The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-02-01
The orr is an excellent steamboat

L nc 0t1 ID al 6AtSffCht steamboat,
and shoald receive all freights and
people for Tennessee River 81 sa
FoR EAsTPoRT. - The Lewellin,
Captain j L. Davy. with Mr.. w. d.
Covington in the office, will leave for
Eastport and all Tennessee River way
landing at 5 o'clock this evening. The
Lewellin has pleasant passenger APP
pointments, and her officers are pleas
ant gentlemen.
For LoUIsvILLE.-The beautiful
Tarascon, Captain A. T. Gilmore
commanding, and Miles d. Warren
and Phil. Branham in the Office, is
the unrivaled packet for Louisville,
this evening. She is an iron clad.
and makes her way fearlessly and
safely through the ice. IS,
MANIFEST STEAMER LINTON.-A.
Gumberts, 80 dry hides, 5 green do,
2 bundles pelts, bale furs, | bundle
coon skins, / bundle mink skins.
cask rags, 1 box do, IA bags do. !;
Carpenter, White Il Baker, box dry
goods, 2 packages do; Ragon, Dickey
Il Carson, 2 hogsheads tobacco. | oil
can, valuable packages; 7 Scantlin
& Son, / wash boiler; Geo. Sonntagl &
Co., l box mdse., saw; J. w. Green
Il Co., bag wool; Owner on board, /
box mdse., / bellows; Hubbs, Patrick
& Co., 3 hogsheads tobacco; r. K.
Dunkerson & Co.,, Is hogsheads to-
bacco, l box do.
Leuisville-Wm. Sumner & Co.,
machine wagon; Wharton & Bennett,
| wardrobe, B packages; Ray & Co, l
hogshead tobacco.
Cincinnati-J. G. Buckley, 3 hogs
heads tobacco @ s.
GIeanfnSs from our Exchanges.
PITTsBURG.-The Commercial of
Wednesday says:
Business was not very active The
continued cold weather has prevented
boats from leaving that were an
nounced.
Navigation has been resumed in the
Slackwater.
LOUISVILLE. The Cwier of
Thursday says:
On the falls, last evening, there
were five feet water in the pass down
the Indian chute, and the river fall
ing fast. s4p s
Captain Yves. Conner, one of the
best boatmen and most thoroughly
experienced pilots on the river, is now
one of the pilots of the low pressure
Richmond. He Joined the boat on |
her down trip. in place of Ed. Sagg,
who is unweli. u
The DISASTER TO THE INDIANA |
Boar SAFE - PoRTEoNs OF CARGo |
OvEBoARD.-We learn by special
dispatch yesterday, from Vickburg,
to Captain j. L. Shallcross, of this
city, the agent of the underwriters. I
that the Indiana had been relieved of /
her perilous position, and was hourly
looked for at Vicksburg-
The Indiana was on her way to
New Orleans, heavily freighted with
produce from this port and along the
Ohio. She was on log at the head
of Island No. 101, some forty miles
above Vicksburg, at the chute, and
just above the new cut off at Terrapin
Neck, and hung on the log about mid
ships, breaking her fore and aft hogg
chains, and the boat would have
broken In two and have been lost but
for the promptness of relieving her
by throwing her cargo overheard.
Only a portion of her deck load was
thrown overheard, aud lighters were
soon sent to her relief; aud, as the
dispatch states, she was expected at
Vicksburg yesterday. The dispatch
vas from Stewart & Mitchell, of that
place.
The Indiana is stout, we'll built
BOAT, and great favorite in the
Louisville and New Orleans trade,
nd we hope to hear of her ultimate
afety. The loss of the cargo thrown
'verboard will no doubt go on a gen.
raj average of the whole. She had
arge amount7of corn, and 400 hogs
reads of tobacco, the latter taken at