The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-01-07
RIVER ITBNIS-
STEAMBOAT REGISTER.

STEAMBOAT REGISTER.
Swallow, Nashville Glendale, Memphis
Commercial Pittsburg Silver Moon, Cincinnati
Melrose, Cincinnati; Storm, Memphis;
Grey Eagle. Louisville; Monarch, Cincinnati.
Swallow, Memphis; GieI dale Cincinnati
Commercial, Memphis; Silver Moon, Memphis !;
Lue Eaves Green river Grey Eagle, Louisville
Charley Bowen, Cairo: Monarch, Now Orleans.
1.-The Weather, Saturday, was cloudy
and cold. Large numbers of workmen
were engaged during the entire day in
taking ice from the Canal. The ice aver
aged about inches in thickness. The Riv-
er declined slowly during the dag.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 5.-River fallen Z
inches; nowI2 feet in the channel. Weather
cloudy. Mercury go.
PIrTsBURG, Jan. 8, M-River six feet ten
inches by the pier mark, and rising
Weather clear and cold.
1.-THE Dunbar will leave to-day for
Paducah at the usual hour-1 o'clock. She
offers the only as we'll as the best OPP
portunity for passengers going South, to-
day.
1.-THE "Little " Grey Eagle, Capt
Donnelly, is the regular Louisville mail
packet to-day at noon. Her accommoda-
lions are excellent.
1.-THE Matte Cook will depart for
Green River this evening at her usual hOnr.
Capt. Liter and Clerks Travis and Miller
will be found at their respective posts to
look after the safety and comfort of passen-
gers.
1.-THE wharf boat is nearer out of water
than it has been any time since it sunk
If the River falls about a foot lower, the
holes in the hull underneath the outriggers
can be plugged, and the boat easily raised.
1.-The Charley Bowen left in the even
ing with light trip. Business with the
packets seems to be dull in the extreme.
1--WE learn that the towboat Antelope,
on her down trip with tow Of coal, broke
q shaft some twenty miles above Vicksburg
That compelled her to leave the coal boats,
and she proceeded to New Orleans on one
wheel to repair and reft.
IA pair of fatboats laden with coal
from Hickman, belonging TO Murphy & Co..
we believe, grounded in the canal yesterday.
They were drawing rather too much water,
and they may have to be ghtened.-Lou.
CoU.
$500 A private letter from Vincennes
states that the Wabash is falling, and that
but little produce has gone out of that stream
this season for the South. The reason that
SO few shipments have been made is from
the fact that orders from the South have
been countermanded; and, again, prices are
so fuctuating in the South there is no GER
tainty but that the price will be lower by
the time the article arrives at its destination
than when it started.-N 4. Ledger.
1.-The port of st. Louis, with its Abo-
itiOnism and icy chains combined, has its
trade and commerce pretty etfectually
blocked. Some seven miles above Alton
there is a gorge in the Mississippi. The
Missouri is gorged between st. Charles and
tue mouth. The Illinois is covered with an
nnbroken sheet of ice from the mouth to
the source. All the upper tributaries are
firmly bridged for the Winter.-Lou. CoHr.
THE Captains at Cairo have adopted
a resolution that the boats at that port shall
load in turn the first come the first served.
The ARGYLE.-We have heretofore con-
tradcted the rumor that Capt. Ebert had
been ordered to leave New Orleans with his
boat on the supposition that he was " Lin
coin voter The Argyle, in her turn, will
load for New Orleans again, and we have
no doubt that he will be well received there
AS we have the best assurance that he is a
national man, and lifelong Democrat.
Lon COltr