New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-24
giuer SnteIIi9enrF.
CRESCENT OFFICE, No, % CAN'T sTRsET,
Thursday Morning, May "a 1866.


Thursday Morning May "a, 1866.
Warm and dusty were the principal features o.
yesterday on the levee,
s. Business was tolerable good notwithstanding the
, disagreeableness of the weather. The Louis Dor
7 for Red River, Irene for 0pelousas, Henry Ames
!, for St. Louis, Cotile for Macon and Tensas, and
, the coast packets st. Nicholas and Lafourche all
left with good trips.
The great feature among the arrivals yesterday
was the arrival Of the far-famed Telegraph packet
Molle Able from st. Louis on her first trip after
her extensive repairs. The Mollie
an al passenger packet, and has an enyiable re-
| putation as staunch, fleet and safe boat. Hel
claims upon the public having been greatly aug
mented by the improvement made, she now offers
superior inducements to the travelling and shipping
community. The machinery, decks and all other
portions of the boat have been thoroughly over.
hauled and repaired regardless of expense She
now has new boilers in place of her tubular boil.
ers Capt. A. j. Carter is still in command and
Mr. Monroe 7. Cunningham an efficient and at
tentive gentleman, pFesides in the office. The
Mollie Able leaves positively this evening, and
passengers bound up the river to-day can procure
through tickets to any point by applying to the
agent of the line, Mr.. j. P. Fitzgerald at No. I04
Common street.
| We return our thanks for favors to the officers
of steamers Nina simmes Mittie Stephens and
Mollie Able.
We learn through private kilograms that the
steamers Indiana from Louisville, and White
Cloud No. 2, from St. Louis, will be in port
tomorrow, and will at once commence to receive
TO leave again on Saturday next; the former for
Louisville, and the latter for St. Louis.
The ryniuar1y Voc 70 Iaoua g., 4l;z
port on the 10Th, and the Baltic and Magnolia on
the 22d.
The Nicholas LongwortA, Westmoreand and
Argosey was to leave Cincinnati for this port on
the 10th.
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
MEMPHIS, May 21.-Saturday was delightful on
the evee with plenty of caloric in the air II was
quite lively day. Most of the boats in port
are loading for their Saturday trips The only
thing OF note occurring was the sale of the old
tumble down wharfboat of the Memphis and St.
Louis packet company. The river is falling slowly
but steadily.
The river before New Orleans on Friday swell
ing slowly.
The river is falling all the wayS6wn to yicks-
burg.
AT Cincinnati the Ohio fell Is inches during the
"a hours ending Thursday night, with II feet
thence to Louisville, Seven feet in the channel
The river was falling very slowly at Louisville.
if at all, on Thursday, with feet inches in the
channel. On the falls there were feet inches
in the pass.
The river is stationary at Cairo.
active.
ST.. LOUIS, May 19.-There is no new feature to
report with regard to the river, it being still in
state OF decline, but sufficiently high both above
and below for every navigable purpose. At New
Orleans it is falling and the great overflow below
will probably subside.
The Big Muddy" is still reported dwindling
down at st, Joseph and all points below.
The Upper Mississippi and Illinois are without
any material change, and in fine order.
me strike question is still unsettled The la
horers evidently have made up their minds to be
dlssatfed, ana our boatmen haves determined not
to submit to any further dictaticn They com
piled with their demands, but like all strikers
they were not satisfied after they had carried their
point, and thought they would crowd the mourners
littie farther Both parties are skirmi5hing and
lt IS difficult to see what will be the next move.
delegation Of steamboat owners have had
conference with the mayor, but from all accounts
his honor failed to comprehend proper view of 4
the matter, and therefore nothing was done. We
are not aware of anybody being disappointed at |
the result There is one thing certain our boat
owners should be protected in their rights and if |
they feel disposed to hire any particular kind of
labor, should not be interfered with by another
class, especially when they have brought It mon
themselves. If the laborers had been satisfied |
with what they first demanded, that would have |
been the end of it, but as it is proposed to carry
the matter further, we hope our packet companies
and boat owners will stand IN to the rack and |
fight It out on that line if it takes all summer.
10 might as well be done now as ony other time
All these combinations which seek to regulate
other peoples business must sooner or later be
broken up, and the present, when there ia very
little doing, is the best possible time to fight them
business continues dull, with no animation in
any direction -Four or five boats leave every
week for New Orleans with good trips, but there
should be four or five day to be ANYTHING like
what before wa ID
coming down the Missouri, and no very
great amount going up. The Upper Mississippi |
and Illinois trade is fair bat all the boatmen COM
plain of hard times. There has been less money
made among the boats this year than ever before !
: The Mohawk and barges of the Mississippi |
transportation Company is receiving for New Or |
cans, to leave to-day, but will not probably leave |
before tomorrow They take freight at Vow |
igures.
The spirit of competition runslhigh up the river /
Judging from the following, clipped from the Du- |
,uque Herald:
"The Davenport and Savannah packets are hay
ng warm time competing for business.
srhe Lansing is taking freightfor almost nothing |
md selling tickets to Davenport at 50 each.
The Michigan, wild boat, was at the levee all
lay taking freight below regular rates She took |
wheat at 2Oe per 100 lbs, oats at SOC. per sack,
nd flour at 4Oc. per bbl., and departed with full
eek and two parges loaded-in all some 1900 t
ackages.
THE Davenport heard she would arrive, and to
cad her of, lowered her rates to these figures, |
ut shippers took the first offer, and gave the |
lichigan heavy trip
Kansas City papers say the river bank near
has tnmbed in, in the past three
-eeks to such an extent as to require the removal
several houses in order to save them.
at last accounts it had reach that of DR.. Cross
nd was within short distance of the fine resi- |
ence of Mr.. Thos. L. Gillian. The latter will /
robably not be disturbed. A wagon and pair /
horses were precipitated into the river a few
avs ago by the bank caving in, and one of the |
orses was drowned.
AS will be seen by the subjoined dispatch re-
eiyed this morning, the steamer Minnie has made
a extraordinary run from this city to Little Rock
LITTLE Rock, May IS, 1866.
S. Mepham 4 Bro
Steamer Minnie has arrived here. Time days
i'd hours. River feet and falling
The excursion Sunday on the steamer ii. s.
apham for the benefit of the Southern Relief
ociety, promises to be the biggest thing of the
.ason. Those who cannot go should at least
lrchase ticket to aid so noble and charitable a
luse Messrs. Mepham d Bro, mot only give
e use Of their steamer free, but have gener-
lsy proiiered to pay all the expenses of running
CIgoINNAr1 May 19.-The weather was clear
IA warm Yesterday the mercury ranging at 80
sgrees At Pittsburg last night the river was
Hing with 80 feet in the channel. Here it has
ceded u inches during the twenty-four hours
,ding last night with l6 feet hence to Louisville,
here is feet in the canal. The Lower Ohio is
fine nayigable ORDER There are - feet and fail
g in the Cumberland.