The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-05
Put Nora in your boat of life,
And down the stream you'll steal,
AUD %a1l how NOT IN bo q fraiJ

And tell her not to be afraid
While you are at the wheel.
And when your journey 3 at an end,
Your trip of life is oer
just ring your bell and land your boat
Upon the ether shore"
The Shannon and Shippers Own were due
from below last evening. They will lay here
and ''keep cool' till the ice grows thin.
The N. j. Bigley ran her tow into the
mouth of Kentucky River and will wal
there while before she starts on to Pitts
burg.
They had TO build fire around old Capt.
Sam. Saunders to thaw him off the roof Of the
Blue Wing when she got here Sunday night
The United States Government sigma
steamer Alice has gone down the river tt
show the divers" where the s.lghts" are
Pilots, dye s.see it?"
Capt Lew, Hates, "the bold priva4 eer' o.
the Robert Mitchell, will go into New Or
leans with an ostrich feather in his hat, belt
around his body with 40 bowie knives and 81
pistols, his breeches in his boots and "youl
freight or your life stamped upon his Napo
leonic countensnce. II Phil Sheridan meets
him, then-blood.
Capt Aft Stinde, of the Charles Morgan
will walk the roof of his independent
steamer clad in heavy armor OF steel. He
will wear sheet-iron hat painted red, carry
columbiad in his coat-'ail pocket, a si1-too'
sword buckled on behind, aud a razor in each
bootleg. Pirate Or no pirate Aft means
'blood or business" and he'll have one OF
the other.
Schenck's barge, that was about to break
in two at the mouth Of kentucky river, is
safe and atloat.
The Peytona and tow proceeded to Evans
vile, where she will fill up and leave for New
Orleans. -Louisuile COurjer-,Joownal, Feb. 2.
The Republic loads after the Howard at
Cairo, to depart Saturday. Clerk Plils
Young is in the city and will remain here
during the week. The bridge would like to
continue the freezing business if it took
all summer. or somers thereabouts. Times
are reported lively at Cairo and that city feels
the benefit Of being the head of navigation
on the Mississippi. The coal trade of the
South has been Improbable to the dealers for
some time past. Hard Times, slim business,
decline in river tonnage, reduced demand,
low prices and plenty Of stock are among the
causes which have conspired to bring this
about-H. Louis Republican, I'd inst
The river at this point has got in weaving
way and will not reform at even our bidding.
We thought surely it would rise little if not
more, after all the cloudy weather we have
had, but instead Of that 1t continues to fall.
Yesterday it fell three inches, according to
the official count, making the total fall two
feet, leaving the drink nineteen feet and two
inches above the lowest water Of 1872. or eleven
feet below the highest water Of last spring.
The officers OF the last packets up found
"mark twain F" and upwards whenever they
went for it, on any Of the bars in the lower
river. AS they had very little use for that
much water, not much " sarching" was done,
yet it was safe to bet that it was "thar," as
old Flanagan, of Flanagan Mills. would saw.
Up frei ghts are half card rates or less and
cotton down 81 25@1 so per bale. Ssreue-
port Times, Jan. 81.
by Telegraph
NATcHEz, Feb. 40 Jno. Janney: Leave
here at 6 A. NJ, 300 bales cotton, 1000 sacks
seed. L. z. LEArHERs,
Master Natchez.
BAYOU SARA, Feb. 4.-Britton Il Eppler ::
Steamer Bart Able will arrive tonight and
leave at 5 p. NJ. Saturday
II. SINNoTT Master