New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-22
River intelligence.
OFFICE OF THE DAILY REPUBLICAN
THURSDAY MORNING, June %, 1871.

| OFTICB OF THB DAILY kEfUbLiCAN,{
THURSDAY MORNING, June ~, 1911
WEATHER, BUSINESS, ETC.-Yesterday was
| the hottest day of the season, and had it
not been for a slight shower about noon
| everybody would have melted into one vast
| grease spot. The shower only cooled the
| air a short time, and toward evening lt De-
| came closer than ever; but the sky in the
| evening was covered with murky cloud
which portends more rain which is niue h
prayed for to relieve us of the excessive
| heat
| Business on the levee had arrived at its
| climax, being perfectly dead. with the ex-
! ceptiOn of the discharging of the low pres
| sure steamer Richmond, the loading steam
ers doing nothing at all, and at standstill
point.
Business being so very dull and so little
freight moving, that the steamers ID. L..
Tally, Lotus No. and Lulu ID all have
laid over until to day, when they Will try
their luck to get Oft if possible.
The arrivals were the Richmond and
Mary Alice and barges. from st. Louis, both
having heavy cargoes; the former had 5O0O
barrels of -four add pit hogsheads tobacco,
being her principal cargo; the Ouachlta
Belle, from Argyle; Big Horn, from Jeffer-
son; Potomac, from Cincinnati; Henry Iete,
from Bayou Lafourche, and Bradish john
son, from Bayou Sara.
Cincinnati. City of Quincy for st. Louis,
and Selma for Opelousas, all having very
slim trips
By a telegram we learn that the steamer
Katie will be at the landing this morning,
and will leave positively on Saturday at D
p NJ. for st. Louis and all way landings.
Passengers wishing to avail themselves OF
a chance to travel ON this fine steamer had
better call early on John Janney, agent No.
ba & nearly
full, some few good rooms only being left.
The st. Louis Democrat of June l9 says:
"The river here is still falling If there is
to be any further rise from the mountains,
it should be heard of soon. The Missouri
is falling from Sioux City to the mouth.
Navigation in the Upper Mississippi, above
Keokuk, is becoming difficult. The Ohio
continues declining, and a considerable por-
ton of that river is too low for navigation.
Weather here sultry. Business good and
tonnage abundant. The Lake Superior
withdrew yesterday from the st. Paul
trade, owing to the low water on the rapids.
The Muscatine takes her place.
We hear that the Supervising Board of
United States Inspectors are now III SEES
sion, revising the steamboat law OF 1852.
We hope that they will make provisions to
carry their new law out in better faith than
the old law has been carried out by those
who had the constituting OF its provisions.
The law of 1852 is admitted by every COM
petent boatman to be good as far as it went,
and only stopped short when it left out
captains and mates being qualified. 1t is
not the law that any bOatman complains OF,
but the manner in which it has been in
terpreted by the first boards of both local
and supervising inspectors, whose intepre-
tation has become the rule for all succeed
ing boards.
The subject of reduction of wharfage is
to be agitated i'll Louisville. This is move
in the right direction. After a while the
canal tolls must also be reduced.
The Louisville COurter-JOUnal Of the
seventeenth says:
The river up TO P. NJ. yesterday had
fallen three inches in the twenty four hours,
when there were two feet one inch in the
pass down the Indian chute and four feet
one inch in the canal. Business very dull.
The great low pressure steamer Rich |
mond, n. S. Green master, 5. Cork Creigh- |
ton and John Langlois clerks, backs out |
this evening at p. NJ. for st. Louis and all |
way landings. The Richmond has fine ac-
and agreeable officers.