New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-04-23

PrrrsBuReH, April %
There Is q feet inches water in the channel here and
| the river is falling
.~s4 e CINcIsrArI April %.
There is not much activity in the Flour market, and
the sales today only 100 bales at So 1908 IS
y Dbl Whisky is declining and sales of 700 bbls have
been made at l41sc q gallon Provisions are Inactive
caused by advices from Neworleans Bacon shoulders
re held at 5 cents v Ii. Lard in kegs, loo. n tb.
The River Still Rising.
CINCINNATI, April %.
The river Is within three and half feet of the last
great rise and still swelling Mt the rate of two and
half inches per hour The weather is cloudy and cool
There rain last night
LOUISVILLE, April %.
The river here is rising fast do not anticipate as
high water as we have had The weather is cloudy and
cool Telegraph line east is out of order.
The steamboats, Saxon, Falcon and Gendy Burke have
arrived to-day from NewOrleans and the Saxon has de-
parted again for that port have the James Miln
gar and Cncinnatus
This evening the river is rising at the of two inches
per hour but is still IS feet below the late high water
mark.
The Great F'reshets at the North.
-. es...- PHILADELPHIA. April %
The freshets through Maryland and Virginia exceed
anything ever before known An immense number of
houses have been swept off and the loss of property
cacuable very large number of persons known
been drowned and 1t is thought that the list is not
yet half completed 1t will take at least year repair
the damage done to the Chesapeake and Ohio canal
PARoDI THE ORLEANS THEArRE--We have already
noticed that Mmlle Parod and the other distinguished
artists who accompany her. appear the Orleans tonight
in the grand opera of Norma" We take pleasure in
transferring to columns the following from the Mobile
Register:
Such combination of excellence surrounds Parodi
herself the brilliant centre-mght well attract the
crowded and fashionable assemblage that graced the
Music Hall last night 1t was indeed one of the rare
occasions when beauty waved her grateful welcome
to highly polished art and where science and skill found
us truthful sympathy in their delighted judges as pulse
and heart that beat together.
The fat of the world-not own @til judglnent-has
decreed Parodi the lyric wreath proudly worn by
Pasta and never since the abdcaon of that queen of
song has so legal successor appeared Parodi is
In the concert but half her power is exercised
yet even that moety is mighty the full sway of auy
the Judgment like the capves of Cytherea enchained
with flowers and it is disparagement her to say
that Sgnora Parodi challenges the strctest criticism and
is fully equal to sustain her gage if out-do all ex
pectation. -
Among her many gems in last nights concert it would
be hard to give preference to the sustained beauty Of
Casta Diva" the pathos of the duet from the Staba
Mater or to the brillianee of the finale Somnal
bula" All were sung none but she sing them
Pretty Patti sung three four ballads good English
besides joining in all the Duets in which her sweet con-
trao voice finely blended with the pure soprano of Pa
rodi Patti is charming creature Her pretty face and
rs beat and say pity patti Had Srakosch done moth
ing on his paything, the piano. except his Magic Bell
or Mska Hauser confined his notes to the Carnival "
alone there had been chance sweet remembrance
cal bouquet redoent of sweets that was mposs
BILE to pick out the most fragrant flower.