New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-27
LETTER FROM SHREVEPORT.

Damage by the Rain St0rm-Decline In
the River, etc.-COtton Crop and
Where IL will Seek n Market-New
Orleans Ahead of st. Louis-Imprsye.
ments Going on and Projected-New
Hotel, New Presbyterian Church, New
.PaviDg-Arrest of a Woman from New
OrIeans-Steamer Tidal Wave Snagged
Man Lost his Leg, etc.
Especial Correspondence of the Republican,
SHREVEPORT, May -, 1871.
EDITOR REPUBLICAN:
The terrible rain storm of Friday night
and Saturday did great damage about here.
The railroad bridge at Jonesville, on the
Southern Pacific railroad, was carried away.
and no trains could pass. 1t is expected it
will be repaired to-day. No business out
doors could be carried on, but yesterday
the weather was lovely-in strong contrast
with that of the previous day. We trust
the crops have not been injured much.
Doubtless the great fall of rain will check
the decline in the river, lakes and bayous,
all of which have been receding rapidly of
| late-so fast indeed as to threaten the sus-
pension of navigation up to jefferson for
| first class boats.
The amount of cotton yet to come to mar
ket is thought to be nearly third of the
last years crop. If the water should fall so
as to prevent shipments readily from Jeifer-
son, then the cotton will seek market at
Longview, the end of the Southern Pacific
railroad at present, and then it will pass
through this place, and on to the Crescent
City, not to the Mound City, as some of
your st. Louis contemporaries seem to
fondly hope, because they have fine line of
boats running thither, and bringing large
quantities of produce, ETC., that used to be
transported first to New Orleans and then
come up here. 1t is true these boats are
well suited to the trade, we'll managed, with
Obliging officers, etc., and that freight is
brought at low rates from st. Louis, where
produce, flour, etc., are cheaper than in New
Orleans, and hence merchants here may be
justified in ordering their supplies in part
from St. Louis; but it is very different re-
specting cotton. All who ship wish to get
the article to market as quick as possible,
and to the best market also. SO if ST. Louis
is the best produce market, New Orleans is
the best cotton market, and the distance so
much shorter that of course time is saved;
and time is money, especially in cotton op-
erations, as all know.
There are several projected improve
ments in various stages of progress here
some only talked Of as, for instance, the
building of large new hotel by a joint
stock company-others are contracted for, |
as the paving of Commerce street with |
stone, obtained from the hill at the lower |
end of the street; the landing is to be |
also paved, and there is nothing more
needed; again, the paving of Texas street
is also progressing, but, we are sorry to
see, at very slow pace; and Texas ave-
nue. is to be planked along the line of the
street railroad. 1t is to be hoped these
much needed improvements will be pushed
forward regardless of who is to be Mayor
and Administrators of the city. That dis
puted point of the Succession" as we
wrote you last week, is to be left to the
courts, and everything is quiet in the
political world hereabouts. There are
,ther substantial improvements going on;
he new and handsome brick building for
he Presbyterian congregation is rapidly
'eing completed, for example.
We learn that at meeting few evenings
ince about $1,000 was subscribed to enable
he building committee to have the pews
ompleted at once. 1t is proposed to have {
town clock put in the tower and the city
night well afford to pay for it, as it would |
re public benefit and is greatly to be de-
ired by all classes. 1t has been decided,
ge learn, to use portable gas machine to 6
gas for the use of the church, 1
8 it can be done so much cheaper than to t
ny of the city gas works. 1t is such as are I
FINISHED by the company in your city
hose office is located at No. % Carondelet e
treet, in the rear of the Continental Life
insurance Company.
Several parties are about to have the side I
'alks in front of their stores paved with the
eautiful brown stone from quarries at C
ongview; some has been already laid on
exas street and looks very well. e
The Chief of Police, Captain Sherrod, l
'ceved dispatch from Colonel Badger of o
our city, requesting the arrest OF woman G
AIMED Mrs. Anderson, alias Dwyer, accused d
obtaining goods on false pretenses, and n
king passage on the Tidal Wave from
Dur city. She was, on the arrival of the r
oat, placed in charge of an officer and fl
larters obtained for her at the Brooks Il
ouse, as she had two little children. and
aptain Sherrod wished to treat them
'operly until further news come. The
dal Wave was badly snagged, and her f
lards and deck torn away about sixty b
lies below here in Grand Bayou: but "
e damage to the boat was as nothing com Il
Ired with the sad affliction to one of the a
bite deckhands, who had one of his legs W
m off. He was promptly taken to the In W
mary for medical treatment passen- cl
+ was thrown overheard, but escaped un b
lured; no one else hurt, and the boat pro v
eded on her trip to Jefferson. Sc
LIBERTY. L
DR.. Z. w. Hooke, an old resident of