The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-09-27

Col. May attached. The Wagner g hove
too " between the Island and the mouth
OF the canal. We left her raising steam to
come out on her own . hook" she made
it.
The Democrat man "hooked" an entire
paragraph from the st. Louis Democrat rel
alive to the accumulation of stern wheelers
at New Orleans, which he publishes as or
iginal.
The Democrat thus vents its old hate on
the old Carondelet, which was so great a
terror to rebels during the war.
The old emancipation, Black Republican
BrownlOw defender, and freedOun-Shriek-
ing Carondelet--an old gunboat that made
"a heap of noise aud cost a mint of money!.
came up over the falls evening before last,
and lay at the upper wharf all the fore
noon yesterday, resting from the fatigue
she experienced in coming over. There
We're seven and a half feet water on the
fails, and the "bumgoat " was drawing five
and a half feet of that; but Captain Pink
Marble, who has got more patience than
an old maid, spent three long weary hours
holding her'wheel. When he reached the
wharf and came ashore, 1t took him an
hour 20 get his shirt, vest, coat, and under
shirt from around his neck and set back in
the proper place. That wheel " worried ,"
him. A bout noon, Uncle Tom Claxon ate
barrel of provender, drank two kegs of
beer, bought a bar of tobacco, had his life
insured and started toward the gunboat
singing, +" would not live always, ask
not TO stay" and he didn't long, for he
hunted around until he found the wheel,
and started off up the river with the old
hummer, to have her made up into new
boat, we suppose. We advise our lady
friends between this port and Cincinnati
to keep away from the river bank for a day
or two. The gunboat Carondelet is 9 ont
on the ocean sailing" and she's not a
pretty thing to look at We suppose some
of the "blue-noses will circulate the re-
port that there is to be g another war"
The Courier of Monday says: ra
The river has been steadily falling since
Friday evening, with 10 feet inches water
in the canal latt evening by the mark.
During the previous 4S hovrs 1t had fallen
inches, at. the head of the. falls, and q
inches at Portland. The weather has
turned warmer, with no further frosts, and
the indications favor more ram. III .rs.s
On the falls last evening there were feet
inches water in the pass down the Indian
chute, and feet 3 inches water for steam
boats over the rocks. For upstream boats
iii the middle chute there was 51a feet water.
NEW ALBANy.-The Commercial of Tues
day, says: ..4.
Captains J. V. Throop, and II. A. Dexter,
and Gus. Lemcke, of the Evansville and
Cairo Packet Company. have contracted in
Cincinnati for new side-wheel packet for
the Superior's machinery. ~.
ST. LoUIs.-The Democrat of Tuesday
says:
The river declines steadily. All above
axe AdllLnS: Inc NJ tsSouLl rs low ABOVE anu
tor some distance below st. Joseph. Below
St. Paul there is but 70 inches water
In the channel. We had slight rains yes
sterday. Three boats are loading for New
Orleans. Freight is scarce for the Arkan-
sas. Two boats have turned over what
freight they had to third, which leaves
with a good trip to-day for Little Rock.
Tonnage is heavy for Ohio river. The
Nightingale left with a barge with 500 tons
corn, wheat, flour and rags for Cincinnati.
d. Harper is here from Cincinnati, and
was large shipper on the Nightingale.
He has 1900 sacks of wheat at Alton. and
the Huntsville, Captain j. West. Jacobs,
has gone up for it, A dispatch dated Sat
urday, from g. Scott & Co., Little Rock, re-
ports Arkansas river on a stand, with five
feet in the channel.