New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-12-13
River Intelligence.
OFFICE OF THK DAILY REPUBLICAN,
MONDAY EVENING. December II, 1870.

Il WEATHER, BUSINESS. Rrc-The hard and
terrific rainstOrln Of Saturday was beneficial
h to the atmosphere, as well as the crops and
rivers. Sunday dawned hight and pleasant,
day as one could desire. The arrivals on
Sunday and yesterday were numerous, and
\ the levae is crowded with steamers. The
1 Carrie v. Kountz, from Memphis, brought
| in zoos bales Of cotton. The Alex. Mitchell,
! from St. Louis, was deeply .lsden with West
| ern produce. and had considerable freight
! f0rRed river. She had also g fine passenger
list. The Garry Owen, from Ouachita
river, had a magnificent trip.of cotton for a
| boat Of her size.
Among the departures we notice the
Grand Era, for Vicksburg, wits good trip:
| Wild Magoner, to Natchez, with her usual
| complement Of freight and good list Of
| passengers.
The Susie Silver, from st. Louis, arrived
ladened to her full capacity with freight
| and a cabin crowded with passengers. She
| had a number OF passengers who were com
PEELED to sleep on cots, all Of the staterooms
being filed.
Bertha, to Red river with an excellent
| trip; Belle Yazoo, to YazoC river. with a
better trip than usual and Pauline Car
roll on Sunday, deeply ladened with sugar.
and molasses for st. Louis.
Business was bcisker yesterday than on
the corresponding day last week. This fact
was caused, no doubt, by the delay occa-
stoned by the rain on Saturday.
Rates less firm to all points. The Red
| and Ouachita rivers are rising, and dis
patches from Camden announce consi'leEa-
| BILE of a swell.
| MISCELLANEOUS ITEMs.-The rise reported
| in Red and Ouachita rivers is causing con-
siderable activity among our large tonnage
for those steamers. The famous steamer
Belle of Alton was lowed to the landing
to fa,s ff,a frnI h1+vv
| this port and COushatta. We have hereto
fore described the elegant appointments of
| the Belle, and her great speed. She is most
| admirably adapted to the trade, and will
| again make her appearance in the stream.
| much to the satisfaction of shippers.
Captain James r. Mckinney. who has
| earned much deserved popularity ON the
river, still commands the Belle of Alton.
| and will back her out for all landings to
| Corshatta at ) z. NJ. to day
The Post Boy was towed to the landing
Yesterday, to enter the regular trade be
tween New Orleans and landings on Qua
chita river. The Post Boy is light draft.
swift-running sidewheel steamer, possessed
of splendid cabin accommodations and has
large CARRYING capacity. She is under COM
mand of Captain Lloyd Z. Belt. who made
such great popularityin the trade last year.
while in command OF the steamer Cornelia.
lately destroyed by fire. Captain Belt has
gone to much trouble to secure this steamer
to replace the late Cornclia, and we hope
our shippers will recognize this fact, and
give him their hearty support as token
that they appreciate his energy She leaves
to-day at p NJ, positively, for Camden.
The steamer Alex Mitchell, from st. Louis.
came gayly into port yesterday. well laden
On her Warehouses; she has painted in large
letters ''BOardman's Red River Iron Line"
These letters are significant of her coming
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| river, under the supervision of Captain w.
T. Boardman, i'll conjunction with a new
iron steamer of his just being completed at
| Cincinnati The Alex Mitchell is a large
| well furnished packet, and no doubt will
| prove successful in the trade. Captain
| Boardman came down on her as a passen-
ger. The rcdoubtable Captain Abe Hutch
inson came down Oh her in command.
Mr.. NJ. b. Ross. formerly of Cincinnati.
has located in this city in the steamboat
agency business He is an energetic and
! hard working man, and We wish him sue
| eess.
Emmett Strange, late second clerk OF the
steamer Magenta and formerly second clerk
of the Grand Era, Pat Cleburne and nu-
merous other boats, has associated himself
| with Mr.. John Frazier in the general steam
boat discharging business, on the levec in
| this city. Emmett's large acquaintance
with our shippers, and his well known
| qualifications will doubtless secure him a
| large share of patronage.
The Potomac is leading at Louisville for
| New Orleans.
| the Louisville falls yesterday with two
| barges of hay and one OF produce for New
| Orleans.
| Mr.. Dick Ballard. the clever and cOur-
| teous pilot of the LcClaire No. !, was mar
| ried at Mauckport, Indiana, recently, 10
| Miss Emma Brandenburg.
Captain Coulson is building steamboat
at the boat yard of Eberman, McFall & Co.,
California, which will be ready for launch:
| ing the latter part of the week. Her dinen-
sions are: Length 26S feet, 50 feet beam and
| fl ct hold.
The Carrie w. Konntz gets one dollar and
! half for the cargo OF cotton she took at
| Memphis for New Orleans.
| The John Kilgour is advertised to leave
| Louisville for New Orleans on Saturday, the
! tenth, positively.
Pittsburg has another new paper, Just
started It is called the Paper, and has a
| lage river column
We copy the following letter 1rom the
| Missouri Democrat Of the tenth:
LOUISVILLE, Lafayette County. Arkansas,
Novem bel 80. :
| Editor Missouri Democrat:
Some time ago l read in your valuable
| paper a communication as to upper Red
| river, and also saw by your paper that Cap
| tain Hazlett was building Il boat for the
upper Red river trade. The planters Of the
upper Red hope that the project has not
| been abandoned, for we need a boat. While
| st. Louis is stretching forth her arms. we
hope she will give us a call. Put light
draft boat in this trade, to run in connec-
ton with the Carter line, and we will pa
tronize it literally. We do not belong to
| the New Orleans Picau,tne and we are on
| posed to mOnopOlies.
II st. Louis can furnish goods cheaper
than New Orleans, why can not we have
| some benefit Of it
| Very respectfully,
THOMAS V. RANKIN.
We hope our New Orleans steamboatmen
| will treat that gentleman as he deserves,
and we think that the Picayune most surely
| should cndeavOr to possess SO valuable a
| correspondent.
Tho new sidewheel steamer $. s. Merrill,
built by Commodore Davidson for the
| Northwestern Union Packet Company, to
| ply between st. Louis and st. Paul, was
| launched at five o'clock Wednesday even
| ing. from James Mack's yard, at Cincinnati.
| With the hull completed and finished to her
| boiler deck, she only draws fourteen inches
! water all round. The launch was easy.
| She is building under the personal super
vision of Captain j. II. Baldwin, and will
DO completed within thirty days. Her di-
mansions are as follows: The hull is two
hundred and fifty feet long, thirty eight feet
beam, thirty-six feet floor, with six feet
| depth of hold. She will have the Lizzie
| Giil's machinery, with three new double
fue boilers, fOrty-two inches in diameter
and thirty feet long, the cylinders being
| twenty-four inches in diameter, with seven
| feet stroke. She will have full length