The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-03-09

OFFrcE New ORLEANS DEMOCRAT,
ThurpJay Morning. March g. 1873.

River Depattinent VI the DAILY DFMounT, re
sneW. INV soeits from his steamboat friends a
continuance u. the patronage ~, libetglly eh-
tended during his ,c,onnection with the new VI
isans Jt'esce'a and i's'les'". cro , DUNCAN
N.pAAny communications relating, to steam
boat matters le At ,he Dsssoc OCH, "ir =, Mn N4
ton from the river reporter.
The WEATHER. When the god of day
arose from his couch, yesterday.
angle cloud; and during the day he
shed his RAYS upon US with GENIAL
warmth which rendered the tempera-
ture as pleasant IA could possibly have
been desired. -t4r.t
For further particulars we refer our
readers to
m wAsHySaToN, u. &.
Wednesday, March =, 1910, q. m.
eysopsrs ron ruE PAST TWENTY -Foun HOURS.
Rain has prevailed In the Lake region and
thence southward 10 tina Gulf and South Allan
&c spa sa so2Tsn by an b ee oho Valley
Clear or fair weather has prevailed W the NORTH
west viii slIFht rae IN ts aaia nre aan n
souiheriy winds, high temperature and !, da
Inww "tjj In New York.
-sssRg I sEsr sss S sever s ssss
incbes Al HeIena. and five inches al New Or,
leans II has risen one foot NJ Davenport aud
Dubuque and eighteen iDcles 1T keokuk.H
PROBABILITIES
For New England and the Middle States. rain,
followed BY partly cloudy and colder weather,
brisk southerly winds shifting to westerly and
northwestcrly, and rising barometer during the
"E MI he South Atlantic statsa. clearing and
cooler westher.o northwest 10 southwest winds
for The Gulf states Tennessee and Ohio Val
ley. clear or fair and slightly warmer weather
winds nostly from south and west and slight
For The upper Mississippi and lower Missouri
valleys slightly warner and partly cloudy wea.
or falling barometer: - .
For the lover Lake region. local rains ain. to,-
ture than on Tuesday, southwest 70 northwest
winds and rising barometer. H..
For the upper Lake region partly cloudy wea,-
ther and slowly rising tempcrature. winds shili-
ing 70 easterly and soa,,her,y followed by ia''
port TO 81. Louis. aud continueto fill at stations
below ~ Louis, ~ ..s ,.,., ..,,.
Canonag signals continue on ths n nn
BUSINESS. --The landing yesterday pre-
scented n sight calculated to bring JOY TO
all having the interests of our city at
heart. Every packet leaving had all the
freight that they wanted, and those ad
and morrow were receiving freely.
fusjBy Tecersphi
CousgATrA, March ST, James A. Aiken
Water .top low N Bayou Pierre tm US 70 60
through &c T e shESeyspcr for ta gaG Thorn
DRpARTuREs. following named
steamers left port yesterday. all Of
then, with good trips: st. Mary for
Opelousas, Utah for Yazoo River, W. J.
Behan FOR Minden, Berthe Tor Opelou
sas. LESSEE Taylor for Shreveport
Ouachita Belle for Ouachita City, Thos.
Sherlock for Cincinnati, J. +. Frazer FOR
Lower Coast, St. John and Iberia
for Baton Rouge.
The Martha has quit the Lower Coast
trade for the present.
Capt. John Helm Is acting at present
as an agent for the independent Red
River packet Fannie Tatum. His mum
erous friends will find him on board of
her to-day, ready and as willing as Of
yore to attend to their wants. The
Tatum leaves for Norman's, Barbin's,
Alexandria, Grand Ecore, Shreveport. |
Jefferson, and all way landings at y.
m. to-day.
There was not single item of interest
TO be found on the front yesterday.
STEAMERS LEAVING TO-DAY.
For SHREVEPORT. The gilt-cdged Ma
IL. y.
and Sam Gwartney, clerks. leaves at
Fon ST. Louis. The COMMONWEALTH.
Thos. w. Shields, master, leaves as
above. to-day at 8 p. m.
For BAYOU MACON AND TENsAs.-
Block Line packet. w. ]. Poitevent.
Sam Block, master, Bill duss, clerk,
leaves for all landings on the above
streams and those in Black River, at
u. m. to-day seeaT
For JEFFERSON AND SHREVEPORT. The
independent packet Fannie Tatum,
4. Shields, master, II. G. Tatum,
clerk, leaves positively at 5 D. IN. to-day
for the above and all way landings.
MrscELLANEous.- The Stella Block is
receiving to leave Saturday for Bnuf
River. ,7'i"
The Katie leaves for the Bends at
s p. m; to-day In place Of the Frank
TIE wharf in front of the Harbor Pre-
cinct Station has had three new planks
put in. Call you this repairing it, gen.
tlemen?
The John B. Maud was purchased yes
terday by Capt John kyser. Superin-
tendent Of the Anchor Line, and will
leave to-day for st. Louis.
The new Robt. +. Lee is nearly ready
for the finishing touches to be put upon
age in point Of speed and magniticance.
SHREVEPORT, March S.-To Geo. j.
Duncan, river reporter N. O. Democrat
A GAINESVILLE dispatch reports rise of
five feet, and still rising. Nothing>from
Fulton. River on stand here. Arrived ]
Tuesday night: Clifford, from Fulton;
Bonnie Lee, from New Orleans. De-
parted: Col. A. p. Kouns at l o'clock
this morning; Lotus at IL m. for New !
Orleans; the latter went out without re- ]
pairing here. The Bonnie Lee left for /,
jefferson at dark s7A -a# 'tr@ :