Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-03-24

ARRIVALS.

BADGER STATE. Lambert-Montrose.
L. EwISG-St. Louis
AfsNEsoTA BELL, IIill-St. Louis.
CmrrEwA, Crapster-St Louis.
CoNSEwAGo, Hickman-St. Louis.
NATE CAssEL, Gray-Dubuque.
DEPARTURES
CHIPPEWA, Crapster-Dubuque.
CosSEwAco. Hickman-Dubuque
KATE CAssEL. Gray-Dubuque.
MINNESOTA BELL, Hill-St Louis.
BADGER STATE. Lambert-Dubuque.
River rising slowly.
FLoRA.-A force Of men were at work
ysstseday. lighting this bost, and making
pfspsrst1ess. The fssiehG which has bssa
taken out is badly damaged but being COW
cred with insurance, no loss will occur to
the owners. She will be afloat again in
the course of few days.
OPENING or LAKE PErrN.-The following
exhibit Of the dates Of the passage Of the
first boat through Lake Pepin for a series
Of years. will be found of interest at this
time:
ls44-Steamer Otter, Capt. Harris. April
8. ls45-Otier, Harris, April 5, ls46-Lynx,
Atchison, March 81, ls47-Cora, Throck-
morton, April7. ls4s-Highland Mary, At
Gibson, April 8. ls50-Higbland Mary, At
Gibson April is, lS5l-Noninee Smith. April
5, 52-Ncrninee Smith, April Is, 1855
West Newton, Harris, Ap-i IL, 1854 Nom
inee, Blakely, April 8. ls55-War Eagle,
Harris. April II, 1856 : Lady Franklin, Lu-
cas-. April Is, ls57-Galena, Laughton,
April 80
The Galena departed from Galena on the
22d inst. for st. Paul, and will probably ef
feet her passage without any difficulty. The
lake Is free Of Ice at last reports. and navi-
CATION to st. Paul has resumed.
The river is slightly on the rise. The
stage of water is most excellent for naviga-
tion. While at the Jones street levee YES.
terday, We visited the Alhambra, bound for
st. Louis. Capt. Harlowe Commandant,
Chas. Coffin, Clerk. Her cabin was filled
with passengers, while che was almost load
ed to the guards with freight Her cargo
consists of 1000 pigs of lead, 500 barrels Of
flour, 900 sacks Of wheat, and 400 sacks of
potatoes, besides miscellaneous freight. The
Alhamhra left the levee last evening. and
may be set down as the first departure this
season from this port.
p. S.-Since the above was in type we
learn that the Alhambra, after she had made
some three or four miles on her trip, burst
one Of her boilers There was no damage
done further than to the boat, which will
be repaired in the course of one or two days
Fortunately the passengers escaped without
harm. Our informant states that the AL.
was carrying about $50 lbs of steam at the
time OF the explosion.-NorM WeM.
STEAMBOAT on THE CEDAR.-From the Vim
ton papers we learn that meetings have
been held in that place to take into consid-
Grafton the practicability Of building a
small steamboat to navigate the waters of
the Cedar from Cedar Rapids to Cedar Falls.
That such thing could be done, is very
evident, from the fact that this river has
been declared navigable to this town. There
are but few rifles and boulders. and these
could be removed in short time with very
little expense.
1t is proposed to build boat that will
carry from eighty to one hundred TONS and
draw about ten or twelve inches of water.
Such boat could be built for from So 900
to $4,000. and would undoubtedly pay for
itself in short time.
The cars on the C. /. d N. r. X. will soon
be running to Cedar Rapids, and as mat
ter of course . conveyance of some kind
must be had to convey the multitude of peo-
pie and tons Of freightHwhich will naturally
come over that road to the North and West.
We venture to say that Cedar Falls will
subscribe her share towards this enterprise.
Cedar Falls banner.