The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-06-22
River Items.

sRIvALs AND DEpARTuREs-FKoM s s'rIack Mox
DAY TILL o'cL0cg TUESDAY. s
Prairie Rose, Cincinnati To So. Loui-.
Charley Bowen, Cairo 20 Evansville
Southerner, Memphis 20 Louisville. .... 4
J. b. Ford, 81. Louis to Cincinnati.
}. n. Done, Cairo to Evansville.
Moses Mcclellan, Louisville to Memphis.
Charley Bowen. Evansville 10 Cairo.
Scioto, Louisville to Henderson. ID - -
The river at this point is rising. Business
on the wharf Father dull. With but few
freights. Weather warm aud clear.
The TraIvr arrived from Pond river, yes
terday hurnihr, " ith = ia'oJ Lad. She left
again in the evening.
- The Bowen irii tor Game, Yesterday, with
a first rate load. za,f conc. gel.
The J. ~. Dune arrived yesterday niorn
ing from Cairo She viii las up for u few
days. .i.fslg .-lal.4 Sd '.I
Yesterday Ne accosieti one ut our princ-
pal commission merchants, on Water street, !
and inquired of him to- The prospects of
business on the riyer, &c. He informed u.s.
that " thingsat present ionk d----nldall = 4
There Is considerable talk among business
men about town Of starting II packet TO run
lie tween Evansville aud Cannelion.
TheTkaie Sarchet is due from the WI.
bash y = ~ 81
The Silver Star, Capt. Gus. Fowler, leaves
to-day at noon for Paaucah. Messrs- Abi-
souchet, Glenn, and MilIiken are the clerks,
aud are each very clever gentlemen and at
tentiye to their duties. ~ Is
The Union, Greenville, and Gillum are
all due to-day from Green river.
The Wabash is falling 81
The following IS from tho st. Lonis Re
publican OF Saturday:
The river continues to rise steadily at the
rate Of IL inches in "a hours. II had, OF
dark, last evening, risen in all 80 inches;
and the Mississippi is falling at Keoklk, sta
tionary at Dubuque. with &c feet on the bar,
and rising at st. Paul.
The Illinois river Is rising slowly from
Lasalle down. The Missouri is also rising
from Sioux City TO the mouth. The river
from Sioux City down is in an excellent
stage.
A very large amount OF rain fell on Sat
urday night. Yesterday the weather was
clear, but unpleasantly warm and close.
= Mr.. Harry Riley, second engineer OF the
f, Wenona, on her downward trip, ON the
night of the 9Th inst, accidentally slipped
off the guards into the river and was
drowned at Henderson Island.
A feet of tow-boats left Pittsburgh, on
Friday, with tows Of 10000 bushels of
coal --1
Mayor Weaver, of Pittsburgh, in behalf
OF the city and the underwriters, offers a
reward of $4,000 for the detection and con-
viction of the supposed incendiaries who
fred the steamer Henry Graf, on the 7th
of May, and the steamer Endeavor on the
18th of June. ....F
We understand that the steamer Ante
lope, now lying at New Albany, is to be
sold at Sherifs sale at that place on Thurs
day next. She is appraised at 81 700.
The Kentucky will be at the wharf this
evening from Memphis bound to Louisville.
She is in charge of the veteran Steamboat
man, Capt. Lamb, with Ed. Halliday in the
Office. Passengers on this boat will be well
attended TO. Mr.. John Fl. Scott is the
gentlemanly and attentive mail agent on
the Kentucky.
The rev Louisville and Evansville pack
!. ct, Oakland, in charge of Capt. Smorzka,
aud Mack Huston, will be down this even
ing.
The principal article of freight brought
out of Green River ut present is tobacco, in
tended for shipment East by the E. & q.
r. r..
The Highhyer, for ST. Louis, will be down
} to- day Capt. Tou1 Wright commander,
and Mr.. Armstrong oficistes in the clerk S
office.
The Southerner passed up on Monday
night from Memphis, with a fair trip.
Our regular telegraphic dispatches show
the state OF the water at points above.
. The enormous SUM OF : 200 was demand
ell and paid tor the bar on the new Madison
: packet now in course of Instruction.. She
: is, we learn, IA be named the Reindeer. ",
e think the purchaser OF the bar will retro
. grade with equal velocity to the proper III
depreciation Of the name OF the boat.
u IL is likely the Memphis and New 0rlean
d Packet Company will have opposition In
d ring the coming season. Several OF the o IN
q ers of the largest boats in the trade hsy,
signihed their intention to run their boat
, = IN that trade the coming fall. Capt. Spott
J. will run the Eclipse, for one, and it is sal,
u that the Railroad Line steamers wiliarrang
r. II so as TO take cotton, one of them leayin
: every day. "a -e
y We learn that the Grapeshot, bound fror
he Cincinnati to Fort Smith, struck a snag
ri few miles below Van Buren,, on Saturda
last and sunk. The boat aud cargo Wi
prove total loss. The Grapeshot was
new boat, running in the Cincinnati an
Fort Smith trade, and was heavily loade
ct from the latter port She was owned an
G. commanded by Capt. Ed. Carter. The DO.
and good portion OF her cargo are insure,
: but for what amount We have not v,
Is learned. 2f4ti "a .1't
es The Imperial and Capitol arrived at Men
r. phis from New Orleans on u race A lar.
amount of money WAS bet on the trial
speed. The Imperial arrived one hour b
ie, fore the Capitol. She reports leaving Ne
IS Orleans twenty minutes behind the Capit'
es and passing her underway: The Imperi
:, lost four hours, owing to disarrangeme
!, : 1 of her doctor Va Her time from New {
'm leans to Memphis was two days, twenty-t'
IA hours, and forty five minutes.
el- The Capitol reports having transacted b
ar usual way business, having made forty-t'
landings, and denies being passed unt
" way by the Imperial. She also claims
jm have lost one hour.