New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-03-08
River Intelligence.
OFFICE OF THB DAILY REPUBLICAN.
WEpyEspAY MORNING, March 8, 1871.


WEATHER, BUSINESS, ETC-Iesterday
was an uncomfortably warm day up to ;
p. NJ. when IA lively and cool breeze sprang
up. which though beneficial in cooling the
atmosphere, was annoying by raising clouds
of dust which almost blinded those whose
duties compelled them to be on the levee.
Late in the evening it became quite cloudy
and threatening of rain. Business on the
levee was very active. and presented one OF
the liveliest scenes of the season.
The arrivals included the large carrying
Belle Lee. from Memphis, with 5000 bales OF
cotton: Pauline Carroll. with full trip from
St Louis: Charles b dmann, from Louisville,
deeply laden La Belle, from Ouchita. with
l259 bales cotton: Bannock City. from
lower coast with excellent trip; Selma,
from Washington. well laden.
The departures were: The Great Repub-
lie for st. Louis. with one of the best trips
OF freight and passengers combined of the
season: she had 1870 bars of railroad iron,
and about COO tons of sugar and molasses.
She had every stateroom filled with CABIN
passengers besides "a large number of deck
passengers. The Robert +. Lee left tor
icksburg with IA fine trip. John L. Moore
left for Shreveport with a good freight trip
and Il large number of passengers. Lizzie
Hopkins. to Bayou Macon. was also well
laden The G. ii. Durfee, for Red river.
was moderately laden.
The number of bargcs and heavily laden
steamers that have arrived during this
week has again occasiOned a lack OF levec
room.
We notice that produce dealers are VIC
latinc every day the ordinance compelling
them to move their freight from the wharf
in twenty four hours after its being dis
charged on the wharf Moreover, the
Pontchartrain railroad and the Mobile and
Chattanooga railroad allow their freight
trains to lay for hours on the track in the
most needed portion of the wharf. and
sometimes cause blockade OF teams, which
seriously interIeres with the removal OF
freight and the clearance of the lcvee. We
noticed last evening. Just at the busiest
time four different trains on the track. eX
tending from Gravier street to Lafayette
street which caused the detention for
nearly half an hour of over seventy loaded
| teams that were hauling from the wharf.
| There should be something done i'll regard
| to the present nuisance of railroad trains
! on the levee, a. the manner in which it Is
| managed at present is a great injustice TO
steamboatmen and also to the tcamsters.
| The river here continues to rise. Ohio
| river is rising Red and Ouachita rivers
are at good stage.
THE NEW STEAMER kATIE.-For several
weeks past the general topic among steam
| boatruen. and. III fact. in many outside cir
cles was the look ed-for advent of Captain
! J. NJ. Whites new steamer Katie which
was being built under Captain Writes
| supervision at Louisville, for the Nicksburg
| and New Orleans trade. A. it was a well
| known fact that Captain White was incapa-
bic of building aught but an Al fast steam
! boat. her advent at this port has been
| looked forward to with great anxiety. On
| Monday evening. at seven o'clock, the lon.
looked for steamer came sailing gaily into
I =, Go
| Yesterday she was visited By thousands Of
! people of all classes. shades and occupa-
! lions, and from the G aculationS and re-
! marks OF the numerous visitors. it seems to
be a settled fact in the mind of the public
that Captain Whites reputation for build
ing magnificent and swift steamers has
been fully mai ntained by this, his last pro-
| duction. A description of her will no doubt
| prove interesting to our readers
| She is 292 feet long, Al feet beam, ola feet
| hold: her cabin is pa feet long. Her model
| is perfect IN its symmetry, and gives promise
of great speed.
| Her engines and machinery were manu-
| featured by Mr.. John b. Davies. of Louis
| vile, Kentucky, and are of tho following
| dimensions The two main engines have
balance valves cylinders % inches in
diameter and 10 feet stroke. The water
wheels are 3sls feet in diameter, the buckets
being II feet inches in length. The main
journals are Is inches in diameter The
shafts and cranl1s weigh IS, 500 pounds The
| horse power of the two engines is 334S at
twenty revolutions, with l4O pounds of
steam to the square inch. The doctor is
powerful. convenient and of very handsome
design. The supply pipes are all of copper,
| and inches in diameter.
! The steam fire engine Ia canable of
| throwing water all over the boat and sup
plying over twenty fire plugs on the upper
and lower decks. The niger or cargo en-
CINE has all the recent improvements TO
raise or lower fraghts. The capstan en-
gines are connected at right angles and
drive trebly geared capstan.
The main battery of boilers consists of
nine douhle-t1ued ones, each thirty-two feet
long, made OF the best Tennessee charcoal
iron, of the thickness of No =.
There arc four steam drums forty inches
in diameter The top of the chmnevs is
seventy-tive feet above the roof and each
chimney is seyenty-five inches IN diameter.
| The steam pipe is ten inches in diameter,
and the escape pipes are fifteen inches in
diameter under the decks, and twenty tour
inches in the drum above. The engines and
| machinery are of the best character
throughout. and are finished in style
highly creditable to their maker, Mr.. John
D.. Davies, who came down on the Katie as
passenger.
She ia strongly hog chained. the fore and
| aft one being two and half inches in diam