The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-12-24


In the channel at the latter mort
Arrivals and Departures.
The arrivals and departures M I
three o'clock yesterday include onl
the K. G. Gray, Pittsburg to New Or
leans; Mollie Norton and Sallie v
: Henderson to return; p. w. Strader
New Orleans to Louisville; Mornin
Star. Louisville to return.
Boats Due.
Among the first boats due here ar,
the Cumberland, from Cairo; Rapidau
No. 2 from Eastport; Robert Moore
for Nashville; Silver Cloud, NJ. 2
from st. Louis; Clifton, and Minneola
from Memphis; Darling, for Memphis
Louisiana, Legal Tender and Mary
Houston, for New Orleans; Nick.
Longworth, Silver Spray, Indiana and
Richmond, from New Orleans; Taras-
con, from Louisville; Charmer, from
Cincinnati Ada Lyon, from Green
River; Petrolia, No. 2 from Wabash.
Miscellaneous.
Business was not brisk on the leve4
yesterday, with but a single arrival
outside the Henderson packets........
The K. G. Gray passed down yester-
day morning with a moderate trip.
'........The several packets were re
ceiving pretty fairly, with the pros
poets of good trips 1.-THE Fanny
Brandeis was receiving slight repairs
to her guards........There was consid
cradle shore ice made Yesterday
morning. There will probably be
more to-day.....,..The Independent
Coal Company, Reid, Potter & Reid
are now prepared to furnish steam |
boats with a No. article of coal one
half mile below the mouth of Saline. |
Their motto is, give a boat all she
pays for" A pious notion........The |
z. w. Strader arrived at Il O'clock
with fair trip. She discharged 30 |
bales Of cotton here for +. II. Ehr-
man & Co., Agents of the Diamond |
Line. She had splendid passenger
list up......The Morning Star, as usual,
was full of people, and had a fair
freight....,,The elongated Nick Long
worth, CantoIn Frank Stein, may be
expected up to-day. Captain Eugene
Bowers is her famous clerk.
Heats Leaving Ta-day.
FoR CAIRO.-The matchless Quick
step, Captain H. T. Dexter, leaves
promptly at p. NJ. to-day for Cairo
and all way ports, Offering the great.
est attractions to passengers aud ship
pers. Her clerks are Jack Grammer,
Walter b. Pennington and Charley
Ulmsnider-all pleasant and obligiDg
young gentlemen.
FoR LoUIsvILLE.-The splendid
Tarascon will be the unrivaled packet
for Louisville and all way ports at 6
o'clock this evening. Her cabin and
state-room appointments are unsur-
passable. Captain Elijah Hollcroft is
her esteemed and popular commander,
and Miles ID. Warren and Jesse
Jackson are her admirable and oblig
ing clerks.
For HENDERSON. - The feet
and beautiful Mollie Norton, hav-
ing elegant cabin and state Dom
appointments, and great speed, il
the regular Railroad transfer pack
ct for Henderson at 4 o'clock this
evening. Captain Charley Perkins
commands, and A. o. Durland is in
the Office = both are accomplished
and obliging officers.
The swift and beautiful Sallie ",
Capt. Wallen. with Robert Brashear
in the Office, both pleasant and oblig-
ing gentlemen. leaves promptly at 4P.
N. for Henderson, having elegant ac-
commodafions for passengers.
FOR New ORLEANs.-Tho new and
steamer Mary Houston
will certainly be down to-day on her
first trip to New Orleans. She is en-
tirely new, and is said to be one of the
finest steamers afoat. She is com
manded by Capt. j.. B. Durham. a
gentleman of the old school, who has
some Of the finest steam
srs that ever ploughed the Western
rivers, including the Autocrat. Harry
one of the mostaccomplished
clerks, and thorough gentleman, is
her chief clerk, and Nick S. Penning-
ton, of this city, so proverbial for his
politeness and scholarly attachments,
IS her freight clerk. With such
'oterie of officers, we can safely pre-
dict for the Mary Houston brilliant
future.
GIeanIDgs from our Exchange.
CINcIENArI.-The Commercial of
Tuesday says:
The new shaft Of the Louisiana, cast
IN Buffalo, n. Y, arrived here on
Saturday. It is 10t inches in diane
er. and SO feet long. G. L. Dumont
. Co. will put six hanges on it, AID it
will probably be shipped to the boat
IN the Cora S. to-day.
Capt. Hugh Campbell was in the
ity yesterday. and departed for Pitts
urg on the evening train.
The Wauanita has / 600 kegs nails n,
Or Evansville. and $500 kegs for
lew Albany. She departs for New
orleans to day at noon. oil
The Louisville Mail Company will In
uild one Of their new packets at a.
louisville, and the other here. They
i'll be large and magnificent steamers. eq
The hull of the United States was r.,
auled out on the Marine Ways yei- sk
,rdsy. 1t will require about seventy ,
We feet of new bow to make a perfect ia,