The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-03-10

bear testimony, being in most cases, arrahgeu VII
far more economical plan. The worst OF 1t Is on
the Western steamboats,, that every body CUPS down
the victuals with railroad speed. With that ols-
tressine want of pleasant means to pass away
time which all travellers must have experienced, IL
it not rather astonishing that the steamboat
or dinner has to be despatched in five minutes
Dnrinq the day, passengers amllse themselves IN
xarious yavs. Cheap novels are in great demand,
and a late newspaper is gem almost beyond price,
From time to time the boat stops, either tor WOOD
or freight; sometimes to pick up passenger VINO
halls from the shore At the stopping places on the
Kentucky side, appear an immense number Oh iiieiS'
bows old farmers and tall, strapping, comedy young
men. Atthe stopping places on the Northern sfore'
-, .oa-,s tn be more thrift and activity The
shore each wav. is much of it barren OF interest;
.,t H., ,ariod m,,st arrive when cultivation will
bend j, nearly all to mans use Here and there,
alrs,dv ia a comfortable house and, at intervals,
there are tracts of welltlled land, particularly on
the Ohio line
In the evening, (the reader must remember that
it il not for evening only, but sometimes for ten
or twelve) the passenger spends his time according
to fancy In our boat, the St Cloud, the two large
cabin table. were sometimes surrounded by readers
and the stove by smokers and takers. The ladies
appeared to have rather dull time of it i'll their
place Most of them would sit listlessly for hours
doing nothins-and, as far az could learn, saying
nothing!
Among the principal incidents of the voyage was
crossing the falls of the Ohio, just below Louisville.
Our boat was very deeply laden and though there
is canal around this ticklish pass, our captain,
with Western hardihood, determined to go over the
"boiling place" For my own part, didn't know
till afterwards. but that it was every hour oc-
currence. The bottom of the boat grated harshly
more than once on the stones beneath, and the
pilots showed plainly that they did not feel alto
gether as calm as summer morning. We passed
over, however, in perfect safety. The OHIO here
has a fall of many feet In the course of a mile.
Does not the perfection to which engineering has
been brought afford some means of remedying this
ugly part of the river. Besides the canal around
on the Kentucky side the Indiana Legislature has
lately granted charter for one on its shore, too.
From Louisville down, one passes through long
stretch of monotonous country-nOt varied at all
sometimes for dozens of miles. The Ohio retains
its distinctive character of mud till you get to the
very end of of it,
Cairo, at the junction of the Mississippi pointed
our passage into the great Father of Waters. I'M
mense sums of money have been spent to make
Cairo something like what a place with such a
name ought to be. But with the exception of its
position, which is rhrivalled for business purposes
every thing about it seems unfortunate. The point
on which it is situated is low and liable to be
flowed OF every high flood Besides, it is unwhol-
somey wet, at the best Ut is doubtful whether
cairo will ever be any "great shakes" except in
the way Of ague.