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Show IiATTNCHING OP THE "ClTT OF Corlnne." The following dispatch was received yesterday afternoon : Corinne, 24. Thousands of strangers stran-gers are in Corinne to-day to witness the launching of the steamer. AH tlu forenoon wagons and carriages were arriving, ar-riving, loaded with people from the surrounding towns and settlements and at 11:30 the excursion train arrived from S-lt Lake City, bringing, prob ably, fifteen hundred or more from that place and Ogden, accompanied by Captain Croxall's brass band. Hall past one p. m. was the time fixed foi the boat to move. By that hour hundreds hun-dreds of ladies and gentlemen were on the decks and thousands of spectators on the ground around, while the band on deck played sweet music. Busy men hammered the props out from uu-derneath uu-derneath and in a few minutes the steamer "City of Corinne" began to move; it did not, from some cause, glide into the water as fast as antici- Eated, but is still moving slowly and as up to this hour, 4 p. m. , moved about thirty feet. She will probably be afloat to-night. The pa-sengers on board, however, became impatient of the slow travel, after two hours of it, and, headed by the band, adjourned to the piay-ground to see the game ol base ball played. There will be a bal at the Opera House this evening. We subsequently learned, by telegraph, tele-graph, that the steamer was success fully launched at six o'clock last evening. |