The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-12-26

The printers design keeping Christmas to-
day, and consequently there will be no paper
fssued tc-morrow from this Office. Our
hshdswo TX day and night like good, faith
full men and boys a. they are, and they GER
*sinly deserve the few holidays they secure
-Chrisimss came in yesterday cold and
wintrY. II is pretty generally conceded that. to-
day Is the practical Christmas, out of the church.
We hope it may prove general holiday.
- The Cincinnati has been raised We
hope to see her soon again running as Louis
vile and ST Louis packet
ALL who want TO buy toys for the children.
had better call this morning at Mrs. Kollenberg 8
or Sam. Listers They have yet large assort-
ment on hand, and this, Christmas morning pro
ten, is the very lime for purchasing.
- There was fine skating on the canal last
Saturday. great many persons little and big,
were there, and all appeared to enjoy themselves
finely. The canal appears to be useful in win
ter as we'll as summer.
The steamer Cornelia, a ST. Louis and
ALTON packet, was sunk on Saturday evening,
while on her downward trip, nine miles above
ST. Louis. The water wa up to her ioilers.-
She had no freight, and no one sustained any in
Jury. II is believed that she can be raised. She
was insured in three Offices in ST. Louis for 3 Is.
00n. n
- Messrs. Eads g. Nelson have been called
upon to raise the Cornelia. They have just rails.
ed The Cincinnati, and appear very successful in
their undertakings. They are old acquaintan-
.c.s of ours, an energetic gentl. men. They de-
serve TO make great raise for themselves, and
we presume.lhey are d., ing It,
The Eclipse arrived here Saturday morn
ing from Cairo, where she has been spending
some ten days awaiting rise in The river. She
was quite light, and had barge in tow, was
drawing about all the water in the river and
striving 10 get TO Louisville to spend Christmas
All our Forwarding and Commission
Merchants have on hand large quantities of pro.
rducc for New Orleans. Tobacco, pork and lard
are sccumulatins on their hands. Ia consequence
Of the low stage of he Ohio all the large New
Orleans boats have laid up to await rise.
&C., The new and fine steamer Antelope pass
ed down on her first trip on Saturday, freighied
for New Orleans. She is q New Albany boa,
hrou.holt-built. finished furnished, EQUIPPED
and launched at New Albany. The A. is said
by steamboatmen TO have the best running model
of any boat on the river. She possesses i'm
mense power and will no doubt make the
-'horns OF the Sho,well tremble, when she does
her first running. She is commanded by Capt.
Brown, formerly OF the Gen. Lafayette. who
never allows steamboat wheel to turn without
creating swell in the pocket"
- Last Saturday we received from the
handsof couple ladies connected with the Ger.
man United Evangelical Church. a large and
beautifully iced cake. We thank them kindly
for their attention, and only regret is. we
were not able to attend the fair, AM eat cake with
the ladies themselves. Still we heartily rejoice
to hear they did much better than could reason
ably have been expected considering the bad
weather. The receipts of the fair were between
six and seven hundred dollars. We hope our
lady friends are not disappointed. i.
ID. - The Arctic was here Saturday afternoon
from Cincinnati with big load of freight, for
New Orleans.