St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-16

Governor Hampton's first veto was
The chain-gapg bill, and the house sus-
tanned him by 102 to 10.2'
One-third interest in the Kimball
house, Atlanta, was sold to Gen. Robert
Tombs on Tuesday last for $S1, 900. The
hotel is now owned by three gentlemen
nd is valued at $4,000. 1t cost
$4,000.
The American says: Tine population
of Nashville and Edgefeld, by absolute
count, in 1877, shows 40,3l9--in which
many thousands of suburbans are not
included.
The demand for colored convict labor
ers is greater than the (Tex. peniten-
tiary can supply. Colonel Cunningham,
the lessee, finds no trouble hiring out the
black people, who are preferred, espe.
cially for the farm, to the whites.
Nashville American: Three hundred
students are now attending Fisk univer-
sity, of whom half are boarders. Every
southern state is represented, besides the
states of Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa,
Michigan and Indiana. Chicago sends
seven students. Only enc hundred and
twenty-five we're in attendance at the
dedication of Jubilee hall, between two
and three years ago.
New Orleans Times: As an induce
ment to cotton growers in the southern
states east OF this city to ship that staple
to Europe via New Orleans, the cotton
press association propose on the list of
September next to reduce the price of
COMPRISING to forty cents bale. This,
it is confidently believed, will bring to
this port an immense feet of foreign
steamers. The certainty Of almost any
required depth of water upon the bar,
and the ready admission of the largest
steamers, coupled with reduced railway
freights and marked reduction in the
cost of handling, it is thought, will give
to vessels leaving New Orleans almost
monopoly of the carrying trade, and will,
of course, greatly increase the business of
all those who deal in fuel and ship sup
plies. ~. .a-a.aa- L.
Captain Eads has given his view to tie
merchants Of New Orleans regarding the
protection of the Louisiana alluyial
lands from overflow. In the course of
his remarks he said And inasmuch as 1
have been charged in a recent official
letter, published by the chairman OF the
st. Paul convention, with hostility to
the engineer corps of the army, it is
proper that I should warn you against
the persistent efforts of the friends of the
outlet theory to induce the public to
believe that / am making war upon the
United States engineer corps simply be-
cause | oppose with all my might some
OF the dangerous errors which were ad-
yanced by Messrs. Humphreys and Abbot
seventeen years ago in the delta survey,
and which have been adopted by a
portion of the corps, and which from the
basis upon which the majority on the
St. Philip canal rests. and that also of
the United States levee commission.
This is simply ruse to make the public
believe that the theories and conclu.
i. sion Of the Humphreys school of engi-
neers ara those of the entire corps.
Ii is grossly unjust to class in
that school such engineers as Barnard,
Wright, Alexander, Comstock, Merrill
and others OF the corps who never op-
posed the system which has given to
your commerce deep passage to the
ocean, and who have never adopted the
theory that alluyial channels will not
become smaller and sleeper by reducing
the water flowing in them, and that
crevasses and outlets will permanently
lower the the flood line of The river, and
that the river is not flowing through a |
bed Of its own deposits. On the contrary
Gen. Barnard was the sole member who
dissented from The views of the Fort St.
Philip canal board, of which be was
president, and who declared the jetty
system practical, using. in 1874, the
memorable words: "The time will come
when the peoples cry for navigation nm
impeded BY locks-an open river mouth
will be heard" And even as early as |
1862, Gen. Barnard, with Gems. Beaure-
gard and Chase, all members of the corps,
recommended the trial II jetties at the
mouth of the river.