The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-02-25
River and weather.

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The river continued to rise on Sat.
urday, and up to noon for the twenty.
four hours preceding, it had raised
full four inches There was quite q
drying wind on Saturday, with pros.
pect of more rain. a d 10
If Arrivals and Departures.
The arrivals and departures up to
noon on Saturday, were, the VIM.
White, Green River to Evansville
Rebecca, Cincinnati to Nashville
Camelia, Cincinnati to PASSPORT
Louisa, Nashville to Evansville; In
diana. Louisville to New Orleans
Quickstep, Cairo to Evansville, and
return; Silver Moon, Memphis to
Cincinnati; Mary Swan to Memphis !;
Silver Lake No. A, Pittsburg to St.
Louis; News Boy. Henderson to Ev-
ansville, and Curlew to Newburgh.
Boats Due.
Among the first boats due here are
the Glasgow, from New Orleans to
Evansville; Liberty No. 2, Memphis
to Louisville; Rebecca, for Nashville;
Pine Grove, to St. Louis; Minneola
and Robert Burns, for Memphis:
Liberty No. 2, from Memphis; Hunts
vile, Centralia, Tahlequah, and Nora,
for Arkansas River; Argosy, Leoni-
das, Alice v, j. Ell. Groesbeck
Golden Era, and Silver Cloud. Alice
Dean, Amazon, and Liberty No. A,
for New Orleans; NJ. S. Mepham,
and Virginia from New Orleans; Ada
Willoughby, for Nashville. @
miscellaneous.
Freights were plenty on Saturday.
and business decidedly brisk. The |
VIM. White came out of Green River |
with small lot of tobacco. The |
had full load for Nashville. |
and the Camelia, for PASSPORT, was |
also loaded down.....The Louisa ar.
rived from Nashville with a lot of to-
bacco, loaded at this port with salt.
and left on Saturday for the Wabash
river where she will load with corn,
and thence proceed to Nashville......
The Indiana came down on Saturday
morning with bic trip; a large
amount of freight had accumulated
It this port for her, but she refused
Ill except 1000 sacks Of corn. .....The
luickstep had an excellent packet
rip; she loaded aud left for Cairo on
Saturday......The Silver Moon passed
lp with large lot of cotton. The
Nary Swan loaded ON Saturday
nd left for Memphis. She received
good load of all sorts of freight for
arious points below......The Silver
lake No. 4 discharged 100 tons of
reight at this, place-mostly glass
rare, from Pittsburg. She received
small lot of freight here 1.-The II
'urlew went to Newburg with tow a
I eighteen empty barges, where she r
ras to load with corn and return......
he propeller Hoosier is doing quite
business now, and has been for sew
raj days, going into the woods after Q
orn, which is brought out and stored a
q the wharfboats for shipping. The ii
nall crafts like the Hoosier find },
usiness in high as well as low water. Z
great deal of freight which is mac 4
'sslble for large boats is brought out o
7 the small crafts now......A gentle e.
an from Vincennes says that the W
Gamer Mate has entered the prairie W
AIDE, opposite that city. The water 70
'vers breadth of nine miles of :,
nd, and the Mate is engaged in car
ing the people to high land. ALI
Prairie is all inundated, and i,
eat deal Of stock, grain, and other
operty has already been destroyed.
1.-The mud, which was such hor-
nuisance on the wharf, had nearly
led up on Saturday, greatly to the
tlsfaction as well as convenience of III
who have business there.
Boats Leaving To-Day.
For CAIRo.-The grand Armada,
eat favorite of those who travel by
at, will be the regular Cairo packet
day at 2P.M. Down-riyer travel -
!, who estimate speed, safety. and /
mfort, will find the combination on
E Armada, as we'll as extreme corr