New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-04-27
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Fsidass April q, isdo.
BrszAess Dn lie leSee yesterday was dull me
wsAtlsef VIVA cool and pleasant. The departures
Szl arrsgsas ware few IN number. Among re ier-
lnGF Was fhc q. I'll Fairchid with flne tslp ais0'
tlts Railroad ginc packet Hiawptlia.
BY 4 disnatch to Messrs. Muse Murdoch, W.
learn lint Till vigo vim by resy to Feoelse i1e'ens
this morning, I'D Nil Leave faE vi
IN s,s II Isals MA NAN orleans Railroad Line
,.ss,.ss Z n. fsc1z lsfk hi his port on Tuesday
&C. 1sbs Nh UsSIs Ssn, 81 long aground at
1.lsra a. I'd iast suceaeded in getting OIL A |
rs. s. A., fest * thst point WAS reported.
~ 4SgFn III aiizus tchss from Pittsburg, satnr-
4 a. lint fhe Hcet TON. bouts Eagle and !.
8. siIor hsd started South with heavy tows of
i Hmm Saturday aaorning the Broad-horn feet Of
al56hts began 10 arrive from Pittsburg, and the
spsEteak Pink Varhle towed two pair cut over the
js15gsfur he south. Ia the evening she was pre-
saFil.r ID take smother pair over. Yesterday she
lSok tsxo more pair out, and we learn that alto
xs5asery sclnc twenty pair have descended the
Mills
cant. Mnckley has closed his contract at New
Albany for i new steamer for the New Orleans
md opelousas trade. to be completed about the
III III September. Messrs. Townsend While will
t;ld liz hul1 wicl il to DO III feet keel 35 feet
bta.a Vim fect hold. Messrs. Lent, South
sh&S9nan build dc machinery, consisting Of two
Sasisss: fhe cylinders 70 inches u diameter, and
N 3Ssf sfxoKe. Sill b to have three boilers, 70
1Schea III diameter, "a feet long, with fiyc fnes
! esch.
lsesr beat, iii the st. Lonis and Tennessee
! x;ssr tfnae. WAS launched at Paducah last week
Il Il Is recsive the machinery Of the VIM. Dickson.
WI understand that Capt. Jno. 4. SHARPLY has
purchased lie steamer Republic, and will place
hsr ID lie Helena and Bend trade next season. ex-
tSnSinx liar trips to Memphis The terms Of the
purchase hare not hanspired.
Durinr fhe late Tip 81 The Kate Sarchet up the
Wabash, rom Memphis, q very interesting trial
took ulaae among the deck hands, One of the
number sWas discovered hid away to get rid Of
work. H6 was therenpon brought ont By the
balance Of The hands, who. resolved themselves
is,fc soft of police court, md he was placed on
triai. The charge preferred against him was
Grand rafting and ali 9 attempt to loaf" The
ffial viz ducted With much spirit and the pris
oraer MAS sentenced to three hours work at the
forxrafd pump, and aguard placed over him to see
ahss he worked but bis term faithfully.
a The arrfvais from Red river yesterday were the
Rapides, Comet and Newsboy,
~ The report from that tributary is, as usual, no
water river rapidly falling. Rates Of freight re-
min stationary. a majority Of Red river people
hare ruantitieso Or freight on hand, which causes
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present prices, which appear to them exhorbitant.
~ in tle rates Of freight may trans
u5re in tise coprse Of feM days. Who can tell |?
Ths regular weekly packet n. W. MoRae, Capt.
Jn0s M Tabin win be- in port To-day, and will have
SID ieaves positively tomorrow
ME Memphis Enquirer Of the 18th says:
Yesterday. the weather was quite chilly, making
euk door bnslnesss Il not disagreeable, at least
The river Ut this point ii stil rising the swell be-
ing fully equal to Ia inches In "a hours. Our report
"a regards the late rise in the Arkansas river is
confirmed By arrivals yesterday. The rains which
presailed iii this section have been general and we
may soon expect to hear Of an additional rise in
Thftes Black, Little Red and IS. Francis rivers,
which At present ARE very low, though nayigable
sop at Et Louis, inform US that rain had fallen
xhefs; and bio rise had taken place. At ST. Louis
A8 xiae 9estar6ay amounted id all to inches, and
Inst evening rising ut the rate Of inches in 24
A0dfas The river from st. Louis to Keokuk and
st. ranI rapids and all-is in fair boating condi-
lion, Judging from the cheap rates at which freights
ara asken. Perhaps the cause u rather, however,
Af louisville lie river during the past four Of five
days han reeeded rapidly, there being about nine
feet In the canal and SIX feet on the falls. The
Kentucky river At Frankfort, Thursday, had risen
six feet. and was still slowly swelling. That rise,