The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-09-18
The E. & G. Railroad.

see any good to the road or the city by sucn
course. 1t is known to this community that
the Board of Directors, as at present constitu-
ted, came into power two years ago next Octo-
Der. At that time the cars run only to Robbs'
Station, ten miles north of Princeton The
White River bridge was barely begun, and the
road graded only part of the way from White
River to Vineennes. They found the treasury
without funds; contracts made without the
means provided for paying them, and the avail
able subscription on the division south of Vim
cennes exhausted. 1t has not yet faded from
the recollection of our citizens that the Board
went to work with determined energy The
bridge over White River (the best and most
substantial structure of the kind in Southern
Indiana, } was completed in an incredible short
space Of time the grading was finished and
the road track was laid down; and the cars
passed over the line to Vincennes by the first
Of January, three months from the Inaugural
ton of the present Board How was it done ?
The Directors, being men of responsibility,
were enabled by using their individual Names
to borrow the morey from the Banks, and ap-
pealed to the hberality Of our citizens to come
forward and take additional stock to reimburse
in part the payment, the local directory here
subscribing Is or 20 per cent. of the amount !;
and there never has yet been time when the
local directors on this end of the line, including
the President, has not been personally liable
to the banks for from thirty to fifty thousand
dollars. They have done this and rendered
their personal attention without one cent of
primary compensation.
The upper division of the road, this commu-
nifty will reeollect, was placed under the man
agement of Mr.. Griswold as Superintendent,
who went to work with an energy that defed
competition In little over twelve months Of
the hardest times this country has ever expo
renced, the road was completed to Terre
Haute. That this could not be done without
great exertion, is evident to even superficial OBJ
servers. With money at command few men
would have accomplished so much but in a
year ofunparalleled monetary embarrassment,
to provide the ways and means to build the
road and provide the payments for the iron,
required much more than ordinary ability and
responsibility; for these the road is mainly in
debted to Mr. Rose and Mr.. Griswold, aidet
by the efficient support of the Directory.
The road was opened to Terre Haute at oil
unfavorable time for business In addition t.
the great monetary arrangement of the coun
Cry, the almost entire failure of the crops pu
o stop both to travel and transportation. This
fha fin Of tba ia
and consequently fine packets navigating tn,
came, has induced travel in that direction
Whereas ifthe river had been low as usual il
summer, much travel that now takes the rive
would otherwise have taken the road ; and
the crop had been an ordinary one, the trans
portation would have been many times wha
it has been.
The objection to running a short train OF
the upper end, which seems to so much alarm
the Enquirer and elate the Vincennes Ga
zette, is only temporary arrangement to &C
commodate the travel that is now seeking al
eastern and western direction-not to Vim
cennes but past it as it passes Sullivan, Car
Isle, and other points ON the road.
When the produce begins to come forwar,
and seek Southern market, asst will in shor
time, (health being restored to New Orleans
and northern navigation closed,) the demand
both for transportation and passengers, wi
require all trains to be through trains, an
when once established will not need to be dis
continued, the fears of the Enquirer or the eX
ultation of the Gazette to the contrary, notwith
standing. A few words in reference to anothe
matter mentioned by the Enquirer and Gazett
in connection with this subject. They seer
to think there is a rival interest between thi
place and Vincennes. Nothing shows NOR
contemplate narrow spirit, and it has no re
Spouse in the breast of any intelligent bnsines
man of Evansville. They are proud and glad
dened at the improvement Of the interior town
of our State and ''old POST not the least il
their estimation. And why should it not b
so? If Evansville is destined to be the com
mercial emporium of Indiana, (and all disinte1
ested men looking at the geographical locatio
give it that position, every improvement in tn
interior tends to the improvement of Evans
vile.
Since writing the above, we have received
letter from Mr.. Griswold, President of tn
Road, which we insert in to-day's paper.
or Four of the prominent old Democrat
leaders Of the U. S. Senate, Sam Houston
Henry S. Foote, Jerry Clemens, and Solo
borland, are doing fine service in the America
party How mans, couo4o... oox,oI - 4Loeo !;