New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-02-26
FAS THROWN Us OFF,

EAS THROWN US OFF.
The press and Merchants Exchange Of
st. Louis has thrown off all disguise, and
openly advocates the Eads' experiment.
We have before US the Republican. Demo-
crat and Globe, which affirm that the Fort
St. Philip canal is "a dead cock in the
pit" We will not repeat our remon-
STRANGE that this eleventh hour expert
ment is as unjust as it is unkind. One Of
these modes Of improvement will defeat
the other, and Chicago will take care that
New Orleans gets neither. Major General
Barnard writes from, and for. New York,
to contradict the favorable report of five
other gentlemen, each as good authority
as himself. He takes this extraordinary
position:
The condition. of the location and execu.
tior of a canal have received no adequate
study, and that. it would be "a rash conf
dence which would contemplate Fort st.
Philip ship canal earlier than A. D. 1854.
The st. Louis Republican says ''he
strongly advocates the improvement Of
one Of the passes Of the Mississippi by
means Of jetties, which is the method pro-
posed to be used BY Mr.. Eads." and
quotes General Barnard as saying:
feel that am justified in recommeniin.
it as probably furnishing the most speedy
attainment of deep water channel and
one which would have some features of per.
manence." He declares also that that the
conditions for this system of improvement
at the mouth Of the Mississippi are really
more favorable than at the mouth of the
Danube, where it has been So eminentiy
successful.
Here. then, we have the "studies" OF
the canal made for forty years past, re.
ported on by United States Engineer
Chase in 1867, and by United States
Engineer Howell in 1871 rs, confirmed by
the inspection and approval OF five out OF
six members Of +. board Of United States
engineers, and sustained by civil engineers
of the highes. general and local reputa.
ton. These General Barnard considers
no evidence ''ot adequate study" On the
other hand he recommends work which
has received 10 study at al. which is not
claimed as a success by it, protector. and
which rests solely upon the example of
river in foreign country, whose works
are recent and which neither OF the en-
gineers advocating the je.ties have ever
seen.
st. Louis may triumph in dividing the
vote Of her representatives, but when
Chicago and New York come to anaiyze
the financial proposition for work to be
paid for out Of the treasury only on con.
ditions of success, it will be found tina:
to 60 precisely what was done in the SINH
lar experiment of Craig and Rightor. TO
await period when the river gives its
greatest depth to secure the certificate Of
the minimum depth a: THAT time. and SO
touch the 100000 payable on obtaining
the depth we must have. may be made a
good thing to the proprietors. even If they
never drive another peg in the bottom Of
the Mississippi. New Orleans complains
o; the gross breach Of faith and friend.
ship on the part Of St. Louis. We
have lef: TO her 20 determine the
improvement Of the river above
and Immediately below he. port. We
have place! our congressional! vote q. her
disposal. We expected TO be allowed the
designation Of the improvement: in which
New Orleans is vitality interested. The
fruit Of ouv labor. the result Of our exe.-
tons. the consistency Of our experience
are GespiseI, and st. Louis sets up an TN.
know. experiment at the sole risk o: New
Orleans. /: the jetty succeeds. ST. Louis
has an additional outlet. II it fails. Mr..
Eads has bridge and tunnel which take
the trade across the river to Eastern mar
ke.s. New Orleans is thereby reduced to
the condition OF provinciaItown only use.
full 70, the distribution of the few provisions
which st. Louis can no: send to the cot
ton planters by her own railroads. Nothing
New Orleans can say Wi! change the puy-
pose of st. Louis. because the latter has
been insinceye and treacherous. ye. we
will make prediction tina: may be COM
pared with the result:
/. The Fort st. Philip canal bill will BE
beaten, because deserted by ST. Louis.
. 2. The jetty projec: will be exposed.
amended and laid on the table. The
mouth of the Mississippi will thus be left
as at present, and the Eastern and lake
cities will bear away its commerce to the
ocean by other outlets. The common op- |
ponents will first beat New Orleans and
then St Louis. 1