Evansville Journal, Volume 19, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 15 April 1868 — Page 4

NVi l,R DAILY -on: WEDNESO 'APRIL 15 1868.

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bia'tsviU?, Henderson .fc Nit-tin tile Kailroa.1 Gen. L'cjie's Letter.

We pablifhed yesterday the letter of General Boyle, President of the Evansville, Henderson & Nashville Railroad, to Mayor Walker, asking that a change be made in the subscription of f300,000 voted by our city on the first of July last. Of this subscription $200,000 was to be paid when the road was running to II opkinsville, and also twenty miles southward from Henderson and twenty miles more, to Madisonville, graded, and this $200,000 was. to be applied to the purchase of iron, chairs and spikes. The remaining 1100,000 was to be used in buying iron to lay the track'between Madisonville and Hopkinsville. It is only asked to change the time of issuing and delivering the $200,000, and apply it to buying iron, chairs and spikes to lay the track from Henderson to Madisonville. 'This $200,000, with a partion of the money which the Company has in cash, will enable tbem to purchase the iron, and the remaining money and the bonds of Hopkins County will complete the grading and bridging and furnish the ties to Madisonville and to the coal , mines beyond that place. It appears to be safe to buy the chairs and spikes and iron, for the other means the Company has will, it is- positively stated, prepare the road-bed for the iron. General Boyle is confident that by uniting and concentrating the means, the road can be built to a point beyond Madisonville. This would leave only a gap of thirty niiloa to be completed next year, if no further work was done at Hopkinsville. But the General confirms the belief that he can build from Hopkinsville in this direction from 10 to 20 miles, which would leave only a gap of 13 to 23 miles. It would appear from the progress made in building the E., H. and N. R. It., that Evansville can now, by prompt and liberal aid, secure the completion of the road, and make the connection with the southern roads at Nashville. Surely, it is to our interest to accomplish such a reiult. If we make the change in the subscriptions, the $300,000 is to be used only in buying the iron." "General Boyle has arranged with Mr. John II. Barret, of Henderson, and Mr. John Ingle, Jr., to make the purchase of Iron, &c. It could not be entrusted to the managememt of safer and more experienced gentlemen. We publish this morning the petition of a number of our citizens, among tbem the largest propertyholders ac id tax-payers, to the Mayor and Common Council, asking them to submit the question of a change in the subscription to the vote of the people. It is of the greatest importance to Evansville to secure the completion of the road, and with the favorable report of the road now presented, we believe the people will vote for it with great unanimity. We trust that prompt action will be taken so as to secure the completion of the road to Madisonville before. Winter set3 in. A Cbanse of Programme. Some nnnths ago, when the Alabama election was pending, the Southern papers were loud and persistent in urging the conservatives to stay away from the polls. Now that Congress has said a majority of the votes cast will determine the fate of State Constitutions' these same papers are equally persistent in their appeals to the people to both register and vote. Before, it was ignominious and contamination to go to the polls, now it Is pusillanimous and unpatriotic to stay away. The end to be accomplished in both instances is the same, viz.: the defeat of the friends of Reconstruction and the Union. The books of registration, in Georgia, were open five days last week. Every one who was in favor of '' Georgians ruling Georgia " was expected to register his name. The contest, it is apparent, will be, to a great extent, between the black Georgians and white Georgians. The latter are in a majority in the State, and if they vote as a unit, the Constitution will be defeated and the reconstruction policy adopted by Congress rejected. In such an event, the State will remain under military control until the people become satisfied that it is better to accept the terms granted them by a magnanimous Government than by f persistence in their rebellion to suffer the penalties which iu justice ought to be visited upon those comnutting the crime. otary fubliC in ite ouice. lanis ,i.f i

