New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-16

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lished, II. Hgby has dscliaed, for psivA3l
reasons, and Mayor rlsnders has appointed
| Mr. Samuel 6nowdea to 6ll the vacancy.
Mr.. Henry 0. Seixas has also been %
pointed by the Mayor a. an alternate dele-
gate to fill any vacancy that may hereafter
occur.
City Atrersey's O0ce.
w. j. Grady has brought two thousand
and twenty suits before the Sixth
Justice of the Peace against the city. He
claims that such was the number of tax suits
brought by the city against delinquent tax
! payers, and that as crier Of the court he is
entitled to tax Of one dollar in each case.
1t has been alleged that Justice Myers, who
is the sixth justice, allowed these suits to
be fled in his court without exacting the
prepayment of the taxed costs. We have
authority for saying that this is not the
| fact, and that the truth is, the attorney for
Mr.. Grady paid to Justice Myers one dollar
in cash for each suit filed, amounting to two
thousand and sixty-eight dollars. Myers is
in luck, for the opinion of sound legal
authority in the City Hall is that Grady will
not recover cent from the city, but will
have to pay the costs Of his Munchausen
| suits.
Drainage and the Dredgebsats.
In relation to the dredgeboats the Plea.
yune says: Zone Of them is in the rear Of
the City Park, in the Bayou st. John. But
where are the restv' If the writer for the
Picoyuue really wants to know, let him 60
himself, as we have done, and by occular
demonstration ascertain what we will now
proceed to tell him.
The localities Of the dredgeboats and der
ricks now engaged in draining the city and
throwing up protection levees, while at the
same time they widen and deepen the
canals, are as follows: Three dredgeboats
and one steam derrick are working at the
upper canal and protection levee. They are
digging a canal sixty five feet wide and ff.
teen feet deep, while the derrick is piling
up the mud taken from the canal and max
ing levee ninety feet wide at the base.
One dredgeboat is working at the Metairie
road and protection levee along the line Of
the old Jefferson railroad. Two dredge-
boats are in the Marigny canal, between
One dredgeb0at and one steam derrick
are in the Orleans canal, between Carroll
ton avenue and the City Park One dredge-
boat is in Harrison avenue canal, in the
rear of the City Park.
There are, then, eight dredgeboats and
two steam derricks, all employed in drain
ing the city and building protection levees.
Draining NIachines.
The Dublin avenue and Melp0mene
draining machines have three wheels each,
which are employed in lifting out the water
and draining all that part of the city above
the New canal and Julia street.
The Bienville draining machine, with two
wheels, drains that portion of the city be-
tween the New canal and Canal Caron-
deiet.
The London avenue draining machine
has two wheels and drains all the city be-
low Canal Carondelet and Toulouse street,
making total Of seven wheels, all doing
work whenever required.
The Picayune further says: "The green,
Shiny waters of the New and Old canals,
covered with vegetation and webbed with
grass, do not look as if any very violent
suction power had been applied to their
waters: as for having been dredged, the
idea seems mythical"
The writer should understand that the
portions Of the canals covered with vege-
tation" are already deep enough for navi-
cation; that they do not require dredging,
and have not been dredged. Dredgeboats
are used for deepening and widening canals
and not for removing grass that only floats
on the surface.
The Pcayune falls into another error
when it says that the earth acquired by |
dredging is to be put upon the park" Moth |
ing ever said or done by the Department of
Improvements justifes such an inference.
On the contrary, the earth brought up by |
dredging, is deposited on the banks of the |
canals by being dumped in the dredging |
process, and again removed to q greater |
distance by the derricks. The park is to be |
made dry, not by filing, as inferred by the |
Picayune, but by draining
The Wharves.
The wharf at the head of Gaiennie street, !
heretofore occupied by Major Belger for
the United States Quartermaster depart |
ment, and which has been surrendered to |
the city, is to be extended thirty or forty |
feet toward the river and rebuilt.
In the Fourth District the ship wharf
which extends along the river front seven
hundred feet has been completed, and is now
ready for the large business which may be
expected in the winter.
The wharves b11pw Canal street to tho
Third District Al being rapidly pushed to
and will be ready for business
when the cotton ships come in. The csving
Of the levee, and the consequent damage to
the wharves, has been great drawback to
in this quarter, but the OBJ
,tacles will be al overcome, and the i'm
provements completed by the opening of
The business season.
Messrs. Mash = HOAgson.
Hessrs. Nash T. Hodgson, will sell this
lay, at II H., at the st. Charles Auction
Exchange II
l. The two brick, slated stores, Nos. %
md 81 Front street, in the Second District, |
between COnti and Rienvil1o atr0Ata: hat.