Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-28
THE JADE STILL wINCES.

A few DAYS since we took occasion to reply
to scurrillous, vindictive article rejecting on
Cairo, which appeared as editorial in the COL
umrs of the Evansville Courier The Evans
vile Journal has taken the matter up, and re-
spends follows:
1.-The charge therein contained that the Ev
ansville Journal has ever seized upon every
and any opportunity to throw dirt at Cairo or
its citizens, in the sense the Times editor
means, is simply illiberal, gratuitous, ridicu-
lous and false; and the charge that the mer-
chants of Evansville ever outrageously over
charged and swindled the people or the mer-
chants of Tennes see, is simply malicious and
silly slander, prompted by malice and jealousy
alone. With all the efforts Of those in the in
terest of other ports to cripple the commerce
of Evansville, she to-day has a larger trade
with the region contiguous ts the Tennessee
river than the achOle trade OF Cairo, whose ed
itors acknowledged, some time since, that they
had no trst-class wholesale house in the place,
or the capital to establish one. 1t is also a
fact that the people of Tennessee were CON-
PEELED TO go to Cairo when they desired TO
come to Evansville, and that, too. when the
Cairo papers were boasting Of the large profits
the Cairo merchants were making out of those
driven to their city t) against their will.
Evansville has nothing to fear from Cairo,
and has no reason to be jealous Of her. The
prosperity of Evansville depends solely upon
the public spirit and liberality of her own
business men, and with all the rivalry she has
now to contend with, the freight bills and
charges paid at her wharf in single yeaf
would purchase the entire city of Cairo, really
and personal, at a fairly estimated cash value.
Cairo has the advantage of location to insure
prosperity, and had sue the Andes or Appe-
mines at convenient distance with which
TO till her quagmires and raise her above the
level of the rivers, she would unquestionaby
become great city, and we should delight IN
her prosperity, as she would then add to the
prosperity of Evansville. Until that is accom-
plished her editors should be less assuming,
less envious and more just
Having heretofore published articles taken
from the columns of the Journal reeking with
envy, vindctiveness and falsehood towards
Cairo, our readers are as competent as We to
determine the force of the first sentence.
That the merchants of Evansville dswindle
the Tennesseeans when first the embargo on
trade was removed is patent to every one at
all conversant with the facts and none know it
better than the Jou1ndl, the merchants whom
it attempts to bolster up, and the duped Ten.
nesseans.
Cairo never made effort to cripple Evans
vile or any other trading point. She attended
scrupulously and wholly to her own interests,
and the fact that she did cripple the commerce
of Evansville is wholly attributable to the
greed manifested by the Evans Williams them
selves, who had the first opportunity of pre-
senting wares ard merchandise to the dis
tressed people of Tennessee, and who took ad-
vantage of their necessities,
The Journal makesR vhslesale declaration
when it says taatb Egsnsyille has larger
trade with the szegiss epstisuous to the Ten
nessee River A4sa Ass zrhole trade Of Cairo
The trade Of ceirp viii the section OF country
spoken of is far srss.S thah Evansville COM
mands The mauifests OF, boats running in the
Cairo interests as compared with those running
in the interest of Evansville during the summer
nsnths will abundantly prove this fact.
1t is true that we complained of lack o
wholesale stores herc-stores COMMENSURATE
with the necessities of our growing commerce
Cairo requires six or eight more wholesale
houses than she now has each with stock
with from one to two millions of dollars, an(
the JOaraa1 is at liberty to advertise the fac
in its columns. We consider it an argumen
opropos on our side.
The journal talks enigmatical when it assert