The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-07-30
Weather and water.

not as the weather was last week. Inc
river is again receding here, and is still
falling at all points above, and the water
will no doubt go lower than ever in a few
days.
Arrivals and Departures
The arrivals and departures up to three
o'clock yesterday include the Empire,
Louisville to Memphis; Leonora No. 2,
Cincinnati and return; Eau Claire, Pond
River and return; Phantom, Tennesse
River to Evansville; Morning Star, Hen
derson to Louisville; Maydower, Cairo to
Evansville; Ollie Sullivan to CanneIton;
News Boy, Henderson and return.
ROafs Due.
Among the first boats due here are the
New York for st. Louis; Cora s., for
emphis John d. Perry, Darling and
Empire, from Memphis; Ezra Porter, for
New Orleans; Armada from Cairo; Rose
Hite. from Louisville; Petrolia No. 2,
from Wabash; Phantom, from Eastport.
miscellaneous.
AS usual on Monday. our wharf was
crowded with steamers, and business on
the levee was quite animated--.The Mary
Swan had a magnificent trip. as will be
seen by her manifest below, to which may
be added thirty head of Texas cattle, reg
ular broad horns.'--...The Empire passed
dOWA CdAI SOoSCAOAF M EAhEh N@
she could carry on the water...~The Phau-
tom had a nice trip from Tennessee River.
For her manifest we are indebted to her
courteous clerks. Val. Sorenson and Hard
Millekin.- . The Leonora No. 2 had a good
lot of freight, including a consignment of
patternS-----.The MayflOwer
had 50 hhds tobacco and considerable as
sorted freight.-.~.The Eau Claire had a
full cargo of tobacco....~-The Ollie Sullivan
had 20 hhds tobacco, and so bbis of apples
from above....-..On Saturday night the
Morning Star look "a HID tobacco at
Henderson, and a large amount of freight
here......The officers of the Leonora re-
port the Nightingale hard aground at
Flint Island, being full of freight and
people........The Silver Cloud was sounding
French Island bar when the Leono
came down.----.The Newsboy had n
fair trip from Henderson ...-..-..There are
no boats aground between this and
Cairo, and the water has slightly i'm.
proved----Freight is not abundant here.
....~..The Tarascon and Morning Star lie
up, on arriving at Portland, and the Rose
Hlte and Palestine take their places. The
Ella Faber will also enter the trade as a
regular Tuesday and Friday packet.
The Sam. Orr comes off the dock to-day,
and will be put in the cairo trade when
the Maylower qults..--.- We are indebted
TO Mr.. Billy Speed, the attentive and genial
clerk OF the Mary Swan, for Memphis
papers of a late date.
BOATS Leaving To-Day
o CAIRO. The new, elegant, light
%draught Mayfiower, Captain Billy Lowth
commanding, is the regular packet for
Cairo and all way landings at four o'clock
to-day. She is very light, and is sure TO
90
Dunn, George ThIoop, and Marsh. WAL
thai are her accomplished clerks. and
George Jackson is Ler unsurpassed stew
ard.
FoR TENNESSEE RIVER. The peerless
Phantom, Captain Guy Vineyard, with the
eyer-pleasant and obliging Val. Sofenson
in the office, goes to Tennessee River this
evening, and should have q booming trip.
She has elegant passenger accommodate
ti1ns.
For MEMPHIs-The splendid Mary Swan
is announced for Memphis to-day. and
takes freight for all points on the Missis-
sippI and tributaries below Cairo. She is
n plce boat with excellent appointments,
and Capt. Dave Hukill and Billy Speed. her
chief officers, are courteous gentlemen.
The swan is a permanent Memphis and
Evansville packet, and adds largely to the
DQSluSSS VI lie CAIy. anu SuOulO receive a
liberal patronage.
FREIGHT MANIFEST OF STEAMER MARY
SWAN, FRoM VICKsBURG TO EVANSVILLE
f K Huston. IL bales cotton; Rocker.
iron, 8 bbls ditto, 8 pieces ditto; Edward
White. ) hhds tobacco.
Observation-Disclosures & Newberry, MrsJ
f Murphy, / bag OF wool.
Levenworth-W Gray, lot Fl Plumber.
New Albany BragdOn & Co., l h of
o.d iron, ; tierees ditto. 2 bbls ditto, "a
Louisville-F j Schaefer, 1 Dbl B whisky;
Tyler, Johnson Il Co, (Mat Johnson), l
steam pump.
MANIFEST OF STEAMER PHANTOM, FROM
EASTPoRT TO observation-disclosures
JAS Oakley, 20 bags of cotton yarn; VIM
iron cog-wheel: Iglehart Bros,
l24 buShels wheat; o d Humphrey, 95
wheat, 5 bbls flour. / Dbl sorghum;
Ragon q Dickey, 8 ale boxes. boxes mer-
eS, l Reg.
Louisville-2ba bags feathers, I bag ginseng.
10 bags OF rags, 2 hhds ,obacco. 10 rolls of
New Orieans-5 bales cotton.
-Cincinnatl-l0 bales cotton.
New Albany-3 rolls leather.
from our Exchanges.
CINCINNATI.-The Commercial Of Satur-
The Portsmouth and Big Sandy packet.
Victor No. 3, while making a landing at
Munn's Run, Just below Sciotoville, on
evening. struck a snag and sunk
six feet water. The telegraph brought ,
passengers to Portsmouth. she was !
for 5000 each in the Ports
mouth, Germania and Enterprise Offices.
The General Buell., Silver Cloud No. ,,
Nighting ale were all aground on
Rising sun bar yesterday. ,
The Commercial of sunday says:
The weather yesterday was cloudy,
shcwery and warm. At Pittsburgh the (
falling. with sixteen inches in the
channel. Here it has receded Two inches
during the past twenty-four hours, wlth {
four feet on Rising sun bar, the shoalest !
point nence to Louisville. /
4 lew days ago We announced the death
Of a Oe owed daughter OF Capt. Frank Y.
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