The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-02-23
NEW ORLEANS. Feb, d. 1867


New ORLEANS, Feb. 81, 1867.
Messrs, Editors lin passing down the
railroad from Canton to New Orleans one
cannot but be forcibly impressed with the
wonderful influence of railroads to deyelope
a country; especially where the lands
had remained in market 80 long that, as
upon some portions of the route of the New
Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Rail
road The lands were only selling at 1871 cents
an acre under the graduation act when the
construction of that road was commenced;
ilourishing towns are now to be found every
few miles and lifetime is not far distant when
the whole distance from Brookhaven down
Will be almost one continuous settlement,
as in many of the New England States,
where you are barely out of one village
when the train brings you to another. We
have the elements of success and of recuper-
alton within our own reach if we will but |
use them right. Already is the North |
alarmed at the progress which cotton and
other manufactures are making at the South;
as large manufacturer of cotton gins at
the North wrote me recently business is
waning here (there), and the time is com
ing when all Northern manufactures OF ar.
ticles for Southern consumption will be
forced to remove to the South" May that
good time speedily come
There is one thing which the people of the
South should do now-they should patron
izse only those at the North who have
shown them any sympathy or friendship.
There are plenty of good national men in
New York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, but
ord deliver us of Boston and Massachusetts,
generally With the exception of very
small number of her capitalists and public
men, that State contains our btterest enc
mics, and her people have over and over
agalD endorsed those venomous creatures
-Lo 4, :, ,
the body poll
re Buffers
anu Cne
cts While
tina arc growing richer
~ from their shoe and fish trade 0
the South, they are growing more bit
(, and would put us lower than c
the most abject ignorant slave that the J
South ever saw. Let us buy our shoes in
New York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, and
our fish in Halifax, and Boston and Masa-
chusetts will be dealt blow which all the =
elequence of Reverdy johnson, of Garrett S
Davis, of A. j. Rogers and Others of our 4
friends in Congress, would not effect.
In noticing the improvements making at n
the villages on the New Orleans Road, find
that Chrystal Springs, Summit and Magno- o
liza are rapidly rebuilding their burnt dis
tricts while some of the towns are not only ft
replacing former buildings, but erecting q a
great many stores and dwellings throughout
their limits, as for example, Brookhaven and tc
Summit-the latter place specially is very IN
thriving, prosperous town it puts OH city st
airs with great deal of grace, and but q
few days ago christened handsome market p
house with champagne, &c. Chattawa, the pr
future seat of the great Water Power Com
pany at that place, is looming up and bril- 81
liant future is promised for it. Wesson, the
seat of the Mississippi Manufacturing Com
pany, is placed beyond all doubts of being tC
great place. With the energy and intelli- y
gence of its master spirit, John NJ. Wesson, So
it is bound to grow. May his success en- "
courage others throughout our State. le
New Orleans is full of strangers and still n
they come. There are any number of I'll
places of amusements open, and all tastes %
can be accommodated. just now the great "
RistOri, the tragediene, is the furore, and y
every night that she performs the Opera =
House is packed the receipts are some three n
thousand dollars night. Other stars are =
also in the city, performing their respective y
at the different theatres; but, the !.
place of resort which should attract the lib !"
eral and charitable is the Great BasaGr of the
Southern Hospital Association at the Mo- 3
rescue building. It is combination of p
Concert, Fair, Lottery and Supper, and the :, ~
whole proceeds are to be devoted to the sup y
port of Hospital for Southern disabled sol !"
iiers The very best people in the city, 4.
prominent among whom are the ladies, =. -
are engaged in it and its success is be- ''
yond question. The New Orleans, Jackson
l. G. N Railroad, in view of it, and the al
Firemen' s celebration on the 4th of March, h,
and Mardi Gras, or the great procession of N
the Mystic Crew of Comos, on the 9Th of n
March, have reduced the fare to one-half, to
enable every body from the country who de-
sires to do so to visit the city then at a re
small cost, and witness these interesting al
sights The investment will well repay. and CO
all who can should go down and spend a re
week in the city.
Business is dull, except in the grocery
line, and cotton fiat at decline of cent. d
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