Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 2, 1882, Page 4

| | | 4 L — 5 I'Ak OMAHA DALY BE TUESDAY MAY 21 82 The Omaha Bee Published every morning, except Sunday, ®ae oniy Monday morning daily, TEHMS BY MAIL — Three Months. $3.00 One . 1.00 fE WEEKLY BEE, published ev. ory Wednesday DERMS P PAID:—~ 00 | ThreeMonths.. 50 1.00 | One . All Communi rws and Editorial mat. ressed to the EniTor or BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Busines Betters and Remittances should be ad dreased to TrHx OMARA PUsLisHING CoM- PANY, OMAHA, Drafta, Checks and Post- office’ Orders to be mude payable to the erder of the Comvany, OMAHA PUBLISHING 0., Prop'rs. Ei ROSEWATER, Editor. by the Governor Convening the Logislature Wrigreas, The constitution of the state of Nebraska provides that the governor may, on extraordinary occasions, convene the legislature by proclamati a Warneas, Tmportant public interest of an extraordinary character requires the exercise of this authority; Therefore, I, Al inus Nance, governor of the +tate of ' Nebraska, do h reby con- vens the legislature of said state to meet in special session at the capitol in Lincoln THE TRADES ASSEMBLY. Every legitimate effort to better the condition of laboring men has always had our cordial sympathy. Itis per- fectly legitimate for the various trades unions of Omaha to organize a trades assembly for mutual co-operation and support. Such a body is usually made up of a given number of mechanics from each trades union with certain limited and well defined powers, The primary object of the trades assembly is to organize work ingmen into co-operative unions, and by concert of action to secure for all classes of labor living wages and fair treatment The aim of the trades assembly should be to achieve these results with- out resort to strikes and compel when possible the settlement of differences between laborer and employer by arbitration, The main object in all cases how- ever, is harmony and union among tho industrial classes. If the pro- jectors of the trades assembly in Omaha are animated by the solo de- sire to better the condition of labor and elevate the moral standing of workingmen their effort commends itself to all reputable mechanics, Thers is, however, a well grounded onyWednesdsy the 10th of M'(’," 1882, at 12 o'clock m. of said day for the purposes herein stated as follows, to.wit: First. pportion the state into three congressional distriots and to provide for the election of representatives therein. Sec nd. To amend an act a proved March 1st, 1881, entitled “An act toin- corporate cities of the first class and regu- Iation of their duties powers and govern- ment,”. by conferring additional power upon cities of the first class for the pur- pose of paving or macadamiziug streets and lleysand also providing for the cre- tion and appointment of & board f public wurks therein, Third. To assign th- county of C'uster to rome judicial district in the state. Fourth. To amend section 69, chapter 14, of the cornpiled statutes of Nebraska entitled *'Cities of the second class aud villages,” Fifth, To provide for the expenses in- curred in suppressing the recent riots at Oahe and protecting citizens of the state fr m d mest ¢ violence. Sixth, give the assent of state $he to the provision of an act of conyress to extend the northern houndary of the state of Nebraxka, Seventh of the ordi To provide for the payment y and contingent expenses i d during the ] sonvened. I hive hereunto vl to be affixed the great seal of the state. Done at L neoln, this 20th of April, A D ,1882, the sixteenth year of the state, and of the independence of the United States, the one hundred and sixth, By the governor: ALBINUS NANOR, 8. J. ALEXANDE tary of Stace. A GeorGiA man has papered his house with Confederate money. This is an improved method of shin plas- tering. Ix tho passage of the bill giving the railroads access to the lands in Indian Territory, it is not difficult to see traces of Mr. Gould's lobby. Tue Nebraska senators Foth voted for the amended Chinese bill, and that eminent champion of labor, Dr. Miller, will now rest much easier, THE agreement by both houses of congress to the conference report on the postoftice appropriation bill se- cures increased mail facilities for the west at an early day. —_—— Mgs, ScoviLLE is going to lecture and Jesse James' widow is writing a book® This accounts for the unpar- suspicion that the men who head this movement have some personal or political aims which they desire to farther through the trades assembly. The fact that the leading spirits were somewhat prominent in the effort to @et up a split among the workingmen during the late clection, very natural- ly makes men who desire harmony and unity among workingmen fight shy of the concern. ' These parties #eem tv think a great deal more of their personal quarrels with other workingmen who refused to join them in the scheme to foist Hascall and eompany on our peoplo than they do of the material welfare of the labor- ing masses. It will be difficult fer these men to induce mechanics who desire unity, harmony and good fellowship among all