The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-04
RIVER NEWS.


River ana w eaBneFs
The water is slowly receding.
During the twenty-four hours prece-
ding 2 o'clock on Saturday, the water
had fell about two inches. During
the greater part of Friday night it
rained hard, and on Saturday up to
the time of making up this report, in
dications were strong for more rain.
Arrivals and Departures.
There were but few arrivals and de-
partures up to the making up of this
report. The list is as follows: Lib
erty No. 2, Louisville to Memphis;
Ezra Porter, Pittsburg to ST. Louis;
Rebecca, Nashville to Cincinnati;
Leonora, from Nashville to Wabash
River; Louisiana, to New Orleans;
and Golden Eagle, Vicksburg to
Cincinnati.
Boats Due.
Among the first boats due here are the
Champion to ST. Louis; Silver Moon.
Emperor, Mayfower, Anna, and S. j.
Hale for Memphis; Huntsville, Ber-
tina, Centralia, Talequah, and Nora,
for Arkansas River Argosy, Leoni-
das, Alice ", Alice Dean, Amazon,
Silver Spray, and liberty No. A, for
New Orleans; M S. Mepham and
Virginia. FROM New Orleans; Julia
No. 2, Havana, and Rowena, for Nash
vile.
Miscellaneous.
Business was very lively on the
levee yesterday, and freights are ac-
cumulating fast on the various wharf
boats. A very large amount Of corn
is being shipped from this port at
present, Hubs & Vets shipped
on the Rebecca fifteen tons of mis-
eellaneous freight.....The Leonora
Arrived with fair trip from Nash
vile with barge, and proceeded to
Wabash River to load.........The
Louisiana, which had been loading
for several days, left with all she
could carry.........In consequence of
the heavy fog ON Thursday night,
which caused all boats to lay up, the
Quickstep did not arrive at the usual
time......The Ezra Porter put off
large lot of freight at this place......
The Advance had a good trip for
Wabash River. She left on Saturday.
1.-THE Ada Lyon is at present
laying by. She will be ready for the
trade in a few days. Some changes
will be made in time when she re-
sumes her trips.
Boats Leaving To-Day.
For CAIRo-The splendid passen-
ger steamer Armada, which is one of
the most comfortable boats on the
Ohio river, will leave port this day
for Cairo and way ports.
For LoUIsvILLE.-The Morning
Star will be the regular packet for
Louisville to-day.
For MEMPHIS. -The Silver Moon,
a splendid craft, will leave port to-day
for Memphis.
ST. LOUIS. The Democrat of Sat
urday says:
Drilling rain all day. Shipments
for New Orleans light. Freight for
that point abundant at Cairo and St.
Louis; cord rates, 60 cents for corn,
&c. One boat that left yesterday
takes 400 tons at Cairo Another,
the Ned Tracy, left with 200 tons, ard
takes 700 tons which is engaged for.
her at Cairo. Another boat, which
will fill out here, however, was offered
600 tons if she chose to go down for it.
The price of corn seems to be higher
here than at some other points. A
merchant of St. Louis purchased yes
terday, at Cincinnati, by telegraph,
/ 1000 sacks, with orders to ship it on
his account. Other instances of the
same sort occurred. Freight is still
scare for the Missouri The river is
still falling; likewise the Arkansas
and White. a a.sea{ h
/ The Memphis appeal of the 9th
\ contains the following i'll -natured no
tice of the officers of the steamer Gov
ernor Sharkey:
! The officers of the Gov. Sharkey re-
! port that when near St. Genevleve,
Mo-, on her up trip, the boat passed
the nude body of woman floating in
the stream, so close that it could al
most be touched by those on the
steamer. The body was said to be
that of beautifully formed woman:
i One delicately arched foot and well
4 rounded arm protruded from the wa
1 ter. The boat passed on, leaving the
poor clay to float on its way, eventu,-
| ally to be devoured by the fish. Had
| II hean the hndu Of q negro. or more