The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-03-11
V~lNCENNES LETTER.
Presidential Matters Our LegisIa-
ture-SOuiiiern Prison = Railway
Matters Churches - FraternitieS.

VINcENNEs, Ind, March s.
Editors Journal:
Our citizens appear highly pleased
with President Grants inaugural.
We believe that for once we have a
man in the Presidential Chair who
will rise above mere party, and in the
administration Of Government will
have in view the best interests of the
whole country. From President
Grants beginning we are led to believe
he will be unfriendly to profession
al ofice-seekers, spectators, jobbers
aud rogues. So be IL. Perhaps no
President of this great country ever
retired from Office with so few friends
as has Andy Moses" If he were
not so mean and corrupt at heart.we
could almost pity him, as he gathers
mp his feet and journeys back to
Tennessee, with no more flags o
Constitutions to distribute to the
people. In his address to the
people Of the United States (Which is
hardly equal to the Farewell Address
of General Washington, he Is unable
to cover up and shift the RESPONSE
bility of the unnumbered cold blood
ed murders, and other great crimes,
which his effeminate administration
engendered. We learn there is a
loyal Methodist Church adjoining his
property in Nashville, and we hope
he will be a regular attendant.
The Coniederates in our State
Legislature are engaged in some of
their old tricks, namely, secession.
How true the adage, 1T is hard to
learn old dogs new tricks" Seces
sion has been their business so many
years that they can't well help it.
Mr.. Ghee, of our city, one of the
Directors of the Southern Prison,
asks the people to suspend their
Judgment In his case, as he feels con-
hdent that he can clear himself of
the charges brought against him by
the Legislative Committee.
The laying down OF iron on the In
dianapolis & Vincennes Railway has
begun in earnest. This end Of the
road is under the supervision of Colo
mel Allen, a man of great energy. 1t
is the aim of the parties concerned to
have the road completed by June.
The road will be of incalculable BEN
etit TO this city, as we'll as every mile
of territory through which it passes.
A strange fatality seems to attend
the brakemen on toe Ohio x Missis-
sippi Railway. A young man, the
seventh since December, was buried
here yesterday, having had his legs
crushed under the cars of that road a
few days since.
= a series Of lectures are being deliv-
cred at the First Presbyterian Church,
Of which Rev. Mr.. Hendy is Pastor.
GA yesterday evening the congrega-
ton of the Methodist Episcopal
Church adjourned to Mr.. Hendy's
church. completely filing his house,
when Mr.. Bowers, the Pastor of the
Methodist Church, delivered a lecture
on The Agreement between Science
and the Mosaic Record of Creation"
These meetings bring about a feeling
of b~rOtherly love and unity which
should ever characterize the followers
Of Him who said, Neither pray [ fer
these alone, but for them also which
believe on me through their word,
Father, art In me, and | in thee, hat
they also may be one in u.s." In the
Methodist Church there has recently
been over eighty accessions and con-
versions.
The orders of Masons and Odd Eel
lows are each enjoying prosperity. A
COmmandery was recently organized
here by Mr.. Hacker, of indianapolis.
We learn that a number of Odd Eel
lows will go to Evansville to celebrate
the mi-Centennial of Odd Fellow
ship in the United States.
ST. VINCENT.