Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-02

all too familiar solicitors of favorsr be /
held above the reach of suspicion.
Do you know that when a purchaser
is afered a ely bond, hs WIEN he is Of
feed u ur al 90, always in
al les fpr i sid atid il was is
sdea. IF fora worthy, successful and
profitable purpose, he is satisfied. If
for anything short of this, he avoids it.
And positively assert that, issued for
this Improbable consideration, of COM
promising q miserable law suit, and
coupled with On attempt to construct this
branch roadson Col. Jones utter want
Of programme, and our want of means
to complete it, these city bonds would do
the already damaged credit of this city
Preat7danage, and greatly Increase the
discount on city bonds to be issued for
any of the other necessary purposes
saboFenamed. Cql Zones fgnrss for the
i0dth pletibn of biz road are aihpa} Fidicu-'
Ious. He shows that the work done
is worth $500, 000-less than 81, 200
per mile. He talks about getting ready
for the rails by spending 5000, 900
more, or in all less than S., 900 mile,
and then trusting to -the-sale CT mort
gage bonds for all the rest. If the
Evansville L Charlottesville Railroad to
Vincenues cost more than $4,000 a
mile when labor and material were but
little more than half their present cost Il
if the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad cost
$50, 000a mile, which it did, when prices
were low, and the Rolling Stock of a
road is a small proportion Of ltd cost,
with what. face can be tell Railroad
men that such programme las his, is
anything more than chiIds play As TO
his dependenceoR on the Ohio d. Mississippi
|. Railroad for locom olives aud cars 70 run
his road, thSt'f Is j6stas Verdant a trust
as his very verdant statements with
which somebody has stuffed him, thst
tobacco .apd scottonss have lain QaEour
wharf repeatedly for weeks and months
because of the inability of the Evans
vile & Charlottesville railroad to carry
it. / repeat, that with the exception of
few days interruption by wezhing away
of bridges on the Terre Haute 4 ln-
dianspolis railroad, there never has
been any delay worthy of complaint
through the inability of either the Ev-
ansville d Charlottesville or the Terre
Haute & Indianapolis Railroad to move
cotton or tobacco. Blockades have new
or been west or south --ef In
dianapolis. Such delays have arisen,
either because Eastern roads were
Eoger freightedtz broken. by storms,
or would not take freights contracted
at low prices, when higher rates
| are offered them. And in ali such cases,
the EvansyflIe a Charlottesville. has
sought an outlet by the Ohio Il Mis-,
sissippi, which has accommodated the
Evansville % CfaWEordkvilIe.- to the
best of its ability, which ability we have
always found less than their disposition
to accommodate 1ss For instance, when
they have promised rs 10 take ten cars
df bAE EdghEaper Day they COLD not
furnish more than three or four cars,
and so our ears have stood at Vim.
cennes, loaded with tobacco for the Ohio
& Mississippi Railroad, for days or
weeks because fhey could not take il
Our cars go to Toledo, to Chicago, to
st. Louis, to Indianapolis, and forty
| other places. and the. cars of other
I vile, bat where will the branch road
ears ~ tOs c4ESR1 W AlHc4uu6Ll ana
other points on the single line Of broad
gauge road? An eminent railroad man,
AimselfAconhested With broad gauge,
told me lately that broad gauge was a
railroad crime -Jones.talks, by way OF
making hinself demagogue, about
hauling wood on bis broad gauge. He
askapga shAt inc srhglF oad I dA6 &A IRE
wood to market, without enormously
raising the price of it's. own fuel,
and ha ought tosknow that 10 has been
with the utmost difficulty, and at great
cost, that even the Indiana end OF the
Child d Mississippi Railroad, has got
q supply of wood for its own engines.
reiterate, that the completion of that
broad gauge branch road now If desira-
BILE, is utterly impossible. That its agi-
tstion is absurd and visionary In the ex-
IRENE !. and Injurious to the pnblic inter-
ests of Evansville that imperitively
demand both our time and money and
credit. I await the opportunity to dis.
cnss. this point before the people.
= r Respectfully, ..,.sa
JoHN INeLr, Jr.