New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-22
WASHINGTON.
Gordon the Champion of Specie
Banking.

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{ | WASHINGTON, March Ex-senator GordOl
will take charge of the bill which will
| recommend a combined action OF both ma
tiOnal and State authority in establishin!
banks on a specie basis. He has received
the promised aid OF several members from
the West.
Louisiana Affairs.
The Louisiana denizens are gay ant
happy. Colonel Faulkner left for homewart
last night. The latest New Orleans pape
here is the Times of Monday, The mail
are sadly irregular.
The Sheridan VS.. Pinchback case will b.
reached next week. Sheridan is not san
guine. but hopes his seat will be declared
| vacant.
Carpenters Louisiana election bill viii
certainly not be reached before after April
tools day.
New Cuban Impost Regulations.
The State Department has a circular from
the Intendant General Of Cuba saying that
on and after the first of April twenty y-fve
per cent export and import duties muat he
paid in gold After the first of May ffty
per cent; after the first of August seventy
five per cent, and after the first OF Novem.
Der all gold.
Professor Forshey's Address In Behalf OF
the Fort st. Philip Canal.
Professor Forshey was before the House
Committee on Railroads and Canals. The
professor made a strictly scientific and
practical analysis of the lower delta, the
mouths, bars and currents Of the river, and,
| it is believed, made powerful impression.
He said he had spent a large share of a long
professional life in this investigation, and
] claimed to be personally familiar with all
the works undertaken for the improvement
| of channels through the bars. Experience
had taught him the difference as to the
| control Of the great river. He had learned
| to defer to its gigantic tendencies and only
attempt by levees and the like to guide his
surface currents, and always to retire be-
| fore his encrOachments.
| 1t was only those who had no such expe-
| rience who were arrogant or confident Of
! their ability to control him. He had
i sounded and measured the force of the
| river everywhere, and most thoroughly on
| and beyond the bars: had perforated them
at all the passes, and gauged and sounded
| the mud humps as well as the sedimentary
| matter carried out by the river, and had
| demonstrated by these means and Dy the
works undertaken III the last thirty years,
| that no human work can be made to stand
upon the bars or along the mouths acrosss
the bars, from their very constitution of
plastic mud, that closed over every chan.
Eel cut by passing ships, by dredges
or harrows, and by its own specific gravity
| returned TO the normal depth of fourteen
or nlteen 1eet, WhateVer might De done to
open Ine nouIn: no saiu nature hao maze
eigh,y' seen miles Oh Jetties oeiow the
heads OF the passes, and that the whole
force Of the river, driven against the bars
through these jetties, only pushed the bars
a little further out ln-tae nature of THINGS.
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.I .lia.; oai.ie" ~ 'no river weso sanu
anu pias.so cray anu were pusneo aiong
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uesotaooo tIa ho aa Aptnohs Sh 'n". ihse WAR
an ano oai "nu EHEsansou lne cuaene1' enea ne
co4pu,eu dIs Aiti4s power az ooVo IONS
aI naau "nav 1ouiI ooooins i5 "a .hoil JeIees in
sui .n; ua;o a., n1 o. ~ onueu tnis showins ., oy
paonUuneg unu ln ~ tae f naa
as visionary, practicable and impossible.
The canal he described as probable,
though formidable work, and estimated
the time for its construction at three to five
years. He said the surveys he believed
sufficient, and urged an early appropriation;
that the detail Of location and plan under
the board OF engineers should be modified
to suit the contingencies, under order from
the Secretary of War, as was usual.
In answer to questions, he said the Salina
Danube was but mere canal, onetwenty-
seventh the size of the Southwest Pass; had
hard shores supporting stone buildings, and
shore current carrying off the silt and
erOding the shore The Mississippi river
had no shore current either way. He
had sought N vain for it.
The coast survey confirmed his previous
determinations. After half or whole
century the test of that experiment would
be reliable, and there would be no guide for
the Mississippi river.
He closed by saying that be could not ex-
press the strength OF the conviction he had
in common with the New Orleans Chamber
OF Commerce and the people Of Louisiana
that the canal promised the only relief for
the demand for deep navigation from the
river to the Gulf.
Captain Eads was present, and full
committee listened with intense interest to