New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-06

30th reports three feet in the channel to Prescott
and stationary
| RoTARY ESG1SEs.-Some excitement has been
| raised over the rotary engine, with an impression
prevailing that it ia new invention 1t is an old,
and we might say worn out prnc'pie. III 1876 a
| man of the name of kempe fitted up Gcelooat at
the Louisville wharf with rotary engines. packet
seyentydve feet in length was started about the
| same time from Cincinnati as a packet between
| that port and this
| Captain Green, of Jacksonville, in 1865, put
vibrator or rotary engine, in boat, the hull of
which was built at Cincinnati. She was called the
Cygnet. subsequently, experience convinced at
least the boatmen, that the rotary engines did not
suit steamboats,. They may be excellent to saw
wood.
LOUISVILLE, Aug. 1.-The river continues falling
fast, with seven feet water in the canal last eve
ming by the mark. During the previous twenty.
four hours the river had fallen eight inches at the
head of the falls, and two feet at Portland.
The weather was again clear and pleasant the
thermometer ranging no higher than eighty.three
in the shade. Two consecutive clear bright days
are tue wonderful eras that mark the end of July.
From the middle of the month to the close hardly
a day has passed without rain,
On the falls last evening there were five feet
water in the pass down the Indian chute, and the
river falling fast.
The river at Pttsburg was at low water mark,
and at Cincinnati was falling fast and navigation
above the latter point very much restricted, while
at Plttsburg it is virtually suspended.
Missouri river maintains the dignity that has
ever, that the big Muddy" can boast of being
nayigable stream for one entire season, but this
year it has done wonders Usually long before
this it is about dried up, but this year there is
water enough for the largest boat known on that
river.
The late rise in the Illinois has been of great
benefit, and the regular packets are now enabled
to run without any difficulty. There is no telling
how long it will last.
The receipts of produce are already beginning
to find their way down the Missouri which is very
gratifying, there having been nothing of conse-
quence come out of that river for many years.
The Post Boy, running in the Miami packet trade
brought down full trip of grain last trip, and her
officers think from this olt there will be no scarcity
Of down stream freight.
The Cumberland river was also swelling, though
not very tast, and the navigation Of that stream
may be considered as virtually suspended for the
season.
We have hopes that the fall aud winter trade
along the Cumberland river will be more prosper
Gus and lucrative than that of the past season.
The owners of the Cumberland river packets
hence to Nashville have had great nerve to con-
tinue their boats in the trade as it has been IN
profitable from the start. The crop prospects,
especially tobacco and cotton, look very favor
able and other productions promise well in addi-
ton to which we learn that four Of the iron mines
are to be put into immediate operation along that
river the greater portion Of the prOdnct of which
will come to this market 1t is also expected that
much of the cotton and tobacco of that region
good return trips to Nashville. Heretofore the
carrying trade was all one way-LouisYile send
ing supplies to Nashville without an adequate re-
turn of produce.
The upper and eastern rivers are all falling at
all points, and river commerce is dull.
MEMPHIS, Aug. 3.-Business yesterday was dull
Weather clear and warm. The river here rose
five inches in the past twenty-fo hours. 1t will
come TO stand to-day, as the rise is falling at
Cairo. BY dispatches from Little Rock we learn
that the Arkansas continues to Decline with thirty
inches in the channel The Ohio is falling from
Pittsburg down. AT Louisville, On Wednesday, it
was falling, with six feet in the canal and four feet
FIVE inches in the pass on the falls. At st. Louis
the river is declining, with nine feet scant to Cairo
Business on the landing yesterday was dull, with
but few arrivals or departures during the day.
The paving Of Court street is progressing finely
and we would like to see the work of paving the
levee resumed.
An oil company consisting of five persons, with
their steam engines, boring supplements, etc.
passed down on the Maggie Hays, from Cairo,
bound for Texas,
The peerless Ruth will be down this morning
and leave for New Orleans at twelve. She is I'M
surpassed for comfort and is one of the finest
boats ahoat.
LOUISE FOR MOBILE AND THE WATERING PLACES.
This new and fine low pressure passenger packet
in command of Capt. Hopkins, leaves to-day at
Il NJ, for the above named places, from the
Lake end of the Pontchartrain Railroad. Agent
l. G. Harris, corner of Camp and Common streets
CAMkLlA FOX THE WATERING ELACES-inlS
new, fast and splendid low pressure passenger
packet leaves the Lake end on the arrival of the y
A, NJ. train of cars for the above. Capt. a. p
Boardman is in command, and Mr.. John Otway is
the efficient purser.
HENRY AMEs FOR ST. LoU1s-Merchants
and Peoples Lj,1e.-The large, new and SUI
perb passenger steamer Henry Ames, Capt T. L.
Crawford, commander, and Geo. A. Williams, clerk
leaves punctually at P. NJ. to-day for Memphis
Cairo and ST. Louis, connecting with the railroads
for all points East and West.
NINA SHINES, EXPRESS PASSENGER PACKET FOR
BAYOU SARA.-This fast and splendid passenger
packet in command of Capt. W. r. Greathouse
with Messrs. Troxler and Millerin the office leaves
at P. NJ. to-day for the above and coast land
ings. Passengers for the coast will find the SHINES
a most comfortable packet
LUMINARY-U, s. Mall Atlantic and Mississippi
Steamship Company, for 81. Louis.-This supe
rior and faVorite passenger packet, in command of
Capt. B. R. Packard with Mr.. J. w. Eckey in the
office, leaves at 10 A. N. to-day for the above,
making connections with the railroads for all points
east and west.