The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-16
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quite cold. The mercury, at daylight,
ranged at about 140 above zero, but
got up to 320 in the shade before noon.
The river rose just four inches during
the "a hours ending at 10 o'clock yes
terday, by our permanent marks. 1t
lacked just 154 inches of being to the
top of the stone in the throat of the
sewer, at the corner of Vine and Wa
ter Streets, next Ell. D. Allis' store;
183 inches below the top of the stone
at Orr's, and Hodge, Carr & Co.'s,
corner Sycamore and Water, and z
inches below the highest point of the
wall around the old Elm Tree. 1t
was rising steadily, but slowly, up to
the time of closing this report. 1t
lacks ii to ID inches of being up to
the high-water line of 1882, according
to the statements of the oldest inhab-
itants.
Arrivals and Departures.
The arrivals and departures, up to
3 o'clock yesterday. include the Tenn
pest, Louisville to Cumberland River;
Clifton. Cincinnati to Memphis; News
Boy, Henderson to return; Armada,
Cairo to the Dry Dock; Norman,
Memphis to Louisville; Yorktown,
Pittsburg to Missouri River; Emma
No. 3, Cincinnati to New Orleans.
The Tempest was bound for Nashville.
Boats Due.
Among the first boats due here are the
Yorktown, Mariner, and Nightingale,
to st. Louis; Robt. Burns, and Mime
ola for Memphis; Mary Swan, Oar
ling, Liberty No. 2, and Silver
Moon, from Memphis; Huntsville,
Lawrence. Centralia, Tahlequah, and
Nora, for ArkansasRiver; Indiana,
Leonidas, NJ. S. Mepham, Argosy,
and Emma No. 3, for New Or
leans; Sam. Parker, j. Fl. Groesbeck,
Louisville and Louisiana, from New
Orleans; Rowena. for Nashville;
Chattanooga, from Nashville; May
flower and Charmer, from Cairo; J.P.
Webb and Advance No. 2, from Wa
bash River; Tarascon and Morning
Star, from Louisville.
Miscellaneous.
There was but little business done
at the wharf yesterday, except by
the. Sam. Orr, which received an i'm
mense trip and had by noon nearly
all the freight she could stow on
board........The Tennessee 5, River
trade with this city is rapidly assum-
ing vast proportions, and second
boat will soon be required The
Tempest, for Nashville, passed
down Thursday night, full. 1.-The
Phantom was quite light.........The
Yorktown, for Missouri River, and
the Emma No. 3, for New Orleans,
bad full trips...,..The Clifton, for
Memphis, was loaded to the guards.
THE Armada arrived, about II
o'clock, from her late unlucky quar-
tiers, near Caledonia, and presents
melancholy appearance Her huge
smoke-stacks, in falling, crushed
down considerable portion of her
hurricane deck, and the railing on
her promenade deck, on her starboard
quarter. The Underwater, to get
fairly at her work, cut out a large
section of her upper works, imme-
diately aft of her wheel to the center
of her cabin, over her after
hatch. The wounds of her
hull show that she struck
hard and on some solid body. Ninety
one of her timbers, we found on care
full examination, are broken-com
mencing about the front of her boilers,
starting near her larboard quarter for
ward, and quartering back to near the
centre of her hull, and thence in a
straight line back nearly to her stern.
The worst break was nearly opposite
the middle of her boilers, where she
was probably the deepest. Her tim
bers were heaved up, and many of |
them broken entirely in two. Her
chimneys we're all saved except one
top. She rugged a pair of stumpy
chimneys, and came up on good time.
She goes at once on the dry dock,
and viii soon be as good as new.
They kept syphon pump going on
the way up, as occasion required, but
she leaked but little. 1t is sad, how
ever, to see so fine a boat so dilapi-
dated in appearance.....Large guam