The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-03-16


THE CoMMERIAL.-For some months past
this paper has been making quite ''splurge"
over what it denominates its extraordinary
enterprise. 1t seems that in its great ankle
ty for articles that would bear sensation
heads" it has caught Tartar at last. Of
course if feels sore, and growls and snaps
at those who are disposed to poke fun at it.
When, in the winter of 1873 COM
mittee was appointed to investigate the
frauds connected with the Treasury defalca-
ton in Ohio, the Commercial began to make its
arrangements to astonish the reading world
with amaster-stroke ofenterprise. Accord
ingly, the committee were logged, copyists
employed, extra compositors engaged, and,
to make assurance doubly sure, an extra To-
connective, with car attached, was chartered
to get copy into the city far ahead of any
of its contemporaries. These things-as it
always is with enterprise-cost something
Our admiration at the Commercials sacrifices
for the patriotic purpose of serving the COM
bounded but-as the Gazette pathetically
exclaims-"Alas for mortal hopes the
document was SO ponderous, that the Com
msrciaL fairly broke down under it. AL
though four successive issues have been ex-
hausted on the work, the most interesting
parts of the report remain unpublished. No
wonder all Ohio and Indiana are grinning,
and that the Commercial is twitted on the
right and left. The Ohio Statesman, in
speaking of the great feat accomplished,
says:
The Thursday mornings edition of the
Cincinnati Commercial contains another in
stalment of the Treasury Report. This is
the fourth edition of that " enterpriSing pa
per which has been engrossed with the Re-
port, and yet it is not completed. The Com
nserciaL finds itself in the predicament OF
the boy with the elephant, and that sweet
tempered journal is becoming slightly per-
picked if not out Of humor. 1t has DOTTED
the sensation heads with which it commence
ed the Report and in speaking of the docu-
ment says, the facts are entangied amid
essays, brilliant and powerful, unquestion-
ably, but which combine to render the doc
ument SO ponderous US to be almost IN
manageable" The railroad seems to have
performed its part of the contract satisfac-
torily, but the report was too "ponderous y
for the Commercial, after its delivery at the
Office, and of truth it did become " un-
manageable" We found no unSurmounta-
bic difficulty in sending out the complete and
entire report to all our patrons in II double
extra sheet accompanying our Daily by the
% and o'clock A. NJ. trains on Wednes-
day morning. We hope the Commercial will
subside now and hereafter only undertake
enterprises within its capacity.
The Dayton Gazette laughs at it in the
following style:
We invite q perusal of the racy and anus
ing article from the Cincinnati Enquirer
poking fun at the recent tremendous enter
prise of the Cincinnati Commercial Sine,
that concern lost its BRAINS by the desertior
of Henry Reed. it runs like the old hors
Botherem, driving all its competitors befor
it. 1t was handsomely check-mated by tn,
Gazette and Enquirer in the useless expen
diture Of money in getting out the lat
interminable, numbering documents, con
nected with the Treasury defalcation. w,
would advise the Commercial, next to pub
lish the works of Confucius and Emanue
Swedenborg, and then the Extra Globe an,
Appendix.
We will only add, that the works of Con
fucius or Swedenborg would have provet
fully as entertaining to the Commercials In
diana readers, as that Report. Success t.
enterprise and midnight editions :"