New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-10-26
NUMBER 1919.
River Intel igence

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We clip the following items from the ST Louis
Intellgencer Of the 18th
| The river opposite this city is about at
stand or rising slowly, with 81 to feet water
! in the channel to Cairo, and about the same
| depth several of the bars below that point
| Weather mild and pleasant.
| HEAVY CARGO OF GRAIN. = The steamer
Hindoo arrived last evening from Keokuk with
| the following cargo: 3,512 sacks oats, 1,60l
| sacks wheat, ,416 sacks corn, 105 sacks beans,
u sacks seed q coils rope, 45 bales hemp, "a
bales hay, hid tobacco, III bbls -four.
The Hindoo snagged one of her barges on the
| way down from Keokuk, and damaged between
| three and four hundred sacks Of grain, princi
| pally oats. protest was entered
We were told that the steamer Gen Gaines,
which arrived here evening before last, has been
purchased by company at St Joseph for a
packet to ply between that place and Council
Bluffs. The General is rather an aged steamer,
but will no doubt do pretty well for a new
TT Tlde and q new country.
The fine steamer Polar Star, in last night
from st. Joseph, brings light cargo, among
which there are but 50 bales hemp.
The Intelligencer gives the cargo Of the
Georgetown, recently sunk, as follows:
2,035 bbls -four, 100 casks bacon, % hhds
tobacco, 300 bhls pork and lard 600 sacks corn,
| 80 bbls oil, 90 bales hemp, 200 coils bale rope,
300 sacks potatoes, 100 bbls apples, 102 head
cattle, horses and hogs, besides smaller lots of
freight, of which no account was taken by her
| agents.
The boat is owned principally by Messrs
Benedict & Carter, Of Louisville, and her com
mander. Capt Mcpherson She was built in
| 1850, at cost of S36, 900, and is believed to
be nearly, if not fully, insured. The cargo is
, mostly covered by insurance in the offices Of
this city. Messrs Hewitt, Roe s. Co. are
| 1or Gf CHI lx,l har-
over 1000 barrels on board dispatch we
. .. saw says she is sunk in nine feet water, and
broken or was breaking in two. She was
: greatly careeped to the larboard side. The
same dispatch states that the captain was get
! ting off the deck load, the most Of which would
be saved, partially in a damaged condition
All in the hold, with the exception of tigh
barrels, will of course be more or less injured
The Louisville Courier of the 18th inst, ha
the following items:
The river continues slowly falling, with bu
two feet nineinches water in the Canal by tn
mark last evening. The weather yesterday wa
: clear and pleasant; but during the previous
night there was very hard frost.
: The Flag, as was stated in the Courier yes
! terday, lies sunk in three and half feet water
on Flint Island Bar, where she sunk on Sunday
night
q On Cumberland Bar but thirty inches water
lS TeIbTteIs anu II Is also stated tnat the uan
a had given way. This, however, must be incor.
rect, as we received a dispatch yesterday from
Smithland, from Captain g. A. Fuller, who has
a charge of the river improvements, which states
TINT Cumberland Dam has neither broken mol
settled. The dispatch also states that there arr
q five feet water in the Kentucky Chute at tn,
} head of the island, and three feet water at tn,
f foot of the island. This contradicts the report
n that the Dam was broken, and there being bu
thirty inches water on the Bar.
y The following are from the Pittsburgh Com
e mercial Journal of the 10th inst: ~
The steamboat engineers have made fur
! ther advance in their wages of $25 per month
II This makes an advance of $50 during the pas
i ten days. They have set the first engineers +
b $3.50 per month and found the second to Sl26
&c What next -..-4 4@-.-.-.
J: The steamer. Orion was sold at Wheeling I
Messrs II. d. Dinslow and VIM. Howard,
Louisville, for $4,000. .,,s. f-e.,ts1. i !. .,
VI Capt. Kinefelter's new packet at Shousetov
s' Is progressing rapidly. She is ready for launc
'i. ing but, as the water is too low to bring her
u this place, she will remain on the stocks un
Gu we have a rise. The cabin, however, is progrt
an sing rapidly so there is no loss of time T
y engines are nearly ready, and such pair
e : seldom seen on boats the Western waters.
u THREE STEAMBOATS, BURNED AT ST.. LOUIS
is The steamers Robert Campbell, Montauk al
N Lunette, were burned at st. Louis on the morr
'. ing Of the 18th inst. From the Herald of I'll
q 18th we extract the following account:
- = Between eight and nine o'clock yesterda
" " morning the steamer Montauk was discovere
y to be on fire. 1t broke out in the after deck
- room, and in an incredibly short space of tim
= was wrapped in one sheet of flame. So rapi
~ y, was the work of destruction carried on by tn
20 deyouring element, that the officers, passenger
~ and crew scarcely had time to escape with thei
~ lives. They effected this, however: but lei
y every thing else behind. The flames from tn
- Montauk soon communicated to the Roher
- Campbell, lying below. and the Lunette. above
- both Of which boats, together with the ill fate
~ Montauk, were burnt to the waters edge in Les
~ ~ than an hour The Montauk was receivin
!, freight for the Missouri river; but, owing to
= scarcity of shipments in that direction, had bu
- small portion of her cargo aboard-perhap
- about thirty tons n Corwith s. Co, of Galena
- ~ own the boat, and are insured for $4,000 Sh
- lately built at Pittsburgh, and cost So 00C
~ 10 The books and papers of the boat We're saved
~ but nothing else, Capt Glein, the clerk, officer
~ ~ and crew lost all ther baggage and effects.
" The Robert Campbell burned almost simulta
u neously with the Montauk She was also boun
- for the Missouri, and had but little freight
y. board--about twenty five or thirty tons.
~ was destined for Kansas and ST. Joseph. TIL
u boat was owned by Capt. McCioy and Mr. Ne
30 30 fntyre and one of the engineers, and was in
~ sured for $4,000 in four offices and agencies
~ this city--the Etna, Columbia, Lumberman'
40 40 and Citizens, $500 each. She was purchase
m ,e a short time ago for $4,000, and had lately un
II dergone repairs TO the amount Of $500 or 5000
-, The books and papers were all lost, and notbin
l. Of any account was saved
80 The Lunette was the last to take fire, and wa
' ao lying Immediately above the Montauk. She wa
- loading for the Upper Mississippi, and had II
a. al tons of freight on board, chiefly consigned I
" ~ firms in st, Paul. The boat was owned by he
70 master, Capt. John b. Davis, and insured 70
~ $4,000, The loss in her cargo will be very heavy
a ~ more than both of the others together
be A TRAIN OF AFFLICrIoNs.--It was stated We!
le terday that lady passenger the steame
e. Robert Campbell, barely escaped burning up
lie the conhagration Of Thursday Nearly a