New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-03-03

chines upon this plan, that, in some loeaii
ties, Will take up one to two thousand cubic
yards i'll ten hours.
! C2a,a shell dippers work in all respects
very similar, except that rs the machine
goes down it spreads out or opens like a
| clam she'll and as it rises closes Upon the
sediment ho;stcd up and swung Oh shore OF
| in flats. The capacity and expense IS about
| the same as Osgood's e"diess choi" dPp"r,
which works like a grain elevator many
buckets upon Il chain band bringing the
| sediment up and pas,in" it into IA shoot
! pouring ineo side flats. like the two first.
In uucl,and and soft mud they must be
run slow. or the reaction OF the water III
scoops or buckets carries out the sediment.
All of these machines have been used in
different parts of the world to more or less
advantage.
Jrt'ies und ring dams are used to advan-
ta.c in some localities. The object intend
ell is to concentrate the water i'll narrow
channel across a bar where. by the increase d
voit;lnc OF water and increased current over
Il bar. erosion takes place. when the sedi-
mcnt is carried from the highest portion Of
the bar to the foot or in deeper water.
When the bar forms again it requires the
followin" down stream, with more .jettirs or
concentration of water. This plan will not
answer in the still water Of the lakes. or ut
the mouth of the Mississippi. unless the gHlf
water was scOopcd out or forced back to let
the Mississippi volume of water pass ont
with great speed. NJ know that there is
about eight teet depth OF water on the bars.
These .iettie~ and wing dams are generally
very costly. and requires il long time to
place them.
.SY"arc-ocross sr,opcrs hauled over bars
down stream. if very heavy. carry some
sediment with them until they fill, when
they rise up, leaving cross ridge, and
strikin. any hidden obstruction, will fa>ten.
brca!, or loose their load of sediment.
From the quarterly report of the German
Society, we learn that during the past three
months. one hundred and siXt V four persons
applied for seven hundred and twenty-five
males and tifty-one females as labOrers,
servants. cue . I'VE Illlnufeu ana lOfly-ScVen
persons applied for employment, of whom
four hundred and seventy whine men and
eleven servant girls were furnished with
situations. The demand for plantation
hands during February was very brisk, and
the agent of the society was not able
fully to supply all applicants. The agent
further reports that planters are paying
from sixteen to twenty dollars per month,
with good quarters and food, for reliable
workers. Our sugar planters are beginning
to assimilatc their fare to the customs and
habits of European c:ni.rants; they also
provide better quarters than formerly. On
some of the largest sugar estates the Ger
man laborers now have their coffee and
wheat bread regularly every morning.
There arrived during the past three
all told. six hundred and sixty-Onc
German migrants. OF whom four hundred
and twelve went to Texas. and forty-siX to
the West and other places. while but few
here. Thirteen helpless and indi-
gent individuals were s,lccored in various
ways. and tifty-onr dollars expended in
direct charity