Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-09
RIVER NEWS.

The Ohio continues TO swell here, though
less rapidly than il l,as been swelling, hav-
ing risen during the twenty four hours end
ing last evening about three feet only; max
ing channel.depth at this point Of about
thirty five feet. The River at Pittsburg was
rising slowly, with twelve feet two inches
Of water there.
The weather here is still pleasant but cool
and windy. Business is stagnant on the
Landing, and freights are merely nominal.
Nothing new or important has occurred
in Louisville or st. Louis. Business is ex.
tremely dull therei nearly as much SO as it
is here.
We clip the following from yesterdays
Louisville Courier;
The River was rising very fast yesterday
about an inch per hour-with ten feet water
in the Canal by the mark. On the Falls
there were seven feet steamboat water for
descending boats, and fully five feet up the
middle chute in the evening. During the
previous twenty-four hours the River had
risen twenty inches at the head of the Falls
and five feet at Portland.
The Mississippi River at Memphis, Satur-
day evening, was still slowly falling, and the
Arkansas was eported on the decline, with
only four feet water below Little Rock.
The lower river had commenced falling
at Osceola, Ark, on the 30th ult. It then
was within nine inches of the top of the
Levee, and fears Of an inundation ana the
ruin of the crops were imminent. Some
little back-water had began to make its way
behind the Levee when the waters COM
menced recedipg.
Saturdays New Orleans Crescent has the
following;
The Red River packets D. R. Carroll and
P. d. Bonford have arrived, well loaded with
soldiers from that stream. The Carroll had
on board the Pelican Rangers, from Natchi-
toches, numbering one hundred and fifty e We
men, rank and file, while the Bonford brought
down the Marion Rifles, of Jefferson, CON
| sistiDg of one hundred and eleven men, rank
and file. The trade" in Red River does not
appear to be played ouF' yet. Nearly every
| Red River arrival has on board fine com
pany of volunteers, and the cry is "stiI they
| come"
The Red River packets Milton Relf and B
| L. Hodge have succumbed to the pressure OF
the times, and been taken to summer quar-
teTs. The Mary T., late in the Lafourche
trade, has also been drawn off for repairs
repaintjng, &c, preparatory to taking the
place of the Vicksburg in the trade between
this city and Vicksburg, for the summer
She will take her place at the landing in
about two weeks. The Iberville takes the
place of the NatcheE, and leaves for Vicks-
burg a week from this evening.
SUNK ON THE BAR AT ST. JosEPB.-The
propeller Lady Franklin, having in tow the
hull of the old propeller kontezuma, in com.
ing out of st. Joseph on Wednesday, got her
on the bar. Ia her efforts to work it off
she stove her stern in. The hulk began to
leak, and it was thought advisable to scuttle
her and start for Chicago for assistance
Steam pumps will be sent over, and she will
doubtless be got off without much difficulty
Her cargo being railroad ties, win of cours,
suffer no damage.
| STEAMBOAT REGISTER.
| AiTiraIs- Sir william Wallace, st. Louis; Arizonia
| 81. PAUL. SUPERIOR Louisville; Magnolia, Maysville
| KanaV ha Valley, KanaWha; Forest Queen, Madi
| son; Lancaster, Neville; Ohio No. 8, Marietta.
Departures -AriEonia, Pittsburg' Superior, Louis
| vile; Magnolia, Dock Forest Queen, Madison
| Lancaster, maysville.