New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-12
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legitimate drama, does not love the circus
Where is there an American who woul
not at the confessional declare that b
yawns over the sDrury-lane Dane Slain.
and feels uncomfortable when 'tha
ugly fellow Othello chokes Desdemon
with a Bologna" and further, that hi
soul yearns for the triumphant trumpet
the clown, the piebald horses, with tn
highly spangled young ladies' who leal
through hoop and aiight on fiat saddl
somewhat smaller than tea table. Their
is one scene in the circus at which, lh
Hardcastle's story of sold Grouse in tn
Gun Room" we have. like Diggory
'laughed fifty times" and which woult
make us bid our editorial gravity 60 t.
grass and laugh as heartily as ever. l
has been recalled to our memory by wha
we read in our unsophisiicated neighbol
the Picayune. The scene is this: The
audience of the circus Is annoyed by the
demand Of q practical planter. appa
rently intoxicated, to be permitted to ride
one of the trained horses. Some say it is
shame to interrupt the performance,
others charitably hope the old fool will
break his neck: but after a great pretense
of awkwardness the old planter throws of
! one article Of disguise after another, and
amid shout Of applause displays him.
/ self as the most elegant and agile Of all
| the circus men.
1t is exactly in this manner that the
Picayule permits the scheme Of Captain
Eads to be ''runs in" upon its readers.
That paper, while extremely astute about
the ensuing federal elections, knows moth
ing in the world about the material inter
ests of this State or city. Indeed, it has
intimated that these material interests are
TO be always subordinated to the sublime
ethics Of the-next election So the Pic
ay'toe is somewhat uddled in its meta
physics in regard to the relative merits Of
the jetties and the canal It has been
quoted in st. Louis as authority for each
method. In all the innocent impartiality
Of ignorance it prepares patent heading
and sends abroad heet-foo.ed inter-
viewer to fill this editorias bill. The head.
ing is as follows:
Our outlets-Captain Eads and his jet
ties-The Fort st. Philip canai-Views OF .
private citizen and practical planter.
Then in comes bagasse Granger. an.
nounced as "a we'll known gentleman and
planter from the neighborhood of the
forts. who had given the affair great
deal of attention. and who deposes at
considerable length as follows:
I. We are told the dredge is not per.
manent mode of improvement.
2. Captain Eads "does not pretend to
ask any money at first to do his work"
but simply asks to be paid when the work
is done "His plan of jetties is by no
means ne,o, being one which has been adj
vanced for years, and. though never tried. is
perhaps practicable. Does this mean
that jetties have never been tried, and are
for that reason 'perhaps practicable?"
The soil at the mouth of the river is com.
posed of a soft ooze, in which it will be diff.
cult to drive piles to form the jctties which
will concen trate the current and thus sweep
the mud on tside the bar into deep water.
Tdproperly undersl nd this, it must be
stated that Immediately outside the bar the
water deep ems very suddenly, and strong
current sets in toward the west; therefore,
if this line of jetties were continued out to
this bar, tn ere would never be any danger
of another one forming. The fact of the
water sudd emily deepening outside OF the
bar has been proved by soundings, and
mense sum. they are doubtless feasible.
So work ''perhaps Practicable be. /!
rause though long known it had never
been tried, in one paragraph, becomes
doubtless feasible" in another.
But the honest planter warns up and |
proceeds ''to explain the system" of Eads. !
He says:
1t must be remembered that the river, |
which carries an immense amount of mud |
n solution, is about a mile in width above !
he passes, but suddenly widens into three
Or four channels of about the same.
The same width or the same river? Is
Zach channel mile wide, or do they pre-
ent combined width of mile? Are
here three or four channels?
In these, the current being diffusei, it is. !
# course, not SO strong and the mud held
n solution sinks to the bottom and Obstructs
navigation.
If this balderdash be not written in the
Medium it was intended to describe, we
re no judge. Suddenly speaking in
he confidence of Eads. this Granger in
he bulrushes goes on:
Now, Captain Eads claims that by a sys.
EN- of jetties the water might be directed
ntO only one pass, where the current would
hus be made strong enough to carry it out
yer the last bar into the deep water,
vhece the sea current would ditfuse it over
he entire ocean, and thus the channel be
ways kept open for navigation.
We fancy that we can hear "the voice
f Jacob" in this idea of this *'honest
lanter." Mr.. Eads has argued that his
cities will require little extension, because
f the sudden increase in the depth of the
ulf, which will take longer time and
lore mud to fill to the surface than be-
ore he proposed his jetties. We should
equire soundings to prove this abrupt
eepening. The delta of the Mississippi
5 the dump of the Mississippi. The mud
rom the whole valley is brought down
nd poured upon the bottom of the gulf.
rises like any other embankment to the
evel of the dump. Were the waters
yithdrawn the delta would seem as an
whose base covered many