New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-11-09

hard te tell how much more the river VIII rise hefe
AT dark last evening the whole rise was from seven
" FFsipbts 10 New Orleans have further declined to
per Dbl for -four and 25c per loo lbs. for weight
freight
The Memphis Ledger Of the Sd says:
The river at this point is rising, but very slowly.
Dispatches from Cincinnati report the Ohio to have
risen fourteen inches 10 fortyeight hours up to last
evening there were six feet in the channel AT Pitts
burg yesterday the river was falling. There was
slight rise at Louisville. In consequence Of heavy
rains heavy rise is anticipated in the Ohio. The
Cumberland river is rising rapidly. The weather is
mild and cloudy, with fair indications Of rain.
Business on the levee is comparatively active. A
gOodly number OF steamboats, are being laden and
laden. Drays are in brisk demand in hauling cotton
from the different sheds.
The steamer D. R. Carroll yesterday shipped 400
bales of cotton for New Orleans the Daniel Boone
$50 bales for the same port, and the Creole Belle 700
bales The Polar Star took $50 bales, via St. Louis,
for the East. Total, 1900 bales.
The total shipments of cotton from this point dur
ing the month amounts to 1858 bales as follows
To New Orleans 80 ,204 bales, St. Louis l,49l, Ohio
river 1918 The shipments for the month Of Septem-
Der were ,255 bales. Total shipments for the two
months, 54,026 bales.
Shipments Of cotton from this port charged at
the rate Of 81 90 per bale. This is the regular price
Of our best boats.
The Cincinnati Commercial of the ID says
The weather was cloudy during the morning, with
rain throughout the afternoon and night Inc
weather was cloudy and the river receding at Pitts
burr last night with only 80 inches in the channel
A mountain rise is reported in the Monongahela yet
we do not credit the statement Exclusive dispatches
to the Commercial received last night, only report
40 inches at Blennerhassett and the steamer Liberty,
bound from Wheeling for Cincinnati, in crippled
condition. at Blennerhassett. Here, the river has
risen from to inches during the twenty-four hours
ending last night with 4 feet full hence to Louisville,
according to the soundngs of Capt Phillips, pilot on
the mail steamer Kentucky. We have no change OF
note to record relative to the condition OF the lower
Ohio Dispatches report rain at Nashville yesterday,
but no improvement in the Cumberland. With mod
crate offerings and increased unnage we quote freight
as follows:
Ne,g orleans.-Whisky and oil, 81 so; -four soc;
pork 81 25; baeon 50c, per 100 and butter cheese,
etc, Soc per loo; horses, SIS per head keg lard,
Soc; empty barrels, 35c
The little Louisa, No 2, cleared for New Orleans
Saturday, with 40 tuns furniture, bale rope twine,
cheese, whisky etc. She enters the Ouachita trade,
plying between Camden and Trenton, in connection
with the Dir. Burlington, the latter being regular
New Orleans and 0uaebita packet.
The Gen. Pike also started for New Orleans last
evening" with about 500 tuns in the boat and barge
the bulk of her cargo being pork lard, oil heel and
bacon but no whisky, for a wonder. She had the
Marsh Troupe for Memphis.
The Louisville Courier Of the I'd says
/ The river last evening commenced rising again,
after falling about an inch and had risen half an inch
at the head of the falls with every prospect of good
rise in this quarter The weather was varying in the
a heavy rain last night, and furious storm, with
much thunder and driving wind, which doubt,
was the clearing up storm, and we may look for clear,
cold weather to-day.
The river at Cincinnati up to noon yesterday had
risen fourteen inches and il the rain had extended up
the river, there will be good stage OF water fully
five feet in the lower Ohio without the aid Of Pitts
burg. It appears to be deserted well as benighted
dTiedup region, and winter may set in before rise
comes from that quarter The present season is very
much like 1904, when the low water prevailed at
Pttsburg all the fall and continued until winter set
in and fr0ze the river over causing coal to be very
scarce, and prices of course, extraordinarily high.
