New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-10-08

1Hle VIII receive Ifelglt, 10 leave FOR Monroe and
Trentonnext Saturday.
The Judge Fletcher will, we learn, soon enter
the New Orleans and Arkansas river trade.
/ The Alex. Speer snow at the landing receiving,
and leaves tomowou for Jefferson and way land.
| ings on Red river. AS some malicious person or
persons have reported that the Alex. speer was
sunk on her last trip down, we are requested to
state that the report is not true, She merely
| struck snag, aud when she arrived at Shreve-
/ port, on her way down. she was repaired. The
Alex. Sneer stands AL in all the insurance
Offices.
The first boats due are the .Caddo from Red
| river the Gray Eagle from ycksburg, southerner
from Memphis, Virginia and Olive Branch from
St Louis, and louisville from Louisville. They
will all take their departure as advertised.
The 0peloasas packetJ. D. Hinde will be in
port to-day and ready to receive, to leave again
on Wednesday next, her regular day. N,
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
LogIsvI1LE, Oct A. The river was falling
steadily yesterday with 10 feet inches water in
the canal in the evening by the mark During the
previous "a hours it had fallen 6 inches at the
head of the falls, and Is inches at Portland. The
weather was cloudy aud lowering all day, with the
thermometer at 65 in the morning, and II at
noon
On the falls last evening there were seven feet
two inches for steamboats, over the,roeks, and
eight feet two inches water in the pass down to
the Indian chute
At Pittsburg the river was falling fast, with five
feet water in the channel Tuesday evening, and
navigation much restricted
The river at Cincinnati is still falling slowly.
with good navigable stage in the channel for all
purposes.
The Cumberland, at Nashville, Tuesday evening,
was about stationery, with Is inches water re-
ported at Harpeth shoals.
The towboat Raven came in from Pomeroy yes
terday, with fonr barges of COAL some $4,000
bushels, for Captain Dngan, for steamboat USE
The coal barges of Capt. Dugan, that broke
loose from the toW-head the other day, and ran
oil down the falls were empty barges.
HEAVY LossEs-The fleet Of coal boats that
were torn loose at Cincinnati last week by the.
freshet were rather roughly used, and eleven of |
the number were sunk. That involved loss of
ABOUT sS0,OQ0. The coal was chiefly from the
Syracuse and Hartford city mines.
A big steamer rejoicing in the name of o. K |
was to have left Madison last evening for this city
totake trip to New Orleans. Our young friend
Lee Crane goes out in her as clerk, and she is in
charge of Capt. Crane, old Crane, probably which
gives her her name O. K.
The Great Republic will be launched at Pitts
burg Saturday.
The Clio p. Palmer was sold at Cincinnati Mon
day for Sl7500, to Captain Danley, for the Little
Rock and New Orleans trade.
The Cincinnati Times, Of Tuesday, saws:
Ihe hull OF the Clipper is now under repair on
the Marine Railway The Westmoreland is on the
Eureka docks. The Northwest is on the Marine
dry docks. In mendoning that the Prima Donna
was sold for $500, it should have beenstat that
It was only her hull, cabin and outfit that was sold
for that amounts as she will be stripped Of her |
machinery, etc. which is not sold.
IMPORTANT TO OWNERS Or CosMASDERs OF
BARGEs.-We are requested by the proper athor-
ties 10 announce that all coal merchants salt mer-
chants or any other persons owning or having
command OF harges in this district, must apply at
license for their barges or they will be proceeded
against az the Law directs. This law does not
apply to those who have already enrolled their
boats Of barges at other places but they are re-
quired TO report all sach enroIlments at the Gus
tom house.
WHITE AND BLACK STRIKERS THE ST. Louis
Dispatch says:
packets, running above Dubuque, have struck for 4
higher wages-following the example of the white
roustabouts The coored help was hired last !
summer, on eonditionthat they reserve half their
pay until the season closed, when the company.I !
would pay in full They entered suit for the bal
ance due, which viii be resisted as long as there 4
: q dollar IN the company's treasury. The crews I
nave broken their contract, and the company are n
n no way bound to observe theirs. Besides the | ri
men left the boat in the middle of trip after B
hey had loaded her, which is ahreach of faith in d
ny port and so considered in courts of law. G
oR, the company intend to do the best they can Iii
cen dispatched TO Cincinnati for three hundred CT
hite men, who will touch the Mississippi river at j
lree different points in few days, The compa- D
has been paying sA5 month, which sum they G
e willing to pay until the season closes black f
nd white to receive the same. G
MEMPHIS, Oct. A.-Weather cool and cloudy n
usiness moderate. The river here continues to B
ecline steadily. The Arkansas Is falling, With
We and o half feet on the bars to Little Rock G
mite river continues in good condition. The N
hio is falling from Pittshurg down, with ten feet
the canal and seven feet on the falls. The river d
". Louis and Cairo Is declining steadily. G
,arce. Cotton is coming forward very slowly. 4
The Pilots Association of the Memphis DIVISION to
Cairo and New Orleans, Arkansas and White H
yer pilots, disbanded yesterday, with the view b
the reorganization of their association on more Fl
I'D basis, Their by-lawsand regulations will be II
nilar to the Engineers Benevolent Association ce
CINCINNATI, Oct. 3-Tha weather was cIearand CO
arm yesterday, with fog during the night pre- ga
Gus. Al Pittsburg, the river is falling with Sc
Ct IN the channel. The KanaWha, is rising with NJ
feet IN the channel. Here the river has receded co
inches during the past 2i hours, with 28 feet -
snee TO Louisville. There is IL feet in the canal 81
ID ~ feet on the shoalest bars along the lower H
bio. 81
CAIRo, Oct I've are under obligations to III
apt ". q Priest for the following statement Of &.
9 amount of Pittsburg coal now on the way to v
'ints below Cairo. In addition to the following Y
ere are four or five boats laying at Louisville, K
it'll large toWs Of coal undecided whether to sell
that point or come lower down: C
8boat Lake Erie .146 900 bush Now Orleans
!. Collier. b. .....,...... ll0D00 -. JC
Stells.. i. II 900 :, Ia
Goal Hill. .s......s.... 10000 :. q
Eagle. ................. 900 ~
A. g. Kaker -. :. 900 -. 4t=Ei.48 "
!. AiRx,..... 49,, :. 100000 ). g.
=. Aps.a.. :. !. 100 600 !. i. n
TigrBsss ....,........ 100 moo +. -
Hornet. -. ......ii0006 Yicksbnro, a
Dick Fulton ........... $4,000 . NatcheE 10
Making total of 100000 bushels of coal to 90 K
low Memphis on the present riae.s A majority CO
the boats have already passed Cairo without &
cident. u
81. LoUIs, Oct The river Is steadily declin- !