The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-11-27

times gone by he had the America. Taller
and. Jas johnson and e. Howard In tnss
trade an boats of the1aEgest size ana a. /
nous In their day The Amerlca wss boa
in Southern waters. The NasnVlue sS0zesss
has the following:
% ANrgoUNcEMENT ExTRAoRD1EAkx.-A4
our columns this morning, win be found
an advertisement, giving notice o. tne oe-
parEure of the steamer David Wntte lOr
New Orleans on Saturday next. Il l. 60
90 long suspended. The last steamer ao-
vertised for New Orleans direct, was the
James Woods, COMMANDED by Capt. p Wm.
That was on the l4th day Of May, 1861, and
what makes 1t more important as htstort-
cal record. it was on our birthday. she
was then heavily laden with tobacco, ready
to leave her mooring, when an order was
received from the powers that be requir-
ing the craft to come to o halt. The boat
was again unloaded, and in lew DAYS
workmenn were engaged in transferring
her into gunboat"
The City of Alton picked up snag
below Randolph, which broke four bucket
blanks, the after wheel beam on the lar
board side, and ran up through the gang
way between her wheel-house and cabin,
and through the hurricane roof. She, how
ever repaired damages sufficiently TO en-
able her to still use the wheel until she
reaches St. Louis, where permanent re-
LoU1sv1L1E.-The Democrat, of Saturday
says:
Day before yesterday the Louisville, in
| backing out ftom Jeffersonville to start
| over the falls, broke tiller-rope. The ".
| ]. May turned her nose towards the falls
| and the rope was Bpliced in time to take
her over safe.
sr. Lou1s.--The Democrat Of Saturday
says:
business is drying mp as the Northern
| ice comes nearer. About the first news
nom g. Paul, Lasalie. and Omaha. Will
be n01s aea %i
| take nobody by surprise, as 1t is expected
/ TO happen every year about the same
| time, Shipments are still liberal to New
Orleans, Memphis and Johnsonville, but
slow to the upper rivers, the Ohio, White
4 and Arkansas, and the Nashville trade is
the deuce was it begun for. The Little
Rock was announced for the Cumberland,
but has Withdrawn. The weather was
pleasant yesterday, although ponds and
cutters froze during the night
MEMPH1s.-we are blessed with beauti-
full weather-coOi, but only enough SO TO
make it pleasant. Business upon the land
Ing was not OF rns11a ety ~ ronno to T
ceiye and discharge freight for all steamers
| that lay at the leyee.
as is also the Arkansas, st. francis and
| White Rivers. At this point the river has
| risen about four inches In the past tweney.
We have an article, handed to us by. O
friend. in which many OF our shippers are
shown up, in anything but enviable terms
In connectioc with the custom teo prevail
ton on particular boats. 1t is very discred-
liable to all concerned, and should be dis
continued. We. learn that cur regular
packets in some instances have to resort tc
this way of competing with outside boats
| Where boat signs bill Of lad1ng at 81 81
per bale for cotton anS Inc supper q ppr5 "a y
] to him in the shape OF re-b&tts we fail u
| see the justice of It. We will have more tC
10 say On this subject In DAY or J 5wS;
| and departed after taking on board few
| bales OF cotton. Capt Jesse Dean has M
especial love for this place, not having roT
He should not bear resentment, as we ar.
| thoroughly harmonfzed noW-have beef
shown the evil OF our ways, and VII o 2,
have the names of our business men who
r aS you say, have robbed you OF 81 800, w
, will take pleasure in publishing them 1
asn't pleasant, captain, 10 nave all cnarac
terixed as swtndlers.
> From an Eastern paper we clip the fol
lowing:
> The steamship Great Republic, whicl
= was launched at New York on Thursday
| Is to be the largest American vessel eve
built. Her dimensions are as follows
| Extreme length, three hundred and eight.
D | feet; breadth of beam, fifty feet; depth
! thirty-one feet six inches. Her custom
/ mouse ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS rs AOoA ~A&O0Sss-AN~ -
hundred tons, and her carpenters meas
r urement about five thousand three hun
dred tons. She is planked over her tim
bers and diagonally strapped with irol
0 bands on the outside, as well as on the in
= side, with bands i've inches wide. She
also doubly planked over the straps out
| side, and Is the strongest as well as tn
q largest wooden vessel afioat. She is 9
have an upright beam-engine, with Cyl
b inder one hundred and i've inches diam
: eter and twelve feet stroke of piston. He
a wheels are forty feet In diameter.