New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-05-01
THE "EAps PLAN KILLED OFF,"

| THE leads PLAN KILLED OFF,"
There was in the primitive times . cam
didate who hauled cask of cider to the
election for the entertainment OF his
friends. Seeing in the course OF the day
that his chances were desperate he had
the spile driven in, cut off, and the re-
naming cider hauled home again. Eads
has apparently initiated that candidate
His organs have dried up, and we may
infer that he will waste no more cider
upon them. So the st. Louis press has
become suddenly silent, or merely finish
ing their contract, and preparing decent
withdrawal from his support. The fol-
lowing mournful admission by the three
dollar correspondent of the St Louis
Globe will account for this comparative
cessation of ignorance and arrogance with
which the st. Louis press has for some
months past teemed toward the CONNER
cial integrity and intelligence of New Or
leans:
There is little doubt but that the result
| will be to provide for some temporary plan
| of dredging and the construction OF the
| Fort St. Philip canal. The fact that the
| engineers bureau is unanimously in opposi-
ton to Captain Eads kills off his plan.
This semi-ofiicial announcement that
Eads wing dam has been ''killed off, will
greatly relieve the current literature OF
the period The heavy press Of st. Louis
will subside as the supplies decline, for it
is not to be expected that the foreign
hackers of Eads will continue to pan out
with the same liberality as heretofore
| The latest shot of this three-dollar lobby
correspondent of the St. Louis Republican
is as follows: r-. ...r-
1t seems that several of the men who are
here working with might and main to de-
feat the Eads bill and secure an appropria-
ton for the Fort st. Philip canal are inter-
ested in town lot speculation, the success
of which depends on the success Of the
canal scheme. town which was to grow
up at the point of transfer from river boats
to ocean craft. The name of the embryo
rival of st. Louis and New Orleans is Eliza
town.
Of the charge that private parties are
concerned in the entry or ownership OF
the ground which will be appropriated for
the construction Of the canal, we know
nothing. Who shall have the privilege OF
living in mud town or being bitten to
death by gallinippers, concerns us not.
Somebody, We presume, must have pro-
prietary title to the ground, but whether
A, B or C, has little to do with the pro-
priety of constructing the canal. This
three-dollar scribbler, however, in his
zeal to please his pro tenn. proprietor,
contradicts that supereminent mud lark
The three-dollar correspondent says peo-
pie are going to build houses, and even
town, where Eads recently asserted an
aquatic bird could not walk in safety
without spreading out its wings as pre-
caution against being mired down.
1t is thus that as one wad in pop-gun
drives out its precursor, SO this latest
manufacture of the correspondent expels
the preceding assertion CT his superior.
The St. Louis Democrat, in taking
malignant leave Of the prospect to publish
the wing-dam proposals, INDUCES in the
following misreprese NATION Of the Plea
yu,ae and of the New Orleans REPUBLICAN.
1t quotes the river pilots, recently inter-
viewed by the Picayuae, thus:
They pronounce unhesitatingly and I'M
aualifedly in favor of Captain Eads' plan
81 ha+to al 1a,, haay1 ia1
like most of the people OF New Orleans,
opportunity to examine the plan as stated
by its author, they misunderstood the
method in which he proposes to construct
the .jetties, and doubt whether the driving
of piles will prove snccessful. Constructed
by other methods, they believe that the
jetties will be more useful than any canal.
These poor pilots! First their opin-
ions are h'of more value than that of
some theorists" then they do not know
what they are talking about. They refer
tothe only wing dam ever attempted, and
ay,that if Eads attempts anything like
that it will be found impracticable be-
cause impossible. These philosophers
say that by going up "to the head of the
passes and directing the whole current
into one pass the main body Of water
flowing into it might cut out channel for
itself deeper than any other" And fur
Their this deponent saith not, yet from this
testimony the Democrat deduces the asser-
ton that these pilots pronounce unhesi-
tatingly and and unqualifedly in favor Of
Captain Eads' plan as the better"
The New Orleans REPUBLICAN, appealed
to the entire country, now contributing
rations to subsist the overlooked regions,
not to put another inch of water on our
brim full river. We have maintained that |
the commercial interests of the valley had |
no right to risk the agricultural exist |
ence of Louisiana by authorizing wing |
dams at the mouth of the river. We |
consider that it would be equal to per-
petual charge on the charity of the |
Union, to make good the Eads expert
ment The REPUBLICAN has impressed |
upon Republican Congress, the scene
of men working by daylight and torch |
Light, to repel the raging waters of
people, with shotguns, hailing steamer,
and warning her not to attempt a
landing on their front-of the Picayune
and Times advising steamboats, to keep |
the middle of the river" lest the dash Of |
their wheels should prove the feather on
the back Of the much bearing Mississippi