New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-04-28

ti6cial channels are draining our trade away
from us-the Postscript is most significant:
aPEsssrLyAs,A CANAL LINES 1s52.-D. Leech 4. Co.'S
coaa TRANSFORMATION Lnes.-We recepting through
from Louisville for Tobacco Produce Cotton MeTcnai
disc. eta to Baltimore. Philadelphia, New York Boston
and MI the intermediate points Shippers may rely upon
low rates. pupctuaty and dsfstch :.
SEThe present of freghts to New York is IN
favor Of the above route Gas compared with tine New IT.
leans route) So per hid. on Ionaceo.
On the Doth of this month, by official order,
the canals Of New York were to be opened for
the Spring trade. If we are not mistaken, the
CITY Of New Orleans will shortly realize their
injurious influence upon her commerce. If the
consideration Of economy be added to certainty
Of safer and more rapid transportation and
more extended facilities than can be found in
trading to New Orleans, then the great arteries
Of the Eastern cities will soon lead to them
great and increasing flow of trade. Their IN
crease must, as matters now stand, be our loss.
So long as we stand idle, we will become
weaker and weaker for efficient action, and
entirely incompetent to vigorous competition.
This fact must strike every intelligent citizen,
and the sense Of it should bring to us harmoni-
GUS councils and undivided action. 1t will not
now answer for us to indulge in wayside bick
erings, and when we should be urging our pro-
gress with common will The advocates Of one
favorite project should not imagine necessary,
or even probable, hostility in the advocates Of
another; they should not grudge the successful
progress Of one enterprise as wrong or injury
20 one in which they may feel more special
interest; they should not industriously conjure
up the idea that this or that sectional adyan-
tags--sectional to city which is itself mere
span on the earth's surfaoe--lies ambushed in
every proposition to aid an important work of
internal Improvement. We have enough of this
feeling, lingering among US in spite Of CONSOLE
dation, to make it desirable that voluntary
effort should be made to entirely extinguish it,
There are two important ojects-whichinte
sect one another and traverse the State, and on
which we are happy to perceive public favor
has concentrated-the NewOrleans and jackson
Railroad and the Opelousas Railroad.
The advertisements we have brought to the
notice Of the public are amongst the thousand
and one signs of the Importance of our fastening
the construction of the NewOrleans and jackson
Railroad. 1t will be necessary promptly to-
augment our means of competition, if we would
not surrender large and incidentally valuable
portion of our trade. If, under present crcum-
stances, with the great future empire which is
slowly but surely unfolding to us West of the
Mississippi, as yet scslenderly opened up to us, in
our capacity of u great commercial city, we
lose the trade SO temptingly invited away from
us, we will experience sudden and enfeebling
decline We must struggle now to keep what
we can of it.
In the future, the trade west of the Missis-
sippi, the trade over the Isthmus of Tehuante-
pee, the Gulf trade, will open up to us a COM
MERGE which will make NewOrleans one of the
greatest cities, and one of The wealthiest in the
world This is the natural trade of NewOr-
leans; and in reference to it she stands in
most admirable position for the exchange OF
commodities Her trade--her natural, neces-
sary and incalculable trade in. the directions
indicated--does not lie on or about the same de-
gree Of latitude, but has the wide range so es-
sential to the growing prosperity of CONNER
cial depot. The Mississippi greatest
channel Of transportation and the agent of her
past prosperity-cannot be bridged at any point
South of the Ohio, and in this, if she but add
energy in auxiliary internal Improvements, she
has perpetual guarantee of the commercial
tribute of the wide stretch Of empire west of the
Mississippi. Let her establish the Opelousas
Road as the first agent in this service, to add to
er,present prosperity and to prepare new re-
sources for her future growth
MEADOWS SPANISH ENGLISH DIcTiosARY vol. Thos.