The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-11-05

Captain Charley Irwin is in tow to-day
looking as gay as gentleman nens.aszsszzz
ST. LOUIS The Democrat, Of Saturday
says: 9a9f 9t.ot'8 7a1 y 4@a3 Ee-
On the 9th of October the FIRST snow
storm of the season visited st. Paul. Yet
is was hardly storm, SO fmmatertal were
the flakes. But it sounds like winter.
snow fell at Davenport on the morning of
the 3Otn. Business. alorg the entire river.
was very brisk: river In excellent low
and waie still hI occasional delays BY fogs and
sandbars. Here business is in measure
satisfactory.
tinue receiving a steady supply of dry
weather. This will be q busy day at the
wharf. with about sixteen departures.
leans with splendid paying trips. We ex-
pect to hear of a dne passenger fra1dc on
the Lower Mississippi all season.
telegram to MeSsrS. Mepham, of Locust
street. that the. NJ. 8. Mepham arrived
there safe, and had not grounded nor wet
Captain Bill Kountz. of Pittsburg, has
contra cted for mountain boat that VIII
carry forty tons more than the Ida STOCK
dale on the same water. This IS exfraOrdf-
nary: but then, Bill is no ordinary man.
He will have the new boat ready In good
time for the voyage to Benton next Spring,
with a good prospect of realizing some
5000 from an investment of perhaps
$4,000. Capt. Bill has been successful
man. He went out of the big City of Mem,
PMS. some years ago. Win one nun I etl
thousand dollars. he owns one-Jnlfd each
| of two steamers that made this year SIN
gularly fortunate and lucrative trips In the
mountain trade, whfcha Melted aim
about $4,000. He owns seven miles of the
horse railroads, in p Pittsburgh. and--runs a.
| coal bank. Capt. Bill ran for Congress, but
we believe he never reached that goal OF
| his ambition. When running steamboats,
| in the st. Louis and New Orleans trade, 1t
| can hardly be said that he was personally
tgpopulRr;s but what of THAT. He always
knew what he " as about, and never failed
| 10 make money with his steamboats,.
MEMPH1s.-The Avalanche of Thursday
says:
A strong. cold wind set in on Tuesday
night, which lasted during the day yester-
day, and frost was visible on feaces, etc.,
| in the suburbs. Such day as the one just
! passed, though very severe upon those who
are ~ VII DO as mnGn II not Sa more 70 Te
| the wind lay, bronze John Will receive q
check by this morning which win knock
from from H Pine 81 sis We fearn that the ArKan
sas has twenty seven inches to that point.
| NEW ORLEANs.-The Times, Of iWednes-
day says: 81
| Yesterday on the levee we had a delight
| phere was all that could be desired. 1t was
| one of those days that we have during the
| Fall of the year in this climate-that
| makes us willing to put up with the wet,
| SLOPPY and disagreeable days that are also
incidental to the climate of the crescent
Business sti1 continues dull on the levee.
| At the upper landing the continued re-
| ceiptS of Western produce give to that part
/ of our levee a lively aspect AZ
l. We noticed something new on the levee
| yesterday. There was one or two big Mig
| ners sampling cotton on the levee, and the
/ way they cut and sIashed the bales of cot-
| ton made us feel sorry for th.s planter or
| planters that had the trouble and pains to
/ raise that cotton, to be sampled in
| the manner it was by those lately
/ erfra nchised citizens. While the
sampling@ was going on, another big
/ niger was filling a tolerable large sack
with the cotton dropped by the Samplers.
| We asked him If that was the sam pies in
the bag, that was crammeG as full of cot
| ton as il could well be. His answer was,
- 40; dar de samples over dar," at the
/ same time stuffing more cotton. in the bag,
| that looked like Il had over fifty pounds.
| The cotton was consigned to some Boston