The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-01-31

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River and Weather.
CINCINNATI, Jan. Bottle river
has fallen 2 inches. Thermometer q.
The weather was beautifully clear
and pleasant yesterday, with the mer-
curry 209 above zero 1t Ga NJ, but
rising rapidly towards noon, melting
the snow and softenng the ice.8 The
river is falling Slowly at this point,
and was by last reports rising slowly
at Cincinnati The ice is not so
abundant in the river but many large
fields float by, and the ice is very
hard. IF the weather continues to
moderate the ice will Son rot.
Arrivals and Departures.
The Armada from Dutch Gap, the
Baltic from Paducah, aad the Liber-
ty No. 2 from Memphis arrived yes
terday forenoon. Their, were no de-
partures.
Boats Leaving Tb-Day.
We have no advices of any boats
leaving to-day.
Boats Due.
Among the first boats due are the
Havana and Rowena, fo1 Nashville;
Shamrock and Arabian, fer St. Louis;
Darling, for Memphis; j. P. Webb
from Memphis; Lawrence and Mary
Irwin, for Arkansas River; Nick
Longworth, Lady Gay Amazon,
Louisiana, NJ. S. Mepham and
Stonewall, from New Orleans; B. L.
Lodge, Emerald, ArmadilIo, Emma
No. 3, for New Orleans; Morning
Star, from Louisville; Charmer, from
Cairo; VIM. White, from Green
River; Phantom, from Passport.
miscellaneous.
The Armada got up steam Tuesday
night to follow the Liberty No. 2
through the gorge, but the vild-wing-
ed not arriving, the Armada struck
out and came through yesterday
morning, arriving here about nine
O'clock. ."..........The towboat Baltic
came in about 10 O'Clock, and tied
up. She had followed the liberty all
the way from Paducah until the
latter laid up to repair her wheels
Tuesday night...........The Liberty
came in about noon. She las had a
hard fight all the way from Memphis,
and at times had to lay by; put Capt.
Archer is not easily foiled, and was
determined to come through. She
will not leave before Friday, and we
bespeak for her big trip...-..."From
joe McCulloch, clerk of the Liberty,
we learn that the Virginia is laid up
at Slim Island. The M. S. Me-
pham got as far as Paducah and
quit They met the Glasgow
above Plumb Point She and the
Laurel Hill had had terrible time
as far as they had gone.....-......
The St. Cloud was not sunk as badly
as reported and can be easily raised.
All her deck freight was saved..."....
The Liberty had 800 bales of cotton
for Cairo, and was full of people
From Cairo here she was light, fight
ing her way through expressly to load
here. She deserves all she can carry
a.......The Armada opened nice mar
: Dor for herself and the Liberty above
Huston & Co.'S wharf4boat She had
splendid trip up....r....The crew d
the David Watts were cutting that
boat loose yesterdays-......The Ada
Lyon was making some movements as
if about to leave for Green River.
GIeanings from our Exchanges.
i CINCINNATI.-The Commercial o.
Tuesday says:
The river is still full of running
ice. The Covington and Newpor
Ferries, however, still continue t.
make occasional trips. At Pittsbur!
the river is falling, with two feet tel
inches in the channel.
LOUISVILLE. = The Courier, o
Tuesday, says;
The river was falling rather fas
yesterday, with five feet nine inche
water in the canal in the evening b.
the mark. During the previous TWEEN
ty-four hours it had fallen three lnche
at the head of the falls and MN
inches at Portland The weatthe
i continues clear and cold, the theI
mometer at sunrise yesterday beng L
4 degrees above zero, and only zO
noon. In the evening it turned warm
a., .nd of+or dusk If had clouded u