Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-04-01
NEWS,

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been swelling here, having risen during The
t~wenty-fopr hours ending on Saturday eYeo-
ing aone six inches, but all Of yesterdayi il
was nearly stationary, witha ohannel-depth,
last night, at this point, according to Water
works report Of about sixteen and a half
feet. The River wa rising at Pittrburg at
last accounts.
The weather here was cloudy, raw and
disagreeable, Saturday and yesterday, but II
grew warmer last evening, and began to
rain, and is still doing so at the hour we
write.
Business was dull at the Landing on
Saturday, and though there were a number
of steamer there, but few of them seemed
occupied. Freights were scarce at our last
quotations.
Saturdays Louisville Courier has the fol-
lowing:
The River has commenced falling again,
with six feet nine inches water in the Canal
last evening by the mark. On the Falls
there were four feet nine inches in the pass,
a decline Of four inches at the head of the
Fall in the previous twenty. four hours, and
some twelve inches at Portland. The
weather is warm and was quite clustering
and disagreeable all day yesterday, with a
heavy rain in the evening.
There was quite a lively time N the
packet Eugene, at the Portland Wharf, yes
terdsy afternoon, resulting in a free fight
between the Captain and one OF the clerks
on one side, and the agent of the boat on
the other side. From words they came to
blows, growing out of the settlement of the
business of the boat. g.
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Peytona left Louisville for New Orleans on
Sunday, the 18th, at eleven o'clock, A. NJ.
Returning, left New Orleans on Saturday,
the 23d, at FIVE o'clock P. NJ, and arrived at
Louisville on the 28th, at twelve o'clock, P.
NJ, making the round trip in eleven days
and thirteen hours. That is hard to beat.
On the night Of the 25th, when just above
Napoleon, she encountered a gale of wind
which lasted for twenty-four hours, and was
80 violent as 70 cause most of the down
steamboats, to lay to until IL abated. The
gallant officers of the Peytona, however,
kept On their way and rode out of the gale,
and she has achieved a feat seldom if ever
achieved, attending to business on the up as
well as the down trip.
The Evansville Journal says that Captain
Dexter, Of the Charley Bowen, has gone to
Brownsville, Penn, to contract for a side
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Cairo trade.
1t will be seen by the following extract
that the accident to the Kentucky, below
Memphis, is likely to involve the loss of one
life:
A gentleman named Gwynn, from Clinton
County, KY, was lying in his berth at the
time the Kentucky's drum-head blew out,
and was blown through g bulk-head into an
adjoining berth, and out on the gusrds. 1t
is supposed that if there had been no imped-
iment, the stream would have forced his
body about five hundred yards into the air.
At last accounts, Mr.. Gwynn was at Helena,
and his death was momentarily looked for.
STEAMER BURNED. THE Alabama river
packet Lecompte, Captain Jas. G.. Stewart,
was burned at Mobile on Wednesday. She
had been laid up when the accident &C.
Cured. The Lecompte is insured in the
Eagle and Commercial Offices, Cincinnati,
for $4,000.
These items are from Wednesdays Mem
phis Appeal:
We learn that an unprecedented amount
of dry goods was yesterday shipped from
this port for White River.
The Messenger left with 300 bales of cot
ton for Cincinnati.
The Izetta, from Louisville, leaves for Gin
cinnati this evening. The Mariner leaves
to-day for Pittsburg. The Anglo Saxon
went out for Pittsburg with l,2OO bales of
| cotton.
The Little Rock came in from the Arkan-
sas River; she reports that stream to have
three feet water at Little Rock, and falling.
She leaves on her return tomorrow.
The Fitzhugh has laid up at Swan Lake,
on the Arkansas River.
Saturdays st. Louis Republican remarks:
The River here is falling slowly. The de-
cline in the twenty -four hours ending at ten
o'clock A. NJ. yesterday was two and a half
inches, City Engineers measurement. The
river was then seventeen feet six inches
above low water mark of December, 1860.
The Illinois River is rising slowly.
The Upper Mississippi is falling from Du-
buque down, with four and a half feet on the
upper and four feet on the lower Rapids.
Very cold and stormy weather is reported
in the upper country-snow storms, rain
storms and other unpleasant occurrences to
steamboats,.
The Missouri River is falling from st.
Joseph down, with four feet scant in the
channel.
The weather is very wet aud unpleasant,
and business on the Levee is consequently
dull. 1t rained nearly all day yesterday,
from eleven o'clock in the morning until
three o'clock Pm. The temperature is cool
Z Arrivals yesterday numbered twenty-a
very large number. All the boats from the
upper rivers had full cargoes of produce.
Our Thursdays New Orleans exchanges
state:
The weather yesterday was decidedly
Summer. like, while business seemed to be,
if possible, still more SO. But very few
boats left port and lone with the best Of
trips.
Capt. Vim B. Hazlett, formerly of the
Hannibal, Amazon and Izetta, has bought
the T. @. Twichell for $4,000, and will put
her machinery into a new boat.
NJ REGISTER.