The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-10
stage Of the Rivers.
Above low Cboroa
Watpr, s" o'
Stations.


Nashville ..............'. 70
New Orleans .'..'..''.'' . % 70 .
Omaha. ................... IA II ~ .
Plttsburg ................. ~
Shreveport .............' % ~ .
81. Louis boouuiis '''...'.'''...'.. % 10 !
Vicksburg ..-.......,...'. 3J ~ ~
sBeIow high water mark of 1874. Indicates
rise. Indicates taI.
No change in the weather.
Busineps moderately active.
Capt. Mat. Soove came down in command OF
the Bonnie Lee. Capt; Noah S3Gnvell VIII enjoy
brief season Of rest T IN B2 srsnD taxes up
Capt George Albau, the veteran Red river
pilot and captain, Is In the city. q.
Supervising Inspector Norton has gone TO
Mr. Theo. John has resumed his place in the
Office of the FHnchOn. -,
men was presented to the city administrators
yesterday asking for more wharf room.
The New Orleans and BED River ranspoTta,
ton Company's steamer Danube. Chas. horn
master, @. W. Drown clerk. leaves Saturday Tor
The 0Uacbita Belle. for ali coast and town
landings to Bayou sara, is the regular packet
today. ,,. ~ -.., H.. -,
town and mau landings to Greenville
The Henry Tets will arrive to- night and leave
ZOE CINCINNATI The pendid fast-running
passenger packet Golden RULE Capth1l " +
Shinkle, Clerk W. Shaw. Is off Tomorrow at
Tsre ahs nce as there is no boat that enj oys o
better reputation than the Golden Rule. She Is
one of the fastest boats that runs to Cincinnati.
and In all her appointments t9 unsurpassed in
the trade. She has asplendtd cabin beaut1-
fully furnished, com Portable stateronm5. t.
the best kind of table, and her officers are
second to none-lhey are capable, exUerienced,
polite and gentlemen In every respect. We
cordially recommend The Hule and her clever
me elegant and very popular New Mary
Houston, Cha les Miller muster. Is to egraphed
A,u ri Ert 10 and InlV Nail
natl.
An INTERESTING LETTER FROM CAPT. W. W. WHIT
TENBUBY. ONE OF THE PIONEERS OF RID
RIVER.
The following letter has been received In this
city as q contribution to the "Remini4 cence"
portion of our river column. dated Cincinnati
II commenced my career rs cook of q fat
boat, from Cincinnati 10 New Orleans In the
year 1899. The stipulated wages tor the trip
was $40 The time between the ports seventy
days, the delay being occasioued by the Ohio
river freezing three times during the trip 10
Southerner Capt. II. G. swain, bound for Mo.
bile, Ala. / remained on the Southerner until
the summer Of ls4l the Latter part Of this time
In the fall Of l84l shipped as cl TX of the Il Sc
lief. bound from Gin 'innati to- Bed river. :, IL
river. Finding the river very low above shreye-
port. was detained q long time In that vicinity.
The business on Red river WIS confined to very
few steamers. AS far a. my memqory, serves me
the following is list Of them SouthWestern,
Gapt Louis Vanter; o%hmpte: Sh drn,s SafrFo t
Bradish Douglas, Capt. Riley: Echo. Capt Lit
tlei P. Miller, Capt. J!hn Smoker; Manch ester
Via; Rochester, Capt. Mowet; besides these.
Capts P +. Kmbal and Dalmau had boats In the
Eatchltoches trade the names Of which | nave
Forgotten. These boats carried from 300 to 1900
bales cotton. Shreveport was then in Its infancy,
and was known q few years before as Coates Bluff
indians and emigrants During our d5ay BY
low water at Shreveport we We're INDUCED to
make an experimen,att Trip % Port 0aod0
nratensions az future shipping point from
Texas. We found there feW tndt NJ eHsI1t5 81
the banks of the bayou. and little further
be beck fT9 'F qf Todd one and
the DSe other The Ds Rg 6 NJ nf H@ssar I TRs
was the highest point that the bayou had ever
been paygated by steam at that Time. we TOOK
a few bales of cotton belonging to a man named
Kitchen. this being the first shipment OF cotton
from Port Caddo by steam. Il was destined &c
New Orleans by a crcuItOus route, viz: Down
the BAYOU through the lakes. through Red and
Black bayou, to Red river above the raft, and
thence hauled from the head TO the loot OF me
boat The reason for the cotton taking such g
roundabout course was that, rumor said thu,
Kitchen had received hint that Texas sheriff
was hunting fer his cotton, and he said be
didn't care DIN what route it took so we go
TxaS guGGk "a ana 6 ne N got 6 al aai aT
chant. We had a tedious trip from Port Caddo
to the head OF the raft, and the cot
destln alto The head Of the raft was ther
known az PHELPS Buff, and subsequently, as
Carolina Bluffs The portage Of all cotton n W.
which Yves then the foot of the raft, distance
about four miles A year or two after #. the raj
and the new raft made ITS first Judgment a
Carolina Bluff, max ing, tina, the foot OF the
raft To return to P6 ey 8T Fl as II Ta
the headquarters Of the army Of OK drivers. en-
gagged in the portage around the rat. e., Anothe,
name was rather significant on many occasion.
George Alban was at that time the chief bust
ness m9n of PhelpS, III and the manager an ger o
Of Dead Fall" and the "A fogle" of ,"'Fogel
VILE" The remaining incidents Of my first *
perience in Red river are confined entirely t.
operations above the raft, and are conse
quently of little interest, and | will omt
them for the present merely mentioning tina
Of The firm Of Mar & AppIegate, Of Fulton, o.
points. In 1s45 made the first trip ever mad
BY a steamboat to Jefferson, Texas. and Georg
Alban was my pilot. 1t contained then 300 in
habftants, and thpped. about 400 bales Of cotton
The same season, with the same boat, th
Lama, and the same pilot, George AIban;
pioneered in Saline Bayou a branch of Littl
Grounds Landing which is some seven mile
higher up the bayou than any, boat. had eve
gone before The second trip to Jefferson wa
made in 1916 by the steamer Gbzelle. Capt. l.. W
vandergrift From that time thy pitched tp
so rapidly and numerousty that 1t would b
useless 10 attempt an account Of them.
NY memory Of steamboat, life is, full OF re
miniscences which would doubtless bs inter
estinR to many. but am in s .h1, W vE
health that it is a task to recount them, thQu d
will endeavor to continue them at some futur
period. During my experience on the river
have been on and tthe greater number! com
manded.the following boats: Sonther9er IN Mo
bile and one trip to Tensas; Relief Little Be
franklin Ohio river. Wavely. Lama, !. !
Roberts Enterprise. Monterey, Echo, ". /
Clark. all in the order named. in Red river
franklin, Pierce, Ohio river; Rueb Whittt
river: Texana, formerly the franklin Pierce
ST. Louis and the Yazoo; Lecompte. Vigo, Ho
mer, Robt Fulton, and last in 1868, the Eleanor
all in Red river
The st Francis Belle leaves daily at 80 a. N
from Bienvlle street for Westwego, running Il
connection with the New Orleans and Texa
Railroad TO Donald, onvile.
The Belle in place Of the Blue Wing No. 3,
Cnmstnck master leaves this 10 q m for Bel