The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-03

Waloon. Lower Coast, 8 P. M.
w. s. Pike, Bayou Sara, 5 P. N.
MISCELLANEOUS.
For additional river news see our daily tells
grams.
The steamer Favorite leaves to-day at 10 A.
NJ. for Hahnville. Convent and all way land
ings on the Upper Coast. The Favorlte will
run regularly in this trade, leaving every Tues
day and Friday, returning down the Coast on
the following days. Capt. Chas Fagot who
commands this packet, has been connected
with the Coast trade for twenty five years, and
is known as very accommodating officer.
The regular freight, passenger and United
States mail packet Iberia, Geo. A. Sheldon
master, John McConkey clerk, leaves to-day
at 10 A. NJ, making all plantation landings
on the Lower Coast to Pilot Town. The
Iberia is one of the finest and fastest boats
that ever ran in this trade. and will do to tie to-
The semi-weekly Coast, Baton Rouge and
Bayou Sara packet w. s. Pike, John J.
at promptly The Pike returns down the
Coast on Sunday and leaves again on Men
day.
On account of the bad weather the repairs
on the st. Mary were delayed. Capt Probs.
states that she will be ready by the 18th,
when he will present to his friends and pa
irons on thel Lower Coast a boat that will
meet their requirements in every particular.
The Il RS No. was brought to the land
ing yestesaay for trip to Red River. She
leay4s tomorrow evening without fail for
Jefferson and Shreveport.
The elegant Lessie Taylor is due to arrive
this evening from Baton Rouge. and will re-
turn tomorrow at 5 P. M. A clerk will be
on the levee to-day, head Of Bienville street,
receiving freight.
The following is from the St. Louis Repub.
lican
CONVENTION OF sTEAMBoATMEN.
The national board of steam navigation will
hold its fourth annual meeting at the Metro
politan Hotel, New York, commencing its ses-
sion to-day and continuing till Thursday, in
elusive.
The association is composed of steamboat
and steamship owners in all parts of the
United ates, representing $500, 0O0 900 of
invested capital. 1t was organized in Louis
vile five years ago, and now consists of ma
tional board, and local boards in all the prin-
cipal lake and seaports of the Union. The
principal matter that will come before the
board will be the proposed repeal Of the
Steamboat Act of Congress of February %,
1871, which steam vessel owners have been
fighting since its passage to overthrow. They
claim that by its provisions all sorts of useless
patents have been foisted upon them, involv-
stance the mud-drum attachment to steam
boilers.
Boats plying on some of the Western rivers
are bothered by deposit of mud on the bot.
toms of their boilers, which retained the heat
30 as to burn out the bottom and render the
boiler liable to burst. This was seized upon
as q pretext under the law to compel owners
of steam vessels everywhere to purchase mud
drums, at cost of $500 apiece. Instead OF
A1ot n.14 h. Sv,n.
deposit Of mud, and this fact being brought
to the notice Of the Supervising Inspectors,
the order was abrcgated, but not until $780,
600 had found their way into the pockets of
the patentee.
One of the inspectors was subsequently dis
covered to be interested in the patent, and
was discharged from the service. Another
example given is the patent steam-gauge,
whose use was discontinued after large sums
had been spent on it by steamboat owners,
and it had proved to be utterly worthless to
record the steam pressure There was bell
attachment to these gauges, which rung when
ever the pressure reached certain point,
and notice being conspicuously posted that
this indicated danger, although it did not,
panic was several time created among the
passengers on board of several boats.
The steamboatmen have another cause of
complaint in the fact that railroads are al
lowed to carry hay and cotton uncovered,
while the law requires them to cover each
bale, A similar discrimination in regard to
petroleum and other iguitible substances is
made by the law in favor of railway CON-
panies. But the most fertile source of dis
satisfaction is the liability clause. If man
owns $4,000 in steamboat, and through the
carelessness of it, captain a collision should
take place involving 100000 damages, his
private property is liable to his proportionate
share of those DANA ,es. over and above his
interest in the boat, and to the entire amount
if his CO. partners have not the where Wlthal to
bear their proportion.
We must confess for our part that We have
little faith in this putting Of heads together in
q national convention Of steam boatmen in
doing away with the evils just cited. Inc
thing has been tried SO often, with SO little
success, that steamboatmen hereabouts are
almost utterly discouraged OF having matters
mended. However, if by united cry OF In
dignation our government authorities can De
made to feel that it will. not be we'll for them
to trample further on the rights and privl-
leges of steam boatmen, the work OF the con-
vention must prove more or less salutary IN
its results.
The fine passenger Coast and Baton Rouge
packet st. John will arrive this evening and
return tomorrow at P. M. The st. John
has clerk receiving freight to-day at the
head of Bienville street
The c. Ii. Durfee, in place of the Bart
Able, X. Sinnott master, Geo. Hamilton,
French and Dowty clerks, will be found at
the landing this morning receiving TO leave