Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-13
RIVER NEWS
ARRIVED.
Jan. l2.-Talisman, Cairo.
DEPARTED.
NOthing.

| ARRIVED.
Jan l2-Talisman, Cairo.
DEPARTED.
Nothing
The river is still gradually declining
with about p inches water ON the Shoals
The weather last night indicated rain, a
much needed thing. which would be CRATE
fully received.
The Talisman having been detained at
the Shoals lighting over, did not arrive
till nearly dark last evening. She will de
part for Cairo to-day. Capt. Strong and
his attentive clerks will see that passengers
are made comfortable.
The Tyrone, Capt. Harmon, with Capt.
Wash. Weaver, and our neat Young friend,
Alex Hart in the office, is the next boat.
She will arrive tomorrow. and depart Tues
day for Cairo.
A dispatch of the IIth, from Cairo,
says:
River fallen 6 inches Weather clear.
Thermometer 50 deg. The Ice is heavier,
and gorged at Tablets The Indiana had
TO turn back from Irish Jemm's bar and
laid up At PadUClh. The crew came down
to go home by railroad.
At Pittsb,Irg on the llth, there was no
immediate prospect of the resumption of
navigation. Skating parties were enjoy
ing themselves on the ice.
The Louisville C5rjs, Of Yesterday, has
the following
The weather, though only moderately
cold, and good seasonable weather, Contin-
ues at the freezing point, the thermometer
at noon yesterday ranging no higher than
., and the ice in the river Is harder and
more formidable than ever.
The underwriters yesterday, i'm Cousidera-
ton of the uufavorable condition of the
river, and the n0u-arriyJl Of several boats
overdue from lower ports concluded not 90
take any risks on C3rgOes 10 be shipped
via the river, and the Henry Ames, load
ing for New Orleans, abandoned her trip.
This is a virtual embargo, and navigation
may be considered suspended.
The ice in the harbor extended a perfect
mass from the falls up to Six-mile island
yesterday, an apparently uubroken sea of
ice, and the Jacksonville ferryhoats trips
had to be suspended.
The steamers Westmorelaud and Clifton
raised steam Yesterday and in the evening
started out to break their way through the
ice barrier that hedged them in Jt the
wharf They succeeded in blowing their
way through the fields of ice from the foot
of Ninth street up TO Captain Dugau's coal
boats. Just above the ferry landing. There
thev took on board a good supply OF coal
with the avowed determination of cutting
their way through to Cincinnati The
Westmorland was in the advance, or pi0-
neer, and her huge hull crushed through
the ice As if IL was a slight impeachment
The present condition of the river was
never before experienced by the oldest
boatman, with the Ohio frozen below Pitts
burg, but at that port there is no ice, and
the upper Mississippi at keokuk ia clear
at the season when it is usually frozen over
in "a solid mass. At 81. Louis too. the
river IL clear and the terryhoats are making
their regular trips, while the lower Mjssi8-
sippi, at Columbus, has been blocked with
an impossible barrier of ice, and uavig3-
ton nearly closed in that quarter, while in
the far north the boats are proposing 10
start from port, including both Pittsburg
and st. Louis, the denizeus Of these hither-
to frozen regions not realizing the fact that
the ice barriers have been moved south.
The st. Louis Republican, OF the 18th,
SAYS.
Departures were quite numerous, in
Gliding the Sam Gaty, Welcome and w.
Lewis for New Orleans; Dora, for NiCkE-
burg; St. Johns, for Johuaonyille, and
Southwestern, for Alton. The Enterprise
had steam mp.