The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-05-18
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For othe,, River Items see Seventh Page.

The weather. yesterday, was quite pleas
ant. and nearly clear most of the day.
quite heavy rain fell for an hour satur-
day afternoon. There were no additional
arrivals Saturday evening except the
Quickstep, which came in at 9 PM, with a
nice packet trip. Her manifest, furnished
by Master Walter, viii be found below.
The Armada, Ada Lyon, and J. P.
Webb departed with splendid trips.
.................. The Ada Lyon was liter
ally crowded with passengers, including a
large excursion party from Bowling Green,
among whom were many OF Kentucky's
fairest daughters. Captain ALT Edwards
was in his glory, and scattered smiles and
kind words in great profession. Captain
Graham and wills. StInsOn had on their
store clothes, and looked their prettiest.
The Ada and her officers are i'm
mensely popular up Green RIVER.
The Mollie Norton brought up large par
ty. on Saturday night. to see Miss Leo
Hudson and Back Bess............The Taras-
con received a fine lot of freight for her up
trip. Saturday night.
The arrivals yesterday include the Wau-
anita, St Louis to Pittsburg; Silver
Cloud, Pittsburg to st. Louis; Morning
Star, Louisville to Henderson. ollie
y
from Green River; Falls City, Bowling
Green to Louisville.
The Wauanita and Silver Cloud had full
cargoes. -...--.T The Mary Davage passed up
with her barges loaded to their fun
capacity. Capt Hugh Campbell looked
mighty well at distance. Another tow
boat passed up, and two or three, including
the Collier, passed down with heavy tOwst
..-.-.-..The Morning Star had nice freigh'
and plenty Of passeng ers...-....The James
Gray had considerable freight-.....-..The
ollie Sullivan had a moderate trip..-.........
1.-The famous Belle Lee left Louisville
at l o'clock yesterday. and viii be here
about noon to-day. We hope she will get
a large patronage here...............T The Alice
Dean and the Robert E. Lee passed Mem
phis yesterday. The latter will be here
this evening and the Dean tomorrow,
and as there is no regular packet, viii az
ford an excellent opportunity for pas
sengers TO go up the river. That
magnificent gentleman, N. B. Fowler,
is in the Deans Office
The Silver Moon viii be here precisely
at 3 O'Clock tomorrow evening for Gin
cInnati; so Ben. MerrteIlees says.........The
P. W. Strsder was expected during the
night...-.....It is not necessary for US to say
that the filthy paragraph in yesterdays
river column of the Courier, relating to
oUrself, is entirely false. Its appearance
in the Courier is its own sufficient contra
dictIon. We don't trouble ourself about
the Courier or it's circulate On........The falls
City arrived at II o'clock last night, and
ed to be well loaded.
MEMoRANDUNI AND MANIFEST OF STEAM
Err QUICKSTEP.-RaiIrOad packet Quick
step7 lett Cairo Friday, May 18th, at 80
P. NJ. Boats in port-MolIie Able, for New
OrleunS, well laden, and MayfiOwer.
at st. Louis; Missouri at high tide;
Ohio swelling slowly. May l6-Met the
Tennessee at Rosa Glare: passed Waunita,
above UniOntOwn; W. II. Brown and tow,
at Soaper's Landing; Met Armada at West
Franklin.
Our freight consists of hid tobacco, W.
s. Ford; do, E. 6. Van Ripper; do, ia
guess, Hudspeth q Co.; II do, Ehrman,
Fisher q Co. l box household goods John
Atkinson; To-, 900 shingles. For Hawesville
IN haad hogs