New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-08-31
TALK ON ,cHANGE.

There were larger gatherings on the flags yes
terday, though the operations only resulted in
talk The weather was clear and beautiful for
crinolinedom. 1t was taken advantage of, and
considerable of show was made on the grand
boulevard Canal.
There was something, of course, said about
cotton. The receipts of the new crop for this
month of August are larger than ever before,
AS the great Natchez will be in tomorrow morn
ing, and possibly another boat, with good cargo,
it is useless to figure up the total receipts for the
month before the month actually closes.
We noticed, some time since, the sale of the
Mexican Gulf road franchises and privileges. The
purchasers of this company, we learn, had already
and previously availed themselves Of the charter
granted by the State in 1855 to a body corporate,
under the style of the Southeastern Railroad
Company, with permission to construct q rail-
way from the city to the Gulf of Mexico. This
new or Southeastern Company were also allowed
to purchase the Mexican Gulf road. Though the
storm on the 1lth and 18th instants caused great
loss of life and property, yet the village or the
grounds of Proctorville were not all washed away
far from it. A correspondent has furnished us
with the following views, which, it appears, will
be carried out by the new company now organ
lied as the Mexican Gulf and South eastern Rail
road Company:
The storm on Lake Borgne is said to be the
worst OF any known since the year 1872. The
houses at Proctorville were however, too slightly
built for any exposed situation, and it is not sur
prising that they should be blown down by full
grown hurricane.
The wharf, which was about being repaired, had
the entire top timbers and planks carried away,
except where twenty or thirty cords of wood kept
it down, and mile or of the lowest part of the
railroad track was displaced; but the damage is
inconsiderable to what was at first supposed, and
will soon be repaired. GG
The ridge of land extending thirteen miles be-
yond Proctoryille-at Mr.. Albreith's place-was
not overtiowed. This is a very fertile, heavy
timbered piece of land, running IN the direction
OF Nine-mile bayou and Cat Island, and was the
original line of route for the Mexican Gulf road,
and will, by the extension Of the road, be made
very valuable, and increase the business on the
road. There is also another resource that can be
opened, of which, among the many advantages
of this enterprise, nothing has been said. small
canal from the draining machine in a southeast
direction four miles and threequarters long, which
could be made at small cost, would strike Perce's
bayou, which leads into Lake Robbin Lake Co
quilie's Pass, Tutant's Camp, the southern ex-
tremity of Chandelier Bay, and the Aux Briton.
part of the country that is now inaccessible, and
which is covered with untold and ineXhaustible
beds of oysters and immense quantities of fish and
game, which might be brought over the road to
the city in an hour or two, that heretofore have
been unavailable, as they Could not be brought to
the city by water by way Of Nine-mile bayou and
Cat Island, or by way of the Mississippi river, in
less than one hundred and twenty-five or one
hundred and fifty miles. In fact the business on
this Enute must increase every day, new facili-
agricultural point Of yiew anything that can be
found in any other direction for twenty or twenty
five miles out of the city.
We do not care how many railroads are built, or
how many outlets to the sea-shore are opened. It
is manifest that when the Mexican Gulf and South
eastern railroad is completed to Nine-mile bayou
our citizens can reach Bay St. Louis and Pass
Christian in three hours, Mississippi City in four
hours and half, Biloxi and Ocean Springs in
six hours, and at the very moderate price of thirty
three and third per cent. less than it now costs.
Moreover, the travelling would increase double or
more; in fact, New Orleans would have sea-
shore for all intents and purposes. The Mexican
Gulf and Southeastern railroad is in the hands of
parties who will carry it through, and it is not
doubted that if they open books for subscription
the stock will all be taken without delay.