The Evansville daily journal., 1856-05-13

ALrAMoxr. from Wheeling to St Louis
Ii. Bridges from Bowling Green to Louisville.
NATH HOLMES. from st Louis to Pit:sburg.
ALMA from st Louis to Pttsbufg.
j. W. CHEEsMAN. from St Louis to Ptssburg
AReoSAUT. from do TO Pitsburg
NICK. THOMAS from New Orleans Cincinnati.
J. @. swoS. from Louisville to New Orleans.
"A large new steamer arrived yesterday
afternoon from Louisville on her first trip
She was busily engaged last evening taking on
freight for the South, but was light.
- Our wharf was lively with steamers
yesterday morning, and the commission men
busy. No particular change in the river
Slowly falling
- The Nick Thomas arrived yesterday
afternoon from New Orleans with two barges
in tow. She put out out 500 sacks of salt for
Green River, and other freight. r
- The fast packet Fashion was here early
Sunday morning from Louisville. We thank
Mr.. Clark for package OF papers. The Fash
ion will be here for Louisville next Thursday
morning
- We thank the officers ofthe big Eclipse
for New Orleans papers of Tuesday evening
last. This great steamer arrived at this point
last Sunday afternoon at 2 O'Clock, being a
good deal less than five days out.
- Last Saturday night week the steamer
Ambassador ran upon snag below Laconia,
which penetrated through the hurricane deck,
and knocked both chimneys overheard. The
hull was not damaged.
- The Southerner passed up last Sun
day night from st. Louis, only q hours from
that city. This shows the speed of this fast
packet. She may be expected down early
Thursday morning for st. Louis. We thank
Mr.. Archer for late papers.
- The JAS. Montgomery took on board
a large quantity of freight, consisting of to-
bacco pork, &C., for New Orleans, yesterday,
and left before noon, with good load. This
splendid steamer made her last trip to Louis
vile inside of six days.
- The David White still lies in her old
position. She can be raised when the river
falls four feet more. The river is now at about
the same stage as when she sunk. She is in
possession of the underwriters, who have
agents on the spot. The big submarine bell
boat No. Z is now in company with the sunken
steamer, and will lend her services in an ener-
getic manner when the time comes.
- The st. Louis Republican of Saturday
says:
Fl,o - Of oiy .eIo
yesterday morning, but commenced falling be-
i fore night At dusk it had fallen about eight
inches. The VIM. Campbell, in from the Mis-
souri, last evening, reports the Missouri rising
from Weston down, and oYelfowing it's banks
in many places The weather was fine yes
terday, and business brisk.
- The Cincinnati Commercial of Satur-
day says:
During the twenty four hours ending last
night, the river here has fallen two inches,
with ten feet to Louisville. There were six
feet eight inches in the Canal last night
When the packet Scioto left CatIessburgh on
Thursday, Big Sandy had risen ten inches,
but the Ohio was falling slowly. She passed
innumerabie lumber RATS on the way down
from Allegheny river.
- The St. Louis Republican of Saturday
gives the following disasters South by storms:
Several storms have been experienced about
Memphis. During one of the storms, on We'd
nesday week, four fiat boats, laden with be-
tween 800 and 900 bales of cotton, and two
boats loaded with lumber for Memphis mer-
chants, were sunk at Little Friar Bend. The
cotton would be saved in a damaged condition.
The same storm prevailed at Napoleon, and
extended up White river to near Batesville,
doing good deal of damage. At Napoleon
| it was so violent as to blow down several
houses, and to damage Roberts wharf-boat to
the amount of 1000. The steamer White
Bluff was blown from her moorings, parting
FIVE cables, and driven among some fiat boats,
one of which was sunk. The wife of the
owner of the flat-boat, and planter from up
the Arkansas river, whose name is unknown
were drowned. The steamer T. Ray was
sunk in the same storm in White river, near
Batesvile.
On the Saturday night previous, the John
Simpson, Nashville and Memphis packet, was
very nearly capsized. Her leeward wheel
house was canted over into the water up to
the lettering of her name; and but for her
freight of sugar hogsheads in the hold, would
most likely have gone entirely over. Two
men and a woman were blown or washed over
board and drowned.
SSUPEHFIN FLOUR in bbl and sacss. various brands.
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