Vicksburg weekly herald., 1870-05-07
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.

The river continues to advance
slowly at this place.
PITTsBuRG, May 3.-The MOnOn-
pahela Is 5 feet inches and falling.
CINCINNATI, May 3.-The river
has fallen foot 4 inches, with %
feet 6 inches in the channel.
LOUISVILLE, May 3.-River fall
ing slowly, with 81 feet IN tho CO.
nal, and 81 feet In the chute, over
the falls, with 70IS feet space un'
der the bridge.
CAIRO, May 3-River fell six
inches.
MEMPHIS, May 3.-The river at
this port continues to rise slowly.
II is now about three feet below
high water mark of 1867. The
Arkansas is again falling slowly
at Little Rock.
NASHVILLE, May 3.-River still
rising, with six feet large on the
shoals.
PITTsBURG, May 2.-The Monon-
gahela is ) feet 8 inches aud fall
| Ing Allegheny, 6 feet 5 inches.
CIScNKATI, May 2.-The river
has fallen 4 feet inches since Sat-
urday % feet in the channel.
LOUISVILLE, May 2.-The river Is
falling 10 feet 10 inches in the Ca
nal, aud 5 feet 10 inches in the
chute, and "a feet under the bridge.
CAIRO, May 2.-The river has
fallen 4 inches since our last.
NASHVILLE, May 1.-The river is
rising with AZ feet on Harpeth
Shoals.
A Memphis exchange of the Srd
says:
"The river here rose two inches
and a quarter since Saturday, and
ia now below high-water mark two
feet ten and three.lourths inches.
The river will be checked by to-
morrow. At Cairo and st. Louis
the river is falling. The Ohio Is
, receding from Pittsburg to Cairo,
with eight feet six inches IL the
: canal. The Arkansas rose seven
; feet at Fort Smith, but commenced
falling on Friday, aud had fell an
inch up TO Saturday morning. At
, Little Rock it was rising yesterday,
; with eight feet in the channel from
there out. White river is rising
slowly at Devalps Blud, with good
stage from there out"
An exchange says:
The Evansville, Pdducah and
Tennessee River Steam Navigation
Company perfected its organiza-
; ton yesterday BY electing the fol-
, lowing Directors: DIR. Brock, Of
= Florence, Ala, Thomas L. Lee, of
, PaducAh, Captain John Gilbert, of
: Golconda; W. &. Brown and Cap.
tain +. r. Carson, Of Evansville.
The Directors subsequently elected
! Captain John Gilbert President
and Superintendent, and w. G.
Brown Secretary and Treasurer. A
= new boat will be built for the trade
Immediately. Captains Lee How
ell and Allen j. Duncan viii con-
tinuC to command the fleet. Cap
) tains Voolfolk, Bunce and Shall
cross, who were chosen for that
) purpose, have appraised the Quick
step at S2l,O00-a very low esd-
mate.
The commerce OF the Ohio river
) amounts TO >6JI 100000 per annum.
Yet it is allowed TO lauguish and
suffer through the inattenlion of
the Government, and for the waut
ofthe piliiul sum Of S2j0000, while
many other streams having less
than onc.tcnth our commerce re-
ceivc appropriations amounting 10
) millions.
The Evansville Courier says
ain Evansville we have Il different
way OF doing things. II Il boat does
not leave on the day she is adyer-
Be- Used, the shipper goes down to the
> wharf aud demands his goods, aud
at once rcships the goods on an
/, other boat. \ boat cannot lay at
the Evansville wharf two or three
days for load, and il she does not
, go when advertised once, she never
need come back hero again for
freight No Piltsburg tricks al.
lowed at this landing"
Tho Eau Claire Free Press re.
r ports Jun above Chippewa Falls,
containing from forty TO fifty mil
lion feet oflOss, aud likely TO in.
crease. 1t is over mile in length,
aud from fifteen to forty feet lh,ck.