The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-02-11

yesterday, became intensely Geld, rain,
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CINCINNATI ~ The Commercial of
Saturday says! afF1Afa !
The ice was running heavy. yester-
day, past this city. At the stern of
the Fleetwood, lying below the foot
of Main Street, stationary ice has
made out distance of thirty feet.
The Sam j. Hale arrived from
Memphis at 2 PM, with /, 70S bales of
cotton. She went I'M o the Kentucky
River, owing to heavy ice, but only
remained short time, when she
again proceeded on her trip. Capt.
Walkerii Is 'entitledto the horns as
the ice king. Capt. Merrielees will,
Of course, pass them over. p
Captain John Arthur, II. s. c.,
formerly river editor. Of the Guzehe,S
is stationeda at Fort Mcpherson, Ne
braska. A3.134s
The City Council, yesterday. re-.
solved to appropriate all the receipts
of Wharfage. after March /. for the
Improvement fethe Public Landing
between Broadway and Main Street.
This action Is proper. only it ought to.
have been done fifteen years ago.
LoUIsvILLE-The Courier of Sat
urday says: .sas a5ss4 s
The navigation of the river is now
wholly sns pended, with not a single
arrival or departure yesterday from
any point, and no ice running In
front of the upper wharf and the
fails the sriyer is open and clear of.
ice, and the Jefersonville aferryboats
were making their regular trips unob-
structed aszaaea sI1e Is + IL
70 Thesriyer is gorged or blocked with
ice at point below Six Mile Island
from the Pumpkin Patch up to
Twelve. Mile Island, and we learn
that pedestrians last evening crossed
the river on the ice Hundreds of
boys and men were skating on the
ice on the river between the Tow
Head and the Kentucky shore.
A the head of the canal extend
ing over to the island, the river is
all frozen over, but in the canal
there is but very little ice, and the pres
ent weather is barely hard enough
to makeenew ice. SAD bsgsel
I'll The alNDIA Md CLAIMS
,ADJUsTED-ENTIRE Loss LESS THAN
$25. 000.7 Yesterday morning Captain
j. s. Neal, OF the Richmond, was in
receipt ola special dispatch from New
Orleans that the salvage claims and
all damages TO the Indiana had been
decided by arbltration.7 Captain John
Cannon, of the Robert Il. Lee, was
awarded $500 for his seryicesiin re-
.lieving the boat and cargo from her
NJ 4 he y. hos <.vs
reef at the head of Island 102 The
.S25 on the corn thrown overheard,
fatal loss of $23, 525 on the boat and 4
cargo to be assessed under the gem
eral average rule customary in all
cases of river or marine losses j
ST. Louis. The democrat of Sat
nrday says:
The Lady Gay, a powerful steamer
of about three hundred feet In length,
performed wonders in the harbor yes
terday, or what a majority of the
thousand witnesses would not hesi-
tate TO call wonders. She was thrown
with so great impetuosity against the
ice field. some of it hummocks, and
.congealed to a thickness of five feet,
that an old boatman. expressed his
opinion that Captain 10, Brown
wouldn't use the Lady Gay. that
way, if she was his own. +"
Whether thee old boatman's
surmise was unjust to Captain
Brown or not. we can testify that he,
Brown, was the hero of the day-in
ice. He did a big thing. The ice
was found to be. very unyielding, and
the impression made upon it by each
successive blow. as she was launehed
with terrific force against the hard |
rugged obstacle was slight 10 compa-
rison with the work of the ferry boats
at ain earlier stage of the ice embargo.
But the commodore was determined /
to fight it out on that line if it took
him ali day, and it did take him all
day. Some of the ieeIto be demolish-
ed was twenty inches thick and as
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