The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-06-05
| wilIie Huston are her distinguished

nicola will be here. positively at 3
o'clock this morning for Memphis and
all way ports There is no better boat
on the river, and. Capt, Miller and
Mr.. Grubbs are true gentlemen. -
aMANIFEsT1O OF the steamer Chat
tanooga from Mt. Carmel to Evans.
vile. Discharged at Mt. Vernon, IA
bgs corn. L bbls -four, 200 bbls corn
meal, 2 bbls eggs; at Henderson, 90
bgs shipstuf. $50 bgs shorts; for Ev
ansville-A Refs, 16 bun hides Stock
well & Co. z bbls dried fruit; Samuel
Orr. 81 bdls iron; Fl Fl Umbel, 108
bgs wheat; Verhoff & Co. IL bdls rags;
s Z Spick, Dbl copper and brass; A
Gumberts, bg feathers, lot hides.
Reshipping-263 bgs corn, lib bbls
-four. for New Orleans; 2 bbls eggs, 10
empty beer bbls, for Cincinnati.
MEMoRANDA-Steam Sam. Orr,
from Waterloo to Evansville, June
Ist-LefI Waterloo at AN. Monday,
met the Rapidan at Savannah, Tacony
at Perryville, Enterprise at Sales's
Landing, Rapidan No. 2 at Haddock's
Ferry. Arrived at Paducah al 8 Pm.
| Tuesday, no boats in port. Left for
Evansville at II PM; met the Fanny
Brandeis at Jackson's Landing, Ten
nessee at Walkers Bar, Lewellin at
Cave-in Rock, the tow boat Look
| Out below Caseyville, j. Baker, at
Shotwelps Mines. Messenger at the
foot of Slim Island, Delaware at Clays
Landing, Armada at McClendon's
Landing; passed the Chattanooga at
| Mt..Vernon. Arrived at Evansville
| at e PM The Tennessee river is
falling fast, with 30 inches water on
/ Colbert Shoals, and 6 feet in the Big
| Bend. The heavy wind at Blrmlng-
ham on Tuesday morning broke the
steamer Helm loose, but did no
damage.
We have for Cook & Rice, 4 ale
boxes; Wilhelm, 10 ale boxes; Capt
! Duncan, 8 rolls leather, 146 bags
corn. 50 dry hides; A Refs, % chd.
tan bark r. ID. Il c., packages sun
dries; Cloud & Aiken. 2 cans; Hay
hurst & Whitteker. Z bags wheat ];
Harper & Wright, I barrel molassses;
Mr.. Peels, / jar honey Reshipping-
St. Louis. 10 rolls leather, 10 dry
hides Cincinnati 80 tons pig iron;
Louisville, 10 packages sundries; /
hid. tobacco. Discharged at Padu-
cab, 10 hhds. tobacco, 6 packages;
Shawneetown,, 1 1 900 feet pine floor
i ing; Uniontown, 1000 feet pine floor
ing; Henderson, 1000 feet pine floor
ing. aT
GIeanings from our Exchanges.
/ CINCINNATI. - The Commercial of
Tuesday says: s.
Capt. A. @. Ross, representing the
steamboat interests of Cincinnati,
was before the House Committee on
Post Offices and Post Roads, on Nom
day, and presented an argument in
4 favor of bridges of 500 feet span.
The committee is unanimously In
favor of a general bill fixing that
length for the main span. ee r. se
The Gazette says: m aH
Last evenings train on the Little
Miami@R Road brought down the re-
mains of Lyman Shinkle, son of Capt.
Joseph Shinkle, nowIia resident OF
!. Springfield, Ohio. The deceased was
+ nine years old, and died at Spring
! field ON Sunday morning. de will be
buried at Oovington. probably to day.
Capt. Bart. Bowens for the last %
/ years pilot and steamboat captain on
the Western rivers, died at Hannibal,
Mo-. on Sunday. gr ~ a
louisville. = The Courier Of
Wednesday says: & @
: The directors of the Newport and
: Cincinnati Bridge Company have In
vited Governor Stevenson, of Ken
lucky, aud Governor Hayes, of Ohio,
to be present at the laying of the cor
ner stone this "wednesday afternoon
|, Sr. LOUIS. = The Democrat Of
Wednesday says: e haed
Declining still here. Still b or
lower rapids. Pilots scrutinize close
e " the river below here, Boats loaC
: to only nine feet, or less. That IS al
. there is, according to Dick Kennett
!, who returned yesterday morning from
a trip to Cairo on the Arthur. The
, June rise is no doubt galloping dowI
5 the Missouri 10 large proportions and
| impetuously. That is the tenor 0
our advices by mail and telegram
from Benton, via Helena.
MEMPHIs.-The Avalanche Of Tues
day says:
: Weather warm and sultry. Tn
It river here is falling steadily. 1t de
J. clined four inches in the past twenty
q four hours, and has fallen thirty
= inches altogether.
White River is falling, with twelv'
feet in the channel through t
|. Augusta. The Arkansas is falling
with three and half feet from For
I, Smith to Little Rock, and six and
4 I-1c Poa~ F-op, &bapoa n 4ba mon II