The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-04-05
IN EW ORLEAN


3, New ORLEANS AND JACKSON RAnRoAp.-A meeting
the committee appointed by the Councils OF the diff rent
municipalities Of NewOeans and Lafayette Tor the purpose
oeonsdeng the propey of with the above line
OF Railway, held last night in the Council chamber Of
the FIRST Municipality Its especial object to receive the
Report of the Engineer Mr. Augustus Phelps. and to make
for the receiving Of the delegates
at the great convention be held the 18th inst in the
Lyceum Hall. There present. Me-1s. Clark and
Lauabin Of the First Municipality Yancey and Marks of
the Second Municipality and Hooper. of the Third Munich
pai,y; and Burke and Buddicker, of Lafayette,
On the Meeting being called to ORDER Mr. Yancey moved
that the Report of the Engineer be read which adopted
and will shortly be printed for the purpose of distributing
among the members Of tine general convention.
The recommends running along the western
border Of the Lake Maurepas and in the first sixteen miles
strikes the river twice. 1t then goes in direct line through
the centre OF the sate and the neghborhoOd OF the pnc
pal plantations and populated the Parishes OF Jee
son. st. Charles st. John the Baptist. Livingston st.
Helena, St James and Ascension. striking the State line In
nineytwo and half miles from New Orleans. Inc whoe
distance from the West bank of the New Canal to Jackson
by this hundred and ninety niles ana he co oil
the construction of the works from New Orleans TO the State
line will he about 44 l2 cents per mile Ten miles and
half Of the road within this State Is across cypress swamps
but the remaining portion is over good GROUND.
conversation arose the pTOprlety OF recommending
the report inst read and the pOpounded to the general
convention 1t acceded by all present. that this
was mncb superio to the Msdsonvie route and as it was
the duty of that committee to do all that in its power
NewOreans and the valley of the Mississippi it agreed
IN the the best that had been prOpouned
but not with full and fair investigation into
she claims of other routes if such proposed.
AllIon made TO the of carrying on compa.
n.y. for object Of constructing the ne and was thought
that as Constitutional difficulties presented themselves
the company could work under the Mississippi charter, in
of which, Mr. Yancey proposed the following
resolution:
That the Secretary Of the Joint Committee be requested to
obtain copy Of the Mississippi Charter to the jackson and
NewOfeans Railway.
The following motions were then made and unanimously
Resoiucd That the report and accompanying map Of the
Engineer. Mr. A s. Phelps be unanimously adopted by the
members of This JOINT Committee. and recommended TO the
favorable consideration or the Convention.
That photographic sketch OF the be ordered and 500
copies thereof be taken for the of the Convention
Also $40 copies of the Report of the Engineer, be printed
IN pamphlet form. for use OF The Convention.
THE GRAND july REPoRT.-At meeting of the
Grand Jury OF the Parish Of Orleans, held in the Jury
yeelay, the Jurors agreed - submit supplementary
report Judge Larue having reference the imputatons
made by Recorder CALDWELL in letter published in the
Delta, charging the Grand Jury with having made false
and malicious statement in their last report.
The following is the statement of the Grand Jury against
which the Recorder complained:
letter addressed to Capt Forno, to know why the
wo'khouse was deserted while the number of crimes
sent Recorder Of the Municipality had the conclusion
that that OF the iaw of the 9Th March, 1872 authorizing
unconstitutional and for that suspicious charac
ters vagran burglars. etc. the w0khOuse
society. with gentle eproof Capt FornO further stated
that on several occasions he had been reprmanded by the
Recorder Tor bringing such men before him."
10 the report Of Yesterday the Grand Jury submitted the
which pat Capt Forno and they fully
justified the remarks which made, and confirmed every
particle Of the previous statement. On motion. The supple
nienary report filed and corded We shall publish II
in full in Monday spaper.