Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1859-04-09

rassment from floating debts which
lately crippled its. energies to the AIM
o:int of nearly S2,O0O,O0o and is now
doing a profitable business. 1t will
soon form a connection with the great
trunks leading East, West, North and
Northeast, when it must Of necessity be
crowded with travel, Which is always
the main dependence for profitable
railroads. There is another road that
has been extending its iron bonds, 81
lently, slowly, but surely, towards the
Crescent City from the great Lone Star
State. 1t is already in operation for
forty miles east from the city of Hous-
ton, and a contract has been made for
iron sufficient to extend the road to
New Iberia, in the parish Of St. Martin
thus forming connection with the
New Orleans, Opclousas and Great
Western Railroad. Or it may be that
the managers Of the Baton. Rouge
and Crosse Tete road may push ahead
their work vigorously and put the east
ern terminus of this great work visa
Wis the capital of the State; then a
branch from. the capital to the New
| Orleans and Jackson road, and the con-
ooc+;n. ;s -lvr,.,
IlIablc. to inundation from crcyassos
With must apparently continually hap
pen to lower Louisiana under the r
sent and prospective system Of levccinS
the banks o' W. Mississippi river.
A few days since visited that nugc
mass of brick and granite on Canal
street near the river, known as the New
Custom House, my purpose being to OBJ
serve what effect was produced upon
the first floor of the building by the
sudden fall of q block Of hard lamina-
! ted marble, weighing upwards of ten
fons, from perpendicular height Of orer
forty feet. Well, what think you was
the effect of the fall? Aside. from the
sad disaster of two men careless]y los
ing their lives, one would naturally sup.
pose the mass would have perforated
Ithe first floor, and buried itself deep
down into the bosom.of the soft, miry
mud into which, it has long since been
predicted, the Crescent City is doomed
to be buried. But such was not the
case; there was no impression Of its fall
visible upon the floor, except the thou.
sands of pieces into which the block Of
marble was shivercd. This great build
ing, commenced eleven year ago, is the
largest and most substantial structure
in the United States. From present
appearances, eleven years more will
pass before its final completion.
The political caldron is boiling some
what briskly at present. Baton Rouge
has become manufactory of candi
dates, having agencies here, where spe'
cimens are daily and nightly exhibited
at the several bar-rooms Of the Gem,
"Pearl,' Ruby" City Hotel, &c, &c
Prominent among them is Parsol
Bard" candidate for the responsible po
sition of Secretary Of State, and Gray
late candidate for U. S. Senator, ant
others from different parts of the State
WHO are no doubt fixing up the wires tt
suit themselves, and it is TO be hope.
they may have a good time of it, to
most undoubtedly the old song will b
verified, which says: There's a goo'
time coming, boys, wait little longer.
Every branch Of mechanical busines
in this city seems to be overrun b
Yankee agents. The late financial cr
sis, while it did not affect New Orleans
; or the South generally to any consider
able extent, well nigh destroyed th
: manufacturing interests at the Nortf
!, and now those Black Republicans an
5 Abolitionists have their agents swarm
+ ing here to undermine our Souther
. mechanics. Among our Southern mi
: chanics, there is one that merits the pa
t ticu]ar attention of planters, for he ha
: labored through long series OF year
{ in perfecting everything that relates
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