New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-06

Mobiiea and your objections must ID all reason
end,
see nothing further in the last production Of Citizen
No that requires any further reply than has hereto
tore been given BY The statement published By
10 the Number 81, OF same date, must satisfy bin that
tne mortgage bonds to be issued will bear the eris
ing road aad that the present stockholders from the
msnt they embark IN the Joint scheme, fairly IN
g g and oound not only by iron links, but BY mortgage
OF " To ultimate the enterprise AZ
to sae on these bonds It should be contributed to-
ps9portonsly and the part falling to the present stock
hlders Will have been deducted before the t erngs'
wv haye been arrived AZ The Of Citizenn n
precatng the value Of the stock the Poptchartran
e sS00000 Is suicidal TO the interests Of the city for
upon what reasonable grounds the company expect
% Negotiate her bonds 10 that il her partner in
ssss npon her capital being placed at low *gure,
ssszea then asks Why not let the city ii this be
snacloua Improvement GO expend udev her os asfs-
pics this 81 10000 and then If it be found deirabie
me W,i the Pontchartran Railroad upon terms
az may ny lust and equitable ~
ls oess answer give i5 to refer Cftizen TO Iis
z, n when, d5seoursing the restoration Of
me cly ersa {wheh be trusts shall oct rampe der
against tse principle sought o be estsblsed in s ap
phcaonn (of ths company Of corporations or govern
schemes Of public improvement aud tor a I'm sangsr
e1so upon their sole and interest Am hanny
to see, Citizen, that you set high value mon o1r
credit There is jewel however that Won Al @ aeen,
TO set any value on-cousistency.
There is another point suggested by czeu reatinu
70 the right Of way through Mississippi and Alabsa or
the chartered privileges of these States These being
now the property Of the Pontchartrain company Vim on
the city subscribing become part of her aseta part
Of the joint assets to make cear may be ucor-
porated proyiso in the ordinance that sill the rights
and privileges the company these charters shall
BE- transferred the stockholders in the proportion
tner capital subscribed This relieves all objections
that score.
But TO return to subject If much greater considera
on Inan any proposed BY this wrterWhat advantages
are proposed to New Orleans BY this railway MobiIea
lo aseuss thfs matter TO any advantage let take
down cur maps. have before me map Of the railway
Of the Jackson road with the Northern and
Atanc cities annexed to the annual report Of that
better f M - ~ sno
1 ia -
sionstne seaboard district the mountain district and
the auyiai district The great range m tha sIia.,
mountains and its branches puruss north eassery or
southwesteriy direction dividing the auysl or Misss
sippi valley district from the seaboard district This at
ter district is distinguished by almost continued tide
water level with few streams other obstacles The
valley route for railway sttHg the mountainous dis
trct for the further East you 60 the stronger you nd
your claim be Great Northern Railroad masses rrgb
country abounding with nouutaintorrent streams
Tth nigh grades and serious and costly obstacles The
probability IT, (and We have authority for it, it highly
picturesque Whether the stockholders will be high
pleased With it az the delighted traveller is matter not
worth thinking ofat least for the present purposes
Considering Chattanooga in the seuteastefn corner of
Tennessee the head of that line Of railroad being
6H from Chattanooga to Lyuehburg Virginia admit
burg virginia. by the two companies known the Knox
vile and Chattanooga Tennessee and Virginia Railroad
Gompany-let us inquire where and how the New Or
leans jackson and Great Northern Railroad Company
connects Itself wi this airline trunk which it alleged
y the President Of that company is the Of travel
between the North and Souh-shaRter than any other
route proposed or Likely to BE adopted attract
tons in scenery and beauty Of country unsurpassed
and great these attractions that any more S,b
route being competitor for the through travel from
the Gulf of Mexico the north Atlantic ces is sum-
| marty disposed OF as absurdity.
