New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-07-11
W. tnlc much rlensure In having before onr


construction of the North East and South West
Road. These articles are from the pen of q gen
tleman of Alabama, alike distinguished for his
learning, practical sense and public spirit. He
is q perfect master of his subject, and whatever
may be the opinion as to the correctness Of his
conclusions, the ability of the articles will richly
repay for their perusal. Perhaps there is no
portion of this vast country more completely
locked up in natures fastness than the section
that is to be traversed by the North East and
South West Alabama Road, and certainly there
is no section in which the bounties Of Providence
have been scattered with o more liberal hand.
There are between 800 900 and 100000 acres of
land Astounding in the richest coal and iron ore,
and in which are found exhautless quarries of
! fine marble. The Importance, therefore, of a
direct communication with such q country can
not be TOO highly estimated,
| New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad.
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| Since the Importance to the city of New Or
| leans Of system Of railroads connecting her
with the interior has been fully recognized, and
active and efficient measures have been taken
4 for the construction of such roads in several d.
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ton to weigh with attention the merits of any
new project of the kind which may be brought
to their notice There is one route along which
n road is inevitably destined sooner or later, to
| be built Of which little has yet been said, but
which has acquired an immediate Importance
in consequence of certain recent movements III
the State of Alabama. This is a line northeast
from the city Of .Netc Orleans by the ,coy Ct
The Rig0letS, to connect with the n. E. and
wv ID n n 3nh so 10
| tend from Marion, Lauderdale county, Miss,
| Tor thereabouts) to Chattanooga, in Tennessee
| The Alabama road, just mentioned, was char
| tered in December last, and such progress has
\ been made in securing stock as to leave scarcely
a doubt of its eraly construction. The directors
resolved, in the beginning, not to commence the
work until means we're secured for its entire
completion; and the plan which they have
adopted is such that, when the ground is once
| broken, it will be broken along the whole line
| Mt the same time; so that two or three years
will suffice to put the whole line in actual opera
ton 1t is now believed that the work Of gra
| ding will be commenced early in the ensuing
| autumn
This Alabama Road will be three hundred
miles long, and will pursue almost an airline
course; being continuation of q chain of roads,
which, beginning at Portland or Bath, IL
Maine, stretches almost without deviation from
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New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washing
ton, Charlottesville and Lynchburg, to Knox
vile and Chattanooga, Tenn, and Tuscaloosa
Ala, directly towards the city of New Orleans
II At Marion, Miss, this long air line falls into
the Brandon Road, and into the Mobile and Ohio
Road, at the junction of the two From the
point of junction, the distance to Mobile is about
one HI ndred and fifty miles, and the distance tt
New Orleans, MA Jackson, is not far from three
49, Al. Al
Diets would be but trile longer than the dis
lance to Mobile; SO that the construction of {
road on this line would put New Orleans on Z
fair footing of competition for the trade Of the
country with which the Alabama Road com
municates Without such a road, all this trade
is evidently lost to New Orleans. Is, then, thi,
object worth securing
In the first place, lest apprehension should
arise, in any quarter, that the proposed roae
would in any manner interfere with the inter
ests involved in works already in progress or il
which it is proposed to reach through this new
channel is one which cannot be reached at all
for purposes of competition, through any of tn
important works in which New Orleans is a
present engaged This country embrace
South eastern Mississippi, Central and North
eastern Alabama, Eastern Tennessee and West
ern Virginia; a vast and productive region froD
which New Orleans is at present absolutely Gu
off BY means of the Northern and Contra
Mississippi roads, New Orleans will be put int
, communication with South western, Contra
and Northern Mississippi, Northwestern Ala
, bama, and Central and Western Tennessee: bu
a glance at the map will show that these road
give us no direct access to the extensive countr
above described.
The capabilities of this great country are a
= yet very imperfectly developed The want of
market has kept more than half, in fact grea
deal more than half, of the productive land
n out of cultivation yet even now the agrcul
5 tural products are so abundant as to constitut
vast and rich commerce, for part of whic
, lin Northern Alabama and Tennessee) Charles
U ton and Savannah are eagerly contending, an
t for the whole of which Mobile is preparing
put forth the most energetic efforts of compel
ton. The completion Of tho Virginia and Ter
nessee, the Georgia and Knoxville, and th
' North eastern and South western Alabam
Railroads will inevitably stimulate the agricu
It tnral industry of this vast and fertile region
!. n twofold productiveness. In addition to tb
" corn, cotton, bacon, lard and other article
: now SO abundant there, immense amounts
p superior wheat and other grains, fruits of tt
e best quality, hemp, flax. tobacco, and VI
rious productions Of the soil now scarcely cult
r waited, will he sent down in continually il
Ia ereasing quantities, to swell the commerce
the ports of the Gulf In short, there is I
'e single consideration making it desirable IL
r New Orleans TO communicate by railroad vii
lie Mississippi and Western Tennessee, which do
!. not render 1t equally to her interest to open
- similar communication with Alabama al
~ Eastern Tennessee.
There are some special considerations in fav
of the latter communication, which, with pc
AZ mission, will present in one or two brief arr
IN Giles hereafter F. A. P. B.
~ THE VACANCY ON THE SUPREME BENCH
:, meeting of the citizens of the parish of Rapid
~ was held in the Custom house on Saturday Ia
H. for the purpose Of expressing preference in I
gard to the selectiono of proper person to fill t
vacancy on the Supreme Bench, occasioned
!, the resignation of Judge Campbell. Resoluto
i we're passed earnestly recommending our tt