The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-12-18
RIVER NEWS.
Weather and water.


The weather, yesterday, was clear and
beautiful over head, with pleasant atmos-
phere, but sloppy, muddy and disagreeable
under foot-the snow rapidly melting. The
river is falling rapidly. having declined 16
inches during the last "a hours, ending at 3
o'clock yesterday. "a - M qe -
Arrivals and Departures.
The arrivals and departures, up to three
O'Clock yesterday included the Emma No.
8, and Glendald, st, Louis to Cincinnati !:
Morning Star, Henderson to Louisville !:
Armada, Cairo to Evansville; Newsboy.
Henderson to return; Norman and Robert
Burns, Memphis TO Cairo; Silver Moon,
Cincinnati to Memphis aaHesa
! ae =. Boats Due. ass8gg ss.s ~
| Among the first boats due here are the
Rebecca, for Nashville; Naugatuck, and
Belle Vernon, for ST. Louis; Argo-
naut, from ST. Louis; s. j. Hale, for
Memphis; Laura Fenton, Mfnneola
and Centralia, from Memphis; Tah-
lequah and Bertha, for Arkansas River;
Messenger, Swallow, Louisville, Alice
Dean, and Sam. Parker, for New Orleans;
America, Armenia and Indiana, from
New Orleans; Sam. Orr, from Cairo; Tara
soon and Rose Hite, from Louisville:
Minyoung, from Wabash River; Ada Ly-
on, from Green River; Chattanooga, from
Nashville.
miscellaneous.
Business was rather dull yesterday
morning as it usually is on Monday ...l
The Emma No. 8, Glendale, Norman and
Robt. Burns, had good trips The |
Burns had over 100 bales of cotton.
The packets came and went rather light |
...,The Armada had moderate trip up. |
and the Charmer was receiving but slow
Iy.-.The Liberty, ON Sunday night. |
took 125 head ofsheep from this port ........
The Clifton did pass mp on Friday, as we
at length learn from Bill Green, the
Wharf Master.....-.How she came to be
overlooked by the wharfboat here, re-
mains mystery The Tempest also APP
pears to have slipped by in the same man
Silver Moon, from Cincin-
haiti to Memphis, came in about noon with
q good freight trip.
Boats Leaving To-Day
For CAIRo.-The high-headed Sam. Orr
. regular clipper on run, is the regular
packet for Cairo and way ports to-day.
Capt. Allen Duncan is in command. and
Val. Sorenson and George Nicholson are
For LoUIsvILLE.-The beautiful Rose
aite is the reguiarand popular packet for
this evening. She has excellent
accommodations and popular trio of
'ficers. Capt. Aaron Ballard is in COM
nand, and Geo. Patterson, with Jesse
ackson, has charge of the Office.
Gieanings from CUR Exchanges.
CINCINNATI. The Commercial, of Satur-
sy, says:
The weather was cold and cloudy yester
ay Ihe mercury ranged at 81 degrees at
Don. AT Pittsburgh the river Is falling.
nth . feet in the channel. Here the river
as feceded 70 inches during the past "a
ours, with 20 feet hence to Louisville
one Item OF the Kenton's cargo consists
f $500 plows. TT -
The Clifton. Captain Frank Stein, from
lemphfs, passed Evansville yesterday at
A. NJ, with l 200 bates cotton.
Ii the Clifton passed here Friday morn 4
lg or any time up to last night at DARK,
he must have slipped by very quietly. i
Courier, of Saturday. II
lys: das0
The river was falling very slowly yester-
~, with nine feet six inches water in the
mai In the evening, by the mark On
ny Inc previous IWenJy-four hours it n
ad fallen only two inches at The head of =
e Ialis, and SIX inches at Portland. The
sa ~ mas turned colder, the thermome-
I ranging below the freezing point all
", andgoing down fast at night
On the falls last evening there vvere
ven ana a nall feet water in the pass 4
We think the river to-day win be faIIino
city fast, and that the Portland wharf 4
= ~ pc De again Drought into general use by +
The r. G. Gray, from ST. Louis, ATTEMPT
to ascend the falls yesterday, but could /
2 quite make 1t and had, to take the
nal chute.
The EMPERoR.-The position OF this boat az
nix In the mouth of the canal is nm y
anged, with, however, only about two s
% water, or less, on her forecastle in @m
ad of ten, as printed. r
\ strong force worked all day yesterday s#
leving her of freight, and il is thought u
? can be easily raised. The submarine I EV
at Underwater, was telegraphed to he
y 70 her aid, from Cairo, and she started p
urSday evening f9f ~
he boat was insured in Cincinnati
ceS.
II. LouIs.-The Democrat, of Saturday.
here was pretty cold snap yesterday.
alarmed number of steam boatmen ffia
e. Boats lett the wharf for winter quar- A
), and boats announced for up-stTeam ~
MT go. In fact, it was so cold and so icy of
her up the country that the Naples of
ket, Alton packet, and Upper Missis- tail
pi and Illinois boats expected down tiol
IN, from their non-arrival, to have laid We
The ice was passing pretty thick and
inward as fsst soass are hurTy1ng OF
ing, at the wharf last evening, may
e out to-day to find winter quarters =
where: Helen, Enterprise, McPorter
Blackboard, and Nile The
anda was there, too, and wants a load -
cairo; likewise the Columbian, which
Y take cargo tc New Orleans; and the
ayia, which, we hear purposes loading
New Orleans. After all, @amost every
~ depends on the wind. Let 1T change,
re expected last evening il would do,
there will be time enough to load q
more boats. The Cincinnati folks are B
anxious for navigation to cease here
ectlng increased orders in that event
Y may be totally disa nnni1atad We