classes of working people to join them or to trust them with the leadership in any future movement in which the vital interests of labor are involved. It would be better by far if the trades assembly wishes to bo a success, that aach trade union should select a apec- inl delegation made up of men who have had no part in any personal quarrel to act for them in *he trades assembly. * So far as any politi- eal outcerre s concerned there 18 no necessity of a trades assembly. When the first gun was fired at Ft. Sumter in 1861, the loyal men of the whole country were elec- trified, and rallied to the support of the union and enlisted at oncs in it’s defense. When the recent strike oc- curred in Omaha the workingmen ral- lied together within forty-eight hours, If any emergency arises in which the working people must pool their politi- cal issues, there will be no difliculty in rallying them on very short notice, A Tur Missouri Republican complains that there aro many causes which com- bine to make the north more prosper- ous than the south and among these it names the money disburscd from the national treasary for pensions. It alleled exodus to Europe reported by the steamship companies. Tar Washington courts have set aside as oxcessive the verdiot of $100,000 in the Kilbourne-Thompson case. Mr. Kilbourne expected con- gresa to pay him this neat little sum for keeping the secrets of the Shep- herd ring in Washington, ©.Tae death of Emerson recalls the story of & noted Boston lawyer, who was asked on coming from one of the sage's lectures: *Do you enjoy Mr, Emeorson’s lectures?” ‘““Well, no,” was the reply, *'I don't understand him—but my daughters do.” THiEVES aro always suspicious of each other. There is a rumor that the eastern railway pool is on the point of disruption owing to a mutual distrust existing between the companies and a beliof that some one has been cutting rates. When pooling is declared un- lawful, as it should be, we shall hear less of such complaints both on the part of the corporations and the pub- lie, SE—— BounruoN journals are howling loud- ly about the gross partisanship dis- played by the republicans in congres- wional redistricting. A sample of the fairness displayed by the democrats is noted in Missourd, where, in 1880, the republicans cast 38 per cent. of the total vote. The bill proposed by the Missouri Bourbons will give the dem- ocrats thirteen congressmen and the wepublicans one. EE——— It is not regarded as at all certain in Towa that ex-Secretary Kirkwood will refuse Lo accopt a tender of a con- gressional nomination if it is made without any efforts on his part, Two of the candidates in his district have already signified their intention to withdraw in his faver if he will even accept & unanimous nomination, Tows fecls that she cannot afford to lose such a valuable public servant as Gov- ernor Kirkwood and all . sections of the country will profit from his ripe experience aud sterling integrity when wexercised in congress. says: ‘‘The pension roll alone throws a vast sum info the loyal states while of necessity but a trifling amount goes to the states in rebellion, and this, o oourse largely to the improvident ne- groes who took service in the union armies while their masters were in the confederate ranks, The regular an- nual payment for the year ending Sep- tember 4, 1881, according to the re- port of Commissioner Dudley, was $27,444,469, and the total amount paid to the same date includ- ing arrears was £51,224204. It is not strange that the states which fur- nished the union armios got nearly all this vast sum. The ten cotton states combined holding one-third the popu- lation of the uvion got only $1,206,- 184, The single small state of Maine gets about as much as the whole ten,” If there had been more union men in the south there would not be such a marked difference in the distribu- tion of pensions, The reason why Maine gets about as much as the whole ten ocotton states is because Maine had about ten times as much loyalty, — Taz Third cavalry have been ordered to Arizona, and are now on their way to the seat of the Apache outbreak. Both the Third and Fifth cavalry, which are now sta- tioned in the department of the Platte, have seen service in Arizona under General Crook, who is ad- mitted to be the most experienced and able Indian fighter in the army. No general has succeeded so thor- 01ghly as General Crook in control- ling refractody tribes. His campalgns against the Apaches in Arizona have made him famous as the author of what is now called in the army the **Crook plan” of fighting the hostiles, This was nothing less than supple- menting his forces by Indian auxili. arios drawn not ouly frem friendly tribes but from the hostiles themw- selves. — New ENGLAND is 10 have a formid- able r ivalry'in the Manufacture of cotton fabrios 3 the south. A north- ern company, with a capital of $15,- 000,00, has organized to build & won- ster cotton will ut Athens, Ga, The immense buildings of the Atlanta ecot- ton exposition have been bought by a company that will fill them with looms and spindles; a large mill is being erected at Charlottesville and another at Weldon, N. C.; factories at Charles- ton, 8. O, and Trey, N. C.: a mill at Augusta, Ga., to cost $1,000,000; an- other at Orangeburg, 8. C., and the large factory of the Maginnis Brothers at New Orleans, which, when it is finished, will have a capacity of 30,. 