The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-03-15
RIVER ITEMS

I'VE were indebted, yesterday, to Mr..
Bradley of the Grey Eagle for late New Or
leans papers. The Grey Eagle leaves Lou
isgille for New Orleans to-day and will be
at our levee tomorrow.
--....The Dunbar is the Paducah packet
to-day ut o'clock She carries the Z. S.
mail and makes all the landings of any
prominence between our city aud Paducah.
Capt. Fowler will be found in command
with Messrs. Dusouchet and Bunting in the
office. Davis Il Co... are the Dunbars
agents
THE Curlew will cave for the Wa
bash to-day. She is an excellent freight
boat and her officers are gentlemen who are
very attentive to business.
-..The Moses Mcclellan will be at the
landing to-day for Memphis, and the Louis
VILE for New Orleans. Both desire freight
PITTsBURGH, March IA, M.-River 9 feet
by the pier mark and at a stand. Weather
cloudy.
LOUISVILLE, March 14.-River stationary
with 9 feet inches in the Canal. Weather
cloudy with indications of snow. Mercury
$40
'.'.. The Louisville Courier of Wednesday
says:
The River was falling rather fast yester-
day with nine feet two inches water in the
canal, 10y the mark, in the evening. During
the previous twenty-four hours the water
had fallen FIVE inches at the wharf and
fifteen inches at Portland. The weather
was mild, with high wind prevailing all
day.
On the falls last evening there were fully
six feet steamboat water and seven feet two
inches in the pass. At Cincinnati, at noon
yesterday the river had fallen eleven
inches, and at Pittsburg, it was falling,
with ten and a half feet water in the chan
mel
1900 W e see statement to the effect that
the Jesse K Bell Is going up the Wabash to
hunt for a load. Also that the Commodore
Perry is up that stream on a similar Grand
We feel confident that Wabash friends
will give their freight to boats who run in
the trade regularly, in preferenc e to those
who come in when they can't get anything
to do anywhere else. A discrimination of
this kind is nothing more than fair and we
doubt not the Wabash shippers will put it
in practice.
THE Louisville Courier say that on
Monday evening last, merchant from
Mayfield, KY, named Meyer We'll, discharg-
ed pistol at a man named Little, the ball
striking the leg of the latter entering near
an artery. The wounded man is in a criti-
cal condition. The parties were on the
steamer Eugene at the time of the difficulty.
s..'.''The Melnotte is, we see, offered for
sale, cheap, at Cincinnati. She has just
made flying trip through from Nashville.
1.-The Louisvill Courier says just as
the A. J. Cotton was getting ready to start
on a trial trip on Wednesday last, beauti-
ful flag. the emblem of the State of Lonisi-
ana, was flung to the breeze from her jack
staff. 1t was a present to Capt Hooper
from his friends in New Orleans 1t is to
be hoped if Capt. Hooper carries a secession
flag flying from his jack-staff that his boat
may prove very Improbable. She certain
~ commenced her career under the wrong
flag.
The following items we clip from the n.
o. Crescent of the 9th inst:
We learn that the Cotton Plant has been
purchased by some planters on the Sun
flower river, for $3.50. She recently sunk
in the above river, in which condition she
now lies.
An agent Of the Southern Congress in
ST. Louis, chartered the steamer II. D.
Bacon to take a full cargo of provisions for
the use Of the army South. A portion of
the cargo is COO casks of bacon, 500 tier
ces lard, and the remainder of the six hun
dred tons is made up of -four and corn
The Bacon left for Alton on the Sd inst. to
get her load, and will take it up the Tea
nessee river to Florence, Ala.