The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-02-06

good qualities TAR exceed his initials.
Jno. Ouerbacker, one of the most hon
orable gentlemen afoat is her passage
clerk, while Jesse Jackson-gay and
genial Jesse-is her freight clerk, and
is always attentive. accurate, and
obliging. She is iron-clad, and laughs
the ice to scorn.
GIeantngs from our Exchanges.
CINCINNATI. - The Commercial of
Tuesday says:
The Sherman, burned at Evansville
Sunday morning, is insured for $15,-
000-$2, 800 In the Boatmen's, of Gin
cinnati, and $4,000 in Pittsburg of
fees.
Parties in Covington, Indiana, are
building small steamer to ply the
Wabash, between Terre Haute and
Lafayette. 1t will be built so that it
can run through the low water season.
LoUIsvILLE.-The Courier of Tues
day says:
On the falls, last evening, there were
scant four feet water in the pass down
| the Indian chute, and falling.
In the harbor, the ice was forming
fast, yesterday, with a solid field of it
at the head of the canal, and good
skating on the river opposite the
Point, between the Towhead Island
and the main shore.
Navigation above the falls may be
considered as virtually suspended,
with but one arrival yesterday, the EN-
peror, from Cincinnati. She came
early. and took the canal chute, bound
for Memphis
The rnailboat, General Buell., was
In port, but was not sent out, as the
bi, America, which had started Sun
day evening, had hardly reached Mad
ison yesterday morning. She would
only try and go as far as the mouth
of the Kentucky, succeeding in which,
she was expected to harbor there IN
til the ice disappeared, or the wealth
er moderated.
The United States mailboat hence
for Cincinnati, Saturday, was cut
through by the ice, and she did not
return.
Although the weather is only mod
erately cold, barely three degrees be-
low the freezing point all day yester-
day, it appears that it has checked
navigation, and the ice is reported as
hard and sharp as fints. We think,
however, that the iron and wood of
the steamers is softer than it used to
be in old times. We remember the
time the Telegraph No. went from
Louisville to Wheeling with the
| thermometer nearly to zero, and hav-
ing, for miles and miles, to break
| through ice that was strong enough to
bear a laden team. We have had
nothing like it this Winter.
Mr.. VIM. Williams, a well known
pilot, his license extending from Utica
to New Albany, Ind, a falls pilot,
died in this city Sunday night. He
leaves wife and seven children. His
disease was dropsy in the chest.
The Journal says:
The ice has come to halt In front
of the city wharf, from the mouth of
the canal up. The Pink Varble and
Norman are closed In with new made
ice, and the Major Anderson, Frank
Pargoud, and the towboats Peytona
and Webster are hemmed in entirely,
the running ice having lodged against
them and frozen tight.
VINCENNEs.-A correspondent of
the Vincennes Sun, giving some rem
iniscences of the ancient borough,
says:
In 1923 the Wabash rose to an un-
usual height, and Catlinette Prairie
was overhown to a considerable depth
The rise was somewhat sudden, and
the inhabitants of the low grounds
below town were compelled to move
In town. All the water crafts that
could be obtained were brought into
requisition to move the people to high
lands. Keelboats, flatboats, piroques,
skiffs and canoes were manned, and
after the people were brought to safe
quarters, the boats continued to ply
back and forth, bringing horses, cat
tie, sheep and hogs out of the sea of
waters. 1t was late in the sea-
son, the weather getting cold, and
there were much suffering and loss of
property. The river was high In the
evening, and during the night took
another upward movement; some who
endeavored to get breakfast on the
following morning failed, because of
the water putting out their fires be-
fore they could accomplish it. When
the canoes and skiffs were no longer
needed for the rescuing of property
from the flood, they were manned by
the boys, and used in picking up
RABBITS and other game from the float
ing chunks and logs on the opposite
side of the river. Rare sport for
juveniles.