The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-23
GIeanings from Our Exchanges.


CINcINNATI-The Commercial of Tuesday
says:
The weather Yesterday was mild and
clear, with the mercury at 1872 At Pitts
burgh the river is falling, with 30 inches in
the channel. the Kanawha is falling, with
30 inches in the channel. Here the river
rose inch yesterday morning, and is now
about on a stand, with feet on the shoal-
est bars hence to Louisville. There are
feet inches in the canal. e.t
The new Dean Line" steamer Samuel
]. Hale was launched from Mack's Mills
yesterday morning at 10 O'Clock. The
| launch was decided success:
Dispatches received yesterday report the
sinking of the Pochontas in NJ issouri river.
She was insured in Cincinnati for 81 800.
Capt. Selby, and others of the Clermont.
Cincinnati and New Richmond daily
trade. Capt. Sam. Barr, Jr., late of the
office of the Northern Line packet Bur-
lington, passed through the city yesterday,
en- route from ST. Louis to Pittsburgh. H
- The reporters of the Cincinnati papers
are trying to impute the cholera visitation
in that quarter to something green in the
river The Enquirer has the following:
1.-The river at this point presents a very
green and stagnant appearance, which we
are at a loss to account for. The river is
very low, and has been so before, yet the
water then was of clear white color. An
old settler informs US that the river, in 1882,
when ch olera was SO bad in this country,
presented the same appearance
In 1868 the river was peculiarly green,
but we did not hear of any cholera that
season. .3A
LoUIsvILLE.-The Courier of Tuesday
says: T--a -r sae~ rs I'D
The river was rising rather fast yester-
! day, with feet5 inches in the can ] last
evening at dark by the mark. During the
previous "a hours the river has risen one
foot at the head of the falls, and fully
three feet at Portland. That is a good rise,
and a great improvement to the naVlga,
ton below the falls. The weather was cool
and clear all day, the thermometer down
on the falls there were two feet five
inches wafer in the pass down the lndIan
chute, and the river still rising. Inc
rise at the foot of the falls has been
! fully four feet altogether, when VIII greitt-
ly improve the channel-depth of the Lower
Ohio, where navigation had again become
We learn from the officers of the Victor
that the Kate Robinson, from Memphis,
ran into q reef or pile OF rocks at stephens
port, where she lodged, hard ana fast. Ihat
accounts for her non-arr1val yesterday.
ST. LoU1s.-The Democrat, of Tuesday,
says: ta ru
The river continues rising, with seven
feet reported to KeokuI, eight feet to Cairo,
and a good navigable stage to st. Paul. The
Illinois is stationary with five feet in the
channel, Business on the river is really
dull and VIII continue so, no doubt, for a
few weeks. Travel is pretty good in some
directions for instance, the keokuk packet
arriving on Sunday morning, mad % pas
sengerS on board.
We hear that the carpenter of the South
wester died yesterday morning of cholera.
and that there have been several cases up
| the Illinois, on the Amaranth, Beardstown,
and Lotus but no cases at all in the towns
along the Illinois River.
CAIRo.-The Democrat of Tuesday says:
We are panied to record the death of an
old river friend, Capt. Charles Smedley.
He died very suddenly at Padacah, on last
| ing family, a wife and little daughter, and
| many river men to mourn his loss.
David PiersOn, an old river mate thai
had an attack of the cholera and was com.
| PEELED to stop off of the steamer Ruth, Is
J now conValescent.