The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-08-04

A~6 ~ 49, 49, ORoWvoo'
Plsnk fotd, met--according to notice
at Johnston's Store on Bayou Crosse
Tete on Monday the LIST instant. W.
are pleased to see that, at that meet.
ing they resolved to change &c road
into railroad, and increase the CAPT.
t"l stock Of the Company from $780,.
600 to 100000.
In our own mind, we have always
doubted the utility and practacability
of Plank roads in this latitude. The
back streets Of New Orleans, where
plank has been used. furnish sufficient
data for calculations rs to their econe-
my and durability. We have advo.
Gated them in connection with other
interests Of the capital. as a kind Of
Qermier resort; to arouse our people
to the importance Of sending out into
the country ''feelers" for commerce,
and to stimulate agriculture. The re-
sources Of this section Of "lovely Lou.
isiana" can never be developed with
out them. Talk Of the mild and bland
atmosphere Of other regions-we have
been all over the Union, as far down
a. the State Of Maine, and no where do
we find, SO many natural inducements
in value Of soil and mildness of eli
mate; inviting tho restless soul of man
to be rich in all that is necessary for
his welfare and happiness, as is offered
in this the Sugar Bowl Of the Usion
The only draw back upon us, is our
peculiar institutions. which-besides
other social evils, cause a monopoly Of
wealth. There is this consolation
however mo condition of mere human
affairs can exist always; they contain
within themselves the elements of their
own decay, and it is upon this fact in
philosophy that better prediction for
the future, is based.
1t is the duty Of the age. to march
forward and the honor is left for the
people Of the present day in Louisiana,
to. be the pioneers Of enterprise.
The Stockholders in the Crosse
Tete Company have done well; can
not the Clinton Company follow suit ?
The property holders in this city, and
the Parish Of East Baton Rouge, are
noao pecuniarily interested in the sue
cess Of that road-Large amounts have
already been expended to grade, ditch 1
and bridge that naturally beautiful (
thoroughfare. and shall it be plankcd
or shall VIC not with ono voice say {
hat, at this period in '55 the locomo- {
i've shall whistle over the track-uni-
ing us by an hours ride, to the gencr-
'us, and bospitable town of Clinton in
East Feliciana? 1t is for the citizens /
If Baton Rouge to say-and ifthey do t
'ay the word, in less than twenty-four |
hours the stock in that road will 20
lp to par value.
Whilst on the subject Of "projec- T
ed enterprises" may we not say t
imely word in reference to the branch Z
o connect us with the Great Northern {
Dad, to furnish a brief transit to New a
orleans? The capital has said she n
,ill take $1,000, 900 of the stock; what Ct
ays the Parish? II is time that our n
eighbors about US, equally interested a.
18th ourselves. were expressing them. u
elves upon this great question. The Ell
appointed to wait on TIE b
olice Jury should present their cre- u
entails, and day should be fixed for
king 1.-The sense" 1t should be done n
because a briefsix months r
'ly intervenes, before the State legis. ca
ture meets again. and then the ques- to
m Of uniting the Commercial with vi
o.. eY