The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-01
RIVER NEWS.
OFFICE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT.
Saturday, June !. 1873.


81. Mary. Isabel Belle, Nntchez. Ouachta
Belle Mary ldh.
Departures.
Wild GazoIle. Isabel. Silver City. Henry Tete
Gov. Allen. =
SILVER CIV Lafourcho; Isabel Wild GaHelo
Martha lower coast: ThOs, Sherlock, Uinoin.
natl Assumnti9n, Danube. Rcd river; Belle Of
The weather yesterday was quito warm and
business almost as dull as the day was hot,
! The Era No. 10. Tom Taylor master. s. T.
Goodwin clerk, loaves to-day at p. m. for Black
mud Bout rivers, through TO Easons ferry,
that section, fact that shippers had hottor
avail themselves Of
Zee special notice of the Danube In another
column.
4 cheap ferryboat can be bought Mt Shreve-
port. See advertisement
@ The renowned passenger steamer ThOs. Sher-
lock Lew Hates master, J. s. Jones clerk, will
be found mt the landing this morning from the
Ohio, receiving TO return Monday next nj r Il.
IN. She Is most excel lent boat TO travel on,
and those who wait for her until that day will
be repaid by an unusually pleasant trip for the
time lost.
The Bart Able. leaving to-day for Shreveport.
will attend TO the business of her trade TO
Grand Eoore the same as usual See special
The Wild GazolIe will return from the lower
coast this evening, and leave Monday, rs usual, |
Don't forget that the Belle leaves this morn
ing, as usual. for the upper coast.
The Lafourche packet st Mary has changed |
her hour of departure on Saturdays to 8 u. M,
and her rates Of freight to half card.
! The Independent Assumption leaves to day. |
sure. for Rod river. SEQ special notice to ship !
pers in another column.
amounted TO l946b bales IA follows: |
TTicks6qIlg and the the bends. ca7e bales
Ouqchita, 1913 bales: Teche. II bales: by
st. Louis boats, 44h3 bales, and by boats from
the OHIO, 1893 bales The receipts Of seed cot
clean rice, 1915 hbls: rough rice 4579 sacks
sugar g34 hhds; molasses, 21I7 bills; oil cake,
"a 2O6 sacks; oil cake meal. 9lg5 Sacks cotton
seed OIL 1442 bbs. Arrivals 2o3 same month last
year arrivals $780, cotton 1862 bales; seed cot
ton, ~ bags; cotton, seed. bl.37l sacks: clean
rice 2s3 bbls: rough rice. 1922 sacks sugar |
SlTd hhds; molasses, 1899 bbs: oil cake, 1851
sacks oil cake meal 17l55 sacks and cotton
seed OIL 900 bbe.
AN OLD VETERAN.
Among the Chas. Morgans passengers from
here last Wednesday was Capt. Isaac Wright.
one of the Oldest living SteambOatmen, whose
experience and recOlectiQns of a life on the
river run back sixty, odd years. Fortunate
here, we give the substance of conversation
hurriedly taken down: ] commenced boating ,
IN 1915; made several trips with fiat9oats from
years 1916, 1917 and 1918. walked through from
New Orleans to LOuisville three times. Our !
ton where we took the NatcheE trace through ,
the Indian Nation, and we often had to fight our
way through them. CONTINUED tiatboating I'M 6
|
Red ,riyer with boat called the Natchitoches. c
We ran from Natchez to Natchitoches.
