Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-12
AfEkPHfS APPEAL
TUESDAY, ;: DECEMBER 1s, 1889
THE JETTY SYSTEM SETTLED.

The shameless recklessness OF the SANDER
Gus tribe who have undertaken 10 destroy
Capt. Eads by misrepresentation of his
character and the triumph of his letties at
South Pass, prove most conclusively that
there is such thing as total depravity. The
more Capt. Eads demonstrates the success OF
his great scientific achievement, and the more
the people are convinced that he has
given them an outlet to the sea, the more
his enemies Islander and misrepre-
sent him. Each successive triumph OF
Capt Eads in demonstrating the sue
cess of the jetties is the signal for renew
ing the war of falsehood. The River
Commission visited the jetties, and after
a careful investigation were satisfied as TO
their success. The enemies of Capt. Eads
we're then determined not 10 be convinced,
and of course are busy in retailing their
stale misrepresentation. An experiment
was made at New Orleans on Saturday last
which should forever, silence the enemies of
Eads and his ietties if they have not become
insensible to shame. The following is
special dispatch to the Nashville American
of Saturday, giving the details:
The controversy regarding the value Of the jet
LED dsy 1e5 the srtis stespsbip
the largest vessel that ever came to the wharyes
largest cargo Of cotton ever carried from aay
American port. She had on board 1O,3S1 bales,
eens to go baies Of cotton The sreSs beam Of
the Carmona causes her to sit high in the water.
eleven inches. The ship entered the head OF
South Pass at 245 O'Clock and passed into the gull
at $3.50 O'Clock thus making the run OF ten miles
through the artificial channel in three-fourths of
an hour. There was no detention at any point,
the passage being effected in faster time than the
same vessel could cover the same distance in the
open gulf, she being greatly aided by the power
tul current through the jetties.
This practical illustration OF the success
OF the ietties eorroborates and confirms
previous Investigations and reports. 1t bias
been demonstrated that Capt. Eads has
given to the commerce Of the Mississippi
river a safe and uninterrupted outlet to the |
sea; and the public, for the future, will in
diguantly rebuke war inspired by malice and |
interested motives. There is a strong sense of 1
justice, fairness and humanity in the breast |
OF every honest man, which has been out |
ragged by the injustice done the ablest Ecien-
tiic gentleman of the age, who is guilty OF
no crime save that OF being benefsctor TO |
his country by making triumphant projsct
which his genius and his scientific |
knowledge told him could be accom-
plished. But the bsfied and discounted |
slanderers of Capt. Eads and his great |
work will continue to rage. The luxury |
of abuse is all that is left them in the
slough of despond in which they are Aoun-
dering. For the future the public will re-
ceive with derision and contempt the fero-
cious though impotent rage of these m alig-
rants. The ietties are a success, and there
is no solution of the position occupied by
their enemies save that of proof to the con-
trary, retraction or infamy.