New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-05-20
Yiber Sutslligtnts.
CREscEsr oYy1cE, No 10,

Nl0er SnlelllgfNfe.
CRESCENT o'1 Fd. W. No = G T. }ss street,
General Remarks The Weather Bust |
ness-Thc Rivers Rising Above-Are we |
to have Another Rise !-Cl1pplngH from
our Exchanges-The Lower TYibataries- |
The Lucy Observation-Disclosures Yesterday
Departures To-day, etc. gsa
The weather yesterday "opened" cloudy. Early in
the morning shower Of rain accompanied with light
ming and thunder passed over the city, which de-
uged and cleaned the gntters impaired cooler tnge
to the atmosphere, and laid low the DUST for all Of
which favors we the part of our constituency"
express hearteltthanks. Business for the season.
moderately active the leyee yesterday, quite
respectable number Of boats leaving and arriving
The river was on a stand. From above, we learn
that the Missouri and upper Mississippi rivers are |
rising rapidly.
The river at Vicksburg was, on the 18th inst, still
receding. For the twenty.four hours ending at 6
O'clock of the previous evening, it had fallen three
fourths Of inch, making the total decline five and
threefourth inches At Natchez, says the Courier of
the l7th the riveris falling gradually but continually;
the total fall up to last evening being upwards of six
inches.
The river was rising slowly at Helena on Saturday,
the water being about three feet below the mark of
1858, and two feet below the highest water reached
the present season.
The Cumberland river is falling, with five to six
feet of water on Harpeth shoals.
From passenger on the Belfast we learn that
fears entertained all along the river that the worst
of the high water of 1859 is still to come. The late
general rise in the upper tributaries 1.-TWO weeks
since) had not been felt farther down than Memphis,
where the water had risen about eight inches in
81. Al. "a
five miles below, the river fell day after day during
the continuance of the rise at Memphis and the sup
position is that the surplus rise is distributed over
the st. Francis bottom, and will soon find its way
into the Mississippi through the mouth of that tribu-
tary, and crossing the Mississippi between that point
and Helena enter the Yazoo bottoms and come out
above Vicksburg. This, it is said, was the manner
in which the March food found its way into the
lower Mississippi In support of this theory we note
the fact that the st. Francis river is now rising,
while OF Memphis it is reported stationary. Should
it prove correct and the present rise in the Missouri
and upper Mississippi continue for few days, we
may not as yet have passed the crisis.
| The Fort Smith (Ark.) Times says the steamer
Violet, coming to the first bend in the river above
that place recently, got into pocket where she now
remains. surrounded by sandbars, waiting for rise
/
Lucy Holcombe, came to the landing yesterday.
preparatory to taking her place in the Vicksburg
Mail Line, in place Of the Natchez which will be laid
up for the summer. The Lucy has gone through a
course of sprouts and has come out from her retire
ment in all her pristine freshness and beauty, having
been thoroughly renovated and repainted.
The following were the arrivals yesterday:
The Louisville packet Eclipse, Captain Harry I.
SPOTS, with bales cotton $50 hhds. tobacco and
large amount of other produce. She leaves again to-
| day at p NJ. We thank Messrs Bell and Judge,
| her clerks, for favors.
| The Memphis packet Belfast, Capt. W. Wray, with
ga bales cotton, andeaves again to-day. We thank
| MIR. q. j. Booker, her clerk for favors.
| The Red river packet Sallie Robinson, Capt. Dyas
Power, with l46 bales cotton, and leaves again on
| Saturday.
The Attakapas packet T. D. Hine, Capt. ]. j. At
kinson with l04 bids sugar, Is bb!s. and % half
| bbls moasses and leaves again Saturday.
The Bayou Sara packet @. D. Jr., Capt. V. B. Ba.
rance, with 8 bales cotton, Sc hhds sugar and SIS
| bbs. molusses.
The Fort Adams packet Golden Age, Capt.S Heno,
with 1859 bales cotton 50 hhds. sugar and S53 bbls.
molasses, and leaves again on Saturday.
The yicksburg packet Natchez Capt. T. P. Leath.
ers, with 20S bales cotton The Natchez will lay up
| for the present.
The Railroad Line packet Champion, Capt. E. B.
Moore, with good trip, and leaves again on Tues
day. We thank Duvall W. Young, her clerk, for
| favors.
The ouachta packet R. W. McRae, Capt J. W.
Tobiu with 40 bales cotton and leaves again on Sat
| urday, We thank Mr.. G. P Work, her clerk fo1
favors.
| The St. Louis Republican of the l4th says:
The river here fell two inches on Thursday night
Yesterday morning it commenced rising, and up to
dark had swollen three inches This rise is doubtless
local. and originates from the late heavy rains. From
this cause the river may swell six inches more. 1t
was rising slowly last evening. Rain fell constantly
on Thursday night, and it continued undated until
noon yesterday, when II ceased win an occasional
sprinkle during the afternoon. 1t was cloudy last
evening, and the air had become quite COOL We
have no change to report in any OF the upper rivers
The Missouri and Illinois are falling slowly. There
are five feet water in the channel of the Missouri from
St. Joseph down. The Upper Mississippi is still re
ported rising from St. Paul and keokuk, and slowly
below Keokuk. Business was dull on the levee yes
terday.
ding prices towt &c. to loo. for weight freight, ant
, l5c per Dbl. for pork and Hour.
At Cairo on the 18th the river was falling at th
rate of 20 inches in "a hours.
, The Cincinnati Commercial of the l4th says:
The weather was warm and cloudy yesterday
The river continues to recede from Pittsburgh t
Cairo. There only four feet at Glass House jus
below Pittsburgh and several steamers have laid,u
at that point owing to low water Here, it has falle
eight inches during the past twenty.four hour
Capt. Lockhart has found it necessary to close th
! canal in order to remove the mud which had a.
cumulated to the depth Of three feet. We suppose
will keep it open during the night, however, for th
passage of boats--the day being occupied in remoN
ing the mre. Owing to low water the rates OF freigt
4 have advanced for Pittsburgh.
% The Louisville Courier OF the 18th says:
The river was falling very slowly yesterday, will
four feet two inches water in the pass and SIX zee
Il two inches in the canal by the mark During tnt
"a previous twentyfour hours the river at the mead
:. The falls had receded two inches The weather con
tnues clear and quite warm; almost too warm for the
"a season.
It The Memphis Avalanche of the 10th inst. says
The river here became stationary on Friday night
AFTER having risen within four inches OF the grea
, freshet of 1853 and on Saturday commenced to re
- cede slowly going down that day about half ar
& inch. Up to o'clock last evening the water hat
fallen one and half inches The fall will doubles
0 be more rapid to-day. We learn from boats tina
came down last night that the water was going dow
, very fast the entire distance between this and ST
Louis 1t is hoped that the rise now coming out o
the Upper Mississippi, reported by telegraph, vii
. not affect the river here materially.
). From the officers Of tue St. Francis No 8, whic