The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-03-07
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Saturday Morning. March 7. l3c8.

The weather yesterday was variable. yet very
spring-like. At 6 o'clock yesterday morning the
mercury stood at 65 degrees. A strong wind
from the south was blowing until noon, when it
Veered around towards the east. ..s
The dust was equally as bad on the levee yes
terday as 1t was the day before, rendering tevery
thing extremely disagreeabe.
News items were scarce. We were very ener-
getic in following up steamboat agents yet, not
withstsndiDg our endeavors, were unable to hear
of dispatch, or even the rumor Of one, from
any point.
Business was rather brisk on the landing yes
teTdsy. The arrivals were quite numerous, aud
the packets advertised lin the CREscENrl to leave
the evening were receiving freely.
The Dora leaves this evening positively for
Camden. :" She will leave dead or alive"
The Judge Fletcher Is receiving to leave this
evening al O'Clock. Capt. n. L. Watts. her at
tentive clerk, will be found on hand.
We noticed considerable activity around the
regular Trenton and Monroe packet Vicksburg
yesterday, and judge that she will back out this
The Cleona, Capt. Patterson, had nearly a full
load on board, and goes at P. NJ to-day without
fail.
Capt. W. G. Harrison's splendid packet Bart
Able came in for her share Of freight We had
almost forgotten to mention this really fine
packet; but, though last, she Is not least-not IL
we know ourselves.
The hatcher packet Wild Wagner will be
found at the landing this morning. She returns
The Idahoe, Capt. Blanks, is due from Camden.
The Westmoreland. j. w. Garrett and barges,
from Cincinnati. and W. r. Arthur, from St. Louis,
will be found at the landing this morning.
Ii began to rain ct dark last evening, and from
present indications we are likely to have a long
wet spell.
The river before the city Is still rising Yester-
day it was nine feet six inches below the high
We have good news from the lower tributaries.
They are all reported bank full. We know that
several OF them had their ill Of Banks generally,
several years ago.
ARRlvALs.-1he new steamer Bismarck, Capt
Entriken, arrived yesterday morning from st.
Louis. She is in opinion one of the best bust
ness boats now adoat, and under her present
popular officers cannot bat prove success. Her
cargo consisted of over Is 900 packages of heavy
freight, which was discharged before O'Clock
yesterday evening.
The regular packet vicksburg, Capt Blanks,
arrived yesterday morning from Ouachita City,
with 462 bales cotton and sundries.
The SoutherDer, Capt. Mason, arrived from
Evansville with IA. 337 sacks corn, etc.
The Cleona, Capt Patterson, from Floyd, ar.
rived with 5l9 bales cotton and sundries.
The Magenta from Vicksburg, brcughtesi bales
cotton-rather light trip. .t-t
The Frolic, from Shreveport, arrived With over
l400 bales cotton.
The St. Nicholas, from Campte, had q fine
The J. N. Sharp from Lafoui che. Aloe from
Lower Coast, and mail boat from Mobile, finish
the list Of arrivals yesterday.
The departures were as follows: Irene for
Shreveport, J. NJ. Sharp for Lafourche, Lotus No.
for Jefferson, I. ID. Hine for Minden, and Lizzie
Gill for st. Louis.
Rates of freight from st. Louis, Louisville aud
the West generally are so extremely low that Wa
fear many Of our packets find it difficult to pay
expenses.
there is an individual in this city, who. we are
informed-and our Information is reliable has
been of late passing himself of upon some Of our
shippers as clerk of one boat, and then again to
others as captain Of one Of our well known 0aa-
chita packets. We would advise him to quit for
If he does not We shall feel in duty bound to give
his name TO the public.
The Irene did not get of as previously an
nounced, but left at IL NJ. yesterday. tAl
PROM OUR EXCHANGES.
The vicksburg Herald of the 5th inst says:
1.-THE weather was clear and delightful yester-
day. Business presented an inactive appearance
on the levee. The Gov. Allen arrived in the
morning and proceeded on her way to Greenyille.
The river continues to recede."
From the Memphis Avalanche, 5th:
ARRIVED yesterday: steamers Henry Ames,
John Kilgour, Louisville and Commonwealth, from
New Orleans. Departed John Kigour and Lou.
isyille. for Louisville, and Commonwealth for St.
Lonis. Weather clear and pleasant. with III feet
water In the channel to Cairo. White river is on
q stand. with ca feet to Duvsll's Bluff. The Ark
snsas was rising slowly at Little Rock on Tuesday
with % inches in the channel. Business on the
wharf yesterday was quite dull, with a small list
OF boats in port receiving and discharging. The
Board OF Aldermen, as was anticipated, has
dropped the wharf question, but we trust the land
ing committee will look into the wharfboat bust
ness before they act on 1t.
THE Virginia is due from the Ohio. She had
| serious time at Greensboro, Kentucky. in q storm
] during Sunday night, buttiug the wharfboat and
causing it to leak, the owners Of which claimed
$1,000 damages from the Virginia. Times are
duller upon the river than ever before known.
he boro oofu moi f ur0 Uhi NO
mp at the close Of the war, have been disap-
pointed Business has dried up. Trade is dead.
The tonnage on the river 30 far exceeds the
freights as to produce general depression and
conflict OF many interests. Steamb0atmen are
scarcely paid at all; wages have not been so low
in years. The people of the Northwest will have
to look further for a market, but whether they
will find it in the East or In Europe, their natural
and cheapest outlet is down the Mississippi river.
The corn of Illinois, Missouri and neighboring
States, with other products, must eventually seek
/ the greatest markets of the world By way OF New
| Ofleans.n
The steamboat fire at the. foot OF Carr street,
near one O'Clock yesterday morning, tire stened
| TO become one of the most serious on record, as
there were lying contiguous to the two destroyed
snd one injured: the steamers Mountaineer,
| Guidon, Belle Vernon, Messenger. Shamrock.
| Peter Balen, Only Chance, Agnes MolIie McPike,
| Minnie, Nile, and Huntsville. They would have
become an easy prey to the flames but for the
| timely extinguishment OF the fire on the Kate
| Kinney. Parties on that boat. beat back the
eager flames, keeping them In check until the ar
| rival OF the fire engines, which finally accom-
| plshed the safety Of the Kinney and the other
| steamers named. The Mepham's charred remains
| ere under water, excepting blackened mass Of
about six feet. The Scott was burned to the main
deck, which itself ia badly burned. and the hull
has been barely kept ahoat. The machinery Of
| both boats will be taken out and disposed Of as
scrap iron. The Kate Kinney's rigging Is badly
| Injured and guards and forward part Of upper
| works scorched. To make her as she was Sill re-
| qure an outlay OF about 5000.
-" The cause Of the disaster Is supposed by the
| Waterman Of the Mepham 20 have been the intro
| duction Of sparks from the chimneys Of the night
-ferryboat Christy, which was running, and there
being a strong wind moving at the time from the
| northeast. The NJ. s. Mephan was complet d at
| Pittsburg, April, 1854, was fine sdewheel