The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-05-28
Exchange Clippings, May rs.


Louisville Evening News:
The John W. Cannon had steam up this morn
ing. She is, one of the finest boats now running.
excepting the James Waite. which will be- the
finest that ever run on the Western or Southern
waters.
Courier-J Journal:
steamboat that don'tadvertise for business
oughtn't expect business. If they think we ara
going to puff them gratutously anyhow, they
to the yay Make f dH
duty to say that he is little OFF, between the
ears { he thinks we care cent who he is, what
where she is going to. This Is news to him.
perhaps.
Capt W. P. Walker photographed Capt. Vint
Shinkle yesterday morning that the Golden
Crown, bound from New Orleans for Cincin,
in deep water at Newburg. nine miles above
Evansville, Her engines and timbers were not
her passengers on the A. G. Donnally. Which
passed, up shortly after the accident. The
Champion No 8, Capt; Joe Sbinklee, with Pilot
assistance yesterday noon md will take the
wreckng boat Harry Hill in tow at Louisville
Ranges. and wheel. The Champion No. s" viii
tow the Golden Crown to Cincinnati. and the
Champion No. Z may go down to day to assist
was known the shaft was craked and new one
had been ordered and is now b ing conn pie ed by
pumont The e Golden CroTn will he reshy for
will also add an additional boiler to her battery.
The great Southern steamer, Jno. W. Cannon
built. and Just completed by the Howarjs 81
-Jeifersonvllle. and owned by Capts. Jno. W
Cannon, Jno. W Tobin and others of New Or
leans. Is one of the finest specimens Of marine
ar chitecture and beauty atloat. and designed to
be one of the fastest. If not the fastest. steamer
that ever turned q wheel on the Mississippi
Capt. Cannon is DESTROYS of bringing this
steamer to Cincinnati. an start fr m here on
her frs. trip South. As the Mitchell le 4vas
here on Wednes lay, follow d by the DonnalIy
next Saturday. there will b., opening for thf,
Cannon the foil wing Wednesday, rs he Golden
CrowliNwill lay no on arrival for repairs. Now
let Capt. Cannon bring his Damesake here and
show her to our people. who will give the old
ed by thousands of our citizens. and we may
add that Cincinnati-the Paris Of America is
the point TO herald the advent of her business
career. Let 1t pa announced that the great Jno.
w. Cannon Is coming to Cincinnati. Thousands
of strangers from the adjacent cities and towns
would flock here to inspect this aquatic beauty.
st. Louis Times:
II Is claimed that the water ways belong to the
whole country and that they should be run for
the benefit of the producer, the merchant and
the consumer. We uld ask: Have not the
boatmen as a class equal rights with the Others
before named2 And what have cheap Tor. as we
may call them, war ratesl. brought these people
to; Perjury and want; half of them idle; an
other large portion used to comfortable homes
living in rooms. with nothing to hope for in the
future but the poor b use or resting place in
the potters field Lower the scale Of wages
and you lower the STANDARD If manhood. One
= will keep pace with the other, We have living
examples of this fact to-day. Go to the lines
that are paying the poorest wages and you will
lind the poorest men for no matter what his