The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-04-29
Communicated.
s The Baton Rouge Route - VS.. Madison
Willie Route.

The ecsssy of connecting New Orleans by railroad
municaion with the great INTERIOR, is admitted by all
who have the interests Of the city and State heart; the
of accomplishing object desirable
,pen discussion The Madisonvle route
ractcabls and that IL it adopted
would for the great trunk of railway,
connect the Crescent City" with the West and North Lei
the friends of that route show why Madsonvle is not fo
purposes Of cheap transportation Of eighs Mobile
Than New Orleans. Let them show how train of forty
sixty be brought Pontcharain Lake. give the
lie of the transports. their depth Of water and cost Of
ruction. Let them show how those immense railroad
carriers tbs lake in times Of storm. when the trim
uilt Mobile and New Orleans steamer cannot doll! Let
them explain what would be the action of Madsonvs
rsnds in such detained Henry Clay. F. A.
iumsden, ESQ.,, and other distinguished gentlemen three
days the lake end Of the Pontchartran Railroad waiting
r chance 60 Mobile? These queries, and Others,
should be seriously answered before the adopted OF
The advantages Of the Baton Rouge route much
I've said.
The increase of distance, compared with the Madsonye
route nothing in point Of time and the Of BALD
ing the Increased distance less than nothing, when compared
WIN the expensive system Of be used
ecung Madsonvie with New Orleans. Baton Rouge Is
me pest landing on the whole Lower Mississppial other
ons oil Ehianns are bluffs. The u. engineers pro-
the front Of the city atom Rouge TO be of the most
ornament KIND oil embankment-" iron bound''-thereore
uways to be relied upon as transhppng point The dis
ance rom baton bouge VIA Clinton the Mississi opi
shirtysI miles thirty Of these miles are alrsadu era
ded and cou have the rails laid upon them morn if
we're desirable Should the Baton Rouge route be decided
apon In less than Jackson Mssisspp oould h.
connected with Baton Rouge by railroad communoa,ion
and the Gypsy Brilliant from Baton Rouge to New
Orleans direct in six hoursthree hours only in time loape
than by railway communication. Al freight b ousb, do,
the city in steamers be landed of the ty AM
Of The Municipalities. How is the freight over m
P0ntchartran Railroad to be distributed over the CITY, and
what cost to the owners Could hundred hog,beads
sugar be brought from Baton Rouge and landed in from,
the Customhouse New Orleans, cheaper than they could
carthauled from the end of the Pontcharrain Railroad
Finally the Baton Rouge with Jackson opened at
little immediate cost (or the steamers the Mississippi wi
be built by private enterprise. and not the Pontchs
train by the Railroad Company to the people of New
leans the benefits Of the road would be felt tin
would be given for the citizens of Lousana the
great plans that Jackson. M~ssssippi wi
New Orleans by direct railroad communication. decd
upon BY the Great Railroad Convention, which
| Robb presided.
The merchants Of New Orleans regardless of all local
sectional pudioes should press the speediest plan throu
meet the people OF Mississippi Assurances given, II
the Baton Rouge route adopted the people Of Am
county, Miss. would AT at the MissssiT
line. and push the road through Jackson In concusio
let that this Baton Rouge is somewhat
gons to the Erie Railroad in New York. The m
chants Of New York subscribed literally that said
8 because ii connected Buffalo with Albany, as Albany
connected with New York by the Hudson river Bat
Ronss eoaassssd with New Orleans, while tbs Misip