Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa Territory [Iowa]) 1840-1846, 1842-12-03

Miscellaneous,
From ne New Orleans Picayuoe.


OLD TINES IN NEW ORLEANS.
An old friend has politely furnished US
with q, venerable file Of the New Orleans
Gazette, bearing date Of the year 1907.
We clip the following curious and in
|tsresting extracts, Here is on advertise
ment, dated July Esd, I sO7, tha. will Gre
ate smile among steamboat capians
For Louisville. Kentucky. The HoRsE .poAr,
John Brookhart: master. She Is completely fitted
(hsv;ng sas greater psrt % cargo engaged) sp.
~ 70 lhs master on boafd or to
SANpERsoN & WHITE.
We are told by gentleman who re-
.n.em5ers the circumstances well, that the
Hsan hols Sc. boat used up between dozen
and twenty nurses ON the treaJ.whee;,
Before she arrivedsat Naichez. He nev.
ef heard of her aUivAtfat Louisville, aud
is under the impression iha: the trip was
abandoned some whsre ia. the icini,y Al
Nat hez.
In October. 1907. there was great en-.
element in New Orleans respecting the
great batture case. Edward Livingston
was threatened with Goa, Of tar and
feathers, and voyage down the Missis
sippi on drift log; but the great lawyer
was not thus provided for, and consc.
quently lett no iogbook to describe SC
singular voyage.
Here is n news item, which we, that is
the "Orleans Gazette Of. Oct. 1, 1907
tuke from New York paper dated Au'
gust Is, OF same year.
"Air. Fultons ingenious steamboat. inven cd
with view 10 the navigation Of the Mississippi
from New Orleans upwards. will move Mond ay
from the North rver year the State prison. to Al.
bany. The velocity OF the steamboat is Gale ula.
ted ut four miles an hour; aud il is said il will
make progress of two against the current Of the
Mississippi; and it so. il vii! certainly he very
valuable acquisition to the commerce. Of the Yves.
tern states
"Aux,.t 20, 18O7.-Alr. Fulton'a steamboat left
the North river ON Monday, between one and tw .
o'clock IN the afternoon; at ten o'cl.ck in the
evening she was opposite Tappan; between two
seen six miles Beyond Newbnrg; aud a. six O'Clock
she was seen by the Cornela. opposite POUCH.
keepsie, performing her voyage without sails. an I
in opposition to the wind and tide
\. What thrilling time was that for Rob.
ert Fulton! Who. Wsuld no. rather have
been in the shoes Of Rober, Fulton during
that trip, swithout sails and in opposition
10 wind aud tide than to have been
clothed with all the power, fame and glo
ry ol' Napoleon, who was then playing
with empires!
Almost every number Of the ''Orleans
Gazette contains one or more bulletins
from the :Gran,l Army" giving the par
liculars Of bloody battles.
IAN imprudent young man. yesterday. fastened
! piece Of Grape ronmd the leg Of dog. and seat
him into The street. thereby fooli.hy intending &c
rdcule the resolves of tie citizens. to this
emblem OF mournng for their sonntrymen whc
| were slaughtered Oh board the Chesapeake. In
dignant al this insult. few citizens this morning
s+itcd- the offender. and chri.tcned hia. by pub
Tic pumping. Men who do not participate ~
should be careful how they outrage the feeling.
Of justly incensed people.
| Charlesion Times Of August 10. 1907.
Tho men who stood at the head Of af
fairs. in the United States aud Louisiana
in 1907. W1re-Th mas Jefferson, Presi
dent Of the United States; George Gin
ton, Vice President; James Madison, Sac
rotary Of State; Robert Smith, Secretary
Of The Navy.
William c. c. Claiborne, Governor o
the Territory Of Orleans. James Nd
ther, Mayor Of New Orleans.
Ia the Legislature Of the Territory .
Orleans we find that the county Of her
villa was represented, in 1907, by Fell,
Bernard and Anant Hehert. DAME
Clark wal. the territorial delegate in Con
gress.