The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-05
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Sunday Morning. April S. 1858


The weather was truly delightful yesterday.
Business was rather active on the levee-not
more 30. however, than is usual on Saturday.
The departures yesterday were as follows:
Thos- Powell, for Lafourche; Aloe, for lower
coast; Era No. 8, for Upper Red River; Starlight
and hittie Stephens, for Jefferson; Lafourche and
National. for Shreveport; 1T. Nicholas, for Grand
Ecore; vicksburg, for Ouachita; Gen. Quitman,
for yicksburg; Hetty Gilmore, for Lockport; W.
R. Arthur, for St Louis; Peytona and barges. for
Louisville; P. W. strader, for Cincinnati; ]. d.
Binde. for Attakapss; and Richmond, for Upper
Red River.
The arrivals yesterday were: Frolic, Capt
Geo. Albsn, from jefferson; A. G. Brown, Capt.
Bassett, from lower coast; Enterprise aud Lilly,
from Arkansas river; Wild Wagner, from
Nsichez; and Hetty Gilmore from Lafourche.
The J: M. Sharp left Shreveport yesterday for
New Orleans.
The Frolic is receiving, to leave on Tuesday, at
NExoRASDuM.-The steamer Lilly left Little
Rock, Ark, on Monday at P. NJ; met the Traber
and Caldwell ct Foucbe bar; lay all night at Paw
Paw landing; on Tuesday met the Caroline;
arrived at Pine Bluff at P. NJ: left ct PM; lay
all night at Rob Roy; arrived at Napoleon on
Wednesday at ii P. NJ; Thursday, at half-psst
p. M, left Napoleon; arrived at Vicksburg at
P. NJ; left at halfpast M; arrived in New Or
leans on Friday at II Pm. Time-4 days and Z
hours from Little Rock.
The A. G. Brown leaves at noon to-day for
Donsldsonville and all intermediate landings.
The river at this point is on stand.
The Alice V. (5l arrived at St. Louis on the
Let inst.
The ]. H. Groesbeck, hence, arrived at Cincin-
natl on the LIST inst.
The gallant little Cleona, Capt. Patterson.
arrived with good trip yesterday. She leaves
on Tuesday next for Floyd and all intermediate
The Mollie Able, hence, arrived at Memphis on
PROM ouR EXCHANGES.
The st. Louis Democrat Of the I'd says:
One days business is so much like that of
another that it becomes tiresome to enter into
particulars. which Is our reason, this occasion
at least, for generalizing. Business hence to all
points. particularly on the upper rivers is brisk.
Receipts uniformly heavy. Prospects of heav-
Ter business westward every year hereafter, be-
cause Of the rapidly with which the country west
here. Upper rivers declining. The Missouri is
now in the list of falling rivers. although rising
for some time past. Weather warm and damp.
At the wharf there Is no boat room. It is all
more than occupied, and there are many boats
DUE"
From Cincinnati Enquirer I'd instant:
" The rver was going down very rapidly yes
terday. In the twenty-fo hours up TO last even
ing IL had fallen three and half feet, with forty
three and half feet in the channel, and fifty.
eight and half feet under the bridge for passing
steamers. Both rivers continue to fall at Pitts
burg. The weather yesterday was warm and
cloudy, with some po-tents last evening of more
wet weather. Thermometer 65. Business on the
wharf was moderately active. Packets arriving
from above brought 10 fine trips. Shipments for
points South were not notably heavy. There will
be three boats receiving for New Orleans to-day.
one of which will leave this evening. rhe steamer
Louisiana, Captain u. B. Piersell, will positively
leave for New Orleans at P. NJ. today
From the Memphis Avalanche Sd inst:
" There was very little doing on the wharf yes
terday with small list of arrivals and partures.
