The Evansville Daily Journal

The Ohio And Mississippi Railroad.

A friend at Henderson—where the affair has caused some indignation—has sent us the following note, with the poster to which it refers, enclosed:

HENDERSON, June 18.

Mr. CARLILE:—Permit me to call your attention to the enclosed "poster" of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, and especially to that portion of it under the head "To FREE STATE MEN IN PARTICULAR." It is such things as this unwarrantled appeal to party and sectional prejudices, that keep alive the unkind and injurious feelings between the North and South, and which ultimately may lead to very serious and unhappy consequences. People on this side of the river feel these petty insults to be great outrages upon their feelings, and will certainly avoid the road that indulges in them. Surely things are coming to a bad pass, when a Company which manages the "Great National Through Line," descends so low as to attempt to appeal to the strongest sectional prejudices, to increase their travel. You will oblige your friends on this side of the river, by noticing it in proper terms.

Yours, &c.

The sentence referred to by our correspondent, is as follows:

"To Free State Men in Particular—We wish to recommend this Northern Route—running on FREE SOIL—through Free States—and constructed by Anti-Slavery men, and No Border Ruffians connected in any way with this Road."

This sentence is conspicuously inserted in a large handbill, in which the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad is highly puffed, and recommended above all others, and which is apparently designed for very extensive circulation.

If we believed the handbill had emanated from the Company from which it purports to come, we should say it merited the severest reprobation. But we have information that satisfies us that it is the treacherous work of an enemy to the Road, in whose name it is issued. The bill has no signature, and it has none of the marks and style of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad handbills upon it. We are persuaded that it has been issued by the agents of a rival Road, and has been circulated in Missouri and Kentucky, purposely to create prejudices against the Road and impair its business. We have no partialities for the O. & M. Road, but we believe its managers are men of too much shrewdness to be guilty of an act so suicidal and foolish as to publish such a circular to the world. We have no doubt that our friends on the opposite side of the river will soon hear from Mr. Strader, in a manner that will convince them, that the bill is a gross and outrageous imposition.