The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-26
. hoax Your. correspondent has heard that
an kastern capitalist, Vanderbilt. has the con
| traOt 10 carry fine mail dnilu hat uann May Or

. hoax Your correspondent has bsara that
an Eastern capitalist. Vanderbilt. has the con
tract TO carry the mail daily between New Or
leans and Bayou RI, and that for that purpose
two steamers are TO be built of more than i5uble
the proportions Of the Price contracts 800
feet length with 10 feet beam to carry low
pressure engines Of 80 inches diameter. TO aver
age 70 miles an hour. While not vsurhing for
me stat ement az abso utely true, we ean asser r.
me other contract. The IT Louis Republichn,
y credited with asserting. on the authority u
m o,d boatman. referring to last mail ser
Louis and New Orleans The trips have boon
made IN less than four days as haye a. aeoys 1
stated. thus dissipaing that fatlacy 81 the nld
boatman. La the oden time 1t was thought
i've ~ days Itar Yet II II was done Mex It was deem5d
an absurdlty to try to make the trip In less
Than eight days. yet the Tuseqr?ra ace e}
could not be made in less than seven
asys, but the E1idolpht a mode a ".T
the trip under seven days. In 1893 the PostofTlee
Depari mont offered premium q $500 ~ go,d
t. he 9wners Of me st Ros TO MAKE sss he rP
oinnati and Louisville Mail Line accomplished
was repeated made ID less thar I'VE days. and
the Eclipse and shotwaif made II In less than
four and bar DAYS. That the trip to ". Louis
student NV Orleans, Ras demoppstrated
under the true theory good model and ample
power rightly applied. and he has incidentally
named the boat that can do II. Whether fast
boats wi be. profitable or not must be deter
mines! by thu boatp1en; and the public; The
the bhatmen should pull together. md, IL they
their punctuality. @. Fl. o.
Especial to the Democrat
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The weather is cloudy with Indications II rain
Wind northeast. Arrived: Colorado from vieks-
burg Departed: James Howard for New Or
grain, Tor New Orleans. The new steamer City
81 Greenvile arrived Mt Cairo ut o'clock this
morning. twenty three hours out from Louis
morning, and. after receiving her outfit. viii
take har place In tho line leaving next week
The Howard was drawing six feet when leaving
hetween here and Cairo. and her cabin was full
# messengers. The Annie =. Silver begins to
qad he ~ an tbe w eays she
1ay Business dull. w. t. A.
MEspHIa. March a5.-Tbe Golden Rule passed
down TO. day, loaded Hat. Tho Golden City
she added TOO bales If cottr N here
100 empty barrels and 900 feet walnut lumber.
t nef Err f ovssha 5ong cotton % he Golden
raining and the river Ia rising. Business In fair.
by Telegraph
CAIRO, March 25.-Arriysd Laura Davis from
he Ohio river. City Of Greenvlle from Louis
cans. Gold Dust and Lioness for st. Louis. City
u Greenyllle and Laura Davis for st. Louis. |
The Weather IL fHir and pleasant
PITTsBURo, March 2b-Ths river ia . feet o |
inches and falling. The weather il clear and
,ool.
MEMPHIS. March 2bThe river liz rising Ar |
rived: Vint Sbibks from Cincinnati Golden |
Jity from New Orleans. Weather cloudy.
CINCINNATI. March 2b. Weather clear and
pleasant. River rising With 80 feet In the chan
lal. The Lee leaves MT 3 D. m. for Evansvills |
md the Golden Grown for New Orleans.
VICKsBURu. March 24.-To Brock ett Il Carter |
= Magazine street: Steamer Henry Frank will |
md the bends Thursday the twenty seventh |
Instant J. i. HICKS. Master.