The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-02-01


eet, reascending again six hundred more to the
point of shipment-and to ship it thence four hun
1red more to the point OF shpment-and 10 ship it
hence four thousand miles TO our shores; and here.
after paying duty of thirty per cent, to undersell
the American iron master, and return with wealth
to revel in Russian luxury.
The New Orleans and jackson Railroad.
The route of the New Orleans and Jackson Rail-
road is not yet selected. 1t has been proposed to
construct road from Madisonvile, through the
Parishes of St Tammany and Washington, to the
town of Jackson, in Mississippi connecting the
terminus in this State with New Orleans, by line
of steamers But there are many persons who be-
lieve that the only correct and permanent route
would commence in New Orleans, and would pass
along the margin of the Lakes until it reaches the
Parish of Livingston and the following statements
and reasons are respectfully submitted to the public
in support of this opinion:
l. The distance from New Orleans to the River
Amite, going around Lakes Maurepas and Pontchar-
train, is about forty-ive miles the distance
Lake Pontchartrain is about thirty miles. There
is difference, then, Of fifteen miles between the
length of the route across Lake Pontchartrain and
that of the route around the lakes; and the ques-
'ion oosio"''y "'i'e'' "ou'N " 10 'ne"P, Ac'e
pron'"oie' VI mo,e con'ee"'' ~ 'ui. en1 'la..
tam foaa Oh iof'y-hSe ihhe'' 10 sustain na'i
eauoh u 'h'V ,""e: WIN ''e'."e' nc 'ono"-
ing esuis'e VIII a''''' 10 III 'o'''s ''"' q'e'''o'
The cost Of - miles OF s'oaa would sy m
Cost Of renewing and repairing 1850
Cost OF running engine win wear anu 'ear'' ie.oss
a., ,. .e ..,, ,o.,, ,,,,,,S d. sso mn
The interest on which would be. .............s4soO
ost Of epains a. III dsy for each boat
S9I $50
6l@a
-g... sS''ooo
Ihis solution would make a dinerence Of twenty
nine thousand SIX hundred and hity-slx dollars per
annum In favor OF the roaa.
If it should be said that the estimate for the run
ming OF fWo boats Is extravagant, we answer, that
if one boat would be sufficient to transport the
freight and passengers that would be brought daily
on the projected railroad, the design cannot be so
important as its advocates Oould haze as believe
1t NAV be remembered, moreover, that the ordi.
nary trade between Covington and the city would
prohtably EMPLOY ,,oo at least t,co efficient steam
boats: how is it possible, then, that one could
transport the timber, stock and cotton of tract
country extending a hundred and thirty miles from
the lakes? Our estimate is correct, or that rout,
is a paltrv affair.
But If the amount of expenditure on both route
were the same. is there no advantage in establish
inc road tbrouvb the public lands that lie betvee,
the Mississ;ppi River and the lakes? Is there nc
benefit in afording facilities of transportation to
the planters along the coast for forty miles above
the c;tv? Is there no profit in penetrating sugar.
growing region =? And is it not worthy of consid-
Grafton that the proud city of the South would, by
one movement, extend her seat from the great river
on whose brink she REposEs, to the natural outlet
Of that river into the lakes
II m,phl be safely asserted that Railroad from
New Orleans to the River Amite, around the shores
of the Lakes. would be a work of great advantage
to the CITY, and profit to those who might be inter-
ssted in it,
The idea of connecting line of steamboats,
with the track of Railroad, seems to me with
lue respect for the opinions of others to be pre-
MYSTERIOUS. How would produce be carried to the
boats! Is it pretended that the whole train can be
run aboard without difficulty, so as to be conve-
niently transported to another terminus, thence to
be carried to the emporium. If the freight is to be
taken from the cars, and lifted or rolled aboard the
boats, am inclined to suppose that so much delay
would not he agreeable TO travellers, and that SO
much handling would not pay the company. If il
be proposed to stow whole train in a steamboat,
it is not presumptuons to inquire how the timber
cars would he divided, how the cattle cars would
be arranged, and how many cars a steamboat of a
size suited to the navigation of Chetuacte, would
contain! Without much experience in such things
may nevertheless be permitted to suggest that
there might be very uncomfortable gain, in the