Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1873 — Transportation. [ARTICLE]

Transportation.

Present facilities for transportation between the East and West are sadly deficient. They have not kept pace with the growth of either section,and the result is that loud complaints are heard from all quarters, that the people are actually suffering for want of properchannels through which tosend their produce to paying markets. In speaking of the present condition of the West brought about by this lack of proper facilities for cheap transportation, the Committee on Commerce, in submitting their report on sundry bills for the construction and improvement of interior lines of navigation, to the House of Representatives in February last, took occasion to sav: “Distress and ruin are staring in the face of the peoplejof the West. Unless they get relief In some way, and from some quarter, disasterand bankruptcy must speedily overtake vast numbers of the small farmers in all parts of the country. Many of them are still deeply in debt. Their creditors are pressing them for payment; their abundant crops are worthless; and unless relief soon comes they must lose their farms, and thus be east penniless upon the world to begin again in their old age the struggles, hardships, and privations of a frontier life; to be again In a few years cast forth from their humble homes.” This is the language of an official report, uttered after a careful investigation of the facts in the case, and by a committee of men above the average in good judgment, and therefore not liable to be led'? astray by popular clamor or groundless fears. Investigation into this subjeetTOUst convince all reasonable men that to avert a national calamity the producing classes of the West must have increased facilities for transporting their products to good markets. Statesmanship, broad, liberal, comprehending the wants of all sections, and the rights of all branches of industry , can alone solve this question of transportation without disturbing the friendly relations which ought at all times to exist between the leading industrial interests of the country.--Crown Point Register. - i: •

A Peoria, 111., dispatch says the grand jury of Woodford county has found a bill against Mrs. Workman, wife of the Rev. T. C. Workman, for killing Mrs. Hedges, near Eureka, 111., last spring. A former grand jury, it will be remembered, failed to find an indictment against her. The Rev. Addie L. Ballou does not find a preacher who wants to debate with her. We are not surprised at this. The man who would debate with Addie after reading her challenge must be composed of something more than ordinary flesh and "blood. We struggled with that challenge for two mortal hours and then gave it up. We thought that we knew what she meant, but her long-winded and illconstructed sentences confused and overwhelmed us. and we had no definite idea of what she really said. Spiritualism may be a good thing but it appears to be death on grammar.—Laporte Argus.