The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-02-05

| LESSEE Taylor, Ouachita. 2. N.
Clty OF OuiLcy. ST. Louis. Z. NJ
La Belle, Shreveport, P. Nj.
Fanny TGtum, Shreveport, 5 p. II.
Fanchon. OuasLita, 3 p. Al.
| Willie, Bartholomew, 5 r. NJ
Era No. 10. B9uf River 2. VI.
! La Atlsiianas. z N
| Nellie Peek, Arkaneas. = I. III,
| Thomas Sherlock Cincinnati, PM.
MISCELLANEOUS
For additional river news see our daily tele
! grams.
! The famous Natchez, T. P. Leathers master
! leaves to-day at p. Al. promptly for YcAsbuyg.
! connecting with tae regular packets for tie
| YaZoo. James +. Muse in the Office.
| The new low pressure steamer Martha W. s
! Bassett master, leaves to-day: at p II. through
1 to Port Eads.
The j. Z. Frazer, Oliver Canton, Jr., IN aster,
leaves Gaily, Sundays excepted, at T. ~, fol
! the Lower Coast to u lai- Plantation
The fleet side wheel packet Oliole leaves daily
at 10 A. NJ, for the Lower Coast to Live Oah
| Grove.
! Sc the advertisement of the fast and powerful
| towboat Painter No 10 another column.
| The Bayou Lafourche packet Assumption Joe
Dalforas master, n. Il. Dupuis ard n. Dalferes
| clerks, leaves to-day at II NJ, going through to
! ThlhodaIx.
The Alexandra and Grand Ecore packet b. 1T
| Able, hicha q Sinnott master: George hamilton
clerk, leaves to-day at Z. IL.
| The Natchez had 40l7 bales cotton and 3ISl
sacks seed.
The fee. and reliable Mary Ida, j. A. Ruiz
master. with the accommodating F. NJ. stella in
the Office, leaves to-day at lG A. NJ. for the Tu-
reaud Plantation, Ascension parish.
! The New Orleans and Ouachita Transportation
Company send out two boats to-day. and the
Red RIVER transportation Company one.
The semi weekly Bayou Lafourche packet ST.
John, /. B5rgeron master, J. q. 3ergeron CLERK
leaves to-day at z. NJ, going through to Ihl-
boaaux and paying particular attention to all
Coast business.
The regular and reliable Trenton, W. Burton
master, capt. Eug: Quatrevaux clerk, arrived on
time with fine trip, and returns TO day. as usu-
al at +. ~, promptly, taking freight for the
Atchataiaya, CoIrtIbleau and Des Calzos.
The Era No 10, Tom Taylor master, J. P.
Mohr CLERK arrived yesterday from Bouf River
with l 81 bales cotton and will return to- d. y at
Z. H., gong through to Poiut Jetf-rsOn.
Louisville Courier Journal:
JOS. Mitchell, an Old river man, says was
born 81 m,les above New Orleans IN the year
l795. My father moved with his family, OF which
| Was one, in 1909, to New Madrid. can recos-
lect distinctly when the United States took pos
session Ut all that country. I saw Aaron Burr
when he went down the Mississippi with his
" Troopers He had EN- in four or five boats.
In 1909 started to Baltimore. NV father was a
trader among the Indians. We went in a keel
boat. and when we came to the falls near your
place we had to drag thu furs up to Louisville and
the nands had to pull the boats up over the falls,
light. We then went on to PIttsburg, and from
there We went to Baltimore in q wagon and
sta ged' 1T some OF the way. l left Baltimore
and came to Louisville. Here ran against Capt
Tom 10, ce, who was loading keel-boat for or
leans. hired myself to hia for $50, made the
trip, and the s35 didn't last long in Orleans; l
then hired to Capt. McKeever, who commanded
the barge Ranger, bound for Louisville.
