The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-03-29

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BY STEAMBOAT REGISTER.
!azel Deli; Pitts, Queen Of the West. N. o.,
lRrengo, Pittsburgs Dunbar, Padueah.
TOT. v. tiillum, Livermore Lue Eaves s. Carrolton,
au Emerald, New Orleans.
pc DEPARTED.
H5azel Dell; Nashville, Queen Of the West. Cin-'
Haarengo, St. Louis, Dunbar, Pafucah,
beV v. Gillum, Livermore, Lue Eaves S. Carrolton,
Emerald, Cincinnati.
al 1900 The Heather, yesterday, was warm
intnd pleasant. Business was DULL
.;...........F Feights are getting scarce, COM
~ pared TO what they have been.
ye 1.-The Dunbar arrived in the morning
and departed at her usual hour. Her gem
oklemanly clerk furnished us with mani
fest. Among the osher attractions of the
Dunbar is an excellent band of music that
she has on board, which "discourses sweet
: sounds " for the pleasure Of passengers.
......Capt. McClain of the Kate Sarehet
came down yesterday afternoon on the cars
/ He left his boat up the Wabash waiting for
! ia rise in order to come out. Dir. McClain
2 had the f6rethought to bring the journal
7,office fine fish--a regular Wabash salmon.
Many thanks.
77s'7.....s-.7he Grand Turk passed down last
night without stopping (sending out her
.yawl1. She had in tow two barges loaded
with railroad iron, and was loaded with it
herself. The iron is destined for Clarks-
: vile, Tenn.
...... The AIidG came down on Sunday
aevening with a full load of corn, &c. Just
latter passing through the drawbridge she
grounded, aud in her efforts to get off she
= swung on to some logs and stove a hole in
-fher hull and broke her wheel to some ex-
tent. She got off after some time and
reached her landing, leaking considerably.
o She was thoroughly repaired yesterday,
and left last evening for ports above.-T. IL.
Express, 27th.
~ ...... The Gilltm arrived with fine cargo
of pork, in the forenoon. Her cargo was
4 principally consigned to the house of Brown
& Altman.
.....-Our list of arrivals show the number
IA and names of steamers that touched at the
wharf yesterd ay.
# ..-... A lot of hay on the levee at Cairo
# took fire on the ed, caused by fire falling
from an Irishman's pipe, and 300 bales of
hay and $4,000 feet of pine lumber were des-
' t-oyed. The Arab fire company were
promptly on the spot, and worked for sew
eral hours, until every spark was out.
.....The Reliance at Cincinnati has been
for $4,000. She is to run in the
"a slrg trade. The Conelodgo has been
,caL edison to Mr.. G.. Puget for So, 450.
( writer referring to the vastness of
..ssissippi river, says: I" 1t extends 81
y miles from the frozen regions of the
j -.lorth to the sunny south, and with the Mis-
souri, river IS $500 miles in length. 1t
/ would reach from New York across the At
~ lantic ocean, or from France to Turkey and
= the Caspian Sea. Its average depth is fifty
4 feet and its width half mile. The floods
= are more than a month travelling from its
y source to its delta. The etrappers can ex-
e change the furs of animals caught by them
q on the Upper Mississippi for the tropical
fruits gathered on the banks below. The
total value of steamers afloat on the river
and its tributaries is more than $685. 900,
numbering 1900 boats, with more than
twice The steamboat tonnageo of England
4 1t drains an era of 100000 square miles,
and washes the shores OF twelve powerful
{ Statea In one single reservoir at Lake
Pepir, between Wisconsin and Minnesota,
q $50 miles from the sea, the navies of the
4 w0nd might safely ride at anchor.
i Canal Receipts.
Y FROM WORTHINGTON, PER EVANS
vIILE-250 bush corn, 821 bush wheat 81
bbls flour, lot potatoes, eggs and apples, SO
bales hay, Brown & Altman.
4 FROM PLAINVILLE, PER PRINoEss-
Li 1874 Iris flour, Brown & Altman; 4 hhds
tobacco, box sundries, Geo. Foster & Co. !;
10 brls flour, Wheeler & Riggs; 2 brls eggs,
Il l. & d. Holman.
FROM HOSMER, PER FLLMoRR.--2o,-
. 600 feet lumber, Robt Hawthorn.
I Receipts by River.
FROM PADUCAH, PER DUNBAR.-2s
4 beef hides, A. Gumberts; Ia dry hides, j.
+ H. Meghee; 25 dry hides, Geo. Foster Co.;
I 2 boxes, P. G. o'Rilcy & Co; 1874 dry hides,
i bdl, / hid, bbl, J. H. Meghee.
FROM GREEN RIVER, PER LUE caves.
GOT bbls. shoulders, 40 ties. hams, 80 casks
hams, Brown & Altman.
i FROM GREEN RIVER, PER W. V. GIL
. LUM.-Il3 bbls. shoulders, l3 bbls. beef,
4 % bbls prime lard, % bbls. grease, III
4 Les prime lard, SO les. grease, % casks OF
Nams, Brown & Aikman.