The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-01-21
RIVER ITEMS.

STEAMBOAT REGISTER.
ARRIVED.
Charley Bowen, Cairo; Glendale, Memphis;
Silver Moon, Gin; Com. Perry, Nashville;
swallow, Cincinnati; Grey Fagle, Louisville.
DEPARTED.
Glendale, Cincinnati; Silver Moon, NIemph
Com. Perry, Pittsburg, swallow, Nashville
Charley Bowen, Cairo; Gtey Eagle, Louisville.
1.-The Weather Saturday was as pleas
ant as heart could wish. The blue birds
even made their appearance, and with their
cheerful chirpings induced us to believe that
spring was surely near at hand, Few days
of such delightful weather can be anticipat-
ed at this season of the year, and we expect
we will be called upon 70 endure disa-
greeable squall as an offset to the present
delightful days.
CINCINNATI, Jan. l9.-River rising rapid
IL. Weather clear.
1.-The Dunbar is the regular packet for
Paducah to-day. She leaves at her regular
hour l o'clock, Her accommodations are
equal to those of any boat on the river, and
in sociability and effectiveness to business
her officers are not excelled.
... The little Grey Eagle is the regular
mail boat for Louisville at y o'clock to-
day Capt Donnelly and Clerk Lusk will
be found at their respective posts to do the
agreeable.
-..... The big Grey Eagle has left the
Evansville aud Louisville trade and purposes
going into the Louisville and New Orleans
trade She was at Louisville loading for
New Orleans on Saturday. The big Grey
Eagle is an elegant boat, and the people from
here to Louisville will regret very much to
lose her out of the local trade. She will be
succeeded by the Bracelet, which boat came
down on Saturday.
1.-THE Louisville Courier says: The
B. NJ Runyan, at Nashville, Monday broke
loose and hoated some distance down the
river before she was stopped, slipping
between the piers of the railroad bridge
without touching. A narrow escape.
The Cumberland at Nashville is rising
fast from the effects of the late rises, with
an abundance of water on the Harpeth
shoals for all navigable purposes, and
coalboat tide coming from headquarters.
From the messenger of Adams Express,
we learn that there is tremendous freshet
in the Cumberland a perfect food of waters,
with forty-fve feet in the channel yesterday
morning by the pier mark, and the river
still rising. All the tributaries were much
swollen, and the freshet is one Of the most
sudden ever known. Fences and railroad
bridges have been swept away in all direc-
tiOns, and immense damage done
1.-THE Mississippi at St. Louis, on
Wednesday, was slowly swelling, with mild
weather The Meteor was the only arrival
from New Orleans. There were four and
half to five feet water in the channel, and
considerable floating ice.
...... The New Albany Ledger says that
the Samuel Orr, the new Wabash packet
left on Thursday morning for this city by
means of sweeps.
I'VE learn from the Memphis Ava
lanche that on Friday last, forty miles
above Napoleon, in the Arkansas, the Con-
way struck a snag and sunk in a few min
utes The Conway had been engaged in
wrecking the Frontier City, and had the
crew and all the freight of that boat on her,
and the Frontier City, when she sunk, had
on board the freight and crew of the Sewer.
There would seem to be a fatality in con-
nection with the Sewer. No lives were
lost.
The Conway was small stern wheel
boat, worth about SIS, 900, and uninsured
She was commanded by Capt. Robinson
and owned by Mr.. Thomas, living on the
Arkansas river.