The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-05
Above low

sBelow high water mark OF 1874.
NELSON aORoM. serg,t. Sig. Ser. Q. 8. a.
wing No. 9, 1T. John, Gov. Allen, Il. u. Lee,
Cotton Valley, Bastrop. A. g. Donnaliy.
DEPARTURES Isabel. Henry Tete, 81. john,
Gov. Allen, Eureka, Robert Young, Blue Wing
10 AnnvE-Henry Tete,. Eureka, .Assunp-
tion, Ella Hughes, Lafourche; Mary Houston,
Uin6innati: Robt Young, Blue Wing No. 3, up
per coast: st. John, Baton Rouge; Gov. Allen,
Bayou Sara; J. FL Hanna ousohisa; .; u; our.
Tom Parker. Beuf river; Katie, arcenville.
"a Steamboat Captain after making eompli-
mentary allusion to our efforts against the pres
ent rate Of wharfage. pIayerfnlly hopes we are
ing around for another assault. We are going
10 hold out, you bet. -
The II. p. hchenck Ia announced to leave Gin
einnAti to-day, and the Charles Morgan to-mor-
The Centennial leaves for 50. Louis to-day.
The Centennial will be followed Saturday by the
Glencoe.
Don't forget the Blue Wing; she leaves to.mor-
row % 40 o'clock for Ben Tureaud's. Donaldson
vile and the Ashland plantation.
The lilly Collins, M. McSweeney master, j.
Wise clerk. leaves to-day at 3 q. m. from the
head Of Harvey's Canal, for Grand Isle, return
ing Thursday and leaving again Saturday.
rations for the entertainment Of guests at thei
hotel and have determined to make this season
The NEST brilliant in Ito history.
The popular Mary Houston, Charley Miller
master, leaves Saturday for Cincinnati.
The Cotton Valley and Bastrop both arrived
from the Ouachita yesterday.
The purchase of the Thompson Dean still re.
mains open. Capts Miller and Jones are still
aboard, settling up her business ana awaiting han
made Tor repairs, painting, new chimneye, etc.
No we suppose the matter will be definitely set
tied within the next few days.
Capt. Joe Cartoons light draft steamer Got
ton Valley, Messrs. Gilruth and Reeder clerks,
arrived yesterday, and will leave tomorrow at
p. m. for Camden and way landings on the Black
and Ouachita rivers.
The A. 9. Donnally, one Of the best passenger
boata 10 the Ohio. and with q record for speed
high up among the fast ones. will be at the land
ing this morning, recei wing to return to-day. =.
Capt, Wenzel returned from his visit to the
Ouachita on the Cotton Valley. Capt. Wensel
issvss for Kentucky this week and when he re-
The Bastrop leaves Saturday for the Black and
OuAohita riverr through to Camden; Gus Hodge
in command, J. p. Mohr clerk.
The Haet Katie will be at the landing to-mor-
row TO leave Thursday for Greenville.
The regular semi-weeklv coast and Bayou
Lafourche packet Assumption, z. A. Oharlet
master, N. Y. Dupuis and Joe Lagroue clerks,
leaves to-day at s p. m.
bell master, Messrs. Mcvay and Mossop clerks,
leaves this p. M, as usual, for Baton Rouge,
Bayou Sara, Natehez. vicksburg. and all mail
landings.
Hughes leaves to-day at p. m. for the La
fourche through to Lockport. MIR. II. e. Alba
has charge OF the Office.
The John II. Hanna, OF the New Orleans and
Ouachita Transportation Company, leaves to-
morrow ut p. m. lin place of the Ouachita
Bellel, as regular weekly packet to Ouachta
City. Capt. ]. W. Blanks commands, Capt. Joe
Holmes clerk.
The Lessie Taylor. in place of the Sandy No. O.
81. II. Broad master, Eug. Quatrevaux and
J. B. Schmit clerks, leaves tomorrow at p. m.
for the Atchafalaya. A clerk will be found at the
head Of Bienville street, receiving freight.
The New Orleans and Red River Transports
tion Oompany's steamer Dawn, @. p Truslow
master, O. w. Drown clerk, leaves tomorrow at
5 p. m for Shreveport and Jefferson.
The A. @. Donnally, Ii. U. Hart master, Ed.
Donnaliy clerk, leaves to-day at s p. m. for Mem
phis, Cairo, Louisville and Cincinnati.
The steamer A. O. Donnally, from Cincinnati
with q fine trip, arrived yesterday evening.
[By Telegraph
MEMpHIs, June Wayne & Williams, New Or.
leans: steamer Mary Houston will arrive Thurs
day and leave on Saturday, the 9th inst, for Gin
cinnst. CHAs. MILLER, Master.
EXCHANGE ,cLIPPINas.
CINCINNATI, June 2-The Schenck, leaving for
New Orleans on Tuesday, has 800 tons Of produce
engaged at Vevay.
Mcflvain & spiegel ship i've boilers on the
Church, leaving for New Orleans tonight, for Ed
wards plantation one mile above Donaldsonville,
Louisiana. McIlvain says he made thirty eight
boilers for Southern planters last season; that
they paid promptly, and do not owe him thirty
eight cents. He will make over fifty boilers for
the South this year, and lie now running two
boiler yards In order to fill his Southern orders
The Sherlock will await events before leaving
Tor New Orleans again-more water and an ad-
Capt. M. L. virden, chief clerk Of the Thomas
sherlock, IN the presence OF select company Of |
friends, was cdned yesterday morning by Mr.. d. !
Gaugh, one OF the pilots of that steamer. |
The Shannon has been towed 10 retirement at |
Fulton.
The following list of old boats is compiled by |
Capt. Handlan for the Enquirer from log kept |
BY Capt. Joseph Pierce and sons. Underwriters
Inspectors for this city, and dates back to 1911.
The list will be published in alphabetical order,
and gives the place and date Of building, ton
mage and where lost, and whether high or low
pressure:
Orleans, Pittsburg, 1915, tonnage $50, sunk
tonnage S64, worn out; Olive Branch, Pittsburg,
1919. tonnage 3lS, worn out Osage, Cincinnati,
1870, tonnage las. sunk 1923; Ohio, Portsmouth,
1874, tonnage $50. destroyed 1925; opelousas,
ureek, tonnage is6. worn out; oregon, Marietta,
1927. tonnage 225, sunk at Plum Point 1882; o.
Perry, Burlington, O., 1929, tonnage 100, name
changed to Daniel Webster; Ohio, Pitts
burg, 1881, tonnage 2sS, made several
voyages from New Orleans to Mobile
via Balize, worn out 1886; Olive. Wheeling,
1880, tonnage 100, built by Joseph Handlan, ex.
z ded once, collapsed tiue, changed name to
sestern Virginia; Odd Fellow. 1880, changed
me to Traveller; Orleans, New Albany, 1881,
'cznage S26; Otto, Jacksonville, 1881, tonnage
1885, Usage, Morgantown, 1882 tonnage 80; Orion,
Marietta, 1882, tonnage 100; Ophelis, Cincinnati,
lSs2. tonnage ITO; O'Connel, Pittsburg, 1882.
onnage l07; Olive Branch, Elizabeth 1888, ton
lage ITS, sunk at the foot of Favorite Chute,
wenty -fve miles above Helena; Ouachita, Gin
innati, 1888. tonnage 1862; Ohioan, Shousetown.
SSS, tonnage 104.
LETTER r.
Rifieman, Louisville. 1918, tonnage 2sl. burnt
t Mobile in 1924; Rapide, Pittsburg, 1919, ton
age 179; burnt In 1882; Robert Fulton, New
'ork, 1920, tonnage 500, low pressure. destroyed;
,ocket, Louisville, 1870, tonnage IS, worn out
S24; Rufus Putnam, Marietta, 1922, tonnage 60,
unk at Point Chieot in 1926, (this Is the boat
hat Gen. Lafayette finished his trip to Wheeling
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