Captain Ames of the Steamboat "Victoria" Disappears, Union Parish Louisiana

Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by Timothy D. Hudson, 1/2005
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Articles from the 'Ouachita Telegraph'

Captain George W. McCranie founded the 'Weekly Telegraph' in Monroe, Ouachita Parish 
beginning in September 1865. In mid-December, he decided to change the name to the 
"Ouachita Telegraph'. The paper continued publication until and the 1890s or later. 
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'Ouachita Telegraph'
7 June 1866
page two
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CAPT. AMES.

    We have waited very patiently for some intelligence from one Captain Ames, who owned a 
very small craft that ran up the D'Arbonne during the winter and who is due us about 
thirty dollars for advertising; but like one of those lost ships now and then sailing 
for ocean's "dark, unfathomed caves,"he left these parts and no tidings from him have ever 
reached us. We read of a family somewhere in New York the members of which are renowned no less 
for their thieving exploits than their successful evasion of the demands of justice. The scene
of their depredations spreads over several counties. Their family cognomen is not published 
to the world; but we strongly incline to the belief that it is, or at any rate, ought to be, 
"Ames" - which opinion might be altered in case the aforesaid Ames will pay his honest debts 
or even assure us he "aims" to do it. If he does not, we "aim" that this paragraph to be a 
ventilation of his rascality.

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Note: I did not find any other mention of Captain Ames in the later issues of this paper.



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