Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-12-06
River News.

Since our noon report yesterday the river has
beea full Of boats. and business on the lsvss was
quite brisk.
Ia addition TO the list 81 arrivals and dspar.
turss which will be found on first page copied
Sfom yesterday afternoons edition, note the
following Msrmora and Armenia. Nashville to
Louisville; Delaware, 81. Louis to Louisville
Haugatuek, Louisville to Nashville Gen. Ander.
son, to Cairo; II. x. Dunkerson. to Rumssy.
The great attraction to-day will BE- the Ida
Handy, from Louisville TO New Orleans. She IL
splendid now steamboat Of the largest size with
superior passenger and freight accommodations
Her officers are high toned, social gen tlsmsn.
Associated with Mr.. o. L. smith IN the once is
our elegant friend, Harry walker. Of whom the
Now Albany Ledger thus Justly speaks;
cit Is orr deilberats opfslon that Harry walker
n one 81 tho best fellows anoat and the IDA Han.
dy Is fortunate Ia having 20 prompt, correct, and
gentlsmanly an officer a. this head Of her freight
ONE"
Cox 4 Hum phrsy and Hall Radd will receive
for the Ida Handy.
Tue ohArmer 10 up to-day for Cairo, and will
hsncsforth make the third boat IN tho Evans
willie Cairo Packet Company, thus forming a
daily line.
We are glad 10 see this spirit Of mmodAtlon
aud snterpriao manifested by the owners " this
line and hope to sus our citizens aud the people
living along shore respond ia spirit Of like lib
erality.
The Charmer will leave at O'clock to-day, In
charge Of that xperisnoed aud careful steamboat
man, Capt. Gus. Dasouehet, who will make II
point 10 $50 that passengers and shippers receive
proper attention. We hope 10 ths Charmer go
out fail
The Carrie IL ioadiag again for Nashville, and
will leave this evening In the hope Of getting
through. The Carrie IL = neat and roomy boat
with noe passenger accommodations, and her on.
GERS. Capt. Dan Brady, aud Mr.. Hampton knows
Just as we'll ~ ''any other man." how TO make
their guests feel At home.
Capt. MoPherson IL administering on the estate
Of tbs late Captain Ambrose Resdsr, aud intends
advertising the great Levlathan for sale Dee
26th. FOR tho present tho Lsviathan 's held al
$3.50, 900.
Captain Frank Marrstta's now steamer Champ
Ion, last completed AZ Cincinnati, has q length OF
100 feet with beam Of thirty-two aud half feet
aud depth OF hold Of four aud half feet. She
has three two nusd boilers, twenty-five foot long
aud thirty-oght inches In diameter. Her eyilnd
ers have diameter of hftecn Inches, aud a strok,
of hye feet. Her cabin IL nearly hnishsd ADD
furnished
The Atlantic and MisslaslppI Steamship Con-
pany held regular meeting at Sc. Louis. on
Monday, whom Il was decided 90 make application
90 the Legislature Of Missouri 70 increase the
lions. The value Of che boats already will sx-
cued the amount prescribed Ia the original chart.
or. Captain David Gibson made application 90
put two more boats In thu line, aud owners Of
tho Henry Ames aud sultana also expressed their
wish TO come la. The matter was laid fol
the present. One thousand dollars each va
voted 20 uapts. Phillips, Voolfolk and Ford, 70
the services thoy performed AZ appraisers. Thu
company meet IA 81 Louis on next Monday for
general election Of all ohhcers connected with thu
line.
The pIttaburg paperv raport a marked declln
In steamboat stock within the last few weeks, q
that boats which seven or eight months ago woal
soil readily for ;hirty or forty thousand dollar'
would not now bring anything like that hgurs.
The Palestine run into by two barges load
ed with iron at Nashville ON Friday, aud badi
damaged
ns- Comprehensive manifest Of the Glendale
Cincinnati to Evansville, Dec. and, 1894.
g. Myers s2T packages farnlture; PRESTO
Brothers, ,ss2 packages merchandise Kelley @
cases tobacco, r. :. Ruston, Is bandies papoi
Virgins HaleIwood, box hats Il. q. dwatl
ney, packages furnituroi l.. kessler, ~ pael
ages merchandise; Daniel Morgan, Is piec
machinery LEIGH a CArlstsdt, rs packages drug
sc. SinHich son, tierces lard T. J. Bliss
eiutsj Louis tausr, packages merchandise
Horuhrook a Co., bills lard oil; r. Frick,
packages merchandise WIN. Caldwell, Dbl eide
BrowR, Dunkcrson a Co., bbls liquor; J. rs
finger cases boots aud shses; Ragon a Dlcke
.0i packages merchandise; BemsAt a Well, Q
PACKAGE merchandize; stoekweli 4 COT 6S4 pae
hEta WNNNhNhAAAHs NftANN bfoass AfN pacAA4
merchandise; Roster Korn 49, packages ms
chandtAe; Wheeler Rlggs, - packages ms
chRndize; n. Hermann, packages merchandise
Cox Humphrey, l2S packages merchandise.
letter from Vioksburs In the New Dries
Times says;
cur fsvorlte packet, the Grey Eagle, came
time Pnnotually this morning, notwtthstAadi
q report that Capt. Fraser had stoppad her 70
few hours 20 search for q pocket hAndkereh
which one Of She lady passengers had dropI
overheard. I know he Il accommodating 10 /
"a
credit this report
But Il IS tact that the Magenta has licked ,
AZ created steamboats, In her trip nom Cairo
this port She left the former place 90 10 o'cls
a. m on the 18th, aud arrived here at ,. IN.
the lSth-maklng the run from port 20 port
hfiy-soyen hours.
Our good looking friend George A. Williams
clerk Of the Grey Eagle. We would not have b
surprised to learn that he had stopped the Es
for the purpose attributed to Capt Fraser.
says the New Orleans Times,
The more lines the better, said IN. w..her
maa. SO say We. Our last dates fron the
speak Of another formation Of = line Of steam
70 ply between St Louis and this city, e
henorforth known as the =" Peoples Line, !" an
far as can learn embraces some Of the a.
fastest and best managed boats that can be 70,
The first boat that comes under our notice, Il
"unriyalled " river palace. Magenta, which
rived here on saturday evening. shs havi ne
Cairo on the 18th, aud performed the time
a tween that port and this in less than three d
which IA extraordinary. CO. stdertng the sta
affairs which boats are subjected to-
EprroRs JOURNAL;
The steamboat Mars was hrediLto while Ct
way from Nashville, Tenn, to Louisville
about I o'clock the evening" Of the Sd
about three miles below Robertson's Landia
miles below Ma hvitle, The firing pr, ceeded
the Nashville de OF the Cumberland, htst
musketry, aud subsequently,, whan farther
the river, with artillery. The boat was stru
many places, but no serious damage was don
WIN. J. WEBER, Gle
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