Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-03-22
RIVER NEWS.
ARRIVALS.
March 21.-Nashville, Cairo.
Rowena, Cincinnati.
DEPARTED.
Nashville, Cairo.
LEAVING TO-DAY.
Powana CinaipDsfi


The river was at stand last evening
and it was confidently expected that il
would be rising before this evening. There
had been more rain, and the weather did
not improve last night. Eleven feet on
Harpeth Shoals.
The fine steamer Rowena is in port,
having brought from Cincinnati about 400
tons miscellaneous freight She will leave
for Cincinnati at P. NJ. to-day. Capt. W.
A. PEBBLES, her agent, will be glad toattend
to shippers or passengers.
The Talisman is the next boat for Cairo.
She will leave tomorrow.
The Fanny Brandeis, nice little craft,
commanded by Capt. Cartwright, will leave
tomorrow for up river ports. Oar clever
friends Harrison & Sons, are her agents.
The American, from Pittsburg, is ex-
pected.
The Palestine was advertised to leave
Louisville yesterday for this port.
The Ohio river on the 10Th was falling
at Evansville. Louisville, Cincinnati
and Pittsburg. At Cairo it had risen one
inch and was higher than in 1862, or ever
known before. At Columbus it had broken
through the leyee, and the town was under
water.
At St. Louis the Mississippi, on the Goth,
was falling slowly; at Memphis it had
risen one inch in twenty -four hours.
The Memphis Avalanche of the 18th inst.
SAYS: "The food of 1867 is more disas-
trous and higher than any since 1892. II
is painful to contemplate the suffering, loss
of life and property. Melancholy accounts
Of suffering and the destruction Of property
reach us from eyeryquarter along the water
courses. ALI along the ST. Francis river,
and the Mississippi from here to Vicksburg,
families have been driven from their
houses, and in many instances were forced to
seek refuge, without their household goods.
Helena is still inundated, and strong
current of water sweeps through the main
| street of the town, washing away houses
and driving the occupants TO safer quar-
tiers. Much suffering exists among the
people at Helena, Frisr's Point and all
through that section of country. The
planters have suffered much by the loss OF
| the greater part of their stocks, which have
been drowned or left surrounded with
water to perish for the want of food. Fen.
ces and gin-houses have been carried away
with the current. Owing to the continued
Indictment weather, we much fear the river
will continue high for two or three weeks
| to come. The food has checked all bust.
I ness along the river. Steamboats, are I'M
! able to transact any way business what
ever. The prospects for cotton planting
fer the coming season are very discour.
aging, and there will be little planted I'M
less the government or capitalists come tC
the relief of these poor, unfortunate peo-
pie, and build the leyees which were de-
stroyed by the Federals during the war
Our merchants generally should lend O
helping hand TO the poor people that are
suffering from the overflow. A heavy
rain storm set in yesterday at noon, which
continued up to n late hour at night. The
rain checked all business movements on the
wharf"
The Memphis Appeal of the Goth inst
says "On Monday the river fell about one
inch at Greenville, Miss. The fall al
Helena was about four inches in that many
days. On last Thursday night Deer creek
rose fourteen inches, caused by the break.
ing of the levee at Miller's bend. From
Deer creek 10 GreenYille the country was
almost entirely submerged on Friday last
At the latter place there is yet from
six to eighteen inches of bank out o
water. Point ChicOtt and few other place
in Arkansas are not submerged. In Boil
var county, Miss, there are yet but VERY
few places that are yet high and dry. A
Helena the water is from two TO eight fee
deep back to the base of the bluff. All tn,
levees recently built have proved a failure
Many were swept away before completion.
by telegraph
River and Weather.
| CAIRO, March 20-The river has falling sil
feet, with thirty-one feet six inches in the chan
| mel. The weatheris wet, and il has been rain
| ing of and on all day.
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