The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-08-24


Dunbar, Cairo.
The Weather yesterday was very
warm. We are needing some more rain.
1.-The RiUer up above was reported at
stand, at noon yesterday, with feet inch
es in the channel at Pittsburg, and 8 feet
inches at Cincinnati. At Louisville it was
still declining with feet inches in the
Canal. At this point it is again stationary.
1.-The Dunbar is the only regular boat
leaving to-day. She leaves at IL o'clock
for Cairo, and will take all the Cairo and
New Orleans freight she can get. Jno. B.
Hall is her agent.
1.-THE "bully" Charley BoweH goes on
a Temperance excursion, up Green river,
at o'clock this morning, and returns in
time to take a delegation OF the Lincoln
Wide-Awakes and other Republican citi-
zens, to Newburg, at o'cluck this evening,
to attend political demonstration at that
place. She will have "big' day.
1.-The Grey Eagle, last night, took up
much the heaviest trip she has had this sea-
SON. She had, besides about 900 sacks of
corn, over 200 bags of wheat and rye,
near 5000 watermolons, and a very large
amount of miscellaneous freight.
1.-The Mariner, Capt. J. B. Archer, for
Cairo and Memphis, will be here to-day, and
will be wanting freight for all points down
the river Capt. P. G. ORiley will receive
for her at the wharf boat. The Mariner left
Louisville yesterday with IS head of horses
and mules, abou1275 tons offreight, and over
sixty passengers, among whom, we learn,
were Miss NJ. /. West and Miss |. Stewart,
agents OF the American Woman's Associa-
ton of New York, a society having for its
object the promotion of education among
destitute females.
1.-The Cincinnati Commercial says that
out of the entire fleet of boats navigating
the Ohio, three-fourths are at present laid
up for want of business
THE EdH,oaia, reported sunk at Rush
Island Bend, some days since, is being
wrecked by bell boat
The Memphis Avalanche says that
Capt. Silver, of the suuken Choctaw, was
unable to procure the assistance of the bell
boat at that place, in consequence of the
absence of the commander. A submarine
has gone to the aid of the Choct1tc from
st. Louis, but it is feared that but very little
can be done toward raising her. The days
of the "Big Indian" are numbered.
Capt Pres. Lodwicks new boat
Prince Of Wales, now building at Cincin-
natl, is to ply as a regular packet between
Cairo and New Orleans, in connection with
the ]. c. Railroad. She will be ready in a
short time.
Capt. J. W. Anawalt the purchaser
of the notorious Bay City, proposes running
her between Louisville and Pittsburg this
fall. The Louisville Courier says the boat
was sold cheap-for barely the worth of the
engines-and her present owner contem-
plates building new boat.
The PocakontaS, Capt. Miuear says the
Courier, has abandoned all other enterprises
and entered regularly into the Louisville,
Madison, and Carrollton trade.
The Trio, having abandoned the Ken
lucky river, was advertised to Leave Louis
vile yesterday for Memphis and White
river.
The De Soto, Capt. H. H. Boards fine new
boat, for Red river. is to be launched on
Saturday next from the New Albany ship
yard.
..... Messrs. Joseph Swager and Reuben
Dawson, the Local Inspectors for the Lou
isville district, have rem lered their official
report of the late collision between the
steamers Hibberd and Chancellor, by which
the former was sunk. The inspectors re-
mark in their report that the case was a very
singular one, differing very materially from
any other collision case ever examined by
them. They give as their decision, that
from the unparalleled and unique combina-
ton of circumstances which preceded, and
was in their opinion, mainly the cause of
the collision, in justice no penalty should
attach to the pilots OF either boat, but the
disaster should be classed among the una
voidable accidents and dangers of the riv-
en- The report is quite lengthy, giving the
particulars of the accident with great mi
nuteness, and the decision is doubtless the
most Just and equitable which could have
been rendered.
1.-The project of opening a navigablo
route around the great raft in Red river is
near completion. The Upper Red River
Low Water Navigation Company, who
commenced operations on their route on the
18th of June last (the same route that was
explored bv Captains Albin and Boisseau in
May last) have it more than half completed.
Indeed, they have little else now to do but
to make the excavation Of the canal at the
head of the route, eight miles above the
raft, and they have about oue-ffth of the
canal cut already. They have ffty-:hree
hands on the works, which force will COM
plete the entire job by the 10th of Sep
TENDER. This route will afford as much
water for boajs as Red Bayou and the lakes
below-which is proved by the waterlipe of
the rise which closed the navigation in May
as in this route there were seven feet
clear of distinctions, while on the falls in
Red Bayou, and in the lakes below, the
same rise only gave FIVE feet, showing an
excees in fav1r of the new rOutp of two