The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-08-04

was raised Dy a0nM McAllen. neal
Brownsville, Texas, who won The
honor of raising the first bale last
year, which arrived 90 New Orleans
August z.
Captain w. il. Miller has arrived
from New Albany, where he has laid
up the Minneoln for the present He
cOntemplates o tour 10 Che Northern
lakes and che East.
The Gazette sayss
A deck hand On the @. q. Dumont.
while making line fast af the foot OF
Race Street, Sunday night about ~
o'clock, discovered a suit Of clothes
neatly piled up On the landing. They
are supposed % be the property Of
some young man who went in bathing
during the evening. and was drowned.
A body was found ia the Ohio
River, on Saturday last, 10 the TWen-
/ ty-first Ward. between coal barees.
| One witness thinks it IS the BODY Of
Mr.. DeWOlf, mate Of the tOwbOat
Raven which exploded some time ago
near the Water Works.
The i. w. Ssrader viii come uD
over the falls and 60 on the ways here
for repairs.
The amount Of wharfage collected
atSt. Louis, for the month Of July,
is 1857 10.
Sixteen boat arc now lying idle at
Sioux City. They will soon be en-
ployed In transporting five million
dollars worth Of Indian stores lately
voted a. stipend 20 the red men By
the United States Congress.
The Enquirer says:
Capt. Patterson, of che ill-fated
Silver Spray, has been In the city for
several days. We learn that he left
for the scene of the disaster lest even
ing
NEW ORLEAHs.--The Tines Of
Sunday says;
The weather yesterday opened clear
and fine, with q stray refreshing
breeze, which continued through the
day, rendering it about IS pleasant az
could be expected.
Business on the landing, for the
end Of the week, was more animated
than on any Of the previous days.
while departures we're also more nU-
merous.
LoUIsvILLE-Tho Courier Journal
Of Tuesday says:
Capt. James is in the city, and eE-
poets to get the Bermuda up over the
falls this morning.
Captain William Marble arrived
from COncordia yesterday, after an
absence from the city of two weeks.
He is on hand, ready to take boats
over the falls.
The Chippewa and Black Rivers
nave risen six feet with rain. The
same is probably true of many Of the
upper tributaries of the Mississippi.
IL is denied in st. Louis, that the
Richmond and NOllie will enter into
the Memphis and New Orleans trade
the coming season.
It was hardly worth while TO deny
IL, as the rumor originated IL the
Memphis papers, which make the
same announcement annually, with
equal accuracy.
81. LOUIS. - The Democrat Of
Tuesday says:
The river falls steadily. about two
and half inches per day. There is
four feet Of water 90 keokuk, and
falling nearly as fast as here. Illinois
River is down TO two feet of water in
the channel between the mouth and
Naples. The Missouri has kept up
well this season. lie has fallen lately,
and bids fair soon 10 reach it's historic
three and a half feet and falling"
In former years the Missouri has
been in the condition Of three and a
half and falling for months at a slime,
without interruption. and many could
not understand the phenomenon Of q
falling river never getting lover,
until the process Of cutting out"
was made plain TO their inquiring
minds.
The rise in the Ohio has been very
beneficial, rendering the falls naviga-
BILE, but that river is again troubled
with a decline. A duller time for
new freight to New Orleans is seldom
sees, if ever. There was nothing
being received yesterday afternoon
by steamers or barges. While there
is 81 feet Of water at Jefferson bar
racks, Liberty bar, with its six feet
large, is the worst place out 10 Cairo.
The Robb and barge have been
aground there since Friday morning.
III the rate Of decline be very slow, or
if the river should come TO o stand,
there would be. IN q week, better
MGUhA Va W1k@A NA4 q W@Nh@A #L@A4@An
Hot Weathsr. A sprinkle of rain yes
terday evening.
Mr.. Randall, formerly the talented
river reporter OF the Times, of this
city, was obliged, some montas ago.
to withdraw from that paper by rea-
son of failing health. he went TO
Columbia in this State, where be has
been carefully nurscd. BE has been
gradually falling, and at last accounts
no hope Of his recovery was enter
tanned in fact IL Tas evident that be
could not live long. Mr. Randall was
native Of New York. Previously
10 1861 he published paper ia Boone
County, Mo. BE was q very sooiable
gentleman, and has numerous friends,
Captain Hiram Hazlett Dommo-
dore of the Northwest feet OF moan
tain steamers, has left for Sioux City,
and will be absent from ST. Louis
about ten days. We may mention in
passing, that rs Congress recently
made an appropriation Of SIX millions
to purchase supplies for the Indians,
ID Is certain that boating 90 Sioux
City, for very light steamers, viii soon
become very brisk.
u. Lee Finney, Of Binuey& CLARK
has zone 10 the Magnesia Springs OF
Wisconsin. 30 has Captain Wa. Bs
Hazlett, who went part Of he way
on tho steamer Nile.
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