The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-09-08

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STEAMBOAT PRINTING.
No printing establishment in the West
has better facilities or greater ability foi
doing fine Steamboat Printing. Our assort-
ment of Job Type, though very large and
! complete, is constantly being added to, and
our Job department is under the personal
supervision of one of the best job printers
in the United States We are prepared To
print Posters, plain or fancy, Bill Heads
Bills Lading, Cards, Deck and Meal Tick
cts, Bills of Fare, Mates Tickets for Labor
&C., &c. Orders left with either of the
wharf-boats will be promptly attended to.
River and Weather.
The weather continues cloudy and cool.
with some rain yesterday morning. Mer-
curry $50 at noon. At Pittsburg the river
Is rising, with 81 feet in the channel. At
Cincinnati it is falling, with feet on the
shoalest bars to Louisville. Here it had
risen about foot during the twenty four
hours ending at three o'clock yesterday.
1t will be found falling this morning.
There is feet ON the shoaiest bars from
Louisville to Cairo.
Arrivals and Departures.
The only arrivals and departures up to
three o'clock yesterday were the Nash
vile, Cairo and return, and Newsboy,
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Boats Due. G
Among the first boats due here
are the Sherman and Harry Dean,
for Memphis; Camelia and Tails
man, from st. Louis; Kate Robinson, from
Memphis; Argosy, from New Orleans;
Navigator, Silver Spray, Armad1llo and
Argonaut, to New Orleans; Charmer,
from Cairo; Nightingale, for st. Louis /;
Van Buren,, for Arkansas River; Tarascon
and ]. T. McCombs, from Louisville.
miscellaneous.
Business was duh on the levee yesterday
morning, with scarcely any arrivals ...
The Nashville had very slim trip yester-
day morning, but had fair prospect of
good trip out........The Newsboy had fair
trip up......We saw yesterday at the copper
and sheet iron workshops of Nichaus &
Bickman, one of the tops OF the new
smoke-stacks of the grand Armada. 1t is
a perfect beauty, the design of that distin-
guished artist, Capt. j. ". Throop. The
top is about five feet high, with ring
around its base, about six feet in diameter,
then flares out gracefully, and eliminates
with massive ring at the top, eight feet
in diameter. The stacks will be forty feet
high above the breeching, and thirty feet
above the hurricane deck............We were
panied to learn yesterday that J. v. Throop
was sick, but hope he is not seriously Ill.
Boats Leaving To-Day.
For CAIRo.-The Phantom will light out
at o'clock to-day for Cairo and all way
ports. Capt. Tom Boluss is in command,
and Charley Irwin is in the Office. Char
ley is polite and attentive, and makes his
passengers comfortable. Billy Hass has
charge of the freight department at pres
ent.
For LoUIsvILLE.-The grand lTarascon
Captain Jim Lusk, is the regular mail boat
for Louisville this evening. She is a grand
floating palace. John Ouerbacher is her
passage clerk. Arthur Field and Billy
are her distinguished freight
Clerks, and Dabney Page is her unex-
celled steward. Everybody travels on the
Tarascon, and her passengers live like
princes. sa
GIeanings from Our Exchanges.
CINCINNATI.-The Commercial of Thurs
day says:
The weather was cloudy and mild yester-
day with rain during the morning, and the
mercury ranging at 76o degrees at noon. At
the channel. The Kanawha is stationary,
with 81 inches in the channel Here the
river is receding slowly, with six feet on
the shoalest bars hence to Louisville.
The Altoona re-Shipped her Memphis
freight on the sherman yesterday, and will
not return to Memphis until next week.
Capt. J. S. Wise, Superintendent of the
Nashville and Cincinnati Packet Conn
pany, is refitting the Rowena, Rebecca,
Emma Floyd and Havana for the coming
season. As soon as the Cumberland is
navigable, the steamers of this line will be
on the track again, with new outfits and
flying colors.
LoUIsvILnE.-The Coaerier of Friday
says: 4sla 5oH
The river was falling last evening, with
five water in the canal by the mark. Dnr-
ing the previous t'venty-four hours 1t had
fallen four inches at the head of the falls,
and one foot at Portland. The weather
was cool yesterday, the thermometer at
noon ranging at 70.
On the falls last evening there was three
feet water in the pass down the Indian
chute, and slowly falling. .aa
The river was expected to fall almost as
suddenly as 1t had risen, as the late rains
had not been general, or of very long du=
ration. If the rise had exterded along the
Kentucky river, or to the mountains, a
good tide would have followed.
The Democrat of Thursday says:
The Rose Hite being aground, there is no
packet for Henderson to-day. Captain
Head Center of the line, has gone
down with lot of Chicago lottery tickets
in his hat to see if he can't dTGt0 Rose off.
He wants her.
We never heard of Chicago Concert tick
cts drawing anything.
ST.. LoUIs.-The Democrat of Thursday
says: -
The rives has risen slightly here. An I'M
expected and considerable rise has taken
place in the Ohio. Dubuque papers note
continued decline, but some of the side
streams below that point have swelled.
There is water enough tor the Northern,