The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-12-09
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and correspondent of the Courier
Journal, in a letter dated on board
the steamer John Kilgour, and pub
lished in that paper last Sunday,
speaks thus of Evansville and her in
stittEions, her commercial energies
and her future prospects. We think
we recognize the writer. and know
him as thoroughly posted relative to
that of which he speaks, so far as
Evansville IS coneerned He says
Passing Lewisport, Grand View,
Rockport, OWezsboro and NeWburg,
we awake In the morning and find
ourselves at Evansville. This place
has in few years emerged from the
obscurity of country town, and
taken rank as a brisk, thriving, 60
ahead city of no mean pretensions:
aud, with all the characteristics of
Young America, It's hard to dissuade
her rising population that New York
is not a mere provincial town and
Evansville the metropolis of the
country. But ] need not underrate
this fast little city of the Pocket and
of my native State. The energy. the
business tact, and public spirit Of her
citizens may well be emulated by cities
of larger growth and older in years.
This city. with It's 10000 inhabitants.
has its two English daily. papers! One
of them, the, JOURNAL, enjoys a high
degree of prosperity, and, barring its
COMPOUNDED politics, is as live a little
daily as one would wish to frd any,
where. The JOURNAL printing estab-
lishment is one of the handsoTnest
and most complete / have ever seen /;
then they have ever so many" Ger
man papers, several fne churches
the new Methodist Church being the
most elegant house of worship IN the
West, aud reflects great credit on its
architect, Robert Boyd, Esq as we'll as
the liberality Of its builders and pro-
jectors-its schools, colleges. its large
new opera house. its elegant private
residences, and superb business
houses; it's daily lines of packets:
its railroads and canal. Evansville
is large shipping point, and one
that our louisville and New Or
leans packets fully appreciate.
While Louisville was Inducing
the sleep that came over her during
the war, and had inflicted upon her 8
custom house officer, whose ehiee am
bition, next to personal gain, seemed
to be the utter destruction of the
business of Louisville, which he was
enabled to accomplish through the
infamous permit system and The en-
ployment of lot of thieVing detect
ives to watch oyer honest people.
Evansville enjoyed the benefits Of a
liberal construction of the Treasury
laws, and her Surveyor, Major Robin
son, possessed reputation for loyalty
and honesty above suspicion. From
the commencement of the war Evans
vile has been steadily aud surely
drawing to herself the most valuable
part of the trade of all that rich
region of Southern Kentucky border
ing on the Green and Cumberland
Rivers, and on the Tennessee. the
Wabash, and the whole of the lower
Ohio and as far up as Greensboro:
and to-day she has no less
than four boats in the Mem
phis trade, and, be it said to
their praise, Evansville shippers stand
right square up to their own packets.
They have daily line to Cairo, two
III lALCG sOGutHE pCA MCGA# G1C0 To
Cumberland and Tennessee. Rivers.
two boats per day to Henderson, sew
eral plying the classic Wabash" a
coast packet up to Cannelton; they
have floating dry dock, a ship-yard,
and large number of manufacturing
establishments, and Evansville drum
mers are met all through Kentucky.
Tennessee. Alabama, Illinois, and
Indiana, as thick as grasshoppers,
and before we easy going people up
about the falls are aware of what is
going on, Evansville will have COM
pleted the Henderson and Nashville
Railroad, and thus tap all of our great
Southern railroad lines, and then the
representatives of Evansville houses
will be found at the breakfast
table in every house from Nash
vile to Atlanta and Mobile, ready
and willing to sell some "sheap clo-
dings and some unEer little dings
shoust so sheap as you never seed
anywhere else BEFORE" This Hem
derson and Nashville Railroad will
tap a large and wealthy district of
country now dependent on Louisville;
and over that read large amount of
cotton will find its way outof the South
and on East over the Evansville &
| Charlottesville road. L casually al
| Jude TO these matters, which of course
possess no interest to Louisville, only
as it may enable them to see what eff
forts are being put forth by this little
Indiana city, which has heretofore
been regarded as way town "a
halfway place (though by no means
a purgatoryD between Louisville and
Cairo, and that our people may profit
by what their neighborst are doing.