The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1852-08-04
C.rre.nouacuee of the Journal.

correspondence Oh inc Jourh"A'
Eransrine and Nashville; Railroad Connection
Jtt,peen Indiana and Tennessee; effect Of roads;
the increase of Children; Tennessee claimed
for Scott; Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard:
NASHVILLE, July %, 1852.
To Mr. SANDERS of the Journal:-- i.
A few years more, and the cities of Evans
vile and Nashville will be close neighbors
Evansville is the commercial emporium oil
probably the wealthiest State watered by the
waters of the Ohio river; Nashville, is and
will continue to be the commercial capitol OF
the chivalrous State of Tennessee. Indiana
is great agricultural State, while Tennessee
is wealthy both in agriculture and minerals
in the latter SURPRISING any State in the Un-
ion except California. But the agricultural
productions of our State will never be felt M
competition, in the great and increasing mar
kets of the South, with the productions OF In
diana. We will rely on our mineral wealthy
and be content toyield to Indiana the burden'
of supplying us with liberal proportion of all
the small grains. Indiana, however, must
struggle for prominence in the market of the.
South She must connect her railways with
the great lines connecting at Nashville, and
which will, in few years more, form per-
feet network across our State. She can do
this, by meeting us at Henderson, Kentucky,
as it is now rendered certain that the rail
road from Nashville to Henderson will be
built, and that too without delay. The COM
pany is organizeL in both States, and the Ten
nessee counties are voting tax to complete
the work within their limits-the bare county
of Sumner having already voted a tax OF $780,
600. In addition to tax and individual sub
scriptions of stock, by general internal i'm
provement law in this State, $4,000 per mile
is taken by the State in all roads under judi
cious restrictions.
1t is quite too late in the day to talk of the
benefits of railways. Their influence is too
apparently beneficial not to be generally ac-
knowledged. But you would be surprised to
pass over the line Oft the Nashville and Charles
ton railroad, and thereby become acquainted
with the effect of this road in enhancing the
value of lands as well as every species of
property. Two weeks since passed through
the counties in which this road is located, and
l found that lands formerly sold at ten and
fifteen dollars an acre, cannot now be bought
for double or treble; and lands, DOGGY as Syr-
tbs, which have been unsaleable for years al
ten cents an acre, are now as valuable as the
good lands were formerly. In other respects
the Improvements are even greater; and where
all was barrenness and waste few years
since, is now thriving industry and active
contentment. Towns are springing up il
every direction, population!s rapidly increaR
ing, and men and women, "a we'll as the ad
juncts, are thick as autumnal leaves INFLOW
cred in etrurian shades. Talking about the
adjuncts, thought the Opelousas country, IL
Louisiana, was the greatest place in the whole
world for children; but this part of Tennes
see bears off the palm. The little tow-head
are like