The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-03-06
RIVER NEWS.

The river at this point is rising very
fast, and it is thought it will go above
the highest point reached this season.
The wharf is now crowded its whole
length with tobacco cotton, pork, whisky,
and other freight
Tie gay and festive Courier arrived
here from Cairo at two O clock yesterday
morning, with big trip. During the
day she was slowed full Of freight, while
her cabin was crowded with " fair VIC
men and brave men," Her popular Off
GERS always draw a crowd
The Louisville and Memphis packet
Commercial passed down yesterday, with
big trip.
ne trairie Rose, Sallie List, and St.
Cloud passed up on Wednesday night
The Iowa and Poland arrived here
yesterday from Nashville. The former
took cargo of grain, etc, from this
place for Pittsburg; the latter returned
to Nit Vernon for load.
/ A black tow-boat, without name, lay
above the wharf most all day yesterday,
with feet of coal-barges.
The General White, Capt. Alexander
CULVER, H. Miller, Clerk, will leave for
Green River to-day. The General White
is nice little side-wheel boat, just from
the Waha~L. -ebv has been bought by
the Messrs. White, large tobacco factors,
expressly for the Green River trade.
The Little Grey Eagle, we believe, was
here yesterday.
! To-day the neat and popular McCombs
will be the regular and reliable packet
for Henderson and Louisville.
The Tycoon was due here last night
from Memphis for Cincinnati, with a
magnificent trip.
We clip the following details of the
seizure of the Curlew, from the Carlo
correspondent Of the Cincinnati Com
mercid,:
The Curlew, from Evansville, passed
down on Saturday, with a very fair trip
OF assorted merchandise AT Island No
10 she was searched and some whisky,
dry goods, &c, found, for which they had
no permits She was taken charge of
by the naval authorities and brought
back to Cairo, arrived at 10 o'clock last
night Her officers, crew and passen-
gers were all searched, and what South
ern money they had was taken from them.
All the Confederate money was torn up"
by the officers searching.
The passengers had all their money
returned to them except the Southern
money-such as Carolina, Georgia and
Louisiana-which the officers retained
Every one on board are held as prison
ers and no one allowed to go on shore.
The passengers will doubtless be releas-
ed to-day.
The explanation given by the officers
of the boat is as follows:
There were some goods at P; lcah for
Fulton, Tennessee; according to late
order, the Surveyor at Paducah could
only issue permits to land goods at Mil
tary Points, so they were permitted to
Columbus; on arriving there they appiE
IL 60 ia@' < trTrTtu. IHEy were
told 1t was all right to go on with them:
but at No. l0they v ere required to have
such orders in black and white. so the
story goes; time will tell The boat was
ordered to proceed to Cairo without
landing. At Columbus she was hailed
and ordered to land The naval officer
IN command stated his orders and was
about to &c by, when he was informed
that he must land and report or they
would sink the boat. Not relishing such
an end be went to shore and reported
and now is at the navy yard, and will
likely to be turned over to the United
States Marshal to-day All of the above
items we got from passengers who were,
and are now, aboard of her