New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-06-25
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CRESCENT OFFICE, No. 70 Camp .tree.


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General Remarks-The Weather-Business
| The Great ImperiaIs Fast Trip to Saint
| Louis-Clippings from our Exchauees-
Arrivals neutrality-suspicious. To-Day,
| etc., etc.
Yesterday was warm but pleasant with light
breeze nearly all day. Business was rather dull on
| the landing There were but few departures and
arrivals.
The steamer Woodford will be at the landing this
morning ready to receive, and will positively leave
this evening for Louisville.
Among the arrivals yesterday we noticed the Jesse
K. Bell from Cincinnati, newly equipped in most
| sumptous manner, having recently gone through a
thorough renovation. Her cabin has been tastefullv
arranged and, in fact it is truly superb. Capt Jas
Gormley, her commander, deserves the greatest ac
QUESTION OF praise and merit for the arrangements
recently made. Her passenger accommodations are
of the frstclass, and worthy of the favors Of the
travelling public, to whom we recommend the Jesse
X. Bell. She leaves on Monday next.
We copy the following from the st. Louis Demo.
crat OF the goth in regard to the fast trip of the great
Railroad Line packet Imperial from the cty Of ST.
Louis:
Fast Trip on the Mississippi.-The Missssippi is
famous steamboat race course, and MANY crack
boats have taken advantage, Of proper stage Of
water to exhibit their speed, from the time that
steamboats, first plowed the waters of that mighty
stream. There is a large and magnificent steamer
the plying between this port and New Or.
leans distance i2s5 miles, and it is very gener.
engaged in the trade of the Lower Mississippi This
is question which we cannot decide, and which the
Imperial has not attempted to decide but she has
just completed business trip to this mort which
goes good way to confirm the idea Of her heinz tha
fastest boat. On leaving New Orleans, she had 400
tuns of freight and S67 passengers. During the trim
she lost 6s hours and none of the usual and
arrangements for race had been made II was = |
fast business trip, and no more. Time to Memphis
days 223 hours A hours should be deducted for
repairing doctor and making landings Time to St
Louis, days Is hours, deducting 6a hours lost
time -'''
The st. Louis Democrat of the Goth saws:
On Saturday the river rose one foot here. Tn "a
hours ending at last evening, it sweled one inch
more The upper Mississippi is now falling ali the
way down from Saint Paul The Illinois continues to
decline.
The Cincinnati Gazette of the Goth saws:
The weather during the past 4s hours has hem
showery but pleasant The river opposite this port
is swelling hrisky, and has risen in ALL since our last
ISSUE fully two feet, or during yesterday at the rate
of half an inch per hour.
The Louisville Courier of the 18th says:
The river was about stationary yesterday, or had
risen half an inch in the previous "a hours with fonr
feet one inch water in the canal by the mark. The
weather pleasant and at times cloudy with indi
cations of more rain.
The Kentucky arrived from Memphis early yester
day morning, and from her memorandum We learn
that Cumberland dam is difficult bar to navigation.
with the Nick Thomas hard aground on the dam
The channel of the river at Cumberland dam il
changing, as we learn from Capt Lamb, of the Ken.
tncky, who found very stiff current below the dam.
which had completely washed away the sand bar
that had been two feet out of water week ago. and
the deepest water, or channel running over to the
Illinois shore or down to the foot Of Dog Island.
nv disNo trINf from, (NatSp ,pno
yesterday, we learn that the Cumberland was slowly
receding, with only two feet water on the shoals.
The wreck Of the Fashion, once the mould of
fo1m..-a good boat IN her day-es piled up, a mass
of ruin, at the foot of Sand Issnd,-that is to saw
what is left of her, is fiat on the bar the balance
having been carried off by the caving in of the hank
ms was stated in the Courier yesterday.
The Empress, on the bar just below the wreck of
the Fashion, is in critical position and liable to be
wreck at any moment as the sands are gradually
washing away from under the hull.
Among the passengers on the Woodford from New
ore orleans was Capt. sterrtt Of Texas who arrived
here Thursday and yesterday he contracted for the
hull OF new boat with Messrs. Howard of the Jefsr.
son ship yard. The contract specifies that the boat
is to be launched in As days. She is to ply between
take the place of the Eclipse, recently sunk
Captain Sterritt informs us that the Eclipse had
been successfully raised on Monday week. all right,
and that the boat is now on its way to this port and
he contemp'ates placing the machinery in the new
boat. Ho also contempates contracting for another
boat. The new boat is to have 157 feet keel and to
carry 1900 bales cotton.
The Caddo Clap Gazette of the 18th says:
There is A feet water on the Campte bars, with
decine from the tails at Alexandria to this place.
Navigation is suspended above Shreveport, with no
prospect of permanent rise before next winter. |
Several thousand bales of cotton are still above the
White Oak shoals, and must remain until another |
season. The boats IN Upper Red river have either |
sunk or run aground in attempting to come out on |
too little water.