The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-01

Sugar. hhds. ........... 95.O25 1886
6olaSSes bbls. 174sT2 1874 104
Clean rice. bbls. ...........-.- 1876 23629
Rough rice, sacks .......... 224811 19067S
INSPECTIONS FOR THE YEAR.
Eli Steamers 202-Tonnage 81, O96.3s.
Increase-Entered service Steamers Is
II Tonnage 34O5.75.
u Decrease out Of service-Steamers. 10
! Tonnage 1885, ,,crnsrn
Masters 400 mates 1913. pilots IA, engineers
Fleta $4,000, tug Quaker $50, yacht Myrtle s2o5o
II Hampton F. Meares pilot September :; Is
Geo. 6. Kouns clerk and Nieho as Delerno Told
November is; Il Effort. pilot. January IS: J. G.
eaan March, sasd 81 Oldham n o
CAPITA Nay Bfe ennett a' ensineer
M captain june a s so Bucha nss
disehairging clerk July loi NJ Rad9 y,
Rea, mate, at Natchez. August 81. "
SERIOUS ACCIDENTS. EXPLOSIONS, BURNING AND
Il September 1-Timmie Baker blew up and
sunk ct Monroe. i killed. wounded. Raised.
September 2i-R Il, Bryarly sunk twenty
niles above Coushatta: cargo. 400 bal cotton,
October Wreck ing boat Travis Wright sunk
10 miles below Coushatta, with 173 bales cot
v on recovered from wreck OF Bryarly; boat total
October 9-Southern Belle burned two miles
oove Plaquemine: lives lost 10; cargo. 1874
aleS cotton 1900 sacks seed boat total loss.
4 October 1g-sallie sunk at Franklin; after
4 October 80. II. Durfee sunk on falls above
Alexandria; afterwards raised.
With 1s5 bales Of the r; 7. Bryarly's cotton re-
Olosa Point; this cotton was afterwards re-
covered by the Usage.
Il November 1s-R: W. Dugan. loaded with cot
ton. dropped her larboard guard at Echo land
November 14-Homer sunk head fuckers
November 3o-Bertha Drummer snagged above
February 14-Tug Jones exploded boiler at
February 15-Clifford sunk at .Gilmer. Upper
Red River: toa loss; cargo 49, bales s cotton
head and an
i wounded, two of whom died afterward.
April l7-Keystone and tow coliided with
sloop-of-war Plymouth. at Natchez: sinking two
May7..-Waloon blew up and sunk twelve miles
below city; ten killed and drowned and twelve
May 11-Emma sunk twenty miles bel ow the
'ity seven lives lest; boat total loss g pouo
two drowned; boat total loss.
May 22-Ora burned twenty-five miles above
trenton : total loss.
June Government boat Thos. B. Florence
sunk near Jefferson since raised.
July 2o-Sandy burned at Shreveport; total
loss.
February 17-John +. Tolle ran through her
self and broke both cylinder heads and crank:
teDruary 22-U. I. Schenck broke shaft fve
March Ezra No. 10 broke shaft near Convent
March ls-Blue Wing No. broke starboard
shalt near College Point,
July s-Eureka blew out cylinder head at
July i5~J. II. Hanna broke cylinder timber
near Columbia.
July Ola Belle broke starboard shaft and
cylinder head and burst cylinder near Carroll
august 14-Ella Hughes broke shaft near Don
jacksonville,
August 95-Eureka broke cylinder timber.
We purposely refrain from giving any details
Of the prospective disposition of tonnage for
this season. as, customary: for experience has
taught us that they are but speculations. Suffice
1t to say there will be plenty for all purposes
In closing we wish to eongrqpt Il the river
preme in our beloved sunny South she is no
longer the prey of tue despoiler and agitater.
Our rulers are her own sons In our national
council our voice Is potent enough to make our
needs known, and to receive that attention and
aid that heretofore has been so lavishly given to
other sections. The great enterprise Of the day
benefits to- accrue from it almost within our
grasp. Emigration that has SO long been turned
tive South as against the grasshopper ridden
and snow covered prairies of the Northwest
this one the most bountiful of all. are bring
ing smiles to the faces of our people. and pie
thoric purses to their pockets; and last but
not least, we have. thanks to the admirable
system and organization that has harmonized
conflicting in terests among our steamboatmeo,
healthier state of affairs among them. They
are up with the changes; they are contributors
and sharers alike in the dawn of that bright
future that belongs to our beloved South, and
we are sanguine and hopeful of that future.
DAILY RIVER NEWS.
DAILY report Of the sLage OF wster, with changes
10 the twenty-four hours ending yesterday
p. M:
Above low Change.
water. Rise. Fall.