The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-12-03
RIVER NEWS.
weather and water.

The weather on saturday was beautiful.
clear. cold and pleasant. There was a
heavy frost and considerable ice in the
morning The river is rising rapidly, and
very considerable swell may be expect
ed. Our latest reports represent II feet and
rising at Pittsburg, and six feet rise in
two days at Cincinnati. The Cumberland
and Tennessee are in fine boating stage
and rising. $50
Arrivals and Departures.
The arrivals and departures up to
o'clock Saturday afternoon, include theJ.
II. Groesbeck and Argosy, New Orleans to
Cincinnati; Laura Fenton, Memphis to
Louisville; Ada Lyon, Green River and
return; Armada, Cairo and return; News
Boy, Henderson and return; Tarascon,
Louisville and return; Tahliquah, Arkan-
sas River to Cincinnati; Chattanooga to
Nashville. F q 9v a
Boats Due.
Among the first boats due here are: The
Rebecca and Camelia, for Nashville; En-
ma No. 2 and Glendale, for st. Louis;
Nightingale, Silver Cloud, and Minnie,
from st. Louis; Minneola and Laura Fen
ton, for Memphis; Silver Moon and Liber-
ty No. 2, from Memphis; Rose HaInbleton,
New York, Altoona, and Nora, for Arkan-
sas River; West Moreland, VIM. Butler,
Silver Spray, Swallow, and Stonewall, for
New Orleans; Rose Hite, from Louisville;
Armada, from Cairo; VIM. White, from
Green River; Louisville and Nick Long
worth, from New Orleans.
miscellaneous. M
The wharf was somewhat animated yes
terday morning, and business was quite
| do l,o frfr1
.......The Laura Fenton had an excellent
trip. She discharged over 200 bales of cot-r
ton here for the Southwestern Fast Freight
Line. She had considerable freight for
Louisville, including lot of cattle-.-.....
The Groesbeck and Argosy had moderate
| trips.....-...Th Ada Lyon had a moderate
| trip out of Green River. The Tahlequah
passed up full of cotton. She did not land.
.........The Tarascon arrived at IL o'clock,
with fair packet trip .......Some of our
| wholesale merchants had more orders
| than it was possible to fill in one day.
Rather singular for a doomed city,. We
had the pleasure, on Thursday last, of
meeting Capt. G. w. Bachelor, of Pitts
burg. on board the Alice Dean. He was
part owner of the Inflated Lac La Belle,
recently lost on the lakes......-The Chatta-
nooga left Saturday afternoon for Nash
vile. with a good trip.......The Tarascon
transferred a large quantity of freight to
| the Armada. Among her passengers we
/ were glad to meet our co-laborer, Colonel
John w. Mckee, special and river cores
pondent of the press at Cairo, Illinois. He
proceeded home by the grand Armada.
Boats Leaving To-Day.
FOR CAIRo.-The Charmer, the best stern
wheeler in the Ohio, with the most gentle
manly officers alive, goes to Cairo at 3
o'clock to-day. She has capital passen-
/ ger accommodations. Capt. Billy Lowth,
Willie Fowler, and George Nicholson are
her popular officers. 81 e carrIestne United
States Mail and the Adams Express.
For LoUIsvILLE.--The magnificent Morn
ing Star, the f1eetest of the fleet, is the regu-
/ lar United States Mail and Adams Express
packet for Louisville at 10 O'Clock this
morning. Capt. Ike DOLLS is her elegant
and popular commander, and that prince
of noblemen, Miles d. Warren, is in her
Office.
Gleanfngs from our Exchanges.
CINcINNATI.-The Commercial of Fri
day says:
The weather was cloudy and cool yester-
/ day. The mercury ranged 1t forty-two ce-
grees at noon. At Pittsburg the river is
| on a stand, with feet in the channel.
| Here the river has risen Is inches during
the past "a hours, with IL feet hence to
/ Louisville. A .-a
LoUIsyILLE.-The Courier, Of Friday,
says:
feet inches water in the canal last even
/ ing by the MAX. During the previous "a
| hours it had risen inches at the head of
the falls, and Is inches at Portland. That
| ia a heavy C0nGidlrinU that
4 river was falling the evening previors.
The weather has turned much cooler,
though cloudy ell day. Il was threaten
On the falls last evening there were 5
/ feet 8 inches water in the pass down the
Indian chute, and slowly swelling. The
rise is attributable to the continued rains
in this section, which have extended to
Kentucky River, and good tide is ex-
pected from that quarter.
The Cumberland River is again rising
from the effects of heavy rains at and be-
yond Nashville, and full tide is ex-
pected.
the head waters the first good tide for
many months, and the packet Rapidan,
Capt. George Evans, has reached Flor
ence, the first steamboat arrival at that
place for a long time.
We are informed that in view of the
dangerously low stage OF water now rapid
ly approaching, and the prospects of an
early freeze up" in the Upper MISSISSIPPI
pi, underwriters have notified steamboat
owners that they will no longer insure
boats which navigate that river above
Cairo. Their experience last Winter with
the ice at St. Louis and above, taught
them lesson which they evidently in
tend to profit by in the future.
The Courier, of Thursday, says:
The Wild Wagner and Legal Tender,
now at New Albany repairing and refit-
ting, are expected to take the track In the
New Orleans trade next week. T0
AS one of the results of the late war, we
can cite the fact that the navy of the
United States now takes the front rank as
the first maritime power of the world
When the vessels now under CONSTRUCTION
are completed, the American fleet will in.
clude seventy-five monitors, four hundred
and one screw or paddle steamers, and one
hundred and twelve sailing vessels; carry
ing in all 4, 443 guns. In January, 1851, six
ty-eight vessels made up the whole Amer
Jean fleet In the difference between the
feet in 1861 and 1866 is to be found the bes
illustration that could be given OF the
vigor and energy OF the American navy
department..
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