Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1863-12-01

and all the bars near the city are pretty |
well ext;nguished, and there is a good
stage of water now for the largest boats.
At Cincinnati the river had fallen Is
inches up to noon yesterday, with 142
feet in the channel. At Pittsburg there
were 6 feet in the channel at noon yes
terday and stationary, with freezing
weather.
If this "cold snap" continues any
length of time the river will fall rapidly,
and we shall not be surprised to see the
river closed with ice before christmas.
There has not been much business on
the levee for the lasttwo days, though ar
rivals have been numerous.
The Little Grey Eagle brought down
fair trip on Sunday night, and took out
big trip at noon yesterday. She is now
the pride of the line, one of the fastest,
neatest, and best differed boats on the
lower Ohio.
The Charley Bowen arrived yesterday
morning from below. She reports seri-
rious difficulty in obtaining fuel below
which accounts for the irregularity of the
packets, as they have to lay by as much
as II hours sometimes to obtain coal
The Bowen left the May Duke in the
act of conGscating a fence with which to
make steam.
The Bowen will leave to-day at noon
for Cairo, and Billy Bentley, Billy Dunn
and Mr.. Reynolds, will give particular
attention to passengers and shippers.
They constitute galaxy of bright par
ticular stars in the steamboat world.
shining like diamonds of the first water
In consequence of the almost utter
inrPossibiEty Of obtaining fuel sufficient
to run small boats, the big Superior we
learn will not start out at present,
although she is now in magnificent trim,
and Captain Dexter and a host of his
friends are anxious to see her skim the
wave. la-ela ~.
go By the way, Capt. Dawson, Inspector
of Steamboats,, whose acquaintance we
had the pleasure of making the other
day, remarked to US, that the Superior
is the best boat of her age he ever saw
She will create sensation when she en-
ters the campaign again, which we hope
will be soon. ,4
Several tugs have passed down within
the last few days with immense fields of
coal boats in tow.
The New Albany Ledger of Saturday
says:
The Nellie Moore sunk on Wednesday
at the foot of Cumberland Island. She
was owned in Cincinnati
The Government has seized 100000
bushels of coal lying at the Cincinnati
| wharf ne la-e
The ST. Patrick, lately purchased by
the Archer Company will be down to:
morrow evening. Capt Geo. O'Hart is
to be her commander, and our genial
young friends Lib. Frisbie and Billy Fen
| ton are to act as clerks "A more popu-
lar trio of officers cannot be found on
| the Western waters.
The toweboat Crescent City has been
! sold for $25,000
The Belle Creole has been sold to par
ties in Memphis for SIS, 900.
The Cumberland is rising, with u feet
on the shoals. als 4a
The Wabash3is rising, and is in navi-
gable condition for small boats.
The high-headed Commercial will be
here this evening on her way to Louis
vile. She has f ne passenger accommo-
dations, and will take freight or passen-
gers at packet rates. Jno. B. Hall is her
agent
The Saint Cloud, Captain Fenton, will
be here on h er way to Memphis, this
evening, offering fine chance for pas
sengers and shippers. John B. Hall will
receive freight for her to-day
The Louisville Journal of yesterday
says: 15l5 -aTsn3 -e s44
The river at this point was rising yes
terday, with over six feet water in the
canal, and four feetin the chute. Weather
clear and cold stH
There has been nothing but Govern
ment business done on our levee for the
last few days There were several arri-
walls and departures of Government boats
yesterday. --5 -
The Cumberland is rising, with nine
feet on the shoals
h The Glasgow arrived at Cairo several
days ago with the furniture of the sunken
Telegraph No 8, which she put on
the Jacob Strader at Mound CITY. She
also had on board three of the negroes
scalded by the explosion of the mud-re-
ceiver of the Telegraph, one of whom
died before reaching Cairo, and was bu-
ried at that city One of the others is SO
badly injured that it is doubtful whether
I he will recover. One other had died on
board the Telegraph before the Glasgow
/ left her
The Missouri Democrat of yesterday
says: ~ Elm foa
The sombre signs of winter have pre-
scented themselves in abundance. We
had one of the severest freezings of some
years past on Saturday night. The icy
atmosphere penetrated bedrooms, whose
inmates instinctively clutched their
blankets more tightly around them than
they had any idea of during the day.
They arose yesterday morning to find