000 spindles, requiring from 25,000 to 30,000 bales of cotton annually, INDIANS AS LAND OWNERS. One of the latest attempta in tho di rection of practical Indian legislation is the bill which passed the senate providing for making land owners of Indians, and at the same time placing the lands under such limitakions as will render it impossible for them to dispose of it for mome years, The reservations are to be surveyed, and to each head of a family will be given one hundred and sixty acres; to each unmarried pergon over eighteen years of eighty acres; to each orphan child under eighteen years of age eighty acres, and all other Indians under eighteen years of age now living or who may be born prior to the date of the order for allotment, forty acres. An important amendment suggested by Senator Dawes was adopted, pro- viding that for twenty-five years the lands thus allotted will be held by the United States for the sole use and benefit of the Indians. Every Indian who becomes the owner of land under this bill is in name made subject to the criminal and civil laws of the ter- ritory in which his land is located, entitled to their protection aud amen- able to their authority. It is & question whether the new policy, whose intention is to make the Indians self-supporting, is not premature. Of thethree hundred and twelve thousand Indians in the United States, only 66,000 are reported a8 civilized or taxed while 246,000 maintain their aboriginal customs, The demand for the possession of land in severalty comes from a ridiculously small proportion of the reservation Indians. It is doubtful if any meas- ure will satisfy their domands or up- root their vagabond habits. Cer- tainly a measure which makes no dis- crimination between tribes as widely different as the Apaches and Poncas would failin accomplishing its pur- pose. The bill is likely to meet with some serious objections in the house, The assessed valuation of Buffalo foots up this year 898,000,00), a8 agninst $03,- 000,00 last yoar. The increase is wholly due to additional building movements and the natural growth of the city. The pres- ent year promises still g eater growth than lust.— hicago Times Special, The assessed valuation of Buffalo is by several nullions greater than the assessed valuation of the whole state of Nebraska, with her 75,000 squaro miles, two thousand miles of railroad and half a million population. Does any sane man believe that the state of Nebraska does not contain more than five times the wealth of the city of Buffalo with less than 175,000 pop- ulation? And how does the showing of Omaha with about a quarter the population of Buffalo compare with these figures. The increased assessmont of Buffalo during the year 1881-82 foots up within half a million of the total assessment of Omaha during the pre. vious year. But while our assess- ments ars go scandalously low our tax rate is fully three times as high as that of Buffilo and other eastern citica, There must be a radical reform in assessment methods in Nebraska, and the reform must begin right here in Omaha during the present year. AN important decision has recently been rendered by the supreme court of Pennsylvania in an appeal suit in- volving the responsibility of railway companies for damages sustained by permanent injuries to persons while crossing a railroad track. The case was that of Alice Troutman against the Philadelphia & Reading railroad company. The railroad compauy dur ing the trial in the lower court unked the court to charge the jury that Mre, Troutman was guilty of coutributory negligence in attempting to cross thw road at what was not a public cross- ing, and where she was a troypassor, The court refused to do this, aud also to state that there was no evidence of negligence on the part of the com- pany. In dismissing the appeal of the defendants, Justice Gordon says that & person cannot be regarded as a trespasser who crosses a railroad track at a path well known to the employes of the company, the right to use which is not refused. ‘‘We cannot clothe corporations with powers superior to those of natural persons, Indeed, we think that even a trespasser may have some rights that a railroad com- pany is bound to respeot ” —_— Manoxe's follpwers, the Virginia readjusters, are about to wake pub. lic declaration ot their loyalty to the old flag and an appropriation. Sena- tor Mahone has had full control of the federal patronsge in Virginia, which goes a great ways in convert- ing hungry ex-confeds to the repub- lican fold. *Unuas¥ lies the head that Wears a crown,” King Vanderbilt to Emperor Alexis, ANOTHER MONOPOLY. This is an age of monopoly. In every department of industry, trade and commerce there is a strong ten- dency towards the aggregation of power and the consolidation of wealth to stifle competition and increase profits at the expense of the publie, The railroad, telegraph