Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1863-09-23

but 20 inches in the channel At Gin
oinnati it is stationary, with three feet
water to Louisville.
The Cumberland river is at stand,
with 16 inches on Harpeth Shoals
The Upper Mississippi is rising from
st. Louis to the mouth of the Ohio; it is
stationary, with 5 feet on Herculaneum,
and 6 feet from Cairo to Memphis.
The Cordelia Ann did not get off on
Monday evening, as advertised, but left
last evening with a magnificent trip.
The Colonna vent out last evening
with splendid trip for Smithland and
Cairo
The far famed and gallant Dunkerson
will leave for Bowling Green this even
ing under command of "Old Fidelity"
Capt. Drinkwater, than whom none know
better how to run a steamboat or make
his guests feel at home.
The queen of the packet line, the beau
teous little May Duke, will be the regular
mail and passenger packet to-day for Pa
ducah and Cairo
Capt. Gus Dusouchet and Billy Dunn
are her accomplished officers and will
give the most polite attention to pas.
sengers.
A MAMMOTH STEAMER-Capt. Am
brose Reider, of St Louis, is now build
ing at the ship yard of NJ G. C. Town
send at New Albany, mammoth steam
boat for the st. Louis and New Orleans
trade, which will surpass in mechan-
ism, capacity, and artistical beauty any
boat ever constructed on the continent.
Her dimensions are as follows:
Extreme length from stem to stern 307ft
Breadth of beam ...............49 #. in
Extreme bre' 9TH from ont to out 88 fI0i
Depth OF hold... ..................... #.
Tonnage ..................... 2,100 tons
Her machinery will be proportioned to
her immense size She will have two
engines with cylinders Sc inches in di
.-'-ete- ord II feet stroke, to work
feet buckets. Her boilers viii be seven
IN number, 6-fued, As inches in diane.
ter, and q feet long. Her engines were
those formerly in the great Eclipse, and
as good as the day they came out OF the
American Foundry in New ALBANY.
her boilers are new, and were made at
St Louis by Crozier & Baxter Her
machinery is to be fitted up at the Foun-
dry of Thomas Pawson & Co., New AL
bany
In the construction of her cabin moth
ing will be omitted which can contribute
to comfort, convenience and elegance.
She will have rooms eight feet square for
berthlng l25 cabin passengers. 1t is
intended to surpass, in beauty of finish
and gorgeousness, the cabin of any boat
ever before built.
The boa- throughout will be furnished
with the latest and best machinery for
handling freigAts rapidly She will be
supplied with steam fire apparatus and
all other appurtenances for the safety of
passengers, and, in word, nothing will
be omitted to make her the most beauti-
full specimen of steamboat architecture
elegance, end sumptuous-
ness ever turned out on this continent
OWING to her immense size, she will not
be launched, but will remain unon the
ways, to be foated off by the early win
ter rise.
Of December. e
The popular and feet J. T. McCombs
Will be the unrivalied packet for Hender- |
son and Louisville this evening, under
command of that veteran officer, Capt
Ballard, and that prince of courteous
Frank Banksmith, in the Of
ice.
The DIXIE is receiving for Bowling
ireen, and will depart forthwith. 4
The New Albany Ledger says that, in
Consequence of a rise in Salt, Blue and
ireen rivers, the Ohio has swelled some
Eighteen or twenty inches between that
lty and this. If this is so, river men
nd river editors at this point cant see