Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1851-01-04
jackson and New Orleans Railroad.

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The pIojcct,of a Rail Road from jack
son, Miss. to New Orleans, seems to have
taken a hold on the minds Of the people
Of the latter city, sufficiently strong to
insure its %consumation, Appearances
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Mayor has taken the matter i'll hand aud
gone into the preleminaries with au ear
nestness and zeal that is not only honor
able to himself, but will prove efectual
n recommending the scheme more i'm
mediately to the men of enterprise resi-
ding in New Orleans. AT his request,
HENnY Il. SMITH, Esq, Lieutenant of
the United States Corps of Engineers,
has made a survey of the proposed road
from Madisonvilie to the State line, Mr..
Smith in an able and lucid rcport--after
enumerating many Of the great advanta-
ges to be derived by New Orleans aud the
State at large froyh The proposed road, and
urging the necessity for prompt action on
the part Of New Orleans estimates
the cost of the Road from Madison.
vile to the State line, boats included, at
$575,000 and the total yearly expense of
keeping the line ID operation at $140,652.
He thinks the road, wen ~supposing it to
extend no further than the points men
toned, would pay the whole expense of
keeping it in operation-interest on the
capital invested, at the rate of s per cent.
heing included.
We Clip the following, in relation to
this road from the Bee.
@Thc time has now arrived when it
becomes incumbent on every good citizen
te exert his best energies towards the pre-
vantion of the further diversion OF trade |
and mnler from New Orleans. Pro-
whence has supplied rs with such i'm
natural advantages that we have
been hitherto content 70 lay upon our oars,
supinely trusting TO the superiority of our
position, and making no effort whatever
to maintain it against active rivalry, or to
o preponlerence over all COMPETE
tors by the application of artificial means.
That a policy 50 sluggish, must, III the
end, prove f~earfuify injurious, requires no
elaborate array of statistics to substanti-
ate, Il is already proved by the notorious
fact, that for q series of years our CONNER
cial importance has been gradually and
encroached upon by more enter
States, which, allured by the pros
pect of a trade that secures within its am
pie scope the contributions of half a con.
tinent, have stretched ont railroads. ca
mails. and river communications iii every
direction, with Q view Of cutting of, as ii
the source Of our prosperity. This
pursued ut first 10 silently. as to
excite no alarm. has grown into a power
full organization, in which all our Eastern
brethren are concerned. We now wit
its fatal effects in the abstraction of
large a share Of business, as to render
and concerted efforts to arrest
he drain, a matter Of vital Importance
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LAFAYETTE ITar ar THg NoRLDs
FAER.--We were shown last evening, SAYS
he Lafayette Republican Of the 18th nit,
u our friend, T. Mcclure, a hat n1anrfac
ured at his establishment ii this city,
which has been made expressly for exhibs
ion at the Worlds Fair. The body is
'onposed entirely Of a six pocket-hana
and when held Up to the light
hows all the ooFors and figures Of tile orr
Il il quite 4 curiosity il the hat
AMI evinass mach ingenuity oa the 1
art Of the manufacturer. We ara Inform
4 that il will be ready for exhibition al
lectures Hat Store, Oh Friaay next !