New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-09-21
THE NORTHERN RAILROAD.

me- present orary embarrassment In our
money market Ne0es on the mind the consider
a&iua ~ our means Of communication with the
Interior, and places in a striking point Of view
IL shscluts neessity Of our relying on rail-
resds IN pred Hees ~ water courses, in our
dealingp with OR customers. The steamboats,
which ought now to be crowding our Levee are
laid Up II the upper rivers from the difficulty
c&peoeQ1 bands. who are prevented by dread
< d91 1eon shipping on boats destined for
ON ~ Got4on or Western produce are kept
beek. " ~ Atlantic ports, and in the mean
tne hills mature, and our merchants are
preesed for ready means, although possessed Of
ample resources IN the shape Of crops destined
- their consignment. We must have our roads
btiat, and speedily built, u order to avoid the
I D4ec5ins dependence ON pAtsr communication,
always liable to obstruction from variety Of
causes
We sre happy to observe, however, that in
Rite q adverse circumstances, both our roads
1pidly progressing to point where their
- will BE- immediately and directly per-
abls BY our people. The Western road, dur
rs Tie ensuing winter, will be bringing in the
crops Of the Lsfourche; and the Northern road
Nins IN very few months, be in operation to
- highlands, and steadily approaching the
zoart Of the cotton growing region of Mississippi
eome anxiety has been felt amongst our citi-
gems in relation to the failure of Messrs. Robt
and Slidell to effect sale Of the bonds Of this
road, and apprehensions are entertained that
this may have . disastrous influence on the
future prospects Of tho Company; but these fears
fesult from misarprehension Of the facts
which We have been q ZONE pains to ascertain,
and We will now give some details concerning
the position Of the Company. From these it
viii appear that the only result from the failure
70 obtain . loan will be to delay the completion
Of the road beyond Canton, which is about
twenty miles north Of jackson, Mississippi, but
in no manner to interfere with the finishing of
that part Of the road which connects us with
Mississippi
The distance from NewOrleans to the State
line is 81 miles The ,ohoie cftAis distance is
already graded, except about ID miles of what
h called crib-work, in the swamp at Pass Man
chac, and these thirteen miles will be finished in
about 1bur months. The iron has already been
purchased for one hundred miles of road-forty
miles have already been received, and the re-
mainder will be here as soon as the crib work
Is finished The contractors are now laying the
Iron on the track, commencing at Pass Man
chac, and running North, although of course
the work cannot rzpgress rapidly while the
sickness now prevalent makes it impossible to
obtain lsborers in sufficient numbers. Three
. number of freight and dirt-cars
40 already here, and one locomotive, with dirt
Or gravel cars are already on the road.
The means Of the company are ample for car
xying the work to Canton. The road between
jackson and Canton is already graded, and
ready 70 receive the iron, which will be sent
thsrsassoon itarrives- December or J anuary
me location Of the road from the State line to
Sackson is made; depots have been provided for
. ne several necessary points; and, in fact,
pfything promises regular railroad commu-
rlo1tion with Canton by the close of the COMING
1paf, distance Of two hundred miles. If 4
loan cannot be obtained on the faith of a road
IN full operation, of such length and impor.
tance, the Company must. Of course rely on
further subscriptions to continue its progress to
the Tennessee river; this being the only link
required in the chain which will connect us
with the North and East but any doubt on
that score is idle, and, although the work NAV
not be finished as soon as it could have been if
> loan had been obtained. We repeat, its ulti-
mate success is already PLACED beyond doubt or
question.