The Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1870-1875, 1870-12-01

- captain James j ore 0ne.f0urth .a
1 tereat 10 the Pauline Carroll for 812.-
800. Captain Yore assumes command
Of the Pauline CARROLL Captain %.
+. DIX still retains his three-l0urths
interest lI-that steamer.
The enlarged 3DeZter is nav the
longest steamer That ever footed I'd
the Mississippi. AShe ia 335 feet long
V 52-feet beam, With-96 feet width over
all, with a. feet hold. She hhs eight
| boIiers, and a4.inoh cylinders, and is
ofipeHed az follows captain, Isaac
HID oses; first clerk, Oven @. C0t
second clerk, Stephen Coohrane.
Oar fiiend of The Commercial ID
mista ken in regard to the Dexter BE
ing the longest boat that ever foatsd
Ga tie Mississippi. The great low
pressure RicbHond, IS $40 feet over
al, and the Ethpss. was 300 feet long.
The Dexter, however, is long enough
and good enough for all practical par
poses. Owen g. 0atesfs her clerk.
The gazette says:
CsptainJohn G. Benson, late of
The Jno. Kilgeur, was q leave hen-
phis for the Ohio RiverBaturday ht
by rail-
The owners ofthe Dexter find them
.selges obliged to purchase an entire
rev outfit for the cabin, fhe old furni-
tlre having been stored d a building
Fh9h vas destroyed BY fire at ST,
Lo1is, Friday.
The Chronicle of uesday even.
ing says;
The weather is cloudy and warm.
lndioatlons Ct rTain.. ThermOmeter
a.. The kanaWha rs rising, with 81
feet inches ia che channel. The
leVee presents quite an animated ap-
psaranoe to By. Mae large, first
class boats 90 the wharf. and Consid-
erabie freight accommodating. The
coming rise Will probably be Sufficient
to let most Of the packets out, and
with the rain We are certain TO have
within the next q hours, will give as
q good boating stage. Lt Is raining at
Springfield and Cleveland to-day, and
cloudy &C Pitt3bufk, LeaVenWOrth and
Chicago.
The toWbOae Webster is still at Buff
fpgton Island. The sand has washed
away from one Of her barges, and it is
breaking 70 pieces. Parties are re-
moving ell the coal possible, Captain
Smith has two other barges stuck in
the same place.
LOUISVILLE The Courier Journal
of Tuesday says:
We hear itreported that "Mi Lord"
has dotted his white vest, and now
sports clean, genuine cotton velvet.
Any Information from Captain Ben.
Egan or Bell will be thankfully re-
ceived on this subject, for 10 is one Of
marine importance.
The United States typographical en-
gineers appointed By the Secretary Of
War T. examine and report upon
Ohio River bridges as distractions 30
navigation, having completed their la
boTs as far as the Newport bridge and
Louisville bridge are concerned, have
now gone TO Paduoah TO examine the
plans Of the bridge proposed 20 be
CONSTRUCTED al that point
Can any of our Cincinnati on Gov
ington contemporaries inform us what
has become of the eighteen under
writers, out Of the twenty that we're TO
take passage on. tho Yarase9n last
Saturday, to 90 to the wreck Of the
Emma FlOyd1 We understand that
the IarascOn waited near three hours
for them, and but two made their APP
pearance. Is 1t not possible that
they might have stopped 10 interview
Gen. Weitzel Ia regard to opening The
canal2
The Underwriters telegraphed TO
Louisville that two agens were on
their way to the Emma Floyd, but it
is SO customary to magnify matters in
Louisville, that the receiving opera
tor made it twenty, and hence the dice
appointment. "Itis very sad.
The Commercial says:
Capt. Lew Shalloross, agent for
the underwriters Of this CITY. left for
the wreck Of the Emma FLOYD ves-
terday evening, on the Morning Star,
TO look after the interests of our Inc
suranee agents.
/ Did the Captain charter the Morn
ing Star to leave one day 10 advance
Of her time expressly to bring him
down to the Emma Floyd2
ST. LoUIs.-The Democrat ofTues-
day says:
Good authority says there Is 81 feet
water TO Cairo, and that 30 b on
stand here. The weather Isl fue-foo
warm, though, for this season of the
year. Rates were advanced yesterday
by the Memphis Packet Company.
namely: 10 Vicksburg. flut sos
pork 75c, whisky 81 90, bBon 25e.
corn, oats, &c, 253. The New Or
leans packet companies rates TO New
Orleans we're advanced 90 he follow
ing figures: Flour 5jo, pork $50.
whisky 81 80, bacon 275e,CoFn, oats.
60, 273o, hay 400.
MEMPHIs.-A dispatoFfrom Mem5
phis, Monday night. say:
The Indiana passed u this evening
with 300 tons, five dayDutfrom New
OrleaRs, for Louisville She reports
the w. IL. Arthur aFrund az War
held's Just below 8eonville, where
the channel is chanfng, and o bad
bar IS forming. ThePost Boy, from
So. Louis to New Oceans, was passed
lying at jersey landing, ten miles
below Napoleon, pparently In dis
tress. Halfhe ergo was out on the
bank; her guardgWere level with q
wafer; her pUmn snd siDhOng we're
work, aud she seemed 10 be ina sd
ing condition. ,he Indiana W.
asked to rendC asslstane.
reports the Graf Republic
part of her caro- at Shoe ]
twenty miles Dove Helena
drawing ten Get, and there
feet in the rVer. Above
Is only eighth The
passengers Of the Repub
here this morning on ---.
White.
NEW ORLEANs.--Ihe n
Friday 'ays:
The WEATHER yesterday opened
appars15 symptoms of rain,
toward noon the day became bris
and clear with q cool temperature
which prevailed TO its close.
business on tho leYee still cOntin-
ues active, and viii doubtless con
tiaue so henceforWard. There were
affair number Of arrivals and depart
ures.
Law CARDS.
J. g. HOLLIEGsWOBTH,