Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1863-11-16
River News.


The river at this point is declining
slowly, while the weather is cloudy and
cold with slight sprinkllngs of rain.
The Emma arrived here on Saturday
morning, and is awaiting Government
orders.
The Charley Bowen was unable to OBJ
tain fuel on her last trip Iown, and was
detained "a hours ss''.a arrived here al
2 o'clock yesterday mo,aing, with an i'm
mense trip of freight and passengers,
and refused passengers all the wayup.
She left yesterday at 2 o'clock with an
excellent trip -5f 7s adi 81
The mammoth Grey ,s-Ie arrived yes
terday morning Grow Id with freight
and people, after disehn. ifg vast guam
titles all the way down. .ele left again
at o'clock for Louisville with most
promising trip.
Capt Lusk and Major Williams wore
a complacent look, which plainly showed
they were 6 satisfied ~ s7
The D. b. Campbell took a load Of
horsesfor Government to Louisville, and
left last night She will load at Louis
vile iDr Nashville a,H s. s9a
To-day the grand Arna Ii, with the
irrepressible Capt Jos4 rhr6op and
the courteous and aft red Huston,
In command of the hj.rrIan and the of
fee, will be the ua@ir.i-l packet for
Cairo. Her stateronms ar. spacious
her tables groan will 'atnrss, and her
speed and managem nj j.. . 40 ditto on
the lower Ohio.
The Effort leaves to Ia. +. CIR cen Riv
er, and Cox & Humpl.r 2til receipt for
freight
The Missouri Democ..at If Saturday,
saws:
The weather is mild, with indrcaururr,
of rain. .- 4-
Nearly all the boats u, 4cinnati have
been taken by the Cove dsnt
The towboat Hunter Us been sold for
seven thousand dollars
The Louisville Journal of Saturday
says:
The river rs rising slowly, with 8 feet
= inches water in the canal.
The Des Arc. on her first trip to Mem
phis, was full of freight and passengers.
She had 1892 packages of freight, and
$50 passengers from Cairo. She bids
fair to do well in the Cairo and Mem phis
trade.
Capt Hendrickson has sold the Daco-
tab to a Wheeling con- pany for the al
legged sum of SIC, 700.
Capt Haight bought last week, at
Pittsburgh, new tow-boat, not yet fin
ished, for the alleged sum of $40, 600.
The Echo No. 2 was sold to the Gov
eminent, at Cincinnati. on Wednesday,
for $4,000.
The stern-wheel steamer Iowa, built in
1855, was sold at st. Louis the other day
for $4,000 Steamboats, these days
command as high premium as gold.
he severe spell of winter weather
heA has proved temporary The sun
shines out again, dispensing heat on all
around, and southern winds gently lift
the accumulating dust, and choke the
unwary traveller. There is neither ice,
nor frost, nor snow, nor cold. Some
thing very like summer is with us once
again. And equally pleasing is the fact
that there is increased water in the river.
and increasing. The Mississippi is swell
ing above the rapids, on the rapids, and
below the rapids. The largest of the
Keokuk packets are darling out from
this port daily, and there leave our busy
wharf the largest steamers, to navigate
the Lower Ohio, which was lately so shoal
that the smallest crafts could not navi-
gate it
In the Missouri, too, there is very good
water-say 81 feet from the mouth to
Leavenworth and Saint Joseph, and COM
merce may be resumed in that stream,
by the influence of the warm weather.
The late cold spell nearly put an end to
| business on the Missouri.
The Illinois has not been much i'm
proved. THERE'S 80 inches full in that
stream, and near dozen steamers ply
between that stream and ST. Louis, hay
| ing as much business as they can attend
/ to.
The river at this point swelled three
inches during the "a hours ending at 9
o'clock yesterday morning During the
week the river has risen ! inches.
Business, it is apparent, will continue
to be very brisk on the rivers to and from
this port while navigation lasts.
There is five and halt, if not six feet
of water hence to Cairo, and prospect
of greater depth. DsE
The Cincinnati Gazette of Saturday
says: sIgfd 5E5 is 3G1 ID
The weather yesterday was fine and
warm, but cloudy, and presented indiea-
tons of rain. The river at this point
was slowly rising, and had risen about
two inches during the previous twenty
hours, with a depth of six feet eleven
inches of water in the channel Yesterday
at noon. There is clear stage of FIVE
feet six inches of water in the channel
hence to Louisville. At Pittsburg the
river was falling, with a depth of four
feet of water in the channel by the pier
mark.
Business on the wharf presents but
little change to report Nearly all the
boats which can run on the present stage
of water are now in the Government
service, but it is understood that in few
days the need will have passed away,
and then we may expect ivelier times.
The Lady Franklin passed up yester-
day, full of freight and people.
The Science passed down yesterday
with two deeply laden barges in tow.