The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-01-19
RIVER AND STEAMBOAT NEWS.

The liver is rising very slowly, with not
far from nine feet on the shoals.
The Gen. sigel arrived from BurksyiHe.
and from a gentleman on board, we learn
that the Tennessee and Cumberland Pe.ro-
leum Company have struck a flowing well
which spouts up forty feet above the sur
face ofthe ground.
The Rowsna, from Cincinnati, also ar
rived Yesterday.
THE DIsAsrEHs BY Icr At ST.. Lsrfs-Tff is
estimated that the disasters or losses 10 the
port Of 81. Louis this winter by the break
ing up Of the ice amount to S6gT 500. This
includes the losses Of boats and cargo bv
raking, aud the costs OF repairs on those
partially injured.
M0Es DIsAsrEEs The S.. Louis Demo
crat has the following additional list Of
steamboat casualties in that locality:
The Resale, a n ~,tern-wheel boat built
by TIP. Perkins, 81 a cost Of so, 1000, has
gone 10 pieces ON the head Of Arsenal Is
lane, where she was carried In the ice on
/ Friday night. Her machinery Will proba-
bly, be saved. The wreck lies on the Is
land shore. When she went Of. the mate
and carpenter we're on board with Others,
and she was blown by the wind into clear
water, where she was tied TO the bank. and
remained secure for a time, but finally the
ice hoated against her, ana she was crushed.
She was valued at $4,000, and was insured
for $4,000 in George d. Capeu's agencies,
$4,000 in the Columbian, Of New York,
and $1,000 in the Security, of New York
in all $50, 900.
A dispatch from New Orleans, dated YES
terday, announces the loss Of the 7. %. Sta
nard, q large and good strrn-wheeI boat, by
fire in the Ouschita river. She had on a
cargo Of cotton, which was insured in New
Orleans. The owners OF this steamer were
John A. and Z. G.. Hcdemau, Of this city.
Boat and cargo a total loss.
The StaHaFd was valued at SO. 200, and
insured for $4,000 in Capens and ia
HOwe's New York agencies.
The rver is falling here, with changsa-
BILE, cod, clustering weather. Steamboats,
received but little freight Yesterday. The
river was uuiavOrable Tor receiving. Rates
are unsettled. opening at 20 cents per hun
drel to NicksruTk and New Orleans, and
closing AZ 50 cents, and Hour az 81 per bar
rel. Rates Of freight by packet 70 Mem
! phis are reduced 10 50 cents per hundred,
10 cents per bbl for -four. sud pork and
whisky 81 so per Dbl. There is aoOut ten
feet water in the chaunel to Cairo. No ar
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still closed.
The only craft Of the Northern Line in
jured was the Petrol, to the amount Of 5000
She lay below the docks, and she was hurt
by The Mollie Able. The five boats and
twenty-three barges Of the line, all ia Alton
| slough, are not hurts particle.
The t0wb0at Porter went down 20 The
head Of Cahokia Bend and released the Post
Boy. The +. II. Fairrhild, Peoria City.
Besrds0wB, Illinois and Clara we're alsl
there, encssed in ice, yesterday, and IN,
Post Boy has gone down 20 break t.. sh.
coaled oil the Nebraska. She will 20 dow
and bring up the Nellie Rogers, which ID
some ten miles away. The wreck Of IA,
Belle Memphis is Of the head Of Cahokii
Bend. The Southern Belle and Anna Whit,
made some salvage by taking of thing.
from the wreck Of the Rosalis. The No Do,
McPike, Baunock City, and Argouaut OF,
not aground, but nothing can BE- lone VIII
them at present, as ice is gorged unde.
them.