Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-09-07

Rrnouauy lmpSoylnBB II nAkt WIZ All
tie aid The var has given i:,
barely got up now to shs bsggarly
sum Of 1900 per mile per sunum, and
that 10 NIL for want Of Soathefn railroad
eonseetios. / say this is beggsrly
business for railroad, even Of nArrow
guAGe, and I tell yca, 90 proof Of il, that
this same Ohio aud Mississippi Railroad
10 ths tender meEeiss Of whose iron arm
it Is proposed to subjeet cur own littls
city, now earns and always has earned,
twice % much per mile per ausum as
the 8 b G. Railroad, and has never Jet
earued enough money to keep itssH in
6rst rate ruEsing order. That II oil The
cash that its trains and oGcss ever
took in, which has not been expended
upon the road, should pow be spent upon
II, il would not renew its track and roll
ing stock II this be the case, and the
proof is patent, vita the main track,
What think yOo, ny mssters, would be
the fats Of the branchsn3 What hopes
has an EvaasviIls bread gauge branch for
living, evan in the supposed case that
It takes hAlg, aad the greater hall, Of all
the VI, 900 per nils per snnun that the
gar and the present great prosperity
and high pEiess has given TO the Evans
vile and cEawEordsyilIs Rsilroad7 But
yoa win tell ns that whsn we multiply
railroad facilities wa multiply business.
Yes, II you don't run yoar roads over
tie same ground. And I SAY this pro-
posed broad gauge branch runs substan-
sially and 20 oil inssnta and purposes
over the same ground ~ the Z. q C.
They start from the same point, and
When the one has run Gfty4wo miles and
the othsr Gfty-four or whatever the dis
aancs may be, the two roads are only
twenty-five miles apart. In the matter
Of local Business, what would this broad
gage branch have Ia its tavorT The
e. q c. has Yinesnnss at tbs end Of lie
81 nilss, Esy 4, 600 inhsbiiants, and gets
some business from the Wabash river
thers, and has several GouriShing towns
intermediate, whilst the proposed branch
parpossly Fans away from the only
ooaniy seas (WaShington) from which Il
eonld hops for even sprinkling Of local
passengers and freight. And then IL 10 to
be . branch Of road that will see to il,
as 1t always has done, that ell possible
business Rhall ee taken 10 CineinnAti.
OF course, that 10 she very object Of
making the branch.
10 cap the climax Of disabilities, the
Wabash a. Erie CAnsl, from Evans
vile TO TsFrs HAats, which Skirts this
6fty-fOur miles Of broad gauge along it's
whols length, has just gone, into re-
spOnaible private hands under lease
for thirty years, and win almost GER
tAiniy Be pat ip speedy running order,
unlsss the city thinks 6fsy-iouT miles Of
bread gauge branch railroad preferable
TO four hundred and aixty-four miles Of
canal Eavigased By steam tsgS, ~hish
this new lease sontsnplstss, and 90 en-
courage this branch road and diseourags
this canal submit this question 10
both the taxpayers and the Counsil.
II you think, gentlemen, that canals
are autiquatsd, please read the annual
report Of the State Engineer Of New
York, and the accounts Of one or two
Of 6hsFidsn's raids along the Virginia
canals; and there are canals in Ohio
which actually have water in them.
Canals bring cheap fuel for workingmen,
bet railroads never haul wood for other
peopls-oniy for themselves. Suggestive,
isn't itf
The only way to materially increase
The tEsfHc for railroads running either
North or East from Evansville is to
bald ons or more in other directions
Bald ene 10 NAEhville; il 10 within our
power. Bald one scross the Wabash
and into she regions which Padueah
and YincsnHes have talked in vain Of
running q road That 10 the way to
lead of Indianapolis, Vincsnnss and
PAdssAA Wind enterprises, that have,
according 10 these 'towAf papers. bssn
HEEed fAess" ones or twice aysar for
the past decade. ,--ste5
| Bat some sf ysu tel nae that I am An
interested witness, and tAsrefors am
not 10 bs credited in tha Btatsnsnts
made to discourage rival linss Ifmy
statements ere not borne out By ths fAess.
don't believe nae, that's all Bat 10 it
mot Singular that, Evansville with ~
many peints Of the compass and jass a.
mach eoantry round IL as any othsr
city littls or big, can't build o second
i railroad i'm any other direction than
precisely tAs one In which she built ths
6rstf And I here assert that Evans
vile has railroad nov. iuss about q
diract 10 Indianapolis, nm New York hai
: TO Boston, eg 20 Buffalo, or 70 PhilAdel
phia, and that no rAilrosd ia the United
States is more safe OF esrsain. And
fsarIeaaly assert that IL now, before ycr
bald ons or rora railroads Soushs yor
baild rival lire even 70 indianapolis
which don't appear 10 be in she prsseu
B progrAnneithAt by reason ofthe divisieI
. Of the business, not jet enough for one
! between the tuo, yOa win very soon- b
without any safe railroad to travel On IL
. n northerly or sastsrly direction.
IL Evansville As oil singular in not beinl
Q aAls 10 snppora two railroads in sub
+ usansislly the sane directioni Certainl,
not. Let nae cali your attention to