Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-03-08
RIVER NEWS.
RIVER NEWS.
ARRIVED.
March Palestine, Louisville.
Columbia, Pittsburg.
DEPARTED.
Nashville, Cairo.
Columbia, Pittsburg.

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having risen q feet within "a hours Con
siderable drift continued to pass, but not in
| such quantities as the day previous.
The Talisman is the next boat due from
Cairo, and tomorrow is her regular day
for leaving.
The Alphs, which arrived yesterday
from New Orleans, is, we learn, to go into
the up-riyer trade
The Nashville got off for Cairo, bat did
not have much freight.
The Ida is still in port, and had not last
evening discharged all her freight in con,
sequence of the want of wharf room, and
the bad weather.
The Julia No. 2 left Louisville for Nash
vile on the 9th.
The Ohio river was falling at Pittsburg
on the 9th, and rising at Portsmouth and
Cincinnati. At Cairo, the same date, it
had fallen 20 inches in IA hours
The Louisville Courier of yesterday says:
The river was steadily rising Yesterday,
with no signs of abatement since the eve
ming previous, the rise averaging an inch
per hour, and last evening the tide was
washing the curbstone along the upper side
of Fourth street. From Fourth street to
the head of the canal, the entire wharf space,
sidewalks and houses along Water street
are again inundated and the residents again
driven to the second stories of their houses
The food now bids fair to lead to deplora-
BILE results along the lower rivers, while il
subjects all to the greatest inconvenience.
The St. Louis Democrat of Wednesday
reports the Mississippi falling, and that the
upper Mississippi was gorged again at Fort
Madison, on Friday the ice being piled
ten feet deep. The upper Mississippi may
be swelling, but the Missouri and Illinois
are declining, with poor access to their
banks by road, on account of mud. The
benevolent boatmen met according to rule
Having calmly deliberated, they reduced
the rates of freight to New Orleans to the
following figures: Corn 50c oats 60c, flour
So. pork 81 %, whisky 81 so. The Nicks-
burg rates will henceforth be lower to that |
point than to New Orleans five cents less |
on pound freight and sacks, and ten cents |
on -four and pork.
The Louisville Courier of the 9TH says
Early yesterday morning We were in re-
ceipt OF dispatch announcing the sinking |
of the Eiberty No. 2, some twenty-five |
miles above Memphis. She struck a snag
and sank in only seven feet water. She |
left Memphis the day previous, bound for |
this port, in charge of Capt. Archer, and |
must have sunk in the night. No lives |
lost.
The Liberty No. was owned by Capt. |
Archer, VIM. McCulloch, the clerk, and |
others, and was insured for $4,000 in this |
city, in the following agencies: Etna |
$4,000; Manhattan $4,000; Lamar $1,000 |
United Fire and Marine $4,000 and Phoenix |
$4,000.
Mr.. ]. L. Shallcross, the active agent of |
the underwriters in this city, started TO the |
boat last evening, going by rail to Mem
phis. 1t is thought she can be raised.
The Memphis Post of the evening Of the |
5th says:
The Mississippi is at a very high stage,
and planters along its banks are expe> |
rencing heavy losses from the inundating |
of their homes and the drowning of their |
stock. All the Arkansas rivers are over |
their banks, and flooding everything with |
in their sweep. The Ohio and its tributa-
ries are also doing greatdamage to property
near their banks.
River and Weather.
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