The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-18
Special River Dispatches.
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CAIRO, March 16-Noon. = Port
List: Louisville, from New Orleans
to Louisville, at 9P. NJ; Yorktown,
from Pittsburg to Fort Benton, at
A. NJ. Emma No. 3, from Cincinnati
to New Orleans, at 6 A. NJ; Clifton,
from Cincinnati to Memphis, at A.
NJ; Pauline Carroll, from st. Louis to
New Orleans, at s A. NJ.
CINCINNATI, March 16.-The river
has fallen seven inches, with fifty five
feet one inch water in the channel.
Weather showing all morning Their
mometer go. Barometer 29:45.
GIeanfngs from our Exchanges.
CINcINNATI.-The Commercial, of
Friday, says: 0os.
The Robert Burns, while going
under the bridge, Wednesday even
ing, just rubbed the top of her pilot
house against the bridge. snesg AT
The remains of engineer Gus.
Pohlman, recently drowned from the
steamer Vicksburg, near New Or
leans, arrived here this morning from
New Orleans, on the Alice Dean.
The funeral will take place from this
steamer, lying below the foot of Race
Street, to-day, at 2 p NJ. The re-
mains are in charge of the Yeatman
Lodge of Masons, of which the de-
ceased was a member. The colors of
the steamers in port will be displayed
at half mast in respect to the memory
of the deceased.
A correspondent on board gives US
the time of the BostoDa on her run
to New Richmond, Ohio, on Tuesday.
She went to the mouth of the Little
Miami in twenty-ei minutes, and
beat the Buckeye States famous first
hours run, one-half mile. Her time
to New Richmond was one hour and
thirty fUe natnuteS-the fastest time on
record. She ran against the present
food-the distance from Cincinnati to
New Richmond being twenty miles.
LoUIsvILLE-The Courier of Fri
day says: ~
The river last evening had come to
stand, having risen less than two
inches since Z A. NJ. During the pre-
vious "a hours it had risen from seven
to eight inches, making about So feet
water in the channel at the foot of
the falls. This is equal to channel
depth of 80 feet at the head of
the falls, making an immense sea of
swiftly moving waters, and the high
est tide we have had for twenty years.
From the officers of the Indiana,
which arrived here yesterday, we
learn that the food, from Evansville
to Greensville, Mississippi, is far
greater than ever before known. It
is not a flood but deluge of waters,
and the losses may be estimated at
millions. ID a a.7afe
At a point below Evansville a
prominent New Orleans house looses
10000 sacks of corn, all of which was
washed away by the flood OF waters
This paragraph is news here.
At divers points along the Missis-
sippi the people are living in their
houses in water one and half to two
feet deep, and have in many cases
built temporary platforms above the
tide, awaiting its abatement, and
wholly unconscious of the second
flood that is now on the way to over
whelm them.
We would suggest that two or three
boats should be dispatched to the re-
lief of the sufferers, to save them
from either starving or drowning.
Thousands of cattle, hogs, sheep,
and other live stock are driven to ex-
tremity by the food, and are liable to
be lost if not soon rescued. At vari-
GUS points, as the Indiana passed by,
droyes of cattle were seen in water up
to their necks, subsisting on the bark
and leaves of the cottonwood trees.
They were apparently in the midst OF
| a sea of water.