The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-03
THE RIVER.
OFFICE NEW ORLEANS BULLETIN,
tuesday Morning. Aug. 8, 1876.

MINIATURE ALMANAC.
Sun Rises ....--59o Moor Rises. 800 P. NJ.
Sun Sets...... First O.. 3D.. 1884 P. NJ.
Henry Tete, Era No. 10, W. S. Pike, Qua
chita Belle, Mary Ida, Indiana, James How
ard, z. T. Bryarly, J. F. Frazer, Annie B.
DEPARTURES.
Oriole, Rice Farmer, Iberia, Henry Tete,
w. s. Pike.
Iberia, Rice Farmer, Oriole, Lower Coast;
Lessie Taylor, Baton Rouge; Bertha, Ope-
lousas; Stella Block, Ouachita; W. j. Poite-
vent Lakes; Katie, Greenville; Favorite,
Upper Coast. .tatEFf
DEPARTURES TO-DAY.
Grand Isle, from the head OF Harvey's
Canal, at s M positively, the Minnie, Gus
Richards master, A. P. Trousdale clerk
Live Oak Grove, Linwood, Jesuits' Bend,
Terre. au- Bceuf and way landings at 10 A. NJ,
the Oriole Jas. T. OPry master.
Upper Coast to Hahnville and Union
Plantation, st. James, at 10 A. NJ, the Mary
Ida. j. A. Ruiz master, A. M. Vallette clerk
Vicksburg, Natchez. Bayou Sara and way
landings. at P. NJ, the Oaachita Belle, Vim.
Campbell master, John Massop clerk
Ouachita City, Morehouse Point, Monroe
and all way landings on Black and Ouachita
rivers, at P. NJ. the Bastrop, L. P. Delahous-
save master, Aleck Mackay clerk.
Grand Ecore, Alexandria and way landings
on Red River, at 5 P. NJ, the Carrie A. Thorn,
Richard Sinnott master.
Grand Ecore, Alexandria and way landings
on Red River, at 5 P. NJ, the Garry Owen,
John HEM master.
Trenton, Monroe, and way landings on
Black and Ouachita rivers, at 2. nj the
Willie, J. w. Blanks master, Ed Phelps
clerk.
MIsCELIANEoUs.
For additional river news see our daily tele.
grams.
The Bastrop is receiving to leave to-day for
Black and Ouachita rivers, through to Qua
chita City. The Bastrop has sure and regular
connections with all of the tributaries and
will 60 through without delay.
The Grafton, Capt Rubey arrived from
Port Eads Sunday. She was to have returned
house boats, two barges and 800 laborers.
Dave Harkins, the well.known second
clerk, who was unfortunate enough to break
his arm short time ago, was out on Sunday.
The Shannon, now on the way, will be fo.-
lowed by the Cherokee.
The Atchafalaya and At!akapas packet
Minnie Avery lays at the foot of Cont street,
receiving to leave tomorrow, positively, IN
der the command of Capt. j. A. French. The
tions and being light draught boat will 60
through. She will take freight for oil points
on the Atchafalaya and on the Bayou aTeche
to st. Martinsville and New Iberia, and can
be depended on to leave as advertised.
Capt. John HEM will have his fine packet
Garry Owen at the wharf to-day and will
leave this evening for all Red River landings
to Grand Ecore, and thereafter regularly
until the services of a larger boat is required
Nh .,.x
and as master and boat are we'll known in
this trade, we prophecy for them success.
Capt Dick Sinnott backs out his passenger
packet Carrie A. Thorn to-day for Grand
Ecore, and as he has inaugurated semi
weekly line to the above point, she will leave
regularly hereafter on this day. That clever
young gentleman, Willie French, will preside
in the Office.
WHITE HAT REpIvIvUs.-The st. John, just
out Of the artists hands, was brought to the
wharf yesterday, and will leave tomorrow
evening at for Baton Rouge and Coast land
ings, returning down the Coast on Friday and
leaving again on Saturday. Capt. McElroy
looks very proud, and we expect on his way
up he will have her whistles blown oftener,
and, if possible, louder than ever heretofore,
that none may miss seeing his pretty steam
boat as she passes by.
The regular Wednesday 10 A. M. and Satur-
day P. NJ Coast and Baton Rouge packet,
Lessie Taylor, will be found at the landing
to-day, receiving to leave as usual The Tay-
lor is commanded by Capt Allen Jumel, and
will remain permanently in this trade.
The regular and reliable Bertha, Fl. a.
Broad master, Theo. John clerk, will be at
the landing to-day from the Atchafalaya, and
returns tomorrow at 5 p M. The Bertha
takes freight for Bayou Des Glaizes to Simms-
port, and leaves here regularly every We'd
nesday. str-
! An exchange says that Capt Jno. E. Row
cago, the fvorite resort for Southern and
Western people, Friend Rowland has many
friends in this section, who remember him as
q very popular clerk in the Vicksburg trade
years ago.
The feet Mary Ida leaves at 10 this morn
ing for all Upper Coast landings to the Union
Plantation, St. James parish Capt. Ruiz and
his packet, not forgetting his able corps of
assistants in the Office, have proved a success
in this trade, and. in order to offer his friends
still further facilities, will shortly establish q
daily line, consisting Of the Mary Ida and w.
j. Poitevent.
The Iberia George A. Sheldon master, r.
e. Hine clerk, is due to arrive to-day from
the Lower Coast, and will return tomorrow,
at 10 A. NJ, from the foot of Cont street, for
all freight and plantation landings to Port
Eads. The Iberia carries the United States
mails. .....~e7-.
The Annie B. got in from Bayou Barataria,
and il to return tomorrow. She brought two
sugar rollers, and while rolling one of them
across the wharf the rotten timbers gave way,
precipitating it into the water underneath
The captain had one end secured by chain
and was preparing to raise it TO-DAY. we are
sorry for the captain bad luck. but he must
blame the timber for rotting, not any one else
for not taking steps to hunt out these weak
places that evidently are to be found almost
anywhere along our landing. :.
The Oriole leaves daily at 10 A. M, Sunday
excepted, from the foot of St. Louis street.
for all landings on the Lower Coast to the
Live Oak Grove Plantation, returning early IN
the evening. A clerk is on the levee daily to
receive freight.
The Minnie leaves tomorrow morning at
8 o'clock. from the head of Harveys Canal, |
for Grand Isle. Passengers can reach her by |
taking the Tchoupitoulas street cars. Fare |