The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-01-22

IN the united States. we pIcpebISu W
print Posters, plain or fancy, Bill Heads,
Bills Lading, Cards, Deck and Meal Tick
cts, Bills of Fare, Mates Tickets for Labor,
&C., &c. Orders left with either of the
wharf boats will be promptly attended to.
Weather, Water. Snow and Ice.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 2I.-Weather, cloudy;
thermometer at P. NJ. stood at % degrees
Showed from Saturday evening till this
morning, in which time 1917 inches fell.
Railroad communication has not been in
terrupted; trains on all the roads are pass
ing nearly on time.
The river has fallen u inches since Sat
urday; 10 feet inches in the channel.
The weather is mild and cloudy, with
moist and rainy feeling in the atmosphere
The river continues to rise here, and is
full of floating ice. literally crowded, but
the fields are smaller and the ice softer
being mostly slush. This sIush ice has
packed outside the boats in the harbor
some $50 feet or more, and all the boats
and wharf-boats are in secure harbor
now, though If the river continues to rise
the wharf-boats will be cut off from shore,
as they cannot be showed in, and addition
al steps have been rugged to communicate
with the shore.
| Arrivals and Departures.
We have none to report.
miscellaneous.
River matters are in stGtu quo, only a
little mole so, with no prospect of speedy
! improvement. Our river friends ice-bound
here will find all the latest river papers on
our table, a cosy little den to read them,
with warm welcome whether we are in
or out, and they will please call up at any
Understandable Plain City has laid up at
Curdsville.- The Ada Lyon aud VIM.
White above. Green River
about frozen over on Sunday, and naviga-
ton is suspended.........The gleanings from
our exchanges contain many matters of
interest.........A f1at-boat f1oated by in the
ice yesterday. 1t was far out IN the river
and no effort could be made to
reach it.....There is no probability of re-
sumption of navigation for some time......
We presume the Louisville institution,
the Wild Wagone sees, now, the folly of
going through. She could have taken
full trip at paying rates and got out of the
river. 1t may be gratifying to Louisville
papers, but we thing 1T is rather expensive
to the owners.
GIeanings from our Exchanges.
CINCINNATI.-The Commercial of Satur-
day says:
The weather was cold and cloudy yes
terday, with the wind from the southwest
last night, indicating more snow. The
mercury ranged at twenty degrees above
zero at noon. The river, opposite this city,
is still full of heavy running ice, suspend
| ing navigation. At Pittsburg, the river is
J. falling, with four and a half feet in the
channel. Here, the river came to a stand
| yesterday morning, and up to dark had
receded three inches. There are twenty feet
The little tow-boat Wild Hoosier lies
piled out on the levee, below the foot of
Vine Street, with her bow on the bank and
| lnrxr afnr lla Il
| ing river will leave her high and dry to-
day. She is owned in Vevay, Indiana.
The Platte Valley. which sunk below
| Memphis, Thursday night, was an old side
wheel steamer, about worn out, nine years
| old, built at st. Louis, and owned by Cap
tains johnson and Blake, of St; Louis,
| worth $25,O0n, and partially insured in Gin
| cinnali-S7,50 800 in the Franklin, and 81, 500
| in the Central. We hear that one or two
other Cincinnati offices have risks on the
| Platte Valley. She struck the wreck of
! the rebel gunboat jeff. Thompson, tearing
| out her Starboard side, and causing her TO
| sink in forty feet of water. Sixty lives
We're lost by this disaster. She was plying
| between Memphis and Vicksburg under
| the control of the ST. Louis and Memphis
| Packet Company.
The Magnolia on her last upward trip.
| only got to Neville, where she found the
| ice too heavy and hard TO navigate in safe
| ty Captain Prather very wisely returned
| to Cincinnati. fndin harbor in the
mouth of Licking
Alex. Mcdowell, falls pilot, aged 43, died
at Louisville on Thursday.
LoUIsvILLE.-The Courier, of Saturday,
says:
The river was rising rather fast all day
yesterday, with feet inches water in the
canal in the evening by the mark. During
| the previous "a hours it had risen IL inches
| at the head of the falls. and feet at Port
| land. This is heavy rise, considering the
| intense cold weather.
On the falls there were feet inches wa
ter in the pass, last evening. and rising,
| and the river full of huge masses of ice.
The ice in the river yesterday was far
| heavier than at any other time this season,
putting an effective barrier upon naviga,
| ton, and causing great fears for the safety
of the boats and property in the harbor.
| the f1atboat landing, extending to the tow
| head, is frozen into solid, continuous
mass, and people were travelling on the ice
! all day.
The weather, though moderating very
| much yesterday, continues intensely cold,
! the thermometer, at noon, ranging at five
| degrees above zero. at noon it had run
| up to IL degrees above zero.
1t has often been predicted that floods
occur in the Western rivers every ten
| years. Now, the most memorable freshets
| Excepting the flood Of 1882 occurred in
| periods of ten years. The first recorded
was that of 1877; then again in 1887; fol-
| lowed by the flood of 1917 and now the
| indications look like we are to have an
| other in the present var 1867. The snow
has been accumulat1ng in the mountains
for nearly month, with only slight rain
| at Pittsburg the other day, making the
very sudden rise whit h is here now, That
| rain was followed by hard freezing wea-
| ther, and the great snow-storm that now
covers the country, and if it goes off with
| rain, a flood is sure to follow.
| The Darling, which came in from Gin
| cinnatl on Thursday, has managed to
| make a landing alongside of the Jefferson
! vile ferry, and had steam up all day yes
terday, thawing out her water-wheels. and
! contemplating the descent OF the falls. She
was still at the landing, however, last even
ing.
The Cincinnati Gazette of yesterday emu
merates 70 coal barges, floats, and fia.s that
were swept off by the ice. of this number
| 20 were laden with coal.
| The ice was too heavy for the Jefferson
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