The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-20
Special River Dispatches.
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CAIRO, March 19-Minneola, Gin
cinnati to Memphis, 10 A. NJ; Leoni-
das, Cincinnati to New Orleans, 10
A. M; Swallow, Cincinnati to New
Orleans, 10 A. NJ. f.t,....
CINCINNATI, March 19.-The river
has fallen 5 feet 10 inches. There is
Al feet in the channel. Weather
clear; mercury 40. 5r q.
Gleanings from our Exchanges.
CINCINNATI.--The Commercial, of
Monday says; 81 fagf
Our dispatches announce that Cap
tain John S. Devenny, of Steuben-.
vile. Ohio, has been appointed Su.
pervising Inspector for this District.
in place of b. M. Shields, ESQ.,, of
Cincinnati, removed. s s5v ~rd
The Colored Kentuckian, loyal
paper" published by the " culled
folks, makes the following good sug-
gestion, in regard to the Richmond.
and her crew: Let Captain Neal
inaugurate system of drilling tie
crew-ofieers, cabin crew, deck
hands, aud firemen-appoint officers
over each portion of the crew, and
let their duties be defined, and it
may be obligatory that the men be
practiced to handle the water buck
cts, hose, axes, man the life-boat
yawl, get the life preservers. take off
the shutters, slip off the doors. &c.
The men should be practiced in this
way until they become perfectly ia
miliar with it, and, in case of fire or
sinking. the disgraceful scenes which
transplre on every occasion now,
would be no more, and valuable lives
would be saved .,o. ..-.....-.
The Commercial of Sunday says:
D Capt Geo. W. Brown, of Florence.
Alabama, IS now in our city, at the
urgent request of the merchants and
planters on the Tennessee River, to
make some arrangements whereby d.
rect communication may be opened
with this market, they binding. them
selves, should such a line be estab-
lished, to give this market their pre-
ference, satisfied that they can do
better here than at st. Louis Evans
vile or Louisville, if they can get
their goods direct without reshipping,
as they now have to reship at Louis
vile and Paducah, causing delay and
a considerable extra expense of com
mission. &c. The merchants of
Evansville and Louisville by their
united exertions have built up trade
In the Tennessee, turning it from Gin
clnnati, which was formerly the head
quarters of the merchants in that re-
glon. BY using a little exertion, we
now have an opportunity 10 bring a
very large portion of this trade to our
city. 91i rod ,aoHa- 5aT5
There has been several attempts to
start line in this trade, which have
all proved failures, as there was no
assurance that the boats would ply
regularly, the commanders being I'M
with the wants of the peo-
pie. .a
We think all attempts of the kind |
will prove failures. Cincinnati is a
good city; but the Evansville mer-
chants are prepared to sell goods as
cheap as at Cincinnati, while the ex-
pense9 of coming here and returning. |
and the time consumed are less than
one-half required to go to CINCINNATI. |
We have regular packet weekly.
while it would takefa Cincinnati boat
three weeks to make the round trip
from Cincinnati. Our merchants will I
do we'll to give this matter their at
tention, however, as the business men
of Cincinnati are alive to their inter
ests
LoUIsvILLE.-The Courier of Mon
day says:
The Armada and Quickstep are at
the Evansville landing awaiting re-
pairs. They may have to be towed up
here to have the work done.
Not bit of it, Courier. The Quick
step is only painting and putting on a
portion of the weather boards on her
warehouses, and lying at the bank.
Something you hav'n't got at Louis !