The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-04-03

o Evansville, 800 010; o. Lamlsco,
$50 900; ands at cash value, 500 coo;
aud Individual. cash subscriptions at
$4,000. Total, (s1,O60 ,0OO) one mill
lion and sixty thousand dollars The
Engineers Reports over and over,
have shown that all the work done on
the line, from first to last, was about,
by their own showing, $4,000. Now,
Mr. CARPENTER, IN his Courier Walk
er letter, says he and his Road failed
because the City of Evansville would
not issue on his guaranty the second
hundred thousand dollars Of its
bonds just when he wanted them.
His story is simply this: The Road
had million and sixty thousand good
cash bond and land subscriptions, and
he himself was worth about half a
million. It is all under his own hand
and that after doing less than $780,
600 worth Of grading before buying
any rails, or rolling stock, or anything
else, he and his company-individ-
uals, contractors, and Railroad Com
pany and all-failed ANONYMOUSLY;
went up" as the boys say, as high
as a kite put all the property out of
the hands of all of them-Mayor
WALKER, that .sn't to be, being as
signee-and have ever since been law
ing in all the courts and bowling in the
wards and streets, to divert attention
from the assets, which have been
rather troublesome to hide.
In his Courier Walker letter, Mr..
CARPENTER charges Mayor BAKER
with settling the last 100000 city
bond suit for 500, 900, and then foots
up the whole loss to the city, by this
bond subscription to his road, at
1922 800, just as innocently as if the
whole of it had not been brought on
the city by CARPENTER himself, aud
as if all of it except the attorneys
fees. had not gone int the hands Of
CARPENTER himself and his credi-
tors. Nobody knows so we'll where
all these bonds and this money have
gone and are now as Mr.. CARPENTER;
and that Mayor Baker aud the
Council settled this last plundering
suit by Mr.. CARPENTER's creditors,
by the advice Of Senator HENDRICKS
and Governor BAKER, both counsel
for the city, and both ranking with
the ablest counsel in the State, as the
only way to prevent Judgment
against the city, for the whole claim
of principal and interest, amounting
to Sl60000 and upwards.
W. II WALKER, as we have said,
was selected by Mr.. CARPENTER as
his assignee, when he made that most
failure in company with the
Straight Line Railroad. CARPENTER
made out the programme, and, of
course. Mr.. WALKER obediently fol-
lowed 1t, else where would be the adj
of falling debtor appoint
ing his own assignee. We will, to-
day, pay a suitable reward to any one
who shall show that be ever got any
thing, the 1892 900 Of real estate and |
large personal property, besides the
assets to the contrary, out of
that assignment, except at the end Of !
a lawsuit, which charged and proved |
all sorts of fraud gU0E fag4gHI8 |
Being no railroad men, we venture
to ask Mr.. WALKER the following /
question: IF, under the management I
Of his Chief Of Public improvements, +
It costs the city 1922, 800 to build no
at all, how much. under the |
same management, might a whole
be expected to cost ?
The City has, By vote of the peo-
pie, adopted a Railroad programme,
which is the Evansville, Henderson
and Nashville Road first. and what
aver railroad shall appear to them the
most necessary, next. They will not
vary this program me by voting for Mr..
WALKER or any other man, however
good he may be, in opposition to
Mayor BAKER, who has the unques-
ionable confidence Of all concerned,
It home and abroad.
Our mother EVE was an honest
woman enough, but fell by sore temp
alton. WALKER may be a good man
.nough, but he has not yet been tried