and oil mon- Every great mannfacturing industry in the country is tending towards monopoly by pooling and anti-production con- opolies are single instances, tracts whose sole object is to obstruct the operation of the laws of trade &nd maintain bitant prices for their eommoditics. The latest monopoly is one formed a few days sgo in New York by the Gramme Electrical company, by which all the companies that claim to con- trol all of the patents applying to ex- isting systems of lighting by elec- tricity are combined into one large company representing a capital of many millions. The Gramme com- pany comprises the American Eleotric company, the Brush Electrio company, the Fuller Electrical company, the Jablochkoff Electric Lighting com- pany, the United States Electric Lighting company, the Weston Elec- tric company, and the Edison com- pany. The new organization declares in its circular that the patents owned by its members ocover ‘‘the funda- mental principles involved in all the existing systems of lighting by elec- tricity, and cannot be successfully avoided by outside companies.” Of course the chief objects of this monster combination of interests is to stifle competition and maintain prices. Each company will be separate so far as the transactions of its own businese is concerned, Three committees will regulato all questions between the companies, viz: a ‘‘committee on shortening and cheapening litigation,” a ‘“‘committee on prices” and a ‘‘com- mittee on harmony.” All disputes will be settled without going into court and the committee on prices will see that rates are stiffly maintained. The Gramme combination since the Edison company has been added to their lisf, enjoy a complete and abso- lute monopoly 1n electric lighting. All the hopes of competition through the various patents for arc and incan- descent electric lights fade away be- fore the certainty of a business des- potism stronger in its nature than the railroad corporations themselves, No one owns a sole patent on all the parts which go to make up a complete rail- road system, and the number of roads involved, and the interests at stake, make a general combination of the railroads to strangle all competitions exceedingly difficulr. But the electric light monopoly is ab- solute. Its patents secure to it for many years the sole apd legal right to prevent any competition from enter- ing the field against it, and the con- tract which binds together the differ- ent companies secures each member against any lowering of rates for the benefit of the public, by which indi- vidual profits might be lessened. exor- Tie great state of Delaware, which doesn’t cover as great an urea as any single county in Nobraska, is all torn up over an irrepressible conflict, that threatens to dethrone one of the two reigning dynastics that have repre- sented Delaware in the United States senate for nearly half acentury. The Bayard and Saulsbury families have long held full sway in Delaware poli- tics, but a revolt has broken out that threatens to depose the Saulsburys and lay them on the shelf for the present generation. The bourbons in Delaware have rigon in their might and proclaim their determination to dethrone Eli Sauls- bury as one of their senators snd place by some other bourbon nonentity in his seat. The country will await the out- come of the Delaware outbreak with perfect comporure. EEm———— SENATOR SAUNDERS has delivered his great speech in support of his civil service reform amendment to the national constitution, which takes the appointment of postmasters from the president and makes them elective cflicers, Just as soon as the amend- ment is adopted we may look for a chango in the Omahs postoffice, INVESTIGATIONS are always in order when a legislature is in session. There is no doubt whatever that the legisla- ture at its special session, which be- gins next week, may inquire into the conduct of the university and investi- gate the cause that has led to the rup- ture between Chancellor Fairfield and members of the faculty. CounciL BrLu¥ps comes in for a round one hundred thousand in the million and a balf voted for public buildings, and this without the perso- nal intervention of John Chapman, PERSONALIII Shipherd is begivning to complain of wal ria, Rebert Ford, the man who killed Jesse Jawmes, is beardless and boyish looking. Mr. W, W, Astor's box at the It lian overs, for # season of 120 nights, cost 37,0 0. Ben Bu'ler having heen converted to spiritualisw, the wedums ought to see what they can do with the Egyptian obe- lisk.