The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-02-18
River and MeafIler.

cts, Bills OF Fare, Mates Tickets for Labor
4 &C., &c. Orders left with either Of the
II b River and weather. ~
i Especial to the Evansville Journakl
/ New ORLEANS, Feb 15.-rArri-
vals-Luminary, Atlantic, Ned Tracy,
St. Louis; Westmoreland.. from Gin
cinnati;; Magenta, from Yickshurg.
Departures-Ned Tracy. forSt. Louis;
Emma No 9. for Cincinnati. sm ral
/ CINCINNATI, Feb. TO- The river
has risen five feet during the last
| twenty four hours, and is still rising
three inches an hour, with forty-five
feet in the channel WEATHER clear.
Thermometer 49,. Heavy rain last
night, with strong gale of wind.
The clouds broke away about one
o'clock Saturday morning, and the
day dawned beautiful and bright. A
strong west wind blew, making the
river very rough, and indicating cooler
weather. The river rose about four
feet during the twenty-four hours
ending at three o'clock Saturday. Six
or seven feet will bring it to the high
water mark Of 1882. 1t is still rising
rapidly at all points above.
arrivals and Departures.
The arrivals and departures up to
three o'clock, Saturday, include the
Minneola and Robert Burns, Mem
phis to Cincinnati; Armada, from
Cairo; News Boy, Henderson and re-
turn; Quickstep, to Cairo.
Boats Due.
Among the. first boats due are the
Cameha and Emma Floyd, for Nash
vile; New York and Pine Grove, to
St. Louis; Darling and Emperor, for
Memphis; Laura Fenton and r. P.
Webb, from Memphis; Anglo Saxon.
Huntsville, Centralia, Tahiequah. and
Nora, for Arkansas River; Argosy, J.
w. Garrett, tLeonidas, Laurel Hill,
Swallow, J. H. Groesbeck, and Silver
Cloud, for New Orleans; Rose Hite,
from Louisville; NJ. s. Mepham, Vir-
GINA, David White, and Messenger,
from New Orleans; Charmer, from
Cairo; Chattanooga, from Nashville.
Miscellaneous.
The muddy weather caused us to
miss the Stonewall and Plain City,
which were at the wharf Friday morn
ing, but did SO little business that
the wharf boatmen forgot them before
noon........The Importer had 600 bar
rels of Salt for Mr.. L. Ruffner-a
very timely supply, as the stock was
entirely exhausted. She lay here all
night, and took on some 500 barrels
of meal and other freight........The
Armada and Quickstep arrived from
Cairo, yesterday morning, close to-
gether. The Armada stopped to save
a lot of corn that was menaced by the |
rising tide. She took |, 300 bags from
the mouth of White River to Mount
Vernon........The Quickstep reloaded
and returned to Cairo on Saturday
with good trip. We are indebt-
ed to VIM. Tileston, freight clerk
of the Quickstep, for mani
fest, which will be found below. 49,.
The Armada had lib bales of cot
ton, 30 barrels of whisky, a large
amount of miscellaneous freight. and
was full of people She left after dis
for a corn pile in danger of
submersion, nearly opposite Hender-I
son........There was no packet from
on Friday night.........Thesf
Robt. Burns passed up full of cotton,
forenoon.....Some curiosity
vas excited by the frequent whistling
IF the Indiana, on Friday night, many
she was in distress, so she
vas, too-greatly distressed-to find a
anding, not laid down on the map or
my of the river guides, for which she
lad lot of gunnies......The Phantom
commenced receiving, on Saturday,
md will leave at o'clock to-day with
he biggest Tennessee River trip that
'ver went intos that river.........Our
'ity contemporaries will please notice
hat we have corrected our list of
: Boats Due and they will correct
he errors copied from us. ........
The w. R. Arthur will load here
.ntirn fnr Nnn Orlnnnr and will he