New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-01-12
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"Wednesday Jan. Il, 1850
Yesterday was another damp, disagrceable day, I
heavy rain falling from morning till night. Business
was moderately active on the wharf, principally in
discharging
The Louisville Democrat Of the 9Th says:
LucKY-one Of the pilots of the Fanny Bullitt
walked up yesterday morning considerably richer
than he was the night before. He rose to find him
self the holder Of half the ticket which drew The can
ital prize Of $250o0 in the Shelby College Lottery
He declared he was going TO shut up shop and enjoy
himself for awhile. q. ila'E.
boats on Lake Erie next summer, between Cleveland
and Buffalo, for night travel The line will be une,
the auspices Of the New York Central and the Nichi
gan Southern railroads The North shore line from
lake region think that it is fully time for conviction
to seize the railroad managers that water carriage FOL
freight and passengers is cheaper than land carriage
The St Paul Times says tie bridge over the Mssis
last as such huge structure approach anything
The huge stone piers, eight in number are nearly III
completed ready for the immense superstructures Of
tressel work which is to repose upon them. About
But, notwithstanding every effort Of the engineer Il
is doubtful II it will be finished before May Il Nil
cost. when completed, $4,000.
We learn from the Memphis Avalanche, that Capt
John I. Shirley, contractor for the mail To NapoeoB
has purchased the Victoria at St. Louis to place bel
in the trade between that city and Napoleon in plact
Of the w. Ii. Langley. She was built for the Missouri
river trade. The Langley has been sold to othel
parties.
Our friend Ryland, Of the St. Louis Democrat
pitches into Charley Clarke, Of the Louisville Cou
rier, as follows It is rather severe
We would not be SO unscrupulons- wanting in
honor, vulgar, the river reporter of the Louis.
vile Courier, for the wealth of the Kansas gold fields
Failing to attract our notice by ytuperating the Dem
ocrat he has gone so far to lie deliberately. The
lie is contained in paragraph in the Courier OF jan
uary LIST, which betrays chagrn and disappointment
produced by the superior enterprise OF the Missouri
Democrat, Louisville Journal. and other papers, in
publishing list Of river disasters, ahead Of the
Courier. Here is the deliberate lie of the Courier
To show how grossly incorrect the account Of the
ST. Louis paper is, we may alude to the disaster oil
the E. Howard. That steamer is reported as total
loss, when the damage sustained did not exceed Ave
hundred dollars, and she is now running in as good
condition as ever s.
The proof Of the lie is in the paragraph referred to,
which is as follows: aas ,
sE. Hotcard- Sunk by log 10 the lower Missis-
sipi, below Gaines Landing. Boat raised-valuable
cargo badly damaged, il not entirely destroyed
the Courier, in its bombastic way, says Our care
fully collected and compiled statistics have always
been received by boatmen and the public as the most
authentic possible record of river navgation.n The
writer must have been "half seas Overt when he
wrote the above or he forgot that he once transferred
our report unaltered to the, columns of the Courier
and caledit his Carefully collected and compiled
satistics We are afraid the fellow will die Of bile
venom and fasehood. =
The Pittsburg Dispatch of the 4th says:
The weather yesterday was sufficiently disagreeabe
to compare with those which preceded it. The river
continued about at stand, with nine feet scant in
the channel. At Wheeling, on Thursday evening,
there were eleven feet and stationary at Parkersburg
the same At Cincinnati it is recedng at the rate Of
eighteen inches day on the Falls there were six
feet on rocks. On the wharf business was slack,
little freight being shipped and none having arrived
The rates are unchanged. The only arrival yesterday
was the Chevoit from Wheeling, to which port she
cleared again in the evening. The Dacotah, with
railroad iron, for Nashville, and the Iowa for ST.
Louis also cleared with full loads. To-day the Poto-
mac will leave for Cincinnati and the Clara Dean for
Louisville. During the last year but twenty nine
steamers have been built and Inspected at this port
None Of these were intended to run in the Pittsburg
give the list r4$ .5