Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-14
River News.


and is full Of floating ice, which is, how
! ever, much broken up, with but few
large cakes.
The steamer Universe passed down on
Tuesday night, and made labored and
Intellectual efforts to land, and thinking
/ the piles of ice that lay between her and
the wharf boats were soft and fragile, at
] tempted TO run dicectly in, but discover
ed her mistake, as she came against the
/ ice as against wall of adamant She
finally backed out and ran around the
point, where she lay until yesterday,
when she proceeded to the CuH5erland,
to which she has been ordered, in the
service of the Government.
Capt Gus. Dusouchet, of the gallant
and grand Armada, With some of the
pilots, engineers, &C., arrived here yes
terday from Mt. Vernon, to which place
he brought the high-headed Armada, and
laid her up in safe and excellent har-
bor
The New Kentucky is: lying at Mt
Vernon in rather bad shape, her larboard
bow being hard aground, while her stern
lies in deep water.
Capt Gus. Dnsouchet is. in rubicund
health and jolly spirits, and is as frisky
as a spring colt
We we're more than delighted last
night to be able to take by the hand our
iocund and esteemed friend, Fred Hun
ter, the popular Clerk of the grand Ar
mada,- vine has just made flying visit
to Washington city. If the ice viii 'now
clear out the Armada would be again at
once, under charge of her old corps OF
officers, with Capt. Josh " AThroop at
y their head
/ Billy McClurg the famous engineer of
the Armada, also arrived in The city last
evening in high feather, and grandile-
.jqueht on the remarkable speed of his
favorite. He says her late achievements
produced an excitementin Paducah, that
has never been equaled since the Sam
Orr was stolen McClurg has the Buck
horns nailed 10 the Armada, and
. says he means she shall wear them.
The Louisville Journal of Tuesday,
says the ice is fast disappearing in the
river at that point, and that if the wealth
er continues to moderate navigation will
soon be resumed.
The Curlev, we learn, reached Mem
phis in safety, but found the ice so heavy
that she went into winter quarters.
A Cairo dispatch of the 18th to the
, Missouri Democrat, says:
f "Onr port list for the past "a hour;
lcomprises the following boat
The Forsyth, Cairo to Memphis,
a. m.
II River fell five inches. The weather
. becoming warmer the. snow is rapidly
, disappearing. The ice in the river j:
still heavy but becoming rotten.
The Glendale is getting ready to con
{ tinue her trip toe Memphis. 5at Fl
( Il
ceiving large addition of passenger
this morning.
Government has detailed the Emma
, BOYD and Lavinia Logan for service
q They leave in the morning. @>
) The Missouri Democrat of yesterday
S says:
The river rose only one-qnarter of ar
inch during the twenty-four hours end
ing at nine clock yesterday morning
J vet the weather was favorable for {
swell BUTT was still more favorable
. Yesterday. as the air was genial, the SUI
: bright and warm and the air seemingl.
= general y ~ EE
= The surface of the ice in the river alsC
= thawed and formed a soft and slush.
= covering, yet for all that the gambling
the eating and the drinking went on a
tusual.
d 1t freezes at night and in the morning
y everything is found to be as hard anC
. solid as before.
&c The weather yesterday was pleasant al
it could be on spring DAP
d. The steamer Alone, which got froze1
up while on her way from this point, i
n having her cargo-some 400 tons 0
he grain2teamed to Cape Girardeau, it
sr original destination We understand
the hundreds ofGovernment animals OF
,r the Isabella, White Cloud and Lasalle
Ip are being well fed and cared for genel
ally. These boats are frozen up, abov
- Cairo.
The Florence was lately a sort Of CON
=. missary boat at Duvals Bluffs, on Whit
river. Capt. Lawrence Gilman, he
commander, is in town, having left ne
at Memphis We observe that the Flo
;r ence arrived at Memphis on the 9th.