The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-05-28

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Sra 81 ard Walter 3. Pennington.
dc he. agreeabla.in her Office
FoR LomsyI1LE.-Thel gay Morn
iae S.a-. most superb and finely
appointed stea mers IS the regular
packe. for Louisville at SIX o'clock
this evening. Captain Elijah Holl-
croft, John 0aeTbacker, and Dick
Hutchinson are among the most
popular officers on the beautiful
Ohio. Passengers will receive marked
attention.
For HFHDERsoN.-Th magnificent
side-wheel= steamer Mollie Norton,
Captain Charley Perkins, leaves at 4
o'clock for Henderson. Ed and
Robert Terry are her obliging and at
tentive clerks. l
The sprightly and popular News
boy, Captain Shelter, also leaves for
Henderson at4P. N Pat Burke and
Willie Huston are her distinguished
clerks
For -CANNELToN. = The regular
coast packet Oli.e Sullivan, Capt. j.
T. Hugo, with Tom c. Hugo, clerk,
leaves at 10 o'clock for all points
hence to Cannelton and Cloyerport.
Capt. Hugo will take pleasure in rem
dering his passengers comfortable.
GIeantngs from our Exchanges.
CTNcINNATT The Commercial Of
Tuesday says
I The Alice Dean has laid up In
Licking River Capt Geo d. Hoo
pie, having sufficiently recovered from
his recent severe illness, visited the
Memphis Packet Company's Office
yesterday. He is improving slowly,
and will soon be on the war-path
again.
+ LOUISVILLE. = The Democrat. OF
Tuesday says:
The remains of the steamer Laurel
+ Hill, now lying at New Albany, were
sold to-day 10 parties ia Natchez tor
+ a whraf- boat, and viii be tOwed down
some time this week.
Business on the landing yesterday.
though a geOdly number Of boats we're
receiving freight to leave to-day, was
rather dull for the season. 1t is evi-
dent that very soon there will be next
to nothing doing, and several more
/ boats viii take up summer quarters.
/ The Jouradl says:
The Rob Roy put off, yesterday, at
II Al,
/ barrels -four a los of ploWs, some
+ hay, corn, and lot of cattle and
| hogs. We learn, that on her trip up,
German named John BrannIn got
aboard, at Troy, IN an intoxicated
/ condition, and went to sleep ID a
chair In the gentlemen's cabin. Some
of the officers of the boat put him to
bed but before the boat arrived at
i CanneltOn, he had got out of his
stateroom, stepped overheard, and
was drowned. He leaves a large fam
lily near CanneltOn. "
ST. LoUIs.-The Democrat Of Tues
day says:
Weather warm. River falling
steadily. Decline at and below st
/ Paul is very rapid, ana low water Is
talked about. The Illinois is rapidly
/ dwindling to an ordinary stage The
i Lower Missouri is troublesome. One
3 beat arrived Sunday night, afterlos.
Ting two days aground. Others are anC
have been aground. Whispering o
increased freight rates, but they re
main still unchanged. There Will bt
no increase in Upper Mississippi rate:
for some days yet, if at all.
Hence to Cairo plenty of water
Biggest boats have no difficulty II
navigating with all the freight they
get here. No barge tows reported
aground vet Boats are leaving large
amounts of freight on the banks allow
here. for. the reason that they can
take it when they are already ioadet
to the water. Fhe times don't lool
very dull yet although the sale o
/. steamers yesterday, the scarcity 0
bidders and lowness- Of the bids
showed that steamboat stock is he'll
: in poor estimation.
MEMPHIS. The Avulanche. Of Sun
day ys;auaH.sas
} Weather pleasant. The river ker
3 rose one and half inches In the pas
twenty-four hours, and is now tw
: and quarter inches above the mar
: of the high stage attained IN Apr
] White and St. Francis Rivers ar
! falling steadily. The Arkansas is re
ceding, with six and a half feet In til
: channel from Little Rock out, an
r three feet from there to Fort Smith
r New ORLEANs.-The Times Of Sat