New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-06-17
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ajoer Sntelligtnte.
GkEsGExT OFFICE, No. 70 CAHP STREET,
Monday Morning, June II, 1861.


The weather for the past two days since the last
Issue of the Crescent has been of decidedly sea
sonable temperature, 4. e., hot. On Saturday the
Thermometer indicated 800 in the shade while yes
teTday was only degree or two less cool
The past week has been one Of marked mac
tvity in q business point of view the arrivals of
steamers having dwindled down to twenty four,
while the Teceips OF produce were proportionately
small as will he seen by the following reeapitula,
ton:
or cotton, the receipts amounted to only 5o+
bales; of sugar, 4o5 hhds. and tcs,; OF molasses,
lO4l bbis; Of -four, 5a92 bbIs. of corn, 64SS
sacks: OF oats, Is sacks; Of tobacco, 7l9 hhds.;
of bacon a9s hhds.; Of pork, 90 bbls.; OF rope,
65a coils; and Of whisky, "a bbls.
The river has fallen four inches since our last
renort and is now foot S inches below high water
mark.
The q. r. w. Hill did not get off until yesterday.
The Chancellor, from Louisville for ST. Louis,
passed Cairo the 9th, loaded down to the guards.
The river at Cairo was falling at last accounts.
portion of the cargo of the steamer Louisville,
that was stopped at Memphis, has been forwarded
to its destination by rail-
The st. Louis State Journal of the 18th says:
The weather for the past few days has gradually
been getting warmer until it has become quite OPP
pressiye. This forenoon it was intentionally
warm, and not q breath of air was moving. Bust
ness on the landing is daily Improving. Missouri
river freights are offering quite briskly, and from
four to five boats week are leaving with toierable
fair cargoes.
The river is still rapidly rising at this point. The
total rise since Sunday is about eighteen inches.
The Missouri is rising all the way down, with
suficeney Of water in the channel for the largest
class Of boats.
The Illinois continues receding, and in excellent
boating condition.
AT Pittsburg the river is five feet and falling.
At Wheeling, six feet and falling, with six feet
and falling at Parkersburg.
The kanaWha is falling, with five feet. from
Charleston to the mouth.
In the Ohio there are seven feet in the canal.
The lower Ohio is in fine navigable order.
The Tennessee is stationary, with four feet on
Colbert Shoals.
The Cumberland is falling, with four feet on Har-
There is eightfeet in the Wabash from Yincennes
to the mouth.
ACADIA FOE BAYOU SARA.-The fast and unsur-
passed passenger packet Acadia, Capt. S. Heno
commander, and Mr.. Geo. Wilkinson, clerk, leaves
At o'clock this evening for Bayou Sara and Coast
landings.
packet Rapides, Capt. Jno. G. Dowty, commander,
and Mr.. Chas. j. Barstow, clerk, leaves for Red
river at o'clock this evening.
KEY WEST FOR 0uACHITA AND TESsAs.-The
packet Key West, Capt. John Hart, commander
leaves OF ocloek this evening for all landings on
the 0aaehita as high as Alabama Landing and
also on Tensas as high as Kinks Ferry.
JONI WALsH ron MEMpHfs.-The large, elegant
and frst-ciass passenger packet John Walsh, Capt
Geo. w. Gable, commander and Mfr. Austin R.
Moore clerk, leaves at 5 O'Clock this evening for
Memphis and the Bends. The John Walsh is one
Of the star packets of the Mississippi and as pas
senger packet has no superior. She will 60 with
ont tail as above.