The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-04-14
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Business grew more lively curing the
afternoon yesterday, aud The shipments
were quite large IL he swsllow lay at
W. G. Brown & Co.'S wharfboat all the
Afternoons taking freight and left without
exhausting the supply. She was loaded 10
her fullest capacity ............ The Quickstep
received nice trip Of packet freight.
the Mouie Norton also had a nice trip
Out..............--.The Chattanooga mas a large
amount OF freight aboard. ........The May
flower also received q considerable guam
tity Of freight yesterday. Philip Klein
was a passenger by the QuIckstep
yesterday. He goes 10 Paducah to
look after some " pet lambs ...............
Al the last session Of the Kentucky Legis.
lature. an act was passed Incorporating j.
4. Robinson, J. V. sprowle. ". s. Van
meter, &. J. Vanmeter, l.. y. Seeley II. &.
Murrell. VIM. Brown, D. c. Turner. c. q.
SmalIhouse, and their associates and sue
cessors under the style .of the Green and
Barren River Navigation Company, to
whom was TO be transferred for a period Of
thirty years the said Green and Barren
River line Of navigation and their trlbu-
taries, together with the grounds, houses,
water-power, rents, prohts. tools, machin-
cry, implements and aDpurtenances, and
all the franchises thereunto belonging,
they giving bonds with approved security.
to return the same IN as good condition Is
hey receive It. in the SUM or $500 600
This company to whom these works have
been transferred have the power to fix the
toll at 80 cents per ton under deck meas
urement, for the first or lower LOCKS; 80
cents for the secondi 20 cents for the third
and ten cents each for the other locks; or
locks, being e. 60 per ton for the round
trip, which, on boat OF 900 tons, would be
q toll for the round trip Of ave hum
bred and twenty dollars. which really
amounts to q prohibition on the naviga-
ton OF that stream by any boats not
owned and controlled by the corporation.
This is a question Of serious mportance 70
the city OF Evansville. The required bond,
we learn, has been approved, and the
parties above named are in full control Of
the navigation Of Green and Barren Riv-
ers. We direct the attention of our mer-
chants and shippers to the subject. and
can show them the act of incorporation,
II any person desires to see 1.-THE
swallow was still taking freight az dark,
and her guards We're in the water.,.......The
MOllie Norton and Newsboy returned
from Henderson about 8 O'Clock last light
bringing up a few persons TO aid tie Demo-
crazy again. They left again at a very
late hour.
MANIFEsF Of Steamer QHickstep-schrei-
Der, safe; Preston q Menifee, 30 barrels
potatoes; K. X. Dunkerso1, 70 hogsheads
tobacco; BrOse a. Bro, 3 bags bran Van
Ripper, hogsheRds tobacco. Reshipping-
For LOuisvil e. ! box tobacco, s hORsheads
tobacco; for Cincinnati, hogsheads to-
baccO box tobacco.
MANIFEST of steamer 8Iayfiower from
Memphis 10 Evansville, April l3.-R. *.
Dunkerson a Co, hhds tobacco, 10 bales
owner 10 bales cotton; q. ". French ii
bales sheep-skins, 2l4 dry hides: Cook d
Rice 801< beer barrels; -. Rice a. Co. 10
empty beer kegs, 2 empty ale boxes,
empty ale kegs: Sam Orr IL dry hides;
steamer Goldhnch / ice box; +. NJ. Hum
phrey ! barrel, ] coil rope, bundle sun
dries, trunk COner e. Levi 2 head cattle.
Cincinnati-Robt. Moore & Co. bales
cotton.