New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-09-24
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The week ending Saturday night has been one o
somewhat marked activity. The weather gener
ally has been pleasant and contributed greatly Il
tie pursuit OF business. The river before the city
has risen enc inch since our last report and is nov
Is feet one inch below higlwater mark.
The receipts Of produce for the week ending
Friday at noon have been as follows: Cotton, ~
257 bales sugar 173 hads. tes. and bbls; nloasses,
fo2 hbls.; lour, ,T07 hbls. bacon, aOs bids and
casks bagging, $50 pieces rope, ISL coils; corn,
1890 sacks: lard, sGT tcs. and bbls, 1921 kegs
oats, 1904 bbls. and sacks pork, 2l5o bhls. and
tcs; tobacco 10 hfls.; whisky, 26o6 bbls.; wheat
S7I hhls. and sacks.
The arrivals III steamboats, at this port during
me week were ferty .six.
Saturday was q bright and pleasant day, and
business on the levee was brisk; the departing
boats 81 left with good trips.
The steamer Kate Dale, lying on the other side
of the river, took fire on Friday night and was
entirely burnt up. We understand that she was
fully insured.
A Hatboat with load of II 900 bushels of oats
left Cincinnati recently for tie Lower Mississippi
Two eats loaded with -four and whiskey en-
route for this market.
VIE learn from the Memphis Appeal that the
steamer st. Francis Nc. 2 sunk at the shore OPP
posite Memphis on Sunday, 10TH during the storm.
She had been removed as unfit for service, and was
laid up for sale. The immediate cause of her
sinking is supposed to be the eating out of her
caulking by slrimps. she was the property of Mr..
Geo. Nelson, of Memphis, and was of but little
vasue.
The steamer War Eagle was at Cairo on the
2ott. She i destined for New Orleans.
The st. Louis Democrat of the 2lst says that q
new craft, named Gornia, has Just been completed
at che Allegheny wharf. She is Represented as
being lightdraft and strong boat, and well cal
culated to encounter hardships. She is intended
for Cornie rivera tributary Of the 0uachita-
is under the command of Capt. Williamson. Her
capacity for cotton is $50 bales or thereabouts.
The latest ST. Paul paper we have received is
the Times Of Saturday, 18TH. Itsays:
The heavy rains for few days back have
caused rise of some or 10 inches in the river,
and the water is still coming up, afiording an
easier passage fer boats. The Northern Belle
Delta and Wenona went down yesterday. The
Fanny Harris arrived yesterday, having in tow a
beautiful new barge, which bore the cognomen of
Honest ehe,s and which was heavily loaded,
thereby indicating that anything bearing thar
name u exceedingly popular. The Ocean Wave,
Milll the mail, arrived about noon. The Wenona,
%1icn went down 10 the morning, met the Fayorite
below Hastings, took her passengers, and returned
10 tlliscit the Farorite turning back.
/, The steamer Marengo, from Cincinnati, and
Hiawatha, from St Louis, viii arrive here to-day.
Ihe Arizona, for Cincinnati, and Iatan and John
Warner, for St. Lons, we're at Memphis on the
2Afh.
We learn that Capt. Bart. G. Leiper, of the
steamer Stephen Decatur, has gone East on a re-
creative tour.
Capt. James Good, formerly of the steamer
Mars, has assumed temporary command Of her
The Belfast left Memphis on the 10th for this
port.
sTEA alER METEoR.-Capt. Il. +. Dill and Mr. A. j.
Norman. of Memphis, and others, who lately pur-
chased the fine steamer Meteor, have had the boat
decked and thoroughly repaired, and she is now at
the landing receiving passengers and cargo for
New Orleans. The Meteor has been painted and
thoroughly renovated and is in fifst-cass business
order Capt. .. L. Dill takes chargeof the boat on
the roof; Mr. III alter E. Dill is clerk, and Mr.. a. j.
Norman is engineer. The Meteor will leave for
Nsw Orleans on Saturday fto-morrow) morning
without fail She is an excellent passenger steamer
aial one Of the best low water St. Lonis and New
Orleans packets aaoat We wish her new owners
all the success they deserve.
[St.Louis Republican, 2lst.
The steamers Cora Anderson, VIM M Morrison |
aud John !. Roe arrived at StsLouis on Friday
last The departures for this port were the Alonzo
Child and D. e. Taylor.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 2I.-At Pittsburg the riyerl
was feet inches and falling last night, with |
showers Of rain during the forenoon At Wheeling |
there Is feet, and at Marietta and Parkersburg
feet and falling. Here the river is stationary, with
feet TO Louisville and feet scant in the canal last
night.
ST.. Looms, Sept. 2l.-The river at this point was
stationary yesterday. It had not, at dark last
day night. There is five feet in the channel out to
Cairo and Menphiz.
The Illinois river Is falling steadily, with seant
thirty inches ID The channel TO pekin and Peoria
above Peoria there IL twenty inches.
Che Upper Mississippi, at last accounts was sta
ti9narF, with three and half feet on the upper,
and tWenty-aig CHI inches on the lower rapids.
felow keoknk there Is three and half feet fun
1t il said that there is further rise coming
down the Mississippi. We say, let il come along; !
il is wanted badly.
The Missouri river, at last accounts was falling |
with seant three and half feet in the channel he
low Weston, and thirty inches above Weston. The |
Missouri river is in very good condition.
Crosse TEE for Bayou Sara. = The regular |
packet Crosse Tete, Capt. ]. McQuoid, commander, |
VI. Geo. Wilkinson, clerk, win leave this evening
OIL clock for Bayou Sara and intermediate land
ings.
Daniel B. Miller for Red Riuer.--The neat and
lightdraft passenger packet Daniel B. Miller, Capt |
u. Glasscock, commander, Mr.. B. Moody, clerk,
inaves this evening at clock for Alexandria and
ell intermediate landings.
W Gen. John Al 2aitfaaa .toa. GreenUile - The
swift, safe and unriyaied passenger packet Gen |
oaitman, Capt. ]. ". Cannon, commander, leaves
today az r. NJ, to the minute, for Greenyille and
intermediate landings. Mr.. ]. +. Smith, her oblig-
Ing clerk will be found at his post id the office al
usual, TO see that passengers are properly cared
for.
i'sgosaor for Memphis. = The fast passenger
packet Ingomar, Capt. ]. d. Clarke, commander.
MIR Miles M. Temple, clerk, leaves positively at
o'ciock for Memphis and the bends, connecting
with the railroads for all points North and East,
Passengers can procure through tickets by apply. I
ing to John p Hyde & Co., agent, under the St. I
Charles Hotel.
II Eaa'csdd Jo1, LoaisntRe.--We would in
fern our friends and the public generally that the
fast and splendid passenger packet o. d. Fairchild |
Capt. II. Faucet, commander, Will leave this !
evening q o'clock for Memphis. Cairo, Louisville
ahd intermediate landings Her cabin is large and K
aanifaply furnished and appointed for the comfort I
and convenience Of passengers. Mr.. Richard r. |.
Ealler' the Courteous clerk, will be found in the
otiice ready to receive visitors
q atsssofa for 0faolnnati-The regular PASSENGER
packet Aurora. Cant T. Es1s.,,s ~,