Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-18
RIYER MRWR.

The Ohio has BEEN receding here steadily
since our last issue, having declined during
the twenty-four hours ending last evening,
some eighteen inches; leaving, according 10
the report Of the Water-works . channel
depth, at this point, Of over t~wenty-four and
q half feet. The river at Pittsbure, at last
accounts, was still rising, with eleven feet
water there. Il 100
The weather was cloudy rainy, raw and
disagreeable on Saturday, but It cleared of
in the evening, and yesterday was clear,
bright and pleasant.
Business was rather quiet on the Landing
on Saturday, and freights were moderately
offered} being light for the upper ports and
New Orleans, but fair for st. Louis and the
Cumberland and Arkansas Rivers at those
rates:
PhsbgrO = Cotton, TO-, Molassss and Sugar, iso.
per 100 lbs.i Whiskyl 5ecj Flour, Soc; Pork and
Is q Lo SUSi HSS3S PoaSSd bF rsii; Sss i ssS pT SSp Ia.
Whisky and on, coo. per bfrreli Stoves, Ho.i Kis,
EseSsviaE.-whisky and on, 500. FER barrel.
= Mhi.ky and OIL 500. Per barrel Pound
TssSsss;@efoSup FfsisSts, ss@Soo. DRY Goods,
sci whi:k ban and 9 pb15nTsSS 80; Az. SCI HlOur, 4qc;
X " A19E, spd : ! ter points above. Whisky, %
pd Ms'V qEIsGH'Gawhisky, slj on, sIlO Flour, ssoi
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From Saturdays Louisville Courier we
extract as follows;
The river was falling very slowly last
evening, barely an inch in twenty.four
hours, with fully nine feet one inch water in
the Canal by the mark. On the Falls there
were six feet one inch steamboat water.
The weather has moderated again, and was
clear and pleasant all day.
Yesterday Mr.. J. B. Ford, the owner and
builder of the new packet Louisville, sold
her to Captain Joe Combs, of this city, for
the sum OF 100000. She is a staunch, fast
clipper, as well as a good carrying boat, and
cheap at the price. It is supposed that the
present officers will continue on the Louis-
vile. She left this port on Thursday even
ing for New Orleans, with a full cargo en-
gagged.
THE NEW EMPRRss-The new boat built
at Madison by Alexander Temple, a good
builder, for Captain Gould, was at the wharf
yesterday, and went over the Falls on her
way to New Orleans in the evening. She
is a very staunch, compact boat built ex-
pressly for the carrying trade between st.
Louis and New Orleans in the Railroad Line.
and has been named Empress. Captain
Gould has had a thorough experience, and
felt assured that he had in the Empress an
excellent business boat.
She is of very light draught though a large
boat, heavily built for service. Her Custom
house tunnage is as follows: Length 265
feet, beam Al feet, depth of hold 8 feet 3 in
ches, making her tunnage 954 tuns. She has
4high pressure boilers, each "a feet in length
and A Inches in diameter, with A return hues
each l3 inches in diameter. The iron of the
boilers is sic of an inch in thickness. She
has 2 engines, each 26 inches in diameter,
with 10 feet stroke.
We learn that on Saturday last the Mis-
souri, was still firmly frozen at Omaha.
The weather was cold, and the River was
falling rapidly. 1t was not likely that the
ice can hold out much longer, however.
Dispatches dated Rock Island, March Is.
state that the steamer Kate Cassel, in going
through Rock Island bridge, yesterday,
morning, struck one Of the piers and was
badly broken up.
Saturdays st. Louis Republican remarks
Tho River here is about stationary. The
upper rivers are in the same condition.
The Northerner, which arrived yesterday,
was the first arrival at Dubuque of the
season, and had to break through several
goTges OF ice to get there. Fever River is
open to Galena. The Northerner left Du-
buque on Tuesday evening, March IL. The
Metropolitan was at Dubuque loading for St.
Louis, to leave the next day. The North
erner reports the River falling as far down
as Burlington.
The Illinois River is stationary, and the
Missouri River is in the same condition.
The weather is cool and fine, and business
on the levee is brisk.
Arrivals yesterday were the Henry Cho-
teau and Alonzo Child, from New Orleans ;
Brazil, Postboy and Minnesota Belle, from
Illinois River; City of Alton, from Alton g.;
H. D. Bacon and B. M. Runyan, from Mem
phis; Die Vernon, John Bell, Lady Pike and
Northener, from Upper Mississippi.
The w. l.. Ewing left for Dubuque Luz
zerne for Rock Island Lacross for Daven-
port; Warsaw for Keokuk; Minnesota Belle,
Laclede, Brazil and Postboy for Illinois
River; Emile and T. E. Tut for Missouri
River; @. E. Hillman for Nashville, and City
of Alton for Alton.
STEAMBOAT REGISTER.
Acknowledgment, Louisville; ]. b. Ford, Louis
Vile; PIiOress, Madison; BostonR, Portsmouth; Sam
kirkman, Arkansas River; Anglo Saxon, Pittsburg;
Linden, Pittsburg; City Of Madison, New Orleans;
Lancaster No 4, Neville.
Departures Telegraph, Louisville; Prioress, Mad
Aanua . so 81 II NJ Nh