The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-12-23
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For Other River items sTe 1nfrd Pooe

The only additional arrivals and depart
ures up TO midnight last include the
Morning Star, Louisville and return; Pine
Bluff, to Wabash River; Sam Orr, to Cairo;
MinneoIa, to Cincinnati; RapIdan No. 2,
to Eastport.
The Ida Reas was literally stuffed with
cotton. We were directed by her agents
| here 70 announce her for Mem hIs to-day.
but Captain Horn has changed his pur-
pose, and proposes to leave this
morning for st. Lous...................It is
not improbable that the new steamer
Durfee may come here and run in the
Memphls trade, as the navigation in the
Mississippi, above Cairo, is playing OUT.
The Minneola hal 500 bales cotton. 500
bags guber peas and some miscellaneous
freight from below. She had a big BARGE
| in tow, and added here 225 bales Of cotton.
re-shipped by Humphrey, Lewis & Co.
and 300 bags OF guber peas, and was
| offered equal amount OF freight
| By W. g. Brown & Co...............Up river
| freight here is largely in excess of the
| tonnage........-......Th Sam. Orr took out
a very fair trip, though she was not full.
1.-THE Rapidan was thoroughly crowd
ed with freight aRd full of people. and. as
usual, had to decline offers; indeed, her
orders were so large that some of the
|
day............The Morning star had 8 mag
nincent trip down, and took a large
| amount OF freight and many people ups
Captain Gilmore, upon arriving at
| greensboro, turned the command over
| to his mate, Mr.. Jones, and with
various articles OF V5rtu, including
handsome crib, several toy chairs for
children, and two me gnidcent cakes OF
indescribable splendor, stopped Off to at
tend the Festival given by the ladies Of
the First Presbyterian Church. That wss
| just like Gilmore......-..Among the passen- |
gers b. the Minneoia yesterday, we were
delighted TO meet our old friend, Captain |
Jim MeFadin, Or as Capt. Hugh Campbell |
would say, McFsghin," formerly one of
the corn kings Teigning in this vicinity,
now representing the well known COM
mission house Of FaiTchiId & Bingham. OF |
| New Orleans, who has been making a |
tour of observation along the coast from |
| New Orleans 10 this port, to investigate |
the corn crop. He is looking well, and left |
| by the Morning Star last night for Louis.
Vile to spend the holidays with his family |
as every good Christian man should do |
........The Morning Star had so much busi-
ness last night that she did not get away |
till after midnight. Among her freight
down was large lot OF dressed hogs for |
| ssssssss
| A tow boat, with heavy tow, passed MP
about midnig ht.......The Rapidan No.
did not get or Till after midnight The
Morning Star took 305 bales cotton and
much other freight from here last night.
She did not get cf TIL nearly MORNING..
/ W. II. Martin, agent and manager for DR..
| O'Leary, the distinguished lecturer on
| physiology, leaves this morning fol st.
Louis, to arrange for course OF lectures
in that city by DR.. O'Leary. We have
/ found him pleasant and intelligent gen.
tleman, and commend him cordially to
/ the kind cons -deratIon of cur friends OF
the Democrat and Repa6Efcaa. ........The fol-
lowing is the Cincinnati C0DlmeIcfops ac-
count orthe sinking OF the Swallow:
| Yesterday morning about six O'Clock, as
| the side-wneel steamer swallow, Ca plain |
| Frank Y. Batchelor, bound from Sew Or
| leans TO Cincinnati, with a full cargo OF
! sugar, nlolasses, groceries, cotton and Irop- |
| icai fruits, was making the high water
| crossing IN the Ohio river, a few miles be-
| low Cincinnati, at point q short distance
| above BolGfacs Creek, to the Kentucky
/ auore the pilot al the wheel, George Bar
| bour, discovered the side-wheel towboat |
/ Champion no. 8, approaching with two |
| barges IN tow, laden with garbage for the
| Fertilizer Company. The swallow = steam !
| whistle being out OF order, Pilot Barbour |
| states that he Immediately gave the boats !
| large DELL one tap for the EtarboaTd, |
| and hearing no reply, tapped his bell sew
| eral times IN quick succession, indicating |
/ something wrong Still, he claims TO have |
| heard no reply from the Champions |
pilot, when he ordered the engineer to |
/ back the swallow, which was done forth |
| with, but n0tin time TO pTeventa collision. |
/ The Champions nose hit the Swallow on |
| the Iarboaro tow, cutting through the |
| guard and into the hull, while the bow
/ OF one OF her barees went under her quart, |
| and into the Swallows hui nearly up 10 |
| the forward stsiTway. The swallow filed |
| minutes, about one hundred yards i
/ from the Kentucky shore, the water /
L haHra tn ha n In faF rff
/ as the hall, the remainder of tho cabIa /
aft being out of water. The Champion /
| and crew off the sunken steamer. The 4
| Champion was not materially injured.
/ Captain Bachelor and the clerks are OF \
| the opinion mat no lives were lost. Sew
eral of the deck crew were relieved from
| through the cabin floor. One OF the en-
| gineefs and the striker doated of on a
oaLe q coston, anu We're afterwards picked
| up, SAFE ana SOUND. sne had one hnndfed
bales OF cotton slowed on her forecastIe,
forty or dfty Of which were knocked over
board by the collision and sinking OF the !
boot, floating OF down the river.
40 was showing hard and quite dark
when the accident occurred, preventing |
the pilots from seeing a great distance !
Capt. Bachelor was up In his room, IN the
his neck dressed, as be is suffering from a
severe carbuncies and heard the pilot ring |
the alarm, and sent man out to see what
the pilot wanted. He returned and said
steamboat was coming. Immediately after
the bell was rung several times, and the
piOn coming, head on, and struck the
swallow iIume dlately forward OF the stair
way. At the time the Swallow was back
ing. After the collision "A man came up
on the hurricane and reported Gil right,
and to 60 ahead, but Immediately after, |
another came up and said the boat was
sinking, when she was hea led for shore,
but sanG before reaching IL.
Pilot JOS Purcell came out OF his room
as soon as he heard the alarm bell, and
witnessed the collision, his partner, Mr..
Barbour, being at the wheel. The Swallow
can be easily and speedily raised II the
cold Weat her does not make sufficient ice
to cut her down. The und erwriters hold
Ing risks on the boat and cargo, met at the
Office of the Western Insurance Company,
yesterday afternoon, and concluded To
hurry to completion the new Wrecking
boat, Thomas f. Eckert, and expect to
have her at work at the wreck by sunday.
They also telegraphed 10 Cairo after their
submarine diver, Dir. Hill, to come here
Immediately and examine the wreck.
We did not learn the pilots name at the |
wheel or the Champion No. 8, but hear he !
is young man, perhaps steersman, and
not a licensed pilot. The principal owners
Of the swallow are also stockholders 10 |
the Cham pion Towing and Coal Com pany,
to which tue Champion No. 9 belongs.
The cargo is valued at $4,000, aud the
boat at So 900, making the loss one hundred |
and sfrty- t1v0 thousand do lars.