The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-04-08
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/ beautiful ami pleasant. The river was
! still falling steadily at the rate of nearly
an inch an hour. Our port list since Sat
urday afternoon has been very large, and
vast quantities of freight have been ship
ped. The additional arrivals and depart
ures Saturday evening include the Taras-
con, Louisville to Henderson and return;
Mayf1ower, to Cairo; Chattanooga, to
CIarksvilie; NJ. S. Mepham, Louisville to
New Orleans; Bertha, White River to Gin
cinnati; Curlew, to Wabash River; VIM.
| White, to Green River; Golden Eagle,
| Cincinnati to ST. Louis.
Since midnight of Saturday up to mid
night of Sunday, the following boats have
| been in port: VIM. White, Green River to
Evansville; Silver Moon, Cincinnati to
Memphis; Amazon and Alice v, Cincin-
natl to New Orleans; Clifton, Memphis TO
Cincinnati; Emma Floyd, Nashville to
Cincinnati; Quickstep. Cairo to Evans.
vile; Nick Longworth, New Orleans to
Louisville; Sherman, st. Louis to Pitts
burg; Rowena, Cincinnati to Nashville;
Morning Star, Louisville to Henderson;
Julia No. 2, Nashville to Cincinnati; Rich
mond, Louisville for New Orleans; Anna,
Cincinnati to Memphis; Norman, Louis
Vile to White River. ~ +4s ness
The Mepham on Saturday night took
about 5. 600 sacks of corn from Cox Il Hum
phrey 1.-THE Curlew brought some 800
sacks of corn off the j. p. Webb, a part of
which was drowned The Curlew returned
Saturday night to try and raise the Webb,
accompanied by MIR. Palmer, agent for the
underwriters, and Captain Charley Irwin.
......-.The Bertha, Silver Moon, Amazon,
Clifton, Emma Floyd. Sherman, Rowena,
Anna, and Norman had splendid trips.......
The Quickstep and Morning Star had fair
passenger trips.......The Wm. White, an.
able to go over the dam at Spottsville or to
pass the locks returned 20 this city Sunday
morning. She had a full trip of both freight
and people.
THE GREAT LOW-PRESsURE RICHMOND
Another great triumph of modern skill
and ingenuity has visited our port, and
will leave pleasant memory behind.
Capt. J. Slut Meals splendid steamer,
Richmond, arrived here at half past
O'Clock last night. 1t is to be greatly re-
GREETED that she did not arrive in daylight,
that her exquisite symmetry and graceful
appearance on the water might have been
clearly seen and fully appreciated AS it
was, however, she was visited by our pee
pie in thousands, and it is not exaggeration
TO say that two-thirds of our entire popu-
lation went aboard of her between that
time and midnight. After waiting an hour
for the crowd to thin out, we worked our
way across the Alice v. to her guard, and
leaping thence to pile of hay, was hoist
ed to her boiler deck. The crowd
across the levee precluded ~ all
chance for man of modest
mein or delicate frame from reaching her
by any regular route. Upon reaching her
cabin. we found it denseiy packed from
cfo We he
the Great Republic was immense, but the
crowd visiting the Richmond far surpassed
it. The large majority, OF course, behaved
with becoming propriety, but few boys,
we are mortified to say, demeaned them
selves most shamefully-runninga all over
the boat. up into the observato,y y, racing
on the roof, jumping from the sky-light
down into the nursery, where they insult
ed the nurses of the lady passengers, one of
whom was forced to appeal to Capt. Neal,
who sum marily elected the ill-bred hounds
Conducted by Capt. J. Slut Neal in person,
we were shown through the entire boat,
her spacious cabin, her parlor- like state
rooms, to her observatory, thence down
through the nursery and negro cabin to
the after guards, and through every de-
partment, including her engine rooms,
where we found great crowd of machin-
lists examining and admiring her massive
and ponderous engines. After a careful
survey, it is our deliberate judgment that
the Richmond is the most perfect steam
boat, taken in all particulars. that was ever
built on the western waters..-...The Great
Republic is more massive, capacious and
unique-but the Richmond is more SYM
etrical and comedy. The cabins of the Re-
public are more gorgeous, spacious, and
ornamental, those of the Richmond more
chaste and tasteful, while the state rooms
of the Richmond have no equal in size or
comfort, forming pleasant parlors and bed
rooms combined, where whole family can
have their meals served, and by a private
door. can with their next neighbors form
a regular home circle, shut out from the
annoyance of crowd in the main cabin.
Her ponderOus engines were the admira-
ton and wonder of all. Her massive cyl
inders, feet in diameter; her huge battery
of boilers, over feet in diameter and Is
feet long, with great beams, pistons, and
huge water-wheels, overwhelm the mind
with their vastness and inconceivable
power. Every thing is compact, tasteful,
and elegant We have no doubt that, seen
by day light, she will sit in the water the
handsomest craft af1oat. There is no
need to disparage the Great Republic
to praise the Richmond. Each in
their style are Incompatible, and
between them no ungenerous rivalry
should exist. The offices of the Richmond
are neither SO ornamental or convenient
in our Judgment as that of the Great Re-
public, though the offices of the Richmond
are not so cramped and inconvenient as
we had been led to suppose. Among the
passengers by the Richmond we had the
great pleasure of meeting our sweet little