The Fruit Prospects. Wp, rtnhlish tin a morninsr. a larse

j number of extracts from our ex- ! changes in Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee and Missouri, giving the latest accounts of the Fruit prospects since the frost and freeze of last week. The accounts are somewhat conflicting, but the prospects are that there will be in the Wrest a fair crop, unless it receives more serious damage hereafter. Many of the extracts published were written before the full effects of the " cold snap " were sufficiently determined, and our impression is that the injury has been considerably exaggerated. The theory advanced by the President of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society will doubtless be new to many that the cold rain and sleet did 'ttot injure the fruit, because each bud had been encased in a sheath of ice. We have made , examination and inquiry of the condition of the Fruit buds and bloom in this vicinity, and are happy to say that the report js much more favorable than we had expected after the severe etorra, frost, and freeze of last week. 'The most serious injury was sustained by the early peaches, which were in full bloom; probably one-half of these are killed, but sufficient have escaped to make a pretty fair crop. . Of the later varieties a good crop may be anticipat ed. TEera is a good prospect for pears the cherries are not thought to be in jured, and the apples have escaped unharmed. The strawberries which were in rjjoom were killed, but enough have thuis far escaped to make a fair supply of this delicious berry, it is thought. Grapes are not sufficiently forward to be materially injured. So that altogether there is a good prospect for a sufficient supply of the fruit luxuries the coming season. Ko-Klax-KIan. If onr readers desire to be further informed as to the movements of the Conservative-Rebel Democracy of the South, the sworn allies of the Indiana Democracy, let them read the expos' tion of their recent bands which we publish in this issue. It had its origin in Tennessee, but is now reported in Kentucky and most of the Southern States. The latest manifestations of this aew phase of Copperheadisai are so formidable that Gen. Meade has deemed it necessary to issue an order enjoining special vigilance oa the part of the military and civil officers in his Department, in order to protect the community from the organized scoun drels. Gen. Meade would scarcely have issued such an order had he not been entirely convinced of their nam ber and purposes, and the attempt by Democrats, North and South, to make it appear that they have been exaggerated, is completely answered by the (jreneral s action. . The sober-sided, Conservative Buf falo Commercial says : " The extravagant jubilation of the Democrats over the Connecticut election is a very natural consequence of a long lack of opportunity in that line. The party has been so steadily in the vocative that it has lost all control of its emotion in the presence of even the smallest success. Ten years ago th?.t party could safely count upon carrying a large majority of the States of the North, and now its oracles become frantic over a show of success in one of the smallest States, and that, too, the one which, in 1814, set the first example of rebellion." TnE strongest advocates of General Grant's election to the Presidency are the New York merchants, who are at the great commercial center of the country, and know best who is the right man to place at the head of the Government in order to bring order out of the present confusion of our finances and business. It has been currently reported in the Democratic newspapers, that the wellknown merchant, A. T. Stewart, who has been at the head of the Grant movement in New York, has abandoned the General. Mr. Stewart, in a recent letter, gives the most emphatic denial to the report, and says : So far from having withdrawn from General Grant's support, I am daily, as far as one individual can, exerting all honorable means to bring about his nomination and election ; believing it to be the only effectual way of giving peace and proierity to our present disunited Union. Pollard's Southern Opinion orna ments the head column of its first page with the cabalistic letters K. K. K., inserting betweentthe KJs a couple of skulls and cross-bones. Under this piratical heading it devotes several columns to the work of the new rebel organization.

Bridging tlie Ohio. The Cincinnati papers and steamboat interests have at last awakened to the importance of properly regulating the general system of bridges over the Ohio River,, and there is some hope that out of their agitation good may accrue to the whole shipping and mercantile interest on the river. At a meeting of the Pilots' Association the following, among other resolutions, were adopted : - Resolved, That no bridge should be permitted over the Ohio River, with a less length of spin than five hundred feet, in the clear, over the main

