The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-12-07
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Fanny BulIitt L,vills At Mcclellan, Memphis
Pacific, do Scioto, Louisville
...." Yesterday was the coolest day of the
SEASON, and business on the levee was al
most entirely suspended. The arrivals and
departures were few. owing to the state of
the weather Last night was very foggy,
and it is probable that boats were. COM
PEELED to lay up. There is still considera-
BILE freight here, and prices are about the
same. The Wabash is rising at Vipcennes.
With fair offering, we quote the following
as the ruling rates at which freight isship-
ped:
To New Orleans-Apples, SOC p Dbl; Tobacco, IS
v hid Flour, 45c . Dbl; pound freights, Csc q
100 lbs Eggs and Whisky 81 90 q Dbl. To st. Louis
Pound Freights, 2Oc o 100 lbs To Cincinnati
Pound freights lheavy), l5c % 100 lbs; shipstufs
and wheat, D sack, I5c.
-..-.-Phe Siloer Star will doubtless be on
hand this morning, prepared to receive
freight and passengers for Paducah and way
places. She leaves punctually at IL o'clock,
and passengers will find our clever friend
Gus. Dusouchet at the desk, prepared to en-
terrain them in his kind and truly hospita-
BILE manner.
.:.-.. The famous r. j. Ward was adver-
tised to leave Louisville yesterday. If not
detained by the fog last night, she will be
here to to-day. She is one of the best boats
in the line, and comes nearer doing the fair
thing by Evansville than any boat in the
trade.
...,.Captain Billiards. new boat, Gray
EaoLe. building for the Henderson trade, is
progressing rapidly toward completion. She
will be ready to take her place il the trade
about the 1st of January. She will be by
far the finest boat that has ever been in the
trade.
The Mary Cook will be along some
time to-day or tomorrow, bound from Pitts
burg to Wabash river.
1.-The ". Y. 'Gal,sn made her appear
ance at cur landing yesterday morning
She looks quite natural, but her command
er is in Just about the same state of mind as
the editor of the Enquirer.
1.-THE favorite packet McLeIta,t passed
down yesterday afternoon. She had large
number of passengers and considerable
freight.
1.-The famous Pacific, from New Or
leans. passed up yesterday morning with
rather slim trip.
.,....The GreengiLGe is due from Green
river and will probably be along during
the day.
...-- There is new line to be formed for
the Memphis and Arkansas river trade, to
consist of the Jenny WhippGe, Lake City,
and NortHerRer The URdne is also talked
of for the same trade.
$3.50 The L. ". Kellogg is on her way
down from Pittsburg, With eight barges of
coal.
IA deck-hand on the Kate French was
drowned at Portland, on Saturday evening.
We did not learn his name. lie was n res
ident of Madison.
...-A new line of packets have been
formed to run between Nashville and Gin
cinnati. Thew are as follows Sam. Kirk
man, Ligltfoot, Wenona, and Lebanon.
......The Chancellor, over due, had not
arrived at late hour last night.
......The New Orleans Crescent says Capt.
Leathers is going to Cincinnati to get a
new boat built to take the place of the
Ndtchez
...... Yesterday was bad day for 'steal-
ing;n therefore our river column is short.
Our VIneennes Correspondence.
VINcENNEs, Dec. 6, 10 A.. N.
Journal REPORTER Wabash river has
rsea one foot inches in the past "a
hours No arrivals. Weather clear and
cold. W. II.
Our Special River Dispatches.
CINClNNATI, Dec 6, H-River has risen 4
feet IL inches in the last "a hours. Now
81 feet in the channel. Weather wet
Rained all the m orning.
LOUISVILLE, Dec. 6, PM-River rising rap
idly, and feet in the channel; feet Oh
the falls. Stormy all day. Mercury at noon
25. Snow falling now with mercury al
l6 deg. @
PrrTsBuRG, Dec 6, M-River IL feet by
the pier, at a stand, but further rise may
be expected.
PITTsBURG, Dec. 6, M-River II feet by
the pier mark, and rising rapidly. Weather
cloudy and damp, as it has been raining al
the morning.