New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-06-26

THE TRIP OF THE NATcHEz, JUNE, 1870. FROM
NEW ORLEANS TO ST. LOUIS-TIME 3 DAYS,
81 HOURS, IS MINUTES.
The time made by the J. NJ. White for
twenty.siX years had remained unsurpassed
by any steamboat ON the Western waters.
Other fast boats had madethe attempt, but
failure was written Oh all their efforts. 1t
had become a settled conviction in the
minds of d great majority of our steam
boatmen that her time could never be ex.
celled. Other boats have made good runs.
The steamer Alexander Scott left New Or
leans on the sixteenth of June, 1874, at five
O'Clock P. NJ, with several hundred tons of
freight, the United States mail, fifty two
cabin and sixty-seven deck passengers, and
came up against the current of the great
food" of 1874, lost three hours on the night
OF the nineteenth on account of fog and
was detained five hours on the trip up by
reason of the difficulty of obtaining wood,
and arrived at st. Louis On the twentieth,
four days, six hours and twenty minutes out
from New Orleans. The time of the Prin.
cess, in August, 1856, between New Orleans
and NatcheZ, was seventeen hours and
twenty minutes-the fastest time on record.
1t should be taken into consideration that
the Princess was stripped for running-that
was on a business trip. with her cabin full
of people, and, it may be supposed, with
some freight aboard. The Natchez, too,
ran against the current of rising river,
which is usually not the case at the season
when the Princess made her famous run.
To NATCHEz.-The time of the Natchez
from New Orleans to Natchez was seventeen
hours and ifty-one minutes. But it is not
necessary to go into all the details of the
"runs" made by the A. L. Shotwell, the
Eclipse and the Reindeer. Suffice it to say
that the arrival of the steamer Natchez,
Captain Thomas P. Leathers in command,
On yesterday evening, only three days, TWEEN
ty-one hours and fifty.eight minutes out
from New Orleans, surpasses the time of the
J. NJ. White one hour and eleven minutes.
at the time the White made her trip all our
steamboats, burned wood, and she was ne.
cessarily hindered in getting her fuel, as her
were all made against the banks.
But the NatcheZ also came up on business
trip. She made twenty-one landings, re.
manned thirty minutes at the wharf at Men,
phls, and one hour and five minutes
at Cairo. 1t is not necessary to
enter into further details. It is
evident that feat has been accomplished
in the annals of river naviga-
ton. No man had ever made the trip in the
time of the j. N. White from New Orleans
to st. Louis before that memorable trip, nor
For many year afterward, until the iron
horse, with his breath of flame and nerves
Of steel, hauled with lightning speed the
Numbering carriages of the railway train.
Therefore it is that for years, nay even now.
the name of Captain Converse and his fast
boat, the J. M. White. are known Familiarity
70 thousands of people, and will be handed |
Town to generations yet in the womb of the |
uture. Perhaps in this fast age the achieve.
nent of Captain feathers may not awake |
20 much immediate interest. But yet the |
'ecord is made. It stands on the pages Of |
he present; it will be transcribed on the |
more durable volumes that shall unfold to |
ollshed by those who lived acted and thought |
ID this age. 1t will be many day before |
uch an achievement will be again accom-
,lished.
OFFICERS OF THE NATCHEz.
Thomas P. feathers, captain; Samuel
Ayles, Esq, clerk; Ovid Bell, second clerk;
captain Frank Cation, Captain - Burn
lam, pilots; Andrew Pauley, John Farrell,
n5ineers.
MEMORANDA STEAMER NATCHEZ.
Left New Orleans thirty.two minutes past
i've o'clock P. NJ, Saturday, June Is, 1870;
lined from St. Msry's market; had on board
lightly cabin and forty -five deck pass engers,
nd some freight; made the run to Natchez
eventeen hours and fifty one minutes; made
,ucatan for her twenty -four hours run;
anded at Services, above Natchez; made
andiDg at Rodney; made landing at Grand
huff; Vicksburg twenty-six hours, fifty-four
minutes; landed and took on six hundred
nd ninety boxes of coal. Left Vicksburg,
nd made landing at Tallulah, landed ut
AXE Providence. landed at Greenville,
lade landing at Columbia, made landing at
'olivar, landed at White river, coaled three
undred and ninety-fve boxes. Found
ottom in chute, and had to haul back,
lnded at Memphis, lost thirty minutes,
lnded at Henderson's point and took six
Ords OF wood, landed and coaled at Cairo,
'st one hour and five minutes, struck bot
,m at Liberty bar, landed at Grand Tower.
END OF THE vOYAGE-INTRNsE INTEREST.
AT thirty-four minutes past three o'clock ,
esterday steamer Natchez made the old
me marks of the J. N. White opposite the