The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-12-28
THE EVANSVILLE DAILY JOURNAL FRIDAY DECEMBER g. 1856

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NAsHvILLE.-The Union and Dispatch, OF
| Tuesday, says:
The river was falling rapidly yesterday,
| with about nine feet water on Harpeth
| Shoals. The weather last night indicated
The Tyrone arrived from Cairo, and de-
parted for the same port .'7.li,' s"
The Dora arrived to-day from st. Louis.
| and will depart to-day on her return trip.
The Rebecca arrived in port, Sunday
night, from Cincinnati, heavily loaded.
She will leave tomorrow. 20" 10 20 ''i-8
The st. Louis papers furnish the follow
| ing particulars of the sinking of the Grey
Eagle on Wednesday of last week:
SINKING OF THE GREY EAGLE.-The stern
wheel tow-boat Grey Eagle, recently pur-
chased by Capt. Oscar Postal, of Memphis,
for $780, was sunk at O'Clock on Wednes-
day afternoon by striking the sunken hui
| of the Imperial, about abreast of the city
| gas works. The Grey Eagle had been on
| the docks for repairs, and was thence
steaming up town to receive her outfit to
go to Mem phis, when the collision took
| place, and in ten minutes her lower deck
was three feet under water. There were
seven persons on board, who were taken
I off by Sklf sent from shore. The bow of
the Grey Eagle was left six feet under wa
| ter, and the stern just out of the water.
The hull can doubtless be raised and saved,
but it is thought the bottom isiabout torn
of. Capt. Postal was on board, and in
charge at the time.
MEMPHIS. The appeal, OF Sunday, says:
The weather was sultry and gloomy yes
terdaY, but business on the levee was ac-'
tive, and the local packets departed with
good trips. The Ohio is rising all the way
down. The Mississippi at st. Louis is
about on stand, and is falling fast here.
New ORLEANs.-The Times, of Sunday,
says: FlaIssf.fs y 42a ~ oah f.
The weather yesterday continued like
that OF Its predecesSor-fine and pleasant
throughout. Business ON the landing APP
peared to be more animated. There was an
unusually large number OF departures the
greater part of which took out good trips. &
There were but few arrivals, among
which we notice the steamer Mary E. For
Fsyth from St. Louis, the New Era and Ma
tional from Red River. The two latter
steamers brought in very good trips of cot
yesterday, as advertised. The New Era
tried hard to- get her creighton board, but.
the scarcity of labor prevented her. l,4sfs u
fI As the Fashion was backing out from
the-wharf, we noticed white gig, belong
ing to a, gunboat lying out in line stream
pull out to the Fashion in order to get,
some one of. After making some delay
the gig, containing four seanien and a first
lieutenant, started from the shore for the
Fashion, which packet at the time was
moving on her course Ithe gig, with the
above given number in it, ran into the
guard OF the Fashion, getting her bows UNI
dicament there was no salvation other
than abandoning IL, which was done in
Stantly, the four seamen being the first to
jump on board the Fashion; the lieuten-
ant, being i'm the stern sheets, barely had
time to jump out before it went under the
wheel OF the boat, crushing it to pieces.
After Captain Pratt learned of the cfrcum-
stances, he stopped at the foot of st. Joseph
street aEd put off the lieutenant and his
men,, Regarding the narrow escape and
the loss of the boat, no blame can be at
tached to the Fashion, as those in the gig
are responsible for il; and, moreover, had 1
Captain Pratt seen the boat approaching
him, he would have stopped Immediately.
Skiffs and other small water craft should
be very careful how they approach steam
erS leaving the wharf, especially when
steamer is getting under way, the most
dangerous time.
At Shreveport, La, they had several
frosts previous to the 18th inst. The Caddo
Gazette of that date says:
The river still continues to swell at this
point, and is now bank full. A few feet
more would repeat the overflow of last
Spring. All the large streams in Eastern
Texas have been very high for the last ten
days, which has prevented wagons coming |
to our city from the interior. The Sabine |
River, spreading from hill to hill, a width |
of two miles, has effectually cut off from |
our market six counties. The waters are
rapidly receding, and communications will I
be opened in few days with the interior |
by all the leading roads.