Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-04-28
RIVER NEWS.

The river is slowly declining with about Is feet
water on the shoals.
Acknowledgment st. Lonis.
DEPARTED Tyrone, Cairo; Roicena Cincinnati.
The high-headed Imperial, Captain Brash %. S
d. arrived yesterday from St. Louis, with large
cargo of freight and quite number of passen-
gers Old Jack says he will feed" well, lift does
cost money Harrison & Son are the agents.
This boat leaves for St. Louis this morning at 10
o'clock.
The fine steamer Mercury will leave for Louis
Vile this evening at o'clock. Captains Corbett
and Boyd are agents for this steamer.
The river at Louisville yesterday was rising fast.
The falls was navigable for all classes of boats.
We copy from the Louisville Courier the follow
ing paragraphs:
SUIT DECDED.-A few days since n suit against
the steamer Ruth was decided in the Court at
Evansville in favor of the boat mention of which
was made by telegraph. The case was this: In
June last the Ruth. Captain Pegram, while at the
Evansville wharf, was, by a sudden gust of wind
forced against saltboat lying alongside of the
steamer j. p. Webb, crushing the saltboat and
causing it to sink with a considerable lot of salt
The suit was brought by the Kanawha Salt com
pany, of which Mr.. Rutner Is agent, to recover
the price of the boat and salt. The jury was out
but few minutes, returning a verdict IN favor Of
the defendant.
SAFETY VALvEs.-The Supervising Inspector of
the Sixth District has issued the following:
OFFICE SUPERVISING INSPECTOR, LOUISVILLE,
Ky, April q, l366.-Messrs. Crane n Dawson
United States Local Inspectors, Louisville, ny.
Gentlemen: In order to carry out the provisions
of an act of Congress. of August 30, 1852 relating
10 steamboats,, and 10 prevent the recurrence of
those terrible explosions by which so many lives
have been lost feel il duty to call your at
tenton to the second clause, section nine of said
act, which requires that when, in the opinion Of
the Inspectors it shall be necessary, one of the
safety valves of all steamers carrying passengers
shall be taken wholly from the control of all per-
sons engaged i'm navigating such vessels.
In order TO enable you fully to carry out this
provision, we call your attention to the action of
the Supervising Board of October II, 1860, In
which 1t was ordered that after the 18th of
April 1856 all boats were required to conform
thereto.
refer you, also to pages II and Is, proceedings
og same annual meeting. for full information, and
TO the report of the committee for the plan and
specifications for the construction of the valve
You will therefore, from this date enforce this
provision Of the law on all steamers in your dis
trict. j. V. GUTHRIE.
Supervising Inspector Sixth District.
The Memphis ApdlaHchc of the 2jth. has the
following in reference to the river at that point:
The weather is clear and beautiful. Business is
moderate treights are scarce, with superabund-
ance of tonnage.
The river here is still rising The river a. ST.
Louis is rising slowly. The Ohio is falling from
Pittsburg down. with twenty feet water in the
channel at Cincinnati eight feet in the canal, and
six feet on the falls. The Arkansas and White
rivers are bank full. The Cumberland and Ten
nessee are reported falling, with six feet on the
shoals.
PRIvtrE MEDICAL ADvICE.-Rcad DR.. Whit
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