New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-01-04
River Intelligence.
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| WEATHER. BV-ENE.s E1os-Yhe ahgsSe
/! eYins weather os iisa'Sas evening s'lssi!s
?assaA away 'siGl.o'se suSti!lm.ns sG 81
gloomy Go:ebod;N.s' Yesterday woes ss
bright anal Pheasant t.ays erG'!,,: ssss siS'.e
ia u eicar. Vl.seossiis sis. 9Th. yr"s!aats :t'R
a continuance, eof '.se .iro weather ..,s eso.
cl,sediy ..arf. 9u.iu"ss yesterday rc..:gc,:
| q M.~ is.,strs fTOm ths arrival .g easeysi
sscV.il.e ssetU2eYs. Tie Henry .f7,rs, from
81 :.csis. ca,l:e -. seeilr !a!en S.a!l freight
; a,.i :. .o.'ss LIST Is! Messengers.
! Yh. s-iz.ie :sor'sins, tr",a Te:1sas S,aAe.
had i..iv trip. ;'a!le Ha.c". 'Soia Saz""
.iv.Y, Lrougl, ,Gow.. . .ylendi.. sii,. sor es.e
and his ,LAiscel!ansas. freight. Abe Sors-
scnelia had q light trip. Che mammoth St.rA-
! wheeler Henry q. feag",. troIn 2i.t~sur.,
J nasi = tremendous cry. She brought sown
| considerable .oitous 1he &aovevEos .A!Ien
had u good trip in.
| The departures ~sl' EOg Nrgn@!ou- ;sAH
| among these that iHtt were: The William
J. Lewis Z. st. Lonis. with good trip "I
| sugar and mola-ses, snd some people; South
western 20 Shreveport. with q ligh: cargo
of freight. bus large Euinher "f rassea-
| gers: Selma to Sp.!onsAs, With 10 email
| freight receipt
Business i. becoming b7iske.. now Cha:
! thc holidays have passed, and. if the sup
! ply of coal destined fov this port would ar
J rive, freight rates would be lowered and
| shipments increased in proportion.
The river here is still falling. Dispatches
| from Red river announce that stream ~
| rising, but business dull.
Cotton receipts continue large. and sugar
| Ia shipping more literally.
MISCELLANEOUS lTEMs.-The long talked
| Of and queer looking steamer Henry {.
| Yeagcr made her advent at the wharf yes
| terday, and, OF course, was the subject OF
!
| at the foot of Poylras Sfrc4. and. as she at
| presci,. lays looks Ike 4 steamboat landed
stern foremost. IL word. she is :, double
barreled barge built III Pittsburg. by
! Commodore w. j. kountz, as Il freight
! boat, to ply between New Orleans and st.
Louis. Although she is peculiarly ugly
| looking boat. she has a good model OF hull
! and {; staunch appearance.
! It is claimed that She carries Two thou
| sand tons Of freight. and is one OF the best
constructed boats of the period. Her bull
! Is built Ill compartments. each Of which is
water-ti2ht, and especially adopted to ear
rying Hour without Ststinage. II it Were not
| that her cEinney5 ect about thirty feet baci.
OF her pilot house, III place OF III front nj it,
| she would not be such an ungainly looking
| craft after all. She was huiit, however 10
| make money, and that hcing the principal
| object after all, We gladly bail her addition
to the tonnage OF New Orleans. Captain
David Brady came down in command OF hor.
George Wolf, Esq, and wife, of st. Louis,
came down on the Henry Amcs as passcn-
gers. Mr.. Wolff assures us that his LIQUOR
house in st. Louis is 1ourishng, and that
| his partner, Mr.. George A. Iiynes, i, well.
The Henry Ames came sailing gally into
port yesterday, looking in us fine condition
"a the day she started On her maiden trip.
Since her last appearance at our wharf the
AmeS has undergone many Important
changes. She has been enlarged TO an ex-
tent to make her one Of the most capacolIs
steamers on the river, and has been entirely
cefurnished and renovated She Was
always favorite steamer at New Orleans,
and now our shippers can patronize her
with increased good will. Captain J. West
Jacobs commands, and Alfred ID. Arm
strong Esq, is chief clerk MIR. c. Il. ia
cobs, an energetic young gentleman, has
charge OF the freight department. The
Ames leaves on Friday evening, at five
o'clock, for st. Louis and way points.
Dispatches to the Superintendent of tho
Red River Packet Company announce the
departure from Shreveport, on the second
instant, of the steamer Era No. to New
Orleans. with a good trip.
Mr.. Richard l'unstall, of ST. Louis, and
veil known as one Of the proprietors Of the
Ut. Louis ami Alton lire Of packets, is IN
town. and st"ppiilg at the st. Charles
Hotel.
Somebody ststcs in the PieGyune of yes
.erday that the Natshez brought in on her
is-t trip tbs l;srgest sarge OF cotton since
the war. afucss not The Belle Lee
brought in. IL" weeks ago, 800 bales
Ncre tl,an the Natchea, did on her last trip.
The Belle Lee had 5ola bales, and that is
the top figure just AT preeent
Captains Cox and jacobs, late of the
Cceanus. are III Brownkyille, contracting
far aNn Ata 1,n
Robert Mitchell, now att Cincinnati, is a
pretty good steamer. Her dimensions are
two hundred and seventy four feet long
over all. seventy-two fed wide, fourteen
feet hold. wheels twenty hine and half
feet diameter eight feet buckets, eighteen
arn's; cylinders twenty-tf 70 inches diane