The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-05-27
Something Interesting.


To-be-sure it is interesting. We never
TX about anything else, except when we
.scuss the merits of some of our cotempo.
ries. THH.is certainly embarrassing, stale,
at, and as Improbable, as would be the pre-
entation OF a taIlor's bill to them. But now
re want to take you by the button. Be-
ween u, we have very pretty little city
iere-not so very little either, and truly not
10 very pretty, yet from the river, uDsurpass-
ID in elegant and substantial appearance
~ any other place on the Ohio. Our long,
evenly graded, and broad wharf, at times
crowded with business and lined with steam
ooats-well built up streets checkering the
city, and roads tapping way off into the dis
tant woods and meadows, by farms and home-
steads-tbe gittering Ohio, broad as a lake,
and winding ike the waving folds of flag.
ated the city-and thousand things united
with these to make up the details, certainly
would form a beautiful picture.
Now, dear friend and respected fellow.citi-
zen, don't you think an elegant colored litho-
graph eng aving of our own loved city, would
adorn even the best room in your house,
your counting room, or office! Wouldn't it
doyour heart good to be able to send such a
picture to u far distant friend, who was fami-
liar with, yet had never seen yo-r home,-
Perhaps he might be discussing within him.
lish or in his German home, he is looking
with longing eye to this very spot, about
which many of his early companions are now
settled. aud whose letters have often appeal
ed to his heart and Judgment for a change
You may write to him about the country, the
amount of business done here, its unparallel
ed prosperity as a city, its particular location
improvements and advantages-but there oil
paper is the place itseli, daguerreotyped il
its physical proportions more faithfully thai
your pen could ever define and describe il
soul.
Gall very nice," say you-"but how is tn
thing to be done! Some of US have severa
times combined to get an artist to visit u
and make just sucn a picture. We hav
wanted such autographs, not only as a sub
ject of individual qualification aud city pride
but as matter of business policy The
would repay the expense a thousand fold
But we could not get an able artist. to CON
here purposely for the one object, and pa
all his expenses, and then a heavy charge fc
the ergravings, without going beyond tn
voluntary means offered"
Very true, indeed, as we happen to know
But at this time there is an artist in this cit
MIR. Winters, from Terre Fl auto. we'll know
over the West for his skill as a painter.
couple of his paintings, now to be seen
RathbOne & Wheeler'S store, prove his g
MUS. He has visited our city to see o
friends, and partially on business. Regar
ing him as the rery man for getting up such
painting for our city, with Autograph conf
as we have suggested, we have without al
particular consultation on the subject, mo
than to understand his willingness to do Il
work If engaged, brought the subject befo
the public. 1t is matter of interest to
all, and we are satisfied if some proper pc
son would take the matter in hand, liber
subscriptions might be freely obtained, a
the fist be set to work in few DAYS. w
will do il!