Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1875 — Railroad Election. [ARTICLE]

Railroad Election.

A convention in the 'interests of the Green, hack party, » called to meet at Detroit, A uguzt 25, and General B. F. Buller, W. D. Kelley, Moms W. Field and others, are expected to address the meeting. The crops in Kansas and Missouri are reported to be “zplendid;” even in the grasshopper districts there will be a two thirds corn crop. A new kind of buffalo grass is springing up in the fields ravaged by the grasshoppen, and the tamers are greatly excited. According to the Logansport Journal, they have organized a monumental association, in Delphi, who contemplate erecting a beautiful tribute to the brave soldier who fell during the late war, in their Court House yard. No doubt many will be surprised to learn of “the late war in tbeir Court House yard.” The saloon of Henry Corbin, at Westerville, Ohio, which has been the cause of so so much trouble there, was set on fire during Sunday night but the flames were soon extinguished. The building which had been previously shattered by an explosion, is now “worth very little.” Corbin is ill of fever, but threatens, when he recovers, to “try another saloon.” The people, however, say that no saloon shall be permitted in their town.

An exchange says a strange, Robinson Crusoish story oomes from England that a vessel driven upon an unknown island in the Pacific has found there the survivors of the ship Florida, which sailed from New Orleans for California in 1849, and was never more heard of. Twenty-six years of solitary imprisonment! If this tale should prov e to be true it would be like a resurrection from tho dead to many families in tho South. It might involve a score of . Enoch Ardens and several Annie Lees grown to be grandmothers. An exchange thinks that everything outride of Wall street, wears a bright look for the future, and it is really hoped that its forecasting may prove true. It is certain that the reports come up: crops in all sections looking well, and it seems as if the country was to be blessed with abundant harvests; the remnant of last year’s grain is being freely marketed by the farmers; labor in the West and South is abundant and can be had much cheaper than formerly, in consequence of the great decrease in railroad buildiug ; the crops on the continent of Europe do not look so good as usual, and England will want our surplus grain, and probably other countries will also want some cf it, the, labor strikes in the coal regions are over, the mining prospects on the Faciflic slope are very promising and the general outlook is extremely favorable for a good fall trade. The energy and enterprise of forty millions of American people, and the great productiveness of the country, are bound to be felt in a new era of prosperity for the nation, croakers to the contrary notwithstanding.

The railroad election held last Saturday in Adams Township, Hamilton county, to vote aid to the C. & S. A. Railroad, resulted in favor of the appropriation, by a good naajority. The amount voted was $21,000. So far by tax and sbsoription,.Hamilton county has raised about $42,000, which amount will be doubled in the course of a few weeks. The people in Hamilton county are deeply awakened to the importance of the rood and are working with an energy that shows their good will. The right of way through their lands, which are the most fertile in the State end of great value, will be donated to the Company free. The right of way, with but few trifling exceptions, has been secured from the city limits of Indianapolis, northward through Marion and Hamilton counties for about thirty mile«, without cost to the Company. Very little of these lands can be bought for less than sloo’ per acre, and some of them are worth twice that much per acre, yet they so appreciate the value of railroads that they offer the right of way as an inducement. Some other places on the line where thejand is but half cultivated and worth only one-eighth as much per acre, the owners are clamoring for exhorbitant damages. This is the difference in people.— Monticello Constitutionalist.

There has lately a great deal boon said by the press about deadheads. We think many ©four contemporaries entirely lose sight of the proposition upon which all their remarks on this subject should be based, which is, what is a deadhead ? The answer is a simple one; he who obtains, through impunity, something for nothing, whether a puff* in a uewspaper, ajrailroad pass, or a theatre, concert or lecture ticket, or any other thing universally paid for by decent people. Now can editors, because they receive many complimentary tickets, be really properly classed with the great army of deadheads—those cotciuptably mean creatures who are ever on the alerWto get something for nothing ? We unhesitatingly and most emphatically answer, No! and do so on the ground that every courtesy shown an editor, in the way of tickets and passes, is paid for at least ten times over in the way of editorial nr other advertisement—advertising which which would in the ordinary course of business, cost the parties who receive it about twenty times the price of the few ticßeta they bestow, generally with an air of great liberality, and as though they were conferring a special act npon the editor, while all the time they expect a tip-top notice before, and favorable comment after their 'show," if perchance they run one, or numberless puffs of “oar railroad” &c. Every editor in the land would bo richer in purse and more independent in criticism, if he would pay his way where he goes, end charge full rates—so much per line— for all puffs and notices.

