On 26th of February, 1866, the Leviathan, Luna, Petona, and Dictator were burned at the wharf at St. Louis with an estimated loss of $750, 000. By this terrible catastrophe more than two thousand lives were lost. But with what probable success of passing, "no fellow can tell. " They carry 24, 000 bushels and draw 7 feet when loaded.
During the greater portion of this period, the work of river improvement, snagging the river, was carried on by the United States engineers, and the State thus relieved from all except levee work. Oil||barrels||4, 200|. Finally one of the managers bristled up to him and said: "Who is you any way? At daylight the next morning she got up steam, and on starting the engine, it was found she would not move ahead, but kept swinging around. Bowers, of Henderson, Kentucky, and run in the Louisville and Henderson trade. Then it is possible, and there seems no good reason why it may not be probable, that barge companies will try the use of iron, or steel, in barges. Census-taking of a midwest capital community. When the experimental boat had been finally laid up, as aforesaid, Fitch, in a letter to Mr. Rittenhouse, wrote: "It would be much easier to carry a first-rate man-of-war by steam than a boat, as we would not be cramped for room, nor would the weight of the machinery be felt. Thus ended the second low water trip on the Ohio River in one year.
376pressure), Philadelphia, (low pressure), Kentuckian, Bonnets, O'Blue, Samson, (without a p), Bellfast, Hudson, Constitution, Huntsman, Red River, Convoy, Scotland, Superior, Cincinnatian (low pressure), Ohio, Chesapeake, Reaper, Polander, Arab, Helen McGregor, Uncle Sam, Tuscarora. Her commander, Capt. The hum of trade was hushed, the levee was a desert. Soon after the close of the war the "St. Louis & Miami Packet Company" was organized under the laws of the State of Illinois and had their official office at East St. Louis, business office on a wharf-boat at St. What a movement is here of human beings, each intent upon his own well being, and acting in obedience to his own views of self interest! We hear of occasional "strikes" among these operatives, which are denounced by the public in unmeasured terms. It was accompanied by three other United States steamers and nine keel boats, bearing a detachment of government troops. Census-taking of a midwest capital project. On the following Sunday, about 12 o'clock, midnight, while the steamer was ascending the Ohio, and when near the mouth of Deer Creek, about one hundred and twenty-five miles below Louisville, a severe shock was felt by the persons on board, and it was soon ascertained that the boat had struck some object under the surface of the water.
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The river Nile has but few branches but many mouths; hence the mouths were worked out to make canals of them, and one of these canals was about 350 miles long, or about the size of the Erie Canal. He passed away in the zenith of his usefulness, in the city of New York, February 24th, 1815, in the fiftieth year of his age. The cost was estimated at $996, 000. The two are so intimately connected, it is difficult to consider the one without the other. If correctly reported in The Republic's special of July 2 from Washington, " he (Mr. Plumb) handled the engineer corps without gloves, and declared they knew nothing whatever about civil engineering. His account of the cession — the consultation between Napoleon and his minister — and of his remarks and motives, forms one of the most instructive and interesting chapters of modern history. Census-taking of a midwest capital investissement. In this sentiment your commercial editor seems also to sympathize. Next to Fulton, the country owes a vast debt of gratitude to Capt. Among the passengers I call to mind, Mrs. Russel, — mother of Dick the comedian, — her daughter, Mrs. Farren, then just married to "old man Farren; "Miss Petre, once the pride of the stage; Mrs. Ben DeBar, — together with DeBar, Farren and Mr. Parsons, who afterwards became a methodist preacher of much eloquence. Unfortunately all travelers are not philosophers and it soon became apparent that we had the elements of discord on board, and that without great care and forbearance on the part of the officers of the boat an open rupture was inevitable. 259Saint Francis and Yazoo bottoms were not protected by levees, and both were deeply flooded. My first experience as a river man was on this boat in capacity.
The names of the boats (some of them) owned by the company are somewhat familiar to the present generation. IN 1792, the office of Falls Pilot was created by law in consonance with the following preamble to the act, "Whereas great inconveniences have been experienced and many boats lost in attempting to pass the rapids of the Ohio, for the want of a pilot, and from persons offering their services to strangers to act as pilots, by no means qualified for this business. Shreve, who gives information of a large and frequented road which runs nearly due east from this place and strikes one of the branches of the Canadian. Sugar||Hogsheads||73, 300||65, 970||77, 000||90{||6, 286, 000|. The great demand for transportation after the second year of the Civil War, for moving troops and munitions of war by the government, induced the building of a large number of boats and at fabulous prices. The crimes of Mason are many and atrocious. The quickest time, it is said, ever made from New Orleans to Cincinnati was five days and eighteen hours, in 1843, by the Duke of Orleans. Yet this has been done. Leaving St. Louis and going up the Mississippi, fifty years has made but little change in the appearance of the country or of the river, until Keokuk is reached. Captain E. : Please find enclosed memorandum of names of the principal steamboats I have been engaged on as master or pilot since my connection with the waters of the Mississippi Valley. 1840||Persia||23||1862||Monongahela||4|. I tried my best to persuade the captain to name his boat some other name, and gave him my reasons, going over a large number of boats whose name had commenced with the letter M. He laughed at what he called a superstitious notion of mine and called his boat the Metamora.
