The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-06-05

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River and Weather.


The weather yesterday morning was ex-
ceedingly su1try and hot, being partly
clear The river only rose few incl es
curing Monday night, and yesterday was
abort stationary; but as it was rising last
at Louisville or Sunday night-a half
inch an hour-we may expect another
swell here.
l Arrivals and Departures.
The arrivals and departures up to three
O'Clock yesterday include the Armada,
Cairo to Evansville; Glasgow AID Maggie
Hays, Pittsburg to st. Louis; Newsboy,
Henderson and return; Minneoia, Mem
phis to Cincinnati. $500 ge
Boats Due.
Among the first boats due here are the
Havana, for Nashville: Melnotte, r. c..
Gray, for Saint Louis; Darling and
Cora s., Tor Memphis; Mary Erwin and
Bertha, for Arkansas River; Louisville,
Louisiana, and Emerald, for New Orleans;
Indiana, NJ. S. Mepham, St. Charles, and
Richmond, from New Orleans; Quickstep,
from cairo; Tarascon, from Louisville;
Mary Swan, from Memphis.
t miscellaneous.
The aspect of affairs on the wharf yester-
day morning was rather animated, with
quite fleet of boats in port..-.....The Glas-
gov discharged large amount of freight,
including l,l00 kegs of mails to various
consignees........The Maggie Hays also dis
charged considerable freight. Both had
good trips.-.-.--The Armada had 70 hhds
of tobacco, and more passengers than she
could berth.....--C Capt. Gus. Dusouchet and
Frank Collins, who went a hunting, had
but indifferent luck. Capt. GINS. got his
har.ds poisoned in the woods, and now
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ceiving very slowly yesterday morning. ....
The Sam. Orr was receiving very literally,
and would have good trip out
......The Ella Faber, Phantom,
and Charme- were receiving comparative
ly little freight They all proposed to
leave yesterday, and the first two were
smoking at nOOn....-...-Severalt thousand
sacks of corn were delivered ON the wharf
yesterday for the Louisiana, which will be
at the landing early to-day.....-.....The Me-
pham left New Orleans on Wednesday
last, the Indiana on Thursday, and the
St. Charles was to leave on Friday 1.-THE
Mepham was due yesterday, and the other
two may be expected to-day
Richmond left on Monday, and viii be due
here Saturday morning. ....-.The Liberty
No. 2 will be due from Memphis tonight,
or early tomorrow. ......-..Towboats with
large fleets of coal are passing down every
day. There has been an extraordinarily
protracted coal tide this season, and coal
should be cheaper South. -iatt+L. 44t"-
Boats Leaving To-Day. 'siftH
FOR CAIRo.-The magnificent Armada
is the regular and unrivaled packet for
Cairo to-day. Captain Gus. Dusouchet is
in command, and Billy Fowler and Geo.
Nicholson are her clerks. She and her
officers are great favorites.
For LoUIsvILLE.-The imperial Tarascon
is the regular packet for Louisville this
evening, and there is none finer or f1eeter.
Captain A. It. Gilmore is her commander,
and Miles d. Warren and Dick Hutchinson
are her excellent clerks.
Fox NEW ORLEANs.-The splendid pas
senger steamer Louisiana, Capt. Phillips,
is announced for New Orleans from this
port to-day. She is large, roomy, airy,
and swift. Capt. Phillips is q splendid
gentleman, proverbial for his courtesy to
passeng rs, and is an experienced naviga-
tor. Capt. Jim Lusk, who stands at the
head of his profession, is her chief clerk,
and is a princely gentleman. Arthur
Field, always accurate and obliging, is
her freight clerk.
The unsurpassed Louisville, with those
deservedly popular gentlemen Capt. A. O.
Ross and FL. G. Bruce in command, is also
expected for New Orleans to-day, and we
cheerfully commend her to travellers and
shippers.
Gicanings from -Our Exchanges.
CINcINNATI.-The Commercial, of Sunday
says:
captain w. H. Finkbine, late of the
Lady Franklin, during the dull times on
the river, has resumed his old profession of
conducting fast trains on the Ohio & Mis-
sissippi Railroad. - S
The Commercial of Monday says:
WB Dobson, one of our oldest steam
boat men, has been appointed TO the COM
mand of one of the government snag boats.
He is now engaged in experimenting the
construction on the Marine Ways.
LoUIsvILLE.-rhe Courier, of Monday
says:
in the evening by the mark. 1t was slowly
receding Saturday evening, with nine feet
rains of saturday hight have
caused rise OF seven inches at the
mead Of The falls n and and, twenty,one
hours. As we had predicted by the baro-
meter indications, there was - more rain"
9 ana IN me ngst on rne Of he
heaviest tails of rain ever known in this
vicinity, the amount being estimated at
over four inches.
The Democrat of Sunday says:
Evansville loads more boats than Louis
Vile; that's what's the matter"
We are glad TO see you able to speak the
truth once more, Democrat.
On the falls last evening there were fully
feet steamboat water, and the river ris-
ing half an inch per hour. This makes
fair stage for the coal fleet, and flats and
barges will be in readiness to try the
hazards of the falls to-day.
The Hayana, on saturday, was caught
in a squail on the falls, the wind for a
brief space blowing her around like a 4