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River News - Bad News - We learn that the dam at Lock #1 on the Kentucky
River - the first lock above the mouth - was washed away last Friday by a
freshet caused by the sudden swelling of the streams tributary to the
Kentucky below this city. This unexpected casualty will lead to the
suspension of navigation in this river for several months - that is, until
the dame is replaced, which, we understand will take five or six months.
We are glad to learn that all our coal dealers have on hand a good supply
of coal, and that, therefore, this suspension of navigation will not be
likely to cause an advance in the price of that so far not wholly
indispensable article. It is just possible, too, that there may be a big
rise in the Ohio, causing backwater above the first Lock, in which case
navigation would be temporarily, at least, resumed.
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