New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-03-26
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Crescent OFFICE No 70 Camp .treetl
The Weather Yesterdny- River Rising
Arrival of the New Bayou sara Packet
Full Description-'rhe Daniel Boone Sold
news from Abovr-More Breaks In the
Levees-Red River FaIling-A New Boat
Tor the Ouachitn - Arrivals Yesterday
Departures To-day, ETC., etc.
Yesterday the weather was warm, but no more
than comfortably so. A fine Northery breeze pre-
vailed, and gave an invigoratng tnge to the atnos
phere. Business on the Levee was fair, with an
average number of departures and quite number of
arrivals Both landings were crowded with boats, a
very large number of which are up to leave this
evening. The river was rising again yesterday, and
the current seemed unusaly strong in the river.
The great event of the day on the Levee was the
arrival of Capt. Cottons new boat, which was the
observed of all Observers on the lower landing
She attracted deserved attention.
At Vicksburg, on the oath, the river was rising at
the rate of one inch and quarter in "a hours. A
heavy rain fell in the evening. Business was dull
We learn from the Memphis Avalanche, that the
Daniel Boone was sold on Saturday to j. B. Archer
for the Memphis and New Orleans Packet Company,
for So 100. She will be taken to Paducah and re-
paired, when she will take the place of the Eclipse in
the line.
We clip the following river items from the Mem.
phis Avalanche of Monday:
During the fortyeight hours ending at six O'Clock
last evening the river had fallen about three inches
and was declining In that ratio last night. The river
was then about one foot below the highest point of
last spring rise.
Our accounts from below are really distressing, as
we are constantly receiving the particulars of new
breaks in the evees and consequent overfows.
The first levee has broken at Laconia and the water
has done much damage in that vicinity.
Prentiss, on the Mississippi side is inundated, and
the water is pouring through the crevasse.
The water had become very troublesome at Lewis
Pass, near Australia and much of the country about
the SunaOwer is inundated.
In the vicinity the levee at Donaldsons had
given away, causing great alarm.
snow storm accompanied with high wind swept
over the country, in the ATTITUDES of Louisville and
Cairo on the night of the 18th and 10th insts. Bust
ness was good at St. Louis the 2lst inst the river
stationary The Republican Of the 2ls nst says the
Illinois river is rising rapidly and is bankul. The
upper Mississippi was rising rapidly and the Missouri
falling.
The latest arrivals from Red river all report that
tributary as falling The other tributaries remain as
at last accounts
We were glad to see yesterday Mr.. Robert S. Kirk,
just arrived from Louisville where he has contracted
for a splendid passenger packet for Capt. Geo. H.
Kirk to take the place of the Messenger in the Qua.
chita river. From all accounts she will be one of the
finest and fastest steamers built at Louisville.
ARRIvALs.-The Nashville packet Eastport, Capt.
E. Woods, with 1872 bales cotton, and 399 hhds. of
tobacco.
The Ouachita packet R. W. McRae, Capt Jno W.
Tobin with 1lS0 bales cotton and leaves again this
evening.
The Red river packet D. R. Carroll, Capt W. Kim.
ball, with BIS bales cotton.
The Crosse Tete packet Aline, Capt. W. c. Neal,
with 80 bales cotton, GS htds. sugar and 22O bbls
molasses.
The Saint Louis packet Bluff City, with 249 bales
cotton.
The Red river packet Lecomte, Capt. c. johnson,
with 934 bales cotton and leaves again Tuesday.
The new Bayou Sara packet D. F. Kenner, Capt.
Cotton, from Louisville with 22s hhds tobacco and
leaves next Tuesday for Bayou Sara.
The Saint Louis Railroad packet Imperial, Capt G.
S. Rogers with large trip of freight and passengers
We are indebted to her officers for favors
The Ne Plus Ultra of Steamboat architecture
Captan J. Il. COtton's Nelo Boat-Ihe Duncan f.
kenner.-Captain Cotton has "gone and done it,
Ii Cotton is King of commerce. the result of Captain
Cottons last effort in steamboat building is its con
sort and justly entitled to the cognomen of Queen of
the great Western feeder of conmerce-the Missis
sippi. We had supposed that art had, ere this
exhausted her powers and mechanical ingenuity be-
come satisfied with its attuinments in the field of
improvement-that, in word our steamboat builders
had reached the zenith of their excellence and
launched upon noble rivers the modest possible
specimens of their professional skill. The arrival of
the Duncan F. kenner at our levee yesterday morn
ing, however, converted from our scientific con-
servatsm, and caused us to take broader md more
progressive view of the age live i'm We should
not do justice to the Kenner, nor convey a proper
idea of her beauty and perfectness should we use
less unmistakable expression than we adopt in pro.
nouncng her the finest and most unique specimen of
a floating structure ever behed
AS we approached the boat, for the purpose of
"boarding and viewing with our own eyes the beau
ties we had been informed were to be found within
her peariy sides, we stopped instnctively to gaze
upon the beautiful proportions of her faultless out.
liues-so queenly and majestic did she rest upon the
bosom OF the waters. Like an acknowledged belle
she appeared to realize her peerless supremacy while
yet endeavorng coquettishly to allure the passerby
by the fullest exhibition of her charms and the as
sumption of her most graceful attitudes Impatient
however, to examine her "inner-sef,n we paused bu
for a moment and FASTENED aboard.
1t we were euamorcd with the swan-ke external
appearance of the kenner, what shall we say of her
majestic interior arrangements. We fear TO begin q
detailed description for fear we shall exceed our lin
tied space ere its completion We must, therefore,
content ourselves with the assurance to readers
that it they will take up the Arabian Nights Enter
tliunents and tuln 10 the description of what Allad
din ACCOMPLISHED with the aid of his wonderful lamp
and tie GENT, lhry will be able to gain an idea OF
what Captain Cotton has accomplished with the as