Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-23
RIVER NEWS.
SUNDAY EVENING, April %.

- SUNDAY EVENING, April %.
The Ohio continued receding at this point
ing fallen during The twenty -four hours ending last
evening four five feet, with sufficient water still,
The p will be
ascertained by reference to our latest kilograms,
full the unciouded sun assisting greatly to dry the
mud on the Landing where, as usual very little If
a barren day for business on the wharf There are
no further indications Of rain and the summer seems
Rates OF freight were without special change with
light offerings, and are quoted as follows; "a.
Pitsbur0.-Cotton, 75c.; Molasses, roc; Whisky,
i2JSc per 100 lbs. " ..LO.'. Il'IlLgl.l II
st. LoHis.~Heayy Pound Freights, lO@l2fc. per 100
lbs; Whisky and Oil, 5Oc per barrel; Stoves, ac.
ESaSsyItie eseWhisky and OIL 400. per barrel.
Aie soc Flour iSS Pound Freishts ooc per iSo
Cairo.-whisky and Oil, lOc. per barrel; Pound
fISStsH5s SsS gsr an and HGSRqs Flour po
Stoog and APPLES Sf PGT 'S BSeGn In d hhSs S
Keg Lard, lsc; Horses $40 per head.
The Mssissipp River was swelling on Wednesday
last at Memphis at the rate of from eighteen to
twenty inches in twenty -four hours, and at six
o'clock in the evening the total rise from the COM
The Arkansas at last SceSG9ts is reported as stil
Bluff and two feet thence to Little Rock.
Yesterdays Louisville Courier observes:
"Thc river has been falling rapidly since Il com.
meneed with barely lS feet water the falls last
Sr had feaedeq fully feqt at the head c the iails but
we do not think IL will fall as fast to-day as very
heavy rains have fallen, which will materially check
the river Yesterday afternoon the rain, for brie
space, poured down in torrents
risen six feet, and was still slowly swelling, which
RISE together with the continued rains, will proba
bly, check the river from falling at Louisville, where
Il is expected that the Falls win continue nayigab
for ascending boats for two or three days longer.
| Tie Cumberland at Nashville, Thursday evening
slowly swelling, with three and half feet wate
reported on the shoals, #-l 90
Tuesdays Yioksburg IFhi0 informs us of this col
lision; '. .a'lN |. lu 'H-l',
Last week, a short distance above Willingerton, o
| the Ouachta River, the steamer Red Chief No. wa
run into by the Tigress and cut down to the water
edge. II Is supposed the Tigress took sheer on he
strupk the Rcd 6hief abreast Of her boilers on I'll
starbOard side and with such force to cut throug
tho stanchiOna, guards aud hull, break Of Oh
jonbrs work in the cabin, and knock over some liy
piled up on her guards, she would have been cut |
Yesterdays st. Louis Republican observes. '. n.
The river here is srising slowly In the twenty -for
hours ending at dark last night itsweed four inch'
and continues to come up at the same rate There
The Illinois River s about stationary with Ave fe
In the channel from Peoria down. Heavy rains hay
fallen along the Illinois River, and IL will probab
be rising in a day or two. ,,
by the last arrivals There is f0nr ioet water on Y
upper aud thirty-two inches on the lower rapid
| Below Keokuk there Is five feet.
The Missouri River Is falling nom Weston dow
dsal q rain has fallen within tho last day or two
Yl1tsraay Va. ySlSsr end warm' Bminsss on Il