Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1863-12-03

Fannie McBurnie, Nashville
' Tempest, Louisville.
'' Kenton, Nashville.
The river is falling at this point, but
from present indications the fall will be
rapid unless it rains again.
We have no news from Cincinnati or
Pittsburg to-day.
The river has been full of steamers
for the last twenty-four hours-most of
them in Government service. s.r
The Commercial got in from Mem
phis about l o'clock yesterday morning
with her cabins full of people, as usual
She is in magnificent trim, and viii be
here again on Friday, on her way to
Memphis.
The Big Grey Eagle arrived about
quarter after yesterday afternoon full
of people. Mr.. O'Bannon, her new
clerk, has stepped at once into the good
graces of the travelling public, and re-
lieves the regret SO sensibly felt for the
vacation of Major Williams to great
extent. The Eagle returned to Louis
vile about 10 o'clock last night.
There was a rumor on the street yes.
terday that the Charley Bowen and
Commercial had collided at q point
about 80 miles below here Tuesday night
at 9 o'clock. AS the Commercial arriv-
ed here at | o'clock yesterday morn
lug, it was impossible for her to have been
at the point designated at 9 o'clock the
night previous 1t must have been some
boat that has not yet arrived. We are
without particulars, not knowing the ex-
tent of the damages sustained by either
boat. uxE
The grand Armada will leave for Cairo
at noon to-day. Captain Josh V. Throop
and Fred Huston are her chief officers,
and two cleverer gentlemen or more
accomplished officers never ran steam
boat. The Armada offers fine attrac-
tons to shippers and travellers
The elegant Little Grey Eagle will be
the splendid packet for Louisville this
evening, under command of that veteran
officer Captain Ballard, with the cour-
teous and affable Banksmith in the
Office. Her passenger accommodations
are very superior.
The New Albany Ledger of yesterday
says the river at that point is falling.
There is 81 feet of water in the pass
over the Falls, and thence to Cairo there
is a channel depth of 10 feet.
The Louisville. Journal of yesterday
says /;
The river is falling, with 6 feet in the
canal, feet in the Indiana chute, and
3 feet on the rocks. At Pittsburg, the
river was, at last accounts, falling, with
6 feet 2 inches water; also at Cincinnati,
with Is feet. Here the river has reced-
ed 6 inches during the "a hours ending
last night. There is about II feet hence
to Cincinnati and about 10 feet hence to
! Cairo.
At a special meeting of the Steamboat
Captains Benevolent Association, held
at Cincinnati on Monday, one thousand
dollars was donated for the benefit of the
United States Sanitary Commission
Fair, which is to be held in that city
shortly. - ~
The new Tarascon failed to go over
the Falls yesterday. She will, however,
1 go to-day.
Captain Dan Able's new boat, for the
ST. Louis and Memphis trade, will be
launched in Nadle shipyard this evening
at 81 o'clock.
The Missouri Democrat of yesterday
says: ss
/ The description of weather yesterday
was just as anticipated Whereas, dur
ing two nights and one and half days,
winter reigned with great severity, yes
terday was all aglow with a warm su n
and southern breeze The river was
full of ice, it is confessed, but it offered
no obstruction to RAINING steamers, be-
ing of the tenderest consistency so
But the cold snap has been unfortun-
ate in its immediate effect of shrinking
/ the water so as to reduce the channel
depth in our not too high rivers, as see
Fer paragraph below.
There was comparatively rapid de-
cline since our last The decline was
five inches in the "a hours ending at
a. m, yesterday e. -
The last steamers report only five feet
in the channel from Cairo up, decline
of one foot. The river is navigable to
Quincy, with four feet in the channel, a
decline of one foot, but is supposed to be
practically closed to Keokuk by ice
The st. Paul Press of Nov. 18th says:
/ Some floating ice was observable yes
terday morning, bat it was very light and
soft The great danger is a gorge in the
bend above Hastings. One cold night
would close it solid On Monday there
was quite gorge at that place. liGJl
The Illinois is frozen over at Naples,
Beardstown, Bath--in fact it is closed
from the mouth to Lasalle, unless the
warm sun and wind of yesterday caused
it to unloose-its tight grasp of the steam
ers Lacon, Prairie State, James Means,
Katie Bruner, Little Minnehaha, and
other boats, which were on. Monday fro
zen up.
Heavy ice is floating in the Missouri,
and there is no present navigation in
that stream. a1 rrD g1+.
The Des Arc has been sold by Captain
Hicks King to Messrs. Comstock, Ohio,