,Natchitoches in 1924 was great business s
river. There was q large Mexican trade carried
on at this time. The Nlexicans would come In
with hundreds Of pack mules, loaded with
specie. buffalo robes, tongues and peltries:
they would take In return dry goods. etc. Nat
chitoches then had considerable Mexican
population,
In 1895 ran on the steamboat Dolphin as nj 4
lot. Capt, 7. +. ktmhall at this time, had B
steamboat called the Beaver. running to New 0
Orleans--about the only one that ran through, n
:, In 1926 and Capt George Quincy came down
through the Bon Dieu in skin. The Bon Dieu
did not become navigable for steamboats, until H.
about the year 1882. when the water began to cut
anf Ie rvers 1n That yeaT nr0us
In 1926 Capt Waters and myself, with the as %
sistance of the planters. bought q, boat called h
Natchez. When this boat was loaded with cot l.;
ton We had to lash logs alongside of her to keep -
her from turning over. 81
: In 1877 we had the Miami. also the Florence. b
Her engines were geared like those of a saw .,
mill, She had wooden shafts for her water "a 9,
wheels.
In 1889 ran on the Tigress. We had q large
cargo OF gunpowder on her up tlip for the +o
United States army on the Sabine. and unfor
plantation, at that time Smiths. ~
In 1882 made the, first steamboat trip W Red u
This was then the foot of the great raft. We p
ook up some 500 or $40 Norwegian or German III
'olonists. This colony was under the manage In
nent of DIR. Baum, of Louisville. KY. They set III
led the lands on both sides Of the river. oppO-
lite Loggy Bayou. The cOlonists, from the
summer heat and the effects Of the climate. died
dod or ram aS{ to the
Ugh lands. J
$685. 1884, 1885 and 1886 In 1888 | made the first X
rip as pilot of the Brian BOroimhe. Capt. Rufe =
edwards, through the great Red River raft, as M
hat time Collins Bluff. This bluff is Just g.
b99ye the head Of Bayou Pierre 1t was an b.
shreveport was shortly after this founded by tic
APT, H. NJ Shreye and others. II
In 1889 went above the raft into upper Red W
liver as high up as the ChOctaw and ChickHsaW 20
ations-a wild country at that time. From de
$40 up to 1860 commanded and piloted many ga
oats IN Red river h For the R4st fifteen years
Almost blind. live near Troy. Indiana, where A
have fine farm: ! come to New, Orleans NJ
learly every winter to be among my old friends. H
leave this day for home; will come back next no
winter, If living. | think there are but few as la
lave walked from New Orleans to Louisville.
The st. Francis Belle leaves daily at 1870 q. NJ la,
rom Bienyille9 street for Westwego, running in ~
o IlI5 with the NeW Orleans and Texas tai
The fleet Belle, in place Of the Blue Wing No. to
leaves to-day at 10 o'clock a. m. for the uupar
cast to the Ashland plantation. J. A. Com ro
took in command, Geo. NJ. Woods clerk. do
The reliable mary Ida. J. a. Ruiz in COM
pper coast to BEN Tureaud's plantation. MIR.
"a. Nicolle has charge of the office
The Ouachita Belle. John c. Lbano master.
H. MossOp clerk. leaves to-day promptly at
2. m. for Bayou Sara. Baton Rouge Plaque or,
line and all coast landings.
The Natchez. Y. ?. Leathers master J. F fe,
Iuse clerk, leaves to-day at ., N. for Yicks-
urR and all mail landings. luI
The splendid steamer st. Mary, Joe Daferes
laster, E. Ntcolle clerk leaves to-day at u. M
)r the coast and Bayou Lafourche, through to
aurel Valley.
The regular weekly independent Red River
arE at Az A
harlet clerk is receiving to leave to-day at COZ
m. for Shreveport. l
The New Bart Able Richard Sinnott master. to
go. Hami ton clerk, is receiving this morning
leave to-day at y. m, promptly. for AleXan- Goa
ria Grand EcOre and Shreveport.
The New Orleans and RED River TrauspOrta-
on Company 5 steamer Danube Charles Thorn CE
command, c. w. Drown clerk is receiving to W.
ave to-day at .. N. for Shreveport.
THE ASSUMPTION. \
The weekly packet Assumption left Shreve- Mo
)rt Wednesday, May 2" 1878, at 1880 .. m one Po
lie behind the beautiful blue Danube and i'm Al
ediately after she backed out she challenged &