channel, or of less, hight than one hundred and three feet above lowwater mark, where the rise and fall is as much as at Cincinnati. :. . ; Resolved, That the pilots do not desire to offer any factious opposition to bridges where public necessity reouire them; bufcthev do insist that companies building bridges Over the Ohio River shall show some respect tcthe interests of navigation which,, in the past; has dene so""mucli "to "build up the cit'e3 and towns along the river, and which", in the future, is to be the means of cheaply moving the vast commerce of the great Ohio and Mississippi valleys to tidewater, as well as the rich products of the South, which are to return to us in exchane. The Gazette makes the following proposition, which should receive a friendly response from all the river towns: Instead of abandoning the river to take care of itself, and instead of the towns Hpon it entering into a strife to see which shall put in the cheapest obstruction, and each one neglcctin all restrictions, on the ground that some other had done as badly, all th river towns should call a conference ana sena delegates, to uectae upon general regulations that shall prcserv ana promote an interests. ,-u an identical, and the interests of all the people are the same. All that needed to satisfy all is concert of action. "Sauce for the tiander." The Indiananolis Herald and other Democratic State papers are makin a great ado about the result of the Evansville election, last week. Not withstanding the fact that State or National politics hardly in the re motest degree entered into the dis cussion of the canvass, and that i turned almost entirely upon loca questions, the Democratic organ claim tnat it is a decision agatns Governor Baker, because his brother was the Republican candidate for Mayor. " That," says the Herald " he should fail of success now, when his brother is before the people for the office of Governor, is indicative of the fate that awaits his party next Fall." Says the Madison Courier: Bu it is a poor rule that is not appli cable to all candidates before the peo ple. The result of the election at Evansville may have this indication, but if it has, why not apply the same reasoning to the triumph oi The Itepubltcans in the election in In dianapolis for Center Township, Ma rion County? Mr. Hendricks, the Democratic Bond-holder candidate for (jovernor. now lives in ladianano lis. The election in Center Township was one of the farst guns from Indiana, fired ironi the home of the Democratic candidate for Governor, and the Republican majority is in creased from four to eight hundred doubled. Put that in your pipe, JJer aid, and smoke it at your leisure. That Mr. Hendricks' party should tail so disastrously at las home, which is also the center of the organization in the State, is a clearer and better in dication of the result in October than municipal election held in the southern part of the State, and in one of the only two Congressional districts in the State the Democrats have any well founded hope of carry ing in Uctoher. M'Kt izoa (jourier. The Courier, in its account of the " demonstration " on Monday night, says there were ODe thousand voters marching in procession for three hours! ' If its tlujuaands are no more formidable at the ballot box next Fall, the Republican victory will be an easy one. The Courier has something to say about " old Republicans " in the ranks of the " demonstration " on Monday night. We guess that, like its " one thousand voters in procession,'' was mainly in the befuddled imagination of th? fp-rter. Referring to the impeachment trial, the Baltimore American says: There is one other feature of the rial worth noticing:, and that is the different line of conduct pursued by Senator Wade, of Ohio, and Senator Patterson, of Tennessee. The latter is the President's son-in-law, an inmate of his household, and doubtless discusses with him each day the progress of the trial and the chances of acquittal, as they may appear through the gossip he picks up on the floor of the Senate. Senator Wade does not vote, but Senator Patterson never fails, as Washington parlance has it, to "vote for his boarding house." The contrast is as marked as the character of the two men who furnish it.

Correspondents. The following item, from the Pitt.-burg Commercial, we commend to many wou!d-le newspaper wriiors: A convOn le-it sends us something to print, and biys he bopes we wdl put it in '" some vacant corner." We respectfully iu.'uim him and all other correspondents that there is no such a " spare corner" in the Commercial, and furthermore, if a correspondence or article of any kind is only fit lor such a place, it is not worth publishing at all. For the Journal. SHADOHS. Shadows flit above our hearthstones.

