The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-20
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NEew Orleans ............ 10
Omaha. ID 70
ptttsburg ..s...'..,'.-.... 70
st. Louis ......s.......... 10 70
VI Eio F9S1ii d 3 .
sBeiow high water mark of 1874. Indicates
rise tIndieates fall
There was no rain yesterday, and the day was
aYga s1rllo one; AM
Capt E r. Perry. who has been on visit to
Little Rock, returned yesterday morning.
Thursday night. No freight.
The Natchez has been taken up to the vicinity
ExCUBsIoN.-The Ouachita Belle. leaving this
p takes PASSENGERS up and returns them EN-
the low sum Of five dollars.
TEE NATcHEz.-We mentioned Sunday that
this famous steamer was then on ner Tires MuI-
ing she completed 1t and has now retired for
brief season to undergo repairs, painting, etc.
made forty -seven trips in the Vicksburg trade,
and has brought to the city during this time
ton seed, 5O19 sacks oil cake 1880 sacks cotton
seed meal, 2464 barrels cotton seed oil. 228 bales
domestic 42S sacks rice and 1900 packages mis-
boat been more successfully RON or better man.
aged. During her lifetime she has never met
with an accident Of the slightest kind, lost a
except through stress OF weather. No boat has
ever been more regular, and we doubt II any
has ever proved as profitable. Capt. Leathers
is model steamboatman, and ably assisted
by one of the best crews ever got together, some
Of whom have been with him for twenty five
years, has made his boat one of the best known
and most popular steamers that ever hoated.
May bis shadow and that of his great boat never
The Yazoo Valley arrived Thursday night and
Is the mail packet to-day for Vicksburg, in
place Of the Natchez Capt Frank Beck, ,Jr.
s. Leathers, Charles Grice and Henry Wilson
The St. Francis Belle leaves daily at 7:30 q. m.
from Bienville street for Westwego. running in
connection with the New Orleans and Texas
railroad to Donaldsonville.
g. leaves to- day at II O'Clock a. m. for the upper
coast to the Ashland plantation. J. A. Com
The reabe Mary eq fda a. RUE in
per coast to Ben Tureaud's plantation. Mr.. Ed.
The splendid steamer st. Mary Joe Dalferes
master E. Nicolle clerk, leaves to-day at 8 D. m.
for the coast and Bayou Lafourche. through to
The New Bart Able Richard sinnott, master,
Geo. Hamilton clerk, is receiving to leave to-
day at 8 p. m. promptly for Alexandria and
The United States mail packet Ouaehita Belle.
in place of J. w. Cannon. John @. Libano mas
ter. Thos. Howard clerk, leaves to-day promptly
at y. m. for Bayou Sara. Baton Rouge. Plaque
mine and all coast lanrings.
packet sumption, p. A. Chariot master, N. H.
Dupuis clerk, leaves as usual to-day at D. M
The New Orleans and Red River Transpo. ia
Z ton Company's steamer Bonnie Lee. NJ L. SEQ
veil master, VIM Dillon clerk. leaves to-day at
D. m. for Shreveport.
Exchange Clippings, July n.
Cincinnati Commercial:
Elias Ehler has commenced work on the new
cabin of the U. P. Schenek. He will haye It
completed in sixty days Capt Frank Hicks
new boat, in course of construction by Alex.
Perry. will be flu ly planked by Saturday next.
Capt. Mccormack, of the South, ia ~ the city,
negotiating for the purchase of the Mary Eliza
beth If consummated. the Eliz beth will have
her machinery altered. her battery Of boilers
Gonna proposes to take her south to ply in
some bayou. Capt Jack Blanks. Major John
D. Adams and Col Chichester are on their way
river mail contracts.
Cincinnati Times:
We noticed few days SINCE contemplated temp tbnt
ever turned wheel in the West. to make two
trips to New Orleans and return per month.
We have been favored with some particulars in
regard to her dimensions. etc.. viz, Length
800 feet; beam, A feet: depth of hold IN feet
four. engines with cylinders 30 inches In d.
and the other forward. She will have an ample
battery of steel boilers. etc.; full cabin, with
dining and breakfast. rooms, one on either side
of the main cabin, between the wheel-houses
SO that meals can be served at all times during
the day and night to suit the habits and con;
venience Of passengers The average speed
will be sixteen miles an hour up stream, and II
is expected to have her leave here every two
weeks. This enterprise Is understood to be
supported by one or more Of our wealthy capt
tallsts. and II consummated may create q revo-
luton In western navigation.
paducah News:
The Mississippi is declining so fast that Capt
aro With eW Sys at to a avs danger g9as o he
ing caught above the chain. Capt. John New
man. pilot Of the Fisk, will take the soundings
over the rocks to- day, and II he thinks the White
had best go to morrow. why, she will have tc
go, but she will go Wednesday or Thursday
any way we regret very much much that she could
furnished, as we should in that case have haG
the biggest excursion ever made to Cairo and
on the greatest steamer ever put afloat. AS 1t Ii
the cabin Is piled up with furniture and Capt
Hukell the steward, says he isn't prepared tt
give good accommodations to himself and foql
go down on the White to Cairo when she does
go out and give full ,descriptfan Of how. she
performs when we get back Capt. John New
man will put her through and over the Crane
Chain, and Is the best one in commission for tht
business as he knows every, rock there. and
White draws a little less than seven feet at the
stern as she now lies, but ought to have good
ten feet In the deepest place to go out on, owing
to her extreme width and the dip of her power
CAIRO, July 1s.-The J.. M. White arrived this
evening from Paducah, for completion here.
St. Louis Republican:
RED RIVER.
The river which once entered the Mississippi
205 miles above New Orleans. and was one Of
the most profitable commercial tributaries tt
that city, Is now to a great extent. lost t6Aher
and of little profit elsewhere. With its many
tributaries, il brought into the lap of the Ores
cent City the commercial wealth of one of the
most fertile valleys of the United States. From
Old river. through which 1t flows into the Mis-
takes its start and finds its way through I'm
mense swamps. lakes. etc., into the Gulf Of
Mexico at BerwEcks Bay: This bayou, say forty
present volume and almost filed with the logs
which had been cut from Red river raft b.
raft. AT that period the Old river was one
mile In width and deep from shore to shore
the largest class OF boats could be moored
length-twenty miles What is it now? Only
about sixty feet. wide and twelve or fifteen
inches in depth at low water; the Atchafalaya
is at present broad and deep. with a heavy
rapid current There i y not steamboat afloat