The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-05-18

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flying, and her decks, guards, hurri
: cane. and cabin crowded with ladie
and gentlemen, and with bright face
laughing hearted boys and girls. al
intent on a joyful day in wild woods
and the beautiful groYe.............
There mas been sharp competition
in the Cumberland River between tn,
stern wheel feet, Talisman, Tyrone
and John Lumsden, of the Nashville
and Cairo Packet Company, and the
| Grand Armada. The former have
been carrying tobacco at 81 80 pei
hid, while the latter held up for 50 30
and got fair share of the business,
although the opposition is lively, the
people are determined to sustain the
independent packet.
GIeanIngs from Our Exchanges.
CINoINNATI.-The Commercial of
Monday says:
Business is quiet along the levee,
which is unusually the case at this
period of the year Travel as well as
| freight is light, owing to the fact that
everybody engaged in tilling the earth
are employed in attending to their
crops.
The Alaska is loading for New Or
leans, and will be followed by the Ed
inburgh.
The funeral of the late Cornelius
Bealer was largely attended yester-
day.
The House Committee on Com
merce has agreed to report an appro-
priation of $4,000 for the upper
Tennessee, between Chattanooga and
Loudon, which will probably pass.
B. +. johnson has purchased the
Advance, and will keep her in the
Wabash trade. Capt. Ashbrook has
command.
Capt. j. NJ. White left New Or
leans for Louisville and Cincinnati
few days since, to contract for rat
Ting packet for the New Orleans and
Vicksburg trade. He will take
Thursday from New Orleaus-the day
be has held for twenty years.
The Enquirer says:
A dispatch from Mr.. Palmer. Ma
rine Agent for Cincinnati Underwrit-
ers, states that the cargo of the elias
Cow was not damaged by water, and
that the repairs to the boat would be
completed to enable her to resume
her voyage for New Orleans to day.
The Gazette says.
An attempt will be made to raise
the Raven as soon as the river falls
sufficiently. There is hole in the
bow on the larbCard. but otherwise
the hull Is not believed to be dam
aged much. It is thought that the
body of young DeWolf, for the recov-
cry of which his friends have been
unremitting in their exertions since
the disaster, is buried in the wreck.
His coat, which was hanging in the
stateroom where he was sleeping
when the explosion occurred, was
found entangled In portions of the
wreck few days ago.
Mr.. Cornelius Bealer died Satur
day morning, in this city, from dis
ease of the heart, In the 18th year OF
| his age. Steamboat men nearly all
knew him as a former steamboat
owner.
The wreck of the Mary Byrd, sunk
In Tennessee River, lies with the bow
on the bank, tied up, and the stern in
| 30 feet of water. All the records of
| the boat were saved. The Resaca
saved 300 sacks of corn. few cases
of lard, and about 10000 pounds of
bacon from the wreck. Col. X. *.
Byrd was down Thursday to look at
the wreck of the Mary Byrd. He
says that she can be raised, but will
not be worth much. He also states
that the snag on which the Byrd
| foundered has been known to river
men for twenty years.
LoUIsvILLE.-The Courier Journal
of Monday says:
The Arkansas packet, r. G. Gray,
Notwithstanding her long detention,
cleared upwards of $4,000 on her first
trip up the Arkansas River, besides
doing a good business for our mer
chants.
Evansville should have boat in
the same trade. The merchants and
manufacturers of this city could well
afford to build or buy good boat for
the trade and give her to some good
man to run.
We clip the following wall from
the Louisville Sun:
Heretofore the river trade was the
great artery of the city, but of late
years it has dwindled away, and other
cities which were far behind us in
business, population and wealth, are
now taking the lead. Our Wharves
are deserted half the time, and in
stead of having daily line of pack
cts, oftentimes two, to New Orleans,
we have rarely more than one or two
in week, and not more than one
frst-class boat that can be called our
own.
ST. LOUIS. = The Democrat of
Sunday says:
Weather 6ne. Business good.
Competition firm, resulting In a con
tinuation of low rates to some points,
and a remarkable reduction to others.
AS. q remarkable illustration of the
waywardness of freight rates, here is
-four to Memphis, lately 80 cent per
barrel, and at one time this year Is
cents per barrel was taken yesterday
in large or small quantities at 10 cents
per barrel. The Church was In port,
and to her presence must be ascribed
the reduction. The agents Of that
boat, and those of the old packet com
pany, were making engagements at
ten barrels for a dollar, but no less
as far as we could learn.
The rates on different articles were
as follows: Flour, 10 cents per bar
rel; corn, 10 cents per sack; bacon
and lard, 10 cents per 100; hay, 124
| cents ner 100 This Is q mart Of the