New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-08-04

The Alexandria Red Riyer) Republican Of
Saturday last, says:
!" The river continues to fall and we shall
soon have to report the close of its navigation
above this place.
The Memphis Wing, of Friday last, says:
$ The river is falling slowly at this point.
Cumberland river was falling slowly yesterday
| with three feet water on the Shoals So say
our dispatches
=" No boats had passed up or down during the
twenty-tour hours ending at ten o'clock last
night
| st. Francis river had risen about three feet.
Inst Monday, and was still rising There had
| been heavy rains all through that portion of
| Arkansas.
| . The reports from the Ohio river are not as
favorable this morning. The river is falling
very rapidly at Cincinnati and Louisville. 1t
| IS probable that it will be lower than it has
| been before this season, and navigation will be
moro difficult, as the rise has been enough tofill
up the old channel
: Some two or three hundred bales of cotton
have IN at the landing for several days past
ava - shipment for New Orleans"
The Louisville Courier Of the 18th ult has
the following paragraphs
" The Cape May arrived from Paducah yes,
terday with a portion of the freight of the
Chancellor, from New Orleans
. The North America, that had been laid up
at New Albany since the 21st Of June, raised
steam yesterday for Cincinnati
''The packet Memphis Capt. Mann, is adyer-
tised for New Orleans to-day at ten o'clock
. We are informed that Capt Tom Wright, Of
Madison, and others, have contracted over at
New Albany, for new boat about 265 feet in
| length, with 81 or 50 inch cylinders
| :. A new boat is being built in the vicinity Of
| Pittsburgh, at Shousetowu, for the Cincinnati
trade. She is nearly 300 feet long, 35 feet beam
and feet hold Nelson q Co are building her
machinery two cylinders 33 inches in diane
| tea, with feet stroke; boilers j. feet long, Il
inches in diameter
-. S Chenoweth starts to New Orleans this
morning, positively, at ten o'clock, from Ship
! pingport just below the mouth Of the canal
! where she has been laid up for some time All
| her freight is engaged, and she goes out without
delay
| The Louisville Courier Of the 25th ult says
We have the qualification to announce the
important fact that the Ohio river, in this vicin.
lty, IS on the swell, having actually risen some
or inches since Saturday, here at the head
of the Falls which is equal to p inches at Port
land. On the Falls, through the Pass, last
evening, there were - inches water, and in the
canal 34 feet water. The weather continues
clear and pleasantly warm.
AT Cincinnati Saturday night the river was
at stand, and the Madison boat, in yesterday,
reports the river at n stand there, and the
Kentucky river falling The mail boat from
cincinnati yesterday reports that the river at
ortsmouth had risen feet and our dispatches
port a rumorcd rise Of 10 feet water in the
kuuawha.
private dispatch received here Saturday
reports rise in the Kanswha, and adds that a
fleet Of coal boats had started Tor Louisville
This, together with the rise from the tributaries
along the lower Ohio, will give an improved
Stage Of navigation to the river, and materially
relieve business and increase travel
We learn from Mr.. Voolfolk. clerk Of the
General Pike, that the iycr is slowly swelling
at Rale'ch bar, which was the shoalest point in
the river, with three feet water on the BAR at
points above there were fully feet water
Since the late rains Salt river has been rour
ing out, and the river below rose : feet. Il is
again receding, having fallen about foot.