it is perhaps about her time TO
give another Governor to the State, and |
would not wonder much if Cumback proves
to lie the man,
Judge Bonner is Cumback's law partner
lie has been representative and Judge,
but is now deyoiing his whole time to the
law. Personally the Judge is considered
the handsomes. widower in Decatur, ard
if the young and blooming widows Of
White Water know his many fine traits
Of character and his financial relabilities
as well as | do, they would assuredly be
tempted TO come over here on visit TO
some of their Uncles before the frosts Of
Autumn.
1t would amuse any one who has ever
been much about Laurel to call round to
the Rail Road corner of this place, where
"his honor" Wesley Morrow keeps store.
His stuck looks little like himsef-some-
what antiquaed, though respectable. He
sits in the door, smokes his pipe, and don't
seem to care whether the fishes bite or not.
lie is still Democratic to the core, and |
presume still believes in the Apostles
Creed. Wesley Morrow is "a character.
He has read the Bible, studied politics,
sold dry goods and groceries, and believes
in the final humiliation of the wicked,
in the Inconsistencies of the dead until
the resurrection, and in the unfincbing
patriotism of Brick Pomeroy. Wesley is,
after all, clever man, as honorable as he
is independent, and shows that he has been
educated in the school house where the
master taught each BOY to be self-reliant
until the breath went out of the body.
l found your old Fairfield friend Wash
Adams sitting on a tdilorS board in one of
the large business houses Of the town; still,
as ever, the picture of honesty and indus
try. | don't know whether he will feel
at homo here or not, but a change Of
pasture may at least make some improve
ment in his Internal condition.
/ have said above that this place now
boasts of three newspapers-two RePubli-
however, in regard to them, for County
printing Office that has no public patron
age from County Offices must necessarily
have hard time of it. But it may be
that the poor Editors have learned to live
on past recoLlections, or it may be that
they are feeding on the substantial glories
of future prospects. | see that Pound Of
poor and thin, as if his credit was
about run out with his butcher, and yet
the Chronicle comes out regularly as one
Of the best papers in the State.
1t will be difficult operation to stint
Orr. Thompson, for he has already gone
through the rubs Of innumerable printing
offices, and he has learned 'the art pre-
sentative of all arts" most perfectly.
That is to say, he can write good spicy
editorial, set lots of type, run round and
gather UP thousand items, and live on
herring, with it may be, glass of ale, and
keep fiat, rich and forty all the time.
The Press, | think, was not born 10 de,
and will not even shake ia the wind as