Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-03
RIVER AND WEaTHEg.


The rivek was still declining slowly at
this point yesterday, with 81 feet scaut on
harpeth shoals. Weather opened cloudy,
Win good breeze, but was afterwards
clear and oppressively warm.
Inc Hero arrived from Hunters Point
with load OF lumber, which she viii carry
through to st. Louis.
The Lawrence was hourly looked for
last evening, and returns to Cincinnati
on Monday evening at o'clock, in COM
mand Of the experienced aud accomplished
commander, Capt Pearce. =
The Tallsman, in command of the iIlus-
trious Capt Strong, is the regular packet
for Cairo ct P N tomorrow, with HARPER
and Wilkinson in the Office.
VIM Mantz, an old Mouth of Smithlapd
engineer. has $3.50 invested on the L E
Lee VS. Natehez.
Capt Pres A Byrne, of GAINESVILLE. is ne
gotistlng for the purchase of a skating
rink, canvas show, and a sternwh4el
boat.
Lord Palmerston declares the hatcher
shall never turn another wheel for hin, IL
she is defeated in this race. He will sell
out, and reinyest in Conversation. Cbeno-
weth's nsw boat He will, ST tell Won
While at Evansville the other dav Cant
Pierce, of the Lawrence, made heavy bet
on the Lee. ~,
Col Mat Mckinney, surveyor of Gus
toms for the port of Palmyra, is going to
stop up the tunnel if the railroad truck is
not removed from the front of his town.
The great boat race was still the topic of
conversation yesterday, and the merits of
each fairly discussed. The Natehez, which
Is the newer boat by some three years, was
built last year at Cincinnati, and is 3O7 feet
6 inches long, by 43 feet beam, and 3SI
feet floor, and 10 feet hold. She has eight
high pressure boilers, making all the steam
she can possibly work. She is propelled
by two high pressure cylinders, thirty foul
inches diameter by ten feet stroke, and
works water wheel Of forty-two feet and
eleven inches IN diameter, with fifteen feet
seven and half inches length of bucket,
which are twenty-six inchet wide. She has
beautiful model, and in every respect q
superior craft. e.l '1ze
The Robert E Lee has been kent 10
such thorough repair that she may be said
to be as good as new. She is three hua-
bred feet long By forty-six feet beam and
thirty-six floor, and nine and half feet
depth of hold. She has eight very large
boilers. Her cylinders, the largest high
pressure ever built in the West, are forty
inches in diameter with ten feet stroke.
turning water-wheel Of thirty-eight feet
in diameter, with sixteen feet nine inches
length Of buckets, twenty-six inches wide.
Thus it will be seen that the Natchez is
seven feet longer than the Lee-has three
feet less beam and two and a half more
floor. She has five feet eleven inches more
diameter of wheel than the Lee, with if
teen inches less of bucket, which are in
both boats the same width. She has the
same length of stroke as the Lee, with six
inches less diameter Of cylinder, and carries
about the same freight. Neither boat car
ries, we believe, any more than their
custom house measurement, which in the
the Lee is ], 407 tons. The Natchez. if is
claimed, carries 1850 tons.
The latest information regarding the
racing steamers viii be found under our
telegraphie head At Helena the Lee was
80 minutes ahead of her competitor, the
Natchez claiming that she lost SO minutes
during Friday night by broken pump.