The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-08
WEATHER. BUSINESS, ETC.

WEATHER, BUSINESS, ETC.
There has been no change in the weather
for the better. Yesterday noon it COM
menced raining and gave us one OF those
old fashioned outpourings, deluglng every
thing and everybody and making our ievees
one homogeneous mass OF mud. ms klhd OF
weather don't pay, it is unpleasant Tor all,
and yester avs work destroyed the pros
meets of several of our outgoing packets,
and brought business down to level OF the
previous day, whereas, it promised to be
somewhat of an improvement; but we must
not repine, and hope on for the better day
coming, la millennium.
At : o'clock last evening the river was
M to the high water mark Of 1871, and still
on the rise, and the days heavy rain Will
lend a helping hand.
The freight tariffs are unchanged from our
last quotations.
John B. Maude, from Memphis; Bee and
barges, from st. Louis; Bertha and Bradlsh
johnson, from Opelousas; Texas, from
Shreveport.
DEPARTURES.
RE. Lee. for mouth of White River; Sell
ma, for Shreveport; Empire and Marie for
Lower Coast Susie Silver, for st. Louis !;
Robert Mitchell, for Louisville.
BOATS TO ARRIVE.
G.. H. Durfee, from Red River; Ouachita
Belle, from Camden; Frank Pargoud, from
Greenville; Jas. Howard and Mollie Moore.
from st. Louis.
DEPARTURES FOR TO-DAY.
Bertha, Capt. w. H. White. clerk J. S.
Schmidt, and the Bradish johnson, Capt.
c. C. Pickett, clerk T. John, for Opelousas
b. L. Hodge, Capt. " B. Baranco, clerk j..
p McElroy, for Baton Rouge.
Ouachita Belle, Capt. j. w. Blanks, clerk
Joe Holmes, for Camden. Trenton, Monroe
and all landings on Black and Ouachita
rivers.
R. T. Bryarly, Capt. w. T. Scovell, clerk
f. Burke, for shreveport, Jefferson and all
landings on Red River.
John B. Maude, Capt. J. F. Noel, clerk
Aft. Grissom, for mouth of White River,
Helena, Memphis and all way landings.
Garry Owen, Capt. Nick Bouchman, clerks
Jenkins and CulbertsOn, for Camden. Mon
roe, Trenton and all way landings on Black
and Ouachita rivers.
Era No. 10, Capt. Tom L. Taylor, clerk
Tom Clements, BGuff River.
Gladiola, Capt. H. L. Lee, clerks Ed.
Groves and w. A. Devinney, for Minden and
Lake Bisteneau.
Ruth, Capt. r. P. Burton, clerk VIM.
Barnes, for Camden, Trenton, Monroe and
all landings on Black and Ouachita rivers.
Bee and barges, Capt. H. H. Symmes, for
Cairo and st. Louis.
DEPARTURES FOR THURSDAY.
Frank Pargoud, Capt. J. NJ. White, clerks
Holmes, McCrindle and Benedict, for Nat
chez, Vicksburg, Greenville and all way
landings.
James Howard, Capt. B. R. Pegram, clerk
J. H. Chassaing, for Memphis, Cairo and
st. Louis
Mollie Moore, Capt. Dave Haney, clerk
Henry J. King, for Cairo and st. Louis.
Texas, Capt. C. w. Stinde, clerk Geo. E.
Fee, for Shreveport, Jefferson and all way
landings on Red River.
The St. Louis Republican river reporter
has it that tbs Belle Lee would lay up on
her arrival here ON her last trip. If he
waits few days, he will find out the awful
mistake he has labOred under, for she will
very soon be at that port, and give his
highness chance to get up some new and
highly sensational items in regard to the
Belle Lee and her loading in the Kountz
Line for this port.
What is the matter with the st. Louis
and Red River trade? The Belle of Shreve-
port is advertised in the St. Louis papers as
loading for Pittsburg, to leave on the 9TH.
The Louisville Journal man is all wrong,
too, about the Belle Lee. He says she is
en- route for that port and left ON Thurs
day, whereas she did not leave here until
Friday, and then went her way to St.
Louis.
The Texas arrived yesterday from Shreve-
port with 631 bales of cotton and 124 head
of beef cattle. She will have immediate
dispatch on her return trip on Thursday, at
m.
John A. Mouchon, Esq, has again laid us
under obligations for a late Shreveport
Times
GLEANINGs FROM EXCHANGES.
The St. Louis Republican of the 5th says
g The river had fallen seven inches The
weather was winterish for spring, and did
not facilitate shipment. Rates were I'M
changed, and business was not immense
The Alton and Grafton trade seems to be
immense, for there is more than one in it
now, and more are coming. Workmen on
the great bridge have a happy time throw
ing bolts, screws, blocks Of God, etc, at
the captains of the steamers AS they pass
by under the bridge; one of them was try |
ing to hit Capt. Bill Thompson, of the Hi
nois, the other day, as he passed by, but
missed his mark, which shows that he is not |
\ good shootist, for the Captain has size
enough for almost any burgher to make
centre shot on. The Commonwealth is
oading, and will leave on Tuesday, the 9TH,
20 be followed by the John A. Scudder on
The 9th. The John Kyle, for New Orleans,
eft with over 1900 tons on board"
The Louisville Courier-J Journal, of the
'th, says:
The swell out of Kentucky River is caus-
ng rise at this point. Last evening there
was 9 feet 10 inches water in the canal and
feet 10 inches in the chute on the falls,
md rising steadily. Business on the wharf
was rather brisk. The weather was clear,
,ool and windy.
During the debate on the Louisville and
Portland Canal bill, Mr.. Banning, of Ohio,
'aid that Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and
illinois pay nearly half the revenue collect
I'd in the country, or 81, 0OO, 900, and, there
ore, their wishes ought to be regarded.
The wharfage tax for flatboats and barges
g the cheapest in the United States; the
AK for steamboats, is the most exOrbita mt.
A towboat and five barges, with 1900 tons
n each, pays as much wharfage as one
yood-sized boat. We Louisvillians growl
about dull times and no business, and still
We are no. happy.
The Tom Jasper is the first boat to take
Al.