Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-10-25

new mp oeing puOhsoed daiiJ 70 IN
Cairo papers. in which, a. in the Chi
asse maps, Cairo IL the great center Of
the universe, and all the rest of the
uorld, which il greatly circumscribed,
10 merely adjunct, and the inhabitants
outside bsrbarians The following 10 the
article that bas 80 stirred up the bile Of
the Cairo editors:
mar OF swAAPTows
Que Of the moss amusing Sensational
efforts Of the people of Svamptown. Is
given daily by the Cairo Times IL pub-
lishes map at the head Of It's columns.
cut out on pine block, with jask-knife,
credita5ls alike TO the artis. and the
CT y. The standing introduction reads
a. follows: :. Tbs Commercial Position
Of Cairol Great Natural Gateway be-
tween the North and East and South
wesiH Cairos River and Railroad Com
manicaiions lF' with column OF explA.
/ nation, ia which we fail to Gnd single
ailusiou to the sizs Of the frogs, the agil-
Ity Of the toads, the bite aud music Of
/ the mosquitoes, or the movable facilities
OF the snaGiy palaces or the Cairorers
Nor lie the seil knUwn fact stated, that
business firm composed of less than five
cannot exist for g longer period than a
year. AS one must attend promptly TO
l the chiils aud fever, another TO intermit-
tents, q third to the dumb ague, fourth
| 10 getting killed, the fifth 10 expected,
With broken constitution and the " ac-
climated" hue Of a sick mnlatto, to full
gu the duties Of executor and wind up
the bufinass
Ousthis magnificent map Of Cairo we
| find the villages Of Chicago, ST. Louis,
Cincinnati, Nashville, Memphis, New
Orleans and Mobile located at eonve-
nient distances, in small letters, while
the great cities Of CAIRo aud Columbus
occupy due prominence. The damaging
omission Of the names Of such CORES
pondingly great cities as Shawneeiow q,
Mound City, and other landings, must
call forth the jealous indignation Of
Cairo's lister competitors. OF course,
Evansville, with 10000 or 40, 900 inhsb.
itants, 10 not locate on that map
Thanks TO you. gentlemen. The mera
idea Of association makes ne chilly.
To this the Times takes grave exsep-
tions and goes of with The following
bitter TRADE
We clip the above from the Evansville
Daily Courier. The Evansville papers.
journal as well 80 Courier, seize UPON
every opportunity OF throwing dirt az
our city and citizens The managers
thereof feel that our merchants, FROM
the liberal treatment extended 10 the
people Of Tennessee, whom the mer-
chants Of Evansville had first dealt with
and oatrageously osercharged aud swim.
died, are row, ard for the past three
months have been, favored with the na-
tronsge Of that people, in preferences to
tho sharpers a. iheir burgh. When the
embargo on trade with the insurgent
States was officially removed, Evansville,
through her business men, Stted out
steamers. and sent them, laden with
goods, 10 available points on the Ten.
nessee river They adopted as lheis
motto;
When y,u catch black oAi,shsve bin to the talI
And all the cats Of whatever color they
caught, they shaved them
They aola goods which lhe necessitie 4
Of the people imporatively demanded.
a. figures ranging from one hundred 10
! three hundred per cent. more than the
home market price, and received there
| for specie IN payment, and IL was not an.
I'll tho Cairo Chamber Of Commerce
sent up theTeAuessee the steamer Jonas
Powell, thai the scales fell from oil the
eyes OF the Tenesseeans, and from that
| time this Cairo has sunk In the esfimA.
ton OF Evansvillians in exactly the same
proportion that she has lised In the 90.
timation Of the TennesseeAns. We
presume the Courier will dispute these
facts as hss the Journal, but we have
the relevant testimony OF the duped 10
substantiate our declaration.
The charge therein contained that tina
Evansville Journal has ever seized upon
every and any opportunity to throw dirt
At Cairo or us citizens, in the sense the
Times editor means, lie simply illiberal,
gratuisoas, ridiculous, aud false, aud che
charge that the merehaata Of Evansville
ever oatrageously overehaTged add swim
died the people or the merchants Of Ten.
nessee. Is simply malicious and silly
SANDER, prompted BY malice and ieal-
ousy alone With all the efforts Of those
10 The interest Of other ports to cripple
the commerce Of Evansville, she to-day
has larger trade with the region con-
iiguous 10 the Tennessee river than the
ssAois trade Of Cairo, whose editors SC
knowledged some time since that they
had no first.class wholss house in the
place, or The capital &C establish one. IL
is also fact that the people Of Tennes-
see were compelled to 90 to Cairo when
they desired to come 70 Evansville, and
that, too, when the Cairo papers we're
boasting Of the large profits the Cairo
merchants were making out Of those
driven to their city CD against their will
The JoURNAL has never noticed Cairo.
except to reply 10 sach vindictive and
malicious articles as the one We have
noticed above, as all our readers can
testify, aud as ths Cairo editors we'll
know. &
Evansville has nothing to fear from
Cairo, and has 20 reason to be jealous
of her. The prosperity Of Evansville
depends solely on the pablo spirit and
kberalisy Of her own business men,
and with oil the rivalry abe has now to
contend with, the freight bills and char
ges paid OF her wharf in a single year
would purchase the entire city Of Cairo,
really and personal, al fairly estimated
cash va'ue. Cairo has the advantage of
location 10 insure prosperity, and had
she the Andes or Apprentices nj a con-
yenient distance With which 10 fill her
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