The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-05-31
Telegraphed to the +" Crescent
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River, Steamboats, and Markets.
LOUISVILLE, May 3d. P. x-The River was !,
rising slowly, with six feet seven inches water in
the Canal. -.
Weather extremely warm and sultry.
Arrived yesterday, steamer Silas Wright from
New Orleans. tt
Hay was selling at eleven dollars and fifty cents
per ton; Rio Coffee, ten and quarter Sugai,
(common) five and three quarters Fair, six and
a quarter to six and half; Mess Pork, fourteen |
dollars; Clear Sides, nine cents; Shoulders six |
and half; Ribbed Sides, eight and half cents
Tobacco, sales firm, at two dollars and forty cents
to eight dollars.
| Freights to New Orleans, twenty to twenty-five
and half for pound freights, and fifty cents per
barrel for Pork. les
NASHVILLE May 80, P. M-We have had con-
siderable rain-Cumberland River rising slowly
nearly three feet to the mouth-some prospect Of
more rain.
Cotton in active demand, but few holders willing
to sell at present rates.
River too low for New Orleans steamers.
Steamers Jamestown, America, Cherokee and
Mohican, lying at Paducah. 1..-
Destructive Fire.
The town of Gainesville, Tenn was visited by
a destructive fire on Wednesday evening. The
principal Buildings consumed were the property Of
Mr.. Barkesdale and Mr.. Peacher, and were occu-
) pied as dry goods stores. They were insured for
$4,000 in the Mutual Insurance office, Nashville.
r MEXICAN ARcHITEcTuRE.--Ac correspondent oil
i the Providence Journal, writing from Ell Paso
gives the following account of the materials used
in the architectural works of the Mexicans of tina
o vicinity:
"The Mexicans have commenced making bricks
or adobes; it is a species of manufacture, the ease
j. and simplicity Of which well agree with native
a Incidence. The requisites are, in the first place
,r the material, which is earth. This is obtained
proper quality, almost anywhere in the valley, ant
as the labor of Transporting the adobes after the!
made is to be avoided, they establish the brcl
+ yard near where the article is to be consumed II
Or towns the earth is taken from the streets, whic
ut in consequence much lower than the foundation
of the houses. The tools needed in the manufac
ture simple enough, being a mould, which is
IN simple wooden frame, and hand barrow for carry
4 ing the mud formed Of piece Of raw hide stretche
e. across four sticks. level spot Of ground is en-
lit closed by rude brush fence. Inc earth, mike
!, with water to the proper consisence, with tn
y addition of some chopped straw, is brought to tn
In spot. TIE workman lays the mould upon tn
e. ground, fills it with the mud, roughly levels tn
al top with his hands, slips up the mould, and goe
as on with the next.
Al "The adobes are allowed to dry in the posto
in which they left by the mould until fri
H. enough to allow of being lifted without cracking
they are then turned upon the edge, and the dryn
o. comprehensive whole process requiring from 80
so days, according to the weather. The bricks al
no usually about Is inches long, by IL wide and fo'
20 thick. They are laid with mud, and the building
en- constructed with them last very well, if proper
.ro repaired after each rain. Garden walls col
led structed of the same material, and built in
of very expeditions manner. A frame Of two sid
ar and one end is filled with the mud, which is cor
co pacted by pounding, the frame is then drawn alor
100 that the open end just la the part last moulde
VI and the process repeated. In this way wall
ON any length is built in entire piece its
er. ton costs little else than the labor and when WI
ns built will last for twenty years. Sometimes t
nId twigs of mezquite and other prickly shrubs a
nv fixed in the top Of the wall its upper surface
Ell thckly planted with prickly pear and presents
an spinous array which effecually keeps the mach
self claoes from the fruit"