—[Elwira Free Press, The portrait of Franklin J. Moses, Jr., ex-Governor of South Carolina, is now No. 1,601 in *he New Yorkrogues' gsllery, and the Governor himse!f is (n the Tombw, In iutroducing Charles D dl;y Wa once at & pullic diauer, Murk Twain 2y ‘‘As my fellow-citizen, I respect him; but as & neighbor whose tarnip patch adjoine mine, I watoh him.” Gen, Hancock is a very early riser, and, it in said, gots up at 4 o'clock to enjoy & sunrise walk, the only time in the whole twenty-fo r hours, rs he expresses it, ‘‘when folks will let him alone and give him time to think.” Senator Vest, of Missiouri, Judge Har. lan, of the United States Sapreme Court, and ex-(iov, B, G atz Brown were three will and red-headed toys who lived n ar togzether an | attended the rame school in Frankfort, Ky. Senator McPherson, who has ju<t bought a big cattle ra in Texas, will sail for Europe with his family on Juns o will return at the opening of Congrew next fall, but his family will stay in the Old Worl « for & year or two. A dispat b from Doston says that “Char es Francis Adams has tur.ed over Lis business his son.,” As the only business in which Mr. Adams is known to have been engaged recsntly is being steer d » ainst bunko, the son -esws to h.ve - herited a r.ther expen-ive job, I bis attire, President Arthur is de. seribed as quiet and irreproachable frym gaiters to his w. chguard, and he ald ouly need t) be sitting in the read- ing room of & New York cluh to pass at any time for a successful nanker or L.wyer of rather more than usual dignity of de. meanor, Uncle Rufus Hatch has been visiting Bermuda. A day or tw) ago he wrote an articlo for The New York Commercial Ad- vertiser which ‘Ihe Commercial Adver- tiser pronounces very *'strong,” ani mali- ciously insinuates that its strength is due to the_influense of Bermuda omions, ot which Uncle Rufus is known to be very fond, Mile. Lina Munta, the actress of whom Bernharat was jealous because of the attentions which the present Mr. Bera. hardt paid her, told Sarah, in the course of «ne of their quarres, that “M. Dawra would not be such & fool as to throw him. self away upon a yair of castanets.” Tha general 1. pression in this country is that ths cableman inserted castanets where darning-needles was written in the dia- atch, Mlle. Munta would hardly have een 80 far out of the way in her calcula- tions, Oscar Wilde will not retura to England until nex® fall. Part of the sumner he will spend with Rev, Heary Ward Beecher at the latter's residence on the Hudson, and the rest with Julan Haw thorne, This will relieve him of the n cessity of expend ng for bard bills any of the twenty-five thousand dollars he has made by hi. Ameri an lecture tour. POLIITCAL NOTES. Keifer is to-day the lunesomest man in American politics. The Towa prohibition fight has reached the campaign song book stage, The democratic legislature of Texas wi'l hardly be able to gerrymand:r that state in auy way 80 as to prevent the republi- cans from electing one congressman at least. Should there be acoalition between the independents and the republicaus some of the other distrivts will be doubttul also. Governor Pitkin and ex Governor T.hor have entered the lists for the next va an seat in the senate. The contesc of Color- adu’s wealthy men may pro-e an interest- ing battle of giants, but it will be unfor- tunate for the state if money alono be taken as the standard of meriz, ‘‘The democratic party put down the rebellion,” declared M. McLiane, of Mary- Jand, in the house on Monday. *‘I'he democrats laid down their arms and ceased to fight when Lee surrendered at Appo- mattox,” was ex-Speaker Randall’s un. fortunate reply. Of twenty-six senator whose terms ex- ire Ma ch's, 1883, eleven are republicans, e demacrats, and one Mr. Davis, of Illinois, is an iudependent. It is prediot- ed that the republican states are pretiy sure to elect re i licans again, while the democrats are liable to lose one scnator in New Jersey and one in Oregon. A report comes from Georgia_that both the senators trom th t st-te think of re. signing. Senator Beown is troubled with a luny affection, and the cinc rous tronble of Sen .ter Hill haslonz incap .citated hiuw. In the event of their resignicg Judge J. M. Crawford, of the suprene bench, and Ge eral Henry R. Jackson are mentioned a3 gootlemen whom Governor Colquitt {v.ould be likely to appoint to the vacin. cies. T'he governor, it is supposed, will be a candidate himself for one of the senator. ships when the legislature meets, The Congressional delegation from Maryland is like y to be changed somo- what by this year’s elections, The Dsmo- crats huve now five of tue six members, but the dissensions which have been spreading in the party during the past two years have weakened it so that only two of the districts are ¢ nsidered safely Dem- ocratic. These are the 1st and the 3d dis- tricts. The R.publicans look upon the 2d, 4th and 5th dis'ricts as debatable and will make an earnest effort to carry them. They vow hold the 6th district and no Demnocrat but Montgomery Blair thinks of contesting it. The canvass for the Republican nomina- tion for governor in Connecticut is receiv- ing some atten ion from the papers in that state. It is not knewn as yet whether Governor 1 igelow desires a renomination. Two years 8go, when the present state officers were nominated, it was understood that Lieutenant-Governor Bulkeley would ead the next state ticket, He is report- ed, however, as saying frankly that while he has an ambition to be governer he will make 1o claim upon the nomination in vir- tue of any promises. Mr. Bulke ley is pop- ular, has made a competent lieutenans- governor, and, if Mcr, Bigelow declimes to Fun again, will make a strong candidate, The