The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-02-04


teous and gentlemanly. They pro-
pose to make the Laurel Hill a regu-
lar Evansville and New Orleans
packed, and appeal to the liberality
of our shippers. Give them a good
trip.
FoR MEMPHIS, VICKsBURG & New
ORLEANs.-The lightning winged St.
Charles, one of the finest and fleetest
steamers afoat, goes to New Orleans
to-day, and is most luxuriously ap-
pointed. Captain VIM. Hollcroft is
her elegant and experienced COM
mander, and Geo. Williams, so long
and so popularity connected with the
Louisville packets, is her clerk. No
pleasanter gentleman runs on the
Ohio. We hope to see her receive a
liberal share of patronage.
GIeanIngs from our Exchanges.
PITTsBURG.-The Commercial of
Friday says:
The intense cold weather has put
another stop to navigation for the
present. The Leonidas, which left
on Wednesday night, found the ice
heavy. and was compelled to tighten
over Glasshouse and is going on. The
marks on the bridge indicated four
4eet and falling. The Brownsville
boats have been again compelled to
lay up. Itseems hardly possible that
the present severe weather. can hold
out much longer.
CINcINNAT1-The Commercial of
Saturday says:
The river was full of heavy, keen.
new-made ice yesterday, almost sus-
pending navigation. The Louisville |
packet America was the only depart
ure. The weather is moderating, but
the ice will be heavier to-day. The
Potomac and Ohio No Bran, or float
ed, through very heavy ice, many of
the fields extending from shore to
shore. The ice cut a small hole in |
the larboard bow of the Potomac.
above the water line. 1t can be easily |
repaired, without the aid of side |
dock. None of her cargo was damaged. /
The General Buell., from Madison,
met the heavy Monongahela ice at
Anderson's Ferry at l A. NJ yester-
day, and reports meeting five coal
bOats-one loaded and another half
loaded-adrift In the ice. The ice
being too heavy, she could not land
them. They will probably be wrecked
on the falls.
The ice, Thursday night, rubbed
the steamers at the levee pretty hard.
Ii crowded the Bertha against the
Silver Moon, breaking several tenders
OF the former, and tripped the latter's
spar, showing her out on the bank.
The Moon was soon spared out
again without damage.
Mate Tony Quinlan, of the EN-
peror, while homeward bound, in
Covington, KY, Thursday about 8
P. NJ, was attacked by thieves, who
placed coffee sack over his head and
robbed him Of fifty dollars he had
Just received from the boat
The Indiana having been relieved
from her perilous situation at Island
luz yesterday, proceeded on her trip
to New Orleans. Capt. j. FL. Pepper
was to have left for New Orleans last
night by rail, on behalf of the under
writer's, to represent their interests in
:he Indiana and cargo. The Indiana
9 insured in Cincinnati offices for
800, 900, and it is estimated their share
1f the loss will amount to $25, 900.
LOUISVILLE. - The Courier of
says:
On the falls last evening there were
i've feet water in the pass, and the
liver had the appearance of swelling,
hough the shores were lined with ice.
ST. LOUIS. The Democrat of
says: !
There was no movement of the ice
n the harbor, yesterday, except that
portion Of it below Walnut Street.
vas broken by three or four ferry
coats, which were kept at the work /,
III day, with hardly appreciable re-
ults. The object aimed at was to
freak through to the open water at :
bout the foot Of Cedar Street, but so
ar from succeeding, one of the fer
les, the Mullikin, got stuck in the
Ield, and remained sticking tight at y
attest surveys of the scene. Others
ound that the ice was not to be :,
ought with impunity, and had to be
lelped out of the gorge by rope and
team. The Ice was stronger and
eavler than during the previous ex-
iting day. The river was open below
,edar Street :
The ice field is the toughest we n
yer saw in our harbor, marred by an o
amount of hummock and !.
oo-in short, an incongruous mass
f pack " ice, cemented firmly, and
he hardest kind of an object for the
srry-boats to bore" There was
he same steady stream of pedestrians n