The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-11-09

ms vim A wind from the Southwest all /
day, with slight indications OF rain last |
night AT Pittsburg, the river was on a |
stand last night with IS inches in channel |
At Marietta there was % 1ncnes, and rising
slowly. At Park ersburg, 81 feet and sta
tiunary and ut Pomeroy, last night. there
we're feet and rising slowly. II ere, it has re-
coded IL inches during the p hours ending
last night. To-day there " i'll be feet full
TO Louisville. At Evansville, last night,
the lower ohio was on a stand.
Business was moderately fair along the
levee yesterday, yet freights are not offer
ing freely for any point, while the r1Yer is
Teceding, and from present indications,
will soon be too low again to permit med
iuTn sized steamers 70 navigate with ease.
The recent rise, we fear, Will not make
over tour feet in the Lower Ohio.
Adessrs. Jesse Burdsa1 and ". II. Murphy,
changed their base, and are now connected
with the well known pork packing house
OF Lewis Jacob, or.
Captain john q. Benson, tOgei her with
the crew Of the p. w. Stfader, left for Cairo
in last nights train, to bring his packet TO
Louisville, where She will load for New
Orleans. Mr. Horace ID. Crane is in the
city, and viii Join the strader IN lew
The sterngheel steamer Amelia Poe, for
some time past running IN tie Missouri
River sunk on Tuesday six miles below
Herman Heg stern lies in nine feet v alter
The water is on her main Geek at the
forward hatch. II is thought she
can be raised. Her bow IS lying
on a bar. she was owned by Captain
others, whose interests We're insured sepa-
rately.
LoU1sv1LLE.-The Courier of Thursday
says:
The river. was at a stand all day yester,
day with feet 9 inches water in the canal
oy the mark. This il a rise of only an
inch in the previous twenty-four hours,
and any further prospects OF a rise need
rain. The weather continues clear and
cool with another heavy frost yesterday
morning, and we anticipate a third this
on the falls last evening there were but
| q inches water IN the pass down the lnd1-
an chute, and the river on the decline.
The total rise at the head of the falls has
amounted 10 Is inches, " hich should have
made rise of fulIyi5 feet at Portland, but
we are assured that there are less than SIX
| feet water on the bar, or total rise OF bnS
| little Gver.three feet there.
IT this estimate IS correct, it explodes
| the nerr tofore. accepted theory that at a
/ low stage of water rise of one foot at the
| head Of the fails makes a rise OF three feet
/ atthe foot OF the falls.
The reported depth of water out owe. the
! Portland and New Albany bar, before the
| rise, was - or . inches. This with the
| present rise, should make fully seven feet
| water over the bar, yet less than six, or but
/ little over i've feet, Is reported. IL this Is
| the fact. it then follows that at q very low
| stage OF water the r1ver at the foot OF
/ the tails does not rise three inches for one
| inch rise at the head.
/ The rise has pa rtialiv submerged the
| works and railroad track of the OHIO River
/ Bridge company, and & portion OF their
| tresuIe W lrg railroad, extending from
/ Rubel'S rock across the backbone, has
| been scattered and washed away.
The work on the bridge is seriously in
! telrupteG by the rise, and we learn that
the company mas very material y re iuced
/ its. labor force, having discharged one hun
/ dred men.
NAsHvILLE-The Times of Tuesday says
/ Captain Benz. Eagan met with an ugly
accident on sunday night last. at his resi-
dence ia Edgefeld. During the rain and
| wiad storm, about 8 O'Clock, he went up
| stairs TO close the windows, and when ne
/ was bout to return to the lower hOOT, q
| great gust of wiad extinguished a coal oil
| lamp which he held IN his hahd, and, left
| in the dark, he atten pted tO-make his way
down stairs, when he made a fnisstep and
| fell to the bottom. He received an ugly
| cash over the eye, q cut back of the ear,
| and several bruises on his person, besides
| cutting is hand with the lamp chimney.
/ ST. LoUIs.-The Democrat of Thursday
says:
River stationary. with FIVE and a half
/ feet 20 Cairo and Memphis, four feet to
| keokuk, three and a half feet in the Mis-
| souri, twenty-five inches in the Illinois.
The latest papers from St. Paul and Du-
port bu siness as very active. There is con-
| Iinued abundance of freight on the LIIi-
| nois anu Missouri, ana little Of it coming
| 4 remarkable event occurred yesterday !:
q boat left for the Ohio, first Of the season.
| 1t was the New York. We have one boat
loading for the Arkansas and White. and
don't know now long ere she win be coma
| PEELED to refuse freight she has been4oad-
ing for two or three weeks. The weather
was pleasant yesterday. No fain.
MEMPHIs.-The Avalanche of Tuesday
says:
The weather IS cool, with a stiff breeze
| blowing rom he North. The river here
remains unch snged, with i've feet scant at
| Point Pleasant, the worst place between
| here and st. Louis
the last accounts from the Arkansas re-
| port twenty SIX inches in the channel to
| Pine Bluff. White River is low, with three
and half feet to Augusta, but If the rain
+ we rad here on Sunday extended to that
section of country, we may look for a rise
4 in both White and Arkansas Rivere.
Il Business on the w slstrf yesterday was
fair. The local packets came in with fair
lists of cotton. The hard rain we had here
on sunday inspired our river friends wit h
new 4fopes and q rise IS looked for in
| w bite, Arkansas and St. Francis rivers.