New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-12-29
River Intelligence.
OFFICE OF THE DAILY REPUBLICAN,,
THURSDAY NoRNIHG. December ~. 1870.

Judgment of continued good weather ON
this fact. Business is not very dull, the
shipments of sugar, molasses, etc, being
rather heavy.
Among the arrivals yesterday. we notice
the steamer Belle Of Alton, from Conshatta,
with fine trip. She had eleven hundred
bales of cotton and two hundred and fifty
one head Of stock. Her passenger list was
also large. The LOtawanna, from Shreve-
port, ID. L. Tally, from same place, had
good trips. The departures We're the Henry
s. Turner to Louisville, with an excellent
trip: Lizzie Hopkins TO the Bayou Macon.
with 1numbcr OF people and considerable
freight; the Henry Tete for DOnaldsonville,
had her usual cargo; the Pargoud for ViclSs-
burg, brought out a fine "trip OF freight and
passengers.
The great scarcity of fuel is acting as
terrible drawback to the steamers. The
supply is short, and coal is selling to the
packets at 81 % per box. The late cold
weather on the Ohio river has so blocked
that stream as TO compel tho coal fleet,
en- route to this port, to lay up. Unless re-
lief comes soon in the shape Of coal from
the Ohio, steamers will be compelled to lay
up until it does come. Dispatches from st.
Louis and Cairo announce the weather
moderating, and we suppose the ice in the
Ohio river will soon run ont, and let the
coal fleet resume their journey to this and
and other ports.
Rates OF freight are unchanged.
The river here is falling. The Red.
Ouachita and Arkansas rivers continue at
good stages.
The Cincinnati Gazette of the twenty-sixth
saws that the weather at that port moderated
during Saturday night, but was colder yes
terday forenoon. Last night it was mod
Grating, with some prospect of snow.
Business was almost suspended on the
landing Saturday.
The river only declined two inches in the
forty-eight hours ending at six o'clock last
evening, when there were thirteen feet one
inch Of water in the channel by the metal
marks at the Waterworks.
MISCELLANEOUS IrEMs.-The Mareella,
while coming down the Yazoo river, last
trip, ran into tree or "brush-hcap." and
nearly demolished her cook-house and pan
try. She was busy repairing, yesterday.
We dropped into the Morgan line" office
YESTERDAY, and there met our old friend, L.
z. Cranmer, ESQ.,. who has been appointed
general passenger agent Tor this old and
well-known line. Mr.. Cranmer is we'll
known to our steambOatmen, and the Nor
gan company can be congratulated on
securing hard worker and popular gem
tlemen as their agent.
A telegram from Natchez, Mississippi, to
Messrs. Sinnott g. Adams states that the
steamer Grand Era passed down with 200
bales of cotton.
The diving-beu boat of Harvey McNecley
! has for some time been wrecking the Emma
| No. 3, at Island Thirty-five. Last Thursday
| she took into Memphis ten or twelve bales
| of cotton, Il lot of old iron. the doctor and
| parts of the machinery, together with the
! shaft of that Inflated steamer, and she has
| all that is worth saving from the wreck.
Two boilers were also on board. taken from
| the wreck of the little steamer Lady, lost Il
| wear OF two since near Hale's Point.
| Charles Mcclure, who is among the vic
Tins Of the Nick Wall disaster, was bar
keeper on the boat. n stepson of Captain
Standish Peppard. and nephew OF Captain
| Poe, commander Of the Wall.
The Cincinnati Gazette of the twenty
| saws that parties in New Orleans desire to
| purchase the steamer Hamilton for upper
! Red river. This boat was built under the
superintendent of Captain A. C. Brown,
| about four wears ago, for parties residing in
| Hamilton, Ohio" Who are the parties. we
wonder! We have a slight opinion that
| there are more than enough steamers for
! that stream here at present.
The inspector for underwriters at Cincin-
| natl notified the master OF the Alaska and
several other vessels. on Saturday morning.
that if the said boats left port while the
ice was moving so heavily, it must he at
owners risk. Even tie Ice King was
| compelled to lay over.
| The ArmadillO has found IN ice harbOr al
| Jacksonville.
The Leonora and Dove have laid up in the
mouth of Kentucky river.
| The Little Condor, with q tow of salt,
and the Mary Ann and the Sampson. with
| their tOws of coal, are ice-bound at the
Louisville wharf.
The Fearless telegraphs to Louisville from
| Madison that she IS unable to land. and
| asks for assistance, and a towbOat has
started for her.
Fears are entertained that some of the
| coal fleet moored at the Pumpkin Patch,
| above Louisville, will be broken loose from
| their tastenings.
| The Annie Laurie and Active have laid
up at the mouth of Elk river, in the ka-
nawha.
| The stern-xheeler James Fisk, Jr., was
| sold by Captain Sickles, last Saturday, to
John Gilbert for $1,000 cash. She goes
into the Southern trade, from Cairo to
Paducah.
| CINCINNATI We are informed that Cap
| tain Edward +. Devans received a dispatch
YESTERDAY from Duvall's Bluff stating that
| the river at that point was frozen over, and
that the Colossal was laying there. The
| Colossal has been out from this port over a
month We wonder if Captain Robert X.
! Riley amt responsible for the above.
Captain John Bruner still continues to
! travel lcad-head on the steamer Belle OF
| Alton. He kind of likes it.
| DR.. Jerry A. Steen. a weli-known steam
boat clerk in the upper river trade, is in
| town on visit. The Doctor looks we'll
| and will probably perform several wonder
full cures while in the city.
Captain Henry Worsham will clerk the
! Oceanus in Red river.
The new Mississippi river packet Glencoe.
Just completed at Pttsb,Ug, is two hundred
| and nincty-six feet long, fOrty-seven feet
| breadth of beam, and seven feet mold. HeI
! tonnage measurements l45f.
FROM OUR EXCHANGEs-St. Louis.--At
nine o'clock, Saturday night, the ice be,
came completely gorged above and partly
below all the piers OF the bridge, leaving
the harbor between it perfectly clear of ice
| But the open river above tie Sulphur
Springs gorge, twenty-five miles, had been
steadily closing up with the accretions from
above. At one O'Clock, yesterday morning
the lower gorge had encrOached to point
opposite the foot OF Locust street. Happily
for all concerned, no more floating ice came
down to finish the task of closing the har-
! Dor. There is clear water between the
piers and Locust street, space of two OF
three blocks.-Democrdt, December &c.
For ST. LoUIs.-The famous steamer
John Kyle leaves at ) p NJ. promptly to
day for the above and all way landings
Captain John b. Weaver has command
and Mr.. Chopper ia chief clerk.
RED RIVER PACKET CoMPANY.-This line
now has the full confidence of the shippers
and their steamers leave on regular time
with good cargoes. The Carrie Converse is
the packet to leave for Shreveport and JEFF
fersOn in the line to-day at 5 p. N. Captain
G. W. Rea is in command, and Mr.. Henry
A. Dohrman is chief clerk of this popular
steamer.