New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-03-16

Sixty-six of the above explosions were of
locomotives. killing ninety-eight persons
and wounding eighty-fUur: and thirty five
were of saw-mills. killing one hundred and
five persons and wounding eighty-three.
The value of property destroyed was 81 49,
l2O. Mr.. BOden. citizen of Louisville has
patented an invention which, in the opinion
of the Naval Board at Washington and
hundreds of practical and scientific men,
who have seen the invention put to the
severest tests, which will preclude the pos
sibility of boiler explosion. Mr.. Boden
is now making arrangements to bring his
invention into general use.
The Nashville and Northwestern railroad
and the Cairo packets have compromised
their fight over the New Orleans tobacco.
Rates have been advanced, and freights
divided.
Racine, Ohio, is to have a wharfboat and
a steam ferry boat
Edgefield is the name selected for the
new boat being built for the old News
Boy.
Captain b. f. Hutchinson, one of the
pioneer boatmen of the West, is at present
farming twenty-five miles back of st. Louis,
on the Birmingham road. He commanded
steamboats, many years before the whistle
of the iron horse disturbed the forests or
contended with boats for a share of the
travel He first ran the Mayflower. next
the Susquehanna, John j. Crittenden,
Northern Light. Persia, Sovereign, Brazil,
Continental. and lastly the Commonwealth.
Captain Hutchinson is about sixty years
old, and is still strong and vigorous.
The Kate Kinney has been in bad luck.
On her way down she ran through herself
above Memphis, and lost three days i'll re-
pairs. On her way up, and when at Ma
pOleOn, on Wednesday, the storm struck
her, carrying away both chimneys. and
doing Other.slisht damage. She came up to
the mouth of White river. where stumps of
chimneys were put up, with which she will
come to Louisville for repairs
NICD DIFFIKILTY.-Cnder the above
heading the st. Louis Democrat of the thir-
teenth says:
Not until late on Saturday evening did it
become known to any one but few persons
that there was joint seriously loose in the
relations of the Northern and Northwestern
Union Packet Companies, both doing bust
ness here as a united line successfully, and
apparently cordially, for the past two years.
The Northern liner Dubuque started for
Dubuque at p. NJ, according to advertise
ment. and the other cOmpanys steamer
Northwestern was to leave this evening,
but Superintendent Abe McPike had her
started off in an irregular and unexpected
| manner at p. NJ, without freight and pas
| sengers-destinatiOn tho head of naviga-
| ton. It. is right to omit the rumors af1Oat
| in regard to the causes of the rupture, and
briefly and impartially to state what ap-
pear to be facts.
A committee of each company have met
together frequently of late, in the office Of
the Northern line, to fix salaries, appoint
agents, name rents of wharf-bOats, to agree
upon tariffs of rates for the year, and other
things. 1t is alleged that the documents
containing all these particulars, the result
of four days work and conferences, were
written out, their language being per
fectly satisfactory to all the parties, and
| that CAPTAINS Thomas b. Rhodes and Thomas
J. Buford, representing the Northern line,
declined to sign them.
| The last conference was participated in by
| the two gentlemen last named and Captain
Abe McPike, Of the Northwestern Union
Packet Company. Captain Abe became
somewhat heated during the conversation,
and the loudness with which he spoke very
naturally disturbed the business reveries OF
the worthy Secretary, Mr.. Thomas II. Crit
fifth, who, feeling annoyed, suddenly turned
looked at the cOnferees, and remarked sol
emily, II wish you would go out of this
Office" This was adding fuel to the fire, and
Captain Abe, surprising that the remark
was directed to him. walked as sOlemnly to
the door, turned about and, with ill-cOn
cealed emotion, said, Il will leave your
ID Office, and never darken its door
kagain." Hence the decision he quickly came
to; and thinking, perhaps, that when Mon
day morning came NO load could be had fol
Tho Northwestern At the Northern Line
wharf boat, be sent her out that night, q
! econ = shs could b got ready.