The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-06-25

RIVER NEWS.
STEAMBOAT PRINTING.
No printing establishment in the West
has better facilities or greater ability for
doing Hne Steamboat Printing. Our assert,
ment of Job Type, though very large and
complete, is constantly being added 70, and
our Job department is under the personal
supervision q one OF me pest JOB rad rs
print Posters, plain or fancy, Bill Heads,
Bills Lading, Cards, Deck and Meal Tick
cts, Bills of Fare, Mates Tickets for Labor,
&c, &c. Orders left with either of the
wharf-boats win be promptly attended TO-
River and Weather.
Saturday was clear and swelteringly |
hot. Thermometer about 900 in the shade. |
The river is declining slowly.
Arrivals and Departures.
The arrivals and departures since our
last report closed include the Memphis, |
Cincinnati to Memphis; Armada, Cairo |
and return; Golden Eagle, Memphis to Gin
cinnati; Victor No.2, Shawneetown and
return; Ada Lyon, Green River and return;
Newsboy, Henderson and return; Taras-
con and Mary Ament, to Louisville.
Boats Due.
Among the first boats due here are the
Emperor, for Nashville; Rapid Ann. for
the Tennessee River; Lawrence, Sham
rock. Leonora and Bertha, for st. Louis;
Morning Star, Harry Dean and Kate
Robinson, for Memphis; Pine Bluff,
for Arkansas River; Navigator and
Silver Cloud for New Orleans; Melnotte,
from New Orleans; Mary Ament and
Tarascon, from Louisville; Sam. Orr,
from Tennessee River; Columbia and
Importer, from st. Louis.
miscellaneous.
There was but little animation on the
Ievee Saturday morning. The Armada
bad eighty hogsheads of tobacco and
good trip of people.......The Ada Lyon
was full of tobacco-over one hundred
hogsheads; and the Newsboy had big
trip........ The Victor No. seems to be run
ming simply for grandeur, as we never see
her bring in or take out anything
Memphis was fully loaded; she discharged
some freight here........The Golden Eagle
had good trip; she discharged some cot
ton here for r. X. Dunkerson & Co......The
Tarascon and Mary Ament went out pretty
light.........The Armada did not seem to be
filling up very fast.
Boats Leaving To-Day.
For CAIRo.-The elegant Argosy is the
regular mail and passenger packet for
Cairo to-day. She is commanded by pleas
ant and competent officers, and has elegant
accommodations.
For LoUIsvILLE.-The favorite John I.
McCombs, Capt. Crider in command, and
Mr.. Warren, a great favorite with the pub
lie, is the regular packet to Louisville to-
day at o'clock. The McCombs is de-
lightful boat to travel on.
E~n Nam
CINcINNATI-The Commercial of Satur-
day says:
The weather was clear and warm yester-
day, with the thermometer at ninety de-
grees. AT Pittsburg, last night, the river was
rising, with feet in the channel. Here IT
has risen over 2 feet during the "a hours
ending last night, with feet on the
shoalest bars hence to Louisville. There
is feet in the canal
tn eaR1 Il p AFensF PM rs GaP "a har' Of
MAp1soN.-The Courier of Friday says:
Capt. Chauncey informs us Is, Ia ia about
er, in rounding to at this port, was backed
into by the toW-boat Wilson. The Wilson 9
wheel was broken; ana the wagner t s towe ca
the ship yard. The Wagoners cookhouse
was smashed.
LOUISVILLE. The Democrat of Friday
says:
Billy Phillips, one of the pilots of the
his assistant, we learn, is very Ill on board
the boat. hope they may both recover
soon.
A new ferryboat was launched by the
Messrs. Howard yesterday, and brought to
this side. She is for the Mississippi river.
A Cairo dispatch says that Joe. Able, q
well-knOwn boat store proprietor, received
notice yesterday, that he had drawn $780,
900 in a New York lottery. Unfortunately
the writer told Joe. that the price of the
ticket 1857 had not been forwarded, but il
done Immediately, the prize would be for
Warded by express. Joe. did not bite.
ST. LouIs.-The Democrat, of Friday
says:
The river was rising pretty fast yester
day, and several heavy showers fell
Much rain has fallen over the NORTHWEST
and considerable rise may be apprehended
The upper rivers are again in good nav1ga
BILE condition-the Missouri being quite too
nigh. Business is pretty active on the
wharf. Arrivals from above are numef
Gus, with full cargoes of produce. The
Memphis appeal of the 18th learns tina
the Arkansas is higher than 1t has been
for twenty years, and still rising. The ef
fects will prove most disastrous to the
planting interests in the low lands.
A Geographic message from j Ross POW
ell to Jos. McEntire, states that the Mar
celia, full of mountainous, from Fort Ben
ton, arrived at st. Joseph at noon yester'
Captain Alexander Thommasson died o
Pneumonia, at Algiers, Louisiana, on tn
18th inst, in his Slst year. He was an OLE
steamboatman, and brother to Captain St
Clair Thommasson of the Mississippi.
MEMPHIS. The appeal of the 2Otl
says:
The weather was clear and very pleasan
yesterday Business on the levee wa
quite brisk, the whole leyee being covere
with freight. The river is rising rapldl.
here, and since our last report mas risen
inches We have nothing later iron
White and Arkansas rivers, which are o.
w We ar are Teioiced to see the work of i'm