The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-05-17
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The weather yesterday was nearly clear,
and very pleasant...-...--The river during
the twenty. four hours ending yesterday
evening. had fallen seventeen inches.........
Some clouds were gathering last evening,
indicative Of ratn.....-...The arrivals and de-
partures, since our last report closed, in
c1ude the Armada, for Cairo: the Sam Orr
for Eastport; the Ada LYON, for Green
River; the MolIie Nor on, for Henderson
the sallie V, for Mt. Vermont; Clara Scott
for Wabash River; the Louisa, for Cincin.
natl; the Morning Star, for Louisville; the
Quickstep, from Cairo; the Emma Floyd
Nashville TO CINCINNATI; the Tarascon
louisville TO Henderson; the LeClail
Louisville to Eastport; the Hartford, from
Hartford; the Norman TO the bone-yard
the Albion aud barges, st. Louis TO Ash.
land Furnace.
The Richmond, on Saturday, had be-
tween 800 and 0 tons of railroad iron
from New Albany, for the Shreveport
ard Texas Railroad. she had also a fail
am cunt of miscellaneous freight, and add.
ed considerable here, and had large en-.
gagenents below. She also had a fair pas.
sengsr trip......The Louisa and Clara Scott
did not get OF till midnight. Both had
big trips out-.a.- The Louisa took the the
atricals, and before leaving had quite an
Interesting comedy on board, which will
be found In detail under The head of City
News.........The Armada and Sam. Orr had
excellent trips out.........The Quickstep ar
rived at o'clock A. n. Sunday, with a
good The Emma Floyd arrived
afternoon yesterday, loaded to the guards,
as usual. Captain Jim Chenoweth always
gets load. She discharged here 40 hhds.
OF tobacco for r. r. Dunkerson q Co., and
25 for Hu mphrey, Patrick & Co.. and "A
bales of cotton for w. g. Brown & Co. She
had 80 hhds. of tobacco, 100 tons OF pig
metal for Louisville and Cincinnati,
and ten tons of boiler iron from HIllman
Bros. & Sons famous factory, made ex-
pressly for the boilers of the new boats for
the Cincinnati and Louisville Mail Line,
to take TIE place of the United States and
America........-.The lie Clair had a mode
rate trip. -.......The Hartford had ninety
four hogsheads tobacco and a good pass
enger trip......... 1.-The Green and Barren
River Navigation Company have fnereas :
Cd the tolls on the Hartford from SAG to
$500 a trip. The object IS obviously to
drive her out OF the river, and IL possible,
to cut Off trade with this city in the inter
ests of Louisville. Our merchants should
take steps in conjunction with the people
up Green River to circumvent this move
ment by testing the Legality of this mo-
nopoly in the courts. We shall recur to
the subject again 1.-The Tarascon arrived
early with good trip, and proceeded
to Henderson. Among her passengers was
Captain e. r. WltheTs, one OF the Local
inspectors of Louisville, who comes 10 in
vestigate the collision case between the
Quickstep and Ollie Sullivan. He is stop
ping at the American House, where he
can be seen by all who have official busi-
ness with him 1.-THE, Albion had two
barges loaded with iron ore, for the Ash
land furnaces. She landed here 10 refur-
nish her Iarder, which was speedily done
by Tom Matthews, with j. Sinzich & Son.
..... The PetroIla No. had handsome
trip from Cannelton. She leaves again 10
morrow.......-.The gravel-digger Enterprise
and her escort started, on Saturday, for
Rising Sun, Indiana, TO dig powders. Be-
fore they reached the point above the city
The Enterprise blew out one head or her
cylinder, and had 10 return to repair.
They left again yesterday evening, the
necessary repairs having been MADDEN.
The Morning Star and Richmond took a
friendly tilt at each other, on Friday night,
and ran side by side from Now Albany TO
the mouth of Salt River. Both par
ties claim the victory, and as usual
the commander of each boat gives
the most conclusive reasons why he
did not run away from the other. The
owners of the Morning Star have stuck in
the Richmond, and the Richmond was
loaded with railroad iron, which every
steam boat man knows is the worst freight
in the world to run under. We shall hoid
a court of inquiry when We can get the
officers OF both boats together. Capt. Neal
AYERS that there were no pine knots on the
Richmond, and Bill Campbsll, engineer of
the star, says he did not receive the in
structions, sent him by Captain Gilmore,
ri hold the Star back for fear she would
get ahead. - - EtE
ManffestS.
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