New Orleans daily crescent., 1861-03-11

CgrsdxNr Uyrtcr, No. 70 CANT STREET;
Monday Morning, March II, ls6l. IS
he weather for the last TIVE days has been mild
aaa spring.like Business on the levee on Saturday
exhibited considerable animation. The arrivals
we're more erous than on Friday, while the de.
partures were not only numerous, but left generally
with good trips.
Tho steamer Iherville having met with an acci-
dent, ehe Acadia ieftin her place for Bayou Sara
yesterday The number Of arrivals Of river steam
efs at this port for the week ending Friday neon
4 was i0s. The receipts Of staple produce per these
arrivals We append as follows:
\ Cotton, bales, 80, "a sugar, hhds. and bbls.,
6s7a nlelasses bbs 20 si3; tobacco ,aa hhds 2azs;
tIour bIlss a5 wheat, sacks, 1896 corn sacks,
a2s 1885, oats sacks, g. pork, bbls. and tcs.,
x M 6tisJ bacon casks and boxes, 263S; baggng,
rcs 2S4 rope, coils. 8 II whisky, bbls., Tls4;
fDr lie South at Louisville are Increasing
osiiig tie fact that factors anxious to throw
al much bagging and rope into the New Orleans
market as possible on or before the 18th.
nc Louisville Courier has the following:
few 8of the personal friends Of Capt. Isaac
& Hooper, of the New Orleans and Bayou Sara Mail
line III this city, have presented him with beau
tFhl like portrait of himself. was painted in
mastery style, and set in an elegant and costly
frame, Id ad1rn one of the panels of the cabin of
the a. Gotten, tie low-pressare boat now nearly
prudent beatgnan, generous, warm -hearted South
erner, ana well merits this neat compliment from
His personal friends in this city and will appreciate
the generous git 555
The Memphis a valanche Of tie sth inst. says:
The river af tsiis point is still declining the fall
being equal to fully eighteen inches during the past
faw days What has become of the thirty four inch
rise an hour We heard SO much about a--we are at
VI iess to- know. There are fifteen feet in the chan
nal from st. Louis to Cairo.
Az,
d Ihe weather yesterday was clustering and cool,
u geniiine March day. The river at Pittsburg is
na1Aaing with ia feet water scant in the channel
AL heelilg there are 10 feet; at Marietta is feet
water ana falling. The Kanawha is reeeding, with
feet water iii Tie channel from Charleston to the
raeuth. Thes officers Of the Ohio report the river
s eliag all the way down. aud that the tributaries
pouring Che north side of the Ohio river are all
n III hears inches. There are in the canal I
feet water, with feet water in the pass on the
falls. The Lower Ohio and the Wabash and Cam
9berland are Id d. fne navigahle condition. The
ofarings of freight yesterday were dull TO all |
points. The 81. Losiis trade is improving. and the
prospects for a large immigration are hattering.
Tha rates continue as follows;
& NeH Orleans5- Vhisky, sI; Oil, 81 10; Flour,
penni ireights. 81 to 4oc. per 100 Lard in bbls.,
kegs ETC.,. soc. per 100; Horses, SD per head
clineTy, 75o 10 81.
III rsI0 FoR LAFoURcHE - The fine passenger
packet aGasie. Capt. !. .. Brown commander, and
Adr. 4. Al Richard, clerk, leaves at IL o'clock N.
tosdas for Lafourehe and the coast.
III GRossEs TETE FOR BAYOU SARA--The staunch
and regular passenger packet Crosse Tete, Capt.
Jaa. MeQaoid commander, and Mr.. Geo. Wilkinson,
clark. leaTas ST o'clock this evening for Bayou
Sara aud The coast.
N ]. RoBEEsTs ROB RED RIVER The elegant |
and superior passenger packet T. ". Roberts,