Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-16
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Weather ard Water-Tte thermom-
'ter at six o'clock yesterday morning
stood at 110 above zero at the Sherwood
House, against l0' IN the morning pre-
Tious. At one o'clock yesterday it
stood at IA end at six o'clock last
evening at J.60 above zero. The day
was nearly clear and calm. The river
is falling at Pittsburg and Cincinnati,
and rising at Louisville. Here it had
risen about four inches up to five
o'clock last evening, and was steadily
rising. There was some shore ice rum
ming, but not enough to interfere in the
landing of boats. There is full feet |
water on the worst bars from Louisville
to Cairo - rs
s4rTiUGEs and Departures-The arri- |
walls and departures since our last re-
port was closed include the Argosy,
Jacksonville to Cincinnati Morning
Star, Memphis to louisville; Tarascon,
Louisville to Memphis; r. X. Bunker
son, Bowling Green; Phantom, Wabash
River; Curlew, Henderson and return;
ST. Cloud, Cincinnati to Memphis; Leni
Leoti, Cincinnati for Memphis; Sam.
Orr, to Passport Abona, Memphis to
Cincinnati; ST. Patrick, Memphis to
Louisville; Prima Donna, Cincinnati to
New Orleans; Leonidas, Cincinnati to
St Louis. A7a
Boats Due-Among the first boats
due here are the Louisa, for Tennessee
River; New York, for Nashville; Rob
ert Burns and Morning Star, for Mem
phis; Rose Hamilton, White River;
Ontario, Lsonidas, and Nashville, for
st. Louis; ]. q. Groesbeek, Silver Spray,
Silver Cloud, Louisiana, and Virginia,
for, New Orleans; St., Patrick, Aoona,
and Darling, from Memphis; Armada,
from Cairo ]. 7. McCombs, from
Louisville; Roanoke, J. G. Blackford,
AMI J. R. Gilmore, from St. Louis; and
Peytona, from New Orleans.
! MsceZlaneous-B Business was not par
ticularly active on the levee yesterday,
and the arrivals were not numerous
The Argosy, from Jacksonville, passed
up about 3 o'clock yesterday morning
with $50, bales Of cotton for Gin cinnati.
She reports feet in the Tennessee to
Johnsongille5 and lots of cotton there
for shipment North and East. Her
| Clerk, Jesse Birdsal, stopped off here to
arrange some business and will join the
Argosy at Cincinnati by rail.........T The
| Morning Star made quick trip and
passed up at 8 o'clock yesterday morn
ing, having made the run from Mem
phis in so honrs, and from Cairo in 20
hours. She had 200 bales of cotton for
Cannelton, and good many people
.........The Tarascon passed down with
splendid trip yesterday morning about
o'clock. She added cobsidsraBl5 here.
,........The St, Cloudghad also; 9, good
trip.......The r. K. Dunkerson came
out Of Green River with 4 nice trip.
She reports that. the / L. Hyatt, en- route
from Paradise to this city, sunk barge
loaded with coal a. short distance below
Spottsyille locks We did NOT ascertain
to whom the coal belonged-but it was
not to the Stewart Brothers or Samson
Ruffner Il Co..........The Phantom came
, in from the Wabash with a splendid
trip, including 400 sacks Of wheat, As
cpops of turkies and geese. l44 dozen
chickens, $50 bbls. -four, 3 tons of bran
80 tons bulk meet, bbIs., 20 Kegs aud
: cans of lard, and on e bsrreIof castor
oil, clearing up the shores very effect
ually we should calculate. "a. 81 The
Leni Heoti arrived here yesterday after
noon With about $50 tons of freight, en-
route. to Nashville, for which port she
will leave this Observation-Disclosures
Orr was prepared to leave at dark last
night with a handsome trip for East
: port 1.-The gay Peytona is due here
tfrom New Orleansitosday, en- route tc
Louisville. 3 Our elegant old friend Yves
4 Conner, is in command, and Harry
Walker in the freight ofieea...!....The
Wild Wagner. had. not made her ap
pearance up to 8 o'clock last night She
is most unaccomitably behind times2 and
we are unable to obtain any raliable in.
formation as to the cause of her deten
Il ton. Is She will certainly besup by
morning, if not before, ~. ThslJ. P.
Webb, we learn, is aground on Cincin.
natl Bar, about 100 yards. from channel.
i 1.-THE Obeone and St. Patrick passed
up from Memphis at 10 o'clock last
night with good tgpaEf.s.,The Primo
Donna, for New Orleans, and the Leo.
midas, for ST. Louis, were loaded to the
water. = . ava AV5Aa y eanA
The Havana is coming from Memphis
with FIVE hundred bales of cotton, not
for Louisville, you bet = log. DEM 81
| Well what would Louisville DO with
500 bales of coItonf She has no cotton
market, no cotton factory. IT might be
an act Of generosity on the part Of the
owners. or. shippers to land it at Port
land and give the transportation com
panys the job of hauling it thence to JEFF
fersonyille and reshipping i: East
That-esR--be done cheaper at New AL
bany. Louisville is not.in the ring on
| the cotton question.
"Green river is in a fair navigable
stage, and the r. K Dunkerson is max
ing regular trips. Evansville is getting
all the freight IN A. Ledger. =
| OF course she is, and always will.
Capt Drinkwater7 and the Dunkerson
pleases the people in the Green river
country. Our merchants deal literally
with them and they love. to come here
to trade, and viii continue to do So -
BOATS LEAVING TO-DAY.
For Gairo-SThe peoples favorite the
grand Armada, Capt. Jay Zee in COM
mand, and Billy Dunn and Val Soren-
son in the Office, goes to Cairo at II
O'clock promptly. No better boat and
| no better officers are atioate VOL
For Louisville The gay John Thorn
as, surnamed Neon s, is the regular
neckat for I,ouisville this evai1;S3ty