The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-03-15


Orb. Pittsburg, Moses Mcclellan, Lou,
Montgomery, Lou, Dacotah, Memphis,
Or. Kane, Memphis, South America Pitts,
Lue Eaves, S. Carrolton, Dunbar, Paducah,
Kate Sarchet, Wabash, Diana, New Orleans,
Republic, Lou, Lancaster, Lou.
DEPARTED
Orb, Memphis Mcclellan, Memphis,
Montgomery, n. o., Dacotah, Pittsburg,
Dr. name, Pitts, South America, N o.,
Dunbar, Paducah Diana, Lou,
Lue Raves, 5. Carrolton, b. Green, Is. Green,
Lancaster, ST. Louis, Republic, N o.
The Weather, yesterday, was clear and
warm. Business was only moderately brisk.
The river was rising slowly and some of our
commission men were forced to move their
freight up the bank.
49,. Freights seem about as plenty as
ever, the Montgomery and Republic not
making any perceptible diminution in the
amount. The rates are as we last quoted
them, with the exception of tobacco, which
has advanced to S. so per hid and eggs
to 81 per bbl.
1900 The Dunbar departed yesterday
with a fair trip..-....The Lue EdUes had
to refuse freight, and left in the afternoon
with all she could carry. 1.-The Lancaster
passed down in the afternoon. Her officers
deposited money sufficient to meet the case
of damages done the FTeestone, and the trial
was postponed one week. The Lancaster
had the best passenger trip we have seen
this season.
The Nelo Ullc5e Sam will be down to-day.
1t is to be hoped that she will come down
light, in order that she may relieve us of
some of the freight that now encumbers the
landing.
...... Mr.. J. W. Forsee, Clerk of the Di-
ana, furnished us with memoranda and
manifest which we publish to-day. The
Diana left for Louisville about four o'clock
yesterday.
$500. The Montgomery took ON here, sec
bbls pork, 300 bags bran, % casks bacon,
so ties. hams, 10 bbls eggs, 600 packages
coOperage, J. S. Mitchell & Co.. % hhds
tobacco, 8 casks meat, 127 bags corn,
hhds Hogs heads, G. w. Foster & Co.; 400
kegs lard, 6 hhds tobacco, 80 bbls pork and
lard, 60 csks bacon, Brown & Altman
She left about noon, loaded to the guards.
1.-The Republic also lay at the landing
some time. She received the following
freight so bbls whisky, 225 bbls flour 339
bbls pork, 800 sacks corn, 1. A. Crane &
Co.. $50 bales hay, Brown & Altman ; 900
sacks corn, E. S. Babcock GOO sacks corn,
P. G. O'Riley & Co.
MEMORANDA OF STEAMER DIANA-Left
New Orleans March Sth, 6 O'clock P NJ
Boats in port for Louisville Woodford;
first night out met Autocrdt on coast, AHaa-
tic at Red River cut off, John Rane at
Vicksburg, Fanny RulIit at Bolivar Land
ing, E. II Fdrchiid below Helena kentucky
at Memphis, PeytonG at Cotton Wood, Ne
LelLdla at Shawneetown.
..'..' Yesterday the body of a dead man
was discovered on p. G. O'Riley's wharf boat,
which gave unmistakable evidence of having
lain in the boat for some time Decomposi-
tion had already set in. 1t is supposed that
the man was sick and crawled on top Of
some hay in the rear end of the boat to sleep,
and that he rolled off the hay and was killed
by the fall. Some think his neck was
broken. An inquest was had in the even
ing, but we did not learn what the verdict
of the jury was. t..t
THE Vicksburgh Wing says that an
old land mark between that port and Mem
phis is soon to be obliterated. Gaines
Landing it seems, is to be no more, the
early completion of the railroad from Uniss
Point six miles above the landing, to
Shreveport, having depopulated the settle
ment i'll favor of the latter point. Gen.
Richard Gaines, the venerable proprietor of
the place, is already making preparations
for turning the same into n cotton field.
... The Mississippi river, above the
mouth of the Missouri, averages 1900 feet
inwidth. From there to the moath of the
Ohio it averages 5000 feet from the Ar
kansas to Red river about 2,700 feet and
from Red river to the Gulf of Mexico the
average width is about 2,10O feet Yet
with this constant narrowing of the river,
the volume of water to be discharged is con-
stantly increasing. Hence, it is contended,
come those bayou which start out of the
river and lead away to the swamps and
down in various directions to the Gulf.
The Napoleon Planter of the Sd
says:
On yesterday morning our citizens were
considerably excited and ineensed to learn
that some unknown scoundrels, on Thurs
day night were engaged in the diabolical
work of assisting the Mississippi river to
make a cutoff into the Arkansas above Ma
poleon. A party of gentlemen visited the
cutoff, and found that twenty-six holes had
been fired, causing the earth to be consider
bly, loosened throughout the entire space be-
tween the two rivers.
The river at Little Rock on the Sd
was falling slowly, with nine feet water in
the channel.
Receipts ny River.
FROM WABASH RIVER.-PER KATE
SARcHET.-l5OO bbls pork, w. S. Wright &
Co., New Orleans; 11O8 SKIS wheat, Little 4
Erwins; IL Dbl eggs, P. G.. ORiley & Co
rs doz broOms, Preston Bros; SO doz
brooms Bement & Viele; 3 bbls eggs, I. A.
Crane & Co.
FROM New ORLEANS PER DIANA--l0O
SKIS coffee, 25 bxs oranges, 10 bbls turpen-
tine, Preston & Bro; 40 crates ware, Hol-
lingsworth & Bro; 1 tierce rice, George
Foster s. Co; 81 pkgs mdse, P. G. O'Riley
Receipts by Railroad.
MARCH 18th, 1890