New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-04-19
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CRESCENT OFFICE. No. 10 Camp street,
Tuesday, April 49, lisa
General Remarks - River stIll Rislng =
Highly Interesting from Above - The
Rivers-The John Ray-More Creyasses-
Arrivnls neutrality-suspicious. To-day,
etc., etc.
The weather yesterday made an effort 10 atone in
some degree for it's freaks and tandrums Of the past
week. The day was clear, mild and beautiful one,
and very favorable to the transaction of busness-ii
there was any business to transact. Two phrases
have of late become stereotyped expressions with us
Of late towit: River still risingn and business dull
on the levee"-we are obliged to continue them this
morning. The river is now within about an inch Of
the highest point reached last year. and continues "a
swell slowly but steadily. As regards business, it
time to expect decline, and with the increase Of
travel as an offset for the scarcity of freight, our
steamboatmen ought not to find faults
Mr.. A. NJ. Worsham has taken charge of the office
of the L. NJ Kennett. The Kennett left st. Louis on
the 18th inst. for this city.
One of Messrs. Eads b Nelson's steam pumps was
put down at Cairo the 18th inst and will be used
to pump the water out of the town until permanent
machine can be put down. This pump is said to be
capable Of throwing out thirty barrels Of water per
minute. .......4. -.
The Louisville Journal of the 18th says
The river was again rising yesterday, having swol
len three inches in the twentyour hours ending last
evening, which gave depth of feet inches water
in the canal. Several heavy showers fell during the
day, and the weather last night was cloudy and
sultry.
Capt. J. W. Buhouh's new boat, the Jno. Ray, ar
rived here from Pittsburg Sunday evening She is
neat and tidy little craft, of very light draught,
mil, rl.,1 ,1,,1 s~Ik
Pittsburg. Her actual capacity is two hundred tuns
It is at present. uncertain to the use to which she
will be put although it is probable that she will be
put in the trading business Red river. She would
make good low-water craft to run above the raft.
The Ray is sternwheeler, and has an apparatus for
reversing the action of the machinery, which is
worth seeing. By its means a simple movement of
the lever will reverse the action of the boat even
when under moderate head,ray.
The Vicksburg True Southron of the 18th inst
learns from the officers of the vicksburg that whilst
that steamer was lying at the Wood plantation be-
low Diamond Island, on the Mississippi side, last
Saturday morning, cross levee above gave way and
a perfect flood of water rushed down from the ere.
vase. 1t was fortunate that the viclsburg was at
the landing to give the people Of the place safe re-
sort.
The Intelligencer, vidalia, La, of the 10th inst.
says:
The river at this point still continues rising At
the time Of our report last week. the water had risen
to the high water mark of so; it is now Thursday
morning) eight inches above that and still rising.
The evee in front of j. James plantation, below
New Carthage has broken, which will carry more
water into Tensas river This break affects the plan
atoms of j. L. Calcote, L. Thistle and Others
break also occurred at R. Y. Woods plantation,
on the Mississippi side, near Palmyra, which Injuries
the plantations of Messrs. Turner Qutmau and
Others.
We learn that a bad crevasse occurred yesterday
morning about forty miles above this city on the
east side, which had overflowed the Opelousas Rail
road and washed away portion of the track.
The Little Rock (Ark.) Democrat of the 9th inst.
reports as follows
The river is navigabe for small boats as far as this
place, and for very light ones above. The weather
at this writing is pleasant, but the lowering clouds
indicate rain.
The Cincinnati Gazette of the 18th inst. has the
following:
The weather yesterday was cloudy, with occasional
heavy showers OF rain The river opposite this port
is swelling steadily, and the Parkersburg from Par
kersburg and Qnarrier from kanawha. report all the
side streams running ont freely and the Ohio rising
all the way down. Hence to Louisville there are
fully l6 feet of water with A feet scant of steam
boat water on the falls 81 feet in the pass, and
Ieet lncnes III the canal by the mark.
The Gazette also reports freights plentiful for New
Orleans for the season, at the following rates:
Whisky and oil Soc; -four Soc. pork 4Oc.: way
lots 4ic; bacon and other pound freights zoe. per
cwt.; horses ss per head; keg lard 2Oc; dry goods
Acc. per cwt
The st. Louis Republican of the 18th inst saws.
The river here receded three inches in the twenty
four hours ending at dark last evening and is still
failing n slowly. The upper streams are all falling,
ana the mississippi is becoming low. There are six
feet on the rapids in the Upper Mississippi.
The weather is warm and sultry. 1t rained heavily
on Monday night and portion Of yesterday morn.
ing u was cloudy, and appearances indicated more
ram last evening. We are having genuine April
and the mud was soft and deep
The Memphis Bulletin of the 10th inst. saws:
The river opposite this point is still swelling slowly
has exceeded the rise of few weeks since and lacks
only tour and three quarter inches of the mai left by
the June rise Of last year. The rise in the twenty.
tour hours ending at o'clock last night had amounted
to fully one inch.
We have nnfavorable news from the Ohio which
river was rising rapidly at Louisville, yesterday, with
eight feet on the falls and elven in the canal
The Yazoo river was falling al latest accounts
The Natchez Courier, of the l4th inst, says the
river rose at that point half an inch the previous day.
and was nearly at stand.
The Madison Journal, published at Richmond La,
of the Sth inst, says:
The water is nearly all over town, and the mails
have all stopped except the mail from New Cartilage
We receive no papers and can send none, hut we |
ha continue to issue at least an advertising sheet as
ong as the water will permit us 10 do so.
The True Southron, OF the 10Th inst, says
We have to " sing the same old song of "stil ri