The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-06-03

the channel by the Water works marks at q
A. M.
STAGE OF THE RIVERS.
PITTsBURG, june 3.-Riyer failing, with 8
feet inches. Weather clear. Thermometer
68 Wind northwest.
Wneenng-5 feet and falling.
GalliDolis-River falling.
Marletta-4H feet and falling.
Middleport-5 feet ~ inches and falling.
Charleston-4 feet and rising.
Aonisyiile-R River stat.enary. !. with feet In
Evansville-6 feet and falling.
| Cairo-S1s feet and falling.
Nashville--3h feet and rising.
Little Rookie feet and falling.
Memphis-River falling.
Boats Leaving io-day-Pittsburg, Exchange.
and Arlington; New Orleans, Cherokee.
Towboat Items.-The Reindeer came in yes
terday fIom Pittsburg with coal.
The Big Condor came in from Pomeroy with
The Nail City and barges have laid up at
Antiquity, awaiting water. The Raven lef
MiddlePort Wednesdaywith barges bulk salt
for st. Louis, one barge for Padueah, one for
Cincinnati, and three barges coal and 5000
kegs nails for Louisville. The tug Robin has
gone to Flint Island to Tighten OF the barge Of
the Jno Means.
The James Hobson left for Louisville with a
The y. j. Bigley and Hornet No. returned
to Plttsburg last night with empty barges
The Ed. Hobbs passed up for Wheeling from
ST. Louis, with three barges iron ore.
The Warner left for Middleport last night.
The Ashland was only twenty days on the
round trip this last time, and handled over sou
tons freight
turn to Pittsburg tonight. Capt. ODowd
brought the Hornet No. here this trip
Capt Francis. the wrecker has contracted to
raise the safe Of the burned Exporter, at New
Orleans.
Howard g. Co., Of Jeffersonvilie, Ind. yester-
day evening launched the large railroad trans
fer steamer Junius s. Morgan, to be used at
Cairo, Ill. Her mensions are 205 feet long, 45
feet beam, and " feet hold, with a clear space
Of rs feet through, fore and aft, In which there
are two trucks tine entire length Of the boat the
boilers and machinery being placed on each
side. The engines, "a inches in diameter OF
cylinder, Z feet stroke, with boilers.
Capt. JAS s. Wise, OF this city, in attendance
at the Republican Convention at Columbus,
yesterday, was the. delegate who nominated
Gen. Tom Young for Lieutenant Governor
Arrivals and Departures-Andes from Wheel
ing, and Samuel J. Hale from New Orleans,
arrived. The Fawn and Turner, for Evans
vile. were the only departures.
The Charles Morgan refused freight at
Shawneetown Wednesday.
Captain Jonn B. Conway and Captain j. p.
Dunlevy are in attendance here in lawsuit
relative to the recovery of the burned Espe-
There was not a single boat at the Pittsburg
wharf Wednesday afternoon.
Captain Geo. ID. Moore is visiting at Pitts
burg.
The R. W. skillinger left Wheeling for Gin
cinnati w ednesday.
The Clara Scot, recently sunk in kanawha
river, is to be wrecked, all attempts to raise
her having been fruitess.
The stern wheel steamer Nashville, bound
from Florence, Alabama, to Cincinnati, sunk
on Colbert Shoals, In Tennessee river. No par
ticulars have been received here. She is owned
by Capt Jack Sleeth, Clerk Coombs, and 9TH
era. and was valued at IS, ,00a she has the ma
chinery of the Kenton, and is considered a good
boat It is thought she can be raised.
Eleven hundred and twenty-seven tons pig
iron was received and weighed on the Landing
during May by the City Weigher.
Last evening, as the Cons. Miilarwas coming
up the river, she was hailed by parties on the
barge Mingo, who called for assistance. The
Mingo was loaded with iron, and together with
a fuel boat was swept out OF the Big Miami By
the freshet The LonS Millar towed the Mngo
to place below Lawrencsburg, where she was
made fast to the bank.
The Cherokee, Wednesday, reshipped 60 bar
rels molasses. ~ barrels and hhds. broken
glass, on the Exchange for Pittsburg.
Captains Jas. A. Blackmore Dan Risher and
Sam Brown, the well-known coalhlerchants,
have returned to Pittsburg.