The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-05-16
RIVER NEWS.
OFFICE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT.
ThuradaY May 16 1R1R

Thursday. May &c. 1878.
Arrivals.
Eva. Isabel, Frank Pargoud. A. G. Donnally
SILVER City, Henry Tete. Mary Ida. Z. o. Stan
ard.
Wild Gazelle. Isabel. Belle, Ouaehta Belle
Texas j. III. Hanna.
Gov. Allen, Ouaehita Belle. Bayou Sara: st.
Mary. Lafourehe: Isabel Wild Gnzele Martha.
lower coast; Belle upper eoast: james Howard.
st., Louis; Assumption. Bart Able Red river:
Golden Hule. Cincinnati: Tensas, Macon Match
The weather remains clear and very pleasant.
The Bastrops freight was transferred to the
Hanna Tuesday evening" and she was taken to
laying quarters.
Seamen master, J. M. Hare clerk, will be found
at the landing this morning receiving to leave
tomorrow for Memphis. Cairo and st. Louis. :,
The Bart Able will arrive to leave Saturday
as usual. for Grand Ecore.
The clipper Natchez will arrive this evening
from Vicksburg, aud leave again Saturday, as
The Gov. Allen, leaving every Friday and
Monday, lands at Carrollton; else on the down
trip Sunday. The fare each way is only ten
cents, the proceeds to be devoted to the orphan
The New Orleans and Red River Transports
ton Company's steamer bonnie Lee. Noah SEQ
veil In command, VIM. Dillon clerk. is receiving
to leave Saturday for Shreveport.
The Isabel brought on her last trip five bales
Of cotton belonging 70 the shannon's cargo, },
Connally. II. U. Hart. master Ed Donnally
clerk. arrived vest rday morning from the
one AZ. sv w d 5f,urp y B1o master William
Quicksal clerk. arr ived yesterday afternoon,
and is receiving to leave to morrow at 10 a. m.
The independent Red river packet Assump-
ton VIM. Gllen master P. A. Charlet clerk
making weekly trips to Shreveport is receiving
ffN Inns lafY1 rTntr
The Henry Tete attends to the Lafourche
Business of the Assumption.
One OF the finest passenger boats to the Ohio.
he Golden Grown, leaves to-day at p. m.
promptly.
The st. Francis Belle leaves daily at 1880 q. m.
from Bienvlle street for Westwego. running in
connection with the New Orleans and Texas
Railroad to Donaldsonville
The feet and unusually regular tri weekly
upper coast packet Mary Ida. J. A. Ruiz master,
Edw. Nlcole clerk, leaves this 10 Il. m. promptly
for the Ben Tureaud plGntation. The Mary Ida
is "a daylight yag,1,a at tn ways povon sonrob
packet Eva, U y. Terrebonne master. Thos.
Knee and M. I'll. Ian dry clerks, leaves to- day ut
sp. m; promptly, going through to st. Marys
The elegant and fleet United States mail and
passenger steamer Frank Pargoud, james I'll.
Pepper master, W. n Gaines clerk. leaN es to-
day at D. ~. for Vicksburg and the bends,
Golden crown any w. wsfsf ma ns f''f nas
Shinkle clerk leaves to day at s .. IN. for Mem
phis, Cairo, Louisville and Cincinnati.
The Henry Tete making semi weekly trips
to Bayou Lafuurcbe. through to Thibodaux,
will DO at tue landing this morning, and will
leave to- moro !, at 10 a. M j. Ii. Aucoin in
command. NJ, HI. Landry clerk.
The fleet Wild g. zelle will arrive to leave to-
morrow. as usual. at II IL. m. for the lower
coast TO Magnolia Store.
The United Stat mail and passenger packet
Gov. Alien, John J. Brown master. S. s. Sleck
clerk. leaves tomorrow at s y. III. for Bayou
by Telegraph1
CINCINNATI May Ii. =, Weather clear and
pleasant Business dull. River 20 feet e
inches and falling.
Arrived Potomac. Pomeroy; United States,
Memphis: Davis; Tennessee river,
Leave to-day: Potomac and United States, on
return: Cherokee. Pittsburg: Houston. New
j. N. silv rthorn, of the Evansville Courier.
arrived In the city to-day. Capt. 3. S. Brown
arrived from vt Louis last night end Leaves to-
ST. LouIs. May l5.-Arrivals Clinton ST. Paul;
leans ; E. O. E lott Graz Tower Spread Eagle.
g. .Yaeger New Orleans Golden Eagle Keo,
kuk: Calhoun. Naples, E. g, Elliott, Grand
Tawer; City of Alton New Orleans Fashion
Reeds Landing. River at II a. N. 10 feet
INCHES and falling; busin,ss good.
feet and rising. Cool and clearing.
PITTsBuRG, May 15.-tiver feet inches and
falling. Cloudy and cool.
BROWNSVILLE, Pa, May 15;-Monongahela
feet Inches and stationary. Cloudy; thermom-
eter 49,
on Cry Pa. May 15.-Alegheny . feet
inches and falling Cloudy thermometer AZ.
Exchange Clippings, May Ii.
Courier-Journal:
A NEW pRoPELLER-AN INVENTION WHICH IT Is
CLAIMED IS re %eHK REVOLUTION IN NAvt-
Mr.. d. Z. Everett. of Philadelphia. has re-
Gently exhibited In that city patent steamboat
propelling wheel. rather wheels, which it is
claimed viii effect greater impro vement in
regard to speed and power in steam navigation
than any other invention that has been made
since the. first steamboat WAS built. No new
principle in mechanics is involved. The inveu-
ton consists in a combination Of well under
stood mechanical principles and appliances
Instead of the ordinary pad lie wheel. which is
the best propeller now in use. Mr.. ,Everetts
model has four wheels, two on each side of
the boat. The paddles. the same In construc-
ton as those now in use run on endless steel
cables from one wheel to the other, like belt
over two pulleys, both ends of each paddle being
securely fastened INFO atriangular SHAPED pi, ce
OF iron, which works like a 6 &. dropping I'M 0
notches in the iron wheel at proper intervals as
1t revolves. Thus there 9 continue ly several
paddles in the water all working at once. instead
of only one, as in the ordinary wheel Further.
these paddles are working ia comparatively still
Is churned into foam. and, after n certain point
is reached in the swift ness of the revolutions,
speed. is Lost instead of gained: The diam
eter of the wheels Of large steamboats, is about
forty feet. and they require a correspondingly
powerful engine to move them while hat of the
new wheel need not be over eight or ten fe t. so
that what additional power would be required
to run two whet Is instead of one is more than
neutraized by their smaller size. The model
which was tried in the Wissahickon is an iron
boat seven feet long. and is propelled on exhibit
ton either by the ordinary paddle wheel or the
new propeller wheel. With the same number
of paddles in both instances the new arrange
ment propelled the boat at nearly double the |
speed obtained by the old. with the same motive |
power in both Instances.
Newt the little craft. with tha old fps hiopnd
wheel attached, took a sklff twenty feet long in
tow but although the W epls revoved with /
great force. she tailed 10 make any Roadway. |
When the new wneels, which on the model are |
only about twelve inches in diameter, with pad !
dies three inches long and au inch wide. were
attached, she towed the skitf aud a large man
boat In the world is believed to DO the Mary
Powell. running on the Hudson between New
York and Albany which has made twenty-five
miles an hour. Mr.. tverett claims that with his |
nrnnellnr thirty mills an hour can be made |