The Evansville Daily Journal

DOUGLAS MEETING.-We are told that there was a little Democratic "pow-wow at the Court House, on Saturday night, at which two or three overburdened Democrats delivered themselves of their load of personal abuse. Our worthy Sheriff--who is daily growing more and more desperate, as the fact that the Sheriff's office is slipping out of his hands develops itself--"pitched in," in a manner truly cantankerous. Four or five Republicans who were standing in the door, amusing themselves in witnessing the performances--among whom Mr. Royston occupied a place, were denounced in the Sheriff's chaste and classic language in most unsparing terms. We believe they still survive the attack, and are in a fair way to recover. It was necessary, these gentlemen tell us, that Mr. Gavitt--who had been informed that day by several prominent democrats that they would not support him for Sheriff--should have some person on whom to vent his spleen, and they presumed they were as able to bear it as any others. We were also told that a man from Terre Haute, Bayless W. Hanna by name, made a speech; and a young Shanklin, who isn't yet fairly out of the shell, attempted to illuminate the political darkness that broods over the Douglasites.