The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-03
RIVER NEWS.
s OFFICE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT.
Wednesday. April 3, 1878.

Wednesday April Q. 1873
Arrivals.
Ounchta Belle. st. Mary. Golden Rule. St.
John J. II. Hanna. Wild dazelle.
Departures.
Martha, Mary Ida, st. MARY. II, e. Leo. A. e.
Donnally. James Howard.
Tn Arrive.
Gov Allen, Bayou Sara: st. Mary. Eva, Henry
srete Lnfourehe: Isabel Lower Coast: Golden
civ Cincinnati; Belle of Shreveport. Common
wealth. St. Louis; Maria Louise, Red river;
Belle. Mary Ida, Upper Coast; hatie' oreeh-
vile. o,o,,du and with every in.
dication Of rain before it clears.
business showed slight Improvement; IN.
- Mr.. Willie Cam n having gone 70 L2alsVl I
Lyon has taken Mods place on theJ ohn wilson i..
Capt. John T. Hail. so well known IN wy river or
Valiey,last season, is now the book keeper OF
the New Orleans Pleayune. We congratulae
our contemporary for tho ACQUISITION % on npd
HALLS services as he Is u very chphble ana
worthy man. and sincerely hope the change
may prove to him pleasant one. ms can can, pre-
mise from personal experience ,at n'S Ss moral
ton with newspaper VIII cohu"co W h'' "'''
and mental welfarel
The Thompson Dean lays up. -.z.a,.1,,,,
Coal To steamboats was advanced yesterday to
two hundred and Ave more bales of cotton
have been brought ha the ra1rn the
chinery will be taken OUT ,,.,us
Capt. Cbnrlle Arthur is in Mobile. -,
4. VI
the agents Of the n. e.. Lee.
The A. g. Donnally had a fine trip OF people
out but light freight. part OF which was Do
The Moie Moore was announced to leave for
st Louis last evening, though she had no steam
up when we left the LANDING :,u and Ind =, ,ew
passengers. Her freight list we were unable 10
9Th The Charles Morgan leaves Cincinnati satur-
o'Tfhi e Teusas leaves for the Tensns and Macon
To-day and the W. j. Poitevent on Saturday,
~" The he CLARA S., leaving to-day. takes freight
for ali points on the Ouaehita ms high as BAYOU
tnads By Capt Wen wei and and IS No steam
' The Col. A. P. Kouns,. leaving for Red river
The steamer John H. Hanna, F. A. Blanks
master, leaves to- day at D. m. Tor Ouachlta
The Ouachita Belle. for all coast and town
landings to Bayou Sara. Is the regular packet
The Bertha, NJ. Kenison in command, leaves
Saturday for the Opelousas.
The feet Katie leaves TOMORROW for all town
and mail landings to Greenvilie.
The Assumption leaves To-Day. as USUAL. at IL
M, for the Lafourche;
The Henry Tete will arrive 70. ng ut ana 1et t
Assumption have always on the iandlhg. heao
Of Bienville street, d clerk to receive freight.
The New Orleans and Red River TRANSPORTS
zion Company's steamer Maria Louise Is the
Saturday, packet for shFe yer 1ou,s
Vile and New Orleans packet line, q. L. shin.
kle in command. W. r.. Shaw clerk. arrived
Monday night aud leaves to,,morrow at ; .. m
The Golden Rule is one of the best boats on The
river In every particular. and offers every in
dgeement for an exceedingly PeHsant FTP COM
mand. will arrive tomorrow and leave Satur-
The regular through Bayou Bartholomew
nm
Dunbar clerk. leaves to-day at .. n connect
Ing with the light draft steamer d. Stein. for
poTRhs e ST. Fr Fra Belle leaves daily at 80
from Bienville street for Westwego. running In
connection with the New Orleans and Texas
The Belle, in place Of the Blue Wing No. 3. J.
A. Comstock master. leaves this 10 a. m. for Ben
Tureauds. Dopaldsonville and the Ashland
planta ion, Ascension parish. Messrs. Wood
and Dean clerks.
The daylight passenger packet Wild Gaz ,le
John Hamilton master. q. Il. Holmes clerk
leaves this II a. IN. promptly for the upper
coast through to Magnolia store
The Assumption leaves today at u m. Tor
Thibodaux. returning to leave again Saturday
7. A. Charlet commands. N, H. Dupuis and Joe
Lagrsue clerks.
j. II. Mossop clerk. leaves to-day promptly at 5
p. m. for Bayou Sara, Baton Rouge and all coast
The Regular semi-weekly coast and Baton
Rouge packet st John. J. p McElroy master,
leaves to-day at p. "a.
Tensas. L. " Cooley master. H. Moason clerk.
is receiving to leave to-day ats p. m.
The regular Black and BTuf +, river packet Era lr
No. 10. Tom TAYLOR master. 3. T. Goodwin clerk,
leaves to- day sure at .. NJ.
The New Orleans and Red River Transporta,-
ton Companys United states I mail steamer W g9
sail clerk leaves to-day ut p. m. without fail.
for Shreveport.
i. A. Ruiz master. will arrive this evening and
will return to- morrow at 10 a. IN. The Mary is
a daylight boat. ,,., e.... -,
steamer Katie j. M. White master. Curt Holmes
clerk is receiving to leave o,morrow at .. m.
for Vicksburg. dreenvile and mail landings.
by Telegraph
v1cKsBuRG, April ITO G. G. Wayne: The
Golden City will arrive at daylight Thursday
morning and leave Saturday e j. B. HEdLER.
CINCINNATI. April River Il 4, feet 10 inches
and stationary: Mea.neF ps albbh f crpudg anu
Vile; Tatum from Pittsburg. and Rhoads from
ST. Louis, Departures his evening: Hudson
ST. LOUIS. April Weather clear and warmer.
Louis from frankfort Mcdonald from Clinton.
The eG Belle s.. Louis for frankfort Rob Roy for
Keokuk, Grand Tower for Vicksburg, Petrol
for Burlington, Helena for the Mountains. and
Lady Lee for Peoria, leave to-day. The new
Missouri dry dock began operations yesterday.
Exchange Clippings.
Cincinnati Commercial, March 81:
A host of workmen are busily engaged in
completing the new iron steamer building by
G. T. Dumont Esq. for Capt. John +. Kranz, of
New Orleans. 1t is o very fine piece OF marine
architecture. and will prove big card for Gin
cinnati and Dumont in Southern waters. She is
being constructed entirely for the use of excur-
sionists. She will ply between New Orleans and
Grand Isle. the latter being pleasure resort Of
Southern notoriety about seventy miles from
the Crescent City. Her hull is entirely Of iron.
no piece of wood of the smallest dimensions
six water-tight compartments, which render
sinking almost matter of impossibility. She
hold. and now draws but twelve inches of water.
She has two double-fue steel boilers, made by
Tudor, 40 inches in diameter and 26 feet long:
Her cylinders will be 16 inches in diameter and
feet stroke. She has two iron skegg rudders
and one balance rudder. Her wheel will be OF
iron except the buckets.
The cylinder frames and tenders, and, in