The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-03-24
OUR NEW ORLEANS LETTER,
Items of Interest from the Crescent City
by Our Regular Correspondent.
New ORLEANS, March s. 1883.

Items of Interest from the Crescent Cit,
by Our Regular Correspondent.
New ORLEANS. March s, 1883.
EDITOR CHIEF:
| A new proposition has been started il
reference to the grand nnion.of all the
railroads at some point centrally located
i'll our city. There is no doubt that it is
a big undertaking, but you will be better
able to judge of that when you more
thoroughly understand the question
The New Canal has long been an eyesore
and nuisance, and perhaps the filthy
ditch presided ovor by Saloy of the Sec
ond district is even worse. All respecta-
ble people shun the vicinage of both
So, to get rid of these pest-holes, little
better than the Gormly basin Of bygone
years, it is suggested to fill them up from
town to the ridge, and let the different
railroads build passenger depots upon the
sites of the present Basins. This would
greatly relieve the river front and the
roads could enter the city where the
canals are now situated, SO no one would
be hurt thereby. Beyond the ridge there
is plenty of waste ground where docks
and basins npou better and more modern
plans can be constructed and no doubt
the lake and islands trade would be
equally we'll served there as at the pres
| cnt locations Of the basins There is no
reason why the city fof New Orleans
should not carry out tile intention of her
founders. Bienville and Carondelet evil
IDENTIFY intended to have two fronts to
the metropolis, ard we certainly have
enterprise enough to carry out the idea
in embryo.
The slate has finally been made up by
the powers that be i'll Washington, and
if Morris Marks still claims the Third
District as his home the only Republican
Southern Senator did not forget the dis
trict which lately elected him to Con-
gress. With Marks for Registrar of the
Land Office, Herwig as subTreasurer,
Drnry as Internal Revenue Collector,
Ledet Consular Agent at Tuxpan and
Merchant as the New Orleans Postmaster,
and the probability Of the removal of
Piucbback and Gla for more favored ones
from the sugar-bowl country, certainly
the faithful Third will have no chance to
complain patronage in the near future.
Some years ago the great philosopher
Agassiz pointed out the fact that some
subterraneous outlet to the Mississippi
no doubt existed in tile neighborhood of
the bluff lands of Kentucky or Tennessee
and the remarkable differences in the
level Of the crest Of the present wave
now gu the way down the river shows
plainly that a large body of water is dis
posed Of somewhere in the vicinity poiu-
ted out by the great sage. There seems
to be no doubt that some large outlet
may exist similar to the river of the
Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, and it
would be an interesting object of search.
Yesterday evening about the honr Of
$3.50, John Kane, the second mate of the
Jno. w. Cannon, was the prin-
cipal i'll the murder of All unoffending and
peaceable man, one John Lahey, who
happened unfortunately to meet the
drunken brute. Kane, it seems, fell
against Lahey, and upon being showed
aside considered himself insulted, t,row "a
pistol and shot Leally in the right breast
killing him almost instantly.
Yours truly, Why.