The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-04-03

Capt. W. G. Harrison commands and Aes.rs. w.
n Tom okins, Jr., Thos. Reeder aud Human
are her clerks. On her return trip the Bart
leaves Shreveport s,sry wscossSsy = 10 NJ NJ
board early. Is Capt Harrison u noted for being
punctual 10 the minute. 4 81
CELlsag.-Amongst the stsm-whesl steamers
that land ct our wharf. none are better suited to
our Tributary trades than the one whose name
heads this notice. Her speed is fair. freight Ca
pacity CHEAT and accommodations for passengers
frst-cIssb. She leaves to-day at r. \. for Bayou
Mason ed Tensas, under command OF Capt. rhil'
Crooks Capt. A. J. Dye has charge Of her Office.
TAHLfouAH.-This fsvorite packet, underlcom-
mapd ofCspt. X. L. Livingston. leaves ct ?. N.
to-day for Portland and ell intermediate landings
on Bayou Bartholomew. Mr.. @. A. Bresrd,
has cha!ge Of her Office. The Tahlequah ha. but
few eqdsls amongst boats Of her class, being light
draft, f}st and comfortable.
PROM QUIZ EXCHANGES.
Captain Dick Lightburn has two thousand bales
Of cotton on the levee awaiting shipment to New
Orleans. The Olive Branch gets fifteen hundred
Of them. She is Q good steamer, and Twin 60
through on time. A floating hotel Is TO be opened
on the Hudson river. A steamboat Is TO be towed
to Pollipslls Island, in Nswburgh Bay, near Corn
She wlIlbe thoroughly overhauled and repaired,
refurnshed and repsinted, and 90 altered - to
convert her into first class summer boarding
housed The superb steamer Olive Branch. Capt.
HeRT6M,
O'Clock FOR New Orleans and the bends.-[Mem.
phis avalanche, April LIST.
It}sm the LouIsvIls Csurier-Joumal. March ST.
The Virginia left for New Orleans yesterday
with ESQ barrels pork, AZ hogsheads tobacco. 2l5
head pf sheep, IS head ofstock, 200 tons miscells
Mr., Thomas Boden, OF this city, has been grant
ed patent for an improved safety for steam
boiless. Mr.. Bodsn believes that steam has two
Contributed this valve upon that theory. 1t Is in
fact double valve, one upon the outside and the
other upon the inside Of the boiler acting in uni
son. The weight ID 20 arranged that 1t cannot be
tampered with BY reckless engineers The theory
of Nj Boden Il comparatively new, but recent 10
vestSations seem to sustain It.. he claims that
With his valve attached the explosion Of boiler
Is ah impossibility. Arrangements are being
madb to give practical and thorough test Of the
OF Monday, W. 4. Cox, Of ystSsrsonvIIls, was
appointed by the Governor Of Indiana e. falls pi-
lot, tice ]. Lefevre. resigned. scs 7ea--
Ctptain J. Libbens Frisbee died ct the residence
consumption. The Ledger says: Capt. Frisbee
ws4a well known clerk on the river; was second
cle3 on the John Raine and other boats In the
Louisville and New Orleans trade before the war.
He {sss at one time chief clerk and part owner Of
thestiberty No. 2, in the Louisville and Memphis
trske, and was ever recognized as one Of the most
polite and courteous Of officers winning friends at
ev@fy point. After he disposed Of his interest in
thd Liberty No. he purchased an interest in the
steiner Idaho. and was her comm Ander In the
Nd Orleans and 0uachita river trade two years.
Failing health about year ago compelled him to
SET ont and return TO his home In this city, where
heir emained up to the hour Of his death.
khe Thompson Dean, which left st. Louis Sat.
urSay for New Orleans. had on board the mate.
riIls and carpenters to build full length cabin
ofeelegant design and commodious app ointments.
TIE cabin viii be ready for use on the next trip
bat one. ~ -i-a
The low pressure Richmond passed down,
heavily laden. for New Orleans, at O'Clock yes.
terday evening. VIII vischer, Of the " Head
light" (of course everybody knows vischer) says
be never run aground on cocktail sandbar, whisky
chute, Memphis, as reported by Durf. of the
Avalanche. "6ome things may be true as well az
oshers,n and perhaps he DIDN'T ioksburg
Times, April lst.