New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-08-23
Neo OrIeans nailg Crescent.
19HP ARTr1ENT COLUMNS
4ioer gntfIIiatllte.
cpysuEnT orFiex. no. 10 CANT sTREKT,1
Friday MoFning, August Is, 1861.

Friday Morning August Is 1861.
Yesterday vas hot and sultry, with our regular
midday shower, which did not cool the atmosphere.
Business was dull on the landing; the departures
iirfldaa The Empire Parish for the coast, and
Laurel Hill for Fort Adams.
BY d dispatch received yesterday, we learn that
Tie r. W. Powell sunk below Bayou Sara, and is a
tstal iuss, with only one life lost.
The Sallie Robinson was toHef to the wharf yes
terday, and is now receiving freight to leave In
place Of the Powell on Saturday.
N learn that the steamer Grand Duke will ar
rive tomorrow. and leave again on Monday on her
retnrn strip to Memphis. She has . clerk on tne
leyee receiving freight.
The St. Louis papers Of Saturday report all the
rivers falling in that direction, the Illinois and
Upaer Mississippi very low, and four feet in the
afissoura The ST. Lonis Democrat, an organ of the
Black Republican Government, has this plain truth
ia iss last Cairo correspondence. How that paper
happened 10 let the truth appear in its columns is
rather mystery. It must have been struggled in.
ne notified the public some time ago that these
boats were q take in. What Republican swindled
the Lincoln Government in their construction :?
Doa't ill speak at once. Here is the Democrats
description
These gunboats constructed at an immense ex-
spense to the Government, I am sorry to say, have
been built on the rotten hulls Of old worn out pas
senger and coal toWboats, and any man with a
pair of good cewhide heavy-soled boots could kick
out their water sides. There never was more
#anton waste of public money than in their con-
sffaetion. a six pound ball well aimed would
kaack tEeig wheels to pieces, and a land battery
waaid, # ii range, make them only slaughter pens.
The ST. Louis Democrat gives this notice Of a
frst-rate Linsolnite.
Mr.. William Miller, who holds chief engineer
II qays te pf1
the Government, to the Balze, hi. or Charleston
harbnr.
The steamer Chancellor was at Cairo on the 10TH
with steam mp, getting ready to go to Cape Girar-
dean.
We learn from the st. Louis Democrat, the or
gan Of tha Black Republicans, that the following
additional boats hare been impressed into the des
pots service: Planet, John Warner, Gladiator
n. u. McGiII, Continental, Platte Valley, John H.
Dickey Champion, and Edward Walsh.
Tie Memphis Avalanche of the 2lst says:
The river opposite this point continues to rise
though not SO rapidly as for several days previous
The total rise here has been equal to about three
feet.
Business at the landing yesterday was quite
brisk The weather was clear and very warm.
TIE Kentucky arrived from Hickman yesterday
with good trip, including 1900 sacks wheat, 800
sacks corn. and a large quantity Of miscellaneous
freight. She returned last evening with fair trip
of people.
The AIonzo Child cleared for New Orleans last
evening, with $500 bbs. flour, 1900 sacks Of corn,
and q large quantity Of other freight, besides
g16d passenger trip.
The I,dhisyille Courier Of the 10th says:
The river was rising again yesterday. with nearly
six feet water in the canal The weather was wet
during the morning, and rather cool in the even
ing
AT Pittsbnrg there was a full coalboat tide Fri
day, with eleven feet water in the channel. The
rise, however, was from the Allegheny, and very
sudden, sweeping away two bridges on the Gleve-
land and PittsbHrg Railroad, one on the Pittsburg
Fort Wayne and Chicago, and one on the Ale
gheny Valley. The former intend placing a line
OF steamers the river to connect with the road
a. WellsFile until the bridges can be rebuilt
AT Wheeling there were seventeen feet water,
making g sudden food.
The river at Cincinnati was receding a little, but
d rise was expected.
Madison, Ind, is deserted village, with only
one boat, the old Moses Mcclellan at the Marine
Railway little ferry boat had left that place
for some point below.
AeAprA FOR BAYOU SARA-The fast O. S. mail
passenger packet Acadia, Capt. Jos. Vincent com
nander, and Mr.. A. Dupny, clerk, leaves at 8
o'clock this morning, for all coast landings up to
Bayou Sara.
y LOUISVILLE FOR MEMPHIs.-This elegant and
fast passenger packet having been unayoidaby
detained, will leave positively at o'clock this
evening for Memphis and way landings. Her
passenger accommodations are first-elass, and her
officers are both thorough steamhoatmen and &C
command, aud Mr.. j. w. Manconrt presdes in the
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