The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-04-16

OFFICE NEw ORLEANS DEMOCRAT.
Sunday Morning. April 10, 1876.


Tns undersigned. In assuming charge OF the
njynr Department Of tho DAILY DEMOCRAT, re-
sne,, ',,liy soicits from his steamboat friends
,a',,lnd Iurinp his connection with the New Or
leans oresoe'" anu n"'e'"'' GEO. J. DUNCAN.
Np-Anv communications relating to steam
bont matters ef, Mt the DEMOCRAT Office, No. ~
Camp street will meet with prompt n''en
ton from tho river reporter
THE WEATHER cloudy and cool In tho
morning yesterday clear and pleasant ut MID
day. aud cloudy and warm whom old Sol sank
out Of sight below the Western horizon.
BtrstNEss AND DErARTuBEs.-Thc limited mum
ber If boats advertised to leave last evening got |
oil on time with rather slim trips we except |
the shannon for Camden. which steamer hnn
fair freight and quite number ?l phssehge,s
next was the line packet g. II. Durfee, Tor
Shreveport with about two-thrds 81 u load, then
Naichcz Tor Vieksburg. with lar trips, the ~.
john for Baton Rouge, City OF Alton Tor ~.
Louis Henry 4. Turner for Cincinnati, IensHs
| lar Opejousas Geo Spangler FOR Attaknpns ana |
j. r. Frazer for Lower Coast. completed the list
y The John +. Tollo leaves on Tuesday at y. m.
VI The Katie. for vieksburg lin place Of the II. y.
| I,eej will arrive tonight, and leave Tuesday at
D. n t." James Phelps aud lady left for shreve
port yesterday. on tho T. H. Duri9e ,,. +. tho
| newt line packet for Rod River. She leaves Tor
Shreveport aud Jefferson and all way landings
| There were but two steamers at tho lower and
five Mt the upper wharf ut dark yesterday VI
tho two at the lower wharf. one, the 81. MARY II
For late river kilograms see first page.
| For list of arrivals see marine column -,
| THE FtooD-Considerable anxiety IA mani,
| fostad mt present throughout the Mississlppi
valley in regard TO the high stage OF TIE river ,
Al this point wo have nothing to fear from the
front and If due diligence is usedand we feol
confident that it will be-the rear, where the leal
danger lies 1T present, VIII Withstand 'iid tu h
f.,.,, Tnlsn Df,ntp al
| reached an unusual high stage in consequence
Of being fed by the creyasse at Bonnet dar v,,.
| The following extracts We copy from Inc Nlcks-
burg Hefald of the 1ith inst:
"GREEswLLE, April \; isie.IIho leveq p p,'ti
to-day at the Felden Hitler plantation on, "a Boil
var county 1t will do no damage IN this im ,-
date neighborhood. as tho west banks 81 Deer
Greek are well leyeed. The Lake Bolivar country
| will be flooded but to what extent j can say
, The river still rises here. but the break above
will cause a slight decline. LITTLE MAC
The gauge Mt Providence reached 81 10 this day,
which is inches higher than il read at any time
in 1874 81 being the highest that year. have
asked that tho reading Of this gauge be sent you
every day NJ JErr THOMPSON.
Remarkable floods have occurred to the valley
of tho lower Mississippi in the years l7is. %. N,
s2, ~. go 9o, 1902 n 1s 10. 49, 2s "a, III - -,
7sl. till the last of June 1885, and this; too when
!, there were only a. miles of evee on the Missis-
sippi and that extending 2 miles below apd 70
miles above New Orleans. In ITO, when but little
y more leveeing had been done. there was simi-
lar Hood In the year 1882 the water was higher
than ever before known by tho Oldest inhabi-
tants I7s5. equal to that Of 1s4e. l79i. equal t.
that Of 1876 1896, higher than 1850 1909. Hood
| so disastrous that II was imagined the Northern
lakes had found outlet in this river. Al
Natchez this flood was feet lower than III 1889
The only great food years were 1923. 1874. 1919
| 1850 1851 1863 and 1889 but 1862 was above them
ali bot weon Napoleon and vieksburg. That Of
1853 was ut stand ~ days; 1859. % days Mt Mem
g phis. and the former 100 at Napoleon and 1879 al
% Tho Memphis Aralancte speaking of the
freshets Of former years says: me HOOD o.
