The Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1870-1875, 1870-12-03


cloudy. Wind east Should ilhoI5
4 ont Tin to morrow. rain must follow.
The Allegheny River ia still rising.
with nearly four feet Of water Id OH
City, MonOngahela is falling very
| slowly, tho late rise from this
stream having made the rise nt
Pitt8burg; there are seven leet
at that point and rising. Tho
water coming out Of the Allegheny
/ will yet increase this STAGE and let0ub
q portion Of the coal fleet. As the
| KanaWha River was rising last Eeuan-
i ing 90 Charleston, with ~ feet and
/ rising af 5aliip0lis where the Ohio
had fisen four inches yesterday, big
/ Sandy coming out, also kentucky
/ River, there is no doubt of o model
ate boating stage over The falls early
next week. Cumberland RIVER was
/ rising at last accounts.
I The Chic packet Mary Ameut Was
/ sold yesterday 10 the 0Wner3 ~ she
| Pine Bluff, recently burnFat Evans
/ Vile, and will enter the trace pE the
latter from Evansville Ira abcu two
weeks. Captain Power left for P.tts
burg last evening to get another 0hIlo
packet.
The Caroaiele says
Some excited passenger on tbo
Emma Floyd at the time she sunk.
has arrived at Cairo, aud reports that
there were certainly five lives lost bg
the disaster
The only lives lost upon the Emma
Floyd, if any, were the lives 81 oats.
One musk-rat found les Wayinte the
hold Of the boat, while she lay upon
the log, and was pumped out and
killed by tho crew.
LoUIsvLLE-The Courier Journal
of Thursday says:
The Nick Longworth has been put
Ia complete repair, and was to have
left New Orleans, for this port, Tues
day evening.
Captain =. G. Levi received q tele
gram yesterday from Captain Aerks,
informing him that the R. @. GRAY
had arrived &C Little Rock, aud would
leave there to-day.
Capt Ben. Egan and friend B5ll
say that our Information in regard 90
Milford is all irregular, and inform
rs that he is the same White-vesled
gentleman Of yOre. and has ordered o
dozen new ones made, SO that ne de-
lay may be 0ccasi0ned when he deter
mines TO start out his now Sc. Louis
and Nashville packet" The latest
information that we have from Milford
Is, that he has abandoned the idea 0f
putting In a boat TO ply between Nash
vile and 81. Louis, as he says Che
times are 50 very 'ard" that tie only
succeeded ID raising So, 600 on Che
many recommendations indorsed BY
the Nashville Board of Trade. We
also. understand that he was On
'Change day before yesterday, trying
10 sell one hundred tons Of wrought
scrap-ir0n, but failed 60 make q sale.
IF our information is incorrect,
Messrs. Bell and Egan viii please Jet
US know, and we will make all the
amends necessary, as we are not dis
posed to do injustice to SO stupend0us
o parsonage as Lord PalmerztOn."
ST. LOUIS. - The Democrat Of
Thursday says:
River on the decline very slowly.
To Cairo six feet of water reported
to Keokuk I'VE feet and falling. Near
Sd. Paul the river is SO low that che
Davenport struck Oh Pig'a Bye bar,
and could not get to that city, and
the river was still declining. a hard
freeze will close the river there and
Lake Pepin one Of these nights, Illi-
nois and Missouri still played out,
and likely to swell no more this year.
They are good subjects for a freeze
over. Encouraging reports from OIL
most the whole of the Ohio-IrOm
Pittsburg TO Louisville. a ooal-b0at
rise ie gathering, and out viii 5Fsing
the John nyle, the James Howard,
the Glendlle, Oaeanus, M0llie Ebert
and many 0thors. The weather ia
clear again and cool. Business in the
lower river trades is fair. Tonnage is
in good supply and rates are moder-
ate.