The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-29
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
Ispec,al River Dispatches to the sta,. !

tspecial River Dispatches to the Stat
IRoNToN, O., March 29-n:46 A. NJ
River % feet and rising. Weather cloudy
and cool. Fleetwood up at S:45 a. m. St.
Lawrence down at 6 a. m; Jerry Osborne
at 1915 a. m. Dacotah, loaded fat at ll:4O
a. M. The Fleeting arrived from above
at 11:45 a. m. The Cobb Cecil departed Tor
Louisville at 10 a. m. .Na.p ~. at,...
BROWNSVILLE, March 29-11:54 A. NJ
River 10 feet inches and rising. Weather
cloudy. Thermometer 3S'. Wind south
east.
HrNroN, W. VA, March 29-8.49 A. NJ
New River 5 feet and falling. Weather
clear. Thermometer 90.
CHARLESTON, March 29-S:49 A. M.-Kan.
awha River 10 feet inch and rising
slowly. Weather clear. Thermometer
400. Wind northwest.
On Cry, March 29-1o:53iA. M.-River
8 feet and inches Weather cloudy. Wind
north. Thermometer 220.
P1rrsBuRa, March 29-11:53 A. M.-River
o feet and inches and rising. Weather
cloudy and cold.
Boat Hands Gossip.
/ Business moderate.
i Beautifully clear and pleasant to-day.
/ The Wildwood left at noon for Mays
Vile.
The punctual City of Portsmouth leaves
daily at p. m. for Chilo.
The Ohio No. 4 came down last night
and will return to Pomeroy this evening.
She attends to all way business.
The speedy and elegant new Bostona will
be the regular G. & o. Railroad packet leav-
ing to-day at 4 p. m. sharp for Hunt
ington.
The Will Kyle commenced loading for
New Orleans this morning, and will Leave
tomorrow without fail. .s. ,-s
The Telegraph will be the regular packet
leaving tomorrow for Pomeroy.
| Several steamboats, now pay wharfage at
Pittsburg under protest, and some refuse
to pay at all.
The steamer Little p, burned at Vicks-
Iburg last Wednesday, was light built
sternwheeler, calculated to carry LOCO
bales of cotton. She was not quite two
wears old, and was worth about 81 600; in
sured for $4,000 in Eastern companies. She
| is said to be the first boat Commodore S.
II. Psrisot ever lost. He will build boat
at once to take her place.
| The Daisy, small sternwheel boat, was
sunk by the wind at Carondelet on Satur-
day. She is valued at 5000 and insured
for $1,000. Capt. R. W. Dugan says she
can bo raised. "
The Lily has madethe following changes
and placed the new lights between Natche7
land New Orleans on her way up: New
Lghts-One at Bonnet Carre, Sharp Point
one at Mime. Von's White Castle, one al
Bayou Goula Bend, one at Bayou Gouls
Landing one opposite Point Pleasant. one
[opposite Luda Bar, one at Il. J.. Gays St
Louis plantation, one on top of coal office
Natchez. Changes-Light opposite Dun
leans Point moved down two hundred
yards to high ground; Morgan Bend ere
vase, moved up to landing during higt
|wste observation-disclosures light at St
Catherine's Bend discontinued during higl
water.
| CATAMARAN FOR FAST PASSENGER TRAvEl
ON THE HUDsoN.-A late number OF tn,
New York Graphic gives an illustration 0
a novel steamboat now building at Nvack
under the superintendence of Mr.. William
Voorhis, Of that place, formerly 0omfno
uOre OF IH6 Now Iofh ldCnt NluD. LII
new boat is to be in. the form OF catama
ran, and 1t is expected she will exceed il
speed any ever constructed She will hay
a double hull, 200 feet in length, while, a
a whole, she will have % feet beam.
Her engines will be of pattern suite,
to the character Of the craft and turn
single wheel-to be placed between th,
parts of the double hulf--ef eight feet Ii
diameter, at the rate Of 325 revolutions pc