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waters. Give the Commercial a good trip.The elegant Forest Queen will depart for Memphis at 5 o'clock this evening, in command of Capt. Conway. The Forest Queen is a stranger helow the falls, hut she is nevertheless one among the most beautifully finished and furnished steamers on the river. Her officers are courteous anti accommodating gentlemen, and when ilie people along the line to Memphis come to know them, the Forest Queen will become one of our most popular packets.Capt. Alexander Scott, an old and well known steamboatman, died at Pittsburg last Thursday, in the 79th vein* of his age.• • OA new boat named the “Fxehangc has ju. t been completed at Pittsburg. Her dimensions are 104 feet in length, feet beam, and feet hold. She is supplied with three boilers MS inches in diameter and 24 feet in length: cylinders 1( inches in diameter and 4} leci stroke. She is to ply as a regular packet between Pittsburg and St. Louis.\\ e trust that successful measures will be adopted for llu* rescue of the steamers now lying in the \ azoo river. Their names are* oas followsMagenta. S. 1. Mcars,Natchez, H. J. Lackland,Peyton a, Scotland,Edward J. Gay. -J. M. Sharpe,Mary K. Keene. S. II. Tucker,Ferd Kennet, Ben. MeCullocb,Charm, Kepublic,Prince of Wales, Iberville,J. A. Cotton, Hartford CityCapitol, Golden Ago,MCiih •'Pa raid.^ I ^ A \ v / a V /« t ♦ 4 \ a \ ft a fc ^ 4 a a I .fc aaa 4 aa a .
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New Albany Daily Ledger
New Albany, Indiana, US
Tue, Jun 24, 1862
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