The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-08-14

" 1t is said that the Board Of Trade
Of Indianapolis have, through their eff
Corts to make known the commercial and
manufacturing advantages OF that city,
induced the investment of more than |
half million of foreign capital in the diff
ferent branches of mechanism and com
mercs, in that place, within the last year.
Ifsuch things can be done for Indianapo-
lis, how much more ought to be done for
Evansville. We have our connection
with the great system of internal trans
port, on which she relies for her advance
,uent and We have our 400 miles Of Ca
nal, and our thousands Of miles Of river
navigation, which, as avenues Of com
merce, are superior to Railroads. Wehave
the elements of motive power under our
feet, mineral wealth scattered in profusion
all around US, with timber and lands and
property at half the price, at which they
are sold around the Capital of the State.
No portion of the country is more over
looked ard undervalued than Southern
Indiana. simply because its resources and
intrinsic advantages are less known than
other regions. The crowds that are trav-
cling to the wildernesses West of the
Mississippi to make investments, pass by
the finest fields for speculations-in this
section---that are to be found in the I'm.
ion. AS proof of he fact, large numbers
of those who have left us for the Prairies
beyond the Mississippi are returning to
re-purchase at advanced prices farms in
their old dwelling places. regretting that
they were ever defuded from them. =
Lands can be bought on the beautiful
and reliable Ohio, within three and five
miles Of this city, for less than is asked
for claims in the interior Of Kansas ana
Nebraska-beyond the pale of fixed and
organized society. The blindness and
infatuation of these popular and specula
tive movements will soon be removed
and reason aud common sense will ar
rest them and when ''the sober secont
thought" recurs, our region of countr,
will be appreciated, and property her
will attain its just relative value. TIL
best mode OF correcting the existing mis-
apprehensions IN regard to this section, j
to spread abroad the truth and facts
Subscriptions to railroads and packe
lines are good Investments to advanc
the interests Of the city-but 5000 IN
vested in the labors Of the pen and tn
printer would do more for the genera
interests of all in this portion ofthe State
than million invested in efforts to draw
trade to a point that half the tradln
world never heard OF, and when its nam
is mentioned are obliged to search ma
for its location, and are about as apt
turn their eyes to the Upper Mississippi
or Missouri. as to the Ohio. to look fc
, it. We have had many letters solicitin
some account OF Evansville-its location
i. population and advantages. from INTEL
gent men in New England, who wei
familiar with every town and village
Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and Kansa
. and nearly every street in then. or roa
leading to them, bat had never heard
Evansville, till some casual circumstan,
;: had brought the name Of the town
d their notice. II people in this age wi,
&c to attract business, they must adverti
- themselves, and make use of the faciliti
J. and agencies Of the Press. 80