The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-12-30

afraid Of being frozen up at that point. :.
The U. z. Schenek lett her bertu above
Memphis yesterday and sought harbOr
below that city, near Fort Pickerin ,..
Tue Florence Meyer has LAID uD at Fine
Bluff, with 750 bales cotton on board. ...
Ehe 5cioto was pulled of the bank at
Portsmouth by the Brilliant yesterday,
ana lett ior Huntington.
BoAT-HAND5' GOSSIP.
The Johu Hauna's pIIots report new
channel AT CnootaW, and fun eight feet
there. also, as muc as that trnm Mem
phis down. Captain Rees w. Dugan
and bride were in ST. l. uls yesterday.
they will visit Louisville and Cincin-
matt, and make atour eastward. Snow
fell steadily yesterday, and covered the
ground last night to the depth of seven
inches, making good slelghihg. The
floating ice i'll the river at Memphis
is very heavy, and extends all The way
across, and Indications are that ere long
it will weld into one grand mass from
both shores to the mic channel. Busi-
ness at Memphis is almost totally sus-
pended. Everybody is showed in.
There are no prospects OF a thaW, and
the situation is cheerless in the extreme.
.... Captain Pierce paid off his crew OF
ice cutters yesterday. The entire eX-
pense was $242 %, including
$8 80 paid Tor three axes, one
shovel and one saw lost in the river.
| The tools were borrowed from the steam
ers in port. James ID. Parker, Secre-
tary of The ''Allen Governor Company"
of Boston, MASSACHUSETTS,, is not the
genial Captain James d. Parker, Treas
| urer Of the Memphis & Cincinnati Packet
Company, ana Cne candidate tor Corre-
spending Secretary OF the Young Mems
| Mercantile Library Association, on the
| Regular ticket. w Q make this announce
ment at the.sugges stion of Count De Buss,
| of the SedamsVIlle Cooperage Manutac-
| tory, who is a particular friend Of JIm-
mics :. Capt. }. b. Eads telegraphs
| from the jetties that he has secured the
requisite width and depth through the
entire pass to entitle him to the first ln-
stalment. The channel now, he says, Is
| twenty feet deep and two hundred ieet
| in width :. Capt. Kobt. w. Wise, of the
Jas. w. Gan, returned this morning from
ST. Louis.
BOATS BUILT AT CINCINNATI IN 1875.
The following vessels were DullG III bhe
district of Cincinnati, and enrolled here,
during the year when Will END to'mof-
row:
| Side-wheel Steamers-A. G. Donnally.
292 ieet length, Al feet inches wide, 7
feet deep, l,045.66 tonnage. Bonanz ,
265 feet inches length, al feet inches
wide, 8 feet 7 inches deep, 776.3S ton
| mage.
| Stern-wheel Steamers-James w. Gaf,
23O leeL inches length, 30 ieet & inches
wide, s leet inches deep, 6OO73 ton
mage. Golden City, 275 teet 2 inches
length, 40 feet 5 inches wide, 7 feet
inches deep, 9S2.1O tonnage. Mobile, 159
feet inches length, 81 feet inches
wide, A feet deep, 262,36 tonnage. U. r.
| Schenck, 25l feet length, ~ feet wide,
{ feet deep, 1,0S6.72 tonnage. Valley, ~
| feet length, 10 eet wide, feet inches
| deep, 2G. .33 tonnage. A. Il. Morton, l3O
feet length, 20 feet wide, 3 leet 7 inches
deep, 1294J tonnage. Florence Meyer
IT. leet A inches length, 80 feet wide, a
feet 8 inches deep, 246.49 tonnage. Cot
ton Valley, 175 feet length, 81 feet wide,
IA feet inches deep, 4Ol.7O tonnage.
| The following vessels belonging to the
| Dlstr of Cincinnati were sunk, dis
lmantled or destroyed during the year
1876: Gen. Buell., of 743.l4 tonnage: St
James, 600 51 tonnage, aud IL. 5. Turner,
1853 05 tonnage, all belonging to Cincin
nati, have been dismantled. The steamer
Louisville, OF 829 IS tonnage, was dis
lmantled, and the Klttie Hegler, OF 1886.
tonnage, burned at New Orleans.