The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-06-30
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The additional srrivaS ana departures
ssterday . ternoon and night, include
the IAN. J. Haze, Memphis 20 Cincinn- Ii
Wild Duck and harges, -. Louis to Cin-
cinnali: Quickstep. 10 Cairo: Ada Lyon
and James Gray, TO Green River Chatta-
sooga, to Wabash RIVER Richmond, Lou
isville to New OrIeans..-......En The Richmond
had good deal of freight, but was Still
comparatively light. She added consid-
era bic amount Of Bacon, tobacco. -four,
cement, &C., here. She hopes to be able 70
make another trip before the water gives
out........Tbe Sam. j. Hale had a very good
up-river trip for the times, and the Wild
Duck had considerable freight on her
barges.....-..rhe packets had rather mod
crate trips out yesterday.
FAST 1IME OF THE RIcHMosD.-The
presence of the great low pressure Rich
mond here yesterday, reminded as Of
very d1singenious attempt on the part Of
one OF the clerks Of the Robert E. Lee, 10
disparage the speed OF the Richmond, and
cast doubt upon the report of her time
made on the sth Of May, from Memphis To-
Fort Pillow and Hailes' Point. The wriA
ter refers to 'placard or poster placed
conspicuously along the river BY the
steamer Richmond, In which they claim
the fastest time on record" and then says,
THE time claimed by them is 4 :35 from
Memphis to Fort Pillow" The writer
does not then quote from the poster or pla-
card. buttakes from the New Orleans Cres-
cent an igscorvecG statement OF Ser time, cop
led FROM the Louisville Courier, in which
the run was Incorrectly stated, as follows:
Memphis 70 Island 1.-..-.....;s hours.
RandOlph......--3 hours IS min.
"a Fort P1flow.-....4 hours IS min
and then proceeds to show that the run is
impossible, by stating the distance from
Memphis TO {" So Is 40 miles, and Randolph
Is % miles, and then says:
Now, granting that the Richmond did
run from Memphis to Island 81 In hours,
which is an ordinary run for the Robert
from Memphis to Randolph, which is 20
miles farther than Island 81, in 3:38; that
is running 20 miles in 80 minutes, which Is
equal to about 80 mites an hour, which
Any one of common judgment will know
to be incredible.
Now, had the writer taken the correct
time as stated in the placard and previ-
ously reported In the Evansville JOURNAL
of May 18th, he would find the time as fol-
lows:
From Memphis to Island s7......2 hours.
From Memphis 10 Randolph........J h. 81 M
From Memphis TO fort Phiow-...4 b. IS N.
Thus he Will see that instead of coming
to 81" IN three hours, ian ordinary run
for the Robt. z. Lee" she anne TO " 81 I" in
tsOo hours, and then ran TO Randolph in
one hour and thirsy-ei0ht nst1aastes-a very
easy achievement-and thence TO Fort PHI /
low in fifty-seven minutes.
It will further be remembered that this
run was made with at no time over IS
pounds of steam
Everybody agrees that the Robert E.
Lee Is one of the fastest boats ever built,
if not the very fastest She made one run
from Memphis to Cairo, and reports her
own time as 1887. No steamboatman or
any one else that we know of, has ques-
toned the correctness of that time,
and it does not look either
liberal or generous for an odIcer OF the
Robert f. Lee, in such a dislngennous
manner, to call in question the time OF the
Richmond. by taking advantage of a typo
graphical error of the Louisville Courier.
The time OF the Richmond, as correctly
stated in the Evansville JOURNAL, of the
18th of May, was taken by dlsinterested
passengers on board, and we kTsos0 thai
the time is correct. In regard to the dis
lance we do not know. We have no doubt
the Lee Is as fast a boat as tho Richmond.
hut the advantage claimed for the latter
is that she makes quick time with 30 to
IS pounds of steam instead of $40 TO $50, as
carried by high pressure boats.