Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-07-28
THE TREASURY RESERVE.

THE TREASURY RESERVE.
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 27.-The treas
ury reserve to-day amounts to $142,OO1,-
1876.
ADJOURNED OVER.
Owing to the failure of Chicago witness
es to arrive this morning the Hill investi-
CATION adjourned until Monday without
transacting any business.
MONTGOMERY BLAIR DECEASED.
Hon. Montgomery Blair died at his resi-
dence at Silver Springs near this city this
morning.
GEN. oRD's REMAINS.
The war department is informed that
the body of the late Gen. Ord has been
enbalmed and will remain in Cuba until
autumn when it will be brought here.
QUARANTINE CHANGE.
Secretary Folger directed the hospital
barge Saldau, and the. British steamer Ar
den, now anchored at Willoughby cove and
Thimble lights at Hampton roads, respect
lively be removed to Linn Haven bay,
W lch is just inside cape Henry. This
action is taken at the request of the au-
thorities at Norfolk, Portsmouth, Fortress
Monroe and Ocean View, who represented
that the present stations endangered the
health of those places.
CHOLERA RAGS FROM EGYPT.
Surgeon General! Hamilton,o of the Marine
hospital service notified the health author
tiles of New York, Philadelphia, New
Heaven, Providence and Boston that seve-
raj vessels from Europe laden with rags
purchased in Egypt after the cholera ap-
peared these are en- route to New York and
New England points.
NO HINDRANoE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
An official statement comes from the
headquarters of the Photographers Brother
hood here that there is no truth whatever
in the report that strike will be ordered
against the Associated Press wires.
BRITISH REMoNsTRANCE.
The treasury department has received a
remonstrance from the British authorities
against the return to England of three
alleged pauper emigrants who were going
to friends in this country, who had prom
ised to take care of them and which emil
grants had shown letters to that effect on
their arrival in the United States. The
matter is being inquired into.
THE MISSISSIPPI IMPROVEMENTS.
Capt. W. q. Hiner, of the corps of en-
gineers, has submitted to General Wright
his annual report of the progress of the
work on. the improvements of the south
pass of the Mississippi river from which
the following extracts are taken:
Except for five days in July, 1882, there
has been channel between the jetties
having at least depth of thirty feet of
water in it and twenty-six feet deep. The
channel in the jetty had during the year
except for nine days in July, 1892 at
least width of 200 feet, At present there
is thirty-one feet depth of channel in the
jetties and the least width of the thirty
foot channel is ninety feet. The least
width of the twenty-six foot channel is
twenty four feet in the pass itself. There
is a channel in the pass that has at least
width of 160 feet, or in other words there
is now channel at least 160 feet wide and
having at least depth of twenty-six feet
of water in it from the gulf into the main
river.
This is the best channel that has ever been
found since the jetties were con-
structed. But eighteen days of dredging
have been done on the work during the
year, of which five days was in the pass,
nine days in the jetties and four days in
the mud dump outside the jetties. The
thirty feet channel without the jetties has
much improved during the year. For
small portion of the year the narrowest
part in the channel was only fifteen feet
in width. This has increased until now
its least width anywhere is ninety feet.
The improvement is attributed to the con-
struct1on of an inner jetty built parallel to
and about 200 feet inside the east ietty.
The length Of this inner jetty is 6,81O feet.
The inner jetty has improved the channeI
in the jetties. 1t has reduced the width
of the waterway between the ietties
to $50 feet. Before the wing dams
and cribs and inner jetty were built, the
water way was about 1000 feet in width.
In September last a cyclone passed over
the jetties and worked much damage to
the east jetty, about one-half mile in
length of the concrete wal on this jetty
being badly broken and solid blocks of
concrete, weighing twenty-eight tons be-
ing displaced. The channel within the
jetties, however, remains uninjure.
The surveys made during the year be-
yond the east jetties, extending out 100
feet, in depth of water show very little
change to have occurred in what some
times are called the bar on jetties proper.
No work has been done during the year
within them. The work has been confined
to building an inner jettY with five wing
dams, one at Grave island, three near Goat
island and seven near Bayou island,
varying from twenty to $50 feet in length.
At those places the pass was wide and the
shoals were in the narrower parts of the
pass. In fact the depth of water in the
channel was barely one inch more than
twenty-six feet, the depth required. After
the dams were built the current rapidly
sorred out the crests of the shoals
until aFdepth of thirty two feet of water was
obtained at the head of the south pass.
There is now five channels four hundred
feet wide and having the lowest depth of
thirty feet. The channels at the head of
the southwest pass and the pass at the
Coatre bar are increasing in depth, but
the bars at the mouths of these passes are
reported as being very shoal and that at