Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-03-16
RIVER NEWS
ARRfvED.
March 15.-Talisman, Cairo.
DEPARTED. frg
Alert, Upper Ciunbetlana.
LEAVING To-pAY.
Eoma FlovS C;ncinns,;

DEPARTED.
Alert, Upper cunbetland
LEAVING TO-DAY.
Emma Floyd, Cincinnati.
The river was falling last evening, hav,
ing rese,led about twelve inches in twenty.
four hours. The weather was cold, with
another slight fall Of snow.
The little Alert left to try her luck again
in the Upper Cumberland; and the A. Ba-
ker is posted for the same quarter to-day
The Emma Floyd, Capt Yoris, did not
get of yesterday. She will leave at 4 P.
N. to-day. Messrs. Cerbeit 4 Boyd, anil
Capt W. A. PEBBLES are her agents.
The Talisman. Capt VIM. Strong, viii
leave at 4P. N.5or Cairo. Om friend, Of
other days, Capt o. w. Davis-a most
popular river man--is now the clerk Of this
Gne packet Messrs. Corbett & Boyd and
Harrison 4 Sens are her agents.
The Tempest IS due at this port from
Louisville. .
The Mississippi was falling slowly at 81.
Louis on the l4th.
The Ohio at Louisville on the 18th was
rising slowly, the cold weather having
checked it: at Cincinnati it was rising
slowly; at Manetta fast At Portsmouth
fast and sallirg at Pittsburg. AT Cairo il
was stationary, and g inches above the
high-water mark Of 1862. A dispatch
from that place, the 18th, says:
The officers of the steamer Rockford,
inst from the Arkansas river, report the
country inundated. There is great loss Of
property and suffering among the inhabi-
tants Twenty-seVen lives were lost at
Helena BY the food, mostly freedmen
The steamer Peter. Balen was damaged by
running into III bank at Redfork, and lost
part Of her cargo, one soldier, and one
deck hand.
We have in our exchanges the following
III regard 70 the Arkansas aud Whiieriyers
The late rains have been general through
out the State Of Arkansas, and the eonse-
quence has been very high water in all
the rivers, the Arkansas, White and Qua
chita in some places oyerrHnning their
banks The small creeks and bayous have
become large streams, almost entirely cut-
ting of communication between the capital
and the various counties. At Batesville
Arkansas, White river was twenty-six feet
above low water mark, and the islands OPP
posite the town were completely lost.
Little Red river, last week, had reached
point fully six feet higher than within the
memory Of the oldest inhabitant. Al
Searcv and vicinity, fences, stock, cotton,
mills, barns and houses were swept away,
the entire bottoms being inundated. A
warehouse at Searcy was carried of with
about $4,000 worth of goods No loss of
life is reported, bat many narrow escapes
are reeounted. The bridges over all the
creeks have been more or less damaged. 2
From the Memphis Bulletin. March p.
We have eonversed with a gentleman
Just up from Helena, Arkansas, who tells
us that unfortunate town is ten feet under
water. The single story tenements are all
abandOned--many of them having been
washed away BY the flood, aud the more
fortunate pOssessors 10 two story houses are
living in the second story. A ferry boat is
PLYING in the Main street. A the winds
blew and the floods came" the embank-
ment in front of the town was broken, and
the angry waters rushed in with such force
as to drown seven negroes in single hat.
The whole country is submerged far and
wide, and the greatest CONSERVATION pre-
walls among all the river settlers. lm-
mense loss must ensue, and fears are enter
tanned lest the waters should not recede in
time for the planting OF crops, in which
ease famine would oyeFspread large por-
ton of country. Memphis is al present
literally seated on the border Of an i'm
mense inland sea. The river just opposite
Is forty miles wide, and this width extends
lip and down the river for three hundred
miles. A great many cattle are drowned
in the sWamps, and the greatest distress
everywhere prevails.
From the Memphis Avalanche. March H.
The river here ia rising slowly and over
flowing the whole country. The Vicksss
burg packets have laid up, as they are nm
able to transact business; every plantation
and landing between here ard Yieksburg
being inundated The Memphis and g.
Louis Packet Company have drawn of
three of their boats on account OF the high
water. Within the memoTy Of the oldest
inhabitants such a tremendous sweeping
freshet has not been experienced "a is now
devastating the whole country along the
| Ohio and Mississippi rivers from Cairo
down 10 the Balize. The destruction Of
property Of every description, including a
large lot Of stock, is very great. The flood
is increasing and still more serious eonse-
quences are anticipated; farms, gin houses
and stock have been swept away. The
river is expanding itself over the low lands,
| and encroaching on houses, driving Che Oc-
/ cupants to safer quarters. Scores of iami-
| lies have been compelled to pick up all
their household goods and flee for safety.
We trust that the rise has nearly attained
It's full hight The towns along the lower
Ohio are inundated and all business sus-
| pended. At Shawneetown the water IS mp
| to the second story of the houses. The Ohio
and Mississippi both are from eight to ten
miles wide in many places. The Arkansas
river has cut through at NermiiliOn Lake,
fifteen miles above the mouth, and Is food
ing the whole country adjacent.
From the Memphis Avalanche. March T.
The river is gradually encroaching ON
the wharf, and expanding itself over the
whole lower country, cutting of all inter
| course with planters and landings along
| the river. The Mississippi river has cut
through at Plum Point bend into Annett'
vile bayou, and formed junction with
the St. Francis river, which Is forty miles
across, therefore, Plum Point, down e
Helena is inundated, and the river now
covers a large section Of the opposite shore
Great damage has been done. The fOod
has devastated the low lands from Cairo
down to the Balize.
LITTLE Rock, March i2-The river i
rising slowly, with seven feet to Napoleon.
The New Albany Gnd. Le5gsrof Thurs
day afternoon says
During the present Aood the water hai
been higher than at any time since ls43
BY the marks here the food Of 1917 lacked
one foot Of reaching that Of 1882. ca
clerical error yesterday made rs say six
feet Al eleven O'Clock this morning
when the water was st its highest, il lacked
three feet and three-and-a-haif inches Of
reaching the highest point attained BY the
food Of lS47, and four feet shree-and-a-hali
inches Of the highest water dnring the food