The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-01-23
weather, water, snow and Ice.

fallen two feet, with seventeen feet two
inches in the channel. Weather clear.
Thermometer ~.
The clouds broke away Monday night, |
and the moon and stars shone forth with
great effulgence. The mercury fell rapidly
and stood at 100 above zero at O'Clock yes
terday morning. Aheayy frost covered
the snow, and dense, impenetrable fog
shrouded the river and filled the streets
until nearly 10 O'Clock; SO dense early in
the morning that the eye could not pene-
trate il across the streets. AS the day wore
on the fog was dissipated, and the sun
shone warm and genial, melting the snow
on the roofs rapidly. The mercury at ten
O'Clock had risen to zoo above zero, and
was rising rapidly. The river had fallen
two inches up to noon yesterday, and will
now go down rapidly unless the melting
snow checks the decline. The ice still runs
thick, but is far less abundant than pre-
viously, and is said to be rottlng and sink
ing. The resumption of navigation is
problem yet to be solved.
miscellaneous.
The ice is not packing any further in the
harbor, but all the water craft at the wharf
are tightly frozen in and awaiting events.
This state of affairs enables the Virginia
to repair her wheels, which were in rather
adelapidated condition 1.-THE Louisville
Courier prophecies an unprecedented flood,
and warns the people along the river to
prepare for it. We join somewhat in the
Courier's forebodings. Still we have faith
in Providence, and believe that the wealth
er will be so tempered that the snow will
go off gradually. Still it will be wise for
people living below the line of high water
mark to be on their guard, and be prepared
for whatever may happen..-....-.The Mer-
curry here had steam up yesterday at noon,
but whether to leave or simply to keep
| pumped out, we were not advised. We
were taken by surprise and captured yes
| terday at noon by Capt Ben. Mirrielees, of
the Silver Moon, who invaded our sane
| tum with his clerk, Mr.. ]. L. Carter, and
pilots Yves. Owens and Joe McCul-
| loch. We welcomed them gladly and ex-
4 changed our cargo of news with them.......
The Silver Moon left Louisville at nine
| O'Clock W ednesday night, and lay up at
| Hawesville three days, having encoun-
| tered heavy ice all the way from Louis
| Vile. She left Hawesville Monday morn
| ing, and after breaking through two or
4 three heavy gorges, tied up in a safe har-
| Dor opposite the mouth of Green River,
whence Capt. Mirrielees and his compan-
ions walked to the city, distance of seven
miles, rounding-to occasionally in fence
| corners to increase their volume of steam.
| They report the Emma Floyd and Pales-
tine laid up below Wolf Creek; the J. H.
Groesbeck, Kenton, and Bengal Tiger at
the foot of Tray Reach, in which the Moon
encountered heavy gorge of ice......The
/ Liberty No. captured one of her own
barges and model barge of Capt. Jim
Good, and landed them at the foot of Little
Hurricane. River was rising fast at Halves
vile when the Moon left.... The Mary Swan
is submerged tc her boiler deck, and the
ice is cutting away her stanchions She is
in a hopeless condition The officers OF
the Don report the cakes of ice as from 5
to Is feet deep and very solid under the
water. Notwithstanding all her difficult
ties the Moon is in excellent condition,
and has not lost a wheel-arm since she
left Louisville. Capt Ben. and his men re-
turned to his boat last night in sleigh,
and will probably bring her down here to-
day. She saw nothing of the Henry Ames
which left Louisville just behind them.
GIeanings from our Exchanges.
LoUIsvILLE.-The Courier of Monday
says:
On the falls last evening there were six
feet three inches water in the pass down
the Indian chute, and the river as full as
ever of heavy masses of floating ice.
| The ice in front of the city and datboat
| wharf has extended out half across the
river, one thick, impenetrable mass, and
hundreds of people were " out on the ice y
yesterday. 1t was, however, covered with
snow, and exceedingly rough and uneven
upon the surface, and wholly unfit fol
skating.
, Early Saturday night the Covington, OF
Newport, and Cincinnati ferry dock, thai
had been torn loose from its moorings by
: the breaking up of ice the other day, float
ed down to opposite the foot of Fourth
Street. where 1t now lies sunk in about si1
feet water at the head of the falls, or rec
of rocks. 1t Is surrounded by ice, and WI
think there can be but slight hopes of saw
ing it. The cargo box, or upper works, Il
above water, and some adventurous chap
boarded the wreck yesterday.
ST. LoUIs-The Democrat of Monday
says:
The snow fall is one of the deepest expe
rienced here fol- many years. The rive
| was stationary yesterday, having fallel
nearly a foot on Friday and Saturday
= | Navigation continues suspended from thi
point, although one boat, the Alton pack
ct, slipped into port yesterday, having &C
cidentally succeeded in making trip Q
= twenty-five miles The ice does not seen
I 1t. River business is at an end here for tn
present.
We are glad TO learn LndL Andy lSaacs
clerk, and the entire crew of the Platt
Valley, are reported on the list OF saved
1t seems the boats books were lost, henc
no list of her passengers names can b
given Southwestern came in yes
terday morning from Alton, and of cours
;, lays up here.
A Cairo dispatch of the Democrat, says:
!: The Walter B. Dance is aground at foe
u of Dogtooth, the ice gorging and changln
the channel, leaving her dry. The Cum
beriand took 400 tons off the Dance, br
did not move her. The Cumberland the
ran aground on account of the rapl
change in the channel, remaining thre
y hours, but reached Cairo this evening, an
says it will be impossible to reach th
l, Dance with vessels larger than hatboats o
morning.
No further news of the Platte Vale