The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-08
BOATS leaving To-Day.


Boats Leaving To-Day.
| For CAIRo.-The fleet and elegant little
Phantom, Captain Tom Boluss, leaves to-
| day at 2 o'clock for Cairo and all way
ports. Charley Irwin is her elegant pas
| sage Clerk, and T. L. Conant is her freight
| Clerk. Passengers and shippers will be
well cared for.
FOR LoUIsyILLE.-The superb Rose Hite
is the popular packet for Louisville and
way ports this evening. Captain Aaron
Ballard is her elegant commander, and
| George Patterson, one of the most pleas
ant young gentlemen extant, her chief
Clerk. For a pleasant trip to Louisville
take the Rose Hite. t yf t.
For GREEN RIvER.-The ever reliable
Ada Lyon is the regular Green River
packet this evening. She has fine passen-
ger appointments, and her officers are
pleasant gentlemen.
| GIeanings from Our Exchanges.
CINCINNATI.-The Commercial of Monday
| says:
| The weather yesterday was clear and
| beautiful At Pittsburg the. river is fall
| ing with I6 inches in the channel There
is feet in the Kanawha, and falling.
| Here the river is falling slowly, with 81
| feet in the channel. '@fft1
LoUIsvILLE. The Courier of Monday
says:
The river continues falling rather fast.
with only AZ feet water in the canal last
evening by the mark. During the pre-
vious forty eight hours it had fallen II
inches at the head of the falls. and, fully 3
feet at Portland. The weather continues
clear and remarkably pleasantfon the sea-
son of the year, the thermometer ranging
not higher than SOC in the shade. f'I =
| On. the falls there We're only 80 inches
water in the pass dowA the Indian chute,
and falling.9 This is fast reducing the river
to its former low stage, and we may re-
| mark that it is gradually drying up.nf4
The swift Morning Star, in full repair,
came down from Cincinnati Friday night,
where she had been hauled out o. the Ma
trine Ways. She descended the falls Satur-
| day morning, under the guidance of Capt.
/ Pink Varbie, drawing all the water in the
chute, her paddles actually walking her
over the reefs or Lodges of rocks on either
side of the pass. SIT hga baffHl5- ana,
The, flags of the boats in port Saturday
were at half-mast as s. token of respect to
the memory of the late Captain John
ShallcrOss, His funeral Saturday evening
was attended by a large number of friends
and former associates on the river. There
were eight ll-bearers, six of whom were
former Steamboat Captains and owners.
The first steamer he ever, commanded
was the Favorite, somewhere about the
years of 1872 or 1924, when steamboating
was in its infancy, and a voyage to New
Orleans q momentous affair.
The FaVOrite was a Northern steamer,
heavy hull, with cabin in the hold, brought
round to New Orleans by sea-a venture
didn't pay very well. Size left New Or
leans for Louisville with only 100 kegs of
nails for her freight list and only one pas
| senger-Lieut. Zach. Taylor. On the arri-
val of the boat at Louisville she was sold
| to John Thompson Gray, who then had
warehouse at Shippingsport. He paid Sl3,-
$50 for the FavOrite, and placed John
Shallcross in command, with the title OF
| Captain. The very first trip She made
ST, 900, ror half the purchase money, and
continued her career until burned by the
river pirates that then infested the Mis-
sissippi river.
ST. LoU1s.-The Democrat of Monday
says: ~ III
The decline here is now rapid, ten or
| twelve inches per day. The cutting out
process in the Missouri and Upper Mlss1s-
sippi DELAYS the arrival of the ground
ing season in those streams, but they are
goWing down rapidly and surely. There
is four and half feet scant IN the Missouri.
There is four feet scant in the Upper
| Mississippi to Keokuk, and about thirty
| inches on the worst bars to st. Paul. The
! Illinois is declining, with four feet to
| Naples but only about two feet water ON
| the worst place, which is at Lake Greek,
| four miles below Peoria. The weather is
| hot but cooler at night. Business is good
| for the season. Rates of freight have i'm
| proved in the Missouri. The rates to New
/ Orleans, Memphis, and many other points,
are to be advanced to-day.
MEMPHIs.-The appeal of Saturday says:
Yesterday was quite warm though not
disagreeabiy so, and we have almost begun
to hope that the dog days are over. BUSH
ness was active on the levee as 1T always is
on Friday. The river is rising last and
since our last report has risen one foot.
NEW ORLEANs.-The TIMES of Friday
says: