Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1838-09-04
MORNING HERALD.



II In morning paper yesterday (remarkable fol-
Its siolidity) there was some sublmely superative
nonsense relative to the Atchafalaya Rail Road; and
amongst other momentous statements this occurred
by ths way the cotton of the Opelousas country
will reach New Orleans in October and November
instead of February, a. is now The case. A constant
supply Of fine cattle will also come to market by thi.
road" srE aN
Now TO all who have ever travelled as we have,
over the A'chafayala country-across the Bayou
Sorrel-Bayou Pigeon, Grand Lake Lake Chicot, the
Bayou Teche, the A,chafayala Bay the Black Ba-
youb &c-ihe above Statement, seems the very qant-
essence OF nonsense. For the great grazing coun-
try lies south of the Opeousas, and not in any way
near the line of the contemplated rail road from OPe-
lousas church TO Point Coupee. Thousands and tens
OF thousands of the finest cattle annually brought
from the immense praires that lie between the Bayou
Teche and the Sabine river, (as we'll as from Texas
as far as the San Trinidad) to Saint Martnsvlle,
thence by the COW boat to the Bayou Plaqnemine,
and by land to New Orleans. These cattle are all
preferred to those from Missouri Illinois, Indiana
and Ohio; because they travel but very short dis
lance by water; if necessary they could go the entire
distance from St. Martinsville to New Orleans by
water and then 60 much quicker than by going round
that il perfect nonsense thar the laying
down the rail road from Opelsusas church 10 Point
Coupee will afford any extra facilities for sending
beeves to the New Orleans market. Why in psint of
fact the contemplated line of rail road will pass
through tract of country in which il would be cx-
ceedngly difficult TO find Fifty head of cattle together
at one time along the entire route.
Again, with regard to the cotton of the Opelousas
Nav 81 n.io, IL
by the ran road than by the present route Can any
thing be more ridiculous than this statement? Why
the entire years growth Of cotton that from the
"Opelousas country" could be disposed of in New
Orleans on the Levee in few hours under ordinary
circumstances. The cotton, also included, that comes
from the adjoining districts Of Lafayette, ST. Mar.
tins, 81. Marys, the Plaqsemne, the Atchaialaya
Bay Plantations, &C. &c. is comparatively unimpor-
tant when compared to the sugar crops. If rail
road were laid down for any particular purpose, it
should be for the purpose of bringing the sugar the
New Orleans market And we hardly know how il
could be brought quicker than il now is.
We have seen no less than eight excellent steam
boats running between the sugar and cotton planta-
tons and New Orleans at one time. The Monmouth,
Teche, Ajax, velocipede Corco, Planet and two
others, whose names do not remember at this
moment. All running between the "Opelousas
country" as the sapent writer calls it and New-Or
leans
Moreover, we have seen sugar and cotton taken on
board these steamboats, at the plantations and land
ed and sold on the levee at New Orleans, all within
the space of 36 hours and yet the learned writer
talks in way to induce TO believe that i, requr
ed SIX msnhs to accomplish this instead Of 36 hours.
Nay, we have helped to roll hogsheads of sugar and
bales of cotton on board a steamboat on the Ateha-
falaya river, and have landed and sold the same in
New Orleans within thirty hours. How ridiculous
then, it is for persons to attempt to write about Ha
tiers that they are totally ignorant Of The fact s,
that the rail road, if aid down on the contemplated
line terminating at Point Coupee, opposite Bayou
sara, will benefit not more than six scheming specu
ators But the fact of the matter is that there is
certain bank in New Orleans called the A,chafalaya
Bank, (which the southern people had little
6dence in and the Recorder Of the Second Munich
paliry Joshua Baldwin, was its President He made
use of his official power Recorder circulate the
netes Of the Atchaalaya Bank; the shin paslers Of
the Second Municipality were issued there, and by
this and good deal more Of such manGuvring the
notes were circulated; they were always howeverre
garded by the well Informed with Suspicion, and in
the general panic, this Of the first banks to
burst no Whether the notes are redeemed now or
NOT, we have not heard. The Banking Company OBJ
tanned their charter solely upon the stipulation, that
they laid down the rail road within certain time;
for this object the company chartered by the le-
sislaare of Louisiana with banking privileges They
obtained their charter bull, their bank, paid for IT in
their own notes, sent abroad their trash in the shape
Of promises pay" and seemed for time al least
10 think no more Of the rail road.
Bet, they al last found, we presume, that Time,
who rps up the heels Of the soutest, would lay them
fat on their backs IL they did not present at least an
Appearances Of complying with the terms at the char
ter and now therefore, hear that the Aichafala
va rail road is to be laid down. Psgh! Whether il
is ever begun or ever finished, scarcely SIX persons,
we believe cares one cent Its benefits, II ever con-
fer. any, can never be felt by the present generation
but unfortunately the evils conferred by the bank have
been felt by thousands.
su~prnLaSp, TINE Parnor.-We stated some shor
time since that this genius had been set at liberty by
bcag bsnished, on giving security. Since then, we
learn that the law officers Of the crown in England
had declared his trial and COW ctsn Illegal, conse-
quently that sc. him At liberty eeromonie. Now
we learn from the Toronto paper that full pardon
has been granted him and he has been at liberty
on that ground. He 10 lscky to be set at liberty
three times, for doing nothing.