The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-05-22

ate limits ia unlimited quantities, IS
used. This gravel contains a sum
cj mt quantity OF iron ore to render
tne streets very hard when laid down,
and L am informed that II seldom
breaks or gives away, being even more
durable than your powdered streets.
1t would be a fortunate circumstance
for Evansville if such gravel was
of easy access at a comparative small
cost then the best of streets might
readily be made.
The citizens of Paducah indulge IN
the widest speculatiOns about rail-
road interests, and feel confident of
the ultimate completion of an air line
road from this city to Memphis, which,
it is thought, will create the necessity
of connecting at Paducah with the
Vincennes q Cairo Railroad. so far
as the Elizabethtown & Paducah Rail-
road is concerned, all with whom l
have conversed admit that its com
pletion is at least five years in the
future, but they insist that it will be
builded- 1t is understood that the
most Of the stock for building the
road is now available. This being
the case, Evansville did not move one
minute too soon in the matter of the
Evansville, Henderson 4 Nashville
Railroad.
The firm of Fowler, Lee & Co.,
wharf bOatmen, have a monopoly of
that business here. They have two
large wharfboats, and do an immense
business, and l see no good reason they
should not, being excellent business
men, prompt. and with all courteous
and agreeable. I have not met a
more Obliging gentleman than Capt
Joe Fowler, the senior of the firm,
believe.
As you are aware, there are three
newspapers published at this place.
The Herald, by J. G. Noble & Co.,
a tri-weekly and weekly paper; the
daily and weekly paper;
and the Gazette, a weekly paper. The
Kenfuck.ian was but recently estab-
lished, but its circulation is increas-
ing rapidly. The Herald is the oldest
paper, having a good circulation, also.
Since the KentWcktdn was established,
the Herald has materially improved.
Competition the life of trade.
The dispatch bearing the intelli-
gence of the vote on the i'm
parchment question was received
here with great satisfaction by
those who now call themselves
Democrats, while Union men were
and disheartened. They
looked forward with the greatest anxi-
ETY. for that end-the Impeachment
to be accomplished, and now that the
vote has been taken, evince the great
est disappointment. Something Of
how much those Republican Senator's
who voted not guilty" will have to
answer for, may. and will be learned
soon, from the Union men 10 this
State and farther South, when
the increased wall of suffering
reaches their ears. Could they have
lived for twenty-four hours in certain
parts Of this State, and learned the
condition Of things-the direct result
of Andy JOhnsOn's misrule = if
prompted by honest motives, they
would have seen things In far diff
ferent light. Had Andrew johnson
been removed, and an honest man
been placed at the head of
our national affairs, Union men in
Kentucky and South Of this, would
have had a hope; but now they are
filed with Responding, and this de-
spOndency Is the more sensibly and
the more heavily felt since 1t has
been brought about by the action of
those to whom they looked to for
help. Surely the condition of those
South, who stood by the old Govern
ment and the flag, is not at all an en-
viable one. We shall see what we
shall see. " INCoG."