The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-02

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The weather yesterday was very unpleasant
On tho landing-eiondy. threatening and es-
BUSINESS was but little better than It was on
Monday. The Golden Hule got Oh for The Ohio
with moderate freight and thirty-hye passen-
The John Hanna reports the Ouaehita falling
M w WY down nhe proe aso w ,e hew e
Cured last week, from pneumonia ut bis hons
he agypt gana a ay a ieg ,l riyar
pilot and captain. and was last on the City Of
augusta, as nlgtt,
The John Hanna arrived yesterday morn
Inv from the 0uHehltn. and will return to-day
as usual taking freight for al points through
The Golden Grown and The Raven and burgess.
bs r2 as Y aa9 aa 4 sve also the
Don't forget that the fazoo leaves to-day Tor
boats and two barges re. sumt ton during the
month Of March, twenty Ave boats and three
batges.
from Bayou VarmiIlion, rssbipped BY the
Steamer Exchanges from. Harvsy's canal, was
Among those eW who visited liz andng yeser
day 70 witness. tbs punt trial WIS George
Lord. md while waiting tor lis appearance ne
the Danube. Noticing that his trends face
wore q bfaad grin which the same is peculiar.
be realized that he mud been q id. and sating
that he had business out IN town. stood MT
upon the order Of his going. but lett ut onte. OF
course aaorg n.s wi, aeay H. p, 81 th5 w,o
GaivinE I'D leave Tomorrow, as usual. for
Based Ga news received from Beeuf river by
Capt Hamilton. 1t II very probable that he Eta
No. TO will leave saturday.
Mr. e TnpEar asant oF the yis
Katyaid, running Ia connection with the n q.
and 7 HaiIroad, js getting up tariff .of rates.
YIN ananEs fte aga ,s e ta IL b e, 81
Rouge and return WILL DC placed at Y low figure
and the privilege Of stopping gf ut four POINTS
esc !, way n Wl Pc given NJ ~ Office T
another column.
he Paris q. Brown Of the Southern Trans
poftatiOn Company Alexander Halliday mas
ter. Chris. &. Young clerk. ID receiv no 10 leave
Tomorrow for Cincinnati. The Brown has ex-
cellent Communications and we commend both
trip by way IL the river.
The excursion Anchor Line steamer Com
clerk, leaves to-day at s 3. IN. positively for
1t Louis Attention IL called 10 the advertise
ments LII another column.
"Reminiscences.
IAN interesting letter from Capt Thos Moore,
written for the New Otlsans Democrat
WIS born on the banks Of the Ohio In 1907.
and from my boyhood was on the river. j com
trips we're mads from Pttaburg to Nashville.
whore ut that time we generally sold our bouts
and walsed , baek tour homes distance q tlye
hundred miles. The country through which
we passed was almost y wilderness, aud we
often encountered On the route other buatmen,
aana na rtrna n9g ha me- w. H. msW ~
fifteen hundred miles. They had to mass
through The Choctaw and Oniekasaw tribes Of
Indians, and often had to fight them to keep
from being robbed.
The first steamboat have any knowledge Of
Was the Ennterp5lse built II sis by oapt y
and was the first boat to make the trip from
Pittsburg 70 New Orleans a NJ return, whl b
wheeler. with high pressure engine, and arn
under the impression Tint Ii WIS also the first
application a of hig ,t pressure "a samboata as
leans and one other had q condo slug engine
built on the plan Of Boulton Watts. Of Scot
land.
ia the years 1890 and al bonte were built
after the model Of ships: they had great depth
Of holt and very little beam Many Of them.
after they were launched. had 10 have falae
sides put on to keep them from turning over
The machinery OF these boats WINS generally
single engine patented by Oliver Evans Near
ly all OF them were sideWhealers
In 1894 / learned the maeainists trade. In
Pttabnrg shop. where most Of the engines of
those days we're built.
The steamboats, built from 1873 to 1894 were
the seauviua Etna. Orleans. Washington. Har
IIiett, Buffalo. Kentucky. Constitution. Iov.
Shelby, Vesta. Gen Jackson, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Louisiana Napoleon. Geo. Madison aud Frank
10. The laigest In Tonnage was the Washing
ton tor, ~ tons; Tho smallest, the Loui lana. lo2
tons: tho Orleans had IL tonnage of ga tons
their total tonnage amounted 10 s642 tons.
, Ba.We , i is43 and 1892. the following boats
tn the order named. Pennsylvania Eclipse.
Rambler, Lafayette. Chen. Brown. william
Penn, Boliysr ,Lltberrator. Paul JONES. Pocahan
LaGrsnga, Red Rover Missouri. Potomac.
Phoenix, Talma. Huron, Corn; New Jersey, Pc
lope. Michigan. Mohawk. Trans ort. Fame.
Oornet. Chester This total forage was about
In the year 1sle | commenced engineering
on STEAMBOATS,.
The principal captains Of lhoae days were
Baldwin, Hugh FIndren, Blaahiorl. Paul. Alax
ander. Scott and Steele. ana others whose
names 90 not recolleet. Ali Of these have long
The stsamboamen Of 1926 formed a society
ifor social and PLEASANT amusement called the
rs nag raass tba IL T Saa BIT Th.a TIE
sleigh. some thirty feet long. ten or tw4lve
wide. and after the shape Ct q steamboat, with
ae They man t With eapan two a pas
two enKineers and NIL the other officers. with |
deck crew, to heave the lead. etc. also bani
of music, aud decorated with the Gags Of all the
steamers She made wonderful show. With
ten or twelve horses. with riders as the pro
polling power. they would 80 flying through
the city causing the greatest enthusiasm wind
ing up ut the Black Horse Tavern with grand
dance. The only man now, living. that know
81. who witnessed this display OF the SnaR
Marines. ii Burd Paris, Of your, city.
Ia 1892 the great steamer Mediterranean was
built at the yard OF Sam. Walker d Go. She
was the largest and finest boat on tile Western
waters. She was l74feet long. 30 feet beam viii
q II foot hold. and carried 500 tons. She mad tho
frst fine upper cabin. $50 feet long and contain
ing 100 open berths and staterooms: her cur
tains and upholstery were the wonder and 40
miraiJ of the day. She had q 2so horse power
engine. was owned by Mckee Clark i % com
mnanded by Capt. Shrodes, and ran between
Louisville and New Orleans. The MOHAWK,
another large brat, was built this same year at
Beaver. Pa. TO run Ia the Tennessee river trade
ana was rated a 5000 buIe boat: her hold was
like ships. IA feet deep She had sing O.
Hued boilers and one engine. 60 inches Ia am |
sfter 81 feet stroke. one cabia on the lower |
fI r. laIy nSa no YIN ha