The Helena Journal and the

 TndignaSiOn Meeting.
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ws have no disposition to "show of' one who has uncnafdedly made fool of'himselE, or been .rregiously duped by others; unless some malicious design b, clearly proven al the bottom of his folly And even now, we hesitate to say any thing i-natu- m or expose the ridiculous and humiiating position which the Journal, at present, occupies toward Judge Sebastian after failing twice. so completely. to assemble m "iadignation meetiag."

 Although we once excited the anger of that edi- tor, by calling attention to Judge Sebasiians de- fence of his vote, and his manly and eon6ding ad- dress to his constituents yet we felt position was right, and laughed al his ii!-humor. The edi- tol of the Journal has never, we expect, experien eed the ease and plaedity of temper with which th,se, who maintain the right, can regard "envy hatred and all unchaiitabeness."

 We are happy to see that Judge Sebastian had friends who were influential enough to crush these absurd attempts in his absence, 10 ruin his political respects, and to leave shame and public censure' by way of retribution, to those who would have so avishIy dispensed il.

 The day, announced for the first meetin5 came out beautifully, and gladness and sunshine were much abroad as if it were not generally known that William K Sebastian was to be sacrificed up- ou the altar of 4Shleyism, \ number of planning heads were together during the day; but it is told, by a respectable gentleman from Helena, that not more than four persons were assembled, at one tune, in the Court House the place of meeting pro- posed to witness the great outpOurng of wrath, so ra,aitously promised. The modification which should have attended failure of such character, seems not 10 have been a sufficient rebuke. For, We find, a,erward an adjourned meeting announ- ssd by the Helena Journal, for a day when the bit ,erest controversys come up, when party spirit and intemperance run riot, an1 where men may be in- dlced to commit deeds, for which whole life of political purity will scarcely atone; we mean he iag of tae eiectioa Such was the suspicious time elected, quietly and cIlaly to discuss the wrongs done people by their representative. The day passed, and no meeting was held. The democrats of Phillips could not be thus gulled, and the whole proceeding serves but to show how yindictive was the scheme, and how blndIy malicious were its pro- jectors. After all the drumming of his enemies, for weeks, the whole plan repudiated, and the Journal, with limping and awkward subteduge, crawls ont of it. by saying that 'h thought he tsebastian) might raise tine humbug cry of perse. tu,ion"

 We have not word to add to this Judge Se sasan will return to his constituents, confsihg in hef ability to do him justice in spite of the machi latlons of his enemies. And, so ia from what the Journal asserts 10 the indignation, ' for the pre- lent subdued, We believe that the people of Phillips

 bounty will feel proud of the station his talents and high character have won for him in the Senate, and tegard him, We do here, with the highest esteem hRd respect.