Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-03-26
RIVER NEWS.
- ARRIVALS.
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LEAVING TO-DAY.
Tyrone, Cairo.
The river was rising slowly yesterday
with Is feet water on Harpelh Shoals. TIT
weather was cool snd eiondys Feg.sae
The Anna White we learn from dis
patch to Capt, w. A PEBBLES, passed Pa
ducah early yesterday morning bound .fol
this port. She viii be here in time to leave
Wednesday for ST. Louis.
The Havana, from Cincinnati, IS due
here Wednesday night, though nothing has
been heard from her since she left Gin
cinnai --,-. -v.--~-
The America, from Pittsburg for this
port, passed Louisville Saturday. She will
be here probably tomorrow, and leave
Thursday. IS as.a a.r-s *
The Tyrone wiu leave at 4 P. n. to-day
for Cairo. Her officers are amongst the
most popular on the Western waters and
there are few pleasanter boats to travel on.
Capt Corbett returned yesterday ON. the
Tyrone from a flying visit to Padueab,
Without showing himself to his friends,
he hurried off to his pleasant home on The
outer WALL Of Edgefeld
The Palestine is the next boat from
Louisville. She left that port Saturday
evening with good trip.
The Ohio was falling Sunday from Pitts
burg to Cairo. At CaiFo it had ALLEN four
inches.
At Memphis on the 24lh the Mississippi
vas at stand. At st. Louis it was falling
slowly
The New Orleans Picrgane Of the 2lst
has the following relative 10 a creyasse in
st. Janus parish
Considerable excitement was created in
our city by the receipt Of the news that
creyasse had taken place at the plantation
Of S. x f. Roman, light bank Of the river,
parish Of st. james, ard about sixty miles
above tae city. The break occurred in
what is known as the old leyee, at twelve
O'Clock an the day, Yesterday. The latest
accounts from the scene Of the disaster re-
port the creyasse as sixty feet wide, with
about six feet OF water running through
the break. ..
The planters in the vicinity were great
" alarraed, and fears were entertained that
before assistance could be rendered the
T. I
The Leyee Board, this morning, are en-
gagged in making PREPARATIONS for sending
aid and material for closing the erevasse.
The waters running through the present
creyasse will, if not checked, take about
the same course as they did onthe occasion
of the LaiOureh creYasse.
I The parishes Of st. james, st. John the
Baptist, st. Charles, Plaquemine and La
fourche will all suffer greatly, as will also
the Opelousas railroad A bill making
appropriation for closing this erevasse had
passed the House of Representatives this
morning and wasbefore the Senate. Prompt
action is necessary.
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CINCINNATI, March 2j.-The river has
risen six feet five inches in the last forty
elgnL HOURS, anu Is sui Using All lICu an
hour. There is now thirty-three feet two
inches water in the channel Weather
clear at long intervals. Thermometer ~.
ST. LOUIS, March 25.-The damage done
to bridges, trestle-works, etc, on the Union
Pacific railroad, eastern division, has been
repaired, and trains are now running
through. The bridge over Salmon Fork,
thirty-seven miles west of Fort Riley, was
completed on the 22d last, and locomotives
now reach to point 45j miles west Of
St. Louis. The track is being laid at the
/ rate of one mile per dav.