New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1867-05-19
THE JACKSON RAILROAD.
What Can he seen In Day. Ride.

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alone at present links Us with other States,
and the great network of iron which exists
| elsewhere. As trains arrive and depart
! from our city twice each day at present.
| morning and evening, we left the depot yes
| terday morning at o'clock. and at in the
evening found ourselves ls3 miles north, in
a comfortable hotel in Jackson, the capital
| Of Mississippi, cool and splendid day for
travelling; and az we are indebted to the
| kindness of the roads afTable President, G.
| 7. Beauregard, and the courteous and at
tentive conductor, o. Ellsworth for what
VIC saw, we can do no less than TO aCknowl.
edge our indebtedness to these officials and
tell our readers what we saw.
To KENNER's,
Ten miles from the city, We certainly saw
little but swamp, cypress swamp, of the
most doletul character; and here, but few
dry spots, on which are pcrched drinking
saloon, well patronized by gentlemen pas
seuEcys, and a few negro shanties, with a
few pigs and chickens. Our train brought
an addition to the negro population Of Ken
ner, and TO its stock Of poultry, each darkey
! having a chicken under his arm. One old
rooster crowed Justify AS the cars halted,
causing an exclamation from its owner Of:
" De ole chick knows his at home"
THE LAKE VIEW
Which is had between Frenicr's Station and
Bayou Desiar is full and lovely one. Not
a ripple seemed to disturb the wide cypanse
OF water on Pontchartraiu.
AT PONTCUATOrIA
Forty-scven miles. 1t is ten o'clock, very
good time to breakfast We observe 10 de-
pot has been erected to take the place of
that burned during the war, and learn that
they who were so thoughtlcss as not TO have
breakfastcd before starting, will get nothing
u-til one o'clock at Magnolia, after about
one hundred miles ride. Take warning
then, and a cup of coffee, before you take
ride as have. At
ANTE,
a nice little village station that should be
all amity and friendlness, We see the white
tents of some fifty soldiers of Uncle Sans
First Infantry. The residue of the same com.
.pany are divided among some neighboring
villages, to keep the peace until full re-
construction is had. Shortly after passing
the station Of TaugiPahoa, we see to the
RICH.
CAMP MOORE,
On the Tangipahoa stream, q famous camp |
OF rendezvous and drill during the war 1t |
now looks as peaceful and innocent as ii |
the sounds of drum and trumpet had never |
been heard in its green valleys.
MANUFACTURERS,
We are sorry to say, seem very little known |
yet in the portion Of the road running |
through Louisiana. With the execution of |
a few saw mills, II car factory at Independ. !
cnce, and shoe factory at Hammond Sta.
ton, we saw nothing in the lightweight |
miles Of Louisiana travel. In Mississippi |
there are more developments in this line |
This is particularly the case in the neigh. |
borhood of Chatawa or two miles above it. |
near Hardec's Station, where a nice water |
tank is seen just completed, and where
a company is making brick with |
improved machinery, at the rate of |
10 600 per day, with which to erect IA |
paper mill at this point, in the construction
Of which Il half million Of brick are requi-
site. The operative houses, in frame, are
and the factory will be in Il
fortnight 4 little further on, at Magnolia,
where you get a poor meal for a dollar, i, |
an extensive leather factory, as well as "A
good brewery. At Summit, los miles,
(Which is not the summit, however there
~ II tuhIttT iDT u GOlLDu factory, ana SluU,- |
900 subscribed toward building it, while
at Wesson's near Beauregard Station. Copiah
county, some 49, miles from New Orleans
the Mississippi Manufacturing Company |
have, within the last year, put in operation
quite an extensive cotton factory, having
some 1000 spindles running, and spinning
about 1000 pounds Of cotton per day. 1t has
not yet commenced making cloth. The
building is of brick; most Of 1t but one story
high, and within il are the ten or dozen one
story fran es for the operatives, as like as so
many peas; are Of very tasteful architec-
ture-nOthlug Agreeable or pleasing
to the eve about them. Nor is the
village of Beauregard, formerly Bahale, of
so neat an appearance as its namesake,
though the new depot buildings at this point
Hazlehurst, and Crystal Spring, are rather
better specimens than usual, lacking how
ever, like all of them, a flower, shrub, or
blade of grass near them, to relieve the eye
of the tired traveller. Why cannot a little
bit OF taste be shown in these thingsy
IDLESEss.
All along here we noticed too many tall,
athletic, but lazy young men, idling about
Hazlehurst and other stations, indu1ging In
horse-play and small Jokes, instead vi being
at work improving and identifying their
from the train boys, instead of rails.
ing better ones themselves, which they could |
do easily. Very few are the workers here.
All are buying corn instead of raising 1t,
Just as they did last year and before None
have planted enough corn, none show any
diversity of crops-all have cotton on the
brain, and it don't look very well, either.
but rather sickly, owing TO the late cold
weather.
TOO MANY MERCHANTS.
At Brookhaven--at every town, indeed,
along the foad-are numerous and large
81 ores, and, as q native remarked, "If YOU
throw a stone at dog in any Of them,
you'll hit lawyer or DOCTOR Showing,
with such sparely-settled country, that
there are too many consumers and too few
producers. There are half dozen saw
mills between Beauregard and Hazlehurst
stations their owners are workers, but
generally we saw too few inclined to make
Of any earthly use to themselves
or the world. .,1 ,e,.t.
AT JACKSON.
For the last ten miles before reaching this
city, we have followed along the river
Pearl--a beautiful name, but not so lovely
4 stream. 1t Is small affair here, though
steamers have assembled 1t thus far in very
ligh water. At its mouth We know 1t to be
! very respectable stream, or would be In
my other country, with its thirty feet
iepth of water and talf mile wide. The
nonotony of the pine forests has often been
'elieged In this trip to Jackson by hundreds
II elegant specimens of magnolia in full
bloom. But the monotony of the dull and
lat country is greatly relieved by the
pleasing picture which this city OF jackson |
presents as you approach il from the south. |
The traveller Is delighted with the sight of |