The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-06-11
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ney's plan ola Railroad to the Pacific has BEEF
fully endorsed in the Report of the Committee OF
Roads and Canals, presented at the present session
OF Congress. The Committee declare that all otbe
schemes have originated from this one. Its chic
recommendation is that il finds its own means, ant
dlsembarrasses the Government, while it accom-
pllshes great national work. We give the follow
ing extracts from the Report: ~
" Between New York and Canton, the distance
by Panama is i'll miles less than by the Cape o.
Good Hope; and with the advantage of the trade
winds OF the Pacific, if the Isthmus were swept
away, vessels from New York TO Canton would
doubtless go out that way. But the return voyage
Is the Important one, as to time and could be made
quicker by the Cape of Good Hope, under the helm
| OF the trade winds, and our vessels would always
return that way, even in the absence of the 18th.
| mus, whether from Canton, Java, MANILA Singa
pore, or Calcutta And as to the trade between
the Atlantic and Pacific ports, it must be seen thai
| when our Pacific territories shall have been re.
duced to culture, the agricultural products on the
same iatitudes of both sides will be nearly the
same, necessarily precludlng exchange, except as
| the manufactured products of the eastern slope
should be in demand by the producers of the
precious metals of the western-all or most OF
which would more naturally go by the railroad to
the Pacific, when completed. So that all these
visions about the future consequence of the Pana.
ma route, with the Isthmus forever planted there.
apparently have slender chances Of being realized
Distance and time would be insuperable and con-
trolling.
"T6e following birds eve view of distances
and time will illustrate the point vet further
From Canton TO London, by the Cape of Good
Hope, is ID, $50 miles; from same to same bv Pa.
mama, with adverse trade winds, is Is 55S miles ::
from iron New York to Canton, by Panama, is 49,,
l33 miles; by the Cape of Good Hope it is ID 255
miles; but, in returning, the trade winds would
always decide 10 favor of the Cape of Good Hope,
even II the isthmus were an open sea- The dis.
lance from London to Shaughie, China, by the
whitney railroad, is ii 1861 miles time, 81 days
time from same to same, by Cape of Good Hone
lOI days. Distance from New York to Shaughie,
by Whitney railroad, 1851 miles time, 25 DAYS |;
Llme by Cape of Good Hope, average 100 DAYS
1t must be seen that the power of the difference in
time and distance in these cases, put together is
lmmense-sufficient to annihilate all other rontes
for the practical purposes and under the controlling
the great law.'' '''''
Mr.. Whitney proposes that the Eastern terminus
OF the road shall be Lake Michigan. The Com.
mlttee express great solictude that Mr.. Whitney's
plan should be adopted, entertaining, as they do,
the opinion that no other is practicable.
We take the following from the ConcOrdia Intel
ligencer of the 9Th inst:
CREvAsSE SToPPED.-On Wednesday mornino
between three and four o'clock break was dis
covered in the Levee at about $50 yards above the
Bayou Bulliu levee. The alarm was at once given
and some two hundred hands promptly put into
the breach. The break was about thirty feet wide
and seven feet deep. After incessant labor from
Wednesday morning till Thursday morning the
Creyasse was closed. Nothing but the sleepless
vigilance with which this important point is guard
ed, has protected the front lands. A few hours
would have given the current sucn power as to
have resisted all efforts to ourtai it. The Bayou
punt leyee was constructed in 1887, with the
state hands, at cost of $50, 000 1t is across the
old mouth OF Lake Concorda, when that sheet of
water formed part of the Mississippi A cutoff
at some remote period Strengthened the river, and
according to the law which prevails, bar formed
across the mouth of the Bend, which gradually
hlled up; but in high stage, the water would flow
in through the old channel The ievee thrown
across this low place protects thousands of acres
now IN high cultivation. The breach of this levee
would be the last blow to this Parish. tits closely
watched and is now in condition to stand the
pressure of the swollen river.