New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-11-23
River Intelligence.


| served well to alleviate the sufferings caused
! by the dreariness Of the preceding days. A
genial sun contributes much to a business
day, and yesterday was ut no variance with
the rule. The delayed packets had unusu
ally good trips, and left with happy fore
bodings of cash receipts on the right side Of
| the ledger.
The Wade Hampton. for Fort Adams
had fine trip. She was well laden with
''bend freight" and had numerous cabin
and deck passenger list. The Robert E.
Lee filed out well with freight and people
The Flcta. for Red river, as usual with the
''KOuns line" of packets, was possessed of a
of any Importance as regarded heavy trips
The heaviest receipt was cotton.
Rates are firm and Interchangeable, with a
rising river. Shipments north are on the
increase, and passenger travel south is look
! ing lively. The sudden cold weather ex-
perienced at this port is undoubtedly the
! harbinger of colder weather in the North
| and West, and, consequently, VIC may look
for numerous arrivals at this port in the
! been frozen out in the upper river. We
| hope that ''many will come" but we~sup.
pose ''that few will be chosen"
| MISCELLANEOUS INTEILIGENCE.-Capta
Jim White left last evening for Louisville to
| further the interests of his new packet, the
Katie. We are assured by Captain White
| that his new steamer will soon be at this
port, and when she does arrive, look out!
Captain James Kerr, Jr., is to be absent
| from the city for a few days. He has gone
on "A recuperating tour.
The Importer comes to the wharf to-day
| to load for Arkansas river. Captain John
Williams commands, and John Bird, Esq,
! is chief clerk.
The Colossal. for Arkansas river, has
managed to scrape up sufficient men to load
iron for her, and she will probably leave to-
morrow. She takes on her barge and, boat
4OUO bars of iron. Truly, as the owners
say, Robert X. Riley is worth his weight in
gold.
A telegraph from Shreveport to Captain
George l.. KOuns. of the Red River Line,
says that the Tidal Wave left that port on
Sunday last, laden with cotton and stock,
and with numerous passenger list.
Hurrah for the KOuns Line
The new steamer Ruth will be here on
next Saturday.
The following emphatic, and no doubt
(St. Louis) Demsero', of the nineteenth in
slant:
The LOUISIANA BANK or NHw ORLEANS,
New Orleans. November IA.
DEAR MCLEAN: l see it reported in the
papers that have bought an interest in the
kilgOur steamer. Please contradict it.
am not in the market for steamers, even at
nine dollars per dozen.
JOSEPH II. OGLESBY.
The ST. Marys is loading at Louisville for
New Orleans. She leaves there this week.
Speaking about the new steamer City Of
Quincy. now en- route to this port from
Louisville the Commercial of the nineteenth
says: "The Nightingale and two barges ar
rived yesterday from Cincinnati, with about
four hundred tons Of heavy freight for the
City of Quincy. The two barges were
taken over the falls by Captain Pink
Varble, and the Nightingale returned to
Cincinnati
A dispatch received yesterday brings the
melancholy intelligence that Harry Heuer,
while at Fort Riley, Kansas, or vicinity,
was thrown from a horse and received in
juries which resulted in lock jaw and death.
Harry Heuer was born here, and was TWEEN
ty-four years of age. He was well known
as an active aud talented young man, as a
second clerk on steamboats, during several
years past. Among the boats he served on
Carroll and Milwaukee. His death is
mourned by many friends. The deceased
was brother Of Philip j. Heuer. at present
clerk of the Henry S. Turner. He was well
known in New Orleans.
Mr. Roley Porter, late of the Kate Kin
ney, has taken the chief clerkship of the
steamer Post Boy, the new Red river and
st. Louis packet
Captain Chef. Bradley, a we'll known and
popular river clerk, has quit the water and
associated himself IN the steamboat agency
business with Messrs. Montcalm & Co., Of
Louisville.
Captain John H. Triplett, formerly of the
Petr0lia No. 2, Norman and other steamers,
has engaged in the steamboat agency bust
ness at Evansville.
The Thompson Dean is loading at st.
Louis for this port
Thus far this season forty-four bridal
parties have Travelled On the Telegraph.
She should have her name changed. How
would "Cupid's Bower do: or "Loye
among the roses p
Thirty flatboats laden with hay, in the
vicinity of eight thousand tons, and other
produce. are lying between Cincinnati and
Louisville, awaiting rise of sufficient
water on the falls to enable them to come
through to this port A large amount of
freight for the South is detained on the
Ohio river by low water.
Coal one dollar per box at Memphis.
Good for ''High.'
At Dubuque, yesterday. ice formed in the
slOughs, and remained all day without thaw-
ing.
The new Judge Wheeler was launched
at Memphis Wednesday night
The fine steamer Dexter was launched
from the Mound City marine ways last
Wednesday. She has been widened and
heightened so that her capacity for freight
has been about doubled. She will now carry
eighteen hundred tons, and although twelve
feet wider than before, it is expected from
her improved model that she will he rs fast
as before the present reconstruction took
place, and is now one OF the best freight
boats on the waters.
FROM Our ExcHANGEs.-Mcnpiis .-The
Aralonche, of. the thirteenth, says: Gar
kansas is falling, with a good stage to Fort
Smith, and nine or ten feet in the channel
below Little Rock. White river has four
through to Darbonne.
81. LOnis.-Captain Patterson did not get
out with his brig c. Is. Church last night,
for the reason that tie carpenters had not
succeeded i'll finishing up the alterations
about her cabin. Captain Patterson has
spent $4,000 on the Church. She now has
a magnificent cabin, with.fne large state
rooms. elegant and well ventilated, in every
respect equal to any boat that comes to this
pOrt.-DeniOcr0t, 19.
LouisriNe.-Captain John W. Blanks new
boat, Ouachita Belle, is fully completed,
and could leave hore at any time if there
were sufficient water to admit of her passing
down the falls. This boat is most beauti-
full piece of marine architecture, and is uni
versally admired by the thousands who
have seen her. She is, without exaggera
ton, the finest and handsomest side-wheel
steamboat that has been built at this port
for long while. and reflects great credit
upon the mechanics around the falls Of the
Ohio. as well as her protector, Captain
Blanks. We will in a short time give full
description Of this magnificent floating
e.-Cou,ier-Journal, November 10.