Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1869 — Rail Road Letter from General R. H. Milroy and Others, of Carroll County. [ARTICLE]

Rail Road Letter from General R. H. Milroy and Others, of Carroll County.

Appended is published a letter ‘ from the Railroad Gorresponding Committee, County, in relation, to the preliminary arraugments for a meeting of the citizens interested in the proposed Indianapolis and Chicago Air Line llailroad. We trust the people ot Rensselaer and those portions of the county through which the route of the proposed road would pass, will turn out to the meeting on Saturday, and give these gentlemen assurances of your hearty co-operation in tliis„to all of us in Jasper, enterprise of incalculable advantage. “Delphi, Ind., April 21st, 1869. "Mbrsrs. I. M. Stackhouse, Du. W. H. Martin, Alfred McCoy, and others, “ Gentlemen: “Endsseil we send you n printed slip containing the proceedings of the vocable to the construction of an airline Railroad from Indianapolis to fhilcago, which would pass near this place and through die neighborhood of year town. The undersigned are the Committee appointed as mentioned in the enclosed proceedings. And in discharge of the duties therein devolved on them —having been referred to you, ns gentlemen who would take tar active interest in the location and construction es the proposed Railroad through your county— we address you and ask that you will inform US whether the citizens of your county would be willing to do their pail in the organization of a company and raising stock to put this enterprise on foot? and if so, we take the liberty of suggesting May 13th, 1869, and this place, as the time and place for holding a delegate convention of the different counties along the line of the proposed Railroad for the purpose of organizing a company to eflect the desired object; and that your Citizens take measures to have delegates airpointed to represent your county in Hie convention. Please inform us at your earliest convenience, after eohsultlng your citizens, whether they are willing to take hold of this matter, and whether ourKiiggeslimisaß totiiuc and place of holding the convention are acceptable or not. Very respectfully yours, &c., R. H. Mii.roy, j C. Anuell, I B. F. Rchermkkhorn, j r . TT ‘lf. A. M'OIA-RE, i VOMMITTOT! J. R. Hhitii, K. Rinehart, j

w said that At; gust Bel- i mont, the King of American bond holders, sad Chairman of the National Democratic Central Committee, together with a number of large bond holders, all of tlie Democratic party, are the parties who own and control the Imperialist, a paper recently atarted in New Y ork city, to advocate die establishment of an Empiril upon the ruins of the ItupubKo of the United States. If sack be r case, and the holders of Government bonds eontem]ilat<9 the) overthrow of the .Republw, amy flltan proceed to overt acts in thatfrffiirection, we are in favor of repoffintion, bj hanging the conspirators aud ' confiscating their bonds. t£TU% *aid that the nnbifc debt statemeut to be issued next Saturday,"will exhibit a decrease r>f $2,000,000. So much towards a good beginning. *■ ">b4'voi -