The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-04-20
rHE EVANSVILLE DAILY JOURNAL MONDAY, April 90 1865

looks as if the West intended to lay
in good supply before the low water
sets in.
Friday says:
The new wharf boat belonging to
the PomerOy Coal COmpany, located
at Coalport, Ohio,nwas burned Sun
day night.
The Gazette says:
The Silver Moon encountered a
heavy squall In New Madrid Bend,
on her way up. which struck her
square on the starboard side, careen-
ing her over until the water stood on
her guards. For a time she was al
most unmanageable. The mate got
all hands to work rolling barrels of
iron and other heavy freight over to
the larboard, which enabled them to
get her Strengthened up. The officers
report the weather on this trip the
worst they have experienced for years.
VINCENNEs.-The San of Friday
says:
Under the influence of the recent
heavy rains the river is again coming
up, and up to yesterday evening had
risen about six feet, and still swelling.
ST. LOUIS. - The Democrat of
Friday says:
The river rising rapidly. Total
swell FIVE feet at six last evening.
Sundry lots of lUmber and other
articles are partially under water. Up
per Mississippi aud Illinois rising.
The Missouri is reported on the de
cline all the way from Lexington to
Omaha. Weather now the finest i'm
aginable, in bright contrast with the
late prOtracted moist and stormy
spell. Business on the wharf remark |
ably brisk yesterday. CargOes NOV
ing freely, boats having all they ap-
pear able to handle. Opposition is
the ruling order of the times. The
whole of the n. W. u, or the White /
Collar Line, or a considerable por- |
ton Of ii, seems bent on taking the |
bull by the horns. by going into the |
St. Louis and ST. Paul through trade. |
The Phil. Sheridan has already come /
and gone, leaving last evening With /
the Hawkeye, regular packet of the /
Northern Line, and another, the Key /
City, came an yesterday, to be followed |
shortly by the Itasca. Irh
We have no doubt the object of the |
Northwestern Union Packet ComDa- |
ny is to force the Northern Line into /
a certain coveted arrangement, and /
then retire to their old route; bat. if /
we do not mistake the temper of the /
Northern Line gentlemen, they will |
not yield, but fight so valiently as TO /
route the iunovator. But there is
another eO@petitor for the St. Louis
and st. Paul trade. There is Red |
Line" consisting of the towboats
Lady Pike, Tiber, Clipper, Antelope
and Imperial, and numerous barges,
designed to ply regu larly between
st. Paul and St. Louis, one of which,
with five heavily loaded barges, is
now near this port, and another left
st. Paul en- Monday. To clinch the
matter, several other boats run indie
pendent Of the lines, and propose to
carry freights cheaper than any OF the
lines will. When to. these are added
the lines between the rapids and the
two rival lines between St Louis and
KeOkuk, it Is evident that the upper
Mississippi is likely to become one of
the liveliest business portions of the
country.
The Isabella, bound from this port
up the Missouri, with a valuable car
go for Omaha and Sioux City. en-
countered log which broke through
her hull, and She sunk to her guards
at DOzier's on Wednesday morning,
10Th. 1t is supposed she will easily
be raised. Her cargo is badly dam
aged. She is owned by Messrs. Ben.
j ohnson and Fred. Dozier, and is in
sured. So old a boat as the Isabella
seldom sinks bad. She was built Dc
tOber, 1857, and cost S31, 900.