The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-14
The RIVER.
OFFICE NEW ORLEANS BULLETIN. J
Sunday, Feb. IL, 1875.
Come, gentle spring.
Ethereal mildAess come;
And if you're coming
Why don't Won coma q lnnr ~

Thus sang the poet-well we have forgotten
his name. And last week, in fact for over q
mon h past, the desire for gentle spring to come
has been general with orlr citizens. Judging
from the weather with which We have been
blessed for the past two days, we can safely say
that gentle spring has arrived, and We hail the
event with feelings Of unbouuded pleasure.
Will Major Burkes representative be kind
enough to attend to that little mud lake, just OPP
posite our levee Office? If he does we will give
him a puff gratis; if he does not it will cost
money after a while to put that place in order.
The boats that left last evening had good trips.
At dark yesterday both the upper and lower
landings were almost deserted.
This is from the river column of tho Louisville
Courier-J Journal. Your right this time, Hays:
The lonely wife of a pittsburg towboat captain
closed her letter to him with Hurry home, love,
for your presence viii warm our hearts and drive
the bitter coldness from our hearthstone" And
he, the rascal, closed his reply with, Send for
your mother; she'll keep it hot enough till re-
turn. She makes it warm when I'm at home
and 1 suppose shes able to keep it comfortably
SO when I'm away. Ii she's dead or won't come
ord.r more coal and keep hot fires. Da da
love- That wretch will die with his boots on .
A large number Of emi9rsnts are expected here
next month en- route to Northern and Western
Texas. This will be good thing for our Red River
boats. Texas Is a great State and a good one to
emgrate to- This reporter don't want to go
there, however. Our mother-n-law lives in
Texas.
Whew We read thai little piece in yesterdays
Times about ourselves, and found out that we
were ..pedag0gue, as5ute srammarian, erudite
scholar, etc. We took down our shotgun, looked
at it. and, and-wel we just put it back AID CON
cluded to wait until our Celestial washerman
translated it for US, SO that we could find out
what it really meant. We shall be '.kerrfui" in
future how we say anything about our neighbor
but our better-half says that il we had red
head like she has, we would not let any one cal!
us a pedagogue.
KoR THE LOWER Coasr The Waloon, Can't.
Ruiz, leaves daily, from the head of Cont street,
for all landings on the Lower Coast as far down
to Greenwood Plantation.
The Garry Owen from Camden is due to-day.
The bran new homemade light draught packet
Homer leaves tomorrow at Z. M. for Minden.
All the river tributaries to the Mississippi were
falling slowly.
The elegant Chas Morgan will arrive this morn
ing and leave for Cincinnati on Tuesday, 10th
INST, at z. M. The is an independent packet
and her commander, Capt. Stein, is just that
kind Of man himself.
favorable. Her freight viii be saved with but
little damage to 1t.
The La Belle leaves for Jefferson and Shreve-
port at p. Nj. Wednesday, February 18th.
The r. Z. Lee will arrive tonight and leave at
p NJ. Tuesday, as usual, for Vicksburg.
The Belle Rowland is the railroad packet for
Shreveport. She leaves positively Wednesday,
18th, at p. M.
Capt. Pickett chartered the Era No 10 yesterday
md left with her last ev ming for Washington. |
She will take the Fleta'S freight and passengers
10, Capt. Pickett informed us that the wrecking |
,oat Travis Wright left early yesterday morning |
or the Fleta and he has no doubt but that his
steamer will be atloat and reaay for business by |
saturday next, the Goth inst Should she not be, |
however, the Era No. 10 will leave again in her
lace on that date.
The departures yesterday were Natchez for
ricksburg, New Bart Able for Grand Ecore, r.
!. Bryaryfor Upper Red River, Maria Louise tor
hreve port, st. Mary and Waloon for Lower
,oast, Mary Ida for Upper Coast, Gov. Allen for
,ongworth for Cincinnati, Era No. 10 for Ope-
3usas, and Hy Tete for Lafourche.
If the gentleman "who runs the wet end "
olumn of the Times does not quit calling US
ard names we will-we wil-well, we will just
ublish a card about him in the German Gazette,
0 he cat read it. We are not afraid.