The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-11-02

for County Treasurer, so directed the
attention of the people to the crlml-
nal wastefulness of money by the De-
mocratic Board of County Commas
sioners on this road, as to contribute
largely to the success of the Union
men in the county.
Several years have interviewed be-
tween, our last and present visit to
Rockport. We found some changes
had taken place during that time, but
not 80 many as we had supposed. The
landing has been changed from below
to above the city A road has been
cut through the large hill upon which
portion of the town stands, to the
new landing, much to the convenience
of the people. The principal bust.
ness street has been graded and grav=
eled. Several new and substantial
business houses have been erected. A
new Court House, the finest, perhaps,
in Southwest Indiana, has been built
at cost of $37, 900, and workmen are
now engaged in finishing up Jail,
with cells made of wrought iron. An
inspection of the manner in which the
IRON work il being put together will
convince any one that breaking
Jail in Rockport will be almost
classed among the impossibilities.
. 1t is reported that the town of
Rockport, as originally designed and
surveyed cannot be found, Taking
the original starting point all attempts
to trace out a town by the old sur
vcys are failures. The town now
known as Rockport has been laid out
and built up by a kind of common
consent arrangement,and does not con-
form to the ideas entertained by its
early surveyors, or their plans. Wheth-
er this fact will give rise TO litigation
in the future, is not known, but
some Of its citizens arelof the opinion
that special act of the Legislature
will yet become necessary to legalize
much of, the surveying and plating
that has been done. The town de-
serves we'll of Union Legislature,
for its rousing Union majority at the
last election, and can obtain almost
any reasonable favor that it may ask.
a III RoCKPoRT ACADEMY. -
One of the most promising of the
public enterprises Of the citizens of
Rockport is that of the Academy.
They have completed large brick
building for this purpose, fifty by
seventy feet, three stories high, and
now have school occupying it that s
being successfully conducted. Prof.
OLIVER SMITH, graduate of Asbury
University, and an educator of seve-
raj years experience, aided by three
faithful and efficient female teachers,
has charge of the Academy, and will,
we have no doubt, make it one of the
most popular institutions in Southern
Indiana. Heis an excellent disciple
marian, conscientious and competent
instructor, and a man of energy and
ambition in his profession. His school
at present is small, but its success
this year will add largely to its nun.
bers hereafter. The arrangements
for boarding pupils in the school with
the Professor and his family are ex-.
cellent, and. parents may send their
children to the institution with the
full assurance that their. moral and
physical comfort will be looked after
as faithfully, and perhaps fullylas sue
cessfully, as would be the case were
they to remain at home, q ~ e
Fl :-elsd ta PERSONAL. Isatr daHr
The Union men of Rockport feel
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