The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-05-12

+Helow high water mark nl ls7t
aereennt Signal Service. y. +, 4.
Tur WrArurp Lovely to-day
Dust getting thick on the leVeo
Now bring ont your straw hats.
White PANTS nro in season.
Go the tontenuial and he happy
I,us1Nras On the river front is pretty
good to-day, we hope il will continue 50
FOR some time 10 come.
Can't. Dick Sinnoit never fails TO leave
FOR Grand Ecora ON Saturdays. whom
the water gets too thin for the Bart
Able he will have u lighter boat to rep
resent llcr in the trade.
Gnpt. Frcd blanks went ont in com
mand Of the Lcssie Taylor yesterday
Capt. Jack Blanks is suffering with
carbllueln on his neck.
# Is likely that quite u large sum will
be paid for tho Texas on Monday next.
as there are seven or eight parties ~
town ready and eager to bid on her. IT
she sells for less than $4,000. we will be
very much surprised.
The Iberia. Martha and Clarksvill0
will be sold ut noon tomorluw. IN iron
Of the Cusiomhouse, by The United
States Marshal
Capt O'rry will call his new boat the
Isabel
Wiener Capt Dick Sinnott telegraphs
that he will arrive af certain hour,
lust get your small change ready. and
bet that he will be up to the minute
A thousand or two Of our citizens went
o,it to tho lake yesterday the three
roads leading thereto for the purpose
Of witnessing Prof. Wingard's expert
ment with the "namcless force. We
that's this reporter were on hand. but
it was not the nameless force that drew
rs to the old Spanish Fort ii was well
We might Ms well own up nj onco-dum
mic No 3 Of the City Park and lake
Railroad On arriving ut the lake we
saw the schooner riding ut anchor about
three fourths Of mile away. we also
observed n number Of gentlomcn look
ing in that direction through Held
glasses, and n larger number looking in
the opposite direction through glassos
filed with an amber colpred Huid.
Yct we did not get even n glimpse of the
Professor There were other professors,
who, with n force which. II not name
less. was nj least almost irrcsistible. by
simply turning n wheel drew crowds Of
people to their locality.
The now Bart Ablo is receiving Mt the
hcnd of Common street. TO leave to
morrow ut + y. m. for Grand Erpre and
all way landings.
For list Of arrivals see marine column
The great Natehez is receiving to leave
as usual Mt ; y. m tomorrow, Tor NiGks
burg. Natehoz and all way landings.
Capt. Cleo. w iea is in town.
Mark Smith. n well known river
steward, died at st. Louis on the 9Th
instant.
The cutoff threatens to cut away
Delta. and the Nicksburg HefdM advises
tho people OF that town TO move across
the river.
Tho Frank Pnrgoud for Greenyillc,
Iessie TAYLOR for Ouacbita City, and
Mary Ida for Upper Coast were the only
departures yesterday.
Our old friend Capt Wheelhouse is
running the grocery on the Bastrop.
Some boats lay up on account OF low
water but in order to reverse things the
Era No 10 has laid up on account OF
high wnter. "Sich is life.
Fon BAYOU Sara. The fine passenger
steamer Gov. Allen, j. J Brown, mas
ter, s. S. Streck. clerk. leaves Tor the
above and all way landings Mt 3 =. IN.
to day.
The Tonsas is receiving to leave at
bp m tomorrow for Opelousas.
The G.. II. Durfee is the line packet
for Jefferson and Shreveport. She leaves
tomorrow ut p. m
River business ut Louisville continues
dull and. in consequence, VIII Hays
finds time to amuse himself and readers
in the following style:
A pretty widow at Amsterdam sends
ia u postal card and asks, How old II
man Is Old Tubular?' In answer, we
will state that to look him square in the
face he is 1876 years old, but when ne &
got u clean pair of socks on, new slip
pers, his arm around pretty widow,
= t,s,tt hnr N
mazy dance, while the fiddlers play that
good old hymn:
Laws n massy. bless my soul.
When you SEQ those eye balls roll.
Don ESQ happy. an wants 10 ny:
Nance. come kiss me. an II dc
then old Tubular is about "swect six
teen" When he's mad he weighs ton,
and he never hits n man only when ne S
mad. then he kills or cripples him Tor
life
The Fred. Wilson left New Orleans
the other day on . peg setting TIP 70
Natchez. She got her gun at Orleans
and started The last we heard Of her
was when she passed Bayou Sara. Her
wheel was full Of alligators, and she was
running like scared dog with skillet
| tied to his tail. There were thirteen
negroes holding down the safety valve,
and every man on the boat was firing up
except the six chaps who were ut the
wheel in the pilot-house.
The Vicksburg Her0id. Of the 9th inst.
says.
Vicksburg used to be the easiest place
to land u steamboat on the river, but
now, rs there is no current at the wharf
boat. they should run UP about one
length, ont in the river, let their stern
swing up stream, and they will have nc
trouble in landing.
The river is cutting off the point to-
wards Delta quite fast in the effort to
strajghten itself, and competent river
men express the opinion that the cur
rent rent viii go down through the chute be
tween the tow head below Delta and the
Mississippi shore. This would be bad
for Delta, as after the channel leaves
them, a sandbar would be thrown ~
where their wharfboat is now located
but they could remedy the evil by re
moving the town to the opposite side o'
the river. 49,