Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-21
RIVER NEWS.


The Ohie opposite this port continues to
decline quite rapidly, at the rate Of about
two feet day. The fall during the twenty
four hours ending last evening, was some
twenty-five or twenty.six inches, leaving q
channel-depth at this point of eighteen feet.
The River at Pittsburg continued receding
yesterday, with six feet four inches water
there at noon.
The weather yesterday was very chilly,
but healthful and invigorating; the mercury
ranging at 40 to 420 during the day.
Business on the Landing was more quiet
yesterday than we have observed il for a
fortnight previous. A fair trade was doing,
but there was no marked activity any where.
Freights were moderately offered at previous
quotations
Yesterdays Louisville Courier has the fol-
lowing;
The river continues falling fast, with seven foes
ten inches water in the Canal at dark last evening,
by the mark During the previous twenty -four
six inches which fully eighteen inches at Port
land; The weather was very cloudy and gloomy till
The position Of the Tecumseh is unchanged, ex-
et cent that 6G SSs had Es % s bDss from q bs
shore and strong line was passed over the cabin.
einnati to send down. the Champion with the marine
pumps to raise her. In the mean time, he had the
crew at work yesterday removing freight from her
She had forty three horses on board, all of which
Of shippingport in skh went over to Goose Island
and saved four horses that bad jumped overheard
piece OF scantling, but the fourth, though free,
would rot desert his companions in distress, but
swan the Falls with them.
Monday evening st. Louis papers remark;
The river at this point has been perfectly station
airy since Saturday morning. The Upper missis-
and at KeOku, and Is also said To be rising between
Lacrosse and st. Paul. There four feet on the
to keoIuk' there 't are re- i've feet fu The Lower
M,sissipPi is swelling sowy with Tk siS 9st TO CafrS,
il about stationary, and In a good naygable cOndi-
tSs baTs fhs Illinois T. aiSo reeednR With tbF2 IN
inches 70 Naples, and twenty-five inches In the
The week opens with beautifully clear and frosty
weather. Business Is dull, and with apparently not
much chance Of Improvement for some time to come.
White River is still rising slowly, with
over four feet water in Jacksonport.
The Little Rock Gazette says Arkansas
River is down 10 low-water mark, and it will
take considerable rain to cause rise in that
stream soon. ~
STEAMBOAT REGISTER.
Arrirals-Telegrapb, louisville; Prieress Madi-
sSf 5oiiSns SS HSnetts; Prairie Rose, s. Io1is
MafeneO, 81. Louis; DnBleith, Neyillei Cambridge.
TsIsgrsgh 19uisyills; , n, ,PTIo.sss 4aai
burg, Commercial, Pittsburg; Tigress, New Orleans;
Allen Collier, Kanawha River. %
AN AUToRIAL PRINoEss IN GREEcE.--Prin-
cess Massalsky, who, under the designation
Of Dora dlstria, has published volumes Or
MORGstie Life On German SscitEerlaRd and
The Women et Che East has lately spent
three months in Greece, and made the grand
tour of the little Kingdom, like our English
| lady tourists. The Greeks Of Athens, whose
travels rarely extend beyond the monastery
/ Of Pentelicus and the earriage-roads round
the capital, admire her courage, and expect
wonders from the pen of a lady who fears
/ neither tho burning sun nor the harhario
life of Hellenic cottages, in order 10 visit
mountains with neither trees nor streams,
and plains without cultivation.