Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-03-28
sFELEkR MORNING sTAR.
first Steamboat Arrival Of the Season
Scene on the Deck.

1t was announced week ago that nsvi-
cation was open. The two lighthouses
have, for full ten days, or nights, reoog-
nized that fact by throwing their glare over
the lake. A few scows and small eossting
schoOners have arrived from, and sailed for,
neighboring ports, but the navigation sea-
son opened, in reality, yesterday, and there
was quite an enthusiastic celebration of the
event on the dock last evening, on theoc-
casion of the arrival at the Detroit Steam
boat Landing, of the steamer Morning Star,
from Detroit,-the first steamboat arrival of
the year.
Shortly after five o'clock in the afternoon
two small black objects were deserted prick
ing over the distant water. line of the lake in
the northwest, when instantly group of the
faithful. who were on the watch, cried out,
"The Morning Star!" She was under a
good head Of steam, and her smoke stacks
and hull rapidly hove in sight. Some
how that distant steamer had the virtue
of magnet, and dragged out TO the dock,
from warehouse, saloon, freight depot, bus,
drsy and streets, men and boys, who were
gathered into clusters like iron filings, and
strung all along the river. Ia many points,
we dare say, the scene was equal to that
of thenative HUI -ki-do-ri-sns" gazing on
the approaching ships of Columbus. The
aborigines could not have fed out OF their
huts of cane with greater alacrity than the
employees about the river deserted their
go-carts, barrows, saloons and warehouses.
But, whereas the natives were struck
at first, with consternstion at the sight
of the bold voyagers' ships, the spects-
tors yesterday were not at all alarmed,
but INDUCED freely in bets as to the num-
Der of minutes which would elspse, before
the steamer should reach the port.
She made the hsbor in about half an
nOa- from the time of her first appearance,
and came ploughins up the river in fine
STYLE. and was warmly Welcomed and es-
corted to the landing by Ireland, Germany,
and Yankeedom, in tho PEI lsons of their
many representatives. In the excitement
men trods upon one another's heels in the
press, and the gamins Jared i'll as they
threaded the throDg, shivering with cold
and afflicted with excessive sappiness o.
nose, (relieved by an occasional see-saw o.
the coat sleeve in roundabouts too short
and with hands in pockets of breechel
bsaring patches 30 enormous that it mus
have taken clothes philosopher like Car
lyle, to have made out whether the gar
ment was originally patch and plaster, o.
pants.
The Morning Star made the trip in jus
eight hours, having left Detroit at tel
o'clock A. N and arriving here at six P. N
She had no sooner touched the dock thar
men and boys sleaped like kangaroos through
the gsngwsy into the steamer, to tender con
gratulations, followed by the importunitie
of runners, the Jam of drays and the genera
confusion of steamboat landing.
The following gentlemen arethe prinoips
officers of the Morning Star:
Captsin-E r. Viger.
| Clerk-James Morton.
| StewRrd-M. S. Gagon.
EngiDeer-W. B. Watson.
First Mated. Mclaughlin.
She brought down ffteen or twenty pas
sengers and an inconsiderable amount o
freight. She could not have chosen a fnel
or more propitiOus day for her initial trip
The lake was comparatively smooth and th'
weather beautiful. Of Point su Pelee con
siderable floating ice was seen, but it prov
ed no obstruction.
The Morning Star will return TO Detroit
this evening, and will hereafter run hel
regular trips as last season.