political outlook in Michigan is un. oertain, It is said by & Detroit corre- -Lmdenz that there is & majority against the Repu lican party in the State. The Democratic and the Greonback voteis pro- bably 31,000 greater than the Republican vote, There is a strong feeling in favor of a united effort on the part of the opposi tion next fall, and the probabilities are o will be a fusion, s steps are ng taken to secure such & result. A united effort is to be feared by the Re. publicans in theic present condition, for t erois ot & united sentiment among them in fuct, the party wants a leader. I he contest for the governorship is be: tween Mr. Jerume, the present incumbent, a'd Thowns Falmer, of Detroit, The fiiends of the two are inclined to make a bitter fight, but the chances are in favor of Jerome, —— MISSISSIPPI IMPROVEMENTS, The Levee SBystem, the Jotties and the Outler SBystem. Washington Republ can Interview with Capt. Jobn Cowdo, ‘I sew the senate has passed the bill appropriating $6,000,000 to be used by the river commission in the improvement of the Mississippi river. Will that in any way affect your propo- sition now before congress to make the Lake Borgne outlet!” “‘Not in the least; tor men who will vote for the six-million-dollar appro- priation for levees which will raise the water in the river, causing over- flow, cun show no good reason for voting against the little appropriation of two hundred and fifty thousand to wake the Lake Borgne outlot, which will lower the Jine of the river, and will deepen its channel,” “*Whnat would he the cost results?” *“Well, in the fitst place, the cost of the levees, accordivg to the highest engiacering authority, would be $60,- 600,000 for the engineers’ pay. The grade of these levees on the banks of the Mississippi would have to be raised from six to seven feet higher from Cairo to New Orleans.” “Would this raising of the river also raise a back water up the tributaries?” es; of course it would, and they would have to be leveed also, and theto levees would cost mnot less than £100,000,000 more.” “Well, suppose this was all done; would it protect the valley from over- flow and deepen the channel of the river, as is claimed by the Mississippi river commission?’ The most satisfactory reply to that question is to give you facts as derived from experience. From that we can beat judge as to results wo will have from such a system, and in doing_this I will refer you to General Hum phrey’s roport, which 18 regarded as the highest engineering authority in the country on the subject. He says the river banks, from its earliest his- tory, have been under the high-water grade; that the levees were com- menced in 1720, at New Orleans, and gradually extended up the Mississippi until 1858, when. the system was near- ly perfected by lines of levees on both sides of the river from Cape Girar- deau, Missouri, to New Orleans aver- aging four feet high. From the same authority we learn that the overfl yw in 1858 covered the valley an average of twelve feet deep by forty-seven and a balf miles trom Cairo to near the Gulf of Mexico. Its duration was one hun- dred and ninety-nine days, the longest on record. We also learn from the same avthority that the the more the levees were extended, the greater were the number of the crevasses, the proof of which may be seen by the following quotatione: On rlge 380, General Humphreys says: u 1850, from Red river to New Or- leans, there weres eight breaks in the levees, In 1851 there were eight breaks from Baton Rouge to Carroll- ton, In 1858, from Helema to New Orleans, there were forty-five crev- asses, aggrogating a width of twenty- eight miles. In 1859, he says, there were thirty-two crevassea from the mouth of the St. Francis river to Bon- net Carre. The repori of the board of engineers of 1875 says: In 1874 the breaks in Arkausas and Missouri alone are to0o numerous to mention. Their total width was 130 miles, and while in Mississippi and Louisiana there were forty-eight breaks, and if the levees had not broken the water would have run over the top of them. “In 1879 a board of engineers sad that it would justify an expenditure of seventy miilion “dollars. In 1880 Mr. Eads said he had no kind ofa question in his own mind that fifty or sixty million and probably for'y mil lion dollars would be sufticient " to ac- complish this improvement from Cairo to the gulf.” **Cptain, will you please state your plan” ‘‘Any troatment of the river that will lower the flood line will not only render leyees on the banks of the Mississippi and its tributaries unnec- essary, preventing all overflows, but will at the same ‘time deepen the channel of the Mississippi from Cairo to New Orleans sufficiens for all nav- igable purposes, without the expense of wing dams or river jetties. This can be demoustrated and porhaps HOUSES LOTS!’ For Sale By BEMIS, PIFTRENTH ARD DOUOLLS 815, No. 1°6, House, of six ¢ oms. well, collar, ete., with three acres of ground near head of St. Mary's avn, 8:0 0. 