New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-03-30
River Intelligence.

O1ISOB o. 1HB DAILI IL V1LaOn~sk
TnUnsDAY 1oRNlus. March -. ls51. ,
WRA1nHH. BUSINESS, Erc.-Ihe glooml-
mesa Of Tuesday passed away in the gener-
ness transacted on the levee was increased
ON accomt If the delayed departures Of the
precedinE day. There 10 not much activ1ty
ameug steanboatmen at present, tho gener.
atty Of them being now much engr0ssed
With the prospects Of how to live through
the coming dan season. Railroad iron is
now the staple article Of export North, hay-
ing for the time being superseded cotton.
Sugar receipts are also growing beautifully
less.
Among the arrivals yesterday were the
Kate Kinney full trip, from Louisville;
Frank Pargoud, light, from vicksburg; Po-
tomac, good trip, from Cincinnati; Katie,
irtrip, from Vicksburg.
Tho departures were /: the Glencoe. with
light cargo, to Cincinnati; John I. Moore,
to jefferson and. Shreveport, with magnifi-
cent trip Of passengers and somewhat OF .
carge, and Ouaehits Belle, to Camden, with
summary trip.
The river = reoeding slowly. The upper
riveft are al receding. Rates to Red river
arc unchanged, with tendency to an
- Gladiola h the best Minden packet
sAoat. So says Captain Lee, her COM
Vnnn
TSe Great Republic is this days packet
william B. Donaldson has command, and
Nessrs. Atkinson and Floyd are the chief
clerks. Mr.. Wash Floyd, the genial second
clerk, has his family ON board, in the shape
of beautiful "bruin- ette," otherwise called
. pet beae. He h very proad of his men
agerie.
CAMDEN, Arkansas, March g.
10 0esrge D. Hite:
Leave here Wednesday ct 10 A. NJ; will
leave New Orleans Saturday, first proxino,
positively, for Camden: .,..e ssl
ss- n Captain Steamer La Belle. q,
I(oNRos, Louisiana, March g.
Viii arrive srf.s On On rSSrsdsy and leave on Fri
day, thirty-6rs for Camden direct.
,stsi FRANK KEELING, -.
Master Steamer Lizzie Hopkins.
We wero pleased to meet Captain Abe
NcPike yesterday. who il looking in excel.
lent health. He is in town ON business and
win remain 16f several days.
The Bee and baTges depart tomorrow in
the regular Mississippi Valley Transports
ton Company's line for St. Louis. This
line is now sending out their towboats with
great reliability.
Inc xOW J8oPcr u Gull mAuucU ~ Up
tain william Thompson, and clerked by
Nessrs. James White and Charles Dix.
She leaves for St. Paul to-day, being the
second packet of this season for that far
north point. She Of course receives tor all
way landings.
The Cincinnati Gazette of the twenty
seventh says that the rs. s. Merrill made a
trial trip Saturday. She was registered at
the CustOmhOuse Saturday morning. Her
dimensions are as follows: Length, two
hundred and fifty -four and four -tenths feet;
breadth, thirty seven and six-tenths feet;
depth, six and fUur-tenths feet; hull
measurement, five hundred and twenty
five and Observation-Disclosures tons; total
measurement, eight hundred and seventy
five and 6ve-hundredths TONS She was to
leave for Pittsburg yesterday with two
model barges Of iron ore in tow"
Captain William Kiber's new boat was to
have been launched on Saturday from the
yard Of Culley Il Rawley, Edgefeld, Ten
nessee. There has mot been launch there
before for thirty years.
Wood sells to steamers along the river,
below Memphis, 1t % 50 for cotton wood
and g for hard wood. There IL not much
Of the latter sort to be obtained.
Shippers as well rs passengers will re-
member that to-day Is Thursday, and the
regular day of departure of the famous new
packet Katie, considered by all who have
seen her one Of the most elegant ~ yell as
swiftest of vicksburg and Bends packets.
Captain James White has command, and
Mr.. Howard is chief clerk. Five P. N. is
the time she leaves. Ha
As near as can be ascertained, the aggre-
gate amount of coal shipped South from
Pittsburg since February 70, fOots up ~ fol-
lows: For Cincinnati. ,5QO, 900 bushels; for
Louisville, $500, 900 bushels, making total
nf A00 (ll0 hushela ~