New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-07-15
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til Hoaalndina tllis berries Of brief srtieless
hasS Sslought Il Workh while tp recapitulete, in
Il 4 Norsls, I'LL ~ ar6i echsid eratioAs which
recoTzzaend to tha cikizens of New Orleans the
cons of railroad from this city u the
thsSn terminus IF the Of th- aastsSn md
hanna Railroad If
sys)a d FoT1 hi may be- said fs|s'sE
IT aillll dsreotly and through ita oo1neo lions
penetrate II the tent Of aix a. seven hundred
miles, ia strai line connt passed
i fertility and III tie variety ltural
productions, to which New Orleans can find no
other competing access, but which will, through
this channel \ ind IN New Orleans the NEST d.
sirahle mar ket. This country il South eastern
IAfississippi, Central and Northeastern Ala
hauna. East4rn Tennessee and Western Virginia
3 q 70 Will comm nicate by the shortest possi-
Bile line with the miner al region Of Middle Ala
fhaina, which extends from the city of TusUa-
flDoSa north for nearly or quits one hundred
miles, and Of which the resources are now en-
itirely undeveloped for wantTof an outlet to
market Thesyalue Of the immense deposits Of
jcoal, iron, lime, building stone and other
lllA ~ 1uklhtI
tconjectuTe. My information regarding it IS
derived from the official reports of the State
Geolcgist Of ALBANIA, as well as from state
ments personally obtained from scientific men
accustomed to Judge of such things, who have
visited the locality and examined it for them
iselyes Coal of the richest quality, sufficient
| to supply tho whole world for thousands Of
years, may be had here, with scarcely any
| labor Of mining; and in close contact with it
almost noun famous ridges above the surface Of
| the sarth, and extending beneath to unknown
depths This ore has been assayed and found
to yield o very large per centage OF pure metal;
and it has been wrought in iron bloomeries on
ii scale sufficient to test its quality, which is
isuch that the smiths in the vicinity prefer it to
any othen Lime, which is SO necessary in
smelling, touches the iron on one side, as the
coal does on the other. In this region, singu-
iarly favored by nature, it is, that the North
eastern and Southwestern Alabama Railroad
Company propose to cause furnaces and rolling
mills to be erected for the manufacture of rail-
road iron; first for their own road, and after
wards for the market. Is argument necessary
to demonstrate the benefit which must result to
a commercial town, from q direct connection
with region like this
s. The healthfulness Of Tuscaloosa county and
the valleys north of it, the profusion and cheap
ness with which they furnish all the necessaries
Of life, the abundance of raw material for avast
variety of manufactures, and the mex haustible
supply of fuel the source mechanical power
TO be had on the spot almost for the raising !;
these circumstances combined, render it inevita-
BILE that Central Alabama will become, so soon
as free outlet TO market shall have been opened,
| d great manufacturing district. The New Or
leans and Northeastern Road will make this
city the grand mart for the products of all that
immense industry which is here to be wakened
into life. This alone would be sufficient to sus-
tain tho road. Itmay be added that in no di-
rection from New Orleans is there to be found,
equally near, district possessing advantages
for this species of industrial development, COM
isparable in the least to those which we find in
Central Alabama.
a. New Orleans, after having long been situa-
| ted near the boundary which divides the settled
andsof the continent from the aboriginal forests,
sees now this boundary rapidly receding from
her, and recognizes the certainty that she will
presently occupy the very centre of the great
circle of American civilization She perceives
that the restless population on both sides of her
| is to be in q state of perpetual hux and refux
Ipassing constantly through her own limits if q
tway is opened but, if otherwise, keeping within
/ the channels already marked out, and passing
her by on the right hand and on the left To
turn this current to her own doors she has need
to- construct only the North eastern road To-
ward the West, she has provided an outlet al
lready. The proposed road is the diagonal
between the Mobile and Ohio and the Brandon
railroads. 1t will divert from Mobile much
travel seeking access to the Gull, and from the
| way Of Vicksburg much which is destined to the
country west Of u.s. as far, ultimately, as to the
Pacific Ocean, n
3. The construction Of the Tehuantepec Rail
road, work which cannot now be much longer
deferred, will throw upon the great New York
and New Orleans Trans-union Railroad an
| amount of trade and travel of which it would
! be considered extrayagant now to speak. This
1 Will not be merely the trade and travel of the
1 Atlantic and Pacific States, but it will embrace
/ also great amount of that which now goes on
/ BY way Of the Cape Of Good Hope, Of the Isthmus
/ of Suez, and of Panama, between Europe on the
/ one hand and Eastern Asia on the other Such
/ will be the Importance of this trade, that, even
! If Mississippi and Alabama were one wide inhos-
pitable desert, the money expended in bridging
| II with iron, to give passage to the golden
stream, would be wisely invested
1 And now. in conclusion, would only observe
| that nearly every one of the benefits which ]
have here pointed out as being to-day within
/ the grasp Of the people of New Orleans, is des.
i tined, if we leave this last link in the great
| Trans-union Railroad chain unsupplied, to be.
/ come the quiet and undisputed possession of the
rival city of Mobile. This great chain termi-
mates at present upon the line of the Mobile and
/ Ohio Raad, at d point above Mobile barely ont
hundred and fifty miles. In seven or eight
hours after arriving at this intersection, thu
| trains which bear the wealth Of q vast interior
For the costly merchandise Of New York and Bos
ton, Liverpool and London, destined to Sar
| Francisco and Canton, may reach Underwater
and transfer their treasures to the store house,
4 or to the steamships Of our sister city We
have viewed heretofore with anxiety, if not witt
| alarm. the efforts made by our enterprisinp
/ neigh bors to reach the interior in other direc
| ti0ns, when nothing but an interior trade wa
at stake. Shall we be more indifferent when
beside and apart from this, nearly all the trave
and d rich portion of the commerce not onl,
between Atlantic and Pacific America, but be
l tween Europe and the farthest east -7is til,
tempting prize held out to stimulate our efforts
F. A. p. b. T
! The ScHUYLER EPIDEMIC IN NEW YORK. The
| ever well posted New York correspondent Of til,
Pennsy lyanian, Of Philadelphia, has these items
under date Of the 18th inst
A horrible cholera epidemic has broken out ii
1 Wall street, and spreading to-day with alarming
/ rapidity- The disease is of what is called thu
Schuyler type, and there is hardly d single bul
4 or bear that is not 6 down with it, The com
4 plant is contagious, and its victims go off il
| spasnlS
Never was there SO blue time in the street
4 People who have money hold on to it. No body
4 has any g confidence I haven't seen o singh,
confidence man in week. Roguery is the erde,