174, Taree brick hous) with beautitul los arnam near 16th st, §7000. No 114, House of § rooms, corner ot, near 1 th and P erea street, §8500, No 102, Hoace 16 rooms coraer lot on Gtn near U. ¥, depot $250), No 190 One and ehe-halt story house 10 rooma Tot 864X 1£0 foet on cherman ave (16th st) near +oppleton’s #3501, No 0, I'wo story howe of 7 rooms, ccliar, well and ¢ etorn on Sherman ave (16.h st) near Clark st $2300, No 184, Large house of 10 rooma and lot 87x 234 foo" on Farnam near 215t $000. Noy187, { arge two story house of 10 rooms nd coraor lot on Burt st nowr 22ad $3000. Make an ( fler. No 185, Large brick houss8 rooms and one half 1ot o 1%th st near Dodge, 00, No 184, House of 5 rooms and tull 10t on Ham. ilton nesr end of Red atreet car line $2000, ol No 183, New houre of 4 rooms with ha.f ot on onta a nevr Cuming st $12 0 . 182, Inr o building 22x80 feet with ro- frig rator. 22x30 feot, ice 1oom above, heavily built, h1di g 125to 150 tons of ice, fine stons cellat uniler wholo building; alvotwo atory house 6 ro ma. cellar, well and cia.ern, lot ~ 66x13e foct, §7600. Near 16th and Webster. No 181, Two story b.ick houe of 9 rooms, ¥ elorots, lot 50x200 feet on 19th st near St. Mary's ave 87100, No 170, Larce house and full lot on Webster noar 20th st 11,100, 178, House ¥ roores, full Mlod on Plerce near 2uth stroet, 81,650, 177, House 2 rooms, tull lot on Douglas near 26th treet, $7000 1;5, Beautitul residence, full lot on Cses near 10th ' reet, 812,000, 176, House thiree rooms, two closots, etc., halt 10t on 21st near Grace treot, $500, 172, One and one-half story brick house ard tw : lota on Douglas near 25th streot, 81,700, 171, House two rooms, well,cistern, stablo, ote tull 16t near Picrco and 15th street, 81,60, 178}, One and one-halt story house' six,rooms and well, hall lot on Convent street noar St. Mary's avenue, $1,850. No. 19, House an 83x120 feet lot on 1gth streo t near Websts r streot, 83,600, No . 168, House of 11 rooms, lot 83x120 feet on 19th noar B irt street, $5,000, No. 167, Two storv_house, § rooms 4 closeta, vood cellar, on 1th streot near Poppleton's ; 4,000, 'No. 164, One and one half story house 8 rooms | on 18th street - ear Leaver worth, 83,500, No 161,§0n0 and one-hait tory house of rooms near Hanscom Park, 81,600, No. 168 Two houses 6 rooms-each, closets, cta | on Burt street near 25th, §3,600, No. 166, House 4 large rooms, 2 clossta | balt acre on Burt atreo: near Dut'on, 81,200, No. 165, Two houses, one of & and ono of 4 rooms, on 17th street near Marcy §3,200, No, 164, Threo houses, one of 7and two of & roous each, and corner lot, on Casa near 1dth strect, $5,000, Ne. 163, Small house and full lot on Pacific near 1'th street, $2,600. No. 1f1 One story house 6 rooms, on Lesven worth pear 16th, 3,000, No. 150, Houss three rooms and lot 92x116 foo* 1 var 26th and Farnham, §2,600. No, 148, New house of eight rooms, on 18th strect noar Leavenworth, §3,100. No. 147, House of 13 roomson 18th stroct near Marcy, $6,000. | No, 146, Hotse of 10 rooms and 1} lota on 18th #troet near Marcy, 85,606, No. 145, House two large rooms, lot 67x210 fack onShera.an avenuo (10th street) near Nicholns, fully accomplished by the making of | g0 the outlet at lake Borgne at a sost of two hundred and fifty thousand, and ninety days’ tims to do the work.” Of course it will require two high water periods to fully demonstrate the truth of what I claim, which is that the flood line will be lowered at New Orleans not less than twelve or fourteen feet, and judging, too, from effeets produced by tho Atchafa'aya, Morganza and Bonnet Carre outlets, which lowered for five years the aver- age flood line nine fect at Vicksburg. From the above facts is it not reason- able 1o suppose that when the flood line is lowered at New Ocleans twolve or fourteen fect, it will make the angle of fall per mile nearfy as greac in the lower section of the river as it is tn the upper end, and as a natural consequence make the current as great. This is bound to draw the water off 8o fast at the iower end that it cannot rise at the upper end within ten feet of the highest water mark. By this you see all the water of the upper valley will be confined to and within the natural banks of the river, which will cause a concentration of the water, a lowering of tho bed and a deepening of the channel. This lowering of the flood line and deepening of .he bed of the Lower Mississippi will not only extend to Cairo and Keokuk, but it will in some wae affect all main tribu- taries from their mouths to the first shoals, and will render their perman- ent improvement materially accom- plished, for it will change the regime of the Misaissippi river and tributar- ies, causing them to wash out and deepen like mountain streams, instead of filling up and raising their banks and bedsas they have been doing |$s,000. since time begun. By the outlet at Lake Borgne, we lower the flood line at the lower end of the river twelve to fourteen feet, which increases the angle of the fall and accelerates the current ot the whole river so that the river can not r.se as high all the way up to Jairo as iv now rises, by eight to ten fest thus rendering levees useless to pre- vent overflows in the whole valley. The outlet em, of which Lake Lorgne outlet 1s the foundation