NAVIGATION, Idosyncracies of the River:
Extraordinary Tides and Stoppage of Shipping Tehang, May 16.
The Yangtze at Chungking has been very Into in rising this year, jand the summer time steamers have had a strange experience. Most of them left here four weeks ago, and got safely up to Chungking, but the river, instead of continuing to rise, fell' so low and remained so, low that they have not been able to come down again.. One, the Alice Dollar, did manage to come down, and went up again. A week ago she tried to come down once more, but she had the misfortune strike a rock at Mutung and had a hole pierced in her hull. She a vel to-day, only slightly dam aged.
The River Inspector, stood, has now made a new regula. tion, by which ships of a certain length only are to be permitted to leave either end at certain depths of water. The smallest may. sai on one foot of water, but the Larg-fest, Hike the Wanhsien, must have 12"teet and rising, before she can
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