Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-02-20
RIVER AND WEATHER.

The river is How falling, with hur feet
nine inches on the shoals.
ARRIVED.
Emma Floyd, Cincinnati.
Nashville, Cairo.
.t atfA DEPARTED.
Ella Hughes, Upper Cumberland.
The Emma Floyd had a good trip.
The Charmer is due here now, and will
perhaps be in port to-day. The rates Of
freight are now very low and are IN
changed
The weather is spring-like.
The Evansville Courier of Tuesday says
The Linton came out of the Cumberland
river yesterday, with a good trip of tobae-
CO and q lot of other freight. Capt. n. F.
Drew and n. B. Hayward, clerk, are socia-
BILE and Obliging officers.
The Falls City arrived from Bowling
Green yesterday, and returned TO Lonis'
willie.
The elegant steamer Ada Lyon started
for Bowling Green last night with a very
fine trip.
Business on the wharf Yesterday remind
ed as of the good old times, when it was
fully covered with freight. We counted
sixteen steamboats, at one time receiving
and discharging, rendering employment
very active, and steambostmen having
more agreeable and smiling faces than We
were looking at for sometime.
The Louisville Democrat of yesterday
says:
Business at the wharf was very dull yes
terday, aud but little of interest was tran
spring. The arrivals and departures were
but few, and those, which came and went
that il was one Of the dullest DAYS of the
season.
A trial was made with the automatic
fireman, on the steamer Anderson. Allthe
machinery worked well, and coal was con-
tinuously fed to the furnace, which was
quite treat for those who had the pleas
ure of witnessing the supplying of furnace
with fuel my machinery, instead of BY
hand the old-faBhioned way. There are
some alterations which the inventor wishes
to make, which will cause delay Of day
or two, before a successful trial will be
made with this wonderful invention, which
will, in q great measure, enliyen the drOOp-
ing faces of many Of our steamboatmen, it
it comes up 10 the expectations of the m
yentor "a an economizer Of fuel.
The Henry Ames, from Memphis, ar
rived at New Orleans on the 18th, With
3l60 bales of cotton.
The steamer Enterprise, bound from
4 EEL D1.l- -. NJ n.ln.,. v-sfE 1870
bales of cotton, met with an accident At
Goza's Landing on the night Of the 9Th inst.
A portion of her guards gave way, pre-
cipitating about 400 bales into the river.
The crew succeeded in recovering over 800
bales, and left il on the bank at Goza's,
being unable to take it. Ouachita river
was again falling, with navigation closed to
Camden. The steamer Lotswanna had
thrown overheard 800 bales of cotton in
order to get her over the bar at Spoon
Camp shoals. 81
The st. Louis Democrat of Tuesday says
Another warm day yesterday, and the
ice bridge finally departed, starting at three
P. NJ. and moving out of sight in the gen
tlest and quietest manner possible. There
was no violent jarring of boats, none of
that Tapidity of motion, noise and Confu-
sion sometimes exhibited on the breaking
up of ice gorges. There was no rise. The
south wind and sun did the work; the ice
was honey-combed through and very slushy.
The gorge at Carondelet gave way at noon,
and moved away quietly as did that here,
and no steamboat or barge, we are in
formed, suffered the slightest injury. On
Sunday and yesterday forenoon the ice
gorges here moved on different occasions
a few hundred feet. A cake of ice, du
ring one of these short stages, struck
the barge LOwTie, belonging to the
Peoria packet, lying at the bow OF the
steamer Sully, and cut a hole in its eide.
1t filled with water, bat was still aioat last
evening. 1t will be taken TO the docks to-
day, for repsirs. 1t was cot insured. lt
Is supposed the Comet will arrive here To-
day, from Alton. Steamers will be here
from Carondelet. A boat leaves for Mem
phis to-day. Boats are about to load for
New Orleans, Vicksburg, Memphis, the
Arkansas and the Ohio. A rise and break
mp in the Missouri is anxiously looked for.
The Illinois will soon be uncovered, and
boats will depart regularly FOE Naples and
Peoria.