New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-25

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nine barges lying at Nafo ana JohnsonVule, and
tue wharfhOat Chancellor lying at Cairo. They
are all in rood order and ready ~ ;,r,,eliofa nee
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The steamer flcBsburg.
The steamer White Cloud No @ will arrive to j
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NAoHoeS' /.
The Baltic from ST. Louis will arrive in time to
leave on her return trim next Tuesday
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Witt ms = Ho1 - - A-- 80 ~.
LOUISVILLE, May l9.-Ihe river was iatnhg
rather last yesterday, Wl1h SIX Ieeg hl1e lnchss
water IN the canal IN me evening ~ Ihe MARI MARI
During the previous tWenty-f hours IL hao iaeh
five inches at the head OF the falls, ana nfteen
inches at Portland The weather mas assumed a
summer temperature at last me thermometer az
noon ranging as hgh as ~ ana aute eleaf'
On the failS last evening mere were puI iour
feet nine lH0hes water III the pass uoWn the lndan
ch2te, and falling
The river IS steadily falilng al AT points from
llttshurg TO the ballze WIN an oGeoh OF water az
The latter point, and barely enough at the oJher 70
boat dug-out; Inc recent rams nave aooea pny
little 10 the volume OF water m tAe upper WlDA7
taries, but have proven benehclal 70 the growing
crops. r.-
inc river al FlHsburg yesteFuay was IaLluSi
with less man teet WAFER ID the caannel'
| GREAT lNyENTIoN-N0 more SleQnaooa5 LI-
ptostoaS-1he 6pTdY CoadeRSsf'-hf' Johh T.,
ferguson, pfacucal steampoaI engineer Oh 9u
years experience, has perfected model Of an
improved spray condenser, apphcaole 10 any hlgh
pressure engine on the esleFn Walers.
one q tbe greatest merits Oh tne cohueuseF CON
ssts in the fact that it at once turns our hlghpres-
| sure engines into o%-pressure, and thus at one
| blow, as It were, depuVes our western boats OF
their terrible fame OF beng as dangerous as pow
| der magazine, or more explosive Ghan me most
dangerous gases. inc hgh-pressufe engines py
using the Spray condenser, become iow-pressure q
once, attaining the same poWeTAwith Sky p9uhds
pressure as Is now required WIN one hQndreo aha
I twenty or one hahdfea ana eiShy.
Mi. ferguson mas eSll9l1sa H. Ioasi y tGe pgss
Pi9Sue@, 1nToudtiSs ttlu ~ tss 4
t!Y aua Ainauy WY ~ iii
uulIgHe dlu III. i " Po'At 1885 -
IL MI hi $500 7sar r ,oi
eai3 ,nir abIa X canSsnsa ona bnnSred ana
49, 49, De.nS III s y s.an1, ga sa, a ,oo,1t If
.menty Pounu ,s - Ft - eli ho ,ars M
~ .e ~ - ~ t tba+ ehEba ;ts
tt, ~ pdatS; srccess II canpot eigb aver
baIf anu ib IL the condensers now in nae and
b; y ;t ;nia IN For,,- or5 onrI;cat;on eny,
a eea;5 Sri co, ,,sa II
| RI, Fergnson has been lifelong citizen of
4 Louisville: first served an apprenticeship to the
4 trade and has been an engineer on the Western
steamers nearly all his life and is fay oonversant
| with all the wants. defects and requirements and
! nses of steam on the Western rivers. He has been
| in constant service and was engineer many years
ago of course. Of the far.famed, peerless Peytona,
the fastest steamer that ever turned wheel on
| the Western waters,
] On one occasion she made the trip from New
| Orleans to Greensboro in four DAYS, when some
| norton az her machinery rave way: and on an.
| other occasion she made the run from Evansville
| to Portland $50 miles in thirteen hours
NJ FerS I is It'll ENGAGED as engineer on the
river and has been on all kinds of boats all Sizes
little and bip and was the engineer of the famous
nrassr,r + totten bn2lt there inst on tbe
| ontbreak Of tbe war. she was in the lower trade
| The spray condenser Is a great desideratum on
our Western rivers, and we hope to hear that it
has been brought into general use, especially on
passenger steamers
GOOD VENTuRB.-Itne famous iug-ooas pro-
c4e ~ Tda i've ia obont to start
has started South with five barges of ship timber
1t is the venture, boat and timber, Of the enter
terprlsng nrIn OF hlchards, laws q 20, 81 inls
tbs wv tb S', vsnpe IL destnad for New Orleans
The Ida Dixie is as perfect a specimen of marine
architecture in miniature as ever was seen in any
one y ~ hnsS anu aseiu1 e
boatinr and isbing cinh
MEMPHIS. NAV 22,-Yesterday was clear and
very pretty day. The rays of the sun were rather
too warm for personal comfort while making the
p an Ioun 3D. mere was EeLy nsae SoT ot
ever White river retains its good character as a
reliable stream. st. Francis river is falling very
fast. Red river is dlsastrousy hlgh, and reeedlng
thst vi ryer i low bnt navgabia
The Mississippi, at latest advices, was falling at
St. Louis, and all points above. The Ohio is very
dom oet%een PipoIg ana otnc aa Pls Essats
| NAV now he ex6ected,
| The Atlantic was full of people. She put Off a
small lot of sugar and other groceries at THIS
p9 Th ma vUo1,t, ,rni,,oa o+or+ = o,cool loo+
euening- fn of neople, She had $50 tons of rail.
road iron, and $1,000 pounds of soda. She put of
few bols. Molasses'
MITTIE STEPHENS FOR BED hIyER.-Ihe ne"
and complete light draft packet Mifae stephens
Capt NJ hanghorne' commander, and Mr. M N,
Carpenter CLERK, leaves at5 p ~ LOT Jenerson ana
way landings she Is s1aancn' SWIM ana commo-
dlons; her canln Is tas'einiy iu III capt
Langhorne Is one q me most ernolenb oflcefs on
hed hiSer, ana as Ior our ltlena oaFpenset-"eli