The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-08-17

jackson railroad would he finished to
the State line. l had it from parties
connected with the road, and notwith-
standing all that has been said since.
there yet remains some one or two
miles Of unlaid track this side of Man
schac, which prevents the cars from
running through from the city. The
balance of the road is finished, and
why that short piece Of track is not
laid down, is a mystery that is hard
to solve, since all the materials for its
completion are on the spot.
Col. Campbell is now 10 Europe
trying to negotiate the sale of bonds
of the City, recently issued to that
road, but it is my humble opinion that
not bond will be sold in London or
Paris at this time. There are some
unwritten passage, in the history of
the road that might be given to the
world, and which would cause not a
few to stare, but since the standard by
which men and means are nowadays
determined, is come to be success, no
matter what the morals may be it is
useless to waste ink and paper with
them. To show how interest can
sway parties and cliques here, you
have only to speak well of some enter.
prise or work, that another party is
interested in, and you will be over
hauled at once with oaths, impreca-
tons. arguments and aseverations all
goin to prove(0 how useles, worthless,
dangerous and rotten is that some 9TH
er enterprise. This is a good key to
the systematic denunciation and ridi-
cuIe that is being constantly heaped
by certain parties and their echoes,
upon the Mexican Gulf Railroad, a
work which. if it were finished, would
give another air and complexion to
the old Third District, now 80 much |
abused and ridiculed. l had occasion
the other day to make inquiries as to
the statutes Of that road, its past his
tory, present condition, and future pros
pect, in or order to lay the same be-
fore an Eeastern company or party,
with view to negotiations. l had
made but few inquiries before l was
loaded down with voluntary informa-
ton and advice. That road they said
was nuisance. an imposition to the
public, was rotten and al out of re-
pair. tarversed an uninhabitable mis-
cradle country, penetrated lagoons and
praries where the gallinippers and
were little smaller than
Bashan Bulls, that the thing was u
failure, bad 60, ruinous specula.
zion &C.. DC. DC, all of which I put
in my pipe and smoked at my leisure.
A personal inspection of the road. its
furniture, equipments. depots, business
DC, convinces me that Barnum or a
Vanderbilt, or even if you please
greater than Campbell could resusi-
tate, rebuild and complete that road
from that city to the Gulf, and by ad-
ding a steamer line thence to Mobile,
would have ten years the start of the
road that as TO BE, though the achcn
is not yet determined upon.
The jarring discordant interests and
,liques of opposition, is one of thos,.
curses, which. of all Others, is most to
De feared and dreaded, by city condi-
Toned as New Orleans is to day; but
what matters it. He that has the
greatest amount Of brass, bumbug and
gas, seems surest to win. And how
t is that the city thieves and expards,
,oes ahead under this weight Of cor
upton and petty Intrigue, is beyond
nv ken, but that it does is none the
ess true.
Already are the laborers engaged
n the work of rebuilding portions Of
he burnt out district, and if they con.
inue on at the present rate, it will not
,e long before an entire new class of
stronger, taller and more
lurable. will rise above the ruins of
he old ones. The Delta has got a
lew Office, few doors above the Plea
me, on Camp st into which they
moved yesterday. The weather being
90 hot for amusements of any kind,
he evenings are rather dull, but warm
nongh +" make it mp.
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