New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-16
River Intelligence.
OFFICE OF THE DAILY REPUBLICAN.
TUESDAY MORNING, Nav l6. 1871.

WEATHER, BUSINESS, ETC.-Sunday was a
damp, gloomy, disagreeable day. 1t began
raining in the morning and continued SO
until late III the evening. Yesterday dawned
bright and with great promises of beauti-
tul day, but early in the afternoon the sky
became clouded by a black, squally cloud,
and stiff and threatening breeze blew
| strongly from the southeast. At one time
| the inky blackness of the sky and the close
atmosphere rendered it not improbable that
| the city was TO be visited by genuine
hurricane. Luckily the clouds passed away.
Business is ever dull on a Monday, and
yesterday was no exception to the rule,
The arrivals of Sunday and yesterday were
| few. The Colossal came in from Little
Rock. with 325 bales Of cotton: the p. w.
| Strader, from Cincinnati, had full trip;
! the olive Branch, from st. Louis, had full
load of freight; the Robert E. Lee brought
down tair cotton trip for the season: the
| Wade Hampton had a moderate cargo,
Among the departures were the Henry Tete
ana Wade Hampton, with usual trips. The
river here is falling. Rates are unchanged
Dispatches from Fort Benton announce
SIX feet in the river at that point-more
water than has been known there for the
past four years. The prospects of very
high and continued water in the Missouri
river are good for the coming season. In
the Ohio river there is big rise and fair
prospect for coalboat stage of water
The Dexter, for Cincinnati, with $4,000
bushels of ceal, and Il, 900 bushels of coke,
and the Samuel Roberts, with 10000
bushels of coal, for Louisville, left Pittsburg
yesterday.
The Susie Silver, Captain Thomas w.
Shields, master ALT ID. Armstrong. clerk.
will leave Tomorrow at p. NJ, positively,
for Louisville and all intermediate land
ings.
The Olive Branch, Captain John T. Nc
Cord, master, and Ed Hawks ESD, clerk.
will depart for st. Louis and wav landings
tomorrow at p. NJ. The Olive Branch is
the regular line packet, and is elegantly
furnished. She possesses all the require
ments Of first class steamer, and her
officers are uneXceptionable in attentiveness
and experience.
Captains Lloyd T. Belt and Harry Bro
laski have purchased about three-fourths,
or s3OOOO worth at par, of the stock of the
st. Louis and Peoria Packet Company. Peo-
ria being point on the Illinois river. two
hundred and fOrty-twO miles distant from
st. Louis The stock was that owned by |
John ). McCune, Esq, who has been for |
three years past president of the Peoria |
Packet Company. and over twenty years |
president OF the keOkuk Packet Company. |
The property OF the Peoria company con
sists of three sternwheel steamers. four
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and warehouse at Peoria. Handsome
dividends have been realized from the stock /
Tor three years past, although the history
of the old Peoria line, which it supplanted
was darkened by misfortune Captains
Belt and BrOlaski are experienced boatmen
and good business men-observant method
zeal and careful Captain Belt will take
the position of general superintendent and
general agent of the line, and Captain Bro
laski will be secretary and agent.
The Louisville Commercial has given
notice through its river column that it will
hereafter not notice any boat that does not
advertise in its columns. Sensible is. that
sensible does"
Late in the year of 1870 the steamer
Right Way exploded her boilers in Bayou
Lafourche, and by the accident some fifteen
II twenty persons were killed The wreck
vas brought out of the bayou and towed up
he river to Madison, and the Right Way
vas rebuilt there. She passed inspection,
md is now considered a staunch, seawOrthv
raft. She is en- route to New Orleans. to
esume her place in the bayou trade
The Mohawk and barges, from ST. Louis
With full freight list, passed Vicksburg
yesterday, and will arrive here to dav, and
cave on return trip Thursday at five p NJ.
agent, j. L. Burdeau, No. Is Poydras street.
esires consignees and shippers to remem-
er the time OF her departure, and govern
themselves accordingly
A magnificent lite-like oil painting Dor
raft of Captain Thomas Leathers is on
at the Art Gallery on Canal 6
treet, above Baronne i
The magnificent James Howard. the larg- 1
st and most elegant boat afioat, will depart
)-mOrrOw at p. NJ, for st. Louis and the c
ay landings. This mammoth steamer is
by Captain b. Rush Pegram,
18th Mr. Henry Chassaing as chief clerk.
The Steamer d. l.. Tally is running regu- =
rly IN place of the steamer Governor
Hen.