The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-01

leaving this evening for Pomeroy. Her chief Of
feers are Capt. John Leyisay master, and BTank
Morgan and Dave Scatterday clerks. They are
elevergentleInen.
The Ohio will be followed tomorrow by the fast
new side-wheel steamer Telegraph.
The puDctual and elegant side wheel boat Fleet
wood will leave at p. M, sharp for Huntington
where she connects with the c. & o. f. K. for al
Eastern cities. Capt. J. T. Campbell commands
and c. W Vanderbilt and A. G. IIonshell are nsso.
ciated in the office She will be followed tolnor
row by the speedy and popular Bostona.
The Southern packet lie wing Wednesday even
ing will be the fast and elegant sidewheel steamer
Andy Baum. She goes as far as Memphis, wherC
she connects with the floating palaces OF the Mis-
sssippi for Grecnville, Vicksburg Natchez anC
! New Orleans. Parties taking passage on the Baur
will be furnished with the best Of fare and accom-
modatons, and moreover will be under the carr
! of safe and obliging steambOatnen. We recon-
mend the Baum to the travelling public deslr1nF
good accommodations and a safe voyage. Capt,
| Hiram j. Vinton commands, and Mr.. NJ. N, Deem
| pTeSides in the Office.
| The U. p. Schenck will be the only boat leaving
tomorrow for the Lower Mississippi River am,
New Orleans She will depart at p. M Capt. ].
| L. Carter commands.
The City of Portsmouth leaves at p m. for Chilo.
| The Fleetwood left at noon for Maysville.
| The new Gen. Tarry passed down yesterday Ell
route from Pttsburg to the Missouri River.
| The Virgie Lee will be the regular packet leav'
| ing tomorrow at noon for Louisville She is fine
| boat and commanded by gentemanly officers.
| The Robert Mitchell is above Memphis She dis
charged 100 tons at that city. Her clerk, Captain
Frank Stein, telegraphs that she will arrive We'd
nesday.
The c. B. Church arrived at II O'Clock this morn
ing from New Orleans with moderate trip, and
will return Thursday.
| The Mary Elizabeth is due to-day from Evans
| ville
ToWbOat Movements.
| The Etna is at Huntington unloading hel
barges. As soon as she gets them unloaded she
will return to the Wabash River after another tow
of bulk grain
The Cobb Cecil, from Ironton with 3 bapses
iron, passed Buena Vista last night, and will be
here this afternoon.
The Thos. W. Means is loading her bsrges with
nails and manufactured iron at Ironton and ex.
poets to leave there next Saturday for ST. Louis.
The Hawkeye No. 3 will leave Kanawha River
ON the present rise, with coal for this city, and
upon her arrival here she will lay up to receive.
her new hull which was built by the COvingtels
| Dock Company, and will be launched next week
The Alex Chambers has been released and
leaves to-day for Pomeroy with a tow OF empt!
| barges.
BOat-hands, Gossip.
| C. D. Millar, Esq, of the Commercial, returned
this morning on the United States from Louis
| vile.
| An inouisitive correspondent wants to know why
ships are called she's. We don't know unless it i
because they look best when well rigged-beeausC
| they are upright when in stays, and because they
bring news from abroad and carry news from
| home.
The Amazon River, South America, is navigabk
for more than three thousand miles by the largesI
sea-going steamers, and is one hundred and seven.
| ty-fve miles wide at its mouth. The Mississippi
River is 26l6 miles in length and is $50 feet above
the level Of the Gulf ut its utmost source. At St
Paul it is go feet above the Gulf level; at thf
head of Rock Island Rapids sos feet; at st. Louis
4Os feet; at Memphis 81 feet; at Natchez &c feet
at New Orleans IS feet, and at the head of tht
passes feet inches. The Mississippi has made {
trough for itself in the solid rock, in some part
scarcely less than 300 feet deep and 10 miles wide
1t is not the width but the depth that is astonisl
ing. The water of the Mississippi falls from Me
Gregor to Keokuk 1875 feet in little over 300 miles
At the Lower Rapids it falls "a feet in II miles
and at the upper rapids 26 feet in 13 miles Thi:
is l48 feet in 276 miles, or about six inches to tht
mile.
A new iron tug, built at Pittsburg by Capt s
| S. Brown for the Shotville Mining Company i
now on her way down and will be here to-mor
row. Capt. Brown is in the city and sshe vii
not stop here long.
Capt, Wash Honshe1l is at Huntington to-day
| in company with number OF prominent railroad
men, trying new elevator, built to transfer graif
| from barges to the cars. 1t is similar to the Ont
used here by the Little Miami Elevator, only it is
on barges and can be moved from one place tt
another.
Pilots James Montague and Josiah Jacobs are OIL
| the towboat John Porter.
Pilot Mike Kelly writes E. G. Shinkle, Secretary
of the Pilots Association, that the Iron Mountain
takes three barges steel rails to JOhnsonville Ten
neSSee, and then goes to st. Louis He also,Writcs
that A. S. Moore, a steamboat steward, whose rela
tves live in st Louis, died last week at the Marine
Hospital at Louisville
| c. T. Dumont returned on the United States this
morning from Louisville.
Capt. Wise has decided to put the Jas. w. CAT
on the dfIeks to repair and clean her out
For POmeroy.
THIS DAY, 1st, at 5 P NJ, POSITIVELY,
Fg n OHIO NO 4, ]. Levisay, Master.
Freight received at all hours on Wharf
tssznzzsssz&b &boat foot of Broadway. W. Honshell,
Superintendent.