The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-26


Gilmore, A. c. Brown, Wild Wagner aud Olive
Branch.
The river at Louisville or TIE 9th was again
rising. with six feet three inches ia the canal.
Weather clear. And a. Cincinnati, same day, it
had an upward tendency, with thirteen feet four
inches in the channel.
BY reference to an advertisement in our col
umns it will be seen that the splendid and fast
running passenger packets Bart Able, Capt. W.
c. Harrison, B. l.. Hodge No. 2, Capt. P. c. Mont.
gomery, and National Capt. John Smoker, have
formed regular semi-weekly line to Shreveport
and way landings. Such combination has al
ways been desired by passengers and shippers.
No doubt these magnificent boats will secure the
patronage which their capacity fully justifes. The
officers of these steamers are favorably known
old and true navigators Of Red River. where they
have host OF friends. Success attend them in
the new arrangement.
By telegraph.
MEMPHIS, Jan. Is, 1868.
To Slnnott Adams:
Indiana will arrive Wednesday ; will leave Thurs
day evening. R. E. NEAL.
CLIPPINGS PROM OUR EXCHANGES.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 23.-Tbe weather continues
cratic changeable unreliable, severe frost in the
dead Of night, mild yesterday, with an unwilling
rain, which froze on the cold surface of the
streets. Nothing doing on the wharf. River ris
ing slightly yesterday, and thin, new ice floating
in the channel.
CINC1NNArI, Jan. 23.-The snow melted rapidly
yesterday, the atmosphere being mild and pleas
ant, and the sun warm.
New Orleans freights were offered rather freely
yesterday. a. better rates than had prevailed pre-
viously for several weeks. There are several
boats at the wharf which have nearly completed
their cargoes, and are only awaiting water.
The river continues to fall slowly to-day, but
will probably be rising to morrow, as it was re-
ported rising at Pomeroy and Mariette last eve
ming. The ice is no longer an obstruction to naYl
cation.
The John H. Groesbeck leaves for New Orleans
to-day. She will be followed in the Express Line
by the Amazon.
The ]. W. Garrett will follow the Wild Duck to
New Orleans in the barge line. The latter is ex.
pected to get of today.
LOUISVILLE, Jan. 23.-The ice at this point,
though still rather heavy, has very materially
thinned ont, offering less obstruction to naviga-
ton yesterday than the day before. On the fails
last evening there were but three feet four inches
water in the pass down the Indian chute, and
falling.
The Wabash river is frozen over from above
New Harmony to the mouth. The hard weather
has frozen in along the Wabash upward of 100, :
COO bushels of corn, all of which Is awaiting ship
ment TO market.
The Eastern and Northern railroads have ad-
vanced their rates Of freight on corn, which has
the good influence to divert the shipment of that
| impt rtant staple back again TO New Orleans via
| the river route.
The St. Louis Republican, of the Goth, says Cap
| tain William Gore has sold his oue-thiFd interest
in the steamer Henry Adkins, to Captain Pres.
| Lodwick. of Cincinnati, and Mr.. Adkins, of Alton,
for s65OO. The same Paper has the following an
| nOuDcement:
Representatives of all the steamboat companies
| of this city have met a congress for the pur-
| pose of agreeing upon = uniform system of carry.
| ing OF the business of boating. Their consulta-
| lions embrace tie subject of wages and every
| other matter of consequence TO the stockholders,
| in the entire management Of their vessels. They
| assert that the movement has long been neces-
sity, in order TO tighten expenses, as well as to
secure other improvements.
MEMPHIS, Jan. 24-The weather yesterday was
| mild and pleasant. The river Is receding at the
rate of half an inch per hour. The river at st.
| Louis was rising slowly on Wednesday. Navgs-
ton continues suspended, on account of the heavy
gorge of ice above Cairo. White river is falling,
| with six feet in the channel. The Arkansas is re-
ceding, with twenty.four inches in the channel.
There was a fsir amour: of business doing on
the levee yesterday with several boats Ia porg
| ceiving and discharging.
| The steamers Pauline Carroll, Argosy and Vir-
Rnia, hence, arrived at emphis on the 2ld inst.
| and tie Legal ender passed down for New Or
! leans.
The P. W. strader is loading at Evansville for
] New Orleans.
| The Louisville Courier of the 23d SAYS:
The snow storm OF Monday evening and nigh
was general all along the Ohio TO the Alleghaniea
| and east Of the mountains, and if it should go OF
! with the rain another high tide will ensue.
| The ice, though thick and rather heavy, (:
rather soft, and navigation is retarded-Rot sus
| pended.
Owing to the tripping of the derreck. Monday
evening, enc of the immense chimneys of the new
steamer Frank PargOud, which had been erected
and was ready to be set in place, was throw
down and broken. The damage was slight, bu
| the delay veXatOus.
The Lizzie Gill and several other steamers O.
her class will ply in the upper Missouri river thi
| season.
Freights at Cairo for the South are scarce, bu
| more plentiful along the lower Ohio.
- al. oh -.N .z1o l.Nka
from Mr.. James Gibson, Of Knox county, Mis-
souri, in which he stated that he saw the trial triE
| OF the first steamboat ever built on the Western
waters. He claimed that this boat-the Enter
prise-was built at Brownsville in 1915, for Capt
| Ii. Nj. ShreYe. A. L. Nye, Esq, OF Marietta, IL
| our paper of January l6, says he thinks Mr.. Glib
| son mstaken that in ISL he saw boat called
| the Orleans, or New Orleans, pass Marietta or
her first trip down. and that she never after cama
| above the falls. To settle the question between
| these two correspondents, we reproduce the fol
| lowing items from the Liberty Hall and Cincinnati
Mercury NOW the Cincinnati Gazette), Of October
| IL, 1911.
from this port for New Orleans. one owned BY
| Riddle Bechile HeadingtOn, and commanded by
| Rechte; the other owned 10y ID. G. Wallace u Co.
| and commanded by Captain Wallace, both loaded
| principally with -four. Same day. the steambOa
called Orleans, recently built at Pittsburg, passed
this town at the rate of ten or twelve miles al
| hour.
| DECEMBER IL, lSll-The steamboat Orleans
arrived here on Wednesday last, November 9th
in forty five hours from the falls distance of on
hundred and eighty miles, against the current o
the Ohio. To the citizens of this place II is a.
object of the most intense curiosity. Severa
short trips have been performed up aud down tn
river from this place. and numbers have satisfied
themselves by taking passage 10 these shor
voyages. On the rise of wafer she will sail TO
her place of destination, to return TO Us no more
IOincian 81 9azsIts
| LAFOURCHE FOR BAYOU SARA This magnii
cent ard regular passenger packet with Captain
V. B. BarancO on deck, and Mr.. l.. Bayhi in tn
office, leaves at 8 A. NJ. to-day for the above and
coast landings.
Gov. ALLEN Monday Passenger Packet fo
Vicksburq-Tbe new and superior passenge
packet Gov. allen, Capt.W. B. Richardson, com
mander, Mr.. J. T. Hall, clerk, leaves tomorrow
evening at o'clock, for YIcksburg and the Bends
connecting with the railroads for all points L As
and West. The Governor Allen is a large, veT
feet and magriicently appointed passenge
packet. Her cabin is a miracle of beauty
and her staterOoms are large and elegant. Tn
table Of the Governor Allen is a peculiar inst
tuition" and is always supplied with all the mar
ket affords.