The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-07-18

- ~ gA1 VI HAN AAHAHHNH MHA@AAHAM LN#HN M#LN
an We Yea ttiyer trade. her imensl9
are 445 feet Keel, ~ feet f0or % 81eet hold
stroke. She viii have q half cabin. 10 ia
10 C
Don't you think. Commercial, that as
feet is rather Tong Tor a light draught Red
River packet?
CIEcIENAu The Commercial Of Frl-
Capt. Jas. h. Pepper and his son Nat.
Pepper Of the mammoth Thompson Dean.
are at the spencer en- route to the East on
The Memphis packet Silver Moon poes
INTO summer quarters, at Fulton, to-day.
leaves for P0tter's Landing. on the eaefern
shore OF Maryland, on Tuesday, TO rustic
cate awhile.
The West Wind is to be sold bv us.
Marshal Bpooner. at E~VansVfue. The Hrgl
Mondayin August, 70 satisfy a claim Of
e9l4 %.
You mean She Is advertised 70 be sold.
LOUISVILLE. - The Courier. Journal on
Friday says:
Capt. B.. O. Levi received a dispatch yes.
terday from Little Rock, stating Lhat the
Arkansas riVea had risen four feet 90 that
AZ 81 O'Clock last night the tugboat ur.
j. Nay, lying az the foot Of Second
Street, was discovered 10 be OH fire, and nn
alarm was sounded from box AZ. The dame
age was slight BY FIRE, but she was nearly
nlled mp with water
The new boat City Of Ylcksburg, just
completed at this port, made her trial trip
yesterday, n is said TO have given entire
satisfaction to both builders and owners.
h IS q very handsome boat, and ia some
aspects Is perhaps a superior boat TO her
predecessor, the Grand Tower.
ST. LOUIS. - The Democrat OF Friday
The weather was excessively hot vester-
day, notwithstanding the great show Of
clouds and tumbliuH about of rounh winds
during the preceding night. Business Is
fair for the season, but on the wharf it is
easily TO be seen that the heat has q very
oppressive tendency. The channei depth
TO Reokuk is now less then four and a
half beethoven rapids fn~surmountabla by
drawing over thirty inches. Ado
VICES received from Little Rock announce
q rise OF four feet In the Arkansas.
CAIRo.-The Bulletin Of the 18th says:
The bubble originated in the Cincinnati
Commercial, that all bets made on the race
between the Lee and Natchez 20 Cairo
must be drawn because the boats did nor
land at Cairo, is reiterated by Capt. j. b.
Kay and VIII doubtless be urged by every
body who can take advantage Ofttto save
money. Il seems TO rs that all persons who
that the Lee would not arrive 40 Cairo
ID advance Of the Natehez lost their
OF the boat az the Cairo wharf, the mat
ter might assume a different aspect; but
boats did arrive tCairo, and the Lee
over an hour ahead of her competitor.
1.-THE corporate limits of Cairo extend to
the middle Of the main channel Of the
Mississippi River, and at one point both
steameFa crossed those limits, and were
actually within the cOnhnes OF the cor
Cairo was named as q point 1000 miles
distant from New Orleans, and everybody
who bet that the Lee would not run that
distances. G., arrive aGCairO-in less time
the Natchez, certainly lost his mon
ey. We think there Is no escape from this
conclusion"
Ko-rect, bulletin.
TADUCAH.-The Herold publishes a re-
port that the John Lumsden has made,
this season, about $4,000, in the Nashville,
PRducah and Cairo trade.
MENPHIs.-The Ledger says that the new
hull of the Dexter has been safely launch
ed, and the boat is eXpectedtO be ready for
business In thirty days
The Memphis Railroad Record, publish
ed and edited by Barney hm6et gets on the
following on the race "bteam-
boat Talk has Deen the rage ana 70 an
the technical terms used In exc
planning causes why Yves beaten are
muddiing TO an alarming extent. We
heard q railroad man trying TO transfer
to q friend the reasons given him by g
steamboat accuRintancs Tor failure, &C. 10
something thuBly:
9TH cylinders Of the Lee having twelve
inches mors stroke than the mud drum or
the Hatchez, gives her more power ina the
dunnaee, but AZ the HatcheZ 81 her
set down thirteen inches below the
RauRWay OF the steam chest, the 1IbboomB
OF revolution would have been increased
the BEEN, and the Consequence would
have been that the, hencoop would have
taken the chute and given more power 20
the arboRrd side of the f0recastIe." His
was rendered q maniac ana un-
alters mud drum 'dunnage,f
etc.
NAsHvILLE-The Banner says the En-
2tneer Henry Leech has had mis- license
suspended by the Board Of Local Anspec-
tors for being asleep on his watch.
Capt. w. r. Halliday ofCairo, presented
10 Capt. Cannon, Of the Lee "a massive 8lT
YER pitcher, appropriately engraYed-E0-
lucdh Herald.
All Capt. III. done for the R. 10. Lee was
10 sell her coal on her fast trip, and collect
pay Tor same.-NoshUAte Uaa0n ana Amer
team.