The Evansville journal., 1870-04-29

Ne weather grew mueh cooIer lasI

The weather grew much cooler last
night, and the mercury declined to
co.. The rain ceased before dark.
The additional arrivals up to mid
night include the Emma Floyd, Gin
einnati to Nashville; Kate Robinson,
Cincinnati to St. Louis; Quickstep,
to Cairo; Hartford, to Green River;
Rapidan No. 2, from Eas,port; Pink
Varble, Eastport to Louisville; Tar
ascon, to Louisville.
The Emma Floyd, and Kate Robin
son had magnificent trips. The
Floyd had an empty model barge to
load with iron ore to tow back. The
Kate Robinson discharged largely,
and took 138 kegs nails, shipped by
Lyon & Machen, for Burlington.
Iowa, one OF the first shipments prob
ably ever made from this city for that
poTt..............The Tarascon took. at
Henderson, a vast quantity of lumber
for Louisville..............The Rapi-
dan No. 2 had a nice trip, in
cludiDg some reshipping freight,
and several passengers who went
forward by the Tarascon...............
The Repidan. in addition to her large
manifest for this port, discharged at
Jacksonville, for Nashville, 16 tons
of pig-iron. for Huntington box of
bacon, and at Paducah, for Hale,
Buckner & Co.. 30 hogsheads tobacco.
Among her passengers were DR..
Brock, of Florence, Ala, Admiral
Tom. Lee, Of Paducah, and Commo-
dore John Gilbert, Of Golconda, who
come to the city to perfect the organ
ization of the Evansville, Paducah
and Tennessee River Packet Com
paDy........The Mary Houston, for
Louisville, and Sam. j. Hale, for
Cincinnati, will pass up to-day...... :.
Tho Virginia may be positively ex-
pected here to-day, en- route to New
Orleans, and the Robert Burns to
Memphis.........The Indiana has de-
ferred her departure from Louisville
till tomorrow evening. She will be
here On Sunday.
Eauffes;s.
Manifest of the steamer Rapids from
Florence Ala, to Evansville, April 28
For ners on board, 10 hhds tobacco:
w q Spencer, hhds tobacco; 2 bbIs and
Martin, Gardner q Co, hhds tobacco.
bales cotton; Lyon Machen, bbls dried
fruit, 2 bags peas; Sam Orr Il Co, valua-
BILE pkge, paEel pkge, 2 bdls chains; g
Armstrong, / bureau. rocking-c hair:
Hodge q 90, l whole and three half beer
barrels; Ragon, Dickey IL { arson, 2 cans
lard, 2 bags wheet; Babcock & Steele, cot
and mattress; l. Ruffner. Jr q Co. 16 bbls
-four; & ID Heiman, case lard; Thomas
Kerth, roll leather: Captain Lee Howell,
$500 feet rough lumber, 5000 do do; r X
Dunkerson, 10 bales cotton.
For Owensboro-1 box.
For LOUISVILLE bale cotton.
For Cincinnati-31 bales cotton.
For Phnadelphia--l2b bales cotton.
River DIspateSseps
PITTsBURa, April 28- Noon. =
MonoDgahela feet; Greensboro 6
feet 8 inches; Brownsville feet; Al.
legheny feet IL inches and falling
at all above points. Arrived, Juni.
alta. from Cincinnati; she returns at
2 o'clock with big trip; Mollie Eb
ert is loading for New Orleans, and
Camelia for Nashville. Business
quiet. Weather warmer; rained at
y o'clock, and indications Of a fur
ther fall. Thermometer 73o.
PITTsBURd. April 28.- Weather
cloudy; rained during the afternoon.
M onoDgahela scant 6 feet and falling
slowly. Departed, Juniata; Mollie
Ebert, loading for New Orleans; Ca
melia, for Nashville.
CINCINNATI, April 28.-The river
has fallen feet with 81 feet in the
channel and ~ feet space under the
bridge. Shipments light. Arrived:
Arlington, from Pittsburg; Minneols,
and Jonas Powell, from Memphis.
LOUISVILLE, April 28.- Arrived:
Bermuda. from Evansville; Robert
Burns. from Cincinnati; Norman,
from Cincinnati; Armadillo, from
Arkansas River; Glendale and barge,
from st. Louis. Departed: Bermudq,
for Cincinnati; Robert Burns, for
Memphis; Norman, for Evansville;
Armadillo, for Cincinnati; Glendale
and barge, for Pittsburg. River has
fallen 2 feet inches in the last "a
hours; IA feet 6 inches 10 the canal;
II feet inches in the chute, with 72
feet under the bridge. Rainy and
disagreeable.
CAIRO, April 28.-Port list-Julia,
st. Louis to Vicksburg, 9P. NJ; Utah,
Arkansas River to st. Louis, mid
night; Sam Brown, Memphis to st.
Louis, midnight; N ightingale, Arkan-
sas River to Cincinnati. A. NJ; st.
Joseph, Memphis to st. Louis, 2;
Mary Davage, Pittsburg to St. Louis,
8; Argosy, Pittsburg to st. Louis, 8;
Wicks, st. Louis to Memphis. 8; Sam
Hale, Memphis to Cincinnati 10; Ii
gress, Louisville and return, 1 P. NJ;
Mary Houston, New Orleans to
Louisville, 2; City of Cairo, st. Louis
New Orleans to st. Louis, 3; Bengal
Tiger, st: Louis to Cairo: 2; idlewild,
Evansville packet, z; Marble City,
Vicksburg to st. Louis, 8. River rose
5 inches; rained all night; cloudy;
mercury 5S0.
ST. LOUIS, April 28.-Arrived: City
of st. Paul from st. Paul. Departed:
City of Alton, to Vicksburg. River
stationary. Heavy rains last night
and nearly all to day. Now clearing
up.
NASHVILLE, April 28.-River fall
ing, 81 feet on Harpeth Shoals.
Weather Showery. Arrived: Tails
man, from Cairo; Ella Hughes, from
D.I--.no na%,-4o1. 80 D,rE
nam, to Pittsburg; Burksville, up