New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-01-22
BY AND RyE-spEouLAr1vE.

Itisvery singular, in the mental organization and
framework Of man. the actual ia crcumse ribed an6
for his uses and must have compensation in tbs
possible aud probable how the rude rocks and sherr
lodges which he treads upon need to be pulverzed in
distance order to be presently endurebe how the bust
atone with Its for the thorn and the heav
ems make restitution for much dampness and dark
with glorious burst of sunshine So long as the
sentiment In which this is embodied has only its OWE
yalityto rely upon here call hope when hope has
molted and put its perfect plumags call it expec
tation. la& 3Yau peg
Fortunately for the gregarious habits and nenations
Of mankind this tendency of looking forward and trying
to pierce the veil Of the future s not only individual but
likewise common and aggregate; that when ten or an
hundred or thousand men are engaged in some object
objects, which may be ultimately affected-ipured OF
mproyed--by some remote contingency, they combine
themselves and seek to avert the casualty or advance
the prosperity towards which all looking by the ex
ereise Of combined action 1t is this which has made
towns cities nations which has carried on commerce
trade and SCIENCE which has caused the difference be-
tween the and the past and effected what we call
the worlds progress. s. & t.l51 /
This 1t has already accomplished and made historical
Knowing much of what it has done we very naturally,
desire to know what it will do and what will through its
instrumentality be accomplished when A. D. nineteen
hundred shall have burst the that now shroud
dreda tte unimportant spot at the mouth of the MIS-
sissipp concerning which cared. Our histories
inform OF its gradual growth We know what it now
u.s. aud speculate to what it will by-andbye be- One
gifted hidden somewhere In the brush OF the up
country looking through his penny kaleidoscope has had
vision in which he grass growing in what are now
streets Others have been gifted to witness its pauo.
post submergence in of mud, something after
the style of the Cities Of the Plain few Northern
l.5o
kingdom over remains and various little philoso-
pliers Of hatred looking through their bits Of smoked
glass; have been rewarded with visions Of disaster and
misfortune. j54 #s $5g5t 5e.- ~
We, here who are more deeply interested in the pro-
gress and prosperity Of the great metropolis the South
west and most notable emporium of the lower half of the
republic acknowledging that progress has not been
what 1t should have that in our cose
attention to matters Immediately affecting us we have
overlooked those remote that hardly less upor
tsntstl entertain fears to the future but com.
uniting our fortunes into the hands of time labor steadily
to remedy what has been overlooked to improve what
has been begun and eyeryway increase in the future
upon the present and past.
Whatever may have been the opinions of our citizens
with regard to railroads and their benefits in years past
there can be no doubt that the drain which we have su
ered and the losses we have endured by of alto
gethef overlooking their necessity is beginning to be felt
aud that merchants planters shippers men Of all trades
professions and interests beginning to lose their fear
ofmaginary investments in their fear Of losses far more
serious that may upon them if they insist unan re-
naming secluded from the balance of the Southern
try-imprisoned by low water entirely as if Gordon
sanitaire were drawn around us.
Those who are gifted with the ability of arseens and
foreseeng perceive the necessity of crossing the earth
with iron parallels and binding own city to the inte
or and to the further seaboard by chains STEEL over
which shall rembe the wealth of our broad arpeus and
the product of the rich that are beyond u.s. Should
the appreciation Of this event grow as has grown those
of US who now here will not have grown much grever
than are before from spacious depot of the
"New Orleans, Texas New Mexico California and Pacific
Railroad Company" will be heard the conductors cry:
"A aboard cars ready for Houston Galveston and San
Francisco" And in response We shall hear the shrll
whistle of the train for st. Louis and the rapid roll of the
wheels that spit FIRE in their revolutions for Mobile May
that day arrive soon