The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-05-25

uhOtWelI ana ECLIPSE. SlG IS regular
Louisville, Evansville and New Or
4 leans packet, and should receive a
liberal patronage from our people.
Capt. VIM Hollcroft is her exper-
fenced commander, and Frank o.
Smith and Arthur Fields are her
admirable and accomplished clerks.
GIeanings from our Exchanges.
PITTsBURe. = The Commercial Of
Thursday says:
Monongahela marks, feet.
Allegheny marks, 8 feet 6-falling
Business in the vicinity of the land
ing was not very active. Freights be-
ing scarce to all points, boats have TO
wait some time before they can pro-
cure trip that will justify.
We understand that a company is
being organized at Charleston, West
Virginia, to build side wheel boat
for the Kanawha River trade The
boat contemplated is to be 160 feet
long, with 81 feet beam.
CINCINNATI. = The Commercial of
Friday says:
Two colored deck hands on the
Alice Dean, while working at the
wheel yesterday afternoon, fell over
board. Que was drowned and the
other was saved.
The Alice Dean, which arrived
from New Orleans yesterday. will lay
up, owing to the scarcity of freights.
Captain Sterritt was in the city yes
terday. He has contracted with the
Towards. of Jacksonville, for a
steamer for Texas.
The Gazette says:
Business was very dull on the
wharf, and this in the face of the fact
that several steamers were announced
for positive departure. Several arrivals
gave an appearance of activity Two
New Orleans steamers we're COMPELLED
to lay over for want of freight.
The Atlantic and Mississippi
Steamship Company has sold the
Julia to Captains Lockhart and
Bofnger and others, for S25. GOO. Size
will continue in the Vicksburg and /
st. Louis trade.
LoUIsyILLE.-The Courier Of Fri
day says
The contract for transporting Gov
ernment supplies from St. Louis to
the forts en- the Upper Missouri, +
which was bid on Saturday at St. +
Louis, has been awarded to Captain I
III. K Hazlitt The Princess will /
take the first installment.
The contracts for the new propeller
for Major Butler, of Vicksburg. are
all closed. The hull is to be the
handiWork of the Messrs. Howard;
the cargo box, cabins and upper work,
entire, by McClaran, Coggeshall q
Co.; and the engine and machinery
by JnO. b. Davies Of the
Washington foundry She is to be
the most complete propeller packet,
or trader, ever built, with an extreme
length of huh $50 feet; beam, 80 feet.
and hold FIVE feet She is to be as
complete and neat as the yacht of the
Turkish Sultan, with this difference.
that business is to be consulted al
we'll as pleasure in her construction.
use and outfit.
ST. LOUIS. = The Democrat Of |
Friday says:
The decline of the rivers continues.
There is a fair amount Of business
being done on the rivers, but to New
orleans shipments continue light.
With heavy shipments northward from |
hat point and good passenger trips.
some gentlemen interested in the New
orleans steamers believe that rates
must be reduced, or that something
Use must be done to secure shipments.
md remove the necessity they are I'M
Ter Of laying their boats up here
wo or three weeks, or more, after !
he completion of every trip. A meet
ng OF the owners was to be held yes
erday morning, on the Atlantic Line
wharf boat, to consider the subject,
'ut if held, the proceedings were,
cry properly, private. There is a
cry natural dissatisfaction at the
resent condition of things.
Barge after b4rge is loaded to It's |
ull capacity and dispatched under
ow to New Orleans, while those $
wifi, costly and capacious steamers :
un but half the time, hiring and dis
harglng their crews every trip. The +
)hio river boats, and others running {,
Glow, are considerable gamers by the
bsence of st. Louis boats from the
Gene OF operations, as travel north
rard IS already a considerable item. /
nd no difficulty is experien eed in
acuring cargoes at New Orleans. IF
be possible to adopt any measures
nat will enable steamers to get a full
rad here IN two days, instead of
.owly receiving freight for from four
} six day, 1t will be a gratifying con- v
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