New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-27
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CRESCENT OFFICE, No. % Camp Street
Thursday Morning. Sentenlbtr OF Is

Ihursday Morning, September II, 1866. J
Yesterday was an exceedingly pleasant day,
The sky was without speck to mar its deep
eternal blue, and the temperature wore a bracing
tinge, inyigorating the whole physical system.
/ Business on the landing appeared to be impreg.
mated with some activity, although the departures
and arrivals were remarkably numerous.
The great Quitman came in yesterday with her
usual regularity, She is now receiving, to leave
again this evening at o'clock for Vicksburg,
GreenYille and all landings in the Bends.
The Mississippi Valley Transportation packet
Yankee, with barges, arrived yesterday with a
big trip, and left again at P. NJ, for St. Louis.
The H. A. Homeyer, which packet arrived Oh
Tuesday night, had a very good trip, from Red
Rivera portion of her cargo being 100 bales new
| cotton, the first large amount that has been re-
ceived this season from that stream.
By a telegram to Messrs. G. L. Kouns & Bro.
we learn that the Navigator left Shreveport for
| this city yesterday morning, She will arrive to.
| morrow evening, and leaves again on Saturday.
We return our thanks for favors to the officers
of steamers H. A. Homeyer, Gen. Quitman, Lady
Gay and Lafourche.
The splendid Lady Gay arrived yesterday, with
large trip Of freight and her cabin full of peo-
Pile. She is now receiving, and leaves ats o'clock
this evening for Memphis, Cairo amidst. Louis.
The John Kilgour will arrive in port to- day, and
will be ready for business, She leaves again, for
all points up to St. Louis, tomorrow evening
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
LOUISVILLE, Sept. 22.-The river is at a stand
with eleven feet one inch in the canal and nine
feet one inch in the Indian chute. The weather
was cloudy and cool, the thermometer standing al
63 degrees at P. NJ Business was brisk and
shipments were moving in large quantities. The
hifTbx hoe
the falls, giving the city wharf more lively APP
| pearanee than for months.
The New Albany Commercial says: The Robert
p Lee, Capt. CannOn,s new boat, was towed up
to the foot of Lower First street yesterday by the
ferry boat Excelsior. This was done in order to
facilitate the work of taking on board machinery
furniture, etc. One of her immense chimneys
was also raised to its place.
4 ST. Louis, September 23.-The weather yester-
day was clear and cool, and very pleasant.
1 aaBUsINEss NJ ATTERs.--0wing to the fact that the
i roads IN the interior are in such a muddy con
| diton as to make hauling impossible, receipts OF
produce are light and hut little freight for points
! south Of here is being offered. Merchants from
/ the country are coming to the city in great nun.
bers and purchasing their fall supplies. Business
among our wholesale merchants is becoming
| brisk, and this causes fair amount of business
for the Missouri river and upper Mississippi boats
AS the cholera has disappeared, and the rainy
weather over with, We look for brisk business
| this week.
/
at stand here last night, aud we look for an i'm
mediate decline. AT last accounts the river was
| falling at Dubuque and above that point, rising
between the rapids, and rising at Keokuk, although
| slowly.
The upper portion of the Missouri continues to
decline The Ohio has experienced heavy
swell, but is now at stand at Cincinnati. The
| Wabash is reported to be bank full. A general
| destruction of crops in the Wabash bottom is
lo1ked for. The Tennessee and Cumberland
rivers are again falling.
ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES. arrivals yes
tetday included the White Cloud, Mary E. For
| syth and Stonewall, from New Orleans.
The departures include the Mississippi for New
| Orleans; the Clara Dalsen, to retirement; and
| the Marcella, to the docks.
/ The elegant steamer Stonewall arrived from
1 New Orleans yesterday, and will lay aP for few
days. awaiting revival in the New Orleans
| trade.
| The Pauline Carroll, Capt. Hugh White, will
/ leave for New Orleans next Tuesday
/ MEMPHIs, Sept. 23.-Ihe weather yesterday was
balmy and pleasant, although in the morning it
was quite cool and we heard some qlsid names saw
| that frost was found on the tops of the higher
| buildings {perhapsl; but as the day advanced the
sun shone brightly, aud in the evening was warm
enough 10 be comfortable, although many had re
course 10 cur friends Bigiey h Mellersh's stone
coal to raise the temperature of their rooms After
the heat otsun mer = over and dog days. las
many term the dearth of business during these
hot months) have passed tits very refreshing to
see the levee heaped with freight of all kinds and
steamers passing and leaving the wharfboats
loaded to the guards with the produce and Iner-
chandise Of the country.
Owing to the effects Of the late war, and the
consequent impoVerishment of the South money
is now and has been very scarce among our peo-
pie, but now as the cotton is being shipped and
money coming in return, business generally IS
looking up, and in a short time the palmy DAYS of
aud lang sinep WILDE here with all their pris
tine glory. The river is rising very fast at this
place, and IN fact all rivers are ap ard risine,
During the last tweuty-four hours the river ms
risen here about twenty eight inches, and ia stitl
rising. From 10 NJ. yesterday till =. NJ, the
river rose about eight inches. The bar opposite
the wharf has nearly disappeared.
LADY Gay, q. S. MAIL Boar, ATLANTrc Ann
MISSISSIPPI STEAMSHIP CoMPANYs LfNE.-The
regular, elegant and popular passenger packet.
Lady Gay, Capt. John II. Burk, Commander
and Mr.. John A. Tatum, clerk, leaves this
evening &C o'clock, for Memphis, Cairo. ST. Louis
aud oil way landings. making connections with the
for all points East and West, The Lady
Gay is one Of the leetsst largest and most costly
Of our river packets, aud has no superior in ali
that pertains to comfort and enjoyment. She is
u ornament to this great line, and the pride of
Ter owners. Tho high reputation of her officers
md the vigorous discipline known to exist on
,oard are the pledges Of safety offered by the
.ady Gay
GApDo rem snREyEPoRT.-The light-draft pas