The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-03-03

new, ana uluty-appOInUeQ SlQe-
wheel Mayfower will leave at four
o'clock this evening for Cairo, CO.
lumbus, Memphis, and all way ports.
The Mayfower is not excelled for
elegance and comfortable appoint
ments. Captain Josh. V. Throop is
her commander, and one Of the old
est and most accomplished officers on
the Western waters. He delights in
making everybody happy around him.
In the Office will be found Captains
Billy Lowth, Duke Nicholson, Geo.
Throop, and Marsh. Walthall, an
array Of efficient, courteous, and accu-
rate clerks to be found nowhere else.
The Mayfower is the Evansville and
Memphis regular packet, and should
be literally supported by those who
desire the prosperity Of our city.
For HENDERsoN.-The Newsboy
and Mollie Norton leave as usual at
81 o'clock to-day. Capt. Perkins
guides the feet Mollie.
GIeanings from our Exchanges.
CINCINNATI. - The Commercial of
Saturday says:
The MinneoIa came in from Mem
phis at noon, with 1914 bales cotton,
the largest cargo ever brought here
on one steamer, being 81 bales more
played on the hurricane deck forward,
on her shears, was a mules head,
with placard, on which read: Ice
King-Here's Your Mule" We sup
pose this is intended as a kindly lick
at Captain Ben, the Ice King" Of
the Silver Moon.
High winds prevailed yesterday, en-
veloping the levee in clouds of dust.
Business was pretty lively along the
levee about the gangways of the St.
Louis, Memphis and New Orleans
packets.
LoUIsvILLE.-The Courier of Sat
urday says:
On the falls last evening there were
four feet eightinches water in the pass
down the Indian chute, and slowly
swelling.
The Courier Of Sunday says:
The river was falling slowly last
evening, with six feet seven inches
water In the canal in the evening by
mark. During the previous twenty
four hours it had fallen an inch at the
head of the falls, and three inches at
Portland. The weather was clear
and cool yesterday morning with ice,
and a white frost. In the evening it
was cloudy with slight prospects of a
snow storm, and thermometer at 40
degrees.
On the falls last evening there were
four feet seven inches water in the
pass down the Indian chute, and the
river on the decline.
We learn that the darkies down
along the Lower Mississippi, in Tuni-
ca Bend, have all turned fishermen,
and all have good luck Their rods
are huge hoop poles or large saplings,
with iron hoops at the end. They
fish in about twenty feet water, prob
ably little less, and hook up a sort
of fish as big as a barrel of molaSses.
It looks like a barrel of molasses, and
on tapping one a fluid just like mOlas-
ses runs out, or rather was drawn out
along a straw, just as one would lick
mOlasses," and it looks like mOlasses, |
and is declared to be pure plantation
molasses. Ole party of these sable
fishermen had caught forty of these
barrel-hsh; and it is thought these
lucky fishermen had cast their rods
and hooks right over the wreck of |
the Emerald. That boat, when she |
sunk, had some nine hundred barrels |
Of molasses aboard.
ST. LOUIS. - The Democrat, of |
Saturday, says:
Weather cold yesterday, but tenn
pered by bright sun and clOudless |
sky. Business on the wharf more |
animated, a. cargOes are coming In 4
more freely. The contest for New /
Orleans .reights is pretty quiet one, I
but earnest enough nevertheless. 1t /
was understood to some extent that /
the Atlantic Company's rates were |
SOC for -four and SOC tor pork. The |
Louisiana. an Independent boat, was
represented on Change, and consid- /
cradle engagements were secured for
her. Her decks were lively during
the afternoon. 1t is reported that |
the sternwheeler, Starlight, has been
sold at New Orleans to Captain w.
Brooks. for the Red River trade, and
will leave in j few days for Shreveport.
The agony is over, suspense ended,
in the matter of the Government Up
per Missouri freight and passenger
contract. Pittsburg is triumphant.
st. Louis enterprise is again sur
passed. Mr.. Vincent Yore received
a telegram yesterday from Capt Jos.
Brown that the contract had been
awarded to Capt. Hazlett, of Pitts
burg, with whom is interested Capt.
w. j. Kountz and Adam Jacobs. of