Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-04-02
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CONSIDERABLE OF A srRING.-The New Bedford
Cordsge Company has just turned out a fourteen
inch MANILA hawser, 100 fathoms long, weighing
$500 lbs to be used in hauling on the British steam
er Caledonia, ashore on Cape COd.
We clip the following items from the Detroit Ad-
vertiser and Tribune of the sIst ult.:
The Intelligence from Mackinaw relative to the
Straits being opened was by letter dated II at that
which states that the ice gave way the day previous
and that the passage was free and clear from Lake
Michigan to Huron. Oth=r letters connrmatory OF
the above have been received and boats were daily
expected to arrive down from Chicago. Intelligence
to be relied upon has also been received from Cong-
wood, stating that the way to that port is opened
and Georgian Bay is free from ice distractions.
The steamer Forester, Captain Fish, left yesterday
morning for Port Huron, and returned again at
O'Clock in the afternoon She succeeded in getting
within five miles Of Algonac where the channel was
found bOckaded with ice from one to eighteen feet
in thickness. The effort to get through will not, il
is presumed be again renewed for some days to come
The propeller Debuque, Captain Pelky, which ar
rived here lat week from below TOOK on cargo for
that port Saturday, and left the same evening
If unsuccessful in getting through, she doubtless
will discharge her freight at Dunkirk and return to
this port again.
D. A. Van Valkenburg, Esq, of Tonawanda on the
Niagara river, is building at that village fine YES
sci Of the following dimensions Length I4j feet
beam 20 feet depth IL feet-measuring 400 tons She
April, and will be called the "Jenuio King she
% lutte dtd fgr froishting timbor, but will make
few trips in the grain trade
EAvIGAT-ON.-The prospect at the mouth of the
Bay, looking out from the city, yesterday, was de-
cidedly icy. Apparently the lake full of ice and
during the afternoon moro or less off was driven
into the Bay.
The Island Queen, however, started for the Islands
at about o'clock p. NJ. and we presume reached
them without serious difficulty.
What with the Bonnie Boat and the Little Eastern,
making their daily trips, soma three four vessels
transporting sand and wood, and the fishing craft
getting out more thickly every day the Bay is get
ting to wear quite q comfortable appearance.-San-
dusky Register
STEAMER EAGLE.-Tbe steamer Eagle has COM
menced running between PoughkeePsie and New
York, under command OF Captain Fairbanks On the
opening Of navigation up this way she will 60 her
old route between this city and Newburg.-Albany
Argus
THE RIvER.-The water continues to recede and is
off the Docks at nearly all points. The Bath and
road ferry boats have been making regular trips for
two or three days past Yesterday the Hu son River
Railroad ferry bOat carried five or six hundred
cattle. Most of the Cattle however were driven
around by wey Of Troy.-lIb
CANAL BoArs.-There are now building, at yarious
points in this State, 2l5 boats, which will be ready
for launching on the opening of navigation. These
boats will average in capacity two hundred tons,
thus adding fortytwo thousand tons to the carrying
There were iS5 boats, good, bad and Indifferent,
aOat at the close Of navigation last fall and with the
new will make total of 333g Something over 2,nO0
falo Express.
having been seen at the mouth Of Detroit River is
supposed TO be the schooner Marcellus, bound from
Toledo to Trenton for cargo Of flumberDetrOit Free
Press.
new bark is in process Of building at St Clair
for Eslene Smith, ESD owner Of the bark Margaret
the opening of navigation She will be the largest
class of vessels.