The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-08-18

BOATS LEAVING TODAY


.... The Weather is growing very warm
again. The mercury stood at go in the
shade yesterday. We shall need some more
rain SOON.
1.-THE River at this point is still nearly
at the same level that it has mainta for
some time past. At Pittsburg and Cincin-
natl it continues to decline. Our latest des-
patches report feet inches in the channel
at the former place. At Louisville it has al
so commenced falling; there being now but
4 feet 5 inches in the Canal. Thence to
Cairo there are feet on the worst bars,
Cumberland being the shallowest point.
49,. The "Louisville" Gray Eagle is the
regular mail and passenger packet for that
point at o'clock this evening. For freight
or passage apply on board or to John B.
Hall, at No. 2 Water street.
......T The elegant new passenger packet
L. G. Ferry, Capt Ham Smith, is the regu-
lar packet for Louisville and intermediate
points this afternoon. She is a nice boat,
and her gentlemanly officers render her de
serving ola liberal patronage.
49,. The Charley Booen, the pioneer of
the Evansville and Cairo trade, and one of
the staunchest and most reliable boats ahoat,
is the regular packet for Cairo, leaving at
noon to-day.
The Bowen is decidedly the favorite Of
passengers and shippers. She is altogether
the fastest boat of her class, and punctual
as a clock in her movements. Capt. II. T.
Dexter, and clerks W. Markell and VIM.
Bentley, are most gentlemanly men, and all
her other officers are capable and experien-
ced- She is the acknowledged champion of
the short packets.
49,. For Henderson 10 6av Tc, ID II
White.
...... The Kanaaoha Valley was here last
night, on her first trip in this trade. She
will hereafter run regularly as a Wednesday
and Friday packet between this port and
Louisville.
...... The st. Cloud passed down yester-
day with two well-laden barges in tow. She
did not stop.
THE Cincinnati Enquirer says:
The Jacob Strader, the monster of the
Western waters, is undergoing several very
important alterations preparatory for the fall
trade. The low-pressure boilers are being
removed, to give place TO five high pressure
boilers sixty-twO inchos in diameter and
twenty eight feet long, each boiler having
five hues. The chimneys are being moved,
a portion of her stern is to be cut of, and
better vessel than she ever was before She
is to use her low pressure engines. but will
be lightened at least seventy-five tons by
the substitution of high-pressure boilers.
The Telegraph is also undergoing a general
overhauling, but no material alterations.
.--.- The st. Louis Republicans Cairo
correspondence has the following The last
arrival from below reports the lower river
gradually getting in worse condition, with
81 feet at Greenviile, 8 feet at Helena, and
u feet at Island "a, with a stick. The
Great Western was hard aground at Helena
when the SkyLqrh met her. and the Cboct4lc
was still stuck at Island "a. She cannot
get off or get over the bars below, without
Tightening considerably.
The W. Il. EaUeS, which left here yester-
day for Mount Vernon, got no further than
Caledonia, where she sunk probably from a
leak. The water is up to her hurricane
deck on one side, and she has nearly turned
over,
There is. still plenty of freight here for
shipment South. Given, Haynes & Co. have
$500 bbls of -four, 2, 800 sacks of corn, &c,
80 hhds tobacco, and lot of miscellaneous
freight !; Graham & Co. have about GOO tons
--'"In descending the river on her last
trip, the steamer Rescue, when below
CAnPtci SlIuCh sLd9, TShlHS HeF bottom
for 80 feet, and sinking her Immediately
She now lies across the channel, her stern in
. feet and her bow in Is inches water. Her
machinery will be saved, otherwise she will
be total loss She had no freight aboard
at the time she struck.
-.....As the tow-boat Red For was coming
up the river on Tuesday with a number of
flatboats, the fats struck a sunken boat
when opposite Snyder's Mil, n short distance
above Madison, aud two were sunk Gin.
Gdz.