New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-06-02
River Items

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We clip from the st. Louis Republican of the
9th ult the following items of river news:
| The officers of the Luella down yesterday
morning from the Desmoines River, report the
Badger State sunk in five to six feet water, three
miles below 0ttumwa. Her cargo was a valu-
able one and will be nearly all lost The boat,
it is thought, can be raised when the water falls
1t seems that the Badger State, after passing
through the lock at Thom's dam, found the cur
| rent so strong as very nearly to carry the boat
back over the dam While contending with the
current, the boat struck a dry tree, from which
a limb fell. killing man instantly. Surprising
! the boat would go back over the dam, several
persons sprsng overheard, two Of whom were
drowned.
The river here was about at stand yester-
| day morning, but commenced rising in the af
ternoon, The rise is coming out of the Mis-
souri,. The Cataract, the last boat from La
sale, reports the Illinois to be falling quite fast
from Lasalle down. The Upper Mississippi is
also falling; the last boats down from Galena
and Dubuque, yesterday afternoon, found but
four and Il half feet on the Lower Rapids aud
five and half to six feet from thence to Du-
buque.
The steamers. Atlantic and Paul Anderson
came into collision on Tuesday evening last at
Cairo, by which accident the latter boat had her
stern badly shattered Several deck passengers
who were sleeping on the guard at the time,
were thrown into the river, but were rescued
before drowning The damage to the Paul An
derson will amount to from two hundred TO three
hundred dollars
The Cambridge packet Kate Swinney, arrived
from the Missouri River yesterday evening, with
one Of the largest cargoes received from that
river this season. 1t consisted in part of about
casks bacon, 200 bhls -four, 1870 sacks wheat,
5SS bales hemp, 800 sacks corn, 70 hhds tobacco,
and large amount Of every other kind of pro-
duce usually brought from that river
The steamer Royal Arch, with barge in tow,
came down from Dubuque yesterday, with the
largest cargo of provisions that we have noticed
from that region this season. She had on board
30 ,241 pieces, or 3l4 tons bulk meat, and about
1900 bbls pork and lard. The weight of the en-
tire load is about $50 tons.
The steamer Wisconsin, in yesterday from
Galena, brought down n very large load for Il
small boat. She had in her hold and in barge
which she had in tow, 2772 sacks grain, 1916
pigs lead, 400 bbls -four, 81 casks bacon, and 49,
bbls and % kegs lard.
There are now nine of our largest class New
Orleans steamers in port and advertised for
New Orleans 81
LATE FROM UTAH-We find in the St. Louis
papers of the 10Th ult. the following telegraphic
dispatches
MdepeRdcnce, May 25.-Maiors Hoare and
Blake, and Lieutenants Robinson, Allen and
Evans, and other officers, with ten privates
reached Fort Leavenworth day on two ago
having lett Santa Ee on the Sd instant They |
come to attend a court martial Of enc Of their |
number. Accompanying the party were AL |
bert Smith, Guitterres, and one or two from Ell |
Paso and Chihuahua They bring little news |
OF interest other than that received by the mail
On their way in they met large parties of emf
grants to California from Arkansas, and points |
south, with immense herds of cattle The Paw |
nees were little troublesome to them They |
had run off two hundred head of stock for Col. |
Hill, of Battsville, Arkansas and killed one of |
his teamsters.
Our place is now pretty quiet, Few emigrarts
are arriving or departing, Quite number are
getting ready for the plains in the direction of |
Santa Fe and chihuahua. Messrs. John Potts
and tlotte, for the last named place, leave this
week.
Independence, May 26.-The Salt Lake mail
reached here last evening, the quickest trip to
Laramie recorded-twenty- five days from here
to that post and back again. 1t was with
good deal of difficulty the carrier from the val
ley to Laranee could get along. Snow in the
very deep. He thought two or three
Get deep, and in places, fourteen feet Between /
Laramie and kearney, great deal of rain had
aleh, IN consequence OF which all the streams
we're high. The mail party found it quite col
IL times no Indians on the route except a few
Jheyennes and Sioux. Emigrating parties
were first met five miles this side Of Laramie
md from that point to the boundary line there
lad passed kearny, up to May 20, II o'clock,
hree thousand three hundred and forty eight
nen, nine hundred and five women, one thous- f
nd three hundred and twenty wagons, thirty a
lur thousand one hundred and fifty one cattle t
ne thousand six hundred and ninety.one t
orses, seven hundred and forty mules, and I
welve hundred sheep, The bulk of the emil v
rants were met this side of Kearny, with large 5
erds of cattle and toeks Of sheep No sickness /
n the route of any kind One man belonging f
Cunninghams party, was drowned at Big I
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