New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-04-28
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General Remarkable Weather. BUSH IS q
The Rivers-correspondenc - Arrivals q
Yesterday News rom the Rivers The
High Water miscellaneous 1tems-Coi- n
rection-Departures To-day, etc., etc.
The weather yesterday was warm, clear and season
able. On Tuesday night our city was visited by a
thunder storm, during which the rain fell in perfect
torrents leaving the streets in condition Of which
" muddy" is not sufficiently expressive Business yes
terday ives dull. large number Of boats at the
levee representing the trade Of every tributary
which feeds the commerce Of New Orleans but they
and go with light tips, the proceeds of which
are barely sufficient to meet current expenses. The
lower trade boats are doing comparatively nothing,
while the Louisville and st. Louis packets only min
tain their regularity through the enterprise Of their
and the travel North, which is doubtlessly on
the increase The river at this point rising here
yesterday, and is now three and halt inches above
the highest mark ever before reached, while the
the general report from above is " still rising"
When and where the present rise is to reach its limit
is question which begins to excite painful interest
The amount Of damage already sustained is incalcul
able. and is only to be computed by millions
The following are the arrivals for yesterday:
The Carolina Bluffs packet vicksburg, Capt. ]. N.
White, with SIT bales cotton.
The Cincinnati packet Universe, Capt. A. Stein,
with good trip.
The Louisville packet Diana, Capt. Sturgeon, with
large trip We thank Mr.. o. L. Smith, her obliging
clerk, for favors.
The St. MartinsvilIe packet Go samer, Capt Smith,
with 230 bales cotton, 107 hhds sugar and IS bb's.
molasses.
The Memphis Enquirer Of the 18th inst. says that
the new outlet at Foylemans, above that city is par
tally closed by falling timber, and that it will be haz
ardous for boats to attempt to pass through it here
after.
| The Submarine is at work over the wreck Of the
Delegate, which was sunk near West Franklin in the
lower Ohio last January. She lies in water twenty
feet over her decks.
The Memphis Bulletin learns that Capt. Silas F.
Miller of the R. j. Ward after completing the present
trip will take charge of the Gait House, Louisville
es proprietor 1t is probable that Mr. George Gray,
her present efficient clerk and part owner, will in
future command the Ward. gf.
One of our city contemporaries, whose zeal to be first
in the field with "news." occasionally leads it into
serious bunders in its issue of yesterday reports the
steamer Dick Nash laid up for the season." So far
from being correct, the Nash has idea of rusting
on the shelf during the season of low water, when
boats of her light draught and peculiar build are in
greater demand than supply. The Dick Nash leaves
for lower Ten s and Bayou Macon at 5 O'Clock to.
morrow evening, as usual.
We were pleased yesterday to meet our old fiend,
James q. Porter, well known the river. Mr.. Por.
ter is to take charge Of the Office Of the steamer
| Capitol.
The steamer VIM. Baird, we learn by our ST. Louis
! files, was badly sunk week ago yesterday in the
Missouri river Waverly at the place where
the Tropic was sunk last fall.
J The Louisville Courier says that the Daniel Boone
Morning Star and Die Vernon are to be placed in the
trade between vicksburg and Memphis, to make tr
weekly trips in opposition to the mail line now on the
! ! track.
We received the following last evening:
STEAMER NEW UNCLE SAN, -
IL GREEsyrlLE, April %, 1859. ;
Friend Reporter-We had very nice little rae,
with the E. H. Fairchild the first night out pa -et
her in handsome style and left her in the distance
! but at o'clock Wednesday morning we got hare
aground on the bank fourteen miles below Plaque
mine, where we remained eight hours, but were for
tunately pulled off by the Pacific. Then came or
242 hogsheads Of sugar both delays throwing us back
twelve hours We are nearly full Of pr -sengel5 have
! 700 tuns of freight, rnd now q O'Clock p ny sis
hours behind the Fairchild.
. The liver is still rising slowly. P9"3epgers in fine
spirits and seem to be perfectly happy; and hope
we shall yet be able to put them through in goot
time. Yours truly, NJ.
The Madison Gazette, published at Richmond
u La) of the 2lst inst, says:
q The water at this place came to stand on Sunda,
last-snpposed to be caused by the breaking of Dan
q cy's levee, and giving way OF the foodgate on Mrs
Amis' plantaton-remaineds stationary until Tuesday
since which time it has b IN rising again slowly
Inc levee which protects portion o. lne Town an
ers, is in good condition, and will probably sus ain
much greater pressure OF water than it is now sui
jected to.
g, The vicksburg Wing of the 26th inst says:
/ The liver here has fallen about one-foui III of a
inch since our lest issue. 1t is now t,ceny inches
"a half above the highest water of last year, an
eighteen and quarter atoue the water of 1850. TIL
water of 1928 was the highest ever known at Wick
burg until this year-the river now being siXtee
d inches above that.
!. The Memphis Enquirer of the 23d inst. says:
Owing to the prevalence of high west wind du
ing the whole day, it was difficult to ascertain wit
any degree of certainty whether the river rsn
a, not Yesterday. We report it stationary. Bushes
" on the levee dull.
% The latest advces report all the upper rivers fall
ing, and there is now fair prospect OF decline
,6 the food The Cumberland was falling steadily o
the 2 LIST with seven feet on Harpeth Shoals.
20 The Arkansas and Tensas rivers were rising
~ last accounts.
~ The Yazoo Democrat of Saturday hes the followir
notice of the Yazoo river
II. We had hoped to announce ere this that the riv
YVES falling, but the best say Of it is that it
10 about stand. 1t has not quite reached the hi
la water mark of 1850, but lacks only some five or
inches; and if the Mi:"ssippi river should common
W. falling in day or two, the waters of the Yazoo
y ley have perhaps done their worst. We understa
the Yazoo is falling from Greenwood as far down
IL Honey Island. IT this lie true, it is certainly fl
Is terng indication.
DR.. Batey for L:,tourche-The veiy regular, fl
of AMI superior passenger packet DIR. Baey, Captain
Mt Dugas, commander, and Mr. Jos. Delfares, Gle
leaves at 10 o'clock this morning for Bayou Lafourt
and the Coast
ed Rock City for Camaen.-The very light.drau
and staunch passenger packet Rock City, Capt. Di
at inson, commander, leaves at o'clock this even
for Camden and all intermediate landings on