Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-02
HOGS.
RIVER News.

The river continues swelling slowly at
this point with 25 or % inches on Harpeth
/ Shoals. Weather clear and cold
| The BuTksville arrived yesterday from
Paducah. Her freight consisted Of 10000
shingles, c tons Of iron, and small lot Of
sundries.
Capt. Wiley Sims made his appearance on
/ change yesterday evening in a bran new
velvet vest and powdered hair. He is in
4 excellent trim for a fat mans ball If one
should be announced at an early day.
Capt. Strong, the veteran Caney fOrke
/ fife-majOr, and agent in former days for 4.
/ p. fluid visited marine headquarters yester-
1 day.
| The Ella Hughes which was ADVERTISED to
/ leave for Cairo to-day will not depart, but
the Burlsville viii take her place, leaving at
p. NJ. Capt. Sims commands, with W.
Z. Byers in the Office.
There are lying on :he bank of the river
in South st. Louis $4,000 tons Of Iron
Mountain ore awaiting shipments TO the
Ohio river and Grand Tower.
Some Of our bOatmen held a thanksgiv-
ing meeting on Thursday last at the Office
of Capt. Boyd, and offered thanks for the
successful season closed, and for mOdifca-
ton Of the taxes imposed upon them. g.
P. Yarbrough invoked the blessings of sour
father who art in Washington" asking L.
S. G. to furnish daily ratiOns and forgive
shortcomings Gas our creditors forgive Us
monthly).n Fro. Spiders sang the con-
Guiding hymn, after which the meeting adj
journed.
The New Orleans Commercial Bulletin
of Tuesday says: "The large receipts Of
cotton per river lined the levee with the
leecy staple, causing the levee to present an
active appearance. The arrival Of the r.
E. Lee with cotton TERED up to her hurri-
cane deck reminded us Of ante-bellum times.
The Importer came in from Arkansas river
With a good list Of cotton. The coast and
bends packets also brought in good cargOes.
Business, in fact, is improving, and is much
better than il has been during any time Of
of the season. The river marks here de-
note IA feet Of water below the high wafer
mark of 1852. The Ouachita is rising slow
ly, with 81 feet at Monroe.
Capt. j. V. ThTOop has sold bis One-haf
interest in the steamer Mallie Ragon to
Geo. S. ThrOOp-
The St. Louis Republican of Thursday
says:
"The weather was quite cold, and the
mercury did not rise above freezing point;
and the ice IN The river was growing in bulk
and sOlidity all day. The prospect for a
complete ice blockade is now imminent.
Dispatches from the upper river ports in
form us that the river IS gOrged at Keokuk,
and teams are crossing and recrossing Onthe
ice; that from that point up so far as known
there Is no open river. The Illinois and
Missouri are both frozen over solid nearly
throughout their lengths. Last night an
- -f.I 4.
At this port the rapid decline in the river,
together with the increasing weight of ice,
rendered navigation uncertain, If not dan
gerous. Nearly all the packet companies
will refuse to receive freight unless there is
a change in the temperature to-day. AT
present we may say that navigation is about
closed in the Mississippi at this port, at least
for the present"
The St. Louis Democrat says: Tremen-
dOus SHOWS in the ROcisy Mountain region.
Look out for the June rise of 1877 in the
Missouri. 1t will probably be the greatest
freshet on record.
The Sioux City Journal of the sd saws;
"FOOt passengers safely crossed the Mis-
souri, river on ice at this pOintOn yesterday,
Nov. %, for the first time this season. The
river may be said to have been efiectually
closed on Wednesday. SO far as our records
extend the river has closed from fifteen 10
thirty DAYS earlier than usual. Last year
the first foot passenger crossed upon the
Ice Dec. 10, and the weather then was much
milder than now, and the ice rather weak
and hazardous. On Dec. 2, 1869, ice had
formed over the river, but was regarded az
safe here; but at IORia, few miles up the
stream, it was firmer, and loaded teams
crossed in perfect safety"
The Thompson Dean has a life-bOat in
vented by Beaupre Il Gebhart, Of MetropO-
lis, ILL.,, and known as their automatic life
boat. Ii is built of galvanized iron, is
twenty feet long and five feet wide, and
when sunk has a buOyancy Of i've thousand
pounds, and when capsized it will right il,
self and displace the water in the short
space of fifteen seconds. This is the first
life-boat of the kind ever constructed, and
was built expressly for Capt. Jas. II. Pep
per, by the inventors.
The st. Joseph bridge over the Missouri
progresses. Dykes are being constructed
and the course Of the channel is being d.
verted. Says the st. Joseph Herald Of Sat
urday: ALREADY the main current of the
river has been thrown off the Kansas shore
a distance Of more than 600 feet, and there
is DO more washing from the west bank.
In the end the channel Of the mighty Mis-
souri, in front of the city viii be eribbed and
confined, and the vast volume Of water
made to flow past US in line straight as
an arrow, with the channel deepened 70
twenty or thirty feet at low water"
[By Telegraph
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. John W.
Cheney got into a row with the deck-halds
on the Great Republic below Baton Rouge,
and shot and dangerously wounded Three
negroes.