Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1875 — C. & S. A. R. R. [ARTICLE]

C. & S. A. R. R.

In a private letter to a citizen of this place, Hon. Thomas L. Jones, one of the Vice Presidents of the Chicago and South Atlantic Railroad Company, and a resident of Newport, Kentucky, says: “I am very glad to see that you j>f Rising Sun are taking such deep interest in the Chicago & South Atlantic Railway enterprise. Ido not hesitate to say that I should individually prefer your route, and of course the line must be determined by surveys most direct and practicable, and by county subscription, all of which may result in your favor. It is a bad time for building railroads, yet I feel quite confident that this will be built. Chicago and Charleston want it, and they, with some help, which I think Kentucky will give, are able to build it. They are getting on well in South and North Carolina, and within one year wiH have the road completed 275 miles from Charleston. Mr. Rae, the Vice President in Chicago, writes me that they will get to Indianapolis within about twelve months, and the prospect is good for reaching the Ohio River in two year* Part of the route in Tennessee is also built, so that the road is pretty Well assured, except through Kentucky. lam informed that we can probably raise one million and a half of dollars along the line in Kentucky, and upon that I think we can obtain the money to build the road. I shall call a meeting of the Kentucky Commissioners,

at Cincinnati, about Sept. 20, for the pnr,the Kentucky Ranch. Wie- ,P*ndw| oft the eompanylind the Vice Efkliddpt I fIKSuM be *pff% see a delegation from your town.’ — Rising Sun N vos.

Comrade: “Several of the membera ofthe Society of the 87th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, having expressed* desire for a reihnon iment, it Is thought Best by many members, of the State at Indianapolis, on the 14th and of Oct., 1875, ms a* organization; giviag an opportunity for onr Society to meet, as wdf as tojein tie "RegiWents of our old brigade, and the soldiers of the state.— Therefore you are earnestly solicited to join 1 ; in securing an organisation in your locality and report to me at your earliest opportunity, so that an organization of our Regiment may be secured to meet at some point to be hereafter determined to attend the State reunion.” N. Glkasok, Prest. S,?of 87th Ind. Vols. LaPorte, Sept. 9th, 1875. Copies of the above card|boTng placed in my hands for distribution, 1 have sent to those members whose locality, is known to me, and I Jake this method of reaching those whose residence or post-office address is to me unknown. It is suggested that the member® who can do so, meet at the Court House injßensseler, oh Sept. 25th, 1876, at 3o’clae*P. M. for consultation. < t! . » '*•* r : , In the meant ime I would like to- hear from as many as I can as to their wishes about attending said reunion, so as to notify Col. Gleason as in the card above directed. I would add, that I hope few, if any, will be Unable to afford themselves and their comrades the pleasure of a re-union, after so long a ti me has elapsed since we met those with whom we shared the, tojls, pri va-. tions and dangers of those three eventful years “that preserved us a Kafion.” At this culminating point in ths. history of our fair Columbia —the centennial qf her birth amd first great struggle for life and a place among the nations of earth—’tis wall for her defenders in the terrible ordeal through which she has more recently passed, to mingle once again and grasping fraternal hands, renew the friendships of former years, revive old memories of the camp, bivouac and battle-field and kindle anew the fires of patriotism that burned in the hearts and strengthened the arms that gave us the victory over a brave and determined foe—wiping out the foul stain and blighting curse which intoxicated and deluded a brave and noble people to lift the paricidal hand against the land that gave them birth—giving us again a country one and undivided then and forever. 1 To cherish the memories of our fallen comrades, and with the living, brighten the chain of friendship wrought by common Bufferings in a common cause, we are now afforded an opportunity which may not—nay will not occur again till many of us have been mustered by the great Captain whose inexorable call none can refuse.

J. A. BURNHAM.

Rensselaer, Indiana, September 14th, 187 a,

The greenback is gradually forcing its way to the front in politics. It has conquered both parties in the great commonr wealth of Pennsylvnia. It was a bitter pill for the Democratic convention of the Keystone State to swallow, but the alternative was acceptance of the greenback dollar or foredoomed defeat, snnd the result was as might have been expected.— Nothing could be more significant. The greenback line is advanced from the West and South to the East; indeed it has planted itself in the center of political agitation. It is Pennsylvania that furnishes the key to political campaigns the saying, “As Pennsylvania goes so goes the Union,” has so often proved true that it has become the habit of both political parties to concentrate tbeir strongest battalions in the Keystone State. It is, therefore, most significant that both parties in that State have planted themselves squarely on the greenback platform; the assertion of the doctrine that the national government alone should furnish to the people a currency adequate to the requirements of commerce, and that this currency should not be gold and silver. The State within whose borders the Declaration of Independence was signed and sent forth to the people of the colonics ; the State in which the Continental Congress convened; the State iu which the people of all nations Will meet next year to celebrate the National Centennial; the Keystone State of the through both its great political parties announce the abandonment of its allegiance to gold and silver as the money of the nation! From this time forward the bullionists will find it necessary to replenish their armories with a different class of arguments. Coarse abuse will no longer serve. Denunciation of the people of the West as “ignorant and stupid” will no longer serve as weapons with which to attack the greenback plan. Pennsylvania is old, rich, cultured and independent. Both politicaTparties in that State number in their tanks statesmen of commanding ability and wide experience in 'public affairs. They are irrevocably committed to the greenback as the best currency ever devised by man. Neither party dared go before the people without placing this assertion prominent in. its platform. Both parties entered the race for power with the same pledge of fidelity to the much-abused greenback. This fact alpne will force the bullionists to sustain their position by arguments, or retreat from it altogether.— lnterQtemu