The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-03-01
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-..."T The Weather yesterday was quite
pleasant and very warm for the season
of the year It was most too warm Tor
comfort. Business was moderately active
1.-The Dunbar IS the mail boat for Pa
ducah and way points this day at clock.
All way business will he promptly attended
TO by the officers of the Dunbar. She con
meets at Cairo with Tennessee and Cumber
laud river packets, and with the Tom Scott
for Cairo.
1.-The celebrated Wabash clipper Sam'l
Orr will depart for that stream this even
ing Shippers will please bear this in mind
and have their Wabash freight in readiness.
The Orr is new and substantial boat and
makes excellent tune.
1.-The Fanny Bnllitt was at the land
ing a good part of the day yesterday, re-
ceiving freight for New Orleans. She left
our city pretty well loaded.
Mr.. Aft Edwards, the clerk of the Uuion,
and a good fellow generally, arrived in the
city yesterday in advance of his boat, now
on her way out of the Wabash with big
load. She has $3.50 packages corn, oats,
pork, and lard, for Crane & Brown, and &c
packages pork and lard for P G. o Riley
Il Co. The Union on her way mp r'ade the
trip to Monteznma in little over 48 hours,
is about as fast craft as floats The Union
will leave for the Wabash on Saturday
evening. She Is under the command of
Capt. Rothrock, an experienced boatman,
with Mr.. Edwards in the Office
We learn from the engineer OF the
Bowen, who came mp on the Dunbar last
night, that the Bowen, when just above Cal
TO- blew out the cylinder head of her lar
board engine which will detain her until
Tuesday. She will be at the wharf Tues
day morning to receive freight for Cairo.
----.-The following items we find 10 the
Louisville papers OF Wednesday
As the steamer Bracelet was leaving the
wharf last evening, considerable exciteme ut
was created among the passengers, owing
10 the blowing out OF the mud valve. 1t
vas thought for time that she had ex-
ploded a boiler, and the passengers rushed
to the shore. They were all quieted, how
ever, and returned to the boat
By special dispatch from Memphis yester-
day, we learn that the shipment Of cotton
up the Ohio river to Northern ports had
suddenly ceased. That cuts off very sum
marily the expected receipts of fleet OF
Ooats
As Captain Stewart of the New Uncle
Sam, was handling his pistol 10 the saloon
of the boat at Memphis on Friday, it acct
dentally went off. The bullet inflicted a
painful but not severe, flesh wound on Al
bert Beer, newspaper dealer, who stood
near.
Yesterday morning the tug boat Ad-
vance came down from Pittsburg and wa,
hurried over the FAB on her way to New
Orleans, with brao of barges in tow, all
laden with Buffers. We learn that the Off
GERS of the boat are to receive extra pay il
they reach New Orleans before the 4th OF
March, so as to anticipate the Southern tar
jtf. The cargo consists of some 10, 000
boxes of bitters. That, at so cents per bot
tile, Is $780, quite an Investment OF
drugs.
Capt. Jacobs IS building, at j. 5. Pringle':
ward, Brow nsville, "a steam tow boat. She
Is 30 feet long on deck, . feet beam, feet
depth Of hold, and will have three 3G inch
boilers % feet long. She will be complete
by the 9Th of March, and is intended to
run on the Mississippi, between st. Lonis
and So. Paul.
Our New Orleans exchanges of Friday
last report the following disasters in upper
Red river:
The Sallie Robinson, which came in from
Jefferson, reports that the river was falling
ahoye-the raft and that three boats had sunh
there. The Moro sunk at Spanish Bluff, OF
her way up. She was about three year:
old, and worth about eight thousand dol
lars. Her owner was Capt. John Anderson
and she was insured in this city. The othe
two sunllen boats were the Gipsey and Lar
Kin Edwards. both stern-w heelers and no
worth great deal The Gipsey, Captain
Murphy, bound down, with III bales cot
ton. sunk at Devils Elbow, Black Bayou
boat total loss. She was dropping through
Black Bayou stern foremost, knocked he
rndder-post out, and sunk out of sight i
Eve minutes.