Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-23
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RIVER AND WEATHER.
ARRIVED.

last evening with 4 feet large on Harpeth
Shoals. Weather fair, and oppressively
warm.
There were no arrivals yesterday. The
Molhe Gratz and Umpire cleared with
summer trips.
Lord Palmerston departed yesterday on
the Umpire as second clerk of that institu-
ton. Rumor says that he is destined for
Europe or Crittenden Springs.
After an absence of three months, Capt.
Will Harmon returned yesterday from Hot
Springs, Ark. We are glad to learn that
he is greatly improved in health. A warm
welcome was extended to him by his many
friends.
There will be two steamers to leave on
Monday-the Burksville at 10 NJ, and the
Alpha at NJ, both bound for Cairo
The West Wind is to be sold by United
States Marshal Spooner, Evansville, the
first Monday in August, to satisfy a claim
of 1914 SO.
The Emma Floyd has been chartered by
the Cincinnati and Memphis packet com
pany to run in that line during the low
water.
The steamer Sallie was sold by Capt
Carhoun on Wednesday last, at st. Louis,
to the st. Louis and Arkansas River Packet
Company for the sum of $21, 900, cash.
The Arkansas river is falling, though
with an excellent stage of water to all
points as far as Fort Smith. The Red
river is at good stage. The Illinois river
is at dead-low stage. Missouri river is
only passably fair to Kansas City and very
shallow above that.
The Mound City Journal, of Tuesday,
says:
The champion steamer of the West, the
Robert E. Lee, has been hauled out at
Hambleton, Collier d Co.'S Ways, and the
necessary repairs are being put on her
with great vigor. The entire fleet of snag-
boats for the Missouri, the Lower Missis-
sippi and tributaries, is still lying here, but
will leave in the course of very few days.
They have been repaired and repainted
throughout, and look splendidly. Having
very efficient corps of officers, their work
during the season of low water will count
largely to the benefit of commerce. The Dex
ter is still lying here, and will come out as
soon as the Lee is off the ways. The man.
moth barge Messrs. Hambleton, Collier i
Co. are building is rapidly approaching
completion.
The United States survey steamer Tide
oute was at our levee last Sunday. She
had Just completed tour of inspection
from Pittsburg, having left that point on
the 9th of June. Colonel Merrill, of the
United States Engineers, who has recently
relieved Colonel Roberts as officer in
charge of surveys Oh the Ohio, was on
board, this being his first trip. Improve
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places Tor the benefit of navigation; in
some places dredging, in others wing dams
are being built.
IRON STEAMBOAT.
The st. Louis Republican has the fol-
lowing in regard to an iron steamboat now
in process of construction:
Since the opening of the discussion of
the subject of reconstructing our river
marine, by substituting iron instead of
wood in boat building, both Pittsburg and
Cincinnati have become aroused to the
importance of gaining the prestige of
being first to build iron steamers. At
Litherburg's boat yard, Cincinnati, Capt.
Boardman has boat now in process of
construction. This boat is emphRtically
an iron boat, and if St Louis does not
have the honor of building the first iron
steamboat after a lapse of twenty-five
years, Missouri has the honor of furnishing
the iron. The following particulars con-
corning the boat may be here noted. Her
hull will be $50 feet long, 40 feet
floors, ~ feet beam, 81 depth
of hold, and all iron-not
square inch of wood being used. The
thickness of the iron in her keel is of an
inch her forward body is J, and after body
of an inch large. As the boat is inten-
ded for Red river, which is believed to con-
tain more snags than any other navigsble
Western river, it will be readily seen why
the iron forward is an eighth inch thicker
than it is aft. Her floors are of u, II and
16 inch centers, of angular iron, 81 by Is
inches, with every alternate floor reversed
angle on the top, making the floors 6
inches deep, by ive-eighths Cd of an inch
thick. The iron plates of which her hull
is constructed are feet wide, and vary in
length from 10 to II feet. The butts of
the plate are strapped with iron Of the
same thickness, double rivited what steam
boat builders call ''stagger rivet. All the
iron of the hull was manufactured by Alex.
Swift, of this city, from Iron mountain ore,
and is of superior quality, and Mr.. Swift
has the contract for building the hull,
which will cost about $29, 900.
The hull will be divided into twelve
water tight compartments, by iron bulk
heads running both ways. To reach all
these compartments, six matches only are
necessary, the two forward compartments
having each hatch. The main deck will
be principally of wood, bat 40 feet fore and
aft by 81 feet wide of that part under the
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against fire from the furnaces. The engine
frames casually called cylinder timbers)
will be of non. The guards and deck
beams will also be of iron. Her stern
posts are of wrought iron, by inches in
diameter. She will have a steel cylindrical
Wheel shaft, 81 inches in diameter, of half |
nch steel.
The wheel itself will be of iron, the same |
IS a sea- going vessel. 1t will be IS feet |
ong by % feet in diameter, with 2O-inch |
buckets.
The measurment of the tonnage of the |
,oat will be about 500 tons, but she Will |
AVE a carrying capacity Of 1000 tons |
Her actual weight will not be more than
laf that of a wooden vessel of the same |
dimensions. The cost of building her will /
'e nearly double that of a wooden vessel
# the same size, but to offset this it is
laimed that she will not have to be locked
and that she will outwear a
lalf dozen wooden boats.
rBS Telegraph
CAIRO, July 22.-River fell 5 inches.
Weather clear Mercury 80. The Ella
hughes, Nashville packet, arrived at P. NJ.
MEMPHIS, July o. Weather cloudy.
Iercury 80. Heavy rain this morning.
river fell inches.