The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-05-18
FROM EVANSVILLE TO CHICAGO.
Farewell % EYansVllle-GOsSiping
LsfeF from Rockville.
ROCKVILLE, May II, 1863

ROCKVILLE, May Il, 1863.
Fdtors Journal:
DR.. Quincy somewhere says: We
never do a thing consciously for the
last time without feeling of sadness;
we never take final leave of a place
even where we have not been happy
without a sigh" And every ones
experience has confirmed this fact.
Perhaps the inner sense sees by divine
instinct that all these occasional part
ings are but faint types Of the last
great parting, aud signs its regret by
anticipation. Perhaps the soul feels
too plainly in this minor departure,
that a great departure is not far dis
tant, and intuitively warns man of
his destiny. The feeling at any
rate is known to all who have often
changed their residence. If this be
generally true, is it any wonder that |
babe you goodbye, last Friday, with a
heavy heart, at leaving Evansville
where l had lived so happily? Is (
any wonder that, as [ stood on the
rear Of the swiftly moving train,
suspicious moisture gathered in my
eye, as, with hat in one hand, and my
earthly possessions Ia the other, /
waved my adieu to the fast Tecediug
city? As a soldier, l had attesfed
her patriotism; as a visitor, l had
proved her Inequalities; as a citizen,
l found 1t pleasant to dwell there
Goodbye to all her people, good
bye to her young men and maIdens.
They have done me good and not evil
all the days Of our acquaintance.
May their honor and happiness ever
be crescent like their city. We sigh
at parting from our friends even for a
year or two. We regret leaving a IA
yOred spot, and promise ourselves
that we will return, that we viii walk
the same streets with feelings as of
old, that we will gaze into the same
eyes, we will clasp the same hands
But we never do. After two years
absence we never care. We may see
again locality called by the same
name, we may salute those who claim
the personality and past history of
our friends. But all is different.
Another thrOng crowds the busy
streets, many friends are gone, and
those who remain-well, if they are
not changed we are.
After a pleasant days travel |
reached Rockville ct PM, and found
the. place improving very fast, but
halt OF the country is under water.
have spent nearly all my stay among
the farmers, and fud the common
roads almost impossible. The pros-
pect for wheat is decidedly above the
average; for grass very fine, and for
fruit the best | ever saw 10 Parke.
The corn crop must be quite light
even if the heavy rains stop TO-DAY
of which we have no promise
This county comprises much of the
finest land in the State. 1t is thirty
miles north and south, by twenty east
and west, and in all these six hundred
sections. there is not retail LIQUOR
shop to be found. But there are tive
graded schools, two fine academies
and nearly ninety six churches. Also
in a vote of 3.400, the county goes an
nually / 200 Republican majority: the
banner township. Penn, in which. hv
the way, is located Bloomingdale
Academy, the creation of friend Bar
nabas Hobbs, has just seven Demo-
cratic voters; while here In Rockville
with 1920 inhabitants, FIVE flourish
ing churches and No. l school. we
have just FIVE Democratic voters, and
one Of that party.has no. held office
for time whereof the memory of
man rT-neth not TO the contrary"