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560Frank Smith and Reese Pritchard, called S. Tucker, valued at two or three thousand dollars. He was at this time a large holder of gas stock in the Laclede Gas Company of St. Louis, and was made President of the Company immediately on his resignation of the Presidency of the Anchor Line, where he now is, enjoying good health and the earnings of his successful career as a boatman for thirty years, having handled successfully as much, or more, steamboat property as any one man in the West. Rhode Island||733, 613|. At last the interruption of trade became so gross and the danger to life so eminent that the Governor-General of Louisiana was constrained to take more effective steps for the suppression of the bandits. Isaac Hooper; steamer Luda, Capt. The question that naturally suggests itself here is: Why this neglect? "The first steamboat built on the Western waters, " says a writer in the Western Monthly Magazine, "was the Orleans, built at Pittsburg in 1811; there is no account of more than seven or eight, built previously to 1817; from that period they have been rapidly increasing in number, character, model, and style of workmanship, until 1825, when two or three boats built about that period were declared by common consent to be the finest in the world. McCune was made President, and T. Griffith, Secretary. But as the water is always high at such times there need be no difficulty in keeping the river open at that point by moving a government snag boat, or any other boat, through it as often as might be found necessary and at small expense. She was afterwards sold at sheriff's sale, at Louisville, for $800. It was during this period that the river country fared its best. At the time of the attack, there were some five hundred persons on board, including passengers, about sixty of whom were women and children. All the rest was a dreary waste, over which the bear and the crocodile held their sway, unless interrupted by the occasional sojourn of an Indian tribe. After Bienville had made his exploration of the Mississippi, but before New Orleans had been founded, or indeed dreamt of, they had made several settlements within the limits of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana.
It was believed an old grudge existed that was to be settled in that way whenever the parties met. Soon after this organization, or about 1857-8, the boats in the trade between St. Paul decided it was necessary to do something to protect themselves against the excessive competition existing between them, and decided to make a joint arrangement and run their boats regularly, and on stated days — dividing the time and the business as judiciously and as fairly as they could. Her dimensions were: Length 250 feet, 31 feet beam, 8 1/2 feet hold. City Belle, burned, Red River. The boat was completely equipped for defense and was manned by a few troops. All having the privilege of a listener felt they were very well paid for any loss of time for such purpose. Crossing the wide prairies, and directing their steps to the Rocky Mountains, 69they remain months and even years in those savage wilds, living in the open air, without shelter, with no food but such game as the wilderness affords, eaten without bread or salt, setting their traps for beaver and otter in the mountain streams, and fighting continually with the grizzly bear and the Indian — their lives are a long series of warfare and watching, of privation and danger. "It took them four or five years to get the canal so boats. Baltic, tow-boat (remodeled), Gen. Van Dorn, commanded by Capt. With my kindest regards and best wishes for your health. The second double engine, Ben Franklin, was built in 1840, made two trips to New Orleans in the winter of 1840-41. The last overflow, which was the worst, being a break in the Macarté Levee, just above the then city limits, but at what is now known as Carrollton, or the seventh municipal district of New Orleans. In 1848, a stock company was formed called the Cincinnati and Maysville Packet Co., two new boats having been built for the trade — Boone, Capt. "The Joseph B. Williams, that arrived at Bayou Sara a few days ago and turned back up the river from that point, brought from the Ohio the largest tow ever handled by a towboat.
We need not pause to inquire whether the honor of the invention is due to Fitch, to Rumsey, or to Fulton, — for that inquiry is not involved in the discussion in which we are now engaged. The whole of her hold below deck, excepting a neat cabin for ladies, and the space occupied for machinery, is appropriated to the cargo. April, 1847, during the Mexican war, Lieut. We republish this as an illustration of the expedients to which the earlier settlers of the Mississippi Valley were compelled to resort in carrying on commerce with the interior. The stockholders being prominent business men and large provision dealers, were not slow to discover that the South needed more than all else, provisions, stock and farming utensils. Ramapo||"||May 4||H. — The levee which was built to protect the town of Harlem and the broad bottom lands opposite the city from overflowing gave way on Saturday night, and a strong current, 10 feet deep, is now running at the rate of 5 or 6 miles an hour over the tracks of the Hannibal and Saint Joseph, Council Bluffs, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, and Wabash roads. The board worked zealously at these two enterprises, making, however, little progress with them, and fifteen years afterwards, complaint was still made about the raft in the Atchafalaya and its obstruction to navigation. Rowan, Esquire, my trusty friend, my beaver hat, shoe, knee and stock buckles, walking stick and spectacles.