The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-02-02

e etseAA-hsss 4EOAAA our Exchanges.
J GINcINNATI-The Commercial, Of
Thursday ysaysa.isss .ono0 a,afg
llg Large fields of ice,a many of which
extended from shore to shore, ,foated
past the city yesterday. At Pitts
burgh the river is on a stand, withs2
teetll 0inches in the ichannelg Here,
the5 river has reeededz4 inches during
!. the past "a hours, with 2rreet in the
channel to louisville. .. i''''o''' III
olEhel Indiana did net land at Evans
willie going down. laTheaifO Captain
thought he saw Butler standing on
the bank i but it afterwards. proved to
be the Evansville JOURNAL. man.
b. Are you such nininly as s'tt to suppose sup
we would be standing On 5nattf the river
bank at 8 y clock in IN the morning. 4.
!, h e i III FFsi1-aThe. sC94riera of
Thursday says: 4, IL
-, The river was about at a stand yes
terday, with 5 feet 6 inches water in
canal in the evening by the mark.
The channel depth on the falls was
b feet water in, the pass down the In
dian chute. The weather has, CON
tinued clear and cold, with the Their
mometer at moon at 250.s In the
evening it had the appearance of
slightly moderating; but the ibarome-
ter, the never falling weather gauge,
continued persistently pointing to
clear weather, and only receded a
single point last evening 81 asa
The Democrat of Wednesday says:
The river had less floating ice in it
yesterday than we have noticed for,
some time, attributable. we learn, to
partial gorge at Six-Mile Island,
with the ice extending almost in one
mass thence to the Towhead and the
harbor. sHr asslo bng98a sIaT
We extend an invitation to- the.
Cincinnati Gazette man to come down
and take a g skeet" with us down the
canal. 1t is "friz y up solid and
there amt n6a danger SO going
through, 1--WE also invite the Evans
vile JOURNAL and Madison ,C0mieft
men to jine us il the carnival.
Tickets free u 812" seloH a9Ess e.
Wei would like to join you in a. 4
skeet if we could 9skeeto,ve but
that one portion of our early ed ii =
kation 'a1tRat was neglected dgnGt %
d. ST.. oLoUis!ATbe'e Demot7dto Of
Thursday says:diiWjon joy .sl1ig
NIT IS asfcomplete aeessatidh ofriver
business here las ncanu beiiimagineds
There has not heens the slightest
steamboat moving for several days.
The river; was declining slowly yester-
day. The weather, however, was mild.
There was "a ssouthg wind sunshine,
and a thawos lTherefore,athe river may
be rising this morning, s.;leas.-.
Three meetings of boat owners have
already been held, those present rep
resenting the entire steamboat Inter-
lest of ST. Louis. A boatmen's Ex-
change will probably 0 be established,
There owners and masters will meet
efore Merchants Exchange hours,
ad decide upon rates Of freight for
Ete day to all points. The gentlemen
aipresent engaged in the discussion
oithe matter seem to. consider that a
yey small number of agents will be
required. and coincide In the state-
/ mat that hereto the competition ex-
I istlg among the numerous agents,
Eha5een very detrimental to the steam
! boainterests.. $3.50 5.,l IL, ri
CHS .T77The Democrat, Of Thurs
| day, ays;F.e,s ,..s5e l %
IIo Owing to the large amount of
freight awaiting shipment, and the
scarciy of tonnage, rates increased
YESTERDAY ten cents mon pound
ifreighs, fifty cents on pork, twenty,
cents 2 four ard five cents on on
e AMEMiHIs- 1.-The Appeal ofTuesday
says i-ltq t25atese tsTooh sslil ~ -
. 7Sunda was clear, but cold day,
with ice mnning past inalarge quantil
ties. Yesterday was also clear and
cold le, not quite as heavy, as on
the preceding day. so9s ~ S1''i2 -
Sc There is no change to report in the
lower riyels93aa9lqab nejf7 bng on
1T. New ORLEANS. - The iuaes Of
Monday sa!s:9d rG1 ss95duob ii 81
! Theweatler yesterday was like that
of its predecessor, clear and cold,
Business on the landing was un-
questionably dull, there being but
four boats at the landing, and it be-
ing the Sabbath, very little business
was done anywhere There was but
one departure-the .Lafourche left at
9A.M. for Bayou Sara 9t