The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-01-21
RIVER Ne w s.
20 otler 80 Itenas see Seuenth Paqe.


CIECINNATI, January 26.-The river has
| fallen two feet two inches, and the wealth.
| er is cloudy with light rain, partly sieeL.
Thermometer 330.
LOUISVILLE, January 20-The river is
the canal. A heavy snow storm is prevail
ing now. THERMOMETERS at $50.
The driving storm Of snow that pre-
vailed yesterday evening and last night,
will serve to delay steamers fully twelve
or fifteen hours. By five o'clock the at
mosphere was so dense that no pilot could
see either shore from the middle of the
river-.-....The Morning Star return ed from
Shawneetown about four O'Clock, and af-
ter taking what packet freight awaited
her, left for Louisville, and we heard her
signaling Ior the shore for some time, and
have no doubt but she laid up before she
reached the moath of Green RIVER.
The Quickstep left at four o'clock, with a
good packet trip. Morning Star
met the edmond, yesterday morning, at
the head of Wabash The Ada
Lyon left last night at five O'Clock,
hoping to pick her way into
the mouth of Green River, when she
would probably be able to proceed.........
The St. Patrick got good deal of freight
and laid over till dark for a lot of hogs
coming in on the freight train. The con-
dition of the weather would probably pre-
vent her from leaving until this morning.
! ........The Mayfower had not got back from
| Newbnrgh, up to a late hour last night.
There was no signs of the Dexter at dark
| last night. She was then out seven days
from New Orleans. ........The weather was
growing rapidly cold, last night, and ex-.
| pertenced river men apprehend a serious
interruption of navigation by iee..-....-....In
the Cincinnati Gazette. of the sth inst, Mr.
James Gibson made the following state
ment; MI.
II saw the first steamboat ever built on
She was built at Brownsville, on the Mon
/ ongahela, in 1915; was called the Enter
prise; built for Capt. H. NJ. Shrieve."
In reply to this, a correspondent, writing
from Marietta, says
% think Mr.. Gibson is mistaken in say
| ing that the Enterprise was the first steam
/ boat built on the Western waters. In 1871 1
| saw the Orleans. for New Orleans, pass this
PLACE o e. her o, frss trip down thi9sk IL
sissippt, but never was above the falls af-
q Captain Shrieve. after the Enterprise
| passed out of his hands, commanded the
/ Washington, built at Wheeling, which
blew up at this place in Juae, 1916, killing
t-seven persons, and injurfBg all the other
me n on board, except the engineer"
We be,ieveitis an historical fact, pretty
well established, that the first boat on tn e.
Western rivers was built in ISTl.... IT,. :
Among the passengers by the st. Patrick,
for Memphis, last nfght.9 were Mr.. II.
F. Blount and wife, W. f Nisbet and
Alexander Wilson..".@..The Mayfiower ar
rived from Newburghl at IL o'clock last.
night, and the ST. Patrick left at the same
time, the snow having ceased and
the aim ospherel having cleared up to some
extent---....The P. W. 6trader and Dexter
passed Memphison Sunday Alice
" and Atlantic left. New Orleans on the
18th, and the Swallow on the 10Th THE
Westm oreland passed Yicksburg for Gin
cinnati on the 18th, and will be here on
Thursday ,........A little ice passed down last
night, but scarcely enough to attract at
tention.