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rhe weather fsr the two days pass has been
pleasant as s
Business has been dun dusing she past wsek.
s. The arrivals FOR the week were thirty -shFee /
boats, bringing tho faliowias antouIlt oi produce
Cotton. 2sas bales susaxs 9s4 hhds.. uerces ana
bhis. Moiaasess Ss7 hiie.; Flour. -, ,43s bbis.
r,arn. All AKA SACKS fasd $50 tierces and bpls.,
and i,ll keaa: {)ats s. u bbis and sacks Pork
l5os ht,a I'd tjerces Tobacco, ~ hlidss; ms.
% fsia hl1ss: Wheat, 1852 hhls. and sacks.
bs 5igsr l5as fallen six inches during the past
,.ss al,1 ii now eleven feet twcinches below high
wxsef mArk.
4 rho stsaxaer Homer having been unavoidably /
,eaIned vim positively lsave this evening for Red
M learn ffom i priv "a source that the steamer
faroo Belle Eas sank above the raft on Red river
Iast wesk. she lad full cargo Of ussson on
beard.
{ At the ievse last evening there were only eight
sstsaners-~ths Red Rover, Cora anderson, Psy-
tona. Imperial. Gen. John Al. Quitnian, lew Uncle
sam, Homer and Gresse Tete. Five Of those are
sdvertised 70 leave ID day. and The balance win.
xithont doubt, depart tomorrow. We will then
sexperience Inactivity When we consider the time
al yesr. and the immanae business transacted III
xhe spring. tiis state IL afAfrs y not 10 be won
dered at. netween alls going ont Of the old and
the coming Ii at The new crop business has, in
variably, (snd naturally enoughy been dull and
tires6Ene.
The atear,boat trade of the past season at this
porshss never teen eqzalsd and We will venture
VI predict that tie fa trae this year will also I'M
ineasurahly overtop that Of any preceding one. q
The fact Is glaring tazny and every one who will
take ibid least fonte of looking around and coolly
considering shat New Orleans il to be, at no very
distant iay, the New York Of the South and West.
Nature fas aifvrded her every facility necessary
ana Essential to the ground work Of commercial
I metropolis, and when taken in connection with
her thrifty. ro-ahead mercantile community, and
xle vast loating population almost at all seasons,
0assinx and requesting our landings, without ones
sson kss selected her IS the mercantile emporium
of tlle Southern country
iii seven Of eight weeks from this time we may
axect to see me whole length Of the levee jammed
WITH steamboata and the trouble To be feared most
viii be the inadequate room on tho lending for
then TO discharge their cargoes. We will await
slis evenk with Interest,"
The steamer Universe has been laid up, at Gin
cinnati il consequence Of duh times, also the Mon
arch ana Ohio Belle. We learn from the Cincin-
raa Commercial that regular line Of iSht-draft
packets will ply regularly between Cincinnati and
this metropolis during the summer, comprising the
steamers Silver Wave, Fort Wayne Jesse r. Bell,
Stephen Decatur, u. @. Fremont, ]. 3. Pringle,s
Aurora, and j. ". Gheeseman. eaits feet
AZ Cairo III arrival Of freight continues to
amount to about one hundred trns daily and the
ratee remain unchanged.
Tie Eecomte arrived ut Cincinnati on Thursday
last.
Ii is automatically stated that Cant. ". " With.
enhury will contract with parties at brownsville
lor Red river craft.
Red RIVER TRADE AND THE BOATS BELONGING TO
Thare s no trade in the United States, IL there
be III the world, that employs as many steamboats,
as does that Of Red river tributary Of The father
of waters s nor j. there river in which as good,
staunch-built aud Hne boats are required. The Red
il dangerous stream to navigate, even during the
highest water, ana consequently a boat built for
that tributary must be OF the best and soundest
material, besides Being constructed in the strong
est manner. IL excels all ether streams in the
Sonth ia exports and the importations the past
year have been immense, much more 90 than any
other previous period. Steamboat officers and their
crew nfe better paid on Red river than elsewhere,
and The boats are literally supported. In order to
rive onr readers, who reside in other States, an
idea Of Whist has been going on in that stream, we
win say That there Is about thirty six steamboats,
plying in the trade during three seasons Of the
year ,valued at 1000, 900, and would add at the
same time that there are ut least six new steam
efs now building will enter the trade during the
ccIniag fall season " d may have omitted to mem
tor one or two Of the new boats contracted in the
spring, but from what we hare given above some
idea can be termed Of the immense Importance Of
the Red rirer trade. sl a $50 #f
We received yesterday d letter from Nh. Morris
Dorsey dated Wheeling, 10th inst. He states thai
Messrs. Goodwin and Freese have contracted with
parties there for hull, which i to be fifteen
feet longer and one foot more beam than the
steamer VI, W. Farmer, purchased BY them in this
city some few months since. The Farmers ma
chinery We understand, will be transferred to the
new boat
Capt Henry Eaton, Of the ST Louis Board Of
UnE writer's, il en- route for Arkansas river on
HusiitGss connected with the steamer Muscogeo,
which srink about the 18th inst below Fort Smith,
wfth cargo Of hides, etc.
The rivsr II falling at Pittsburg with 81 feet in
tho channeI. AT Wheeling there are feet, and
falling. The Kanawha is falling, with 81 feet from
Charleston ID the mouth At Cincinnati, on the
2lst. the Ohio was falling fast with AZ feet in the
canal, The Cumberland is falling, with three feet
oa Harpeflls Shoals. The Lower Ohio is falling,
with feet on the shoalest bars. The Mississippi
at 81. Louis continues to rise slowly, with II feet
10 Cairo. The Upper Miszssippiis il rising below st.
Panl, with ~ feet on the upper rapids, s feet on
the lower rapids and feet below Keokuk. The
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