Cling around us as we move, Ijinger ever iu our pathway ' Ubn the lustre of our love; Wander at our side forever. With a strange persistent will. Turn where 'ere we may, we see them, Haunting shadows, strange and tlill. Half of life is In the shadow, Shadows haunt out very dreams; They dance upou the mountain top,. ; And mingle in the streams. They cast a spell around us. Lead us many a weary mile. Far away to " Fancy's Palace,"' There to leave us with a smile. Sweet Fancy's magic sunlight',"; . Shall gild " Lovt's" rosy morn. And the shadows flee before It Like the night before ths dawn. - Ah ! Life has many a shadow, Which is still, and grand, and sweet. Which shall make the path way smoother, To our weak and erring feet. Shadows whlcU nffinrn nnrr.alnn . . Govern us, and make us true, IYve the mission we are seeking Leave us work enough to do. Shall we mock the growing shadows, f f ti a vpflrH now ml IpiI awh v t Let them shrink into oblivion. There lie hidden lrom the day? Nay I thy Father's hand hath shaped them , And he loveth thee the more, " Faith" looks beyond the Shadows, To the brightness yet In store. E. II. A.. ' IIexdersox, Kentucky, April, 18'W. ' mauicii:i. GIIEIF-PAXTON On Tuesday, April 14tn, at the Parsonage of the Ciairch ot ' the Assumption, by kev. Father Mcl.--mot, Mr. Wm. J. Gbkif, of Paduoah, Kentucky, to MIks S. K. Paxton, of Carlisle, Indiana. No cards. Though one of the fairest of the daughters of Iudiana has come to Greif, we cannot but congratulate her, and hopethat all her future Greifs may be like " the uses of adversity " sweet. The happy couple departed on their bridal lour upon the gay Mayflower yesterday, attended by the blessings and kind wishes of their numerous friends. iEW AVE11T1SEUEVTS. Notice of Dissolution. - : RTOTICK I J HEKKI1Y UIVEW, that JLsl the partnership hert-tofore existing between HiiryRichsteln and Fred.Karges, under toe name and sty'e of Richstein A Kiirsses, was dissolved by mutual consent on Monday, April 13th. The busm-HN of the firm will bn settled by Fred. Karnes, who continues tbe business at the old pl-.ee, on High Street, between Leet aud GiKjds."!! Streets, and is alone authorized to collect, and pay all debis. HENRY RICHSTEiN. FKfcU. KAKUtS. April 13, 1SC8. apU dot Notice to Debtors. A I.E. PEKVO.S INUKBTEn TO the late firm of Richstein A Karges are requested to cail and settle immediately. FRED. K A RUES. apri4 diot AMUSEMENTS. NEW METUOPOLITAX, FIKST ST., bet. Sycamore and The. Marti v Goldkx, Lessee and Manager. Second Night of the Re-Opening. WEDSESHAY F.VKWIXO, April 15, On this evening will be presented the popular comedy eijlit sca PA UL PR'Y, In which Mr. J. L. Barrett and Victor J. Haulenbeik will botn appear, which will be followed by a plea-sing afterpiece. AT Til R Turner IIjxll, APItlli 2Sth, 29ili, ami SOIU. The EVANSVILLE LIE D KHKHANZ and EVANSVILLE ORCHESTRA will give, ou the 1'Sih. 2!(th, and IJtth of April, at Turner Hull, Lortziug's beaiuil'ul Opera, The Czjr and the Carpenter, L'uder the direction of Prof. MATHIA8. Tickets 75 cents : reserved seats SI; and text-books at li'jeents to he had at V'irren & Couyngron's. Fish .6 Barter's, F. Ueil's Music Store, Scnlaepfer's Drug .Store, aud at ihe door. Doors open at 7 o'clock: -to commence precisely at 8 o'clock. For particulars, see bills. apll d till 30 THE COMMITTEE. MASONIC HALL. HIS POPULAR PLACE OF amusement WILL SHORTLY OPEN. For the Summer Season, Under the management of W. M. HOL LAND, with a FIRST-CLASS COMPANY, selected from the Louisville, Indianapolis,. Pittsburg, and New York Theatres, " POPULAR 8TA KS have been en gaged, and will appear in rapid succession. apr8 dtf