The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-07-28

Western shippers. Aud nothing would
bring about such a state of affairs so
speedily as having competing lines of
railroads TO the seaboard, thereby in
surfing cheap freights and a ready
transportation.
An election takes place to-day in
this city, as to whether or not we
shall have competing lines Eastward
Give US this line, and no Western
market will have any advantage over
US; on the contrary, we have a central
location which they have not.
Build this road aud it will be a saw
ing to buyers alone, of $4,000 to
$4,000 per annum, in the item of
freight.
l sincerely hope that there is not
a voter present but will cast his
vote for the road. You will pardon
this 81 eming depression. but the build
ing of this road is so intimately cOn-
nected with the tobacco interest, that
| feel it my duty to mention the fact.
To the tobacco planters who have
so literally patronized our market,
accept our thanks with the assurance
that we will ever treat you kindly and
pay you as sliberally for your tobacco
as other markets.
/ am requested by u tobacco fac.
tors to return their sincere thanks to
the buyers who have so literally pur-
chased all tobacco offered, at full
prices.
To the Tobacco Factors, allow me
return to you the thanks Of the buy
ers, for the kind treatment and courtesy
extended them, and TOR this splendid
banquet you have so generously
spread for the trade. And now,
planters, buyers. factors and citizens,
a healthy and prosperous year to you
all, and a happy reunion at our mex
banquet.
AT the conclusion of Mr.. Reads
speech. Warren's Band, having ar
rived, played the Souvenir March"
in excellent style. delighting the vat
assembly.
Hon. Theodore Thompson, late
State Senator from Livingston Coun-
ty, Kentucky, succeeded Mr.. Read.
mounting the stand in response to
loud and continued calls.
Mr.. Thompson, after expressing the
pleasure the magnitude of this dem
o%nstration gave him, said he had first
been induced to try Evansville as a
market for his tobacco by being told
that the buyers of this city had some
regard for planters interests as we'll
as their own, and he wanted to exam
inc for himself. He made tia trial
last year, and found by experience that
her buyers were the most liberal in
West. They did not seek to grasp all
the profits arising from the trade; but
with a ~liberality and sagacity that did
them credit, made it to a planters in
to ship his tobacco TO this city;
we'll knowing that to make this city a
great tobacco market was to make it
! great city too.
A few years ago, IF any one had said
hat Evansville would be a good To-
for n tobacco market, he
would have been laughed to scorn
and regarded as a lunatie but enter
men, commencing ahon more
han half the crops of that year had
oeen sold, and when, as a tobacco !
market, she was unknown twenty
niles away, had built up a trade that
vas already the envy of old markets
hat had existed half a century.
Evansville" said Mr.. Thompson,
Is the best location Ia the West for q
obdcco market"
Her merchants are liberal and en-
erprising; her location such that
Ter buyers a have the choice of
he two great seaboard markets,
New York or New Orleans, her facil-
ties for reaching them being about
quail. Indeed there is bat one thing
hat can operate against her prospect }
y, and that is the possibility of b.
merchants becoming negligent. Wb. ere
live it is much ,,earer to ,,hip to
'aducah than he'te, yet this is my
'est market Cd account Of the supe-
Tor enterpr' Sc, Iiberality and prompt
iess ely ur merchants and buyers.
TnP planters are we'll satisfied with
&v 4nsville, having realized all they
expected of you. IF you but perse-
we're in the spirit in which you have
hitherto acted, there is nothing to
prevent your city becoming the great
est inland tobacco market in Amer
ica."
Mr.. Thompson's remarks were re-
ceived with rapturous applause, which
frequently interrupted his speech.
VIM. G. Rice. Esq, of Princeton,
Kentucky. succeeded Mr.. Thompson.
He commenced by saying that he was
not an orator, but a farmer. Were
he even an orator. he felt that moth
ing short of a Henry Clay could do
justice to the vastness Of the subject
before him. especially since the
ground had been so ably gone over by
those who preceded him.
1t had been his fortune to have
been the first tobacco inspector of
Indiana; but unfortunately for the
trade in those days. the merchants of
Evansville had not the enterprise or
energy to make this tobacco market.
Since that time, merchants had
sprung up who were imbued with a
proper appreciation of the import
ance Of that branch of trade, and
here around US are the results. and
this marvellous accumulation of trade
could all be traced to the liberality
which they had practiced, bulldog up