New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-12-25
River Intelligence.
OFYCB OF THK DAILY REPUBLICAN,,
SUNDAY HoRNIK0, Deeember Is. 1870.


WEATHER. BUeINRGs, ErC.-The cold
weather continues, and tho breezes are
laden with the knowledge that Christmas is
ut hand, and that the old year is dying
New Orleans is experiencing terribly cold
weather. Business lie suffering from the eff
fects, and the departures and arrivals OF
steamers are leeseniHg plainly. The late
disasters to several steamers Is also draw
back to the active business appearance Of
the levee.
The river here ia rising. Red and Ouachita
rivers are swelling.
Rates Of freight are unchanged.
Among the departures yesterday we
notice the Glasgow, to St. Louis, well laden;
Nayfower, to Camden, with q good trip,
Post Boy, to the Ouachita river, with q fine
cargo; Mollie Ebert, to Pittsburg, and
Lessie Taylor, to Opelousas. The other de-
partures were the regular packets. Among
the arrivals we note the John Kyle, from
st. Louis, and J. 6. Durham, from Arkan-
sas river.
MISCELLANEOUS IrEMs.-Ar. John Amer,
late of the Richmond, is coming down sec
ond clerk of the Tom Jasper.
The amount paid by Wolf & Hynes for
the bar privileges on the Henry Ames, for a
period Of two years, was $685.
The Shannon and City Of Quincy are
loading at Louisville fOr this port.
Colonel K. II Joel, of the St. Louis Dis
patch, says, in his river column of the TWEEN
ty-tirst, that the reason he does not possess
pOcketbook is because the boats don't
"pony up" We wonder if the Colonel isn't
like the schOolmarm that said to the parents
of her scholars: ats little you pays me,
and it's little l teaches thems' This is o
"Great Republic" Mr.. River Reporter.
The steamer Mary Holston has sunk Mt
Luna landing. Arkansas. She was valued
at $1,000, and was insured for $4,000.
The steamer Illinois was sunk on Monday
night at the mouth of the Illinois river No
lives lost.
The steamer Glendale, running from St.
Louis to Pittsburg, and heavily loaded with
iron, WAS sunk by striking snag at Tur-
key Island. sixty miles below st. Louis, on
Tuesday last. The Glendale was owned by
her commander. Captain John Hare, and
two merchants of Pittsburg. She was val
we'd at So, 900, and was doubtless insured
for about one-half her value. We deeply
sympathize with Captain Hare, rs he had
centred his hopes in the Glendale, and had,
by his proper conduct, made her one of the
most popular steamers on the Ohio river.
No lives lost.
The past week has been fruitful Of steam
boat losses, eight fine steamers having been
totally or partially destroyed.
The Robert E. Lee, Mary Houston,
Illinois. Nick Wall. Glendale, Potomac and
Tom Rees and Nightingale, have met with
disaster, and the first five mentioned are
likely to prove total losses. The losses to
insurance companies will approximate
100000.
The Memphis appeal says: "The Missis-
sippi Valley Transportation Company have
made contract with parties along the line
Of the Illinois Central railroad to transport
from Cairo to New Orleans 10000 bushels
of wheat weekly during the winter months,
at the low rate Of ten cente per bushel. At
New Orleans this wheat Is to be shipped
a.. such best rates to Liverpool rs the plan
tiers Whose names are yet a secret) may
be able to obtain. 1t will be seen, there
fore, that the river route is not yet a myth,
md that, however unfortunate shipments
thereby have heretofore been. such ap-
parently necessary failures only serve rs
finger-pOsts to future success. We may
also mention that important efforts are
now in progress which. If accomplished,
will secure to the Mississippi Valley and
will place its success beyond the shadow Of
doubt"
We have learned that Captain N. A. Cox
and others, on the twentieth. sold Mt st.
Louis, to Captain T. w. Res, Carter & Nc
Cam, and others, the new steamer Oceanus,
to run in the Carter line of Red river pack
cts in place Of the il-fated Nick Wall. The
price which was paid IL understood to be
about $4,000 We were unable to get full
particulars of the transaction, nowithstand-
ing diligent efforts. We have given the
above az the current rumOr on the street.
However, it is known that there has been n
change IN the ownership of the Oceanus,
and the above is probably very nearly cor