The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-12-03

Iura' from Lou!sVliie to Cairo.
Bay City, from St. Louisto Pfttsburg
The RIVER continues to rise with rapiditv
and there is now plenty Of water for the lar
gest boats AT Pittsburg Wheeling, Cincin.
natl and Louisville, the river was rising or
Sunday, and we have no fears but what it will
continue high during the season. Our latest
advices by Express, from above, give accounts
OF the heavy rains, and rises in all the small
streams. 1t rained very hard here nearly all
day yesterday
W The William Nelson, a mammoth
stern wheeler, came up from New Orleans
yesterday morning with full cargo for this
! place. consisting Of 500 sacks Of salt, and a
! lot Of groceries and merchandise. She will
proceed to Newburg and then return and load
for the South
/ (EF At Cincinnati on Monday, all the large
boats were dropping down from their summer
quarters, preparing for the winters business.
Freights had not declined, and still continue
to
s. kogts-Pound freight, sc per hundred; Whisky
.Tashrite- Pound freight 81 IS per hundred, Wits
Ky and Alcohol, 20 SO per Dbl.
Mem OrfeanS--Pound freight 81 per hundred.
whisky 50; Pork and Beef 50 - per bbi; Flour So
KEYSTONE SUNK.-The Jefferson City and
Glasgow packet Keystone, struck rock and
sunk, on Thursday morning at O'Clock. fifty
or sixty miles above the former place. The
Australia, bound down, found her living close
to the shore, in straight and secure position.
with her main deck clear of the water. She
took off her passengers, two hundred in num-
Der, and landed them safely at Jefferson CITY.
The boat is not materially injured, and it was
thought she could be raised without the as
sistance Of a bell boat.
~ The Ohio so long detained at the
mouth of Pigeon creek by low water, steam
cd up yesterday and came to Howard &
Browns wharf-boat, where she is loading for
New Orleans.
o. The officers of the Niagara passed
down on Monday. She will be up tomorrow
for Louisville. Il
~ The officers Of the steamer Nelson re-
port the Wabash and Cumberland rivers run
1ing out rapidly and rising.
OF On the last downward trip of the Me-
ropolitan down tie Mississippi, her barge
struck one Of the piers Of the Rock Island
5rdge, one man was knocked overheard and
irowned. Another was thrown into the hold
If the barge and had his back broken; it is
supposed he will not recover.
" The large quantities of freight stored
n the city awaiting shipment, are being trans
erred to the wharf boats The New Orleans ;
jackets will find Evansville this season one
If their best points. Heretofore, our commits ,
ion merchants have completed the cargoes Of !
he large Louisville boats, and we shall no +
.oubt continue to do so.
0G~ Once more the wharf boats float in z
afety on their native element, much to the ?
elief Of their owners, who have been idle for
0 many months.
0~F The Eaves and Bridges will be here
oday for Green River, the Diamond for Louis !
lille and several of the first class boats for
lew Orleans. The low pressure Southerner
) the first packet for st. Louis, and will be
ere tomorrow morning. The Robert j. S
Yard will be down for New Orleans next
unday. :
SUNK.-The steamer Fairfield, loaded with j.
otton from the Tombigbee, struck a snag on a
ne 18th, near Mobile. She was run on a
ar where she sunk. The damage is about NJ
l 800.
FIRST Boat FOR New ORLEANs.-The
Gamer Ohio, CAPT, BRICKELT, that has made
er home with us all summer, and has been
ut in complete condition by our mechanics,
advertised for New Orleans on Saturday,
apt. Brickell is worthy of the patronage of
II citizens for his own merits, but he and his
'at have been 50 long with us that they have
lie peculiar claims Of "old residents" upon So
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