The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-05-05

mentarlly expected at 3 PEI.
GIeanines from Our Exchanges.
PITTsBURG.-The Commercial OF
Monday says:
The marks last evening indicated
five feet three inches End about at a
stand. Yesterday was decidedly the
most pleasant day Of the season.
CINoINNATI.-The Commercial of
Tuesday says:
The Great Republic left New Or
leans for st. Louis, last Friday, with
1,400 tons and over 100 passengers.
The Red River packet L%ightWcod
has been sold to Harlow Phelps for
$4,000, and goes in the Ouachita
trade.
The Spray departs Saturday next
for the Kanawha River, under her
present officers, in the Kanawha and
Ohio River Packet Co, running 10
connection with the Annie Laurie,
which leaves here every Tuesday noon.
The Spray will depart hereafter every
Saturday, Capt. Geo. Brown in COM
mand.
The Leonidas will follow the Silver
Spray to New Orleans.
The Iarasoon arrived yesterday fer
repairs.
A report was circulated along the
levee, yesterday, ttat the steamer
Shamrock had exploded. We re-.
ceived a dispatch from Captain Cul-
lum last night, dated Mt. Vernon.
contradictiDg the report, which fur.
Their states she is all right, and will
arrive on time.
The Nick Longworth and Idlewild
arrived at New Orleans on Saturday.
IF the Idlewild was at New Orleans
IN Saturday, she is faster than a rail
road, as she was here before mid
night, Monday.
The Times Of Tuesday says:
The remains Of pilot Asa Wood
ward, who was killed by tho explo-
sion of the towboat Raven, we're
found last night below the mouth of
Millereek. His neck appeared 10
be broken. There was $500 reward
for the recovery of his remains. His
bedy was covered with sand and
placed in a metallic coffin TO be shin.
ped to Point Pleasant, where re resi-
ded. on the Annie Laura today.
The st. Charles was delayed COM
ing down by an accident to h.r ma
chinery. She came in on one wheel.
The Chronicle says:
DR.. Kennedy, owner Of the steamer
Norman, arrived IN the city this morn
ing to make arrangements about Sc
curing a boat to take the place Of the
Norman in the Evansville trade.
uvhTI0 Tho Narra a "a - a-m-rH-
aud refiited up. Tho Norman ar
rived at 2 O'Clock this afternoon,
with the heaviest trip of the season.
Yesterday a fleet of l 5000 feet Of
ship timber passed down for How
ards boat yard at Jeger onvile. Ind.
The timber was from Big Sandy. iu
Jackson 90. w. va.
The Courtsy Journal
Of Tuesday says:
The st. Marys, lying 40 the P0rt-
land wharf, lightened up yesterday.
anu will attempt 10 pass up over The
falls this afternoon, On route - Pitts
burg.
The Mary Ann is putting on a new
shaft at New Albany, and will be
done in a few days, and then depart
for New Orleans with q tow of coal
for Horner, Wood q Co.
The Speigleberg suit against the
Mail Line Company was concluded
yesterday. the jury rendering a YER
dict in favor Of the defendants.
Duncan S. Carter has sold one.
half interest in tho steamboat Noun
~taineer to the Miami Packet Company
for $12, 1000.
NEW A~LBARY.-The Ledqer Of Mon
day evening says:
The Norman came up from Evans
vile on her way to Cincinnati this
morning. Capt. Barclay had his bride.
Mrs. Graham, daughter Of Judge /
Laird of Rockport on board, and he
looked as happy as a clam at high
tide. Long may he wave.
The new river editor of the st.
Louis Republican, a Baptist preacher
from Tennessee, has improved that
department Of the paper very much.
however, fell into a great errorin
regard to the Tarascon, by saying she
was formerly in the Memphis trade.
She was built exclusively for the
Louisville and Henderson trade, and
never plied in any other.
We have a very distinct recollec-
ton that the Tarascon and Morning
Star did both ply for a season in the
Louisville and Memphis trade. The
Tarascon also piled in the Alabama
and Tombigbee Rivers for a time, and
made a cruise on the Gulf Of Mexico
and in Mobile Bay. Before you crit
icise others, post yourself up, Ledger.
ST.. LoUIs.-The D6nlocrdt of Tues. /
day, says: {
River stationary, and about to en-
ter upon a long, slow, steady decline,
to be interrupted, if at all, only by
the annual, or so called June rise,
the head-waters and brooks Of
the Rocky Mountains.
MEMPHIs.-The Appeal Of Sunday ]
says;
The United States Marshal, Colonel 7
on Saturday, sold the steamers I
Liberty No. 2 and Commercial at pub !
lie sale. The bidding was not active
and the boats sold at much less than i.
their real value. The Liberty :
brought s., ZOO and was bid in bv II.
Dow, Esq, for himself, Brooks, Nicely
Z Co.. and D or two other creditors. :
The Commercial was bid in by Colonel :
Garland p. Ware for $1,000. He :
purchased il, it is said, for a nephew, S
Les. Ware. s
The sale will pay probably 80 per .
IN the debts of the line, and
illustrates the mulishness Of some
people almost as well as anything we
of. A proposition was made to :
BUY the Liberty some time ago at
sale for $4,000, and the Com