New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-31
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CRESCENT orrlcE, No. 81 GANr STREET, J
Thursday Morning May VI, 1860

ing one OF day IN the tati, lnsteau ot SPINS ~
ing the day we had several showers, and with the
wind from the north made 1t very unpleasant to
those who had business on the landing. AS ma
tural consequence, business was exceedingly dull,
although all the steamers that were announced
for departure left with the exception Of the
steamer Saratoga. She is receiving, and leaves
positively this evening for all landings up to
Shreveport
The Robert E. Lee, now being built at New AL
bany, md, by Capt, John Cannon, will far exceed
in grandness Of style, costliness and speed, any
thing that has ever rufled the broad bosom of the
Great Father. Her sealed contracts amount to
the enormous sum Of $40 900. Her machinery
alone viii cost $50, 600. Her carpet has already
been contracted for through New York mer-
chant, to be made in Europe, of one whole piece,
not seam to be in it. 1t will cost $4,000. This
forthcoming floating palace of beauty will be
queen Of everything afoat on American waters.
The steamer Virginia, we learn, left Louisville
yesterday for this city. She will arrive in time to
leave on her return trip next Wednesday, 9Th inst.
Since this fast and superior passenger packet has
been here she has been completely repaired from
stem to stern having had her cabin extended, and
she now offers fine Inducements to passengers bound
up the Ohio. Passage can pc secured on this
splendid steamer BY applying to her agents Messrs
Stevenson & Douglas, No. Front street.
The Nick Longworth viii be port to-day and
will commence to receive to leave for Louisville
tomorrow evening. Capt. A. r. Irwin is in com
mand and Mr.. Chas. Miller offciates in the Office.
The steamer louisville Capt, w. R, Hollcroft,
win arrive tomorrow and leaves again on Satur
day, on her return trip for Louisville.
The fast and superior Lizzie Gill will arrive to-
morrow and leave again on her regular day, Sun.
day next, at 10 A. NJ. Capt. Jas 0'Neal is in com
mand and Mr.. w. a. Rhodes oficiates as chief
clerk. The Lizzie viii take passengers for Mem
phis Cairo and St. Louis, connecting with the rail
roads for all points east and west.
The NJ. S. Mepham will arrive tomorrow, and
returns to ST. Louis on Saturday.
We return our thanks to Mr.. w. Fl. Chopper,
clerk Of the Mary B. Forsyth, for late favors. The
Forsyth is receiving and leaves to morrow evening.
The Telegraph packet Mississippi, from st. Louis.
The Red River packet Louis D Or, and the Ouach-
tia packet yicksburg, will arrive during the day
They win at once commence to receive to leave
again on Saturday.
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
CAIRO, May 26.-The river at this point fell
about l6 inches in the "a hours ending last
evening.
The weather yesterday was cloudy, with light
showers through the day.
Business fair.
The Cumberland and Tennessee rivers are falling.
The Mississippi continues falling at st. Louis.
The Missouri is down to 8 feet 8 inches below
Omaha, and 4 feet inches below Leavenworth.
White river is in good nayigable condition. ST.
Francis river is falling very fast. Red River is
dsastrously high and receding, after having played
the deuce with plantations up that stream.
At Plttsburg the river is thirty inches by the
pier mark and falling. Weather clear.
AT Louisville the river Is falling slowly, scant
five feet by canal mark. Weather clear. e
CINenJNATI, May 26.-The weather was warm
and showery yesterday. at Pittsburg last night
the river was falling, with two and half feet in
the channel. Here it has receded three inches
during the twenty-four hours ending last night,
with twelve feet hence to Louisville. There is
four and half feet in the canal The Lower Ohio
is in fair navigahie order. There are three and a
half feet, and falling, in the Cumberland.
PITTsBURG, May rs, P. M.-EdS. COn.-The
river continues to recede slowly at this point, with
two feet six inches in the channel this evening by
the marks. The weather continues clear and pleas
ant, though getting warmer by degrees.
LOUISVILLE, May 26,-The river was falling very
slowly Yesterday, with scant Eve feet water in the
canal in the evening by the mark. During the
previous tWenty-feur hours it had fallen about one
inch at the head of the falls, and but very little
more at Portland. The weather has turned few
degrees warmer, though still rather cool for the
cloudy.
On Tie falls last evening there were thirty-fve
inches water in the pass down the Indian chute,
and the river nearly at a stand
The Louisiana, for New Orleans last evening.
had only light freight. She expects to fill out
with corn from the Wabash.
The Hope, Capt. Metzler's boat, has not been
permitted to go from port until the claims of the
builders are secured. In the meantime she is at
the city wharf, under heavy and useless ex-
pense, to say nothing of the detention Of freight
and passengers.
MEArH1s, May 27.-Yesterday was miserable
day upon the leYee. In the morning the rain
came down in torrents, and throughout the day it
was showery and excessively muddy. There was
very little done on the levee, in consequence of
the rain and mud. The river continues to fall
slowly at this point Arkansas river is falling
with five feet to Little Rock.
We give below the card Of Capt Dufier of the
steamer j. S. McCune, in reply to the charge of
giving negro cabin passage on his boat. He is
mistaken, however, instating that we charged it
upon him. On the contrary, we expressed the
hope that he would exonerate himself from the
charge, which, it it had been true, would have
placed him and his boat outside the pale, even of
contempt we are happy to state that many good
citizens give cheertuliy their Warmest commenda-
| ton of him as q man and as an officer
MEMPHIS, May 26.--Ed. Appeal-Fo my sur
prise, on my return with my boat to this port, l
had my attention called to an article in your paper
among other river items, stating that | had al.
lowed a colored man to take cabin passage on the
boat in my charge, well known in this and other
ports as the j. S. McCune You will please correct
this, to be charitable egregious error through your
columns, The cabin ofthe J. s, MeCune was built
and arranged exclusively for the travelling com
mnnity Of the white race, and has never. and
never will be, while / command her, appropriated
to any other use or purpose. No colored man
ever called on me or any officer OF my boat fol
cabin passage. If such had been the case, !, and
| oil officers on the boat would have peTemptoriy
refused 1t.