New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-08
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CRESCENT OFFICE, No. % CAMP STRSEr,
Wednesday Morning, August S, 1855.

day with big "trip. She is now receiving TO leave
again tomorrow evening for Memphis, Galro ana
st. Louis. Capt. John A. DubIe is in command,
and Mr. E. r. Lakeland oficiates in the Office
Bv a telegram to Mr. John A. Stevenson, we |
learn that the NJ. s. Mepham will leave ST. Louis
to day, for this port. ~. |
city Yesterday, as we learn by telegram to |
Messrs Titus s. Gwartney. She Fitl arrive on
Friday, and leave again on next Tuesday, l4th
instant
We return our thanks for favors to the officers
Of steamers Lafoutohe, Sonora Ruth and ldahoe
The Judge Fletcher came to the landing yester-
day, and is now ready to receive irelght ior all
landings on the 0uachita up to Trenton and Mon
roe.
We learn from the officers of the steamer Ida
hoe which arrived yesterday, that the Ouachlta
river is fast running out. The ldahoe IS receiving
to leave again this evening, and as she Is
light draft she will so through without detention
Our readers will perceive by an advertisement
that the magnificent and unsurpassed steamer
| Gen. Quman will soon resume her trips. She Will
run as regular Thursday packet to Greenyilie
and tie Bends We will at some future day give
full description Of the repairs and improvements
on this unequaled passenger steamer.
| Cart. ISAAC II. JoNEs.--lt is with pleasure
that we announce to-day that this gentleman has
been offered the Office Of superintendent Of the
| Atlantic and Mississippi Steamship Company. We
| are in hopes that he may accept of the position,
as the line will not lose any of its prestige Of for
mer days.
! CLIPPINGS FROh OUR EXCHANGES.
| ST. LOUIS, Aug, 4.-The hot weather continues.
| Low WAFER is coming still nearer home TO boat
men. The decline is rapid here, and generally
above To Cairo 9feet scant is now reported, aud
in week it is believed there will be only feet.
! There is scant. a feet to Keoknk, and one boat
has been aground about half day. The Illinois is
going down to its recent low stage, and very light
boats will soon feel at home there. Some sticking
is going on now in the Illinois. The Missouri IS
making its final plunge to low water MARI Dut
4 A. I'D fI,aa hon IN
| Arkansas is recedng slowly, with sCant feet TO
| Little Rock Navigation is nearly suspended at
Pittsburg. Business is in quiescent state, soon
/ to revive we have no doubt, with most remarkable
vigor. The New Orleans packet Virginia has laid
up; likewise the Missouri river packet Stonewall, on
account of low rates and scarcity Of freight. In
deed this vicinity is crowded with idle steamboats,.
! The arrivals include the Virginia, w. r. Arthur,
and Olive Branch, from New Orleans.
| Clerks who have been put to inconvenience will
appreciate the following dispatch:
"a 1858 WASHINGTON. Aug. LIST.
Wilson Johnston Secretary Memphis and Cincinnati Packet
| Company: .5....
Internal bills Of lading are exempt from stamp
| tax @ ~ b. A. ROLLINS.
Credit is due Mr.. Johnston for settling this ques
ton.
\ Samuel Stilwell and Joseph Aiken yesterday
Fsold the stern-wheeler Amaranth for $4,000 cash
to Capt. John Wesley, an old Illinois boatmau, who
! takes the boat into that stream.
On the lst one third of the Gov, Sharkey was
/ D.
| Turton, for SS000
| LsO. GoodeH has chartered the Zephyr from
Ben Johnson, to ply in the Illinois.
Capt. Henry will commence on Monday to load
| the famous Clara Dolsen for New Orleans. Mr.
| Frank McGraham goes as her clerk.
The officers Of the A. u NJ. s. S, company move
into their new quarters on the wharfboat today.
This wharfbOat is far ahead Of the times. The
Julia is loading, and will leave this evening posi-
lively for New Orleans. Capt. William Thompson
has taken the command, and j. s. Lehmer, ESQ.,,
has charge of the office.
| Rates of freight are as follows:
| To New 0reans:. Apples, potatoes, onions and
flour, soc 70 h.; krout and beer, 81 Is; alcohol
and whisky 81 so u bbl:; pork 75c.; poundfreights
406DT5C. ~ l00tbs.; corn 81 sack 25c.; oats SOC. ;
heavy treights y lO0tbs Csc, light do. do, 75c, )
horses and cattle 50 S9 head; mules So u head ;
| hogs 81 sheep 81 so.