MORE ABOUT THE RAILROAD. Bdow we publish an article on the railroad question, from the Delphi Jourual, which presents a few pertinent facts and figures. We desire all readers of the Republican interested in the welfare of the Chicago and South Atlantic Railroad to give it a careful perusal. As the prospects for building the Chicago & South Atlantic Railroad become more apparent, the desire to become better acquainted with its history, past and prospective, increases, and wishing to satisfy that inquiry as far as possible, we have gathered together such data as we could make available, and shaped it as best we could, taking special care to select nothing but well authenticated facts, and to present them without polish or adornment.

It is well known along the line of the first contemplated road between Chicago and Indianapolis, that it has npt only had open enemies, but secret foes, who have once or twice caused the abandonment of the project. Jealous lines and equally envious cities upon contiguous roads have fought it with a determination that is. usually awarded with success. But the last time the enterprise was resuscitated, with the flattering prospect of extending it to the South Atlantic Seaboard, it awakened such a strong public interest in the several States to be thus united, that seemingly the stronger and more virulent the opposition became, the greater appeared the attachments of its zealous and uncompromising friends. They gathered around it like men who are conscious of being engaged in a good work, and for more than a year they have labored without ceasing, not only in the impetuous current of an extended commercial and monetary panic, but against the complicated and multiplied obstacles that ever intervene to impede the progress of undertakings of like character, and to-day they have the proud satis&ction of knowing that their pet scheme is assuming important proportions, and even its prospective influence is now troubling the acknowledged railroad magnates of our great Eastern Metropolis. In their

dreams they see the millions of bushels of cereals raised upon our boundless Western prairies, annually flowing in one continuous stream into the open lap of the Southern market for their consumption and for reshipment to the foreign ports of the old world, without paying the accustomed tribute to New Yorkers.— They also imagine they see the products of Southern climes and foreign lands returning, not via. N. Y., but by the great National Air Line that is to shorten the distance between the North and South and which is to save to the people of these two sections the immense profits that have helped to build up a palatial city and maintain an independent aristocracy.— They see Chicago gaining prestige, and Indianapolis peeking her way to take her assigned position as one of the first cities in our confederation. These facts are patent, and no wonder they fight this road with a seal and determination they never before exhibited to such a distant rival They well know that it is an enormous undertaking, but they also know that the genius of American industry demands the building of this mighty trade artery. They are not blind to the fact that Chicago has opened her ever generous hand, though just recovering from the damages received in her passage through the fiery ordeal; they know that heavy private and public subsidies have been awarded all along the line ; they know that the legislatures of Kentucky, Tennessee and the Carolinas have made appropriations, and as far as they had the power, granted rights of way, and they certainly know that the citizens of the above named States, who have so long been at the mercy of the New York monopolists, are in earnest in their unprecedented enthusiasm. No matter what faults or prejudices the Southerners may have you generally know where to find them. Their avowed adhesion to any measure or policy signifies that they endorse it with their might. While they may not possess superior judgment, it must be said to their credit they are strangers to deceit. They have published to the world their great faith in the completion of the Chicago & South Atlantic Kailroad, and have illustrated that faith with generous subscriptions and donations. As we said last week, this road will be built ; the pressing demands of commerce between the two great sections, caused by the rapid development of their resources, for cheap and direct communication, have awakened an industrious people, who have only to agitate and work in order to insure ultimate success.

Wc find that the total amount of subscriptions between Delphi and Chicago amount to one million dollars. There has been expended in construction up to date, including the right of way, three hundred thousand dollars, with figwt hundred and fifty thousand dollars of unexpended subsidies. The right of way into Chicago, skirting three-quarters of a mile of rivST fipjnt, is estimated to be worth (as soon as the ordinance passes, of which there seems to be no doubt) one million dollars additional. We now have 80 miles of the 105 between Delphi and Chicago, graded and bridged, and ties enough on hands to keep ahead of the track layers. The Directors stand ready as soon as the city ordinance passes granting the right of way into the heart of Chicago, to commence laying the track in Illinois* All this has been accomplished within twelve months of exceedingly hard times, and in the face as a dangerous and organized opposition. With such glorious results under the most discouraging circumstances, what may we not expct in the next year, aided by the prestage already gained, with the same display of energy and perseverence ? The Delphi ftass, in speaking of the Chicago and South Atlantic Railroad, Myi: ‘•The contractor who had the work of grading a eection through Jasper County suspended operations a few days on account of a 'strike' of the hands employed. Those difficulties have all been satisfactorily settled, and the work will go forward as before. Be not discouraged all is lovely and and the road will be built.”