New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-04-29

Fortunately for our municipal peace
and happiness, the scheme has been ex'
posed and the well laid plans frustrated.
We fear, however, that it may scatter and
break out in new place. We have some
reason to suspect the conspirators have
an eye on the mouth of the Missouri river
or Cairo, with view to the location of a
city. As the attempts on this city have
been frustrated, they are very likely to
try st. Louis. Let our contemporary look
well to his own roof tree. st. Louis has
often been objected to on account of its
isolation, and the manifest advantages to
be found at the mouth of either of the
two great tributaries of the Mississippi
are likelyto tell against it in the long run.
At all events, there is about as much
danger Of one event as the other. Long
before New Orleans mas been transferred
to the spot where 'large city has been
plotted off" by the half dozen enter
prising men named, aided by the news
papers, st. Louis will have been taken on
raft and foated down to Cairo
Captain Eads finds he made as signal q
mistake in his calculations about getting
his letter printed in New Orleans as he
did in his plans for the st. Louis bridge
or the Balize jetties. He declares that he
wrote letter and addressed it to three
citizens of New Orleans on the condition
that it should be published in our city
papers Asnone of the gentlemen thus
addressed happen to own or control any
newspapers here at this time, he may per-
haps be compelled to wait until one or
more of them shall establish one for that
purpose. If it is not asking too much we
should like to know of the st. Louis DEM
ocrat with whom Captain Eads made any
such conditions. Certainly not with the
editors of the New Orleans journals, since
in such case there would have been a
ea s,-
His letter was received here in proof |
sheets from Washington, not addressed to |
my paper, but to two or three very
worthy private gentlemen, who may or
nay not have been pleased to see their
etter spread before the public. We do
lot wish to intimate that Captain Eads'
etter would have been published in any
lew Orleans paper, even if it had been
properly addressed, but the fact that it
ppeared to be intended for the edifica-
ion of two or three private citizens, and
bowed no intention of desire on the
art of the author that anybody except
is favored correspondents should luxuri-
to in its impid sentences, certainly had
be effect of diminishing its chances of
eing printed. We learn, through pri-
ate sources, that the writer complains
nat his letter was suppressed here. We
ssure him this was not the case, 50 far as
le REPUBLICAN is concerned. We
id not burden our columns with
it because we did not think
worth the trouble and expense. We
onsider ourselves under no more obliga-
ons to publish everything that may be
ritten against the interests of this city
ian we are to republish in our columns
hole edition of the St. Louis Democrat
ut it was in no sense of the word sup
ressed. No one thought much about it
,e way or the other, except as device to
stract attention from work in which
e people of this city feel very deep in :
rest. We are interested in one thing
aptain Eads in another He is not will
g to establish newspaper to dissent
tie our views, and we are under no sort
obligation to 60 to the expense of pub
hing his.