Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-02-05
RIVER NEWS.
ARRIVED.
Feb. A. Baker, Up River.
Gen. Sigel, do.
Tyrone, Cairo.
Departed.
None.
LEAVING TO-DAY.
Tyrone, Cairo.
RIVER NEWS

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The river was rising slowly last evening,
with 81 feet water on Harpeth Shoals.
Weather clear
The A. Baker, which came in yesterday,
reports the Cumberland rising above here.
She went up one hundred and seventy five
miles.
The Tyron came in last night from
Cairo. Her regular time for departure is
at A P, NJ, to-day.
The Louisville journal of yesterday says
The prospects are unfavorable for steam
boat men. All day yesterday very heavy
ice was running; the river being so full as
TO make it almost impossible for any boat
to run. The New Albany and Portland
ferry-boats made but three trips yesterday,
and those tore up their wheels badly. The
Louisville and Jacksonville ferry boats,
Isaac Bowman and John Shallcross, made
but one trip. Five empty coal barges from
above went over the falls. Another one
lodged on the falls. One ofthe barges had
three men on it. This passed so near the
New Albany ferry-boat that a line was
thrown out and the barge brought in.
Another barge with man on it passed
on down the river. He must have had a
cold and perilous trip. The ice, some of
it, is twelve feet in thickness that is, the
cakes of ice, have become frozen together,
making a solid body. Unless the river
rises more rapidly there will be a heavy
gorge in the Narrows. If the ice does not
gorge, few days of pleasant weather will
make everything all right again.
A dispatch of the LIST from Cairo says:
The weather to-day was much colder
than yesterday, and checked the thaw, but
heavy rain set in about o'clock this
evening, which promises TO continue all
night
The gorge above Alton is reported bro
ken, and the river is risin here quite rap
idly. All the creeks and small streams
in the State are much swollen, and con-
siderable rise is expected.
The gorges between here and Cairo will
probably give way tomorrow, in anticipa-
ton of which several boats are loading for
the South, and active preparations are
being made for resumption of navigation.
The Lorena was advertised to leave ST.
Louis on the 4th for this port
The Louisville Courier says:
The Kentucky river is at high tide, with
a rise of twelve to fourteen feet at Frank
fort, Saturday, and it was adding a full
quota of both ice and water to our river
yesterday.
The Big Miami was putting forth its
strength OF waters Friday evening, having
broken through the restraints of the ice that
bound it, and was pouring forth perfect
food of waters when the mail boat passed
by. 1t was also throwing out an entire
winters accumulation of ice-ice as hard as
adamsnt, and some of it three or four feet
thick 1t was the fear of encountering this
Miami ice that deferred the mail boats
from venturing out yesterday or Saturday.
The River Improvement Convention at
ST. Louis is intended to be a grand affair
for ST. Louis. Her people are making great
preparations far the reception and accom-
mediation of guests. The railroads are
promising to take the delegates for half
fare, and the st. Louis people are raising
funds to defray the expenses Of their in
vited guests.
HUGE CoNTRACTs.-The river transpor-
tation trade this spring promises the great
est results for steamboat owners and steam
boat men. We see it stated that govern
ment contracts to the extent of forty mill
lion pounds of freight, are to be let out the
coming spring, the greater portion of it for
the Missouri river. At very high esti-
mate, allowing each boat to transport three
hundred tons, it would require sixty-seven
boats, or sixty-seven trips, to carry the
freight No boats for the upper Missouri,
the mountain trip, make more than one
single trip in an entire season, and very
rarely two trips. We may then safely cal
culate that a feet of fifty boats will be re-
quired to fill this huge contract.
By telegraph
CINNCTxNArI, Feb, 4-Navigation isnow even