Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1850-10-19
TehnaItepeC R0adssExtra Session.

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g Public feeling III New Orleans seems
be fe-awaketed to Tie Importance
! building ii Railroad across the istl,,ntis
Tehtartepeu, Iii Mexico According
. the Crescent and the Delta, ii appea
that the issue Of recent negotiations vii
Mr.. 1lafgeus, Of New York. has place
it within tile power Of New Orleans ca,
ital to btiiid and control tie road ri
Mexican Government, SOME Years sine.
granted to Mr.. Hargoils, the FIGHT Of wa
across the Istln,ts, from ocean To oaea,
with ali immense donation of land to n;
the prosecution Of the great work, and
according to the Crescent. "by deed d
tfitst executed in New York, the wt,ol
grant II, fee simple Of a traet Of land sixt
miles wide across tile fstlim1s, extending
from Uceaii to ocean. d distance Of IL!
miles, and the exclusive right of passae,
by railway, with freedom from any Tonnage
duty or imposition Of any kind whatever
have beef, conveyed by MI. IIargous. o
New York, to Messrs. Peter Contey, IF.
j. Z. Behjatniu, Leonard Mathews, Sam
ttel j. Peters, Jol,hIM. Leypere, and Der
rafd Fallon. These gentlemen are to
hold the conveyance in trust, till March,
1862, iii order to give time for The oreani.
zhtion Of a company, to which they are
to transfer their rights"
Tbs call for al extra session ia basei
upon the fact that the law for the organ.
lzatior, OF corporations limRs the capital
OF any company formed under it to the
sttih Of $500, 600, which would be utterly
Inadequate to the rarposei Therefore,
IL an extra session be not called, and priv.
ilsge granted the company to increase
their capital, the enterprise must inevitably
fail, and all Of the immense %advantanes III
New Orleans, to the State at large. which
would flow from the completion Of tile
proposed enterprise, will be forfeited and
lost-for, if the legislature does not meet
January, 1852. the gentlemen to
Mr.. Haraois has made the convey
ahce referred to, will not have time to con.
a corporation and put it in opera
ton according to the deed Of trust. or
the contract becomes forfeited
The rights under the grant will have re-
perted back to New York. and the con
and guidance Of this noble enterprise
will have been transferred from the great
commercial city Of the Soutl, to the great
oetls Of commerce at the North.
Should this, unfortunately, prove to be
he case, a great and permanent loss to
Ito city and State, viii have been expe-
'enced-for we are among those who
that the interests Of the city and
are not antagonistieal, aud that
OF distress of the one. Is. in
great measure, felt in the correspond
lieg affirmation or depression Of the other
The Delta says that this railroad would
onieet the Atlantic and Pacific at a point
within three days steatning' Of New
This would pour d great por-
ion of the trade of California and Of
he ''e8hattstless East into the lap Of
Jew Orleans, and make her within a few.
cry few, years, the greatest commercial
TART upon The Western Continent.
We doubt not that Gov. Walker (wt,o
s. now returned honey will receive. in
few days, memorials from New Orleans,
ghed by thousands, calling Upon him to
the Legislature. Whatever is
kelly to be his action in the premises, we,
course. are not advised. II the demon
ration from New Orleans should be suf-
1iently strong, added to the numerous
Ietnorials from different Police ,J,tries
upon him to convene the legisla-
ire, although for n different %purpose) to
'nvllce him that tho people are in favor
an extra session, it will be his duty to {
one rs soon ms practicable. The ex. {
,nse, we know, Will be heavy, but il the \
'ople are in favor of bearing 1t, no one I
Is u right to question their will. They,
one, will have to do the yayiag. $
The subject Of levees is one Of vast /
lportanee to the future welfare of this
ate. aud could, together with the Tehu- {
Railroad, be deliberately and care. G
lily discussed. A vast amount of reli- t
lie information has been collected In a
to the destructive overaows of Il
g Mississippi and the best means of
eventing such disasters in future, which /.
Duld enable the Legislature to proceed in &
Q matter with more lights before them :,
an at any previous time. :
We refrain from expressing any opin- '
4 on the subject ourself, in consequences
certain ~ungeneroas filings made at
Rouge that our citi Gems were in
OF an extra session because it would L
ut money In their purses" The insin- p
ton is as unjust as it is ungenerous. u
I,
Government Of Louisiana. y
have been enabled to place before d,