New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-11-13
lsoaisyflie correspondence.

Ssi LouIsg1IlEs November g. a. M. 4
Hssa;ter CrfScfnf-Since my last there has
been! great deal OF excitement in regard to the
Presidential election, and have heard Of but
little news In the Hteamheat line of any import
ances The river has been rising fast, though IL Isl
acw sKallgg but slowly, with feet water h
fle c&Hal, feet water in the pass on the falls.
2nd fully 10 feet water on all the bars hence to
EAisq. A& Pis,sbnrg the river has commenced
AlIina sloslY. though at Cincinnati it ID still
sisiag. The Tennessee j. rising, with fully feet
#1t4r an COlbert's shoals The Cumberland is
Misc tislug, with over Q feet water on Herpeth's
Shoals 1hIs, with she rises from above, will give
suiileeat Nater fof our large packets TO gosout
loASed.
Tie arrivals and departures have been quite nu-
rleFods, embracing the following: Universe, Gin
cinastl an NeH Orleans Emma Duncan, New Orr
leans 20 Cincinnati; Atlantic, Louisville to New
ORLEANS Alma, gsburg to New Orleans; Cen.
s Heagss, AonIaxjlle 20 New Orleans; Iowa, New
0flssns "a Fittsburg John Raine, Louisville to
New 0rleafa Monarch, Cincinnati to New Or
Thc Join Raine cleared for New Orleans last
evening, wish = tiae trip Of both passengers and
nApatehes received hare Monday night an
aouHcad fha sinking Of the Ellen Gray at Hnrri.
Gage Island by caalisIon with the Arkansas. The
ArkaEsas was bound up for Memphis with good
1864 At cotton. and tho Ellen was going down with
some s00 tans of freight. The Gray was valued
~ $lQ soQu and insured IL Cincinnati for 10000
Capt Apnnings new boat, for tho St. Louis and
MeE &}EaesIz trade, was launched at Cincinnati on
pn Monday mofning al 10 o'clock the Saratoga,
Eapf. S4pttsa new boat. for the Louisville and New
qFlcags trade was beautifully launched from Dow
ssma AZ n Aumphreys ship yard. at New Albany.
THIS Safgtega VIII Be one 81 the largest finest ana
ssFiftast hodfs On The western waters having ample
Fewer and 4 beautiful model Some of your South
ern champions VIII have to look to their laureIs
whom tha Saratoga Games % the track.
a good number of coal boats have alraadv
started Spnth and large number are here pre-
pairing & start And have probably started By this
Hfae.s Ibe fpwb0afs Antelope and Jas. Guthrie,
beth With large 1eets Of coal, will leave for New
s 0riesas nftfar to- day or TO- morrow. en-
Taikinx coal down the river Id tow 81 boats. and
Aey ANGER fhe guidance OF regular pilots does not
seem 70 agree with the coaboat pilots. They had
meeting in tbs city yesterday, and resolved not
z nsss any coai down the river for parties who
Engaged Isgulas pilots to go on the tow boats
Gapf. Mailace,s new boat, the, Yazoo fer the
4azpo Iissf tTade, VIII be ready to start South
sn9a1 sassrasy newt SIG = ne boat and was
who has spared neither expense nor trouble in iii
ting her up iii splendid styie.
n Tie National, Capt M0ntgomery,s new boat fo,
aae Reti river trade Will be ready 70 start soatl
soon LOUISVILLE.
rha GlnsiunatI Gazette Of tho loth inst .''' re
porEs
Tie weather continues wet and diaagreeable
The riqer. notwithstanding the steady rains durin
She pas forty eight hours continues to fall rapid,
and during the past twenty -four hours has recede
about two fees.
Bealness cantnnes very dull, and the shipment
gre ligit ipF Ill points. The following are the ru
NJ ing ratea
% Nee 0fzeaas Whisky, 81; oil, 81 10; Flou
SIC: Pork 2Ss; Bacon, SOC per lh0 pounds; LARD
% tleFees etes, 300 per LOO pounds; other poun
frelghSst 81 q 41e Per mo pounds; Machinery, 6
20 100 per iao pounds; Hosses, az per head
The juaga iAselax and Iowa arrived from Nes
0flsasa With ioads Fl cotton
The LpalsviIe uenrier Of tho 9th Inst. saws
Tho river continues 70 rise, though mol az fast
heretofore, with niae feet seven Inches water
The canal tass evening by the mark. On lid fall
4here were fully six and haif feet steanlhoa
Haser ii the indiana chute and Eve and a half III
up fe middle chute for ascending Boats Darin
the previous fwentY.four hours sbe river had rise
seven Eachea ut tie head OF the falls. The Heaths
has haeu medefAts, with d light and steady raj
for fully twenty foas hours past, with more la
night.
AZ Cincinnati, at noon yesterday. the rirer ha
Iseu q ihcAes making some q or rs feet Of vat
In the ehsnnels That will make good stage
water in she Lover Mississippi.
At Pittsb,igg yesterday the river was still falln.
with 81 fest 81 eater III the channel
Ilie {aiiss % Nc predicted, are nos asyigabIe Il
assembling as web as descending boats. The Gre