The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-01-29

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River and weather.
CINCINNATI. Jan. 28.-The river fell
three inches up to yesterday, but has
risen since then TX inches There is
now 13 feet of water IN the channel.
Weather clear, in part. Thermome
ter 81.
The weather yesterday morning was
clear and very cold-the mercury
standing at II deg, at 6 A. M, and
rose very slowly during the day. The
sun, however, when it had fair
chance, melted the snow and ice to
some extent, but in the shade it con-
tinued to freeze. The river rose
about 6 inches during the "a hours
ending at 3 o'clock yesterday. The
ice is increasing in quantity and in
weight, and navigation is again 7irtu-
ally suspended.
Arrivals and Departures.
We have none to announce up to
3 o'clock, and it is hardly possible
there will be either until change
takes place.
miscellaneous.
The prospects for early navigation
were extremely gloomy yesterday
The ice is very abundant, heavy and
hard. Everything remains in uncer-
tainty 1.-THE Liberty No. 2 had
not arrived at noon, and it is very
doubtful if she will be able to pass
Dutch Bend, even should she reach
that point. The channel there is in
the shape of two VS. with their points
together, or rather thus K, the mar
rowest point being about two hundred
yards wide, and the heavy fields o
ice entirely filling the narrow passage
TIE Armada fought 10 for three
hours without effect, and wa
compelled to lie up. If tn
Liberty No. comes up, the Armada
will try to follow her through.
Capt. Lowth was in the city yester
day and thinks matters look yer
bilious. ........A rumor had reaches
Louisville that the VIM. White ha
exploded in Green River. Some pas
/ sengers who left the White, soon afte
saw the light of the meteor OF whlc
!, we made mention some days ago, an
heard the explosion that followed
They imagined it was the Whit
blowing up. They crossed over
Greensboro, and thence the ~
NOR was carried to Louisville
, The White is all right..........
The St. Cloud struck a snag {
}. Plumb Point and sunk In twenty fee
water. The st. Cloud was built ;
Pittsburg, in November, 1859, an
owned by Captains W. j. Rusk an
) A. Byers, of Covington, Kentuck,,
and recently valued at 1900, an
l. insured in the following Cincinna
offices for 5000, viz: Central, So
900; Buckeye, $1,000; Commercia
!. $4,000; American, $1,000; Boatmen'
$4,000 and Magnolia, $4,000. H'
!. cargo is insured in Evansville, Gil
cinnati, and other Eastern agencie
No lives were lost. She had abol
$500 worth of pork, shipped by Pa
I; vim and Akin, that was not insure
Gleanings from our Exchanges.
a. CINcINNATI.-The Commercial
r Saturday says:
ee The favorable change in the we
Their Yesterday caused the unde
81 writer's to permit shipments, when {
: the steamers at the wharf commence
engaging and receiving forthwith.
Captain Hugh Campbell is refittil
and refurnishing the St. Charl
throughout, for the Louisville al
Vicksburg trade. Captain Campb'
is the right man to pace her decks.
The submarine UNDERWATER leav
Louisville to-day forfhe wreck OF t
Mary Swami, recently sunk at hoe
. port, Indiana.
ne The Darling leaves Louisville
day for Memphis. She has been g
tanned lighting over the falls. ii
. pilots left here on yesterdays train.
a The cabin of the old Superior, lyi