The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-05-31


the attention of the Louisville merchants
4 to the fact that our several packets are
coming in daily full of tobacco. Evans
vile is the great entrepot for tobacco and
cotton, and an immense depot for corn,
pork, &C., going South. q afHf' =
Boats Leaving To-Day. 4 ~
For CAIRo.-The magnificent Mayfow-
er. Capt j. V. Throop, goes to Cairo at 3
O'Clock to-day, and is a new, file ct and eie-
CANT steamer, with splendid passenger APP
pointments. Her clerks are those affable
and courteous gentlemen, Billy Dunn,
Geo. Throop and Marsh Walthall, assisted
by the inimitable Capt. Lowth.
For MEMPHIs.-The gay Silver Moon
Capt. Ben. Mierriellees, will OTTO Memphis
early this morning. She is first class
steamer in every respect, and has luxuri-
ous appointments. Mr.. Carter. an exceed
lngIy pleasant gentleman, is her chief clerk
For GREEN RIvER.-The elegant steamer
William White will light out " this even
ing for Green River, affording excellent
Accommodations to all who want to go.
Drinkwater and Adams are household
words along Green River.
GIeanings from our Exchanges.
CINCINNATI.-The Commercial, of Wednes-
lay, says:
eet in the channel. Here it has risen 4
Get during the past twenty-four hours
With 81 feet in the channel, and 10 feet
lnder the. bridge for passing steamers. &
A Reverend Mr.. Hays, of Peoria Illinois,
las abandoned the business of saving
pulls, and gone into that of saving ste am
oats. The Transcript says he has invent
q a machine. which is on exhibition, and
is :" tor enabling steamer to override
ii such distractions. II consist of a long
me OF plows fastened to a frame in front
the vessel, and so arranged that they
an be lowered or elevated at will from
meets a bar, the theory is that theplows
ill force channel for her. and all the
alter in the river running into the artifi-
al break thus made, will be amply suffi-
ent to float her over the obstruction
LoUIsvILLE.-rhe Courier of Wednesday
Us:
The river continues to rise quite fast,
18th nine feet three inches of water in the
nal last evening, by the mark. During
e previous twenty-four hours it had
zen eighteen inches at the head of the
lis, and fully four and hall feet at
prtland, making a good stage of water,
d the falls navigable.
On the falls last evening there was fully |
( and a half feet of steamboat water and |
river is rising an inch per hour. In |
pass down the Indian Chute there |
4 IRE seven feet eight inches of water, and |
he falls are now navigable for ascend
boats, and the P. w. strader assembled |
falls yesterday morning, and has gone |
Cincinnati for return trip to New Or
ms.
,wing to the dull times and the scarcity
produce. the Tennessee packet Pink
Tble has been temporarily laid up.
What good joke on Evansville which
pped over lo, GOO sacks of corn last week,
ding two large steamers, one OF which
ne out from Louisville in a starving
! kditlon.n
he above is from the Evansville jour-
in response to paragraph of ours
Ting that the corn piles had disappeared
"a about Evansville. Wen, that is just
ats the matter. You shipped 20, 600 sacks
week. Now, how many have you got
week? That's the rub. ass - = 81
Tell, we gave the Richmond 10000 10 be-
with, and the Cairo and Memphis
kets will have taken by Saturday at
Il 10000, and all the wharf boats and
sehouses are full, and the supply stin
ndant up the Wabash and White Riv-
Get the price up a little, and then
4 along your steamboats,, Wen load
m.
!. LoUIs.-The Democrat of Wednesday
}:
aerains have been great, but no great
Il is rising but Slowly now. the Upper
sissippi is nearly OF a stand, and the
he last twenty-four hours will not
Dunt to two feet. One hing was plain
the wharf yesterday dizziness. The
1t was general. Boamen feel un-
8 Z, dissatisfied. A disruption of the New
ans railroad line is threatened. 1t
rs TO be fact pretty gener.lly known
Captain, Switzer has withdrawn the
our, and that the Henry Ames will
ot an independent career OF her re-
|. The Great Republic was nolknown
erday as connected with any Linz. The
Their last evening was fine. White
er is receding slowly. with a goodstaee /
Tater to Batesville. The Arkansas is
ng slowly, with scant four feet to Little
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