10 resident That year the rain fall over the coun
- try between here and tho Gulf exceeded thirty
inches inside Of six weeks when the tota aver n,,
inches This immense flood from the skies
filled tho several streams flowing into the Lower
Mississippi inundated tho entire country sub
"a ject to overflow, broke and washed out levees
NJ and caused such dire distress that 1t became
ii necessary for tho Government to issne arm,
very little If any. harm done to the interests 81
II valley people above this point. During the rise
VI Of last August. however, the water coming
:, chiefly from the Lower Ohio and it's tributaries
r. upon maturing cotton crop, the planters n9rtl
of us were not 80 lucky, ~ aalnase 70 ,el
n the injury suffered by those south Of us.
40 FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
J. from vicksburg Herald. 14th inst.)
% The weather hasn't settled yet
nj Welcome and adieu old bad Bob Lee.
,e Look out for another rain rise in tho river
y Prof. Tiee of st. Louis, predicts u hurriean
~ | soon.
= The cutoff is fixed fact Boats can g
- across the point now without trouble.
nj Captain Blake has concluded to wreck the oil
m | reliable Julia. and sell her in pieces
~, | II would be q pleasant thing to the river NOR
20 the planters and the public generally TO sec tn
Jolly face Of the sun once more .
The flags OF the steamers in port were at hall
0o mast yesterday in respect to the memory Of Cap
of Dick Smith who died r.; Int before lust.
IN Turn out all hands and give the Champion lie
w n good send Oft.
The Thompson Dean leaves Cincinnati thi
ea evening for Now Orleans.
u: from Memphis Avalanche. April f4l
=" Arkansas gets $4,000 Of tho national Con
}, grcssional appropriation which passed tn
Is. Lowor House last Monday for river and harbo
"a improvement West Virginia gcis st95 900 non
w. of which is for the Ohio river. The Mississippi
he river gets total Of 100000 in tho shape Of seye
,irr different ,apprepratons. This don't include
10: Louisiana. gets sioo,ooo the Cumberland s750oC
50 50 tho Tennessee, s9oo.ooo, chiefly, for Mpsel
'0 shoals; Wabash, 1900; upper Monongaheli
In s25 900 A fearful howl perces the cars Of Eas
30 err people On the subject and i Is likely tn,
nj ly trimmed and cut down.
NJ The Thompson Dean and othor boats leavin
~ Cincinnati this week carrying froights to Ne
oo for Hour IS cents for pork 30 per bbi for whisky
at The schenck takes fromFincnnati 1900 bushel
Ell of PittSburg nut coal mt Ga cents bushel. dc
VI lverod on board. Captain Carter says fuel pay
nd beiter than freight ut present low rates. NJ
Isaac Crane. who died here last Monday, wa
4 clerk on the steamer John NJ Stockwoll, plyin
q: between Wabash river and New Orleans In 1876
"a He was associated with VIM g. Brown in tn
whartboat business ut Evansville during tn
nd war. The Great Republic will start South fror
no st. Louis tomorrow. and it Is expected she wi
Wv have about 5000 tons. Room for 1000 so NOR
na will still be left.
W The Helena connected ut vieksburg last tri
with the famous packet Natchez and will tn
same this trip. The Natchez ia probably tn
n most popular steamer in the lower Mississippi
D. She is expected to take her annual lie-up |
On about n month";
The Grand Republic has $40 feet length o
40 deck Sc feet breadth of beam. 81 feet floor On
80 10 feet depth.
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