The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-20


RIVER N WS. .
| rF- STEAMBOAT PRINTING.
| No printing establishment in the West
has better facilities or greater aolilty 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 = under the personal
/ in the United States. We are prepared to
| print Posters, plain or fancy, Bill Heads,
Bills Ladings cards. Dec * ana Meal f Tick
| &C. &C. Orders LETT with either of The
wharf-boats will be promptly attended TO.
River and Weather.
The Weather On Saturday was clear and
hot, the mercury sOo in the shade at noon.
The river was falling fast, and numerous
camel backs have made their appearance
on the bar opposite the upper part of the
| city. There is only three feet large on the
shoalest bars to Louisville and Cairo, but
steamboatmen expect the cutting out pro-
| cess to begin at once, when navigation will
| improve, as the channel will be better de-
fined. Navigation is still suspended at
Pittsburg.
Arrivals and Departures.
/
day afternoon include the Tarascon, LOUIS
vile and return; Palestine, Louisville to
| Memphis; Rose Hambleton, St. Louis to-
Cincinnati; Phantom, Cairo and return;
Newsboy, Henderson and return: Rose
Hite, Louisville and return, and sherman,
Cincinnati to Memphis.
| Boats Due.
Among the first boats due here are the
Mary Erwin, Nightingale, and Talisman,
| from St. Louis; Tarascon, from Louis
Vile; Lorena, for New Orleans; Phan-
tom, from Cairo; Mariner, for Memphis;
Kate Robinson and Naugatuck, from
Memphis; Argosy and Maggie Hays, from
New Orleans; and j. p. Webb, from
| GAINESVILLE.
Miscellaneous.
A press of other duties monopolized our
time the exclusion of q late maritime
report on Friday night........ The Tarascon
arrived at dark with good trip''"'''"The
Palestine, with a full cargo, passed down
| to Cairo. The Rose Hambleton, from st.
Louis passed up with a moderate trip.
The Phantom came in about 81 o'clock
| Saturday morning with a moderate trip.
Charley Irwin and Jesse Berdsall are asso-
! ciated in the Office, and are an attractive
| feature of the boat. She got fair trip
out......... Business early in the day on Sat-
| urCiay was confined chiefly to the water
mellon trade, the Tarascon and Phantom
each getting about z, 000,........ We are glad to
learn that Capt. Lusk has recovered! his
watch, chain and part of his money. The
thief was caught in Louisville, to which
| place he had returned from Concordia,
| where he bought a horse with q
part of the Captains greenbacks.
| His name is Jim Robinson, alias Ryan.
| He is q precious villain, and is now in Jail
i waiting shipment to Frankfort. Captain
Jim may now be asked the time o. day.
| with impunity .....We had the pleasure
on Saturday of meeting Mr.. Henry A.
johnson, of the mammoth Cairo wharf boat
in the city prospecting. He reports bust
ness ull at Cairo. but business men hopeful
.-.Supervisary Inspector Gutherie gives an
important notice to steamboat owners and
officers. Col GEtherie will be here in
day or two Commodore Mitchell, on
Friday evening, brought a crowd of peo-
pie from Newburg on the Minyoung, to
attend the Which ovation, and re-
| turned at midnight. The party ex-
/ pressed themselves much pleased with
the Commodore and his favorite......
The Sherman arrived yesterday fore
noon, with good trip for Memphis. She
discharged large lot of freight here, in
Guiding 100 kegs of nails for Ragon &
| Dickey..a....The bell-boat and barge lie
yet beside the wreck of the Missouri, but
we cannot see that anything is being done
ON the wreck.......-A raft of saw-logs stuck
on the bar on Friday afternoon and broke
to pieces. Men in skiffs gathered up the
fragments in piecemeal.
Boats Leaving To-Day.
For CAIRo.-T The beautiful Charmer,
Captain Billy Lowth, is the elegant packet
for Cairo at o'clock to-day. She is ad-
mirabiy appointed. Billy Fowler and
Geo. Nicholson are her popular and atten-
tive Clerks. ANS -see.rr ~. I
For LoUIsvILLE.--The elegant John
Thomas McCombs is the regular packet
for louisville this morning, at 8 o'clock.
Capt. Ed. Order, a. veteran officer, is in
command, and Miles d. Warren, proverbi-
al for his arabic and courteous manners,
is her passage Clerk. Go for the McCombs.
She Is neat, clean and feet. E,set III sfiat
4 : OFFICE SUPERVISING INSPECTOR
Il 81 ~ EVANSVILLE, IND, Aug. ~, 1866. Z
Rtuer Reporter Of the Evansville journal: lfo
4 SIR-Congress on the 18th OF July passed
a stea1nbo bill, the Sd section of which
requires Lock safety valve, to be APPROX
ed by the Supervising Inspector, to be
placed ON every steam boat bOller8df 0l Vi
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