Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Ohio Flood Mud Walls no Barrier
TO such q Mighty Deluge.
How Poor Fellows are Plucked by the
Department Of Justice.
Potency or lawyer Sam Bouston's
Great Speech ON Secession.
correspondence OF the Gazette.

whiting of the Mississippi river a day
before the news came of the destruc
tlon by recent Unprecedented floods iIl
the valley of the Ohio, and telling how
worse than useless are earthen walls
along the Mississippi. Congratulate
jewellers In the lowihuds thai
the Ohio alone, at This hour
projects its superahundant water
intO the great valley. III the
Missouri AMI upper Mississippi, ard
ret. nessee, and Arkansas, and Red
river. co-operated with the Ohio, two
thirds of Arkansas, Louisiana and
of Mississippi would be submerged
But let me prophesy somewhat The
Ohio alone, II transforms have ouly
filled lakes and ponds in the swnmps
of the Mississippi, will destroy every
vrstige of work hitherto executed al
the cost of millions by the levee com
mission and New Orleans Itself, VI out
let's closed by the river commission
and railways be not re-openvd, will b,
submerged. This outlet into Lake
Pontcharrain, closed 10y Huntingdon
railway builders, with the assent
of the levee or river commits
sion, If rains have already filled
the swamp. must he re-0pened or New
Orleans goes under" III her this
or the great volume OF the Mississippi
will abandon its present channel and
fiui II shorter route To the gulf. Ii
will diverge' mt some point below
Vicksburg intothe Atuhafalaya, which
thenceforth becomes the Mississippi
and then New Orleans is undone. Ii
becomes an interior city between two
lakes; the one, Pontchartrain; the 9TH
or, naineltss, hut its stagunnt, silent
waters will occupy the old channel OF
the Mississippi. But Pass Monchac
will he re-opened aud New Orleans,
Unless the flood PUSHES into
the Atchufalaya, will be say
ell by undoing the work
of the commission aud of the railway
builders. That river commission IL
the most terrible aud in~atianle of all
the subsidiary adjuncts OF Federal
power ever instituted. Four weeks or
u brief.r period viii! tell the story.
VICES OF GOVERNMENT
Mistakes against the government are
always corrected, and with II savage
ness that becomes absolute ferocity.
Power thinks That nobody but itself
has The right to steal, aud each mis-
tnke made 10y amo7est country bump
kin, ia government service, Is at once
pronounced fel0nious. But mistakes
made by the government, as against
postmusters aud others, in adjusting
their accounts, are not reported.
These pOstmasters and others in the
government service never hear of their
losses from those in the departments
VINO make tile discovery sums iust
oy .ne pla and r uanha:s ih La thas may h W.
safety p9c a petn"'s ny 'noSo VINO
correct or, tiie accounts, -. .
CAIN agents mat u.al oi money
ouV VI eA'"liioo',''uelo, iiu' -?
discovering anu reporting .llls 'nu ',,
eunesS' an oiu go'eIulllehu oielh
te,ls me 'uaI u i'e uiseonels n,'o.l i
deottdness OF tne government 70 an
lhdlVldual ne uhres noL uiSuiRe .he
fact TO poslhlasteIs or other losers LOT
fear oi ms own decapithliol' ana !, rs
true that any one having ciaim'
however lust, IS commonly uea'. VIII WIN
III lhe departments ns pugi'u e,ie.y,
ana sWeilibg u'sh'y an" IL up
ana evident co,lsc'"usiie9s GU 'n1 Nv
sumption on me Paft ~ the pince
man that ne IL tne goVeihinent, nhu
the claimant miserable pegsar OF
mel rehuer Juslh'e ihiposs'pie. ny
whoie concern neeuS c,ean'nE o"t an
u court OF equitS spouio ue ,na'i
tuteu renewing congress vi .ne prs
ence OF claimants anu c'ai,I as' NO.
Ihen thls pohy Wou'u pe rel'e'e" v,
many temptations 10 nolu us .4ten9en
hand behind IL wheh IL WALKS grhnuIy
out OF the presence OF thc "n,shy
rings or OF johnny knaches or OF nun
who employed Axteile 10 uefoihte anu
10 TAX AFizohh anu NE" moA''o'
mn 81 nnhn =, n,L,i.. aaJ nm.
,,oi,'ated se.ks 10 tenn ,rize. 1t
,,,,,,,J snare AxtelIe He has acted In
so,,,. eYt ruordinnry cases ~ instructed
~, ~, Jenartment Perhaps Mr.
Iii Mo Ia, send brilliant rays from
ma sl,.ctric Iight of his "gilded" ge.
- ivan inio f.r-off' Nav Mexico,
i u,do snn The obvious paths OF the
.bsin,b,n, hie AxteiIe Bliss had access
~ ,ho denariment of ius,ice. aud
'honaJ its action and that OF Axtelle
1 ~ IN extraordlnary ease TO be consid
ared Inv the congressional committee
If which Mr.. Springer Is chairman.
Bliss, 1t will be observed, becomes n
prominent hgu!e Va Inc aiais " o w..
department OF Jusl,ce. nis en-.
fees ana oiurna expenses ~ .n ~
route tria' ms oPihions ~ s aa..i,n@.
fairs IN the treasury, anu l's u.n"S,
with claimants 81 iann anu n .,,ia ~
New Mexico lhe Vai.",,y W ~.
ing Determined ~ Ah,v.e a." ~ III,
telle's DEGREES peipe shapu W. A.
here inWashing'o,; are M ,s.,,e wh"re
cnsslon even In INV $1,000 ~, s,,d and
the GAZETTE - no" o"ee'9