The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-09-10

4 Ieeb nOlQ, the machinery or.v,,,,y.;.
ing 2 double hue boilers 40 ineb6s :
diameter and n feet long. the crl;- =
ders Is inches IN diameter. wif6 AZ
feet stroke.
( The hull Of the other viii be If tLo
same dimensions and power. Inc OIL
change being In The breadth Of beor5
which viii be 81 instead Of 33 feet
! One will have full-length cabin nm
draw Is inches. while the other viii
be exclusively for freight, and is ex.
pected to come out drawing y inches
1t is estimated that thew will e,fob
carry over ] 900 bales Of cotton. The
! Cleaners machinery will be trans
ferred to one Of these boats, while Ill.
/ Centralia's machinery will be placed
In the other. Our Madison neighbors
are energetic and enterprising IN the
way Of contracting, while our Cincin
natl boat builders are holding off
Messrs. Vance 4 Kirk closed their
contracts with Capt. Adams yesterday,
At the Spencer House, returning TO
Madison in the evening, in order to
start their works on the new boats to-
day
The Gazette says
There have been but three steam
poats put IN the water hy Cincinnati
builders IN the past year-the Alaska,
Ineyenne and Thompson Dean. They
nave al aggregate tunnage (Insueet-
o u, measurement of 2.2lG tuns.
IheFe have been seven barges builr
haVlng, an aggregAtc tunnage of 1925
u duhs. Iotal tunnage built here. 5.0ll.
Inc arrivals at this port. during tho
year, numbered 1854, against 1853
captain Lawrence Carter goes rs
chief clerk OF the Abeona this trim.
assisted BY MIR. John p. Rvans. tits
thought that Nr. VIM. Il. MeTntyre
formerly clerk Of the Amazon. but
recently on the Kate Henderson. nm
up river packet, will have charge of
the office Of the Altoona after her re-
turn from st. LoIis.
u LOUISVILLE. = The Courier of
Wednesday says:
The I.e Claire, which was sunk
short distance below BrandeDburp.
about year ago, has been raised by
Capt. lem Ballard who purchased
the wreck, and will be brought to this
city TO be locked and reftted. She
was on her first "trip when she sunk.
Captain A. McGill, Of the Belle
Lee, was ia the city. yesterday. The
Belle Lee will run In the Memphis
and New Orleans trade, in connection
with the low-pressure Richmond,
leaving on alternate Saturdays. The
report that the Belle Lee will enter
the Bends trade, is without founda-
lion. The beautiful Belle is in
'pendid trim and will make a good
record.
The journal has the following:
I About two weeks ago Capt. Amos
Bolander started from New Albany
with the old Excelsior wharf-b boat
with the intention Of floating her to
omithland, Kentucky. Captain B.
deserted her at tho mouth of Failing
Run, where he tied up and returned.
telling Captain Reamer that she could
not be hoated to Smithland in ten
years, and as be did not expect to live
so long, it wasn't his calculation To
die away from home. Captain r..
thought she would float, and employ
I'd Mr.. William Wells to take charge
u place of Captain Bolander
IN accordance with this wish Mr..
Wells left the next day but returned
night, having abandoned
he boat at Hawesvillo, after twelve
" fourteen days work. Mr. W. says
hat sonc days the wind would carry
he boat mp stream three or four
niles in spite Of all his efforts, ass
listed by the current, to make her
Loaf down the river. When the
Weather was calm the boat would
manage to float a few miles down
stream, but the next day she would
be blown back nearly as far Ms she
had gone the day previous. Who
wants 10 try his skill after these GEN
-lemcn have iailed2
ST.. LoUIs.-The Dcm0crH of Tues
lay says
There is steady decline going on
IN this river. To Cairo feet ofwater
Is reported, and some barges yet In
.rouble. To Keokuk there is 4 feet
n the Illinois about feet, and 4 feet
N the lower Missouri. There is but
3 feet reported in the Missouri from
St. Joseph to Omaha, and channel
Heavy rains have fallen
on the upper Mississippi, and bust
ness improving. Shipments to New
Orleans light.
Thomas X. Smith, Thomas y Hen.
horn and Thomas Hastings publish
I'd a card ia New Orleans, addressed
% the merchants and shippers OF
Memphis, Yicksburg and New Or
cans, saying, We, tha undersigned.
ire an organized company Of white
men for the express purpose Of dis
harging steamboats, The St. Louis
JACKET Lizzie Gilt preferred employ
ng negroes to US. la reply TO which.
ye find the following In the Times.
Capt. O'Neil, of the steamer Lizzie
ill, wants the merchants and ship
ers generally to understand that he
FORKS the same kind Of labor Mr.
'homas II. Smith, Thomas Il. Hen
horn or Thomas Hastings, in dis
harging his boat-the only difference
10 prefers driving himself, vixen he
an do so, by a saving Of one hundred