The Davenport daily gazette., 1857-04-02
River New

SrrANsoAT BusIsEss.-This promises to
be good season for steamboatmen. 10
fact, il cannot be other than profitable tc
.bem as a class. On the Ohio more freight
/. Offering than steamboats, can b. found TO
carry, and at as good prices as any former
season with fair stage OF water. On the
Mississippi. Illinois and Missouri, there is
more than sufficien, free bit for all the steam
boa, tonnage offering. There are immense
quantities. OF produce on the Upper Missis
sippi awaiting shipment, and rates high
There are bu, comparatively fss travellers
by river thus far in the season, but every
boat seems to be making paying trips. The
steamboatmen had generally hard time OF
It last year, bu, we are glad their prospects
are now so asttering.
pIors WAass.-Ths Pittsburgh Dis.
patch says:
Pilots, we learn, IRE nov receiving four
kundrfd dollars per month, on the Upper
Mississippi. and hardly satisfiao a, that On
the Mi-soiri they talk et Jfps Hundred per
month; and the fun of il is hat one man is
about a. good as another as Pliot on the
Missouri. Our m snbers OF Congress, and
Office holders centrally, should turn pilots
II o.ys much better, and - about the incest
berth on boat,
We DO MT know whether the Dispatch is
correct or not as - the wages OF Upper
Mississippi pilots, but we know their wages
were enormous last season, though not up
"a mi, standard. H1wev r, during the en-.
tire ylater season the pilots Of this upper
river are idle, 80 far as their legitimate
business il concerned.
Oaio Last NJ ,nday the river had fallen
Is inches at Cincinnati, with feet on the
pass Of the Fal ) at Louisville; eight feet
In channel at Pittsburgh on Saturday, aad
!aling.
Ms.lssirrr Rising very slowly MONDAY
NIGH, AZ s.. Luis. TIE rise thus far had
bseu oyer ak 'est. AT this point slowly
rising l.,. eve ing. and in COED stage. No
ice in river. Clear to abIve Dubuque thirty
miles, last Monday, and probably much
fur her BY this time. The Illinois is re
ported ia pod condition, and navigation on
the Missouri mucn improved.
A BusY WHARF. There were eighteen
steambuat arrivals at ST. Louis last Sunday
and every boat crowded with freight The
!eyee on Monday wa, crowded from enc
TO end, and soma boats compelled to lie
a, eide for want Of room.
.u.-The Adelia arrived yesterday
morning fir am ST. Louis, and put cut q g0'a
d.,l Of freight. Among other freight were
400 ,l,sof ,roce, lies, &c. for Al'ord q V'r
Ps,,sn, and 100 pkcs cio'h'ng' ary so1a'
Ar for ] Schmidt. alter putting out mel
freight, she proceeded to Galena'
MAs,y,rlp.-The large sseFn"besie'
Manifold arrived sterday from r'.''
hurgh, the first bost OF he season 'fom 'na
nor, She pu, out 400 Ous Of freight the
lin. on which amounted to 81 500, ths
largest freigh, bill ever pais' at 'h's pace ''
one boat. Among o,hsr frelsh' was 'h'
fVllowing-s5 cooking stoves 90 Paf'o'
.,ovss. and about 600 packages of hou'e
hold goods, &c, for D. L. Horne So tons
ofirou and 1000 ire brick, jamie, Danei'oi
4 Co.; loS packages clothing &C. l.
Mast: 2ss reams paper, Eli Adams; ei
pkg,, Edward Lee. care Burro~s q rfe''s y,
man; II pkgs, Wickersham d Aorniyi o.
ukgs, WmsH. Guthrie; 10 dog. chairs ~
bureaus, large lot cribs, &c, Mcneil Q
Bro. The Mansfield was engaged last eve
ming in putting gu, her freight and had tn
wharf in front of Burrows q Pfettyman'
WAREHOUSE crowded, She was gong q
Duboque.