The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-12-29
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RIVER NEWS.
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| STEAMBOAT PRINTING.
No printing establishment in the West
has better facilities or greater ability FOR
doing fine Steamboat Printing. Our assert
meft of Job Type, though very Large and
complete, is constantly being added to. and
oar job department is under the personal
supervision of one of the best jon printers
Ina the United States. We are prepared to
print Posters, plain or fancy. Bill Heads,
Bills Lading,, Cards, Deck ana Meal Tick
cts, Bills of Fare. Mates Tickets for Labor.
4c., SC Orders left with either OF the
"nari-Doats Will De promptly attended to-.
Weather and Water. t5a Z
CINCINNATI, Dec. 81 PM.-River risen
rect 10 inches, with now "A feet inches
water In the channel. Weather clear.
thermometer 1872
PITTsBURG, Dec. S-Noon.-Riyer 7 feet
lncnes, and falling. Weather very cold.
The weather is glorious = nearly clear.
dry, and cold, with the mercury ranging
from 32o down to Ito above Zero The river
is falling rapidly, having declined about
10 inches during the twenty-four hours
ending at noon yesterday; and If this
cold snap" continues, the decline will be
very rapid. &.
Arrivals and Departures.
The arrivals and departures up to three
O'Clock yesterday include the Henry Ames,
New Orleans to Louisville; Wild Wagner,
Louisville 10 New Orleans; Newsboy. Hem
derson and return David Watts, Memphis
10 Evansville ~ ' $500,
+b- Boats Due. ~
Among the first boats due here are the
Havana. for Nashville; Shamrock. to st.
Louis; Naugatuck, from st. Louis; Rebec-
ca. from Nashville; Robert Burns, Sam. J..
Hale, and St. Cloud, for Memphis; Mes.
senger, Amazon, p. w. Strader, StonewalI. |
and Osceola, for New Orleans; Louisville j
and Westmoreland, from New Orleans: i
Charrner and Quickstep, from Cairo: Tar
ascon and Morning Star, from Louisville; 4
Lawrence and Mary Erwin, for Arkansas |
River; J. P. Webb and Clifton, from Meme /
phis;- Phantom, from Eastport. Il .ao.5om /
5m ~ oia instantaneous, t' -
The influence of the cold weather is tell.
ing rapidly on the stage of the river.
Business is lively on the levee, and New 1
Orleans and Memphis boats, and the regu. r
lar packets, are carrying off large quar1tfLd
ties of freight........The Henry Ames. find
ing Slim pickings at Cairo, has again gone
20 Louisville, passing up during Thursday
night with a slim trip She is advertised |
20 leave Louisville to-day The wild
arrived before daylight with |
rood trip, and added largely here. She got
800 sacks of corn and considerable lot o.
'ork and other freight. .........The Liberty
llso received large additions to her trip on
Thursday night.........The David Watts ar |
al 7 ND oao 4
,ales of cotton for w. d. Gonter. agent of
he Southwestern Fast Freight Line She
vent to Newburg last evening for lot of
lay and corn, and returns to Memphis this
vening, and will have room for freight
nd few passengers...-.A tow-boat ar
lived from below in the afternoon and
anded below the dry dock. We could not
earn her name.....~.T The Armada was re-
Giving a very fine trip yesterday, includ-
ng large lot of whisky and pork for re- n
She will transfer her trip to the
am Orr and return here to go out with the
to-day.
Boats Leaving To-Day.
For CAIRo.-The Sam. Orr, a regular rat
er to run, is the regular u. S. Mail and
dams Express packet for Cairo and all y
ay landings to-day. She is a fine boat.
nd chief officers, Capt A. Duncan, Val.
orrenson, and VIM. Ttleston, are as clever
,ntlemen as are found anywhere. Ev.c VI
The Quickstep will, we presume, also &C
ave for Cairo again to day, in command Ii
5 Capt. I'll. I. Dexter, with Charley, bravo y
the Office. r4.. ~
For LoUIsyILLE.-The great Tarascon il
e indispensable U. s. Mail and Adams, %
Kpress fleet favorite packet for Louisville
is evening. She Is most elegantly ap- pa
tinted, and has no rival in speed. Capt. ~
L. Gilmore, an experienced and accom- ap
lshed officer, is in command, and John WI
Ierbacker, highly accomplished and Ac
pular gentleman, is her chief clerk. with So
elk Hutchinson in the Office. She goes Bl
rough on railroad time. Dabney Page
IDS the people. :
foR GREEN RIvER.-The VIM. White win
urn to Green River this evening, and ia '.-I
Ieasant boat to travel on. Captain A. e
lnkwater is In command, and Pat Burke
n the office. The elegant Ada Lyon will e
Q leave for Green River, we presume
S evening, in. charge of those popular
ltlemen, Captains Edwards and Graham So.
? has fine passenger appointments. Ro
OR MEMPHIs.-The excellent freight
passenger packet, David Watts. win
We for Memphis and all way points -
urday evening. Captain Charles PEN E
| w. d. Millikin are her polite and at dun
tive officers. 2"h 5-t.1 per
- haIlE zfnI 4l9n4 sgrA 59 - per
sAe8namgs from oar E1cRRAmweM siol
INCISN ATI.-The Cp,,,,,er1f1 ~ rrIl- :. I anc
says: 81 M r,
aesday night between eight and nine ma
Ock, the Silver Spray bound for New the
cans for Cincinnati, and the IJnifad the
tes, bound from Cincinnati for Louis are
G, hcollided in East Bend, The Silver II
ay's bow struck the United States on via
larboard side, opposite the ash pan. II L Cl
ming out one guard to the cook house to n
United States ran on a bar n short | 9 A
ance from where the collision oc- TEL
led, and discovering the hnII was ali Stai
It. went back to the Silver Spray. and Chi
that she required no assist am@m
3, proceeded on her trip to Louisville -