The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1855-07-25

fora meeting in that place on the / 1T
'tprox:, to devise "ways and means t.
commence and carry through,
branch road of rails, to the Grea
Northern Road. This calls 70 min,
the fact, that years ago. ,ther
were meetings in Clinton, as wei
as. here-very enthusiastic meetings
whereat eloquent speeches were made
in .tavor Of connecting this city will
the town of Clinton in East Feliciana
1t was said, do this, and road is com
mcnced in the right direction, to con
meet The Capital with the Great Com
mercial Emporium, and the Grea
Northern parts ofthis Great Nation
Indeed, SO PLAUSIBLE was the reason
ing, as to the ,coy Of devising way.
and means; so glowing was the pic.
turs Of advantages to accrue, that We
actually went to see "Burton at
night, and come home next morn.
ing. @
This is hard community to move
in money matters; that is to say, it is
hard to get the people to subscribe to
capital stock; and when they do; it
is very troublesome matter to get
them to pay in. The movers of the
road to Clinton (here) actuated by
the best motives, thought it would not
be well to brighten the people with
the figures of cost for rail road, and
SO they went in, ION the brag Of Ad-
ans of the Gazette) for road to be
made Of planks. They had reason to
think, that by the time two or three
installments were paid in. for plank
road, that the Clinton people would
come down with handsome subscrip-
ton list-that the Port Hudson CON-
pany, would take up their rails, and
bring their locomotive here. But
alas, alas. such was not the fact. Our
honest intentioned people, went in to
the amount of $4,000 in a pla61
road, and many Of them went off, and
have died away with unpaid stock :;
leaving a lew, bound to pay, for an
abortion. When the money is all ex-
pended, we shall have nothing but
few miles ofplapks running nowhere !;
and fit for nothing but fast drives.
To say the very least, in this ex-
remity; the people of Clinton, in the
Parish of East Feliciana, have not
1ealt with US, as they would like to
have been dealt with, under similar
circumstances hence they have not
'ur sympathy in their "air line road"
now projected. a Ped"
WHERE IS THE STEAMBOAT LAND.
ING We have been asked this ques-
ion repeatedly Of late, and would like
very much to be able to answer it.
Will some Of our city fathers be kind
to enlighten us on the subject ?
We understand that Mr.. Mann has
received notice from both of our pack
ITS that he can ship no more Ice by
hem, unless he places it on the bank
# the river in some place where it
'an be got on board without crossing
be Wharf Boat, the staging Of which,
s in such miserable condition, that no
ind Of heavy freight can be shipped
With facility, OF even with safety
yer it. ~
Since writing the above, we have
'een informed by Mr.. Markham, of
he firm Of Hill T. Markham, at the
'oundry, that they had a heavy cast
ng to ship by the Capitol on Mon
ay, and had it hauled to the Steam
oat Landing on Saturday last, in Or
er to insure its shipment, but that
he Capitol refused to take it, unless
le Wharf Boat was removed out of
,eir way, or a sufficient stage and :
made across her, to enable ;
lem to nef II IN ht,ard What ron 1