The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-06-27


cour eoas and popular gentleman,
Capt. Aft. EDWARDS will leave at I'VE
o'clock for Green RIVER She Is adj
mirabls appointed and Is great
| fayorite with Travellers
| FoR. HENDERsoN--The beautiful
and feet side-wheel steamer Mollie
Norton, laavessat4 P. NJ, for Hender-
son. She Is model passenger steam-
boat. Capt. Charley g. Perkins and
Ed. and Bob Terry, her chief officers, |
i are afFable, social and obliging.
FoR WEST FRANKLIN.-The beau
tiful Romeo, Capt. Throop. will leave
at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning for
/ West Franklin. carrying parties to the
basket meeting to be held at that
place. Fare for the round trip fifty
cents. The excursion under the man
agement of Capt. Throop and Pat.
Burke, will be pleasant one.
Gaeaman9s frOm our Exchanges.
i C1NcINNArI.-The Commercial, of
Thursday, says:
The veteran Capt. Caffrey has again
engaged in the steamboat agency
business at Louisville.
The Nashville Packet Company
have introduced the Havana IN the
Evansville trade,
F; LoUIsvILLE.-The Courier of
: Thursday says:
/; The Tempest has abandoned the
: trip to White River, and will go over
> to the island to-day to choke stump
until better times.
; The Palestine is to be placed in the
/; trade between here and Cairo, max
r ing weekly trips. She will leave on
n her first trip Saturday week.
The rapid decline in the river at
; this point has left heavy deposit OF
mud on the wharf. 1t will not re-
main long, however, as our efficient
j. wharfmaster, Henry Parmele, Esq,
) has a commendable pride in keeping
the wharf IN good condition.
j We wish that rule obtained here.
A few hours work would have kept
a our wharf clean, but it was not ex-
= pended, and the condition is not in
a the highest degree creditable to the
10 city. 4 sst
: ST LoUIs.-River stationary. The
81 Missouri and Upper Mississippi swell
he : nass;ne here. while the Illinois
at continues falling steadily, with sever
r. feet still in the channel. Hence Il
h. New Orleans, and all points above st
- Louis. there is a good stage Of water
Nc business continues unchanged ant
as monotonous. New Orleans packet
att receiving largely, and will have n
IN difficulty in securing a full cargo
- Missouri River and Upper Mississippi
II boats have good trips out and In.
u The problem of the mountain trad
of 1868 has been pretty clearly solved
an Thirty-four steamers left this port u
as 70 Nav 18th. carrying freight at On
of nrecedented low rates, and eleven lei
IN for Forts Buford, Rice and Steven
son up to June Goth, with govern
ment freight, also at what were cor
sidered ruinOus rates. Several boa
IDA are making their second voyage henc
! 4 to noints above named, and sewers
HE were loaded a second time at ports c
ii the Missouri for Stevenson and Bel
- ton.
ill. entertained that the Upper Nilsson
ace would be extremely low this yea
causing boats so much trouble al
DELAY that their owners would
ana ruined. or suffer great losses. a
apt. such fears have been dispelled. Wi
With but few exec ptions, the boats arrive
=, at Benton with ordinary if not M
IN: = sual dispatch, and rapid return tri
me were the rule. Cargoes have be
ave delivered at their river destinatlo
step with dispatch and good order, alWa
sen. excepting those of the Carrie, Al
bian. Princess, Bridgeport and Anne
p y Poe. which steamers were lost on {
q at upward trip.
Each boat carried from l25 to 7
ide- tons. Very few passengers avail
y themselves of the steamers, some III
n, ing only three or four through passt
ana GERS on leaving this port. and
ying had twenty or thirty, and enc,
anre Octayia, left st. Louis with seven
{ & FIVE. and a prospect of adding fifty
: r points above The mountain DO
So were drawing generally from 80 to
Lew. inches ofsWater, with everything
las a board,
! No The boats now returning are repC
ed full of passengers, and all brine
pas little freight. 1t seems from the
information attainable that the pro
Sulli- of a trip to Benton and return
: n year Wilt range from S12 900 to :
200 or over The lowest OF th
raNel sums Is much better than the i
plett fr G loss which was anticipa
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