New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-06-18


secret diplomatic mission, the object of which had not
transpired.
ClNros,-Capt John Kilian has been elected Mayor
of the town of Clinton, Fast Feciana.
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Address
0fthe Board of Directors ofthe .Neac Orleans.
Jackson and Great Northern Railroad
Company TO the Citizens Of .Neao Orleans
CrrIzENs-1n view of the election be held
Monday next for the purpose of determining the adp
tion rejection Of the ordinance for subscribing to the
stock of the Company conded to administration,
deem our duty to lay before you the present position
the enterprise the prospects of success and the probable
returns of the road with its influence on the progress and
prosperity of our city.
1t known to you that this road not intended merely
to connect Neworleans with the of Jackson in the
State of Mississippi but that it is the only link now re-
quired in the great chain of roads already in progress
which will bring us in immediate contact with popula
ton of 100000 of souls thereby extending meal
culable amount the social and commercial intercourse
between NewOreans and all that portion Of the confede
racy lying east OF the Mississippi river There e2ag
geration in this statement Charters are already granted
subscriptions already made State aid in Mississippi and
Tennessee already accorded by which the extension
road from Jackson 10 Florence and from Florence
Nashville is secured This line of road from New Orleans
the Charleston and Memphis road thus giving us drec
railroad communication with the Atlantic seaboard anG
with the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys and it will alsob
its connection with the railroads in actual progress
through Virginia. conduct in almost air linz to Bal
timore, Washington Philadelphia and Newly ork.
We have been actively engaged since the organization
Of the company in preparing the measures necessary
put the entire road between Neworleans and Jackson un
der contract during the present year AS fast it
be located by engineers who have been engaged anG
whose arrival is expected within month"; it will be ad
versed for contract and entertain doubt that by
the LIST January 1851 the entire road from Neworeans
Jackson will be graded in readiness to receive the iron
and that the whole road VII be in active operation before
the end of that year.
The spirit which has been awakened the entire route
through the State of Mississippi based on the convc
ton that you will respond to the action of your Munic
pal Council and that you will not fer that success
is within your grasp In the single county of Monroe
that State confidently anticipate aid to the amount
of five hundred thousand dollars, more than half Of
which has already been subscribed In other counties
the subscriptions advancing with almost equal spirit
and in Tennessee the State itself has agreed to give eight
thousand dollars per mile for providing the IRON The
whole of this vast scheme pregnant with important
results on your prosperity your fortunes and the future
growth of your city, depends your vote Monday
If you sustain in efforts unequaled career OF
extended commercial enterprise with ats train of BEN
ets is before you If you reject the golden opportunity
the reaction will be sudden it wiz be ruinous trvr
months will not eapse before the effects will be felt per-
vadng all branches OF business and affecting all kinds
property. The confidence inspired by the mere hope OF
obtaining the road and the effect of which already evil
dent in the increased activity among mechanics and
in the increased number of buildings now be-
ing constructed and in the increased value of real estate
Will disappear as if by magic aud not few of your
terprsing citizens dheartened at the failure of all their
efforts to awaken you to Of what is due to your
selves and your families will abandon their homes in this
city and seek elsewhere communities where their enter
prise will be met in different spirit and their energies
secure suitable reward
In two or three years from Monday next if your voice
shall respond favorably to the call made on you long
trains of will be hourly entering your city laden with
the produce of fifteen States and bringing you passengers
days. New0rleans, from her climate her manners the
frank social and hosptabe character of her citizens and
the attraction of her public amusemens will become the
fashionable winter residence of thousands of wealthy cit
liens with their families from the North and West Her
stores and hotels will be crowded with these visitors as
those of Newfork now are in the spring and summer
months Our merchants will become importers as well as
exporters; our direct trade with Europe will acquire
sudden and rapid extension the western demand
shall find permanent stocks of foreign
goods in the stores of Dealers accessible at all sea-
sons and oil stages of water Our increased population
will secure ready employment and liberal wages to the
the drayman the laborer of every kind Our
markets viii be abundanty and CHI aply supplied at all
seasons Life in Neworleans will become agreeable
anu attractive as the comforts of home augmented
and cheapened And. above ALL citizens will cease to
be mere birds of passage migrating at each season. but
will become permanently fixed among augmeutng our
wealth by their home expenditure and our influence by
the weight always attached to large stable population
These are but feeble and inadequaeiy expressed views
of portion of the great benefits you are to derive and
what is the cost Amere annual investment in the stock
every hundred dollars that you in real estate For
years past you have been burthened with far heavier
special taxes levied to pay the interest an old debt en-
tailed on you by mismanaged city affairs special tax
Tor that purpose of or even per cent per annn has
been unusual call on you and has been promptly met
without the least prospect of return How then can you
hesitate in view of the advantages to be derived
to submit to 50 small burthen onehalf of per cent
to be returned to you in work which will encourage la
Dor multiply the of industry increase your po
pulaon and augment the value of your property even if
you obtained no direct dividends from your stock But
so far from this being the case you merely asked to
make an investment of this trihng amount in stock
which will yield heavy returns in dividends We can de-
monstrate to you that work this continent ever of
Tered surer guarantee of large profits and will give
you the estimates for your examination that you
may appreciate the which induce this conviction
Before doing this however will remark that by no
other plan than the which is prepared raising
the means TO build the road justice and equality
obtained About onethrd of the property of this city
amounting to more than twenty millions of dollars is
by abSentees by companies by SUGGESTIONS
deceasedpersons, All of this property Will be greatly in
creased n value and its augmented by the pro-
posed improvement without dollar OF contributions
romth owners unless this tax be voted The St. Charles
and St Louis hotels the banks and their property the in-
onee companies and their property the succession of
s"eh mon MS McDoneugh Fowler and Pauding the build
hss owned by the wealthy who live abroad ON the
rents OF real estate in this city Will all be exempted from
aiding IN such works but wiz reap the benefit of the EN-
terprse the capital and the labor of those who remain
here identified with the fortunes of the city unless this
tax be supported by your votes Such result repug
nant to common justice, and ought not to receive your
sanction.
We will proceed with rnaJ