The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-02-04

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River ami Weather. iaa
CINCINNATI, Feb 2.-The river has
risen feet inch, being 10 feet and
A inches in the Channel. Weather
cloudy, with heavy rain off and on
this forenoon. Thermometer 48 deg;
barometer 1852 ant fang. That is
the lowest point On record at this
place.
The weather during Friday night
was mild with heavy rain By 9
O'Clock in the morning the mercury
had gone down some EN- deg. and the
rain changed to sleet, the wind shift
ing to the West and blowing pretty
heavily. Little spits o; snow oontin-
ued to fall nearly all LAY. At noon
the mercury was at 40 Dig. and the In
dications were favorable for freezing
weather again. The rive rose an inch
an hour from z o'clock Friday night
till z o'clock Saturday morning, and
still more rapidly during the day on
Saturday. The change in the wealth
er will perhaps tend to check the rise.
The ice in the river was pretty scarce
up to nearly noon on Saturday, when
heavy shore ice began to run, and the
river at times was packed with it from
shore to shore, many fields. extending
clear across the river, .a foaaH9
Arrivals and Departures.
The arrivals and departures up to
Saturday at 3 o'clock, include the
Silver moon, Memphis to Cincinnati;
Louisiana, New Orleans to Louisville;
Liberty No. 2 to Memphis; Curlew,
Green River to Evansville; Lake
Erie No. 3, Vicksburg to louisville;
NJ. S. Mepham to Louisville: Ha-
vana, Nashville to Cincinnati; Charm
er, to Cairo; Louisa to Nashville. En-
6a9a Boats Due. eiH han 81
Among the first boats due are the
Rebecoa and Rowena, for Nashville;
Shamrock, Nightingale and Arabian,
for St. Louis; Robert Burns, Minne-
ola, Anna, and Champion for Mem
phis; Darling and Dora, from Mem
phis; Lawrence, Anglo Saxon,
Huntsville, Centralia and Mary r.
win, for Arkansas River; Louisville,
Lady Gay, Amazon from New Orleans
B. j.. Lodge, Emerald, Armadillo,
WestmoreIand, Lizzie Hopkins, Alice
Dean, Emma No. g., for New Or
leans; Morning Star. from Louis
vile; Armada, from Cairo.
miscellaneous.
As we expected, the re-opening Of
navigation makes things lively on the
levee, which is again covered with
cotton and tobacco, lumber and mis-
cellaneous freights, and the shrill
whistle of steamers is no longer rari-
ty....... The levee is in wretchedly
muddy state, and a man is a hero who
will voluntarily wade to the waters
edge.........The M. S. Mepham dis
charged AT bales of cotton for r. X
Dunkerson & Co., and 81 bales fo1
Hubbs & Viets, agents of the Star
Union Line. She had also lot OF
molasses and gunnies for this port
She reloaded a large lot of salt and
other freights, and left here on her
last trip and proceeded to Louisville
yesterday afternoon Capt. Wood,
Owen G. Gates and W. V. Anderson
carry their ages we'll, notwithstand-
ing their long absence ......... The
louisiana had a big trip for Lou
isville. She discharged here 81 bales
of cotton for r. K. Dunkerson. & Co.,
"a hogsheads of sugar and 80 barrels
of molasses, to be forwarded to Terre
Haute.. The manifests of the
Charmer and Phantom will be found
below........The Charmer would be
late getting out Saturday, on account
of her big trip. There was plenty of
freight to go below.........The Havana
came in from Nashville with good
trip about noon. She met large
field of shore ice that had swung out
from the shore above, and running
her head into it was borne rapidly
down by the river She piled on
steam and succeeded in pressing the
ice out into the stream. The con
test was watched with much in
terest, as there was great dan
ger of her being borne against the
steamers at the wharf, which would