TO Mobile and Montgomery by the Mobile Trade
company's steamers. By steamers: corn Csc. and
81 10 oats &c. and 81 46 -four 81 % and 81 SO. By
barges; corn Soc and 81 05 aoats Sic. and 81 Al !;
| -four 81 09 and 81 SO.
CINCINNATI, Augusta. -The weather yesterday
was cool and pleasant AT Pittsburg the river IS
falling with Is inches in the channel. There is 81
feet in the Kanawha and falling. Here the river
has fallen feet inches during the past "a hours,
leaving feet water in the channel There is a
feet in the pass over the falls. There is feet in
the lower Ohio.
The New Albany Commercial says the Dan
Able, for the Memphis and Vicksburg trade, has
just been completed. She will leave for Memphis
aud Yieksburg in few days, in charge Of Captain
Nat. Green, formerly of the Atlantic. She is eX-
pected to be fast The hull was built by Mr.. Bate,
at Metropolis, ILL., 1t is 245 fset stra ght, SO feet
beam, and feet depth of hold. The wheels are
80 feet in diameter, with lS feet length of bucket.
The machinery formerly belonged to the Glendale.
The cylinders are % inches in diameter, S feet
stroke. She is provided with five new double-tlue
boilers, each 40 inches in diameter. The cabin is
provided with fifty rooms
CAIRO, Aug. 4.-The river at this point is falling
slowly, 1he weather is very warm. Business
dull.
NEGRO CREWS CONG TO THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI.
The Dubuque papers say that the action OF the
crews on the packets above that point in striking tor
wages when they did, at time when it was more
profitable to lay up the boats than to run them,
has driven them to employ other means of help.
At the commencement OF the strike an agent was
dispatched to Cincinnati to see what arrangements
could be made there in securing colored crews
Superintendent Wellington received dispatch
from Capt. Newton informing him that he would
leave Cincinnati with three hundred negroes to
take the place of the strikers. The strike was fol-
an advance from fifty to sixty dollars per month.
LOUISVILLE, Aug. 3.-Ihe river continues falling
rather last, with feet 10 inches water in the
channel last evening by the mark. During the
previous twentyiOur hours it had fallen inches al
the head of the falls, and is inches at Portland
The weather has become more settled, and was
clear all day, aud cool for the season; the thermo
meter ranging at 80 in the shade.
On the fails last evening there were barely
! feet water in the channel, and at Cincinnati The
river is steadily going down to low water mark.
The Cumberland was falling fast at Nashville
, yesterday, with feet water on Harpeth Shoals
The Fannie Brandeis was in port advertised fol
Cairo.
Business is still dull though there was more ami
nation at the wharf yesterday than we have OBJ
served for some time with fair number o
}. steamboat arrivals from all points, including Pitts
burg and New Orleans.
:, The Nick Longworth, Capt Irwin, arrived from
n New Orleans yesterday, and to Charlie Miller thu
y attentive clerk, we are indebted Tor manifest o
+ cargo. She landed at Portland. Among he
freight items are a large amount of foreign china
n ware; also Sl9 bbls rOsin, and l75 bbls wines,
. portion Of which is for re-shipment to New Or
u leans.
w. H. OSBORN FOR ST.. LouIs.-This superio
l. passenger packet, in charge OF Capt Thos Rogers
and W. D. Rogers in the office, leaves this evening
- at o'clock, tor all landings up to st. Louis.
LOUISE FOR WATERING PLACES AND MOBILE
Is This fine, new, low pressure packet, in comman,
!. of Capt Hopkins, leaves to-day from the LAX,
/. end of the Pontchartrain Railroad for the abov
= named place, at 4 p. NJ. Agent l. @. Harris
: corner OF Camp and Common streets.
q SONORA FOR OPELoUsAs.--The fine, fast and com
o pete passenger packet Sonora Capt. o. Hincklel
commander, and Mr.. NJ. Kenison in the office
!, leaves at FIVE this evening, for all landings a
= above. The Sonora has neat and comfortabl
cabin, has good and safe officers and give frs
y class accommodations to large number of pas
y sengers.
n JUDsE FLRroHER FOR TRENTON AND MONROE