work, diverts water from the river direct to the gllol.lu controlled channels, and is practically a system of concentration, as already proven by the out- lota referred to, and can be fully de- monstrated with an outlay of only two hundred and fifty thousand dol- lars. Theefore, I am at a loss to see how any one who really desires im- provement of the low water naviga- tion of the Missiisippi river, and the reclamation of its rich valley lands trom overflow, can refuse to vote for the mere pittance asked to make the outlet at Lake Borgne. D. 8. BENTON, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW ARBACH RLOOK John G. Jacobs_. \Formerly of Gish & Jacobs,) UNDERTAKER J. L. WILKIE, MANUFACTURER OF PAPER BOXES. £18 and 220 8, 14th 8t, OMAEL/A -~ = NEB [CLRY No, 142, Houre 6 rooms, kitchen, etc., on 16¢h street near Nicholn, 81,875, \ No, 19, House 3 rooms, lot 60x168} feet, on Douglas near 27th street, $1,600. } No. 137, House 6 rooms and half lot on Capitcl avenue near 234 uirect, No, 120, 'Two hr,ases 6 and one of & foomson leased lot on Webster near 20th stroot, 2,50, No. 127. Two story Fouse 8 rooms, half lot on Webater near 19th £3,500, No. 124, Large house and full block near Farnham and Cen ral screct, 8,000 | No. 123, [ouss 6 rooms and lurge 1ot on Ssune ders strect near Barracks, $2 100. ¥o. 114, Houso § roous on Douglas near 2th 760 No. 112, Brick houso 11 rooms and halt 1ot on | C.ss near 14th strect, 82,800, No. 111, Houso 12 rooms on Davenport noir 20th etrect, 87,0 0, No. 110, Brick house snc lot 22x132 foct on Caws streot near 15th, 33,000, No. 107, Houso 5 rooms aud half lot on Izard nea ri7th’str-et, #1,200. No. 105, Two story house 8 rooms with 13 on Sward near Saunders street, $2,500. No, 103, Ono and one haif story house 10 rooms Webster near 16th street, 82,600. No. 102, Two houses 7 rooms each and § lot on 14th near Chicago, $4,0.0. No, 101, House 8 rooms, cellar, etc., 1§ lots on Bouth venue near Pacific streo’, 31,8 No. 100, House 4 rooms, cellas, e on Izard stroet near 16th, §2,000, No. 99, Very large house aad full lot on Har noy near 14th street, §9 000, No. 97, Large house of 11 rooms on Sherman ayenue near Clark street, make an offer. No. 96, One and one halt story house 7 rooma lot 240x401 feot, stablo, etc., on Sherman ave- nue near Grace, &7 (00, No. 92, Large brick house two lota on Daven port street near 10th §18,000. No. 90, Large house and fulllot on Dodge near I7uh stro-t, ), No. 89, Large hause 10 rooms half lot on 20th near California stroer, $7,600 No, #8, Large house 10 or 12 roowms, beautitul cornor 10ton Cass near 20th, §7,000. No. 87, Two story nouse 8 rooms 5 acres 0 1and on Saunders street near Barracks, 82,000, No, 86 Two_stores and & resid nce balf lot,near Mason and 10th street, $300, No. 82, One and one half story | ouse, 0 rooms full lot on Pierce near 20t street, $1,500, No. 81, Two £ story housos, one of*9 andone of 6 rooms, Chicago 8t., noar 1%:h, $8,000, No. 80 House 4 rooms, closots, etc. largo lob 1, No. 77, Large house of 11 rooms, clo cel- on 18th street near White Lead worl nets, Iar, ez, with 1§ lot un Farnham noar 19th stroet, i No. 76, Oreand ono-halt oty house o8 roou, 1ot 66x85 feet on Case near 14th atroot, 84,600, No. 76, House ¢ rooms and basement, lot 16}x132 foet on Marcy near Sth street, §: 00, 074, Large brick house and two full lots on Davenport near 166n strect, §16,000, No. 78 One and one-haf' story house and lob 86x152 foot 0n Jacason near 12th stroct, §1,800. No. 73, Large brick house 11 rooms, ful lob on Davenport near 16th stroot, $5,000. o 71, Largo house 12 ooms, fal iot on Call+ fornia near 20uh street, §7,000, No, 65, Stable and 8 full lots on Frank lin street near Saunders, §2,000, No. 64, Two'story frame bulding, stor below and rooms above, on leased lot on' Dougw near 16th steoet, $600° No. 63, House 4 rooms, basement, etc., S50 toot on 19th street near Nall' Works, ,700. 0. 62, New house ¢ rooms one story, full lob o Harncy ear 2Lt st oot, §2,600. No 61, La ge house 10 rooms, fuil 196 on Burt. near 2 st atreet, §5.000. No 61 Houre % ruoms, half 1ok on Daveaport near ¥20d §:000, No 54, Fuur houses and half lod on Cassnear 13th stréet §2,600, No 68, House of 7 rocms, full lot on Webster near 214t strect 82,600, No12, Hou ¢ 6 ‘rooms and full lot, Haroey ne r 26°h str t, §2,000, No 6, House 7 ro)ns, lot 66x83 feot on Case near 17¢h street, §4 001, No 8, Large house 10 rooms, well, cistern, ete, on Harney vear 0th street, §4,0 0, N0 %, Two story houso 4 rsous, on Websier noar 16th street § ', 600 No 66, House of 10 rooms, fali lot on Cailfor- Dla near 2ist street, €6,600 No 60, Houre 6 roonts, two full lots on 19th street near Puul, §3,000 o 49, Brick hous: 11 rooms, full lot on Far- DA DeAF 74n tro-t, §3.000, No 45, House of 9 roows, halt iot on Pacific near Oth stre 3,600 No &7, House of & rooms, 1} lots on 19th n s stroot, &, ete., tull Jog houses with lot ddx b street 82 fo.t ou Chicago ue No 45, Large l1ouse 7 1003, close 16th street near Clark, §3,000. » - Do, 46, Large bouse with full Ulock near abot it ower, 82, "BEMIS Rear Estare Acemcy 16th and Douglas Street, ODOWVAXEA -~ -~ NES