The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-04
Tho Place to Get Informntion.

The following notice, posted upon Miasiasippi
steamboat, shows that there is no place which
offers such opportunities for extending ones fund
OF general information as one of those floating
palaces which navigate the Father of Waters.
NOTICE.
Any person, or persone, desirous OF obtaining
information IN regard to the distances 70 the
OF reaching them-the length OF time the boat
will remain-why the boat will not remain longer
If passengers would have time to go to the post
logical or agricultural statistics OF the country
population, wealth, crops, leading or prominent
oharacteriatica Of the. people = thelr Origin,
syss syssass height color OF
temperament, rate Of increase or decrease
number OF births, marriages., deaths or serious
attacks OF hiness-relative proportion Of male and
for-oauses OF decline In prosperity, and the diff
ferent ways in which such disasters might have
been, and probably would have been, avoided,
had they been known ct the time--the POLITICAL
social bud religious peculiarities OF the people
their mistakes in belief, and the means Of
correcting them-the part taken by each indi-
bellion, and reasons therefor-and, in general
the history and probable destiny OF tho inhabi-
tantn-the character OF the stock raised, or
horses, sheep, hogs and negroes-developmen
Of superior k-improvements anticipated or
deteriorstions expected-number Of bushels
COLLOQ-AyeraR6
size Of watermelons-height Of grsss-depth
Of wells and cisternB--breadth Of beam OF
all the steamers on or near the river and
the Gulf OF Mexico-how many times the boat
stops between any point and any other point, and
wby-exact distance from Catfish Bend to Skip.
With, and thence to the point where the willows
project into the river, between Suckers Point and
burg, and why Il cannot be reached sooner
length OF time the boat will remain at yioksbura
amount OF measles and cholera-morbus prevS-
0nf in nrUfkh Itt,,I Il.
the different local complaints, and the proportions
VI the different ingredients thereof and the rea-
sons for adopting suoh proportions, especially in
remittent, congestions infammations and inoipi.
ent disorders, peculiar to the countryside number
OF individuals annually carried away by yellow fe-
yer and cholera in all the different cities towns
and yillases along the river, and whether these
dangerous epidenlics will appear during the
present year or not, and, II not, why they will not
the s- relative number Of men, women and chill.
the remedies used-the average amount Of
freight and produce carried on the boat each
trip the points to which 1t 10 carried the price OF
CARRYING Il, and whether the boat Is always paid
promptly for the same-how far the money re-
oeiyod froni the passengers will pay the expenses
o. o. the boas-how many pas9ensers arc aboard;
bic busiDess, and their qualifications for attend.
ing 70 tie same; whether married or not; il mar
ried, how much; Il not married, why not; and In
fla all "details OF requesting
gentlemen playing cards are professional esmb-
iers or not; II 80, how much each one has lost il
not, how much has been won-whether the pilot Of
the boat is temperate man or not, and the probn-
bic danger OF fire, or sxplosion Of the Golfer, or
being sunk, OF any other accident-rhother the
clock Eis exactly right or not -whother the
duties OF steamboat clerk are not exceed.
ingly ,arduouP,,, and how long each clerk. has
been thus employed; are they af courteous gem
tlernen or not; whether he has ever been blown
up, or aunk, or burnt up, aud why--and, In gene
raj, all information Of geographical, legal nedi-