Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-06-04
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The Ohio ives slowly swelling here ysster.
day, making, according TO the wster-works
report q chAnneldepth ct this point o fnearly
fourteen fe6t-nearly the same stage as was
reported on Saturday night. The river at
Pittsburg was receding, with Eve feet water
there, yesterday. 81 ~
The weather has been very inclement since
our last, being very warm and sultry, with
much rain. 7'
Business Is as dull ss ever at the wharf;
nothing doing worthy ofmentiOn. su6 q
Yesterdays Louisville papers say z
The river was about stationary yesterday,
with fully six feet water ia the Canal by tie
mark. On the Falls there were four feet in
the pass. The weather has been warm and
rainy, with two very heavy showers.
Yesterdays Louisville Courier Observes:
We learn from passengers who left Mem
phis Saturday evening that the authorities
there had determined TO permit no more
boats, going North to pass that point. They
were enforcing O strict blockade, no oxceps
tons, treating all alike, friend and foe. The
declared object was 10 prevent the Lincoln
Government from seizing any more boats,
either to use TO invade the South, or TO raise
NOhhnNAtAOha d.
The Louisville was ct Memphis, all safe,
and Captain Combs, her owner and com.
mander, says that stopping his boat was
all right that she Is in the right place"
and be Is perfectly satisfied The through
freight for this port, including forty-three
hogsheads sugar, was forwarded by rail- ex-
cepting her tobacco. IL was thought the
tobacco would be reshipped to New 0rleana.i
The Louisville, as we have heretofore
stated, was the last of the Louisville and
New Orleans feet, all baNae been compelled
to lay up By. the coercion policy of the Lin
coin blockade. j.
Sundays 81. Louis Rspgtten remarks
The. river here is still falling slowly. In
the twenty-four hours ending at,ten O'clock
yesterday morning, IL fell one and q half
inches, and was then sixteen feet ten inches
above low water mark in December last
The weather is warm aud showery. II
was very close and sultry early Saturday
morning, and about eight o'clock it com
menced raining. It continued showery and
bot all day, and bad not given up s%prinkling
the streets at dark. :
The Illinois River is falling slowly, and
in good stage. III,
The Upper Mississippi is falling from Keo-
kuk down. At last accounts &c was rising
between st. Paul and Dubuque. There are
six feet on the Lower Rapids.
The Missouri River is falling from At
Gibson to the mouth, and is very low. There
are not more than four feet in the channel.
Yesterdays st. Louis Democrat remarks:
River matters dull, ~lifeless, and very un-
important. On Saturday, a decline in the
River of one and a half inches; yesterday,
about stationary. Rain fell again yesterday.
A great deal of rain has fallen of late here,
and it has fallen on the Upper Mississippi,
Illinois and Missouri Rivers. Therefore, we
should not be surprised were the River to
be rising today. Business is dull. As will
be seen from our list of arrivals, we were
yesterday cheered by the appearance of
quite a feet of steamboats, from the Illinois.
There is a suficiency of water in the
Illinois, Upper Mississippi and the Missouri.
If either is falling, it is falling slowly; if
rising, rising slowly.
The late flood in White River destroyed
the new levee, extending from the highlands
below Augusta to Peach-orchard Bluff, some
thirteen miles. The levee cost the State
about 100000, and was pronounced one of
the best jobs in that State. The most singu.
lar thing is, that the river was not up to the
extreme high water mark,