New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-11
NEW ORLEANS TO ST. LOUIS.

LFrom the ST. Lonis Republican, june 8.

From the st. Louis Republican, June 3D.
The steamboat Natchez, Thomas p
Leathers captain, arrived in port yester,
day, having made remarkably quick bust
ness trip from New Orleans to st. Louis,
almost rvaling the time made by her i'll the
| celebrated race with the Robert +. Lee IN
July last. AT tie time of the departure OF
the boat from New Orleans, at $50 p. III.
| on Saturday last, a furious storm OF wind
and rain was prevailing, which continued
with undated ferceness all night and dur
| ing the greater part of the following day.
| Some idea of its violence may be imagined
| when it is stated that it required the use OF
| two tugs to get the boat out from the land
| ing into the stream. Notwithstanding the
| great disadvantages of the heavy head wind
| and driving rain the run to DOnaldsOnville
was made in five hours and twenty and a
half minutes, where the first landing was
made and several passengers taken on board
The log of the Natchez from this point
shows the following: ,4-. r..r st,,
Landed at Gays plantation for passen-
gers, and received lot of mill machinery
for st. Louis, which detained Us twenty
minutes. Time to Baton Rouge, nine hours
and fifty-fve minutes; landed there and put
out passengers. Landed at Bayou Sara and
took on board passengers and freight: lost
fifteen minutes. Passed the mouth of Red
river III fourteen hours and thirty minutes,
and made the run from there to Stamps
landing, the exact time made by the Lee on
her st. Louis run; landed at Lochleven and
Fairview, and came to Natchez in eighteen
hours and fifty-one minutes; landed, and
put out passengers and freight, losing
eighteen minutes. Stopped at Rodney and
Grand Cult, to which latter port we were
out twenty-fOur hours, being our ninth
landing; stopped at Hard Times and Delta,
and reached Vicksburg in twenty-six hours
and thirty-tiye minutes; put out passengers
and freight and took two coal boats, losing
twenty-five minutes. After dropping our
tow, and the weather having cleared up,
with the moon brightly shining, the
Big Indian y let himself out, and
did such magnificent running as to
excite the admiration OF every one.
Landed at Lake Providence. Cox's Landing.
Greenville, Point Comfort, Bolivar mouth
OF White river, where we took in tow a coal
fiat, and made Old Town landing in forty
eight hours. Reached Memphis in two
days, eight hours and seventeen and half
minutes; was detained there forty-three
minutes waiting for coal and putting out
passengers and freight. Upon leaving Mem
phis we found the water much lower than
was anticipated, which caused us to avoid
all eut-Otfs, and compelled us to run the
main channel, which, of course, very
materially interfered with our making time.
We were out three days at head of Island
No. 10. Passed the Richmond below Co
lumbus; made Cairo in three days, four
hours and fOrtytwO minutes, which was our
twentieth landing. Was detained forty
minutes putting out passengers, getting
coal, etc. Owing to the condition of the
river from Cairo to st. Louis, we had no
opportunity of doing any running. being
under slow bells almost all the time Landed
at Grand Tower for coal, and at the bank
below Chester on account of some disar-
rangement of machinery and arrived at St. |
Louis at half-past four o'clock, being out
three days, twenty-five hours and twenty |
minutes. having made twenty-five landings |
on the trip.
Taking all things into consideration. the |
number of landings made, the amount of |
business done, and the difficulties encoun- |
tered both as to low water and storms. this |
trip OF the Natchez is far ahead of ANYTHING |
ever before accomplished by any steamboat |
on the Mississippi, and settles the fact that |
It can with ease make regular business trims |
from New Orleans to st. Louis and eclipse
the wonderful time of the j. NJ White. |
which for twenty years was unsurpassed.
This was the Natchez's first trip of the
season to st. Louis. The boat brought m
ward OF one hundred cabin passengers and
TWO hundred and fifty tons of freight.
The time of the boats in the july 1S7O)
race was: 49,
Days. Hours Minutes.
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