Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-19
RIVER NEWS.

Since our last iBsue the Ohio has swelled
rapidly here, having risen during the twenty
four hours ending last evening some seven.
feet, making, according to the report of the
Water. works, channel-depth at this point
Of over thirty-eight feet. The River at
Pihsburg was declining yesterday, with thir-
teen feet Of water there.
The weather was still cold and cloudy
yesterday, though it cleared off in the after
noon, and was temperate enough last night,
with no indication of snow OF rain.
Business on the Landing yesterday was
more animated than we have seen 1t for
several days. The Wharf was almost covered
with freight, the greater part cotton. A
large number of steamers were at the City
Landing, and nearly all of them were either
receiving or discharging cargoes. The offer
iDgs Of freight were fair for these times at
our last. quoted rates.
The River at Louisville has been rising
quite fast, with ten feet four inches in the
Canal on Sunday evening, when on the Falls
there were seven feet four inches water, over
the rocks, for descending boats, and fully FIVE
feet up the middle schute. During the pre-
viousforty- -eighthours the River hadswelled
three feet at the head of the Falls, and nine
feet at Portland. The weather there has
been rather wintry, with several slight snow
storms.
The long. looked for rise in the Arkansas
River has occurred, and thousands of bales
of cotton that line its banks will soon ue
shipped to market in New Orleans. Last
Thursday night. the Arkansas at Fort Smith
rose nine feet, which makes it nsvigable for
the heaviest boats all along its course. On
the evening previous there were six feet
water in the channel at that point, the first
navigable stage for nine months.
The Quapaw, that recently sunk in the
Arkansas some fifty miles below Little
Rock, has broken in two, and will be
wrecked.
The Sam Kirkman, the other boaS that
went down in the Arkansas, was sunk about
100 milesabove Little Rock, and the rise in
that river, it is feared, will make an end to
her career.
Negotiations by telegraph are pending
between the New Orleans and Vicksburg
Mail Company and the owners of the Ma
genta, for the purchase of the boat for the
cotton trade in place of the Charmer.
The owners of the Magenta are willing
to sell her for 100000, the boat to be de-
livered in New Orleans on her next trip, or
they agree to take $50, 900 for her on the
lst of July. No response has, as yet, been
made.
Yesterdays st. Louis Republican re-
marks, under date of Sunday evening:
The weather is cold and unpleasant 1t showed
most Of Saturday night, but very little snow re-
ratio of three feet in tweDty-four bourF-end pre-
sented very wild appearance yesterday, bearing on
Of ice, which Is from the Missouri Tho Missouri %
River has risen nine feet at Lexington. At this
point the Rver has Isen fully thirteen feet Arri-
walls yesterday we're the Lasalle, from Cairo; D.
Tetum, from Alton, and White Cloud from Illinois
for reshipment TO New Orleans, which she put on
board the Hiawatha
Fridays New Orleans PicGyune informs us
as follows
Tie weather yesterday, though little wintry In
mperature, was bright and cheerful. Business
was active on the Levee The number Of arrivals
unusually heavy, the departures large, both d.
landiPgs with boats
Thanks to the splendid weather OF the first days
s with tbe tbr 81 1ss meet
products Of Southern plantations and Western
farms, the Levee continues to present its wanted ap
pear ance of wondrous animation
Very seldom has the tuD mage in port, at this pe-
riod of the year, been great IL Is now and the
bulk of freight on the landings been more consd-
euned With reoyiSs IT, and thopFS y bS.pess Sy US
be said to have been this week, comparatively dull
account, perhaps Of the festivities of carnival
this same unhagglng activity rrigns all along the
vast river front of the Crescent City.
STEAMBOAT REGISTER.
Observation-Disclosures strader aud Keystone
Louisville Magnolia, Maysyille; Allen Collier,
ksaawha hivsL F9nnie McBurnie, Marietta; Po-
seEger, Memphis; iaIengo, New Orleans. Mon
Queen, MadisoP Dqnleith. Neville; Liberty,
: Departures- Sunday ay-MareDgo, Pittsburg Jacob
Strader ard EuDice, Louisville. Monday-Tele-
Saeh t%11iaS,yilIe; %aa,.n Magnolia MNaysye Forest
Dunleith, Neville LeonOra and Hastings p ttsburR