New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-06-24
Glitter 5ntelligeuts.

| etc., etc.
The weather yesterday was warm and dusty. Il,
only redeeming quality consisted in fine breeze
which ruled during the day and served to moderate
the heat which old So seemed inclined to generate
The river continues to fall slowly at this point Bu
sness seemed to be active the landing especially
on the boats that were discharging. The steamer
Pacific left yesterday for Louisville with every state
room taken up The great John Walsh, Of the Rail
road Line, also left with fine trip of people and
freight for ST. Louis.
The Peytona, the new New Orleans and Louisville
packet We understand is fairly under way and will
be completed for the early fall trade II all we hear
of her s true she will be of the finest boats that
has ever been turned out. Her length will be 2s5
feet over all, with 20 feet BEAM she will have two
28-inch cylinders, with 9 feet stroke and Ia feet
| bucket.
The officers of the Yazoo Belle report only "a feet
large on the principal bars below Shreveport and
falling all the way down.
| The Cincinnati Commercial of the 18th says:
The weather was mild and pleasant Yesterday. Az
Pittsburg last night there eight feet two inches
water and stationary. It is swelling slowly from
Wheeling to Evansville. Here the river has risen
seven inches enc during the past twentyfour hours
making the total rise sixteen inches-suficient we
hope, to float the Telegraph off Rising Sun Bar,
With fair offerings, we have no change to note in the
| rate of freghts
| Ne,o Orleans.-Whisky and oil, 81; four. 75c..
pork Soc; bacon and other pound freights so to 55c
per 100; horses, $40 per head key lard, Csc: drv
goods, Csc per 100 pounds
The Louisville Courier, of the 18th, SAYS:
The river was rising very slowly yesterday, barely
an inch at the head Of the Falls in twenty four hours
with four feet one inch water in the canal by the
mark, last evening" The weather was cloudy during
the day, with slight sprinkle of rain. In the even
ing it was quite cool.
Portland bar is no longer bar to navigation, the
water along that channel being five feet deep at
the shoalest point, which is water than can be
found on any OF the bars along the Lower Ohio
The Memphis, which had temporarily laid up at
me foot OF the bar OF New Albany, raised steam yes
terday and came up the bar without trouble, and
proceeded to Cincinnati.
The huge sand bar that formed along the Kentucky
side OF Sand Island, at Portland, has been gradually
Empress, which had been left high and dry on the
bar, by the recedng waters. Yesterday morning the
bar had caved in to such extent that it left the
stern Of the Empress hanging over the edge Of the
bar, and it had washed away, or fallen, from under
the Fashion about one third Of her length.
Yesterday Capt Shirley went over to the island
and endeavored to the Fashion. The surface or
top Of the bar is six or eight feet above the level Of
twenty live feet from the waters edge; by the action
OF the water the current had been gradually wearing
the bar away, and yesterday morning the space had
narrowed down TO few feet from The bow Of the
Fashion. The Empress wa! just below the Fashion,
near the point of the island both boats lying broad
side to the shore head up stream The cavng of the
bar was greater at the point of the island than that
further up, and it left the sterns OF the boats first
Last evening, while large number of men
were working alongside the Fashions bow, cutting
away the sand so as to slide her into the river she
broke in two just at the wheelhouse, aud the cabin
and entire upper works were precipitated into the
water, making complete wreck of the boat Can't
Sherry and one or two of the men had narrow es
cape The cabin wreck foated of, and very little of
it was saved.
The sand, or rather island, is fast wearing away
from under the Empress, and she too will 90 TO- day
and will probably be wrecked as there are but slight
hopes OF saving her, unless the wreck Of the Fashion
prevents the sand from washing The remains Of the
latter boat lie Just in front of the Empress.
The Cincinnati Gazette of the 18th says:
The weather yesterday was pleasant. The river is
rising opposite this port at the rate Of half an inch
per hour having advanced in all about two feet The
Anglo-Saxon, the latest arrival from above reports
al the slde.streams rising, and Ohio swelling from
wheeling down. At Pttsburg there were feet
inches water last evening, and river stationary while
al wheeling special dispatch from s. G. Baker to
Capt. McBurnie, reads:
Liberty leaves tomorrow evening for Cincinnati
Eight feet of water 10 the channel and river rising
special dispatch to Parkersbnrg, from W. Vroo
man, says:
River seven feet, and rising slowly rise from Mus
kingum.
Our own exclusive dispatches below give further
particulars of the water There no doubt but that
we shall have good stage of water for two or three
weeks. Hence to Louisville, there is fully 81 feet of
water.
The Memphis Inquirer of the 2lst says:
The river at this point still recedes, although the
rapdity which has of late characterized it's fall Ia
materially lessened. Six inches will fully cover the
decline during the forty eight hours ending at sun.
down last evening. The Ohio is slightly swelling,
and the upper Mississippi has risen
The Nashville news Of Sunday says the recent rains
above have caused the Cumberland to rise abont two
feet There are now little over four feet of water on
Harpeth shoals-enough to admit good sized boats.
The following were the arrivals yesterday:
The st. Louis packet L. NJ. Kennett, Captain H.
Switzer, with large trip, and leaves again on Satur
day. We thank Mr.. Fl. NJ. Worsham, her clerk, for
favors.
The Bayou Sara packet Crosse Tete, Capt v B.
Baranco, with SO hhds. sugar. Is bbls. and so half
bills. molasses, and leaves again to-day.
The Fort Adams packet Golden Age, Capt. s. Heno,
with 53 bales cotton, hhds sugar and 204 bbls of
molasses, and leaves again tomorrow.
The Red river packet Yazoo Relic Cant Cbas w