The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1852-09-24
Evansvsne..iss- Advantage, Basiness


&C.
The time has come, when the advantages
as to positiop,& possessed by Evansville ESQ
far superior 10 st Of the .neighboring towns)
should no longer be even partially overlooked,
and when it should. take its stand among the
important. cities of the west.
By glance at the map ofthe United States,
these advantages must be apparent to the
most casual otssrver, and its resources, as to
agricultural products be, found unsurpassed
by any other city in the Union.
Situated on the Ohio, below the Falls and
principal distractions to navigation, accessa-
bic at all seasons of the year to boats from all
the great water courses. Of the west-being
but few miles below the mouth of Green
river, rsesihnE into. the center of Kentucky;
and the. natural depot for the Wabash and
White river countries, acknowledged by all
to be the Richest agricultural vallies in the
world-6tr RESOURCES, as to agricultural pro-
ducts, are probably surpassed by no other city
in the west.
On our wberyea can be seen in the proper sea-
son, the wheat, corn and pork, Of the Wabash
with the tobacco, pork &cY Of Kentucky, be-
sides TIE ,nasy :. ta 2 products of the farm
and forest that seek our city for. re-shipmens
to the east and south, and we are proud to say
finding accommodations as to wharfage, &C.,
excellea.b by po'otheE city on the river.
The appearance Of our beautiful city must
be a source Of pleasure to the stranger (pass-
ing US on the river) as it is Of qualification to
our citizens-lying above the reach of floods
that frequently inundate our sister cities,
with wharf or levee as extensive and beau
tiful as any other, and unobstructed in the
back ground by hills'or marshes, with the fin
est building sand and the best material fol
brick Immediately at hand, together'with the
discovery, that spring: water pure and good
can be easily obtained, sII seem to indicate
that nadfs fetsfdea thisspot for the residence
of masses Of men, and destined it for one Of
the imPo1sns points Of commerce.
AS regards its connection with other part.
of the country, nature has been equally ia
vorable,and art is doing much to supply hel
defciekees. ~ -. -
The great Mississippi, leaning as it wer'
towards as, forming with the Ohio from it
mouth straight course almost without a de
Walton Except its natural windings) from N
Orleans to our very door-connected as W,
shall be in few short months by the Wa
bash Canal, (the longest continuous artificial
internatwater communication in the world
runningthrough as rich a country as the sui
shines uoon-we really are what Cincinna,
claims to be, the geographical and CONNER
cial centre of the valley Of the Mississippi.
As fGsards the canal about to pour i,
treasures into our .lapr we do not think GU
citizens. sufficiently appreciate its many at
vantages. Connecting us, as the Wabas
and Erie. Canal. will, with the great mort
Lake country, the grocery supplies for tn.
vast region stretching east and west alon
the shores Of. those inland seas for hundred
of miles, will be drawn in a great measur
from this point, as being the nearest point ,
re-shiPment for heavy freight seeking watts
communication, and available at all season
of theysan-s And as regards the lighter a
ticles of dry goods, &C., together with pa
sengers, our railroad already built to Primo,
ton, and now building to vincennes and Ter,
Haute,'c oFnectihg et-the former place wi,
the ST. Louis and Cincinnati Railroad. m
at the latter With the indianapolis road, an
thenceto almost any point east or north, wi
give US facilities of transportation and trave
Tor busifess' or pleasure, not surpassed,