New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-05-09
Mich Cows and Veal Cattle. Prices Of the better de-
scrption Of Beef Cattle continued pretty rm but the
market for Hogs and Sheep Is in favor Of purchasers
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CRESCENT OFFICE, No. 10 Camp street,l
Monday. May Q, 1859.
General Remarks Weather-River
FaIli"g-Arrivals for the Week-Frelghts
News from AbOve-Changes In the ONCE
OF the Falls Cfty-Quick Trip Of the John
Walsh-Captaiu Leyden's ne w Clipper, I'll e
Peytona-Arrivals Since our Last-De-
Partures to-day, etc.
The weather for the past week has been variable,
with occasional showers Saturday was dull, disa-
greeable day, and yesterday was about the same.
The departures on Saturday were numerous, and
most OF the packets left with good trips but the very
low rates of freights do NOT allow them much profit
The river before the city has fallen come three
inches since our last ISSUE and the water on the up
per levee has nearly all disappeared. We do not
know how long il will continue to f as our last tel
egraphic dispatches announce the upper rivers
rising.
The arrival Of river steamers at our levee for the
week ending last Friday noon we're sxty-three. The
receipts Of produce for the week were as follows Of
cotton, 9.4oo bales Of tobacco 1907 hhds; OF gu
gar, 3l6s hhds; of molasses $50 bills; of -four,
1898 bbls.; Of corn, 1866 sacks Of oats, l6s
sacks Of pork, ,551 bbls.
Mr.. Archie Woods, formerly clerk Of the Edw.
Walsh. has bought Mr. W. H. scudder's Interest in
the splendid railroad line packet Falls City, and has
assumed his place in the Office. Mr.. Scudder intends
to retire from the river at present. We are very
sorry to lose our old friend from among Us, and We
hope that in whatever business he may undertake
that he may always be successful We are very sure
that the Falls City will not lose any of her former
popularity by the change, Mr.. Woods, by his ur-
banity Of manners, has secured to himself host Of
friends all along his travel between this city and st.
Louis.
The st. Louis Republicans correspondent writes
that paper from Cairo and says, that the river had
swelled Is inches there the 3D. and was still rising
at the rate of inches 10 "a hours being now within
feet Of the food of last year. and within about 81
feet of the last raise BE states that he does not sup
pose that the present rise will swell the river very
considerably, but it may reach the hight OF the late
freshet and will at all events, tend to keep the lower
river up for long time, greatly decreasing the
chances of making crops in the overowed districts.
The steamer John Walsh, Capt. John Malloy, Of
the Railroad Line packets arrived at st. Louis having
made the trip up in 81 days, including 10 hours lost
by fog and storm. The steamer Choctaw left st.
Louis the I'd for the Cumberland river for the pur
pose of procuring a load.
The steamer Capitol last evening arrived at the
Stock Landing, where she put out lis head of stock
in forty.nine hours from Memphis having made
forty-sx way landings She leaves for Memphis this
evening" and will connect with the railroad there on
Thursday.
The Cincinnati Commercial of the Sd says:
The weather continues clear, mild and deg htfully
pleasant. The river is receding from Pttsburg to
Louisville but bank full from Marietta to Evansville
and OVERLOOKING its banks below the latter point
Here, it has receded eighteen inches altogether. We
have no material change to note 10 freights. The Of
ferngs are moderately fair for all points, with q
slight advance in the rates to New Orleans:
Ne,c Orleans.-Whisky and Oil, Soc Flour, soc !;
Pork, 4Oc Way Lots, SOC; Bacon and other Pound
Freights Zoe; per 100 Horses, So per head Keg
Lard, loc; Dry Goods, 4Oc per hundred.
Mr.. Sugg, one of the pilots of the Lady Walton,
arrived direct from Arkansas river yesterday He
reports that stream low, with three feet scant from
Fort Smith to Little Rock and from four to Eve feet
in the lower part Of the river-back water from the
flooding Mississippi.
| The st. Louis Democrat of the 4th says:
The river was rising all day yesterday at the rate
of one inch per hour, and the total rise up to P NJ
yesterday, was three feet. At the hour named the
| river continued to rise at the same rapid rate. So
| rapid and unexpected was the rise that along the
whole ledge of the evee, freight in the shape Of bar
rels boxes, bales, lumber etc, we're submerged and
the process of extrcating the submerged freight
sented busy scene. The rise is entirely from the
Missouri, which last Saturday six feet at st.
Joseph, astonishing the good people Of that village
mountineer who came down the Missouri to Omaha
in skih, says there is big rise coming from the
mountains, and he saw great deal Of snow on the
ground. II this is the June rse it is premature
What is to become Of that part:of the south, border
tons are covered by the Mississippi already Grevas
SEES exist in abundance, and yet there is an immense
freshet going down from the Ohio the Cumberland
is booming; the Mississippi is swelling rapidly, and
rhoV,n nf tkns
are on the rise. Heavy rains have fallen on the Cum
berland, which was swelling rapidly all along, as the
B. M. Rnnyan came down. Heavy rains have fallen
all over the country hereahouts.
The Louisville Journal Of the 4th says:
The river was falling yesterday at the rate of an
space enough for boats to discharge and receive
freight along the whole wharf. The weather is
beautiful.
The John Raine left for New Orleans last evening
with only moderate trip.
A CLIrPER.-The new steamer for which Capt. j.
F. Leyden and Mr.. Henry G. Landrum have con.
tracted will be both fast and splendid boat. The
boat is to be named the Peytona The dimensions of
her hull and machinery are to be as follows hull,
$50 feet long, IS feet BEAM and feet hold new en-.
gines, u inch cylinders and feet stroke; five boil
ers 81 feet long and AZ inches in diameter The
cabin will be got up in elegant STYLE and with two
such officers as Leyden and Landrum, the Peytona
will at once be classed among the finest boats in the
trade.
The Memphis Enquirer Of the 9Th says:
The river rising again yesterday, and up to six
O'Clock last evening had risen Il inches 1t is now
l54 inches below the highest water of last spring. aud
II inches below the highest water of this year.
The Victoria came in from Vcksburg Yesterday
afternoon, and reports the river falling from vcks
burg to Helena, and rising at Harkleroad's at the
rate Of one inch in twentyour hours. The break in
the levee at Kinks has been stopped and that at Prem
tss will be closed soon. Planters beginning to
look hopeful again. and are preparing to plant.
The crevasse at Concorda has been closed, and
planting in the neghborhood commenced.
The St. Louis Republican of the I'd says:
The river here commenced swelling a little on
Sunday night, and at dark last evening had risen
three inches. The Illinois river is falling slowly and
in good stage. The Upper Mississippi is reported