The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-06-14
Correspondence.
BOWLING GREEN, Ky, June 8, 49,


In compliance with a promise [ made you
some time since, | proceed to 'post you up''
with few items of general interest, from this
section of our State. Before entering upon the
legitimate sphere of my communication, let me
say few words in reference to a matter in
which Evansville is most deeply interested.
Our Western cities are dependent for their
growth, mainly upon their commercial in
terests. If you remove the commercial facili
ties from our cities, they Immediately decline
and take rank with one horse towns, and out
of the way villages. Deprive Cincinnati, Louis
vile, Evansville or st. Louis of their COM
merce, and you divest them of their strength
and growth and depopulate them faster (com-
paratively) than numbers can be computed.
Upon the other hand, build up an extensive
trade for a town or city and you at once make
them respectable
Turn the commerce of our Western States
from New. Orleans and direct il to Charleston
by way of Railroads, and the former will be-
come, in few years, stencil in the nostrils
Of capitalists, while the latter will grow to be
the New York of the South. Money will
seek commerce.
Evansville is evidently situated in locality
scarcely equaled By any city in the Vest
She has an equal chance with Cincinnati and
Louisville for the produce of the upper Ohio,
and commands the products of the South, by
way of the Mississippi, at lower rate than
either Of the above places. Almost the entire
produce of the Wabash goes to Evansville, for
market or reshipment to the South. The pro-
duce of Green and Barren Rivers legitimately
belongs to her also; and is it not of vast impor-
lance to her to command the entire trade of
these two rivers? Most assuredly it is.
In order to do that however, she must be-
stir herself and direct her capital and energy
to these points. She should not suffer the pro-
duce of the rivers to pass her wharf and seek
Louisville as market. A tobacco market
ought to be opened in Evansville and regu-
lar line of steamboats, from that place to Bow
| ling Green ought and must be sustained, or she
will continue to deprive herself of the impor-
lance of this trade. There are now two boats
running from Bowling Green to Louisville and
only one to Evansville. The latter boat (the
B. Green,) is new steamer built by that
prince of gentlemen, Capt Liter, expressly for
the Green and Barren river trade He has
her we'll Differed with Charley Vanmeter as
clerk and Capt. Roberts, and the star pilot
| (Tom Palmer at her Wheel and ought to be
encouraged by the citizens of Evansville
BowLING-GBEEN DISCHARGED.
| l record it with heart of pain that our
country town, which has stood unrivaled in
her good name for a long series of years, has
the accused disgrace of mobocracy resting upon
her hitherto untarnished escutcheon. Bow
ling Green for the last 80 hours has been
threatened by mob, and at this time of writ
| ing there is a meeting Of portion of her dis
appointed citizens at the court house blowing
off their venom against the successful, and they
may succeed in arousing their reckless sons,
and few of the hotheaded youth of the place
to acts of violence, while they themselves will
''stand off Johnny Biddle."
| The difficulty is this: Books were opened
yesterday for the subscription of stock to the
Peoples Bank of Kentucky. A body of gen.
tlemen, who concerned themselves mainly in
the passage of its charter, had good reason to
believe that, unless they took majority of the
stock of the Bank, the friends of the old bank
continued with the enemies of the new, would
get a balance of power and WELD it for their
own ends, or destroy the institution altogether
In order to avoid such a catastrophe, these
| gehclemen, though whose influence and untir-
ing ZEAL the Peoples Bank was brought into
| life, determined with their friends to take the
entire stock of the bank, if they could do so,
and divide their shares with any person want
ing stock friendly to the institution. When
the books were declared opened, gentleman,
a friend of the bank, offered list of names
which, when recorded, was found to consume
the entire stock ($25O,OO0.) AS soon as this
fact was asccrtained, the party who sought the
rule or ruin of the concern, threatened to res
cue the books from the commissioners and
make a bon fire of them in the streets. Such
was the beginning of the mob feeling.
This very party too, had urged menacingly
upon the streets for several days, the passage
of resolution by the commissioners, to have
the books irrevocably closed when the $780,
900 of stock should be taken. They did not
apprehend being caught in the mobwork Of
their own net. The resolution was passed,
and that too for their justification, although the
! better Judgment of most of the commissioners.