The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-03-15


oE11cs MY oaasAs, p. - g "a
The undersigned in assuming charge q ne lae
River Department VI the DAILY pEnoschsATs, To-
speci ally solicits from his steamboat friends
q se with Tie New Or
leans o'esoe'1 ana D""e'''S GEO. J. DUNCAN
B.-Any communications relating to steam
commercial Place. will meet with prompt atten-
ton from the river reporter.
TIE WEATHER Sol' did not
have a half chance given him yester-
day. but for the little while he shone
he made things hereabout too warm Tor
overcoats or fires. As to the kind OF
weather in store for us to-day, we refer
our readers to "Old Probs."
WASHINGTON. D. q.
Tuesday. March IA. 1876. q. IN.
PROBABILITIES.
For New England and the Middle States gen
orally, weather with stationary or slight tall In
temperature. northwesterly winds and rising
barometer during the day:
For the South Atlantic States, clear Weatnsr q
slight fall Of temperature, with northeast TO
northwest winds and stationary or rising Do
romcter. r o,,,.
valley cloar or partly cloudy weather, slowly
rising temperature northeast to southeast WINDS,
and high followed BY slowly falling barometer;
continued cold weather, westerly winds be-
coming variable during tho afternoon. and sta
tionary or rising barometer ;.
and Lower Missouri valleys. clear or party
cloudy and warmer weather. with east 70 s0utn
winds in the southern portions Of these districts.
and threatening and continued cold weather
| with light SHOWS In the northern districts.
The Mississippi river will rise slowly IRON rom
Davenport to Memphis. The lower Ohio VIII
| continue to rise
lBy Telegraph
MEMPHIS, March 14.-To j. B. Woods
| & Co. 1O4 Common street Steamer Susie
Silver will arrive Friday and leave for
Louisville and Cincinnati Tuesday. 21st
inst, positively. d. Il. SILVER,
VrCKsBuRa, March 14.-ToJ b. Woods
| q Co.: Steamer Katie p. Kountz will
arrive Thursday morning and leave
Friday evening for Arkansas river.
d. HANEY, Master.
V1cKsBuRs. March 14.-To John jan
ney, New Orleans; Leave here with 27OO
bales cotton and 1000 sacks seed.
j. M. WHITE,
Master steamer Katie.
BUSINESS Was rather dull yesterday
DEpAnrunEs.-The following named
steamers left port yesterday: II. Il. Lee
for Vicksburg, Col. A. p. kouns for
Ecore. Assumption for Bayou LafOurche,
Fannie Tatum for Arkansas river, and
J. +. Frazer for Lower Coast.
News items were extremely scarce on
the landing Yesterday.
The work OF fitting up the old city
tool shop as a barrel house, have been
pushed rapidly to completion Tuesday !;
we expect to see it in full blast to-day.
STEAMERS LEAVING THIS DAY.
For OpELousAs.-The elegant passen-
ger packet st. Mary, Fred. Probst,
master, J. B. Schmidt clerk, leaves for
all landings on the Atchafalaya and
Bayou Cortableau at 5 p. m. to-day.
For BATON RoUeE.--The side wheel
passenger packet st. John, +. Bergeron,
master, J. G. Bergeron, clerk, leaves for
the above and all way landings at p.
IN. to-day.
senger packet Ouachita Belle, with
Capt. M. Kenison in command, and our
courteous friend, Capt. Joe Holmes, in
the office, leaves for the above and all
landings intermediate on Ouachita and
Black rivers ut p. m. to-day.
For CINCrNNATI.-The fine passenger
packet b. Il. Hodge, j. p. McElroy mas
ter, w. Greenhouse, Jr., clerk-twO OF
the most pleasant gentlemen on the
river-leaves for the above and all land
ings intermediate at s p. m. to-day.
For ST. LoUIs.-The Bismarck, under
command Of that we'll known gentleman
and popular steamboatman Capt. Gus
Spane, with +. Ross Powell in the office,
leaves as above to-day at p. m.
THE WILLIE.-This fine packet arrived
Monday night with u splendid trip and
is receiving at the head of Customhouse
street, to leave tomorrow at p. m for
all landings on Bayous Macon and Ten
sas.
The attention Of our readers is called
to the advertisement Of the New Orleans
and Red River Packet Company. The
boats Of this line leave regularly as ad-
vertised.
Two youthful American citizens Of
African descent tried to get up q dog
fight on the upper landing yesterday
tired probably Of the dizziness which
reigned there-but the dogs, partaking
Of the general dullness, refused to come
to time.
The Vicksburg Herald Of the 18th inst.
This is the way the river historian Of
the Memphis Appeal puts it: ''The azure
depths are green again, obscured by
leaden clouds, ana Vernal showers are
promising their seasOnable visitations."
That fellow Brooks ought to be writing
for magazine, one of the non-explosive
kind, we mean.
The river man Of the New Orleans
Picdy,n,e is right in one respect and
wrong in another. Right in saying that
we had not been historian for a quarter
of century; wrong in saying that we
culled certain information from his col
umns. When we take anything from
the Picdy,n,e's columns we'll give credit
to it.
The tow-boat Piasa leaves for New
Orleans Monday with another tow Of
stone for the jetties.
The shower yesterday cooled the at
mosphere and helped amazingly to lay
the dust.
Will s. Hays, the funny river editor Of
the Louisville Courier journal, says
"Bilkins turned out as an 'injin' on
Mardi Gras day. Blk went home, when
his little boy Bob ran into the house and
yelled "murder" Bilkins' wife came
out, and seeing her husband, said
Don't cry, Bobby; don't you know
your own father?' I don't KNOW said
Bob, shivering with fear, whether he's
my father or not Bilkins shed
his garb and Mrs. B. tainted,
and Bob put on the Comanche's wig,
and went to scare the little boys" And
again: "Put it down. The Illinois