The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-17

seven feet three inches water in the canal
last evening by the mark. During the pre-
yiouS twenty four hours it had risen nine
inches at the head of the falls, and twenty
seven inches at Portland. Inc weather has
turned unseasOnably cold, the thermome-
ter at 60 at noon, with some lndlcation9s, u
frost Sunday night and again last night.
On the 18th of last May we had WInIe
frost, and on the 18th the river was at nlgh
tide with ffty-two feet water IN the cnah-
on the falls last evening there were five
feet three inches water in the pass down
the Indian Chute, and the river Slowly
swelling.
The rise, as we stated yesterday, was from
the head waters of the Kentucky anu
good tide may as certainly be looked ior IN
the Cumberland, KanaWha, big 5anuy,
and the Monongahela. The stormy Weatner
and cool northern atmosphere, SUNDAY
night, are tokens of rain along the AHe-
gheny.
The Democrat, of Tuesday, in addition to
one item stolen from the Cincinnati Com
naercial and one from the Evansville Jour
nal, says:
A girl i'm Cincinnati wanted to come TO
this CITY: she had no money; she loved
cifcus man; she donned male AZURE anu
shipped steward of boat; she was arrest
ed and put in another Su1t(e) OF rooms. 4He
cell - she didn't like.
Business on the wharf yesterday was
very dull. The only excitement was the
fire which occurred yes teri y 9onnd n
| our local columns. There were but Two
boats lying here-the Hope. loading Ior
| Vicksburg, and the Bermuda, awaiting,
| like Micawber, for g something to turn up
Cons. Miller and ourself can furnish any
amount of ite.as for the river editor of the
Democrat: and if he will send us short
poem weekly, we will say nothing about
the duty of credits.
ST. LOUIS. The Democrat of Tuesday
says:
| The river rose two inches yesterday If
| the fine warm weather OF yesterday con-
tinues a few days, We shall hear OF an ac-
| CELEBRATED decline in all the upper rivers.
! At present navigation is good above, ana,
almost without exception, nearly every
| where else.
/ Capt. Maratta is loading the Emma NO NO:
| for PittSburg, to leave this evening. Sne
/ is new and fine steamer. The 1OrktoWn
/ and Blackford are also announced Tor the
i Ohio. essse
A Cairo dispatch to the Democrat dated
/ Monday, says: .fs.sr tsssfsz.T
i pecanoe and Oneoata, departed for New
i Orleans at noon, amid a general rejoicing
/ of SteambOatmen. afefsfff
CArRo.-We CLEAN from the Cairo Demo
cyot the remarkable fact that the river edi-
tor of that paper stole, bodiaciously, oul
item relative to the German who, made
crazy by the Memphis mob, jumped over
board from the N1inneoIa. If he Is the
same fellow who tried to run theatre here
"once upon Time" we are not surprised
1t is not the first thing he has got from the
JOURNAL for nothing.
MEMPHIs.-The appeal of Monday says
The weather yesterday was hot, in every
| sense of the word, in fact 1t was Amos
broiIing hot about noon. Business was
dull upon the leyee, and we may look 10
| this state of things to continue tor seVera
weeks now. The river is still falling at tnt
rate of 4inches in "a hours.
An absurd story is going the ROUNDS
our exchanges about q German passenge
on the Minneola, who had been frlgntenet
; out of his wits by the riots here, and In a ii
| of insanity who leaped overheard ana wa
| drowned. Just above ShawneetoWn. w
know nothing of him or the story, furthe
than we have seen in the Cincinnati pa
pers. but are satisfied that Cincinnati bust
head whisky had more 10 do with II tnal
the riots. M
That story originated with us, and on
authority was gentleman of intelligenc
J and veracity, who was passenger ON tn
Minneola, and knew of what he spoke
The Cincinnati Commercial investigated tn
case and found il true as stated, and ais
learned the name of the unfortunate mar
! We do not see why the Memphis paper
should deem the story absurd. Everybod
il not as familiar with Memphis mobs q
4 | are her own citizens.