The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-01-15

magnifoently appointed, and as feet
as an arrow. Her clerk IS that de-
servedly popular gentleman, Miles D.
Warren, with Mr.. Branham IN charge
of the freight department.
FoR- WABASH RIYER.-The Ollie
Sullivan and Chattanooga viii, we
presume, return to the Wabash to-
day. Both are good boats with pleas
ant officers.
For New 0RLEANs.-The feet
and beautiful St. Charles will leave
to-day positively for New Orleans and
all way ports. She is magnifcently
appointed and very fast. Capt. VIM.
Hollcroft commands, and that elegant
and highly accomplished young gentle
man, Geo. A. Williams, is her chief
clerk, and pleasanter gentlemen never
commanded a steamboat.
The great Indiana is announced
for New Orleans and all way ports at
+ O'clock to-day. She is a magnif-
cent floating palace, luxuriously APP
pointed, and provided with all the
modern comforts, and provisions fer
safety, sand IS one Of the best busi-
ness and passenger steamers afoat.
Capt. Reub. 3. Neal is her popular
and experienced commander, and
Charley Schultze and Ed. Miller are
her courteous and elegant clerks.
GIeantAEs from oar Exchanges.
CINCINNATI. = The Commercial of
Sunday says:
Capt. Lsw. Abrams, CT the Table
quah, who, it was feared, had
been murdered, turned up all right in
this city, having arrived here on Fri
day. "a
It Is reported that Capt. John ".
Cannon, C New Orleans, will build a
steamer, the duplicate Of the r. e.
Lee, at New Albany, during the pres
ent year.
Col. Moore. u. s. Quartermaster, at
Nashville, advertises for the delivery
of 100000 pounds of hay, 100000
pounds of straw, 500, 000 pounds Of
cats, 1900 bushels of coal, and l, 500
cords Of wood, for the use of the
Government. Bids will be received
until Thursday next, for hay, straw
and oats, and until Monday for the
fuel desired.
Our produce and grain dealers
should give this matter their atten-
ton.
The C5nnaercia2 of Monday says:
Notwithstanding the cold weather,
the lower wharf was crowded with
people all day yesterday, who focked
down to view the mammoth Great
Republic and her gorgeous saloons.
Her cabins, guards, decks and gang
ways were almost impossible during
the afternoon; her crew finding it very
difficult 10 discharge the cargo, owing
to the endless rush to and fro over her
wide stages. She creates as much ex-
element as when she first visited Gin.
cinnati on her way South. Like old
Bourbon, she improves with age. The
great Suspension Bridge, the magnif-
cent hree-0ecker United States. and
the mammoth Great Republic, with
thousands Of admirers along shore,
altogether, presented an interesting
spectacle.
The Charmer arrived from Evans
vile, and departed for Pitt5burg,
after diseharging SMALL lot of freight
The Cote Ctty, at Keokuk, informs
Us that few weeks since two gentle
men Of that city successfully Waded
the Mississippi River at that point, a
feat never before accomplished, and
on the 4tl inst. a steamboat left there
for down river ports-another feat
probably never before accomplished.
Two circumstances which are worthy
Of beng chronicled among the re-
markable up-riyer incidents Of 1867
and 1868.
The Nightingale goes in the docks,
to-day, for slight repairs
LOUISVILLE. = The Courier of
Sunday says:
NORMAN RAIsED.-By special dis
patch, yesterday, from Duvall's Bluff,
White River. We learn that the Nor
man had been successfully raised, and
that she was on her way to Memphis
The dispatch was from Capt. Pecken-
paugh. This Is good news to both
underwriters and owners, as she is a
good boat. The damage 10 freight
was, Go doubt, light.
The Democrat says:
ENTERPRISE OF THE JOURNAL
The ,JournG3 of yesterday published
over two columns Of a description of
the Belle Lee, which was stolen
bodily from the Industrial and Com
Dlerc!al Gazette, without one word of
credit Mr.. Journal, when you use
ofho~ ,,a~OOnS' +bunCor eiva +boro
credit for the same.
Like you did with that poetry on
the Richmond.