New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-07
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CRESCENT OFFICE, No. 81 CAMP STREET
Saturday Morning, July 7, 1866.

Saturday Morning, July 4 1866
It continues very holland oppressive, the ther
mometer still ranging high up in the nineties.
Business was tolerable good yesterday, tn,
steamers that left had fair trips and those tina
are up for departure to-day were receiving freely
By telegram to Messrs. Stevenson & Douglas
we learn that the steamer Lizzie Gill will be il
port to-day and will commence to receive to leave
again on Monday next for st. Louis. rf
The Indiana will be in this morning and leaves
again this evening for Louisville.
We return our thanks for faYors to the officers OF
steamers NJ. s. Mepham, National Cleona, j. NJ.
Sharp and 81. Nicholas.
The steamer Friendship and barges are receiv.
ing for St. Louis, and leaves on Monday next
Capt =. r. Burdeau, No. Front street, is the
agent Of this steamer and barges
Y The Yankee will leave this evening with her
barges.
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
ST.. LOUIS, July 3.-No change to report in re.
gard to the upper rivers. Recent heavy rains hav e
swollen the Upper river, and it is now fine navi
gable stream all the way through to st. Paul.
q Missouri is in excellent boating stage, with pros
pect of rapid declension.
The Illinois is about dead low. We expect to
see the Naples packet Belle of Pike withdrawn
and supplanted by a chartered sternwheeler. The
Schuyler, Peoria packet, has abandoned the river
for the present The City of Pekin is making her
last trip in the Illinois trade and the Amaranth will
run in her stead.
The White and Arkansas rivers are both falling
fast, but in fine order.
Heavy rains and cold weather have both been
experienced up the latter stream. Business is
fair for the season. Some four or five boats should
be here to-day from St, Paul and way points with
grain-the Petrol and four harges, the Little
Rock and barges, and the America and Canada
without barges. The weather is again warm
The truly magnificent steamer w. r. Arthur
will leave this morning punctuaIy, being the regu-
lar mail and telegraph packet of the Atlantic line
She is in charge of the most careful and popular
men, and no tear need be entertained of delays or
Indifferent accommodations OF fare. Capt, Henry
g. Carson commands, and hlr, Ben Cougar has
charge OF the elerking department. The Lady
Gay is now on the ways at Carondelet The
ways" are in complete repair and better ar
ranged than ever before.
CINCINNATI, July 3.--The weather was clear and
warm yesterday AT Pittsburg the river was fall
ing, with three feet in the channel here. Here the
river is recediBg slowly, with thirteen feet on the
shoalest bars hence to Louisville. There are six
feet in the canal. There nine feet in the lower
Ohio. The Cumberland is falling, with five feet on
Harpeth shoals
Mr.. Nick NJ. Johnston, late freight agent for the
Memphis and Cincinnati packet company, and
Capt. w. S. Getty, late of the firm of Getty Il
Glaary, have entered into copartnership as steam
boat agents and forwarding merchants, at % West
Fr6ntstrees, under the firm name Of Johnston g.
Getty. We wish the new firm success, They have
had long experience,
Capt. Geo. 81. Aleoke late OF the Darling sue
ceeds Mr. Nick III. Johnston as freight agent Of the
Memphis and Cincinnati packet company
Capt. Jas. =. Wise yesterday received dispatch
from Nashville, stating that the river was five feet
ana falling slowly.
9IrqsBUBa, July 2.-Tho river continues 10 re.
eede slowly at this point, with only three feet in
the channel by the pier mark TINS evening. The
weather continues cloudy and warm, with indica-
tons of more rain. ..
yesterday morning; began to rain gently about
O'clock and continued for near an hour, saiicient
to lay the dust, which has been exceedingly truu-
blesome during the last few days. The crops in
the.neighhorhood will doubtless be in a measure
revived by the rain. The clerk of the weather
has our thanks for all such favors, however small
The river at this point is said to be slightly on the
decline. Though there is some business doing on
the leVee, IT IL mostly confined to the metropolitan
raid on the mackerel brigade and greedy hack
men. All these old customers had better nut for
their holes Of exit, and pull them in as thew 90.
The steamer Indiana passed down, on her way
from Louisville to New Orleans, yesterday even
ing. She had barge 10 tow, containing two cars
for the Southern Pacific Railroad, and very fair
trip otherwise.
Our reporter is informed by Captain Walt, that
he had received telegram from the agent Of the
estate TO which the steamer Won Phul belongs
that he could have her for the amount Of his bid !,
s3l 900 This settles the question as to the fact OF
her plying between Memphis and New Orleans as
a cotton boat in the coming fall. Captain Walt
says she will commence running about the third
Wednesday 10 September, leaving here every al
ternate Wednesday. The Won Phul will be com
manded by that popular gentleman Captain Frank
Hicks and is intended to be worn out in the trade
Tor which she is set apart. She is said to be the
only simon-pure cotton boat afloat.
The Lizzie Gill Captain OGeal, passed down
with one of the biggest loads of the season, there
being two or three inches of water over her guards.
The hne steamer Henry Ames, passed up from
New Orleans to ST. Louis at an early hour with a
fair trip.
The steamer Laurel Hill, from New Orleans,
Capt Jim Bentley, formerly pilot Of the Indiana,
which has been lying up for the last two years at
New Orleans, passed up With 1881 boxes, aud $50
hhds sugar II is her last trip, as abe win be dis
mantled and her hun sold for wharf boat or some
such purpose. Captain Bentley proposes TO build
smother boat 70 bear the sane name her machinery
to 60 into the new boat
The Mississippi Valley Transportation company,s
teWhoat Yankee, with three model barges heavily
loaded, and tvs coal barges in tow, passed down
to New Orleans Withoutl landing. fH
the Nicholas Lnngworth, Capt. Alex Irwin
passed up 70 5elisEile early in the morning
lopTsYiLuR, July 1.-The river was falling
rather fast yesterday with feet inches water in
the cenal in the evening by the mark. Daring t6e
previous As hours it had Feeeded inches al the
heSd OF the falls and Ii inches at Portland. The
weather continues clear aud dry, and gradaally