Then the doctor launched more specifically into the affair as related to Nance by the steamboat captain.
It was his first trip after several months spent south looking after the steamboat company's business during the recent yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi.
The rumble of the paddle of a distant steamboat may be heard in melancholy cadence on the summer breezes.
I was joined there by a stranger, who dropped into conversation with me--a brisk young fellow, who said he was born in a town in the interior of Wisconsin, and had never seen a steamboat until a week before.
I took the steamboat the very afternoon the army was put in motion.
Tossing amid the waves, the progress of the steamboat was slow, and we did not reach Racine until after midnight.
Finding at the arsenal a supply of solid shot that would fit the gun, I had it put upon the steamboat Belle, employed to carry my command to the scene of operations, and started up the Columbia River at 2 A.
To comply with this order I proceeded by steamboat down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans, thence by steamer across the Gulf of Mexico to Indianola, Tex.
Blake and his troops came on the steamboat named “Chippewa,” and this was the first time a steamboat ever landed at Fort Benton.
On their arrival there they found that the Indians had crossed the river and had a fight with a small party of men that were guarding some goods that had been taken off a steamboat and piled on the levee.
Dear Sir: I wrote you last from the steamboat Rosebud, coming down the Big Horn in company with General Terry and others on the 25th of July.
It took us sixty-five days to come to Fort Benton from the place where the steamboat landed.
We took passage on a steamboat called the Spread Eagle and landed in Fort Benton ninety days afterwards; and I assure you these days were not spent in picnicking.
All the material and rolling stock was brought by steamboat on the Mississippi.
In 1832 the first steamboat named the ‘Yellowstone,’ arrived at Fort Union.
Those two huge timbers were used in the building of a steamboat that was to be operated on the upper Columbia river.
I left St. Louis the eighth day of May, 1857, on the steamboat “Star of the West.
But at the steamboat landing the case was different.
At the moment the steamboat touched her pier the passengers prepared to spring to the shore, and force had to be used to keep them back until she could be secured.
A brief day devoted to a trip from Sydney to the town of Parametta will well repay the visitor; and to vary the scene one should go thither by steamboat and return by the Sydney and Bathurst Railroad.
The English monthly mail for that part of the world is regularly forwarded from Liverpool to Boston or New York, thence across the continent of America, and by steamboat from San Francisco.
Archer, looking at his watch, saw that there was time to drive to the Parker House before going to the steamboat landing.
The public have more interest in murders and steamboat explosions than in the items of mental and spiritual progress.
Soon the Methodists will be shaking out their tents and packing their lunch-baskets and buying their railroad and steamboat tickets for the camp-meeting grounds.
The water in one place roars like a steamboat discharging its steam.
In respect to perils by water there are the steamboat perils, and those more insidious dangers that come from too free indulgence in the only kind of beverage the wise platformist dares adopt as a steady tipple.
They arrive at the wharf just in time to see the steamboat off, they come in sight of the terminus precisely as the station gates are closing.
In 1829 he began business as a steamboat owner, in the face of opposition so bitter that he lost his last dollar.
Seeing that steam-vessels would soon win supremacy over those carrying sails only, he gave up his fine business to become the captain of a steamboatat one thousand dollars a year.
But it did go up stream, and the boy, who in his youth said there is nothing impossible, had scored a great triumph, and had given to the world the first steamboat that had any practical value.
Parts of the first steamboatever run in America were set up in the vestry of a church in Philadelphia by Fitch.
The entire chain of lakes, river and bay affords a steamboat ride of sixty-eight miles in the round trip.
It is built on the solid rock, near the steamboat landing, and its windows command an extensive prospect, both up and down the river and across the Bay to Westminster Park.
Immediate connection with Steamboat for Round Island, Thousand Island Park, and Westminster Park, arrives Alexandria Bay 5.
The latter is a favorite, and unless the tourist is surfeited with steamboat riding, will be the one generally chosen.
Hill was the Mississippi steamboat agent at one end; at the other, an old Hudson Bay trader, Norman W.
The river steamboat had enjoyed a development in the first few decades of the nineteenth century almost as great as that of the railroad itself.
From his first ferrying project he engaged in other undertakings and laid the foundation of his subsequent fortune in steamboat navigation.
Mannix did not want to attack the steamboat company.
The metropolis, barely glimpsed, made little impression on him, except for the sense of cleanliness he drew from the tall white buildings seen from a Hudson River steamboat in the early morning.
Quad, one of the very successful humorists of the day, both in a literary and financial way, was blown up by a steamboat before he bloomed forth into the full flush and power of success.
One has risen from a tramp until he is wealthy and dyspeptic, and another was blown up on a steamboat before he knew that he was a humorist.
In this respect the voyage of the Anthracite is designed by her owners, we presume, to be an eye-opener for steamboat owners, not only in this country but throughout the world.
Our New York steamboat men, who have to pay so dear for Croton water, will be likely to examine the water tank of the Anthracite with interest.
I walked to the steamboat office, post-office, &c.
Malou, dined alone; and at 1 set off by a steamboat on the Rhine for Koenigswinter, parting from the Christies in the boat.
In relation to steamboat lines, the most efficient remedy is obvious and has been suggested by the Postmaster-General.
Some difficulties have arisen in relation to contracts for the transportation of the mails by railroad and steamboat companies.
At this time there lived at Eastport a man named Hill who had been a steamboat pilot, and he had a son just about my age; so by arrangement I dressed in one of the suits of his son and went with Mr. Hill to the landing.
The steamboat was crowded, and there was a good deal of pushing and squeezing when they reached Greenwich Pier, where most of the passengers were landed.
Of course I shall pay the shilling I owe him for my steamboat fare, I told him so when I said 'good-night.
You are almost a stranger to me, and I feel vexed that you should have had to pay for my steamboat ticket," she said.
There must be something singularly fascinating in this curious pastime of fishing with a hand-line from the jumping-off places of a steamboat or pier.
