Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-25
MISCELLANEOUS

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now an eight paper, similar to the New York Her.
aid and other Eastern papers.
We paid visit to the propeller Little Queen"
yesterday and found her of the complete boats
of her class have seen. She built at Mound
City by the mechanics employed the navy yard
at that city, and her machinery put in by Messrs. Day.
lin and Jack Wilson, who have proved themselves be
mechanics of first rate ability Mr. Wilsoa takes charge
of the engine. The dimensions of her hull is follows
Length ALL Sc feet. inches beam IL feet guard
feet; hold feet Her cylinders % inches in diam
eer and 20 inches stroke She tubular boilers with
fire box attached to- and really part of them and has
capacity for generating quantity of
with little fuel and store about 500 bushel
coal in her hunkers Her machinery works splendidy
and she isin al her parts most complete She
is commanded by Capt. Lewis Bowers genial and
competent steambostman and gentleman. and whose
qualities Of head and heart will recommend him wer
he We understand he will take the Little
Queen to New Orleans in short time where she will be
used towboat for general use-her power being
ample for that purpose. In the mean time she will
make trips between Cairo AMI Mound City the
accommodation of the public '.-z- -- -.
The St. Louis Democrat has the following items;
On 1Sth the Upper Mississippi steamer Enterprise
sunk by running against the wreck of the Hamburg.
lies the sand point where the wreck is with
cient occurred is in Lake Pepin, about nine miles be-
low Red Wing The night very dark, and the wind
blew violently, and the Enterprise running the
shore to avoid heavy swell of the lake. Captain
Harry Holmes was in command at the time The Ham
We learn from the St. Paul Press of the 10Th, that
barge containing five hundred bars of iron for the
Wnona and St. Peter railroad which was being towed
up by the FavOrte, capsized Sunday night at the
head of the slough five miles above Lacrosse. ALI but
twelve bars fld off and went down in eighteen feet Of
| water. 1t is being recovered from the river.
| Thomas
ncis Fisher, lost his life by drowning last Friday
night by accidentally falling between coal barges
the south of the Missouri He leaves many mourn
ing friends. Pr. -
The following items of interest to steambsatmen
| copied from the Pittsburgh Gazette:
i New Boats AT PIrrsBURGH.-Monongahela Landing
/ Messrs. Clark & Robinson building fiat bottom
boat, be used in the Monong ahela river job
boat and for the purpose Of breaking ice.
Geo. W. Mitchell is building the towboat Mary Da-
| VICE to wfele she has a trade.
Pollock Eaton is building tow-boat, which has not
yet been named She will run wherever she can find
Capt. VIM Hanna is building tow boat, not yet
Jos. Davy & Co. are building tow-boat, with a
square bow, to be called the Wild Boy.
Allegheny Landing-Wm: D. Tory is building cot.
ton boat to be called the Sybi. She will be finished and
| ready to leave about the first of next month.
Thomas Jackson is building tow.boat to run between
| here and Oil City, to be called the Oil Valley.
| CAPTAINS Rees Rees and James Rees building an
Allegheny river Jacket to be called the Ida Rees No.
Conner Rennott are building an Oil City tow boat
to be called the Keystone. She will between Par
kersburg and Oil City.
Benjamin Fry is building cotton boat for the Apal-
achicoa and Chattahooche rivers in Florida She will
be called the c. d. Fry.
The hull of the old boat Geo. Albree has been
raised and towed around the Allegheny wharf, here
is being rapidly broken pieces by praticaI land
sharks hat live in that vicinity Every piece timber
that be broken is being carried away by these
| searchers after fuel under difficulties.
Captain John Cartwright and Newton Corbett have
purchased the steamer A. Baker, at Nashville.
Billy Littrell, we'll known steamboat clerk in the
Cumberland river trade, and Ammon Cabler of
Capt. Calvin Caber, Of Nashville have purchased the
drug store of Dr. Gray, of the above named city, and
| will hereafter continue the business.
Capt Wiley simms, of Nashville, has been also seri-
ouGy contemplating going into the drug business
Jim Parrish has advised seriously against it he
has about abandoned the project. Jim is the
ookout for a steamboat for Capt. Simms.
|, Poor Tom Hartman? We always Thought he would
come to some bad end, and now, sure enough, ex.
pect he has followed show wagon butchers cart.
We received the following yesterday and insert it with
many tears:
SrRAYED-From the steamer Tyrone, Oct. 23d, 1865,
Capt. Thos Hartman. Any person giving information
his whereabouts will be literally rewarded by applying
to J.B. PARRISH, Steamer Tyrone"