New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-09-20
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MONDAY, September 90 1858.
It is with pleasure we note considerable increase
Daring The past week over the preceding one in the
aauut Of business transacted the levee and this
its e lace Of the epidemic still existing Most Of the
esesk the weather has been very fayorable-clear
eaol and braeng--it must soon cause the fever to
leave usif it continues thus, and We sincerely trust
5t may we observe also that many Of our citizens
ere returning norne
Tue cotton crop is coming in quite freely, and
IaFge number oil boats are now or will soon be en-
gagged, in bringing it to our market from all points on
Che Mississippi As yet none of the tributaries are
navigable for boats Of any size, and all the cotton
comes from the banks of the Father Of Waters we
fgeaict that larger business viii be done here this
season than last if the lower streams are only nayi-
gable long enough to let out the crops. There are
eTeral boats, and fine ones at that, now building,
besides those that being repaired to enter the
santsst for business in Red and 0nachta rivers. We
egast Al may have profitable season In this con-
section We would remark that is probable from the
beginning already made By the contractors for re-
aafing The wharyes that they will soon be ia good
order and ut for use we trust in time for the fall rush
af trades butthey must, we have before said, not
allow any delays to occnr-they should complete
part before commencing another part, thus the ineon-
sentence to the boats will not be as great as ii they
work on all at once.
Our reports relative to the stage OF water in the
Mississippi and tributaries is not very encouraging at
present. at last dates, the 14th, there was 26
5ahes water in the canal at Louisville; on the 18th,
aG ST. Louis, the river was falling: all the upper
rivers ditto; the Missouri had only feet of water
IN The channel. The officers of the Yazoo Belle,
Which arrived from Alexandria the 18th, report
BED river falling fast, with feet of water on the
fals and 80 inches on the bars Before the city the
EiFer continues to reoede, and is now IL feet below
high water mark last year this time it was the
sane ia 1856, it was l2h feet; and in 1856, II feet
below high water mark,
Tue citizens Of Vicksburg, Natchea, and all inter-
mediate towns on the Mississippi, are highly favored
aF having regular line Of the swiftest, finest and
test managed steamers on the Mississippi, running
with great punctuality this season to and from this
city We do not believe the Q. S. mail packets
Psincess Vcksburg and Natehez can be surpassed by
any boats afoat, either in speed, comfort, good
Ewing, n good management; but there are some
others in the trade, or viii be soon, that hard to
beat we ennmerate all; Hereafter every Monday,
the welfknown packet Alice Vivian Capt, Samuel
Aales, and the magnificent steamer Eclipse, Capt |
y. Il SPOTS leave. me Alice vivian commences
her trips today, ana the Eclipse two weeks hence
Every Tuesday the peerless packet Princess, Capt
We Wilson, leaves with the us. mail for Ftcksr
burg also the Magnolia, Capt. q. g. Thomasson.
sFetg "Wednesday the new and splendid steamer
R + Hodge, Capt. Jno' Smoker, leaves, beginning
her trips this week.
every Thursday the new and magnificent packet
Nteksbnrg Capt Jna. w Cannon, leaves with the
". =. mail for Yicksbnrg and Milliken's Bend
Every saturday zoe World-renoWned and popular
Raseet Natehez' Capt IL Il feathers, leaves with