We made the trip with tho Ranger in Is DAYS
from New Orleans up. la 1914 l left Louisville
in skltf, by myself, and went back to New
Ip:1 NV .tr 10 n.ln
place was on keel ploiuce boat, loaded with
horses. We sold out in January az Bayou La
fourche. We left Latourche for P!ttsburg, load
ed with molasses that We got for the horses, and
were thirteen months going from Madrid to La
fourcEe aad from there to Pittsburg. l walked
from Orleans to Louisville through the Indian
Nation twice, and came up twice in a canoe
Steamboats, were not plenty then like they are
now. In 1>16 was married. and settled down
where then ''squatted.' For few years after
ward l went to Orleans every January.
nave receipt now where paid sl5 and car
RED wood for my deck paesage up on the first
Paragon from New Orleans. | bough5 my place
IN 1918, snd Id my first wood to the Etna, Capt.
Gale. L 3 Id out and left there, aud in 1925
bought pace three mics below New Madrid
and opened up woodward for boats. 1t was
here got acquainted with all such cd boatm. n
as Capt. Swsger, Capt Sballcross, Capt sparro
Vaugnt, Capt. Joe Miller, Joe Smith and others.
SUPPOSE they are all gone, God bless thea. and
am all alone. l love to tell Of old times and
wish | could tel you about the first settling Of
this country, but can't.
The large, fine side-wheel steamer La Belle, of
New Orleans and Red River Transportation Com
pany, leaves to-day al 5 F. N. for all landings on
Red River through to Shreveport. M. N. WOJd
master, Walter Parker clerk.
The independent packet Fannie Tatun. Green
f. Shields MASTER II. {. Tatum clerk, leavcs to-
day al p. u. for Shreveport aud way laudlpgs
The Ia G Kinney Is up az an independent packet
10 Grand Ecore, leaving every Tuesday. Her
will he tO,lnd III another column.
- The lightning: Willie, Z. B. Trinidad master,
Tom kuee GEEK, OF the New Orleans and Qua.
chta Transportation Company. leaves to-day for
Lind Grove and all way landings on Bayou Bar
fholomeW.
The new Fanchon, also of this line, laying over
from yesterday, L. G. Sweeney master, Andy Ro- |
apd clerk, leaves to-day positively for the Black
and Auacnia at p. NJ, through to Camden.
The Leslie Taylor arrived yesterday morning |
from the Ouachlta, and returns to-day poetiv,l " |
1t o'clack, going through to Ouachita City. r. |
kenlson master, John g. Baker clerk. The Tay-
or has connections with the tributaries, as vii |
De seen by her advertisem mt IN another column
The Geo. Spangler, Jas. r. OFry master, due |
asst night from the Lower Coast, leaves again on |
Monday at II A. NJ.
The splendid and fast excursion steamer
Thomas Sherlock Lew Hates master, NJ t. Vir- |
len clerk leaves to-day without fail at 5 p. NJ,
or Cincinnati and a intermediate points on the |
JhlO liver.
The fleet Chas. Morgan. Albert Stein master,
lue this morning from the Ohio, will leave on |
Tuesday next.
Capt Henry Harris fins and popular steamer
1. 5. Turner, the boat with The $1,000 mule, az
wed vest rdsv with q splendid tho, part OF
Which was liC6 les cottoH, and viii Il ave on
etnrn trip he frst'of the COMING week.
Courier-Journal; "a:
" II is expectt that there will be little fun on
he return up trips of the Charles Morgan AID
ON Sherlock. Both boats are advertised to
ave Cincinnati on the 18th inst. for the New
Oceans Msrdi Gras, and both bots will leave here
n the ooh list. Both are large, fine BEATS and
9th differed by clever gentlcmtn ard We trust
oth will go down the river like pair of brothers,
iui as they can hold'-we mean TIE bos.s iot |
ha brothers full of people,"
st. Louis Republican
"Carondelet Is that brawny arm of st. Louis |
4 the south, and hat can be reached wisbll |
"u.- ride from the courthouse. That it is an |
Important boat bu!lding point will be seen by the
.ct now stated, that the sum of $500 600 has |