The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-10-18
The Commercial Of Sunday says

The Commercial OF Sunday says:
The Natchez has besn trying to redeem
her credit for speed by making another
fast run from NesY Orleans. She only
went to College Point, where she was
caught In the fog, and returned 10 New Or
in three hours, twenty-five minutes and
thirty sc eOnds. The Robert u. Lees time
| . to the same point on the occasion of her
/ race with tire Aatchez, was three hours,
/ fifty minutes and thirty. seconds. Taking
/ all the facts into confederation the river
being lower. is more favorable to the
/ Natchez than when she ran with. the Lee
/ against rising river. Here Is the special
/ dispatch TO the Commercial: -uI
| NEW ORLEANS, October l5.-The Natchez
was caught In a fog at College Point, AID
had to return. she made the following
quarter minutes; to Harry HIPS, hfty-si1
| minutes: TO Red Church, one hour thirty
/ six and three-quarter minutes, TO Bonnet
| Care Church, Two hours twenty eight and
| three-quarter ninutess to College Point,
three hours twenty live and one-half no n
| utes. "Vs q. DENTZEL."
In her race with the Natchez the Lee
| made the following time: TO CaTroltos
| twenty-eight minutes; to Harry HITS
/ sixty and onc-haf minutes; 70 lSeG
| Church one hour aud thirty-nine min
ntes, and TO College Point, three hours,
| dfty.one minutes and thirty seconds.
| The Milwaukee had quite a successfuI
ing. from La Crosse to Winona. The boats
| keoI,t very close together till they reached
| Trem pelican but above that point the keo-
| kuk shot ahead little at INST, but was
I
| into Winona some twenty minutes ahead.
/ There was no dangerous stTaining OF tho
boilers by furiou as fires, but passengers and
/ crews Joined In cheers as the boats went
| in the crew on the Milwaukee bringing
out q couple of brooms and planting them
beside the hag-stans Ia triumph over the
| Keokuk.
Captain Frank Z. Bachelor, of the Ed
| inburgh, arrived yesterday and viii MAKE
up his mind By Monday, whetneF he e MlI,
Portland with the Edinburgh. CaPtsa,l al
| Charley w. b atchelor passed tnrousn silS
| city en- route frem Plttsburg to Mem pms.
New OrIeBns cargo, left Cairo last nish'
for Portland. 80 ohtaIned
the Nomination (for the short teInll 70 , rep
resent Louisiana in the lrsy ~ t5e
Second CONGRESSIONAL District Oh Lou
Captaiu Greenhouse was formerly citi
zen OF vanderburgh County, and served
term in the state Legislature, and won
brilliant fame as an orator. We are In
oIined. however, to believe Captain BIZ
bad-betteY stand by the St. John. Steam
boating is far more honorable calling
than going to Congress.
: LOUISVILLE. = The CoVrteT-Jon'7idt 0
Saturday says:
Captain Parisot's new boat, the LUG
Kiern, will drop down to the Portiani
| wharf Monday morning, ana Will leaY
| Tor New Orleans Tuesday evening.
ST. LoUs.-The Democrat OF saturda
J, says:
The weather continues very Agreeable
The river is again swelling, having rise
two inches during Thursday night. IL wi
only be q slight upshot," however. Tn
earth takes IN most Of the rain, and wi
for some time. shallow wells through tn
= county are giving cut Depth TO Galf.
| nine feet, and below about the same
Memphis. The Missouri is falling. In
l, | Upper Mississippi is statlopafy; A pos
the rapfds business has revived. Boats ca
"a | hardly take AL the freight offsreI a. -
buque and ether points. Lns No 3,fs n
erD, leaving tnat point LOT ~. Ao"'
Thursday, loaded TO her guards. a., ~
the Indiana, Captain Neal comes 70 ~