The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-08-05

/ of gheelbarrow loads of mud. The
Essayons cost $3.50 600, and the orst
of working il has been about 800 600.
Not a very good showing, truly.
A party of boys and men were iu-
qulsitive enough TO want 10 End out
what was inside OF . 100 pound she'll,
on Prophet IslaDd, just below Port
Hudson. ALI that renamed of the
two boys and two men belonging 10
fbs' crowd was buried in q single
coffin.
The Gazette says:
At the burning Of the Dan. Able,
the barkeeper not only lost every
thing he had, but several hundred
dollars deposited with him by deck
hands for safe keeping.
Capt. Harry DOhermOn has sold 90
Capt T. A. Reed one fourth Of the
steamer Silver Bow. for $1,000; and
ore-fourth of the r. J. Lockwood, fer
81 900; and Reed has sold 20 BOher-
man three eighths OF the Carrie Con-
verse and barges, Shadow, Dewitt and
Grand Ecore, for $23 300.
The credit of all the energy ex-
hibited In the construction of the
dam at Warsaw belongs to Thomas
Allen, q mate on the river for twenty
years, aud lately Cumberland River
pilot. He is the SUB contractor. aud
improves every hour that the river ia
at a proper stage 20 prosecute the
work.
Ten or a dozen towboats with
barges of coal passed under the bridge
yesterday.
Capt. John Fink yesterday sold 10
Gilmore the hull Of the Golden Eagle
for 5000. 1t will be fitted uplOr hay
boat.
Two young men, named Hunting
ton and Howard, the former the
nephew ofC. p. Huntington, President
of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad,
were with a surveying party nearly one
hundred miles above the mouth of
New River. on Monday Of last week,
and started down the river from Mill
ler's Ferry Ia a canoe together. The
next day the nude body of young
Howard was found 10 the river near
the moHth, and Huntington has not
been heard of nor his body recovered.
Both the young men were from Now
York.
The Chronicle Of Wednesday even
ing says;
Captain John s. Patterson returned
here this morning. having gone no
further than Louisville, as be received
a dispatch that all the bodies reoov-
cred from the wreck Of the Silver
Spray, the wounded and the survivors
of the disaster, were en- route home
by rail. He returned here, and eL.
pected TO meet his brother; but 10
seems there was some mistake, as on
ly the steward, Mr. Legley, had ar
rived, bringing with him the body Of
his nephew, Ed. Lang, the bar keeper.
He reports that the force OF the exc
plOsion WAS so great as 20 break o
new wire tiiler-rOpe from the wheel.
Captain Jordan was at the wheel at
the time of the explosion, and tho
snocud mate, Asa Taylor, was sitting
OF the hurricane deck. forward, Meth
er of whom was seen atterWard.
The report that Captain Wirtblin
was seen on the barge he thinks is Inc
correct. Capt. WlrthIin was asleep
al the time of the explosion, DO his
berth In the Office, and Mr.. LeRley is
positive he was never seen aiterWard.
Although the boat was we'll supplied
with lite preserveTs and floats. not a
single person made use Of Que. It
also stated that they had been clean
ing out the hold of the barge. and that
several Thousand feet Of duunage was
piled on the barge, all OF which was
thrown overheard and allowed to float
off without any one awaiting them
selves of the means thus afforded IN
getting ashore.
LOUISVILLE The Commercial OF
Wednesday says:
Capt. Patterson. of the Silver
| Spray, informs US that the boat and
barges were both insured, and be-
lieves no wall recover the insurance
on the barge, but the policy for the
boat does not cover explosion. The
Spray had about ninety crates Of
earthenware for Louisville"
A Nashville dispatch to the Com.
mercial says:
"Staunton Pierce Mcclure, of
Nashville. is Superintendent Of the
Nashville and Cairo Packet Com.
pany, co called. This feet consists
of the Ella Hughes. Umpire and
BuTksville. The Alpha, lobe Hurt,
Judge Baker and Mollie Gratz are
iguored as disreputable outside hind
wheelers."
ST. LOUIS. - The Democrat OF
WEDNESDAY says:
The much desired rain fell yester-
day; fell in torrents and secured out
the city, washing house tops. cutters
aud sewers 10 a fashion the must ape
proved. Business, already dull on
| the wharf, was completely put a stop
| 20 for the time being. aud those boats
which had 20 leave did SO with cur
tailed caIgles. River still falling.
Pilots of the steamers City Of Fioks-
burg aud Grand Tower, just in from
below, report 81 feet water at Liberty
Island. The channel is changing, Ia
very bad condition. and Will improve.
The ills Of she Upper Mississippi are
! being developed suddenly. A packet
bound down and one bound up we're
aground yesterday at the same tine
on different bars. The keOkuk Pack
ct Company is steadily opera ing It's
regular ous PACKET out and In per
day.
The ferryboat East st. Louis took
a picnic party Sunday morning co Sul-
| phur Springs. There she ran aground
or otherwise got aground. Passengers
returned by rail. FerrybOat Cahokia
went to Tighten her and got aground.
Francis Fisher went down and got
aground. Terrible fix generally, and
| the Alma was about TO cast loose yes
terday, go down aud take them al ia
TOW, but fortunately about noon the
mud feet hove in sight, and 10 was
declared that all is we'll.
The steamer Dexter is out on the
ways at Hambleton, Collier & Co.'S
shipyard. The work TO be done on
her Is nearly equivalent to building a
new hu !.