New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-07-29
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Monday Morning, inly 20 1851 M
BUSINESS On the levee has diminished during the
past week as viii be seen by our receipts below.
Up ffeighta continue to be very dull and hard to
fnd. W
6 Oar city Il stlll healthy, and We hope may res
main SO.
Tie weather continues pleasant. and we have
frequent showers during the day, which makes our
h nights delightful,
The river before the oity has fallen foot inches
since our last report, and il nov II feet inches
below Highly water mark.
The arrivals during The week up ito Friday noon
last amounted to nineteen boats, bringing in the
following arnoants Of produce; Cotton, 267 bales
sugar, 556 bids and lierees lnolasses, $50 bbls.;
tobacco. Oh hhds.: nonr, $50 bbis.; corn, $40
{ sacks wheat sacks; bacon, ia casks; bag
ring, GsI ysieces rope, 100 coils whisky 90 bills
TIE Eard Ksnnett arrived from Memphis on Sat
urSay and ii now receiving for q return trip. She
8 eaye s to-nlorrow evening.
The fast Louisville will be in port tonight, and
leaves for Memphis and the Bends positively to-
morrow evening She has j clerk on the ieyee re-
sceiviag freight.
3 Tie steamer city Of Alton has sent iii a bill for
services rendered the United States Government,
claiming tsFenty sfotir days services, at $500 per
ton to this she lainas $4,000 for nip to CAIRO,
making SUM tor about thirty days
serviees, unslef II Tie circumstances, is
csrtafpals n sonabEe ana modest charge.
2A late 81. spais paper says the following story
II heing naatad; that man with big black
whiskeFs d eas on board and intimated to Capt.
Draaen hat tie wantedto charter the Meteor for
Government service, and that Drahen said he
would be id if be would charter her for any
such thing and that she was taken possession 81,
ssolesls ooiesss, by the black whiskered man.
The Shreveport Gazette Of the Goth says
We report Il decline ii The river cfs oae FOOT
during the past week. Reliable Persoiis from
water On tie bars and thy Iess At
dfia.
The essollln I'D ssd has aae foo wing:
" rsnniag up the all carry fEona
ia Tilles for agar guer-
riila pss ties along fse riFsr. The crews are tile
tssss # 7aesssslsis 81 NJ be used.
Ths Eotlis hid courier Of the 25th says:
sThe river. had reeeaed about an inch yesterday,
three feet three inches water il the canal BY
4 The mark. The weather was clear and rather
pleasant.
I AT Cincinnati and Pittsburg the river had sub
sided an inehs0r two yesterday, and some thirty
inches water reported on the intermediate bars.
2 On the Portland bar there are about four fest
water But at scufaetown the last arrivals report
N only three feet.
The "a. Lpnis papers have the following inrefer-
4 ence to TIE Mississippi
MIN The river continues 10 decline at the rate of
about six inches per day, but another rise is APP
preaching. Capt. Yore, of the Emma, which got
il from the Missouri yesterday, says that the Usage
was swelling rapidly. and that the Missouri was
pretty full from that place to the mouth with over
ye feet water above The heaviest rains he ever
saw fell on Sunday Doubtless there will be rise
VI TIVE Or three feet here.
The Illinois stationary and the Upper liissis-
& sippi Ii falling.
Laurel Hill. FoR BAYOU s The fast and I
unsurpassed passenger and Confederate States
mander and lii. Geo. Wilkinson s;;ssIK fsa7ss at
3 eciock this sysniRSs above and coast