Ihe jackson road after rounding the western side Of
Lake Pontchartrain, goes to describe bow by run
uing through Jackson and Aberdeen, Miss. and finally
HIS the Memphis and Chattanooga at about the
iue dividing the States of Mississippi and Aiabama-as
yet it west Of Mobile Here taking the Memphis and
Charleston Railroad by way of Chattanooga) it runs in
an eastery direction to Decatur Alabama then north
eastery direction to Chattanooga The distance is given
by the Company their map Tin the coIua distances
at the right from New Orleans to Chattanooga 5s5 miles
what will De the railway distance to Ghattaaooga via
Mobile Compute New Orleans to Mobile 140 !; from
same to Sparta on the Gurd road (a town opposite
iumhus Ga in process of construction, and in which
the city OF Mobile is the principal siorksd is rs miles
thence to Selma projected) 70 miles thence to Rome
Georgia by the Alabama and Tennessee Railroad feop
struenng3 l62 miles thence to Chattanooga construct
| ed) 70 miles, making total of 522 miles (accordipg to
the Companys map. 63 miles less their own route
to Chattanooga So that meeting the New Orleans and
jackson on its ground at Chattanooga, the Mobile
route has the advantage by 63 miles thus determining
the question which be the great route Of ars North
and South in favor the Mobile route circumstance
Of great Importance in the future discussion
But deny. sir that nature intended can make
the trunk from Chattanooga TO yueh burg the main route
OF Northern and Southern travel Independent the
physical obstacles and tina Necessity of crossing the
tdis there exists by the eaboard the shortest and
most prasticabe route When the jackson Railroad is
built and the roads that with it
Great Northern Road what will thedistance from New
Orleans to Washington City, According the table Of
| The company above referred to- 1905 miles Now sun
posing the railroad to Mobile be finished by the time
the Mobile and Girard rosd [all under contract1 is
finished. we shall have continuous railway from, New
Orleans to the Canaas do pretend 20 say that rh
then existing routes will De the shortest line from
hence to Washington (another common pont but per-
NIT me to compare that with the Orleans
jackson and Great Northern Railroad route New Or
leans to Mobile 1+0 thence Columbus 22u thence to
Macon (partly consrucedl So thence Augusta (pro
ected) rs thence Columbia (coustructing 90 thence
to Gheraw (censructing 10. thence Fayetteville {eon
structing) Co. thence to Raleigh CONSTRUCTING So and
then upon the following roads all completed nd running
Raleigh to Gaston 3D. thence WeIden u.s. thence to
Petersburg So thence Richmond % thence Preder
cGsburg 40. and thence Co Washington partly con-
structed1 49, making ioldl Of 1886 miles 169 miles less
than the jackson road But these routes, all which
will be nshed before the time of finishing the Mobile nd
the Mobile and Girard from being in the
direction of an air line along the seaboard route We
know that it an inevitable law in railway commuca
tons to strengthen itself and approach to the air
line of travel What further contractions may be made
the seaboard be evident TO the eve and must
| follow in due course.
From the map Of the company appsars that An
airline from Jackson to Washington is longer than an
airline from Mobile and giving them the benefit Of an
airline nehce 10 Jackson Which though north is west of
New Orleans, it would follow that tiless ftco sides of
triangle aipays less than tie third side it is not such
an a6surdity as has generally been supposed that
southern be competitor through ira
70 tne North And THIS Is the more apparent when you
consider that the difference between the distance from
New Orleans to Mohe and from New Orleans to JACKSON
43 miles in favor of the former route and that the same
road that has thus laid claims to the title of Great North
erh road has its route defined 1ed aet' the
tersecon of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad far
outside Of any supposed airine from Jackson Wash
| ington City.
This settled let take general view the progress
sion OF railroads constructing and about and con-
slider the results upon the interests of New Orleans
The great prize that all contending from Boston
to Mobile is the great t She belonged to us-a
j rich patrimony from Nature We have been gradually
forced to give and to the demands and
enterprise OF Northern brethren Like the Red Man
we harsgo the end of the log just room to sit
upon-a few and shall be of the log The
field upon which the great struggle decide the fate of
New Orleans is to be fought upon the man
extending from Chattanooga its east wing where the
Lynchburg or Northern Railroad--the Charleston the
Savannah road and again. gallant sister city MOBILIZE
with the road to Semagrappte with for the last hold
upon the West. Following westward the line of battle,
ley OF the Tennessee river aud nersectiDg the Memphis
aud Charleston road, nersecting jackson road at
Aberdeen Here then at these points OF intersection in
the West the vital points of this Fd Of Wateroo
Let consider the advantages of Mobile She about
III miles nearer the Tennessee valley At Aberdeen
where she trips jackson road she about 126 miles
nearer than New Orleans by Jackson road How is
distance--to be overcome only by reduction in her
rates Every one know the value OF saving dis
auce railroad travelling The Pennsylvania Central
Railroad Company direct their Engineer eNpeud 0Oo
distance of " miles l Is evident that she
cannot do t by reducing her to-apd what will enable
her Nothing but the having secured the great
travel the Nor b. aud this have she cannot
Orleans agaust Mobile she ouy do it dead loss
How long that will continue aud how uuprsduetve US
unfortunate stockholders it easy calculate Ii the
JACKSON road is working this disadvantage the
ern line Of attack, how much greater it be the
| eastern point-at Chattanooga Here have Mobile
coming in via Selma by shorter than the Jackson
with Charleston aud Savannah roads either these
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