The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-01-05

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weather and Water.
The weather continues cold, clear, and
beautiful. The river is falling rapidly,
having declined fully feet during the "a
hours ending at noon yesterday. The ice
is not SO thick or SO heavy as on Thursday
morning. The ferry skiff made the cross
ing yesterday, but, with great difficulty.
Miscellaneous.
There have been no arrivals since
the Liberty No. came in. She has
gathered up a magnificent trip, and
with her engagements at Mt. Vernon
and other points below, will go out of the
river loaded to her fullest capacity. There
were half dozen or more Memphis specu-
lators in the city, yesterday morning, and
the city was thoroughly stripped of corn
meal, and large quantities of other goods
were purchased for the Memphis market
The Liberty left at l O'Clock. She had a
cabin full of people........The Mepham was
filling up rapidly at noon, and would leave
late last night with q full cargo. There is
sufficient New Orleans freight here and
along the shore below to load another boat
of the same size. 1t is a great thing
to be at the head of navigation......
A huge snag lodged for time yesterday
morning in front of the city and near the
channel, but the heavy ice carried 1t off.
........The Westmoreland and Clifton are
still quietly awaiting events........The Da-
vid White, Alice Dean, Kenton, Louis.
vile, Sam. Parker, Nicholas LOngworth,
Swallow and Indiana, are on their way
from New Orleans, and some of them may
be expected to-day .....-The Laura Fenton
is en- route from Memphis to this port.........
The Quickstep is laid up at Cairo.........W We
are indebted to s. NJ. Barton & Co. !, of New
Orleans, for slips containing a detailed
statement of the destruction of the steamer
Fashion, a synopsis of which will be found
in our news columns.
GIeanfngs from our Exchanges.
CINCINNATI. The Commercial of Thurs
day says:
The weather continues clear and cold,
with the mercury ranging at 30o at noon
yesterday. Navigation is still suspended
from Louisville to P1ttsburg There is con-
siderable heavy running ice here, yet the
ferry boats are still making their regular
trips to Covington and Newport. At Pitts
burg the river is falling, with feet in the
inches during the past twenty four hours,
with Is feet hence to Louisville.
Mr.. w. G. Shinkle, one of the pilots of
the Jno. w. Garrett, arrived here last
night. The Garrett was on her way from
st. Louis for Wheeling, with two barges of
iron and tive empty barges in tow. She
reached Cannelton, Indiana, on Monday,
at p. M. and laid up for ice, together with
the tow-boat Tiger, with four empty coal
barges bound for Pittsburgh. Mr.. Shinkle
Star, which arrived at Portland on Tues
day night, after pounding away through
the ice for twenty-four hours.
ST. LOUIS. -The Democrat of Thursday
says:
New Years night was probably he cold
| est of the season. How happy were we
south wind blowing yesterday morning!
The weather moderated greatly during the
day. In the evening the ferryboats crossed
rifle in the morning. The sun shone all
day, but it was the wind that cut up the ice
and caused ii to cave in considerably.
"The river won't freeze over here this
win err" is sentence in many mouths
now. The river continues falling.
CAIRO.-The Democrat thus accounts for
the safety OF the White Cloud. which struck
a snag near that city on Sunday:
The boat struck the snag, and the Cap
tain happened to be standing by; he
ordered the tarpaulin Immediately thrown
over, in hopes that it mi9ht cover up the
hole. The snag had fortunately torn away
a portion of the chains, which, luckily, so
caught in the tarpaul1n as to faSten to it,
and then the Ice, pressing down heavily
upon it, at once nearly filled up the hole.
The lucky throw of the tarpaulin, the
scattering of the chains by the snag, and
the pressure of the ice, are the fortunate
facts that saved the boat, and enabled her
to reach here and go upon the docks for
repairs. She has a hole that would have
sunk her in fifteen minutes but for the re-
markable good luck that followed her pre-
ceding bad luck.
The White Cloud will soon be all right
again.
MEMPHIs.-The appeal, of Tuesday, says:
The weather keeps clear and cold.
Stoves are the centre of attraction, and the
warm days of last summer have found
many admirers among our river friends.
Business on the levee was not so dull as
during most of last week. The arrivals
from above are becoming quite few owing
river above Cairo. There is not over five
feet large from st. Louis to Cairo. At this
point the river still falls fast while the
White, Arkansas, and st. Francis rivers
are also falling.
NEW ORLEANs.-The Times, of the 30th.
says:
Throughout the entire of yesterday the
weather was anything but of an agreeable
nature. The dawn of morning brought ON
a dark and cloudy sky, and at o'clock
there commenced a slow drizzling rain, ac-
companied by a fierce norther, which
made it very diSagreeable for levee pc
destrians, but despite the nature of the
weather there were a large number of de-
partures, some of which appeared to have
very good trips, while Others did not seem
to fare SO well.