The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-10-06


Arsonsut, Pittsburg
Aida, Cannelton Prairie Rose.St Louis
sciOto, Louisville Aurora, New Orleans
Argonaut. 81 Louis
Yesterday was the first Of the "Indisn
Summer" and was, truly, delightful day.
The river continues to recede at this point,
and freights are unusually brisk at good fig
ures. We quote the following as the cur
rent rates:
To New OrIeans.-Apples, 4ocS Dbl; Tobacco, So
y hid; Flour, soc . Dbl; pound freighs, SOC D
Pound Frsights, 2Oc . 100 lbs. To Cincinna =
Pound tights (heavy), lSc y 100 LIS; shipstuf
and wheat, y sack, l5c.
The pioneer passenger packet j. II. Done,
one of the best on the river, takes her de-
parture for Cairo direct this day at IL
o'clock, from the foot of Main street. She
is perfect in all her appointments and outfit,
and passengers could not secure better
boat or travel with more courteous, attentive
officers chan Capt. Lew Davis and the List
brothers. Shippers will find ID to their adj
vantage 10 ship their freight on the Done,
as there will be no detention in re-shipment.
She connects at Cairo with the regular New
Orleans boats, therefore she is the craft to
do business with.
/. The Kate French takes her leave for Lou
isville this morning. She is superb pas
senger steamer, and those wishing a quick
aud safe trip, should not tail to get aboard.
Capt. Cahrey is in command, with Mr..
Howe in the Office.
The Aida 10 the regular packet for Can
melton this day. She is always up to time,
and is one Of those boats which can be de-
pended on.
The Prairie Rose went down yesterday
morning She had big load of freight, and
her cabin was full of people.
The Maid Of the Nistis the regular packet
command.
steamer Bracelet, is at present in the city,
attending the fair. He looks as gay as
ever.
Capt. MeGilPs new steamer atlantic, for
the Louisville and New Orleans trade is fast
approaching completion, and will soon be
all ready for the campaign. John S Wool
folk, of the Mcclellan. and Dick Ferguson,
of Golconds, Ills, are to be the clerks.
Ii is said that arrangements have
been perfected for the building OF marine
ways at Cairo. This will prove great
convenience 20 bostmen, and cannot fail Ia
become remnnerative to the proprietc.s.
The Mobile Tribune of the oath ult., says:
Negro laborers ARE now in great demand
in the city. In fact laborers of all kinds
are needed. We learn that deck hands on
the river are getting $50 to $40 per mouth.
The PortmOath has been chartered to run
between Kansas City and st. Joseph, in
connection with the Hannibal and st. Joseph
Railroad.
Mr.. n. johnson, formerly clerk of the
steamer Tesspest, has retired from the river,
and opened coal Office.
At New Orleans the crusade against free
negroes continues. large number have
been arrested and warned TO leave the State,
those who are residents are allowed sixty
days, and those just arrived only five days.
Levee laborers' wages have advanced to
% SO and 81 90 per day. The Yicksburg
packets are offering to 6remen and deck
hands SIS per month.
Among the passengers of the Inflated
a steamer Irene, which sunk in the Arkansas
river few days since, was an invalid lady,
named Lackey, with her two children, one
girl aged l6 years, whose neck was dislo-
Gated by the fall of bale of cotton, and a
son some years younger, who escaped inju-
~. The lady herself was injured about the
chest and arms by the falling timbers. She
reached Napoleon after the catastrophe,
when all sha pOssessed-fOur dollars-was
taken from her by some inhuman wretch
She laid for four days on the wharf boat,
aud applied i'm vain to the officers OF several
STEAMBOATS, for passage TO st. Louis. The
Steamer Edrard j. Gay, stopped at Napo-
,.eOn last Monday, and the poor woman was
generously taken on board, comfortably pro-
.vided for and purse Of $40 raised among
Ae passengers for her relief. Mrs. Lackey,
however, sank gradually, overpowered with
grief at the loss of her daughter, and with
her own physical sufferings, and died on
Friday night. She resided in Cedar county
Missouri.
We learn that the Nary Cook sunk al
the foot of RaccOon island, q miles below
POmerOy, Sunday night at O'Clock, -tht
water being three feet over her decks
She was bound from Madison for Pittsburg
two-thrds sF-eded-principally with fouI
from Madison nd Lswrenceburg. She had
recently been purchased by Captain Hugh
Campbell and others, in Cincinnati, at Mar
shars sale, and had just bean locked anG
thoroughly repaired at Madison. She wa,
ia her third season, we believe, and probably
worth $1,000 or $4,000.
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