New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-12-05
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INA hri6k norfhveet Winde are reported o.
the middle and en6t Atlantic coast. Rair
and snow have Pfssailed In tho Middle and
Eastern States. The high barometer which
~ Sunday west of the Missouri, has ad
vanced rapidly southeaetward, and is now
central from Texas to Missouri. The ba
romct-ic gradient is unusually steep from
Indiana to South Carolina, and to Lake
Ontario. with high northwest winds on the
lower lakes. Rising Temperature ami fall
ing barometer prevail in Montana, and
probably in Oregon.
PROBABILITIES.
High barometer and clear weather are
probable for Tuesday from the southern
md middle Atlantic, Westward to the
plains, and also from Lake Erie to Lake
Superior. Clearing weather in New York
and New England, With northwesterly
winds. The area of lowest pressure moves
northeast into the Gulf of st. Lawrence. ac-
companied by high winds in the Middle
and Eastern States. Another low barometer
with rain and snow will probably advance
southeastward INTO Nebraska and Minnesota
by Tuesday night.
CautiOnary signals continue for tonight
at Grand Haven. Chicago, Milwaukee, De
sroit, Toledo, Cleveland, Buffalo, Koches-
Ter, OswegO, Portland, Boston, New Lon
don. New York and Cape May and are
ordered for this evening at Baltimore,
Norfolk, Wilmington. Charleston, Sayan-
nah and Jacksonville.
River lntelliGcnce.
SOUTHWEST Pass, december 4, q 7. NJ
Barometer $3.50. Wind Observation-Disclosures g
hard. No arrivals. Sailed: Arcturus.
The tugbOat Reliance, bound down with
two ships, ran one of them, the TheObOld.
ashore in Southwest Pass. about four miles
above the telegraph station, some time last
night. She is still ashore.
VICKsBURG, December 4.-Passcd down:
Charles BOdman at 10, Belle Vernon at II,
and Texas at II last night. Boats down to-
day: Belle Lee at p NJ. Passed up: Kate
kearney at ten, and BIT Hast at eleven o'clock
last night Up to day: Mary Alice and
barges ut T. NJ. Weather cool and clear
River rising.
MEMPHIS, December 4.-Weather clear
Last night was the coolest this season.
River rising. Passed mp; Mary Miller. Julia
and Louisville. Passed down: Warner
and City Of Vicksburg. Weather intensely
cold.
LOUISVILLE, December 4.-River station
airy with four feet in the canal, and three
feet four inches in the chute. The weather
suddenly turned very cold early this morn
ing. Business dull, owing to the intense
cold. The Alaska, from Cincinnati for New
Orleans, passed down.
CINCINNATI, December 4.--Iivcr ten feet
in the channel, and falling. The weather
turned suddenly cold early this morning
and there is a prospect of hard freezing.
PITTsBURG. December Throwing bitter
Iy cold. MOnongahela three feet nine
inches in the channel, and falling.
CAIRO. December 4.-Passed down at
= p. NJ. Nick LengwOrth, from Louisville
for New Orleans. Arrived: p. w. Strader.
from st. Louis, at ) p. NJ Very little ice
running in the Mississippi tonight, indi-
eating q gorge above. The river has fallen
twelve inches. Weather clear. Thermome-
ter l4o above zero.
EVANSVILLE. December s. Weather
clear and intensely cold to-day; mercury
thirteen degrees above zero. The river has
fallen six inches in the past twenty four
hours. Passed up: Shannon. from New
Orle. ,s for Louisville, at p. Al.