The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-11

Green River and return; Tah1eQuah, st.
Louis to Cincinnati; j. P. Webb, Nashville
to Evansville; Morning Star, Memphis to
Louisville; Liberty No. 2, louisville to
Memphis; J. T. McCombs, Louisville and
return.
Boats Due
Among the first boats due here are the
Rowena, to Nashville; Shamrock and
Pocahontas, for Missouri River; Nashville.
Emperor, and New York, for st. Louis :
Alice Dean and Harry Dean, for Memphis;
Mary Irwin for Arkansas River; Amazon,s
Westmorland, for New Orleans; Emma
Floyd, from Nashville; Tarascon and Mary
Ament, from Louisville; Lorena, Sherman
and Champion, from st. Louis Indiana
and Emerald, from New Orleans; Anna,
from Cairo; Robt. Burns, from Memphis
miscellaneous.
The condition of the wharf is rapidly i'm
proving under the rays OF a hot sun. BUSH
ness yesterday was only moderate. The
David White arrived from Louisville at
midnight, and took large lot of freight Off
thew harf-continuingt to load until after s
o'clock yesterday, nlorning. The Charmer
had a moderate trip in, and was not very
well loaded on her return........T The VIM
White arrived from Green River yesterday
morning, having experienced no trouble
whatever in getting cut of the locks at
Rumsey, but came through under full
head of steam.........Thel Myrtle left after
noon yesterday, with scarcely any freight,
and the White left last night. compare
lively liglit.........-The Tahlequah, from St.
Louis to Pittsburg, had a good trip......... The
-Tigress passed up about noon, showing
empty barges ahead Of her..........The j. p.
Webb arrived at noon yesterday with a
good trip, including about 100 hogsheads of
tobacco, and considerable other freight.
She returns to Nashville to-day, and Capt
Hodge Brown, who arrived from Cincin-
natl on Wednesday, looking extremely
young and handsome, will resume com
mand. Her manifest viii be found below
1.-THE wreck of the ill-fated Missouri is
beginning to loom up quite prominently
Boats Leaving To-Day.
For CAIRo.-The mammoth Superior,
. Capt. Rudd, goes to Cairo and all way ports
to-day. Her clerks are those accomplished
yeung gentlemen, Capt Billy Bentley and
Kit Rudd, who viii show all possible atten-
ton to the comfort of passengers.
For NAsHvILLE.-The elegant and f1eetJ
p. Webb, Capt. Hodge Brown in command,
and Tom Wilson in the office, goes to Nash
vile this day. The Webb has fine passen-
ger accommodations, and her officers ara
obliging gentlemen.
GsEeanimgs from OUR Exchanges.
CIEcINNATI.-The Commercial of Wednes-
day says:
The weather was cloudy and showery
yesterday-steady rain nearly all day. At
Pittsburg the river was falling, with feet
in the channel Here it has feceded 21z
feet during the "a hours ending last night,
xp5T41 fnaf hon To I'm 11n
Dispatches from Captain Cloud, from st.
Louis, yesterday. report the Nellie Rogers,
bound from st; Louis for the Upper Mis-
souri,, high and dry in the Missouri, 600
miles above st. Louis. She was caught on
the main shore by the rapidly receding
river, which was at flood hight, and was
piled out feet above the water at last ac-
counts. The Nellie Rogers and her freight
list are insured in Cincinnati offices. She
has a valuable cargo.
LoUIsvILLE.-The Courier of Wednesday
says:
The river continues falling fast, with six
feet one inch water in the canal last even
ing by the mark. During the previous "a
hours i had fallen seven inches at the head
of the falls and tWenty-One inches at Port
land. The weather had changed in the
morning, with several hours steady rain,
and the wind from the east, but about noon
the rain had ceased 1t had been threat
ening rain for one or two weeks and we
Were anticipating long, heavy rain when
it did come, but are disappointed hffe
On the falls last evening there were but a
little over four feet water in the pass down
the Indian chute, and the water still slowly
Teceding. sslssse Il 3ss ftfFIas
ST. LOUIS The Democrat Of Wednesday
says: fa es Es ls..e r.sssf..s4sqs a s,-fl
Dark, damp, and stormy weather. Heavy
rains antici pated. The river fell rapidly
since Monday evening, but the renewed
rains will check the decline in some mea-
sure. The Missouri has fallen some eight
feet IN, all TO date. The Illinois and Upper
Mississippi are also falling Business on
the wharf and rivers is by no means dull.
they want, both out and in.r gn ffs-
AT Nashville, on Saturday, United States
Marshal Glascock sold the steamboat Ada
Lyon, on a process for debt, for the sum of
$3.50 one-fourth cash, the balance in
was Mr.. A. I'll. Edwards, of Evansville.
A Cairo dispatch TO the Democrat says:
The Masonic Gem was destroyed by fire
last night at Paducah; had neither paSSen-
gers or freight; boat nOtyery valuable, and
fully insured; watchman slightly burned
trying to save books and papers. n
Manifest of steamer j. p. Webb, from
Nashville-Rrown, DunkerSon IL Co.. 33
hhds tobacco; Morris Ranger, 81 do; Re-
shipping, 20 do; Ragon & Dickey, pkg,
bags cotton; Hodge, Carr a. Co, s bbls
whisky; w b. Ellington. large lot scrap
iron; e.. Dickey.s i band box; Head a.
Moony, l pkg; Fred Kroener, II ale bbls,
lot ale boxes.
Cumberland falling slowly at Nashville
with feet on HaIpeth Shoals.