The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-06-08

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/ Walter B. Pennington. 1.-THE Quick
step has very superior passenger ac-
/ Communications. .z'5T ARISE
Eel FoR LoUIsYILLE-The magnificent
Morning Star leaves at ten O'Clock to-
day for LouisVillel and all way land
Iings. She is one Of the model boats
of the Lower Ohio, and as swift as an
eagleoisGaptain Hollcroft commands,
and John c0aerbacker and Dick
Hutchinson are her Incompatible
elerksdr More perfect and obliging
gentlemen never ran a steamboat.
From lower deck to pilot-house the
Star carries a picked crew.
q FoR HENDERsoN.-The magnificent
side-wheel steamer Mollie Norton,
Captain Charley Perkins, leaves at A.
O'Clock for Henderson. Ed. and
Robert Terry are her obliging and at
tentive clerks. aid saN 1s
The sprightly and popular News
boy, Captain Shelter, also leaves for
Henderson at 4 P. NJ. Pat. Burke and
Willie Huston are her distinguished
clerks.
For New ORLEANs.-The P. w.
Strader may be expected to-day for
New Orleans and all way ports. She
is a neat and elegant boat, and her
officers stand at the head of their pro-
f%ession. Captain Albert Stern COM
mands, and Ames Fisher, a man of
immortal renown. is her chief clerk.
Charley Good-and a good man he is
attends to the freight.
GIeanings from our Exchanges.
PITTsBURG. The Commercialsof
Thursday says:
The steamer Sallie, from the Ohio
River, reached Fort Beaton on the
| 10Th nit, without breaking bulk and
making the quickest trip of the sea-
son by six days. The SaIlie was load
ed by John g. Copelin, of St. Louis,
but is ownedin Cincinnati Gncin-
mai Chronicle. .eloL -
Not quite so fast. The Sallie was
built in Pittsburg this Spring by Capt.
/ John T. Stockdale, andis owned here.
! She is commanded by Capt. Thomas
| s. Calhoun, who commanded the Ida
Stockdale in the mountain trade last
season. 81 sv a-vlusu f
CINCINNATI. - The Commercial of
Friday says: Isd1oaa $3.50 is
Captain Ben.J f. Davidson received
a dispatch from, Captain Thomas Poe,
dated Sioux City, June3, announcing
the sinking Of the Amelia Poe, in the
Missouri, near Milk River, 2,579 miles
above st. Louis. She was bound for
| Fort Benton with a general cargo of
merchandise. He reports the boat
and cargo a total loss. She was in
sured in Cincinnati offices for $1,000.
EnCaptaiu James III. Peppers NAM
moth freight steamer, the largest ever
built on our waters, was to have been
launched from Hambleton's yard yes
| terday at 8 P. NJ. Up to 6 P. NJ. they
had not succeeded in launchingh her,
as she refused to slide from the ways.
/ We suppose she will be launched to-
day. Fully one thousand people had
congregated In the vicinity of the boat
to witness the launch, bat we're dis
appointed. dr $3.50 a.tia5g
LOUISVILLE. The Courier of
Friday says:
The river was rising slowly at this
point yesterday. Last evening the
/ marks indicated 6 feet 8 inches water
10 the canal, 4 feet 9 inches water in
theshate, and feet 9 inches on the
i rocks-a rise Of inches since our last
report. -
The Cincinnati and Evansville
1 packet had not arrived when we left
the wharf last evening. A pile Of
freight, was on the wharf awiting her
4 arrival She usually runs on time,
and we are unable to account for her
non-arrivaI, unless Lew. Morris has
gone regularly into the practice of
midwifery.
There Is in port at st. Louis an or
binary sternwheel steamer. which has
been owned and run four years by her
present officers. She has been almost
everywhere on the Western and
Southern rivers, hardly ever laid up,
and never in the four years made a
losing trip.
ST. LoUIs.-The Democrat of Fri
Gay says;
Rates Of freight to New Orleans
have been steady for some weeks at
-four 40c. per barrel and corr 25c. per
sack, until yesterday, when they tum-
bled TO the decidedly light figures of
20c. and 15c. respectively. Says one
party, The Pargoud's agent broke
down the rates to % cents another
says it was the Barge Company, and
i~nsinuates hat the rates viii remain
at the reduction during the balance
of the season. The Pargoud wants to
leave evening on her first