The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-10-26
Editorial 1Soteg.

ID VISA 4 Editorial A0teA.W sfT :
In selecting the site for a new Post
Office in Boston, a few days ago; Post
master RANDALL expressed the belief
that within r. few years, in all the
large cities, il. win ba necessary to
Eupt the, mail . ears direetlyyipte the
Post Office, and that the mail cars
will be dispatched for The various
mail. rontes from the central Office.
Tracks ,eosnecting with all the de-
pots, thee ears to be run by horses
through the streets, viii expedite
business ape, afford great facilities to
merchants. In this view Of the case,
tits fortunate, perhaps, that Evans-
viils has not been supplied with a
Post Office building by The Govern
iment. In few years, when her
commercial Importance and rapidity
of growth becomes known to the
authorities at, Washington, and when
this District is REPRESENTED In Con
gress by man who feels some inter
est. in her welfare, Evansville may
obtain Post Office building, with
mail eurs.runnihe directly into it,
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: ACCORDING to the.Toledo BLADE, the
Hon. B. +. WADE, Of Ohio, has no
idea Of retiring into private life. AS
the people of thatGState have decided
that they do not want him for Sena-'
tor. he is willing to come down a
notoheor two and take position in
the House. Accordingly his parti-
sans are already at,Eork~ to supplant
Gen. GARFIELD with his repudiated
Excellency. Itseems to us, using the
terse language often heard on the
streets, this Is cutting It rather
fat. Is there no way of choking
some of these old stagers from the
public teat2 They seem to think that
the Offices of the country belong to
them. It is to be, hoped that the
people of Gen. GARFIELp's district
will have the Independence to say to
Mr.. WADE: When we want you, we
will call for you. a-za8 sar
In the recent Ohio election, seven
ty-three votes were returned from
Darke County, for General RUTHER-
FORD, instead Of Gen. RUTHERFORD
B. HAYES. It is conjectured thatthe
seventy-three votes may have, been
cast correctly for Gen. RUTHERFORD
B. HAYES, and that the clerk of the
township in which they were cast
may have made an error in certifying
the return, emitting the last rart Of
the NAME 1t strikes. us4 that such a
blunder could orly have happened in
a Darke county.
THE Indianapolis papers rejoice in
the fact that work has commented in
earnest on the indianapolis gym
cennes Railroad GroundS has been
broken near that city, and timhers
are being hauled for the bridge ever
White River, It is the intention to
push matters until the road l.isl dem
pleted. The building aofathiSs4road
will place Indianapolis In direct con
nection with a-splendid agricultural
and mineral countryaz1CoalS iron, and
stone are found in large quantities in /.
some of the counties through which
theroad will run. Evansville will be
benefited by the building of this road
to, Vincennes., But when it gees be-
You'd there, through Southern Illinois
to Cairo, we must either tap the road
with a branch or lose considerable of
the trade we now enjoy. Will ouri
people keep their eyesldopen to- this
enterprise2i 81 3 leil4qa :i IL
.AsVANDERBURGH County is enOtTthe
only place where it costs Something
to, GET elected to Office Here the
lager beer 7 bills are enormous, but
have to be met in "a cheerful spirit
In old England, where everything is
supposed to be conducted on strictly
moral principles. and where conseFFva-
tism rules the passions of the people,
we naturally look for better things.
Itaseems, however, that even there,
where all idea Of bribery is indig-
nantly scoutedq in old England,
whence we. receive many lectures on