The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-08-11

Grey Eagle, Louisville; L. G. Ferry, Louisville;
Charley Bowen, Cairo; Gen. White, Henderson.
1.-The Weather yesterday was clear
and warm, with considerable wind.
1.-THE RjUer opposite this point is still
at a stand. At Pittsburgh there are 54 feet
of water in the channel and falling. At
Cincinnati it is falling, with feet thence
to Louisville. At Louisville it is swelling,
with feet 4 inches in the Canal. On Scuf-
fetown there are 4 feet, and on Caseyville
feet.
"..-P Passengers for the South or West
will find the Charley Bowels at the wharf
She leaves for Cairo at II o'clock. Clerks
Markell and Bentley are polite and agreea-
BILE gentlemen.
1.-THE Louisville" Grey Eagle will
be here this evening, on her return from
Henderson, and leaves Immediately for
Louisville and all way landings. She is
the largest and most extensively furnished
of our regular packets, and passengers will
find her officers polite and attentive.
1.-The neat and swift new packet, l..
c. Ferry, will be in port this evening tor all
points up the river as far as Portland wharf.
Her clerks, Messrs. Austin and Gregg, are
very obliging gentlemen, and her passenger
arrangements are as complete as those of
any boat on the river.
1.-THE Gen. White offers the most con-
venient mode of conveyance between here
and Henderson. In the absence of the fer
ry-boat, she will be found ready to /" tote
teams and passengers " to the other side
of the "Jordan which rolls forDinSt"
the city.
Capt Hurds new st. Francis river
packet Vittsburg, a diminutive side-wheel
craft, passed yesterday on her way to the
South.
1.-THE Fanny Built, from New Orleans
to Louisville, passed up yesterday, flying
light.
1.-THE work of removing the railroad
iron from the sunken barge, brought here
some time since by the Pink VarbIe was
commenced yesterday by laborers, under
the direction of Capt. Scott, who has been
commissioned by the Insurance Companies
interested in the cargo, to raise her.
On her last trip the GREY E1gIe took
up from Henderson a part of the machinery
of the defunct steamer Delegate, which was
lying there, and had been purchased by par
ties at Louisville. In attempting to take
on board one of the boilers, which was
found half filed with mud, it slipped from
the staging and rolled into the river, where
it remains at present. She will take it up
on her next tri p.
1.-The Il. B. Tdney struck a snag at
Blacks Bluff, on the Alabama river, on the
3Oth ult., and will prove a total loss, though
the cargo will be saved in damaged con-
dition. The passengers were taken off by
the Eclipse, which was in sight.
At a meeting of the Steamboat Cap
tains' Benevolent Association, Mt Cincinnati
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chosen President, Capt. o. Williamson Sec
rotary, and Capt. W. G. Mann Treasurer.
...-.Labor on the Memphis wharf is hard
to get. The laborers there have struck for
higher wages. Heretofore they have labor
ed for twenty-five cents per hour, but on
Saturday last they demanded seventy five
cents per hour, which not being granted
they refused toWOrk.
1.-THE New Albany Ledger says that
Capt. Hamilton, who purchased the wreck
of the steamer s. p. Hi6berd, now sunk at
the mouth of Falling Run, has chartered
the PINK Vdrbie and three barges, and ex-
poets to raise the boat in few days. Oper-
atoms commenced Wednesday, and parties
are now actively engaged in the work.
1.-THE Cricket, a queer new propeller
of Lilliputian proportions, passed down
yesterday for New Orleans. Although quite
small and somewhat peculiarly constructed,
she is a very neat looking craft. She is
driven by two engines, not attached in the
usual manner by cranks to the end of the
propeller shaft, but connected by gearing
with its middle. In addition to the usual
steering apparatus, she has peculiar contri-
vance designed to aid the pilot in turning
the boat. 1t consists of an auxiliary pad
dle-wheel set at right angles to the length
of the hull, and between it and the propell-
ing wheel. 1t is turned by ''nigger" en-
CINE, such as is used for hosting The in
ventiou is q simple one, but must prove of
great utility in turning the boat, especially
in the narrow bayous where the Cricket is
designed to ply. The pilot designates to
the engineer which way to run the wheel,
and the boat is quickly carried where she is
wanted Capt. Whitworth, the commander
of the Cricket, is the originator Of this novel
arrangement.