The rains of yesterday and last night must have
extended to Kentucky river, which if it rises will
make good stage Of water here in a day or two.
In the canal last evening there were scant four feet
water, and the mail boats report about four feet
i the flats.
The Tempest arrived from Cairo yesterday, and her
officers report fully four feet the bars to Evansville
and over three feet at Cumberland the shoalest
| in the lower Ohio.
Freights at Cairo for the South were tolerably
abundant, and boats were plenty too, but owing to
the unusually low stage OF the lower Mississippi the
rates ruled rather high, as follows
i Pound freights 50 to 40 cents -four and potatoes
PET Dbl, 30 cents; whisky per Dbl. 10 cents oil per
Dbl, 90 cents, and tobacco per hid, IS.
Il The prevailing rates from this port are but little
more than the above quotations from Cairo, aud
Of course freghs at these rates cannot stand reship
Y ment
The following we take from the Brownsville Clip
per:
Il TIE "DIANA."-This is the name of large new
i steamer that left our wharf this "Wednesday morn
ing bound for the Texan trade, to run from Calves
ton to Houston.
The Diana is commanded, and we believe princi,
Rally il not entirely owned by Capt. Sterritt, of
| Texas.
The st. Louis Democrat Of the ID inst has the fol-
lowing
Rock ISLAND BRDGE.-Meeting of Chamber of
4 Commerce, held Monday, Nov. l. 1853, the commit
tee having charge Of the suit against the R. Bridge,
made the following report:
The committee appointed by the Chamber of Com
merce of ST. Louis to take all legal means have the
obstruction to the free navigation Of the Mississippi
river BY the Rock Island bridge removed, beg leave
to report
That impressed with the magnitude Of the work
entrusted to their charge and realizing the almost in
eaiculabe evils which the continuance of the obstruc
ton would entail upon the commerce and prosperity
/ Of St Louis, yonr committee have untiringly and
perseVerngly devoted their best Judgment and ener.
ges in the attempt TO obey the instruction of the
Chamber
Your committee soon after entering upon the dis.
charge of their duties ascertaned from personal
interviews and by correspondence with attorneys in
this and other States-that it absolutely neGes
sary to have permanently in their employ m engineer
to make photographic surveys, who had had expert
enee in ike suits. The attorneys in all cases declin-
ing to take charge of the surveys to collect and
prepare the necessary testimony thus deyolyng these
duties upon your committee or their agent
Your committee, after due deiberatOB and inquiry,
appointed Mn. j. w. Bissel, and your committee
have no hesitation in saying that MI Bissel has at.
tended faithfully to his duties-dspayng in their
discharge great energy, tact and ability Your com
mttee refer you to the statement Alr. Bisse will
make for information to the exact state ut the
present time of the legal proceedings instituted in
this case.
Your committee cannot refrain from urging upon
this chamber upon the citizens Of st. Louis and upon
the people OF the different towns and cities upon the
Mississippi and Ohio rivers the absolute necessity Of
continued and unremed exertions untlthis nuisance
shall be finally abated.
Permit the bridge at Rock Island to stand. and in
few years your noble riyer-thc noblest in the
wnrd-will be rendered useless far nnyigable pur.
poses. Let the court order the bridge removed and
restore to us the rights guaranteed in the treaties Of
cession under which we acquired the territory wa
tered by the Mississippi, and the imagination can
scarcely conceive the extent OF the which
will be borne on its bosom from the fertile valleys
upon its hanks.
All OF which is respectfully submitted.
ID. 4, JANUARY,
A. q. EDWARDS,
ALBERT PEARCE,
r. NJ. FuNKHoUsER,
N. WALL.
On motion of Henry Ames the report was accepted
and ordered to be published with the following resou
ton:
ResolUed, That the measures thus far taken by the
4 present committee are hereby approved, and this
Chamber pledges itself to said committee to sustain
them in future in order to bring this suit to success
full termination.
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