New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-24
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CRESCENT OFFICE, No. 81 CAMP STREET, /
Tuesday Morning, July 24, 1886


\ Yesterday was decidedly warm. On the levee
the heat was intense. Business, we may safely
state, was dull
4 The arrivals were the Grey Eagle, Louis Dor,
| Nina SHINES and Cotle, to whose officers we are
indebted for favors
The only departure was the David White, for St.
Louis. She left with slim trip.
i ACCIDENT TO THE Nina SIsMEs.-This regular
Bayou Sara packet, we are sorry to learn, met
with an accident on her down trip last Sunday.
4 While coming down she broke her shaft, which
will compel her to lay up this week. She will be
ready to leave again next Monday for Bayou Sara
and the coast.
The Mollie Able for st. Louis, and Grey Eagle
for Vicksburg, are receiving, and leave this eve
ming.
The Louis Dor for. Red River, Cotile for Macon
and Tensas and Nick Longworth for Louisville,
will leave tomorrow evening, positively.
The I. D. Hine, from Red River, had not arrived
up to the time of our leaving the landing. She
will be in during the day and will commence to
receive for Jefferson and way landings on Red
River.
QUIrMAN LAUNoHED.-This magnificent steamer
was launched from the dock yesterday and pro-
ceeded to better place to finish her repairs She
will be ready to commence running again in about
four weeks,
LouIsv1L e, July 22.-The river was about at a
stand all day yesterday, with four feet four inches
water in the canal in the evening by the mark.
During the previous twenty-iOur hours it had not
varied an inch in channel depth at the head of the
falls or at the Portland wharf. The weather was
cloudy in the morning, and little cooler, but at
noon the thermometer ran up to 90 in the shade,
and it was exceedingly close and sultry Ia the
evening, at one time threatening a Storm A slight
sprinkle of rain fell with the hope and promise Of
more last night. s.4=s.-
water in the pass down the Indian chute, and the
river stationary.
At Pittsburg navigation has been virtually sus-
4 pended for want OF water, the river having fallen
4 to only some odd inches in the channel.
Business was dull at the city wharf yesterday
but at Portland there was more actiWty-the
Liberty No. 2 for Memphis, receiving good trip,
| Bends and New Orleans.
owing to the lateness of the season, the low
| water, and the withdrawal of the larger packets
i freights to all points South are materially en-
HANGED.
Freights to Memphis, however, are somewhat
unsettled, the Cincinnati packets cutting down the
rates, the Mnneola having contracted to take a
round lot of bagging and rope from the city wharf
at rs to 80 cents.
The Indiana having laid up for the season has
caused an advance in freights to New Orleans and
plantation landings. She has run long and pros.
porous season, and started to Padueah yesterday
to be hauled out on the ways,
LAUNCH OF THE RoBERT e. LEE.-Yesterday
morning the new Southern packet, building for
Capt. Cannon, was launched from the ship-yard at
Lower Albany amid a vast coneourse of specta.
: tors She was laid on the stocks at right angles
with the river and had to be launched stern fore.
most. The lashings were cut away about O'Clock
aud she darted to the water, having good run to
make, with accelerated velocity, making an i'm
posing launch.
Owing to the low stage of the river, the launch
was not as successful as it should have been Just
T before the boat reached the water the packing
4 along she ways caught, or iammed, and the PROUD
boat had to actually climb over the debris to reach
? the river. Her momentum was so great added L
i the great weight, that she oyercame all obstacles
L and rushed into her future element like thing o.
life, and she now rides triumphanty at the wharf
the future mistress Of the inland seas,