New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-08-27
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Monday, August n 1860
The week closing Saturday evening was chiefly
marked BY The heat and the inactivity Of business
The usual increased number OF boats left port
en- Saturday, taking very light trips. The steamer
Capitol for Bayou Sara, W. M. Morrison and
siianehaha for st. Louis, and Fanny Bullitt for
Louisville, all left yesterday morning with ex-
treaaefy small trips.
The river continues to fall, and is now Is feet
below high water mark.
The arrival of steamboats, at the port for the
week, ending Friday noon. number twenty eight.
The receipts Of produce were as follows: Cotton,
III fS6 bales Sugar, 2a9 hhds. Molasses Its bhla.
Flour, 1885 bbis. Bacon, 456 hhds. and casks /;
BaggIng, 40 pieces; Rope, s4s coils; Germ, 27,O76
sacks Lard, s9t tierces and bbls and 1888 kegs !;
Oats, 5s7S sacks Pork, 725 bbls. and tierces !;
Tobacco, A4s hhds.; Whisky, loTl bbls Wheat,
a42 bhis. and sacks. The receipts of new Cotton
last week amounted TO I2,0S9 bales making total
to ateof III ,s4l bales. The total receipts to the
same date last year were 1881 bales, and the year
before 22ao bales,
BY a dispatch received on Saturday from st.
Louis We Iearn that the favorite Railroad Line
packet New Falls City has been laidup on account
of low water.
THE r. wv. POWELL. Peoples Li,le-The neat
passenger packet r. w. Powell will be at the
landing to-day ready to receive freight and leaves
tomorrow evening on her first trip to Fort Adams
ana the Coast The Powell has been thoroughly
repaired, repainted throughout, and now looks as
well az when size first made her appearance at our
ievee. Capt s. Hene will be in command and Mr..
j. A Dunbar will occupy the ofice--both gentle
sssen well known IN the trade as efficient and atten.
tive officers
advertising columns, has changed her day of de-
partnre to Thursdays. She leaves on her first
trip Sept. S, as q regular Thursday packet to Fort
Adams and the Coast. We shall have something
more 10 say about this packet and her improve
ments Id future issue.
AsorHER BOAT. Capt. Mcguire, we learn, has
contracted with Messrs Hawley, Billings & Co., Of
louisville, for iight-draft boat to navigate the
waters o the Cumberland She will be l4o feet in
length.
A coal boat in tow of the job boat Charley Miller
is reported sunk in the lower part or the Missis-
sippi Fivsf.
Capt. Wna. Gordon, the Oldest citizen Of Smith
land, Kentucky, having been resident Of that
place for nearly sixty years, is dead. Capt. Cor
don was master Of the Livingston, one Of the first
steamers ever built
TIE b. =. Adams, for Louisville, and the a. Nc
D0wslI, fer St Louis, were at Memphis on the 24th.
The Planet and Southwestern, from ST. Louis,
and inc Countess, from Cincinnati, will arrive here
tonight.
The bed of the Mississippi, q Memphis exchange
says, presents d horrible picture of hard times
old ugly snags and logs that have not been visible
for years. are now lifting their heavy heads to the
light Of day, and long reaches Of sand bars not
noted in the mental geography Of young river
pilots are prominent and coming in sight day after
day.
The Champion was due at St, Louis on the 25th
The Jno. Warner, Edward Walsh and Gladiator
arrived on the Esd.
LoGIsvILLE, Aug. 24.--The river was steadily
falling yesterday with four feet two inches in the
canal BY the mark, at dark. That makes overfive
feet actual water In the canal and about eight feet
on the bar at Portland During the previous TWEEN.
ty-fnur hours the river had reeedad some three
inches al the wharf. The weather was sultry and
olondy early in The day, with heavy shower Of
Il 6T. LuETs, Aug. ID Weather yesterday gIoemy
and warm, Hopes were entertained that rain
would fall but nome came. Business fiat. The
river fell about half inch. Bad river to Cairo
but getting excellent below by reason of the Ohio
river rise and The rise in the Cumberland.
The Missouri has 81 scant in the channel and get
ting more difficult TO navigate.
The Illinois and Upper Mssissippiare stationary
with fest above peoEia in the former, and feet
On the Lower Rapids.
hIgNpHis. Aug. rs. The weather yesterday
was clear cool and pieasant-the rain of the night
previous having very materially modified the tenn
peratnre, and ailayed the dust.
Business on the wharf was seasonahy brisk. the
boats receiving freight inducing considerable ae-
Givty.
The river at this point continues very low, with
three feet at Cairo.
The Arkansas river continues very low, with no
immediate prospeck OF rise. White river is fall
ing, with saant four feet. Red river is falling,
With sCaHt three feet
.rEoIsNATf, Aug. 24.--Thc weather was cloudy
all. warm yesterday, with indications Of rain last
night. The river Is falling again at Pittsburg with
three nd a half feet in the channel. At Wheeling
there " five feet, and at Marietta and Parkarsburg
four fest and falling. AT this point the river has
EeGeded twelve inches during the past twenty four
hours. Ia The canal there Is four feet. The Mis-,
sissippi at ST. Lonis il reeeding slowly with six and
half feet TO Cairo. The Upper Mississippi Is fall
ing from ST Pani down, with three feet on the
Upper Rapids, two and a half feet on the Lower
Hapfess and three and o half feet below keokuk.
The Missouri is falling, with four feet on the bars.
The Illinois Is falling. There is fair amount of
aour Offering for the East via Parkersburg and
Pittsburg. To st. Lous there is fair trade for
tfe season, with too much tonnage, however. The
Memphis packets are doing g moderate business
hEo boats leaving wee kiy, Thursday and Saturday.
There Is finc trade for New Orleans, the bulk Of
tsie shipments being pork and bacon.
The New Albany, Ind Ledger Of d late date
So r tiiS hNei tut fc1fulOgap E1dFfy L.
Spots new boat, has been laid at Dowerman &
Humphrey shipyard, and the frame is nearly up.
The boat will be hurried to completion. and will
be ready 70 enter the Louisville and New Orleans
trade about the LIST Of january
Capt. Jno. z. Shirley is about to open in the
steamboat agency and commission and forwarding
business in Memphis.
Aeaaia for BayeH St4rd.-This evening at
O'Clock the safe and punctual packet Acadia, Capt
Joseph vincent, commander, Mr. Alcee Grass
clerk, Will leave for Bayou Sara and Coast land
ings.
Hor 0arlfta REper The fino lightdraft passen
gee steamer Southern Flora, Capt. Wilson, com
nanders leaves fer ouachita, Black and Old rivers,
snd all way landings this evening al O'clock
1ltatioeto,. for Loaisrile.--This evening at
o'clock, the fne and regular passenger packet
chancellor, Capt Sol. AEalbon, commander, Nj. NJ.
n. Foster clerk leaves FOR Louiayille and way
penis. The Chancellor i a superior packet, with
iafge and eoramodious cabin and the most ex-
cellent passenger aoceranodatiops.
John Ipalsh. Railroad Line pocEof far y
Louis 20. Day. The splendid and irst.clasq nas.
senger packet John Walsh. Cant " i, Iaa,ati7s IL