Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-07-10

The river is falling At Saint Louis.
The last boats from below report slS feet
in the channel out to Cairo. Between Cairo
and New Orleans there is fine boating stage
in the river.
The Ohio river is falling FROM Pittsburgh
to the mouth, with . fair boating stage
The tributaries Of the Ohio are becoming
low.
Tho Illinois river il falling from Ia Sale
to the mouth, with scant 3 feet in the chan
mel. Business on the Illinois is dull with
steamboats,.
The Upper Mississippi is raising from s..
Paul down to Keokuk,G 9 #. on the. Upper and
on the lower rapids. Below Keokuk there
is depth Of 10 feet in the channel. Bust
ness along the Upper Mississippi is fair.beth
in carrying produce and passengers.
The Missouri River is falling from Sioux
City down to the mouth, but is in fine boat
ing stage. There is depth Of feet In the
channel. Business along the Missouri Is
dull, and boats have lately come down with
little or nothing in them. Asa general
thing they get gosd trips up the river. part
Iy for Government and partly on private &C.
count. Many Of the Missouri river boats
will be obliged to lie up shortly.
The river st Shreveport is falling rapidly
to Alexandria, but rising above, and hopes
are entertained Of June rise to prolong
navigation through till August.
The Rio Crande rose at Camargo 80 feet
in "a hours, but had fallen 90 feet. The
flood swept away innumerable ranches, and
from Camargo down this side Of the river
was an unbroken corn6eld, all Of which
was destroyed No lives are known to be
lost
At Pittsburg there is Al feet and station
aryin the cl,anncl. At Wheeling there is
feet, and feet at Parkersburg, and fall
ing. At Blennerhassett and Burlington
there is 4 feet. Here the river has receded
| IL inches during the past 4S hours. There
| is Z feet hence 10 Louisville. There is 81
feet in the Canal. The Tennessee is falling
again. The Cumberland is falling, with 2s
inches on Harpcth Shoals.
There are nine steamers in port at Pitt
burgh being completed, IS follows:
Dictator, Capt. w. Donaldson. for the st
Louis and New Orleans trade; Forrest Cit,
Capt. John Gordon, for the Parkersbure
trade; River Queen, Capt. Churchill, fol
the Allegheny trade, and the Greenback
Capt. Rogers, for where he can find thu
grssnbacks, and others whose names VI
could not learn.
The towb boats building are the j. N
smith, ''smaii," and a ferryboat for Roches
~ and Philiipsburg. e
There are twenty -ninc tow boats in port
Of large and small sizes, that are ready fol
business.
In testing the boiler Of the tcwboa Cur
renee No. 2, it bursted. The No. has ye
to be inspected. The tow boats were bull
at Oil City or near Franklin, and came dow
to be inspected and get theR papers frou
the Custom House.
There was late run Of coal from Pitts
burg to Cairo, Of 10000 bushels.
Capt. Milt Cooley, residing at Coolsville
Attens county, Ohio, who has been an in
valid for some time, few nights since
while his attendants were absent, slippe
out of his room. His body was afterward
found in the Hooking River, and bore mark
Of violence. Several stones, covered wit
, blood, were also found in the vicinity, lead
to the suspicion that he had been brutal
, murdered for his money, and his bod
/. thrown into the river. The deceased wa
4 the pioneer in the Cincinnati and Marriott
. packet trade, with the Ohio, Helen Mar, Al
q vance and OF her steamers.