New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-05-11
PACIFIC RAILROAD.

We are gratiied To learn from gentleman just
from Washington city that the prospect Of the pass
age Of Senator Wigfalls Pacific Railroad bill was
never more promising than at present This gem
deman had every opportunity of acquiring correct
and reliable information on this subject in Wash
ngton, and be reports that the bill will certainly
command large majority in both Houses Of Com
gress. IA d as ID 8s5 .555
The sectional proposition brought forward by
Mr.. Curtis, Of Iowa, the Chairman 81 the Special
Committee, il obnoxious in 30 many respects that
its fate Is already sealed. On the other hand,
Wigfall's bill has been so framed as not only to
secure sectional equality and justice, but to obvi
ate the Constitutional objections which have been
heretofore raised to similar propositions. Some Of
the strctest constructionsts Of the Senate and the
House are to be found in support Of the bill re-
ported BY the Senator from Texas.
We may be permitted to congratulate the friends
Of this great enterprise upon the bright and bright
ening prospects now opening before them. The
clouds which 50 long overshadowcd it seem at last
about to be dspelled. Certainly, in view Of the
grand awakening all over the Union, and more
particularly In the South, to the importance of
these artificial channels Of intercommunication,
there can be no more anspicious time than the
PiosSne III rhci pFOSccutfoA Ul great
est scheme Of internal development ever yet pro-
jeeted in the country. The passage of the bill,
now SO eagerly anticipated, viii mark new era in
the political and commercial history Of the United
States; and it will be pleasing and grateful cpl
sode in the legislation Of the country, so much
distracted BY the petty and useless party squabbles
Of the day. Congress may atone for many Of It's
errors BY a single practical, sensible piece of le-
slsaon, such as il now offered to its consideration.
Poetry " a MISUNDERSTANDING along yester-
daywith our enthusiastic friend simpkins, the poet,
We espied q fragmentary brick about as dilapid-
ated. weathsr-beaten, Manufactured specimen Of
the genus projectile as ever Knocked about loose
on the surface Of things. ssimp,n said we, G you
say there's poetry in everything, now what do you
find Of the poeticai in that brick-bat9,,
z poetical, sir?, bio replied, warming up III
stantly. Why, cir, it is a Pastoral, d Didactic
poem, and an Epic combined, Thompson's Seasons,
Pope's Essay on Man, and Homer's niad are all
epitomized in that simple fragment. Think, sir =,
he continued, grasping our shoulder ..Think of It's
past lis present, and its future. Imagination car
Iies ysu back to the romantic shores Of some deep,
Tranquil stream, its banks laden with the prmeval
forest Of mighty oaks OF lofty pines, while their
waving garments Of moss, bespangled with gorge
Gus wild flowers, are reflected with spiritual in
distnctness in the dark, cool depths below.
Presently we come to the Bricl Yard, with It's
hospitable mansion its comfortable cabins and It's
resounding mirth---the Negroes lghthearted laugh
mingling with the gourd-idde's melody. There
goes the last wheel barrow load upon the decks Of
that graceful schooner. her white canvas Is spread
abroad, slowly she glides away towards the city.
and the history four brick is concluded.
Now for its present. There it lies monument
OF past glory, the monument Of perishable gran.
deur. The brick may have been part and parcel
Of some veritable palace Who can tell the festiy-
tiles it has witnessed, the joys that have existed in
It's presence, the sorrows whose hopeless agony
has been mnffed from the world by its torpid thick
nesss II has been the Involuntary confidant of
fair ladies and gallant gentlemen, and secrets that
would starte the world have been entrusted to its
grave and voiceless keeping. Yet what IS ii now
But its future! Ah.H said simpkins, his grasp
Tightening and his voice growing deeper II shrink
with horror from the contemplation OF it's future
Visions Of red revolution rise before me- There is
mighty city drunk with iniqnity, the mob arise
bafricades are formed, the police, the soldiery,
come against them, armed to the teeth A moment
Of doubt ensnes. That very brickbat is hurled
nom reckless hand full into the face Of the Com
| manaing General and tie demon Of blood Is an
| loosed.',
simpkins relaxed hold, sank exhausted into a
sitting posture on the stone parapet that supports
| the iron fence GROUND Lafayette Square. and with
sigh relit The stump Of his cigar, which had oaue
out during his excitement.
DArsHrEns IN YrEaSA. = Benjamin. a Jewish
banker Of Frankfort, while proceeding to Vienna
BIZ railroad not long since. fell into conversation
with gentleman 81 very pleasing manners. Who
was IN the same carriage with him, and SO de.
lighted was the banker with his new acquaintance
thai he offered to give him letter Of recon-
Hsnandati0n 10 his daughter, who vas well married
IN yieara, and might BE- Of service to him. The