The inclenent whether which prevailed caused
the vagrant negroes, who usually throng the
wharf, TO seek mere congenial quarters. The
Mollie Able passed mp last night for st. Louis with
q splendid trip, including two hundred head of
stock. Weather cool and inclement. light rain
set in on Wednesday night. The river here de-
hours, and has fallen six inches altogether since
Monday evening. At St. Louis and Cairo the
river is recedng slowly. The Ohio Is falling from
Pttsburg TO Louisville. with nineteen feet In the
canal: AT Evansville the river is rising. The rise
from the Ohio will have very little effect on the
river here. Cumberland and Tennessee rivers are
on the decline. The Arkansas Is rising slowly at
Little Rock, with FIVE feet IN the channel from
there out. White river is still declining, with
good stage of water for steamboat purposes.n
We are indebted to a friend for the folio wing,
taken from the Shreveport Southwestern
About an hour after the arrival Of the La
fourche the line packet B. L. Hodge No. 2, Capt.
p. G. Montgomery, Ferd. Cellos, clerk. tied up at
from the city, with fair trip. This would look
as though the Hodge was not behind any of them
In speed. We are indebted TO Mr.. Cellos for files
OF late papers and for the following memoranda
Of the trip: Left New Orleans March 18th, at
O'CLOCK, behind steamers Magenta, Wild Wagner,
Vicksburg, st. Nicholas, and forty-fve minutes
after the Lafourche. At Z O'Clock met New Era
at Nine Mile point; at A. n. Sunday landed sHd
took on $50 boxes coal at Batan Rouge; landed at
McCaleb's plantation for passenger; took 10 cords
xro lat Lob fall npt Era a Uafar
met Bart Able at Bayou Sara half past IL; arrived
third boat to mouth Red River at ESQ Pam;
landed in Old River, twenty five hours out head
Grand Point; at 1890 P. NJ. met Right Way at Tunic
bend at 11:30 met Starlight at Swans bayou.
Monday at A. M, met Richmond at Landry
bayou I; wooded at Holst0n and Wise, took Is
cords, and lost two hours in fog landed at $40
A. NJ, in Alexandra, freight and passengers
landed at Mrs. Hickman's Flagland plantation
freight; wooded at SpillmaR's, took II cords
landed at Montgomery ll:S0 A. NJ. freight. and
took cords wood one hour behind Lafourche
at this point; at ESQ Grand Ecore at P. NJ.
took 10 cords wood at Campte lost 40 minutes at
wood Woo at j. B. Bsir's lost Is minutes repairing
tiller rope; st 7:l5 P. NJ. landed at Shortway
plantation freight and passengers at $50 passed
Monsoon at bayou Wincy, she started "a hours
ahead from New Orleans at 9:l0 P. NJ. landed at
Cousbetta freight; landed at J. W. Stsnford's at
$40 r. NJ, freight and passengers landed at
Grand Bayou, ii P. NJ, freight; at 3 A. NJ, Tues
day, met Mttie Stephens at Bear point; at Buck
Horn, $3.50 A. NJ, at Jim Pickett's 1880 and ar
rived at Shreveport Is minutes to II A. NJ, with
80 cords wood and so boxes coal on board. Time
from port 10 port GA hours and 40 minutes.n
From the Louisville Courier I'd inst:
THE river was falling very slowly, yesterday,
with ~ feet 6 inches water 10 the canal, in the
evening. This denotes very light decline in the
previous twenty four hours, though We have no
doubt it viii fell fast to-day. The weather con-
tinues warm, though not as pleasant yesterday as
the day before. On the falls there were nearly
20 feet steamboat water last evening" and falling.
At Cincinnati, at noon, yesterday, the river had
fallen q feet in the previous twenty-fo1r hours.
and at Pittsburg 1t was falling fast, with only 81
feet water in the channel. Our port list, yester-
day, was tolerably large one, and business along
the wharf was fair. but not heavy, even among
the regular packets. The Pink Whale came 10
RON the Tennessee river early yesterday with q
hne load OF cotton, yellow pine and other freights
and to Q. A. Todd, the clerk we are indebted for
manifest Mr.. NcMulen, the former clerk Of
the PINK, has retired from the river, taking po-
siiion ID the land service. The Westmoreland for
New Orleans, the Wauariia for ST. Lotus, and the
r. G. Gay. from Pittsburg, were among the arf-
walls yesterday. The two former descended the
falls and the latter goes to Pitfsburg to-day. She
had carco IF iron glass and ofha- wa~a a. sh.a