The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-03-08
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News.

the chain-gaDg bill, and the house sus
tanned him by 102 to 10.
The American says: Tne population
Of Nashville and Edgefeld, by absolute
count, in 1877, shows 4O,319-in whict
many thousands of suburbans are not
included.
One-third interest in the Kimbai
house, Atlanta, was sold to Gen Robert
Tombs on Tuesday last for $31, ,0OO The
hotel is now owned by three gentlemen
nd is valued at $150,000. 1t cost
$4,000.
Tbe 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
cislly for the farm, to the whites.
Nashville American Three hundred
students are now attending Fisk univer-
sity, of whom half are boarder5. Every
southern state is represented, besides the
states ef Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa,
Michigan and Indiana. Chicago sends
seven students. Only one hundred and
twenty FIVE were in attendance at the
dedication OF Jubilee hall, between two
and three years ago.
New OTlesus 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 lst of
September next to reduce the price of
comprising 10 forty cents bale. This,
st is confidently believed, viii bring to
this port an immense feet of foreign
HteaElers. 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
Captain Eads has given his view to tie
merchants Of New Orleans regarding the
protection OF the Louisiana alluvial
lands from overflow. In the course of
his remarks ne said And inasmuch as l
nave 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
proSer that / should warn you against
The persistent efforts ofthe friends of the
s1tlet 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-
vanced by Messrz. Humphreys and a blot
seventeen years ago in the deli. survey,
and which have been aPpted by a
portion of the corps, and mich from the
basis upon which the majority on the
St. Pbilip canal res, and that also of
the United sizes levee commission
This is simpI- ruse to make the public
helieve tpet the theories and conclu- /
sion Of ne Humphreys school of engi- /
nee- ara those OF the entire corps. |
is grossly unjust to class in
that school such engineers as Barnard,
Wright, Alexander, Comstock, Merrill /
and Others of the corps who never cp-
posed the system which has given to
your commerce deep passage to the
ocean, and who have never adopted the
theory that alluvial channels will not
become smaller and sleeper by reducing
the water flowing in them, and that
crevasses and outlets will permanently
lower the the food 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
from the views of the Fort St.
Philip canal board, of which he was
president, and who declared the jetty
system practical, using, in 1874, the
words: "The time will come
when the peoples cry for-navigation ur ;
Impeded by locks-an open river modth
will be heard" And even as ear1y as
1852, Gen. Barnard, with Gems. Beaure-
gard and Chase, al members ofthe corps,
the trial of ieEties at the
mouth of the river.