New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-10-17
4 tsnxssexr HpfleE, No. 10 CANT STREET, I
- HerirssaGr, oct0ber Ii, 1880.


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Yesterday was another dull day on the Leyee.
There we're but Few departures and but two or
fl5ree arrivals TIE weather was delicious, with a
fslld Temperature. clear sky, and soft hazy
atmosphere peculiar To-. semitropical indian
sumner
Our Red river exchanges report heavy rains IN
Chat section, which we hope viii improve me nasi-
gation If that stream.
The Maria DEFINING and Chancellor viii probably
be ii the levee this morning.
Tbs "a llowing beats passed Memphis on the 18th
fnst., and may DO expected to arrive here to-day
al tosinorrom The Ed .. Gay, D. A. January,
Alonzo Child and the Hiawatha. On the l4th; the
Mcodiofd Gladiator and Sunny South. The lingo
mar and New Uncle Sam were advertised TO leave
on Tie 18th.
The river at Memphis was stationary on Monday;
business was active.
The Autocrai was 10 leave Cairo on the 18th
inst. for this port.
The John Simonds which arrived here last eve
ming, reports having passed the Grand Duke
aground * Presidents Island, where she had laid
swehty four hours. The Duke had q full load Of
passengers On board. The Simonds has not been
aground on her downward. trip, as was reported by
contemporary y ne VAaccfs VI LAS S9iliiuAus ~
port eight beats at the mouth Of Red river, trying
to get over the ber, to-wit the Era No. g. News
boy and Homer bound Iii, and the Minnesota, Era
No. s., Eleanor and Saline bound out. The
Countess was also there, hayiag given up the at
tempt 10 get over the bar, and had exchanged
trims with The Era No. 5. The Countess may there
fore be expected back here to-day. There was
fweaty inches on the bar at the mouth of the Red.
A1,c 5asss ct
aud seven feet ut the Hole in the Wall when the
Eimonds pa sssd down.
The river was about stationary st Louisville on
the 18th. At Pitssburg. same day, it was fall
ing; at Cincinnati on the 18th it had fallen two
inches during the proceeding twenty -four hours.
The Louisville journal Of the l4th says:
The splendid new steamer Atlantic, Captain
AessiIi, will leave the Portland wharf fer New Or
leans af 5 O'Clock Monday afternoon, taking no.
thing but stock and passengers. Sixty names have
already been registered but there Is room yet Mr..
j. b. voolfolk ia the clerk.
The Fanny Bullitt, under the command Of the
veteran Capt. Henry w. Smith, will leave for N ew
Orleans at 6 o'clock this evening. As she will
take no freight, combining her trip to passengers
and stock, she win not be delayed by low water.
TIE Fanny was never in finer condition, even when
new, than ut present. Messrs. Lempka and Fisher
are the clerks.
cart. Boards new steamer Desoto. for the
Shreveport and New Orleans trade, is rapidly adj
vAncing to completion, and will leave for New Or
leans about the 9th inst When completed, she
wifi he one OF the mast elegant boats in the trade,
with capacity for $500 bales cotton. Capt. Rea-l
mara gentleman admirably adapted TO the POI
siti6n WI have charge Of the office.
Empire Parish for Lolre- Coast The fine pas
scaEef packet Empire Parish, Capt. a. Grant, il,
commander, and Mr. Il Bayhi, clerk leaves III 10
O'Clock this morning for the Lower Coast
Nm A, Leug fer Red Rirea.-This new and