The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-06-23

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e at 3 days and 10 minutes, which W
, think must be an error-typographica
perhaps-and was intended for 3 dav
t and 10 hours. II must be remembers,
that the White, Eclipse and Shotwel
} all stripped for their trial of speed
J carrying no passengers, and makipI
} but few, or perhaps no landings a
all, having-two of them, at least
relays Of boats to supply fuel, while
the Natchez made sixteen landings
.........The Pine Bluff arrived at noon.
with fine trip.
GIeanfngs from Our Exchanges.
PITTsBURG.-The Commercial of
Monday says:
The marks last evening indicated
i've feet six inches and falling. Yes
terday was one of the warmest DAVIS
this season. The Glendale, Captain
Hare, will take her departure this
day for Cairo and st. Louis.
Capt. Geo. ID. Moore's new steamer
IS progressing rapidly, and will be
launched in about two weeks. She is
duplicate of the Carrie V. Kountz,
Capt M. w. Beltzhoover, a well
known steamboatman Of other wears
aud once clerk of the Inflated SnI.
tana, has sailed for Europe on the IN
man line steamship City of Brus-
sels.-Gt. LOuis Republican.
We don't like to spoil the Repubi-
cans story, but truth compels US to
say that Capt. Beltzhoover was never
on board the Sultana. either as pas
senger or clerk. and finally the Cap
tain never saw the Sultana.
CINoINNATI.-The Commercial Of
Tuesday says:
A dispatch received from Vicks.
burg. yesterday, says: THE time of
the steamer Natchez to Natohez was
~ hours and 81 minutes. Time to
Vicksburg, 26 hours. The Natchez
has beat any twenty-fOur hour run
ever made. River rising" THE
Natchez left New Orleans Saturday
evening, and passed Vicksburg Sun
day evening. She is 81 minutes be-
hind the time of the Princess Ia
Natchez, which was IL hours and 30 |
minutes, the distance being 300 miles.
and to Vicksburg 400 miles. The
Princess made her fast time ia Au- |
gust, during low water, and hardly /
any current, while the Natchez is /
coming up against rising river. The
Princess was also stripped especially
Tor fast trip, while the Natehez is
full OF people, and on a regular busi-
ness trip. We have no tidiDgs of the
Dexter, which started with the Match
ez for st. Louis. The Natohez and
Princess were both built at Cinoin-
natl.
There is a sunken coal barge at
Bold Face" which is a dangerous
obstruction to navigation. as il lies
near the channel.
The wreck of the Swallow, which
is now reduced to the hull and wheel
houses, lies partly out of water on
the Kentucky side of the channel.
The i. +. Eckert will soon 20 TO
work on the Swallow wreck.
There Is a snag on Picayune Bar
which should be removed, though it
is not in the channel.
Capt. O. M. Holloway Yesterday
loaned Capt. w. Il. Davidson barge
load of 5000 barrels salt, to be used
in strengthening the new boat, strained
IN launching on Saturday. To use
boatman's phrase, the weight of the
salt will keep her down to her place"
until the machinery is placed on
board, and the craft completed.
Capt. Beasely returned to st. Louis
Ia last nights train. highly delighted
with the conduct of the st. Louis
delegation at the S@ngerfest picnic.
The Chippewa struck snag near
Durand, on the Chippewa River, on
Sunday week, and sunk in II feet
water. She had a heavy freight of
for parties In the Chip
pewa Valley, and will prove an almost
total loss. She belonged to the Rum
sey line.
On the 18th, the Antelope on her
Down trip, sunk barge heavily laden
With grain in sacks, at Wagoner's
Rock, on the rapids. Five hundred
sacks of grain were badly damaged.
The Gazette says:
Capt. Dick @. Fowler, of the Idles
Wild, recently landed his boat in the
woods and put ashore a man and a
woman, who have brought suit against
lim and his craft for $25, 900 dam
lges.
The Bengal Tiger, while passing up
over the rapids at Keokuk, Thursday,
Junk barge which she was towing,
With 5000 bushels of Pittsburg coal. {
LoUIsvILLE-The Courier. Journal
# Tuesday says: G
The Morning Star, with Capt. Billy
Tarble at the wheel, assembled the :
alls yesterday In fiftv-five minutes.
md passed up for Cincinnati, where
he will be placed on the ways for re. T
,airs. She will be repaired and back
a time to leave Henderson on her
ocular trip next Tuesday.
The Norman, from Evansville; Abe Ii
ma, from st. Louis; Natoma, from 7,
Nightingale, from Arkansas .
River; Lorena, from Nashville, en-
cute for Cincinnati; and the Mollie
iratz, for this poat, are at the mouth
f the canal awaiting the coal feet to 4
anal will not be cleared before to-
morrow.
A correspondent Of the Courier A
Journal. writing from Madison, Ind. ,
n the 10th. says: ;
Davidson is going to have a rousino 4
cat. You will think so when / tell d
on that he is putting in her the ma. -
hinery of the Lady Gay; % inch
FLINDERS, 10-feet stroke andI5 AZ inch II
oilers. She has the best hull ever Z
1rned out in this yard. Her cabin Ct
Iork is well advanced, and the ma e
hinery is now being taken on board. :.
apt. Barnes stern-wheel is growing .,
Ike vegetation in the bayous of his a
alive Lone Star" State. Two weeks er
go her keel was laid. Tomorrow re
be plankers drive the last spike. e.
Ter cabin frame is up and deck laid. te