Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1869 — The I. D. & C. Railroad. [ARTICLE]

The I. D. & C. Railroad.

The people of Indianapolis arc waking up to tlie importance of /this newly projected railroad route. Tire city papers of Tuesday all contained stirring editorial appeals to the citizens of Marion county, urging them in the strongest terms to vote in favor of an appropriation of $150,000 to aid in its construet ton. The vote in that otmnty is 1 to be held next Monday, and in our next issue we shall probably be able to inform our readers as to whether or not the J>ad w ill be built. We lake the following friwii a circular issued “To the oters of Marion County,” for the purpose of showing what strong arguments arc used in its favor; “Every county on the line of the rtxd bus voted for tlie appropriations, turn tt Is left for this county to vote for am* build, or vote against and defeat, tlie voml. “The di!-<*uce being from thirty to fifty miles le»> than by any existing route, and the rood under one management between the two great trade and railroad centers. “The almost entire absence of curvature, with light grades, insuring safe, cheap and rapid transportation of passengers and height. •‘Tlie local merits of the line are beyond computation, the benefits of which must accrue to Marion county. I lia oak, walnut and hickory timber of Jtoone, Clinton and Carroll counties, the lime and stone of Delphi, tlie water power of Tippecanoe river at Moiriicello, tlie bog iron ore of White and Jasper counties, superior in quality to any yet found on the continent, and even excelling the celebrated Low moor iron, now hauled with ox teams a distance of 10 miles, and shipped by the New Albany sod Eatem road to Brazil from four to six ear loads daily. S m mediately through those inexhaustible beds of ore the main track will nans, and can be shoveled from the road aMe- The grand, broad phjhis and valle vs o'a* rich soil as our Btatc nflbrds, Wrctcbiug afouf aud on eitlicr

side, the beautiful and thriving towns and villages of Boone, Clinton, Carrol, White, Jnapcr and Luke counties, Hi Indiana, mul of Cook county* Illinois, all opened up to the trade of our merchants, luamirncturciv, grain dealers, stock dealers, builders and laborers, should la* n sufficient inducement to make our people u,unit in the matter of building I tie rote I. “ft must Iwconie the great highway to the Northwest, to which and "from which the trade and travel must pass, making Indianapolis the great distributing |xti nt at one eud/aud Chicago at the other.’’ —4«» • » , , The citizens of Lake and McClellan townships, Newton Cotintv, held *n indignation meeting at Esquire Jenkins', on the '27th lilt , at which they spoke their minds about the Kankakee Valley Draining Company pretty freely, and resolved “to law fully resist any and all acts of said company to enter upon our land w ith a view to ditch or drain the same without our consent”, and'that they “will resist the payment of any assessment* made 1 by said company upon our lauds, to the utmost legal extent of our I ability, and if need be will use physical fares to prevent the same.'' They 1 also declared the law under w hich ; the company was organized as “un- ! constitutional, and unprecedented I in the annals of law making, even nnder inonachical governments)’’' and that they will “contribute just and equal proportions of time and money in dsfendin s any suit or suits necessary to contest the constitutionality of the act—under w hich tliecornpany was organized,” and “caution the public against purchasing the bonds issued by said company until a final decision of the constitutionality of said act shall have been made.” They appointed one of their number to procure council to look after their interests iu the matter generally.

Sai.na.vk, the tyrant of San Domingo, was wounded mid defeated in I a battle with the republicans, fought [ before Aux Caycs, on the 22d of August. Sai.nave has very prudeutly issued a proclamation abandoningthe struggle. lie acted very much like the fellow- who w ent to a hall without an invitation, and after numberless hints had been wasted upon him without effect, one of the managers kicked him into the street. Picking himself up he turned to a bystander, and with an exceedingly injured look remarked, “It seems they don’t want inc there.” Gen. John A. Rawlins, Secretary of War, died at five o’clock on the morning of tho 6th inst., of consumption. Gen. Sherman lias taken charge of the War Department ss Secretary ad interim. - - - The Valparaiso Yidtllc Wants" to~ know who will be General I’ackam>’s successor in congress. It Won’t be Aaron Gi'Rnkv,