The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1850-04-11


be no depot at the mouth of Green river
The next important point is Evansville, "a
city rapidly growing in size and business i'm
portance. The writer confesses, in substance.
that naturally Evansville would be the
point" 1t is the point, for the New Orleans
boats cannot ascend Green River, and there
must be some re-shipping point near the
mouth There is no other that can answer
so well as Evansville, and we have a return
business that is growing IN Importance. Let
US have a tri-weekly mail, and our packets
can be supported. Herein is where our cti-
zens are in part called upon to act The first
thing that ought to be done TO secure this
trade IS to get such a mail The packets
would be justified in continuing in the Ev-
ansvilIe and Green River trade with profit to
themselves.
In this connection, the writer continues:
But the intercourse between Louisville
and the Green river country is such as to
support a line OF packets there, and the III
! tercourse between Evansville and that coun-
try is not-indeed, there is no intercourse be-
tween the two regions, and no reason why
there should be. because Evansville never
can be wholesale point tor supplying Ken
lucky, while Louisvi lie exists, while slaves
cannot be carried to Indiana, and while Ken
tuckians SO much prefer dealing where their
own laws and customs prevail. And again.
all trading with Evansville must be an indie
pendent trade, to end there; for passengers
will never agree to travel down stream II or
10 miles, and over the ground back again
Therefore, packets running from Green river
to Louisville can never succeed if they 90
down to Evansville. The same reason ope-
rates against all other points below the mouth
of Green river. 1t must, then be some point
above the mouth of Green river, and in Ken
lucky, which must be the depot for Gree
river. The first ground above high water
mark is Bon Harbor; the next Oowensboro' :
and the depot must be at one or both of these
places probably at both.'
The intercourse between Evansville and
Green River has supported one weekly pack
ct, and ii is intercourse must increase with
the growth of our city, and the increasing
5 value of the Green River trade. The asser.
ton that Evansville can never be whole
sale point for Kentucky, while Louisville ex
: lists, is premature so far as certain portions o
: Kentucky is concerned. As wholesale mar
q ket for all kinds Of goods, this city is becom
ing lavorably known in this region, not ex
GLIDING Kentucky. While our merchant
offer their goods as cheap as those of Lou
isvilIe, if not a little cheaper. and the frelght
: and risks are less, merchants and planters il
: Kentucky are not going 10 allow sacuona
e feeling to so far interfere with their business
|. as to prevent them making their purchases il
free State cities. Cincinnati is the marke
d for all that portion Of Kentucky to which
a approxmates. So Evansville will be, whe
It he advantages of its markets become know
II as they really exist. We know the Ken
l. tucklans love their State, as they ought t
do, but we believe they are governed in thi
love by common sense, and will not sacriic
j. their individual interests to trade in one cit
: alone, merely because 1t happens to be loca
'e ted in their own State, and when they ar
IS in no manner interested in its growth, NOR
e than in any other city Of Kentucky.
If passengers will never agree, as this W.