The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-07-31

RIVER y EWS.
STEAMBOAT PRINTING.
No printing establishment in the West
has better facilities or greater ability for
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
superyision of one of the best job printers
in the United States. We are prepared to
print Posters plain or fancy B BIZ Hleaids'
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 yesterday was clear and
very hot the theImome, er showing S4o in
the shade at o'clock, and rising like the
river, rapidly, until it reached o. at two
o'clock A cool north wind prevailed in
the early part of the day, which was pleas /
ant to breathe, but it scarcely modified the |
searching heat. The river was rising fast |
at 10 o'clock yesterday, having I1sen over |
thirty inches during the night, and ~ |
inches during the three hours preceding |
that time. After falling few inches at
Cincinnati it commenced rising again, and |
at latest advices was rising at the rate of
four inches per hour@ rise certainly UNI
precedented in the history of the Ohio
River, at this season of the year. The
rains of last week were unusually heavy
and very general.
Arrivals and Departures.
The arrivals and departures up to three
o'clock yesterday include the Armada and
Nashville, Cairo to Evansville; Advance,
| Nashville to Evansville; j. I. McCombs,
Henderson-to Louisville.
Boats Due.
Among the first boats due here are the
Talisman, for st. Louis; Columbia and
! Altoona, from st. Louis; Golden Eagle, for
Memphis; Liberty No. and Ella Faber.
! from Memphis Tarascon, from Louisville;
Phantom, from Cairo Ada Lyon, from
Green River; Maggie Hays, Messenger,
and Silver Cloud, for New Orleans; and
Argosy, from New Orleans.
miscellaneous.
| The water yesterday morninghad entire
! ly covered the new sewer commenced at
the foot of Sycamore Street. and had risen
in three hours % inches. Halls wharf
boat is rapidly being hid from view, the
| water being oven the office floor on the out
side Capt. Hall informs us that she is not
broken in the least, except a portion of her
guard ...... Business seemed quite brisk. -.
The Armada come in.a at midnight on Sun
day with medium packet trip. She had
81 hhds Tobacco, and a. large lot OF iniscel-
Ianeous freight, and large number ofpeo-
ple... The Nashville had about an equal
| freight trip and fair passenger list. she
arrived at O'Clock yesterday ........ The Nc
Combs left with good packet trip ........ The
n. w. G. towhoat passed down yesterday
light and running like a loose locomotive.
....Another large towboat passed down
in the afternoon, with large tow OF coal
CAPTAIN Allen Duncan of the Sam Orr, we
regret to learn, was called suddenly to
Martin County Springs yesterday morning,
by reason of the dangerous illness of one
of his chiIdre ......... Captain Sch@nlaub, of
the mammoth wharf boat of r.. X. Dunker-
son & Co., of New Albany, is in The city
with his family looking well.
Beats Leaving To-Day.
For CAIRo-The grand Armada, the
Queen of the Daily Mail line, goes to Cairo
at clock to-day. She is the most pleas
ant and fleet boat on the lower Ohio, and
her officers, Capt. ]. v. Throoc, Billy Dunn
and VAL Sorenson, are deservedly popular
gentlemen.
The CAV Nashville is the g Opposition
| Peoples Line packet 4OI CStlIp Stb Z y NiOCzA
!; and is a comfortable packet we'll apLoint-
ed and commanded by agreeable officers
Capt. G. r. Rudd is her head center, hile
: Capt. Jones and Billy Bently radiate in hel
office, and Kit Rudd has charge of tn,
freight department..
For LoUIsvILLE.-The great TaTascon il
/. the regular packet for Louisville and WAY
points at 8 O'Clock this evening. Her chic
an
|. tIemen, Capt. Jim Lus<, John Ouerbacker
;. Arthur Field, and Billy Stephenson, a su
! perbl quartette.
9 For EAsTPoRT.-The fleet and elegan
# Sam. Orr leaves for PASSPORT and way land
y ing at o'clock to-day, promptly. She ha
comfortable passenger accommodations, i
remarkably fast, and her officers are ex
tremely pleasant and accommodating gen
tIemen.
III For HENDERsoN.-The Gewsboy vii
leave for Henderson at the usual hour thi
evening. Capt. Perkins will be pleased t
see his friends aboard early.
Gleanings from our Exchanges.
LoUIsvILLE-The Courier of Saturda
! says: 81,
l. eight feet of water IN the canal In the eve
k ming by the mark. During the previous
4 hours it had risen two feet at the wharf q
head of the falls, and fully six feet at Por1
II land, making Il feet of water out over tn
bar.
The weather was again sultry an
cloudy, with rain in the forenoon, and tn
u mercury IS in the shade.
y On the falls last evening there were full
FIVE feet of steamboat water over the roch
down the Indian chute, and six feet in tn
pass and the river still swelling.
The bulk of the present high tide, as sJs
L ted yesterday was from the Kentuck
river, particularly Eagle Creek, which VIZ
N. swollen over its laalzs, sweeping ava
n houses and trees, and doing an 1mneh'
. amount of damage.
N. The Kentucky River at Frankfort ma
risen feet which, together with the swe
in the other tributaries, viii make q goo
tide