The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-15
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DEPARTURES Isabel, Martha, st. Mary, Mary
Ida. II. II. Lee.
10 AnnrvE-Assumption St. Mary. Robt.
Young, Laiourche; Blue Wing No. .. Mary Ida
w. J. Behap, Red river; st John, Baton Rouge;
Willie, Attakapas; Gov. Allen, Rayou Sara: Frank
Pargoud. Arkopolis; Golden City. Alvin, Ohio; II.
@. Yseger, 81. Louis; Trenton, opelousas. Il,
The weather yesterday WAS pleasant in the
morning but hot during the afternoon.
Business rather dull.
Val Entriken went up on the Lee yesterday, the
assistant in the office OF Capi. John Mossop.
The dials for the ferry building clock arrived
yesterday, and the clock will soon be thing to
be gsz ID At m, -
for the Thompson Dean.
The fast and fine weekly Ouachita packet John
Fl. Hanna leaves to-day for Ouaehita Oity
The Blue Wi ~ No. 3. leaving this 10 u. m. is
the only departure to-day for the upper coast as
far AZ Donaldsonville and the Ashland plantation.
The Trenton will be here to leave Saturday Tor
the Opelousas.
The Robert Young, in place OF the Eureka, will
BIO the only departure tomorrow for the La
fourcbe. A clerk is on the landing, head of Bien-
vile street, receiving freight.
Tho Martha will arrive this evening, and leave
Tomorrow at 10 q. m. The Martha has un-
surpassed passenger accommodations, and is
very fast. :,
run in connection with the Martha and Eva when
ever coca lion requires. See advertisement.
Capt. Bassett, J. A. Ruiz and Nick Theodore
have been enjoying visit over the lake for the
iast two weeks. Capt. Bassett returned Mon.
day, and went out on the Martha yesterday. The
Martha is doing q fine business Ia the coast trade.
The Times Of yesterday, abiding to the re.
ceipt of $40 hogsheads OF sugar ny the Assump-
tion, calls il second crop sugar. You've got that
wrong, Capt. JIM
The Ella Hughes arrived last evening and will
lay up for week or more for repairs Capt.
Dalferes has the st. Mary to fill her place. The
haet aIs<xI,k unptI, ,,l
TO her shaft, did not arrive until late in the after
noon, and to give the merchants opportunity
10 I'LL their orders, Capt. Daferes has deferred the
departure OF the IT. Mary until p. m. to-day.
Hereafter she will leave IN her regular day for
all coast landings to Donsldsonville, and on
Bayou Latourehe az far down as Lockport.
The Da vn is the United States mail packet to-
day for Red river. She is q very light.draft
boat, and will 60 through. That she is sure to
leave as advertised, VIZ need only mention that
she belongs to the Red River Transportation
Company.
The river in front Of the lower landing lie falling
to such an extent that before many days the
wood work of the wharf will be beyond the reach
OF stages. We mentioned Sunday that the wharf
lessees were preparing to build an extension OF
forty feet to this wharf. The getting out of the
piling, which il now 10 the basin, should be
hnrried ~ much possible.
The Pcayune. OF yesterday, CLIPS from the
st. Louis Times OF the 1lth, an item that ap.
peared originally in the DEMOCRAT of the 9th, all
Pic.
The Natchez Democrat clipped the larger part
OF its ''lseminiscences" from the New Orleans
Democrat. but forgot to mention it,
The punctual steamer Willie will arrive this
evening from the Bayou Teche and return Sat.
urday without fail. Capt Il. B. Trinidad COM
mands; DIR. Frank Greig clerk.
Red river has fallen 16 inches in the last five
days, or 81 inc les in the last thirteen days, and
there is trouble in consequence, attributable al.
most entirely to the breaK in Tones Bayou. Ia
the words of Senator DllwoIthy. "Let's have an
appropriation aud stop this bayou up for all
time"
The Red River Transportation Company have
chartered the very light draught steamer Tim
mie Baker for the purpose of aiding their boats
in getting over the worst places and will keep
her there during the continuance Of low water
The Baker leaves Tomorrow. Capt Fl. J.
Brinker in command; Capt. Will T. Gllham in
charge Of the office.
Tom MnPeake has gone to enjoy a three
weeks visit to the prairies OF VermlIion. Geo.
Lord tends shop. You can raise your hat to him,
rs usual.
There will be lively times in the Bayou Sara
trade this season, and the Gov. Allen aud La
Belle, and the 0uachita Belle and the John II.
Hanna and Capt John W. Cannons new boat will
be the boats that will make it lively.
Capt. Sullivan is having some very pretty let
tering done on the Poitevent's wheel houses.
The Eva, Tom Taylor master, Capt. John O.
Tallette and Ernest ReiEhardt clerks, leaves TO-
day at 10 q. m. for the lower coast, through to
Port Eads. The Evs, in connection with the
Martha, carries the mail daily and runs on sched-
ule time.
The Blue Wing No. 3, J. A. Comstock master,
leaves this 10 a. m. for Ben Tureauds, Donald
sonville and the Ashland plantation, Ascension
parish. Messrs. Wood and Dean clerks.
ton Company's steamer Dawn, Ohas. Truslow
master, Chas. w. Drown clerk, leaves to-day,
without fail, for Shreveport and jefferson.
The John 81. Hanna leaves to-day at p.
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carrying the United States mail. +. a. Blanks
commands Ben Cornwen clerk.
The fine and regular steamer Bertha, Fl. H.
Broad master, Iheo. John clerk, leaves to-day
at p. m. for the Atchatalaya through to Wash.
ington.
The fast and very staunch freight steamer U.
p. Schenck, j. Lawrence Carter master, Dick
Burns clerk, leaves to-day, positively, for Gin
cinnati.
The splendid passenger and United States
mail steamer Frank Pargoud, J. NJ. White mas
ter, W. N. Gaines clerk, is receiving to leave to-
morrow at .. m. for Vicksburg, Gretnville, Ark
opolis. ard all mail landings.
[By telegraph
CousHATTA, Ang. A.-ro Joseph A. Aiken,
New Orleans; Thirty inches at Squirrel Point.
Two feet here; am Tightening to get over.
GEO. E. WlLkERSON,
Steamer W. j. Behan.
EXCHANGE CLIPPINGS.
WHAT A TWELVE HUNDRED TON PROPELLER WILL
CosT-INTEREsTING LETTER FROM BUILDER.
PORTSMOUTH, o., August s.
River Reporter St. Louis Republican:
Yours of the 8 inst. received. | have noticed
several articles from the st. Lons and Cincinnati
papers in reference to the ALT. Stevens, and have
also received letters from various places iaquiring
about her. / am confident that had it not been
for the great de preston in business all over the
country this would have been good time for
propeller builders. built, as far as I know, the
first shoal water propeller that ran successfully
on the Ohio river, and have bsen working here
since then, sixteen wears ago, to bring it to
success, and it is no longer an experiment.
can build the hulls and cabins of propellers
here. The engines are sly built at Chilli
cothe, in this Satp, and put on here. The
dimensions of such boat as you suggest will be
as follows: Lengh h, 200 feet; breadth of beam,
rs feet; depth of hold, feet. These dimensions
will not give quite 1900 tons capacity, but as
Sarge as would like to risk at present. Propel-
Ter wheels: 6 feet or m ghe be 61s feet, in diam
eter Viii build her for $4,000 in seventy days. or
$500 in sixty days, or $500 in fifty days. Will
cell or line the inside underclamps with two