The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-09-06
RIVER ITEMS.
The st. Louis press of Monday evening


says:
The river is still on the decline. Weather
warm and cloudy-rain yesterday. The up
per rivers continue to recede. Three feet
scant in the Illinois; twenty-tw inches on the
Lower Rapids; three and half feet in the Mis-
souri,; six and half feet to Cairo.
- The 7. c. TwitchelI was at our wharf
night before last for the South She is the
only large southern bound boat which had been
at our wharf for some days. She could not take
in much freight here, only lot of eggs.
The Antelope may be expected to-day
for New Orleans. She was to have left Louis
vile yesterday.
- The big Peter Teilon has her bills up
to leave Louisville to-day for the South.
- The Southerner arrived here early yes
terday morning from ST. Louis We thank
her clerk for papers of Monday evening.
We learn from the Courier that the
packets Fashion and Alvin Adams viii in
short time be placed in the Louisville and st
Louis Packet Line. The Fashion will be just
as sound boat as she was before the sinking,
Adams is an A No. l packet, both for speed
and size. The boats in the Line at present are
the Northerner Southerner and Highfyer.-
There will soon be five packets in the Line, and
Daily line ere long time.
- The heavily laden st. Louis boats
bound for New Orleans are having hard time
of it. Nearly every one gets more OF less
aground, there being only 6>s feet water on
the bars.
Mr.. Thos. Hamilton, clerk of the
steamer III. R. w. Hill, is also among the dead
of that ill-fated boat by the yellow fever.
- The Yorktown No. 2 broke shaft
while passing through the Louisville canal
few days ago.
- The canal at Louisville is delaying
steamers great deal just at this time. Some
five or six boats were in it at one time day be-
fore yesterday.
- The Yuba, Swallow, Gov. Meigs, JAS
Park, John Bell and j. B. Carson, were all adj
vertised to leave Cincinnati last Tuesday for
st. Louis.
- The river at Memphis on the 29th was
falling at the rate of foot in twenty flour
hours.
George Newell, eldest son of Capt Ne
well, and second clerk of the packet H. R. w.
Hill, died of the yellow fever at Memphis, on
the 18th inst. He contracted the disease at
New Orleans
- There is said to be an enormous quanti-
ty of freight for st. Paul, awaiting shipment at
St. Louis The low water has put up freights
and forwarders are waiting decline.
- The following are Paducah items from an
exchange: The Ohio river at Paducah is high for
the season. The steamer Cuba is lying at Pa
ducah in a crippled condition, having torn of
her wheel and broken several fanges in Dover
Island chute. CarelessnesS in the pilot is said
to have been the cause of the accident. The
Nettle Miller is on the docks at Smithlandi
Capt. John McCormick's new boat is to be
launched at Dycusburg this week. The st.
Louis packet Baltimore has gotten off the Pa
ducah ways and is repaired. She will resume
her place in the line between st. Louis and
Louisville in October. The Tennessee river
packets B. B. Baker and City of Knoxville left
Paducah on a race last week. They run a
mile and halfin an hour and half The D.
A. Given is also laid UP at Paducah. Capt
Shaw's new Cumberland river boat is nearly
ready to launch.
Capt. James Dryden, an old st. Louis
pilot, well known on the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers, died Of dropsy on the 22d ult, at Bailey
Springs, Alabama, He was highly esteemed
by large circle of friends