The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-04-06

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Thursday says: tat
Business along tbe1Ianding was act
i've The. receipts We're large. and
shipments were OF a similar descrip-
ton Cheap 1reigh;s are going for
ward freely.
CINcIENA1L The Commercial of
Friday says:
Yesterday afternoon the estimable
wife of Mr. Will. Phillips, one Of the
Louisiana's pilots, visited her sister,
Mrs. Gill, 10 Newport, where she was
very suddenly taken III, expiring in a
few minutes, Of disease Of the heart
The deceased was a sister Of Captains
Frank NJ and Ben. p Davidson.
Captain Ed Ford has engaged IN
the glass business al New Albany.
Captain John K Booth has sold
two of his barges to the owners Of the
Emperor for $3.50 each.
The Gazette says:
Captain Hugh Campbell, of the
Mary Davage, arrived here from St.
Louis, by rail yesterday morning, in
advance Of his barges.
Captain d. NJ Dryden, falls pilot,
had charge of the wheel of the Della
ware up but returned to Louisville
last evening by the mail boat.
Captains Liter and Miller, from
Evansville, arrived yesterday morn
ing, and are stopping at the Spencer
House.
Daniel Eckert, a pilot Of a coal
steamer, broke his leg IN the wheel,
Wednesday morning, near Cumber-
land. he was removed to his resi-
denee, near Rochester, the same
night
LOUISVILLE. = The Courier, Of
Friday, says:
On the falls last evening there were
TO feet 9inches steam boat water, and
the river falling at the rate of an inch
and one-half per hour.
A passenger on the steamer Amer
lea was robbed by his room mate on
the last trip down of the sum Of S137
The money was taken from his valise
The Journal says:
The United States Marshal has
taken possession of the steamer En-
terprise, at Napoleon, Ark, for run
ming without custom house papers.
i. VINCENNEs. The Sun, Of Friday,
says
The steamers Lady Withaup, Cobb
Webb, and GAINESVILLE, Terre Haute
craft, are now at our wharf, unload
ing and receiving freight
The river has risen about thirteen
or fourteen inches since our last, but
Is yet within the bank opposite this
city,
ST. LOUIS. = The Democrat of
Friday says:
The decline here is steady. The
river hence to Keokuk is quickly APP
preaching a rather low stage. The
Lower Missouri is rising, but the
Glasgow, bound down found only
four feet at the Usage and Gasconade. |
while she is drawing FIVE feet, and
consequently was seriously troubled
and detained at these points. The
has been cold. with a steady
north wind blowing, but is clear and
beautiful Business continues ami
mated atthe wharf, which is crowded
VITA boats, fair proportion of which
lately were from the Ohio. That por-
ton of the wharf above Washington
Avenue is occupied mainly by noun
tain boats.
The mountain boats are backing I
out aud sailing away day by day for |
their distant point of destination, car
rying passengers and freight more or
less.
We learn that s25. 900 was offered |
by a party of this city for the Legal /
Tender, but that her owners want
100000
VIoKsBURG.-The Times says:
If the Robert e. Lee is not with /
Drawn from the Vicksburg trade |
within the next two weeks, she will |
back out from New Orleans on the
9TH of April with the already famous I
Belle Lee. BY that time, in all prob |
ability, the river will be on the de- |
cline, and should the weather be /
favorable, extraordinary time may be /
looked for. The Robert II Lee has /
never started cut on quick trip,
though last Summer she made two
spirits from Memphis to Cairo,
On both occasions beating the
best time of the steamers Eclipse,
Shotwell, j. NJ. White, Alvin Adams.
City of Alton and score or two Of
boats numbered among the fast ones
Of their day. The Belle Lee has, in
spite of rising river, made the best
'un since the war to Vicksburg. so
hat both boats have widely establish
ed regulations for unusual speed.
Much has been said Of the withdrawal
Of the r. Z. Lee from the Vicksburg
rade, but we scarcely think Captain
Jannou will decide the question def
litely until this seventh of April mat
er is disDOsed of