The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-12-23
Another Ware. Nest .

DISCOVERED BY AN Ass.-The sudden
discovery made by the Enquirer ofyesterday,
and the lively vivacity it awakened in our
usually stupid neighbour is occasion for con-
graduation on our part, that by any means
we should be the cause ofinfusing a little life
into the typographical veins of that paper
As if he had been in profound sumber for
the last week, this precious neighbor, or the
young man who does his sleeping in the CO.
lumns Of the Enquirer, suddenly springs up,
rubs his eyes, and 10! sees something wonder
ful indeed, yet which has been quietly at his
side all the time he slept. The fact is, six
days ago communication from distant
friend-and who has proven himselfa warm
er friend of Evansville than the editor of the
Enquirer dare pretend to be after his four or
FIVE monthsr esidence here-was published in
The Journal. The prominent topic discussed
in this communication which was illustrated
by wood-cut from memory, was the remov-
val of the bar now making in front of the
upper wharf, and which bar we here take oc-
casion to say, leaving the correctness Of our
views to any typographical engineer, must
unless broken or intercepted by some artifi-
cial means, in the course of a fewyears ex-
tend the whole length Of the city. We
published the communication because we
thought it time public attention and investi.
tigation were being turned to this subject
In an editorial we said the author had much
exaggerated the matter. Notwithstanding
we could not agree with his views, we chose
to publish the communication. This commu-
nication was the exciting topic of CONVERSE
ton for several days. Some citizens thought
the article would injure Evansville by giving
the idea to strangers that we were in danger
of being cut off by the river breaking across
the land dividing US from Henderson, and
leaving Evansville an inland town--or that
the bar would destroy our commerce, or by
putting forth some other bug bear of an idea,
stop the growing greatness of EVANSVILLE
AS if Evansville, which has doubled its pop
ulation in the last FIVE years-which is grow
ing faster comparatively than any other city
in the State or probably in the West-whose
Improvements are uniting her to the whole
commercial world around hsr-whose river
advantages and geographical location on the
river, are familiar to every public improve
ment man, and every business man almost in
the West-as if she could be injured at home
or abroad by a communication of this ma
ture!
So far as the assertions and arguments Of
this article were concerned, they were ans
wered most excellenty well by another cor.
respondent, and the two articles went to the
same readers. But after all the excitement
was over, the communication answered, and
couple more days had almost thrown for
getfulness on the whole affair, up jumps our
Leighbor from his Rip Van-Winkle slumber,
and discovers this dreadful mares nest, ap-
parently thinking all the rest of the world
asleep, and himself the only wide awake fell
low in il! Who kicked him into life, we can
not tell, but he looks very much in his sudden
starting up, as if he had received kick from
some quarter, reminding him of his duty
Rubbing his eyes, he attempts to.point out
errors, particularly the error Of publishing
this letter-steals a few arguments from
,"yanderburgh's" reply, and passes them off
as his own, and charItably supposes we pub
lished the communication without reading it.
AS we have no apologies to make, neither. do
we desire our neighbor should seek an apo
logy for US. There are apologies enough due
the public for errors of committal and non.
commttal in his own paper, to keep one man
employed, without undertaking the task of
apologizing for another editors fluctuations.
j But we certainly feel indebted to him for the
remarkable act Of charity in the following
and feel under great obligation that he car
"acquit" as as follows: "We acquit him Of
any feeling which is not entirely friendly tc
Evansville. His career here is too wei
known for any such idea to be harbored for
moment" Really how iattering! How
handsomely done-so very generous-as j
he had dared say any thing to The contrary be
fore this community without receiving its con
tempt for malicious injustice. All the inte
terests we have in the world are centered il
this spot. No man in its limits loves Evans
Vile better than we love it, nor has better
right to do SO. No man in it, within the las
five years, has labored harder to advance it
interests than we have, and no man her
would be more prompt to resent an insult o
injury offered the place, than we. We owl
property in the city and about it, and cal
therefore feel any injury the place may re
ceve, more than the man who. like our neigh
Dor, has not interests thus intimately identi
ged with the life and prosperity of the city
- Most nobly generous indeed then i'm him an