| From the New Orleans Times Picayune |
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| May 3, 1861 |
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| Texas |
| The Galveston News, of the
30th ult. speaking of the Texas & New Orleans Railroad, furnishes the
annexed gratifying intelligence: |
| We learn that there are not
but three or four miles more of track to be laid near Houston in order
to complete the Texas & New Orleans Railroad from Houston to the Texas
line at Orange, on the Sabine, and this will be done in six or eight
days more. The bridges over the streams are said to be of the most
substantial character. The strength of the bridge over the Trinity at
Liberty has of late been pretty effectually tested by a raft of drift
some eight or ten acres in extent, brought down by the late rise and
lodged against the piers, but which was resisted without the slightest
damage to the bridge, until it was finally made to pass through. This
bridge is said to have cost about eighty thousand dollars. The distance
from Orange to Berwick, 120 miles, is therefore all that remains to
complete a continuous railroad from Houston to New Orleans. |
| We stated the other day that
it is the determination of Messrs. Gentry
{President, Texas & New Orleans RR} and Sawyer to run an express
over this route forthwith, should the steamers cease to run between this
city and New Orleans. We understand that the Postmaster General, Hon.
John H. Reagan, has been consulted on this subject, and that he will
bring this matter immediately to the notice of the Congress that met
yesterday. |
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