New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-06
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1hursday Morning. sept b, 1900 }
Yesterday opened clear but very snltry, About
IL A, NJ. the clouds commenced to form, which
gave us a heavy rain of an hour or two, cooling
the atmosphere and making it pleasant to those
| who had business on the levee.
Business was not very brisk on account of the
rain, and the steamers Cuba, Lizzie Tate and Una,
for Red River, were obliged to delay their depar-
ture until to-day. They will lie I'VE this evening
for all landings on Red River. r, A
We return our thanks for favors to the officers
of steamers Mollie Able and Lafourche.
/ The, splendid steamer st. Nicholas, Captain S.
Heno, will be at the landing this day ready to
receive. She leaves on Saturday next on her first
trip to Bayou Sara and the coast
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
LOUISVILLE, Sept 1.-The river, at this point,
is % growing smaller and beautifully less - going
down at the rate of one inch per day. There was
three feet eight inches water in the canal last
evening, and enough for duck to swim in on the
falls. Business was dead as door NALL The
weather was rather warm, and the skies looked
'trainy like' towards evening.
The j. ?. Webb and Phantom were sold at
Evansville few days ag0--the Webb for $ll 900
and the Phantom for $4,000.
CAIRO, Sept. I've Gather cloudy, with a heavy
rain storm this morning. Business brisk The
river stationary.
MEMPHIS, September 2-The weather yester-
day was clear and pleasant. The river here de-
clined two inches in the past twenty-four hours.
The Arkansas was stationary at last reports, with
twenty-five inches the bars to Little Rock. The
river at St. Louis is declining, with eight feet
seant from ST. Louis to Cairo, and nine feet scant
from Cairo to this port, The Ohio is falling at
Cincinnati and Louisville with scant four feet in
the canal, and five and half feet on the bars in
the lower Ohio.
The Underwriters at Cincinnati gave public
notice, on Thursday last, that they would not take
risks on freight on barges, towed by steamboats,,
beyond Cairo, and gave notice to shippers that
they would not insure on barges towed by Maggie
Hays to New Orleans. 1t isnot to be understood
that they refuse to insure on the boat, but only
the barges lowed by her beyond Cairo.
Capt. James MeGnnis, pilot on the steamer
Nile, bound from st. Louis to the Upper Missouri.
1 died on board, with cholera, on Wednesday morn
ing last. His remains were inferred at Lexington,
Mo. Capt. MeGinus was an old steamboat man,
, and he had command of several steamers. He was
a resident of st. Louis and leaves an interesting
family to mourn his loss
Inc large and commodious passenger steamer
| Clara Dolsen, Capt, Pegram, will leave the Star
Wharf boat to-day at s P. NJ, for New Orleans and
all intermediate landings. The Clara has superb
/ passenger mmodatons.
The palatial A. u NJ. passenger steamer Misss-
sippi, Capt. Hurd, will leave the wharf-boat foot
LOT Uniona streets on EMonday at Is P. NJ, for
Anew Orleans and all intermediate landings Mr..
MalIan, courteous gentleman, will be found in
the office.
Business on the landing yesterday was dull with
little less doing aside from the local packets.
The rivers above are declining rapidly, and we
fear navigation, in few days, will be restricted
| to great extent.
The Lizzie Gill passeddown at s pm, with a
i full cargo for New Orleans
/ CINCINNATI, Sept. 1.-The weather yesterday
was clear and warm, the thermometer in the shade
indicating a temperature Of So degrees at O'Clock
| In the afternoon
/ At Pittsburg, at noon yesterday the river was
falling, with 2s inches water in the channel, with
clear weather, at temperature of IS degrees
above zero. By the mark at the waterworks the
river had fallen inches during the twenty-four
hours preceding o'clock yesterday morning, at
which time there were feet and inches of water
10 the channel. During the remainder of the day
it continued to reeede at the same rate.
PGTTsBuRG, August 91.-Qaite a number of new
boats are being pushed forward to completion in
a quiet way at this point. The Ezra Porter, a
new sidewheeler, for the Red River and New
Orleans trade, is almost6nshed as is also the Belle
| Vernon. Capt. Hare is pushing forward very sub
stantial and cOmmodious sternwheeler, which is
intended, we believe, for the Pittsburg and ST.
Louis trade. The hull for Capt. w, B. DOnaldsous
mammoth steamer will be ready to launch within
| a few weeks. When completed, Capt. Donaldson
will doubtless have one of the finest if not the
finest steamer on the western waters.
ST. Louis, Sept. 2.--The weather is warm and
rainy. The tremendous shower of Friday evening
was followed by heavy rains that night, which
continued until after Ii O'Clock yesterday morn
ing. During the afternoon yesterday the weather
was very WARM, WIN showers at intervals. Late
last night another heavy shower came up, and
again deluged the earth with rain.
There were many indications of increased ac-
tlvity in business on the levee yesterday, and a
more liberal offering of freights for Ealmost all
points; but the rain iuterfered with the handling
of freight and not much was accomplished.
Nearly all of the boats which were advertised to
leave managed, however, 10 fill out y and de-
part.
There have been heavy rains at nearly all points
north from here to St. Paul. and we presume that
they have extended far south of here. It is evi,
dent that these rains have been extensive enough
TO not only check the decline in the Mississippi
but to cause another swell, We do not suppose
that rise. If it does come, viii last long, bat
there s strong probability, in our opinion, that
we are not destined to nave much very low water
this season. This reflection is q source Of bitter
disappointment to the owners of scores of light
draft steamers which have been idle for long
time, or running without making any money.
A dispatch from Memphis, received yesterday
at the ofiice of the Memphis and st. Louis Packet