The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-07-25
weather and Water.

weather and Water.
The weather continues clear, dry and
hot, and the river is steadily drying up
declining at the rate of 6 inches every "a
hours. Navigation is again a science, and
star-gazers have to watch the fine points.
Arrivals and Departures.
The arrivals and departures up to four
o'clock yesterday were the Newsboy,
Henderson and return; Eau Claire and
VIM. White, Green River and return Sam
j .Hale, Memphis to Cincinnati.
Boats Due.
Among the first boats due here are the
Nightingale for st. Louis; MInneola and
Empire, for Memphis; John ID. Perry and
Mary Swan, from Memphis; Legal Tender,
and louisiana, for New Orleans; Quick
step, from Cairo; Morning Star, from L. uis-
Vile; Petrolia No. 2. from Wabash Chat
tanooga and Spray, from Cumberland
River; Phantom, from Eastport; Leonora,
from Cincinnati.
miscellaneous.
Business was rather dull with but few
arrivals......-Th NewsbOy. Eau Claire and
william White were all full of tobacco
THE Sam j. Hal discharged a large
lot of cotton for F. r. huston. agent of the
White Line.-.-The Armada WAS receiv-
ing literally and wOulo leave " i'm all she
can carry on the water.---captain John
Garlic, an old and river man
died at home, near Bunker Hill, Illinois,
on Saturday last, of cancer of the stomach.
He was born in Pennsylvania, which
noble State has given the western rivers
many, if not most, Of its ablest and best
boarmen. John Carlile was known longer,
we believe, as pilot on the Mississippi, than
in any other capacity. He was pilot of
the st. Louis and New Orleans steamer
Knickerbocke commanded by Captain E.
W. Gould, when she sunk In 1888. He
built the Marshal Ney about the year 1885,
and ran her between Louisville n New
Orleans. He piloted the Charles Belcher,
and when her commander, Harrington,
was drowned, he succeeded to the COM
maid. Perhaps no man ever piloted a
greater number of steamers on the Mlssis-
sippi. He commanded one of the st. Louis
and Jacksonville packets during the short
but not able career of the enterprise known
as the Caffrey Line. The deceased, for a
year or two past, was living on his farm,
where he died.......The bar in front of the
city is beginning to loom up boldly. Its
contour is definitely marked dow to. OPP
posite the foot of Vine Street, but is
farther out in the river than for several
years past, and instead of an eddy inside
the bar, there is now a strong current,
which indicates a disposition of the cham
mel to come on this side of the bar. A lit
tie aid from the city, or some other source,
would no doubt improve greatly the har-
Dor in front of the city.
For CAIRo.-Theg gay and fleet Quickster,
commanded by the veteran Dexter. goes to
Cairo at O'Clock to-day. Duke Nicholson
is her superb and accommodating clerk.
For LoUIsvILLE.-The brilliant morning
Star, Capt. Hollcraft, an experienced and
accomplished commander, is the regular
Louisville packet this evening. John
Ouerbacker and Jesse Jackson are her ele-
& an and deservedly popular clerks.
GIeanings from our Exesange~.
CISCINSArE.-The Commercial of Tues
day says:
The weather yesterday was clear ana
warm. AT Pittsburg the river is falling,
with IL inches iE the channel Here it has
risen 6 incles during the past twenty four
shoalest point hence to Louisville.
Capt. Lee and Mr.. V. c. DentzeI, of the
New Orleans Crescent, have been inspect
ing the Alice Dean, the former with a view
of purchasing her for the New Orleans and
Red klNer trade.
LoUIsvILLE.-The Courier of Tuesday
says:
The river was raining, II falling at all,
very slowly yesterday, with scanI three
feet TOUR inches water in the canal in the
evening. by the mark. During the prev
ious - hours ii had fallen less than half
an inch al the city wharf, and not over an
inch at Portland, the foot of the falls.
The bar at the foot of the falls is begin
ming to assume p~rotentious proportions,
and has shown its back above water.
The bar is formed or made by the action
cent ated TO the Kentucky side of the river
from the foot of the fails, and its action
cuts away the sands of sand
piDgpOrt shore, and, as the river widens
at the foot of the island opposite the Port
lane landing, sane bar or a humber
The current, however, cuts a channel, and
the depth of water has been known to
vary eighteen inches 10 two feet in less
than twenty-four hours, At present
there are July four and a half feet water
over the bar.
The present is a good time for the canal
survey to be made on the Indiana side of
the ia Is. We are in favor of that new dig.
gings, or rather having a contract to dig
out, or blow up a section, with the proviSo
that our contract holds good until che ca
nal is completed. Just at this j~uncture,
with the river at a fair stage on our side,
there is no. arill or a drop down the In
diana side below Rock Island 1t IS a solid
bed of dry rock from the Indiana shore to
the south, or Kentucky side of Sandye
Island.
By request of the Local Inspectors at
Louisville we %republish the order issued
by Col. Guthrie On the 18th tnst-, and with
IT a circular by the Secretary of the Treas
ury. They claim that theirs is a discrep-
ancy between the two "a is i~rreconcila-
bic. If there is, our readers viii be able to
see it: EHs% So
OFFICE OF SUPERVISING INSPECTOR,
EVANSVILLE, Ind, July IL, 1857 j
Isaac Casset6erTy, Surveyor OF the Port Of
Evansville: #MtaF @4- *Ert
SIR: The law of Congress of July q, 1866,
requires a locked safety valve or valves on
the boilers of all steamboats,, said valve TO