Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-26
RIVER NEWS.

The Ohio was still declining yesterday,
though gradually, having reeeded during the
twenty.four hours ending last evening, not more
noSn 'tSe the River was falling With seven ost ten IN
ches water aud at Louisville last evening stAtonar,
sspp Is At as stand @ at st. Louis with eight feet 70
The weather yesterday was unpleasantly raw and
chilly, and last night was still more 80. The day
for rain. 'I..
Yesterday's St. Louis Republican remarks:
The river was stationary here yesterday. There 10
eight feet full IN the channel out % Cairo
feet in the channel from Peoria down to tho mouth
The Upper Mississippi Is falling with four feet on the
BeiowKeokuk there are ye feet water in the channel
s So Eysr + falling win s1es SosD snd half
, The weather is remarkably fine, and business on
the levee yesterday was brisk.
Yesterdays Louisville Courier has tho following:
The river falling very slowly yesterday, barely
six inches in twenty four hours at the head Of the
Falls with nine feet water in the Canal last evening
boat water in the Indiana chute, and fully ve feat
up the middle chute. The weather has been unusu.
entertained Of frost last night.
The Falls continue navigable for medium sized
boats to ascend, and some four or hve came up the
middle chute including the Lancaster No. 8, and
trsestone IN the evening The heavy Switzeriand
We sec It stated that the Memphis and, New Or
leans packet company have transferred their oon-
Memphis to The and
Orleans railroad line of steamers. This act may.
| therefore, be regarded as abandonment OF the
| packet trade on the part Of the old company.
| The same number Of the Republican informs rs;
! On Sunday morning, about eleven o'clock, the
sternwheel steamer Clara Poe, bound from this port
for the Missouri River, was sunk at Jefferson City:
| freight She was run ashore above Penitontiary
Wharf The conycts set to- work discharging
her cargo. The Clara Poe was subsequently pumped
out and raised but IL Is not likely that she will pur.
sue her trip. She Ii Pittsburg boat, worth about
! $1,000, and Is doubtless insured at Pittsburg.
The officers OF the Thos. Z. Tut INFORM us that w
! ii. Russell Tan accident to which boat we noticed
| yesterday morning. ran q stump at Camden, Mis-
souri, River, at one o'clock Friday morning last
| The Russell was bound up with about $50 tuns o
! freight. She broke about fifty timbers, and stuck
on the stump without making q hole in the hull.
She, however, took about two feet water, and one.
third of her freight damaged The Tutt took on
$50 tuns of her freight and then pulled the boat on
the stump, after which she went up the river. , , ,
| We heard rumor yesterday that the Russell had
\ sunk in Kaw Bend, above Kansas City, but dom
know that the report was entirely reliable,
| ..a p. STEAMBOAT REGISTER.
4 ArriVdls-Jacob Strader, Louisville; Clipper ans
Melrose, Nashville; Forest Queen, Madison; Graz
Eagle, Pomeroy; Magnolia, Maysyillei Mariner
Pittsburg; Stephen Decatur, St. Louis; Switzerls2d
New Orleans; Ohio No. 3, Marietta; Freestono, Wa
i bash River; Dunleth, Neville.
| Depdrftres-Jacob Strader, Louisville Magnolia
Maysville; Gray Eagle, Pomeroyi Forest Queen
| Madison; Mariner, St. Louisi Mary Cook, Pitts
burg; X. #. SasG, New Orleans; Belle Creole Arkan
sas River; Prairie Rose, St. Louis.