Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1871 — A Suggestion. [ARTICLE]

A Suggestion.

To the Officers of the New York Western Railway Company: Gentlemen: It is understood from the reports circulated by your agents that you have decided that the proposition to build a grand trunk through line of railway from New York City to Omaha is feasible. It is also reported that the preliminary arrangements of local organizations, who pledge right-of-way, subscriptions to stock, etc., have been completed and that it is your intention to commence the work of surveying, grading and tracklaying along portions of the route in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, this present year of 1871. It is further reported by your agents that yotrare as yet undecided where to commence building the road in this State. Now we make the suggestion that the work be commenced at the town of Francesville on the L., N. A. A C. R. R. and build to Rensselaer, for these reasons:

1. It will pay as well as any section of the same length on the line in Indiana. A careful estimate shows that the merchants of Rensselaer paid last year for the hauling of freight from the railroad stations the sum of $5,000. Other freights amounted to sl,ooomore. Making in all not less than SO,OOO per year paid on importations alone. Add to this the cost of shipping the thousands of cattle that are sent to Eastern markets every year, the corn, oats, wheat, potatoes and other produce that would be sent out if there were the proper facilities, take into consideration that the passenger tariff alone, basing the estimate on the number visiting this place last year, at the rate of five cents a mile, would amount to not less than $1,500. Add the increased freight growing out of the demand for lumber for building ’purposes,, and then we shall have added not less than $3,000 and probably $5,000 more to,the receipts; making in all, for freights and passengers SB,OOO or SIO,OOO the first, year. 2d. Jasper county is the only county along the contemplated line in the State that has given this project a hearty and enthusiastic support. The people have by popular vote levied a tax upon themselves in aid of this enterprise.— Individuals have shown equal readiness to subscribe assistance to the extent of their means. Work must be commenced in this county this spring according to the provisions of the contract made with us and the conditions prescribed by statute to secure a lien on this subscription, and while you arc about it, the work may as well be completed as only partially comhicnced for the reason that there will be an immediate return from the investment. In addition to the amount already subscribed, if work was commenced in real earnest in this county there is reason to believe that $25,000 or $30,000 more could be secured in the county from individual subscriptions. Of course these suggestions are based upon the presumption that you contemplate completing this enterprise at an early day. We arc well aware that it would pay uo company to build such a short line of read for the trade of the locality alone, but we feel certain that it would be as well to Commence at the point designated as to begin anywhere else along the , route in this State. It would not pay to .stock.fifteen or sixteen miles of track with engines and ears for its trade and travel alone, but yon , will need the ears on the road as 1

lot as portions are completed and they may as well be earning something as laying idle. If we have been wropgly, informed and your organization is not prepared, or does not intend to commence this work at once, of course the suggestion can have no force, but if the facts have booh tohl us in the matter then this suggestion is respectfully submitted to your consideration.

Mr. E. V. Wilson, a Spiritualistic lecturer nhd test medium, delivered a course ol five lectures, including two test matinees, in this place Saturday night, Sunday morning, afternoon and night, and Monday afternoon and night, last. Mr. Wilson is rather a pleasant speaker, having tolerable good command of language, not altogether logical, but always forcible; lias a keen sense of the ridiculous and becomes grave or facetious, eloquent or satirical, without seeming effort and with the nicest discrimination of propriety. He is a selfmade man of large and varied experience in the world. lie is full of egotism, thinks himself equal in every respect to any man who ever lived, and that he is a trifle or so superior to the most of people now living, lie has a splendid physical development, being well proportioned, with little surplus fat and weighing 255 pounds. This added to his great individuality of character and force of will makes him a living, sentient, magnetic battery of uncommon power. Naturally combative, with destructiveness highly developed, his plan is to charge directly upon all opposition and trample it down by sheer physical or mental strength without considering or caring whether he is in the right or wrong. To conquor is his aim, and the means use<t is of little consequence if it is effectual. This is the man’s character and attributes ns they presented themselves to us in sharp outline and bold relief.

The salient objects of his life are Ist. To battle against what is termed orthodox theology; 2d. To acquire fame; 3d. To establish a system of religio philosophy, based upon the doctrine of the immortality or indestructability of all substances. His “tests” are convincing to those predisposed to believe in his teachings and frequently excite wonder and the spirit of inquiry in the minds of skeptics. They can not all of them be explained upon any hypothesis of natural laws yet, described by scientists, although there may be strong reason to suspect that they are produced by the operation of a physical law or laws similar to those of gravitation, cohesion and magnetism, and that the forces employed may yet bo fully developed and as thoroughly understood as the forces of attraction and repulsion.

Ono of the best opportuniti es for men who desire to make a living dishonestly, is offered by. William Lewis & Co., 59 Cedar street New York. This enterprising firm is sending out letters and circulars to different parties throughout the country, proposing to send, in denominations to suit purchasers, facsimile United States treasury notes, commonly called queer. We call attention to this, not to prevent any gudgeon from being taken in, but to put those who are both fools and knates on the right track. Send on your money and get the queer, you will feel queer when you see what you have got and it will be queer if you don’t some of these days land in the Northern Prison. Any person desiring to engage in the lucrative and honest employment of shoving the queer, can see a letter and circular at this office. Don’t stand back, it is not so laborious as sawing wood, it is safer than stealing, it is not so danger-' ous as robbing, and it is much more honorable than begging. It is a rare chance. For $lO you can get SI2OO of the queer. “There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at its flood, leads on to fortune.” The letter and circular will show you the tide and how to take it at its flood. Some of your friends at Kentland and Oxford have already invested then*. money and have received as much of the queer as they can shove in one lifetime. Knave and fool here is your opportunity.

There are thirty-seven lakes in Kosciusko county and very little dry land and fish are very plentiful in" all—the varieties arc mostly tadpoles, dry cod and pickled mackerel—rwhich, no doubt, accounts for ti e saltiness of the Jndiowan “chit-chat.”— Rensselaer Union. *“ There is a “freshness” about the above extract that leads one to believe that its author subsists on prairie grass and raw pumpkins.— Warsaw Northern Indianigh. Come over .ami take tea with us.