The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-27
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water. Rise. Fall.
r.,.o Feet. Inches. Inches. Inches.
0ineinna lii........ Il Il
louisville -...... 9
rNew Orleans. ID 8
Pttsburg 0 Q 0
Shreveport ...s.... o
st. Louis
*Below high water mark Esf # IN, e,oRom
Sergeant Signal Service. U. 3. A.
Arrivals.
Alvin, Eva Bastrop, Dawn, City Of Alton. Blue
/ Wing No. ., Frank Pargoud. Martha.
Departures.
A ,abel Eva Blue Wing No. 8, Bertha Bastrop.
aft8snnie Lee, J. +. Tolle.
geah To Arrive.
EEeruaTra No 10, Blue Wing No. g. upper coast Isa-
bel. Eva. lower coast; Danube, Ohio river; G. r.
+. schenck. Cairo; Gov. Allen. Bayou Sara j.
! FL. Hanna Baton Rouge: Big Sunfiower Ope-
Z lousas !; Nstehez. Vicksburg; Henry Tete, Dom
Clear and pleasant Yesterday.
The Dawn 81 rived yesterday from Red river,
and is receiving to return Saturday
Capt. John Gilman arrived on the Dawn =,
The steamer Alvin. from the Quarantine sta
tion arrived on time last evening with q fair
The @. II. nurfee leaves Saturday for Alex
andria and Grand Ecore in place oil the Bart
The Big sungower, from Ateh,afalaya, will
arrive 10 leave SATURDAY, EtE regular
i Tho Natehez will arrive tonight from yicks-
burg and return saturday, as usual. :.
John a. I'VE aas a Y a o. NJ y H.
telegraph with the eompany's building on the
landing. Mr.. Geo. II. Rea, president of this
company. is expected here to-day from Ut.
The John T. Tolle got off Yesterday.
The famous City OF Alton. Capt Horace Bixby,
arrived yesterday morn ing from st, Louis. and
is announced to return to-day at s p. m. The
Alton is a fast steamboat and has fine passen-
Jnttn
advertisement Of j. b. Woods Co., agents. In
alother column
and Capt. Heger and Clerk Mcintyre have gone
to Cincinnati.
Capt Wenzel has named his new Ouachita
packet Clara Silbernagte.
The Thompson Dean is nearly ready for bus
mess and will very shortly be brought to the
mand the Dean, is sparing no efforts to put her
In the very best of order. He is well known on
the river as a good business man, q skilltu and
and ID surrounding himself with corps OF Off.
GERS who will render him ef1icient aid in maxi
The Frank Fargoad arrived i', yesterday morn.
ing with 57s bales cotton and 1906 sacks cotton
% Tine nsc 81 bs trip last the
bales and 1899 sacks seed.
CH1MNEYs FoR SALE.-See advertisement of
Brown Jones in another part of the Demo
crat.
~, lIseleeted fol. the o. Democrat,
h Is Of the IS tRpp " lie
,lation.., The. first schooner Of the Northern
lakes, the Grifren. in l7ee, was freighted with
the first cargo of goods that reached the valley
OF the Mississippi. Thus the valley owes to the
great, lakes the introduction Of commerce and
se 81 h n and up 70
tyr trade Of the French emigrants with he In
dams constituted leading pursuit of the in
naey he Missouri P' and SHG sessspp Q, we're
navigattd by the bark canoes of the Indians.
Canadians and French trappers.
Next came the MHrkinAw boats CARRYING
about 1900 " ! weight then EN- the keel boats and
bfs ss q 80 to 70 ms Ths t th
mouth Of the Ohio, OF, which we have any ac-
count was in l75l when q feet Of keel boats.
rines assembled as far as Fort Charities. One
Of these boats. the ", Louis, struck a sn ,g
From three TO four months was the time con-
stunned at this period. and for many years after
the settlements in the Vicinity Of St. Louis. The
yearly average fur trade Of Upper Louisiana.
s2os,7bo. This part Of the province also ex-
The goods for domestic consumption
barges from New Orleans. At the period Of the
introduction of STEAMBOATS, in 1912. the whole
country was transported in about twenty
barges OF an average of 100 tons each and y, ak
ing but one trip In a year; The number of keel
80 tons each. The total tonnage in 1917 was esti-
mated at between 5000 and 1000 tons
Grissom clerk and Capt Thorwegan's iron
steamer--not vet named-Geo. Mi tenberger
clerk. are advertised in the Memphis Avalanche
Of the Goth the former to leave Memphis Dc
tohsr II, the, latter on the cath.
The Era Nc, 10. by arrangement with Capts.
tended for. the Lafourche packets Ella Hughes
and Robt. Young putting 1t off at Donaldson
vile. from where 1t will be forwarded through
The War Department Chronicle reports that
during the past week the Red river has risen
2 inches at Yankton, at Leavenworth and 6 at
Omaha, The Mississippi has risen inches at
s snd Pfa inches At La a ct
inches at st. Louis inches at Cairo and 8
inches ct Memphis no rive r reports have been
risen u inches at Nashville. The Ohio has risen
inches at Pittsburg and a inches at Cincinnati.
steamer Msla Bosse stqs eava
to-day at 10 a. m. for the lower coast through to
Port Eads Messrs. Leger and Shattuck have
Martha makes an excursion through the jettes
out into the gulf.
The new. fine and fast lower coast packet
Alvin, w. L. Scovell master Henry Kouns
clerk. leaves to-day at 11:9o a. M promptly for
the lower coast TO Quarantine Station.
Ben Tnreaud., Aicide Albert in command d"9 Ar
The regular tri-weekly coast and Donaldson
yiue packet Henry Tete. +. Aueoin master, NJ.
ii. Landry clerk, leaves to-day at Ia m making |
all plantation landings in daylight.
The splendid passenger and United States |
mail steamer Frank Pargoud, J. M. White mas
ter, Curt Holmes clerk, leaves to-day at D. M |
for Arkopois. Greenville and Vicksburg.
The fine steamer John H. Hanna. james P. |
McElroy in command. leaves tomorrow at IL m. |
for Baton Rouge and coast landings. Messrs.
III G. Bergeron and +. V. Cellos are in change of
he Office.
f-uEhe United States mail packet Gov. Allen |
John j. Brown master, s. s. Streck clerk, leaves
tomorrow at .. m. for Bayou Sara.