The Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1870-1875, 1870-12-09
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Business was moderately active on
the levee yesterday forenoon. though
our port list was small.,.............The
Quickstep arrived at an early hour
with a good trip. She was receiving
largely for her retUrn.........The Mil
brey was receiving fairly and was
sure to 90 out last night.......-The
Fayette was also receiving q good
trip......-Lew. Morris. late clerk Of
the Norman, arrived from Memphis,
BY the Milbrey. on "Wednesday, and
illuminated our Office yesterday. with
his pleasant face, and is looking finely.
......-Capt. Geo. w. Nearo arrived
from Cairo by the Quickstep. yester-
day morning. having closed up the
business Of the Emma Floyd, and
sent forward all her undam-
aged freight..-................-.....T
are 1000 bales Of cotton afoat
between Memphis and Evansville. al
for this port. OF this tho Mary Mil.
Ter, which will arrive to-day, has l.
300 bales. The Co-msrcial is also
expected tonight, and the Fanny
Brandeis is coming with full load.
1.-THE "little lot of lumber" which
the Courier sneerinely mentioned as
having been taken By the Leonidas,
from here the other day. consisted Of
the material for large frame house,
prepared by one Of our enterprising
mechanics, all complete and ready to
be put together upon arrival at it's
destination in Arkansas. 1t was
shipped by Nicholson & Triplett. gem
eral steamboat agents, who are rapid
ly establishing themselves in favor
with steamboat officers and shippers,
and building up for themselves q
handsome business....,..........-.....
The Eckert took of the boilers Of
the Pine Bluff yesterday morning,
landing them on the Wharf.......~The
G.. w. Thomas had steam up yester-
day to make trial trip. She is being
rapidly completed. and expects to
leave tomorrow for Nashville, on her
maiden trip........There is a lot Of old
steamboat machinery. including shafts
with fanges. boilers, etc, submerged
Just below Humphrey & Lewis wharf
boat, and are a dangerous cucumber
ance Of the wharf. They should be
removed at once...........Tho cement
ruined By the sinking Of the Emma
Floyd is being submerged on the
wharf, at the mouth of the Sycamore
Street sewer. The owners should BE-
required to remove it.....The Eokert
is quietly awaiting the rise 10 The
river, to see If tho aatboats attached
to the hull Of the City Of Evansville
won't raise her out Of tho sand.
GIeantnEa from Oar Exchanges
CIEcINEATI.-The Commercial 0.
Wednesday says:
Z Commodore w. II. Dayidson's new
side-wheel steamer s. s. Merrill
built expressly for the Northwestern
Union Packet Co., 20 ply between 81
Louis and st. Paul, was launched
from James Mack's Yard last even
ing at 5 o'clock. and with the hui
, completed aud flushed to her boile
decks, only draws fourteen inche
: water all around. The launch wa
easy, beautiful, and without the leas
. strain. She is building under tht
personal superintendence OF Captain
j. III. Baldwin, and will be completed
i within thirty days. The hull IL zoo fee
long, 80 feet beam, % feet hooI
with feet depth Of hold
She will have the Lizzie Gill
/. machinery with three new double.hu
9 boilers AZ inches ia diameter and 80
{ feet long, the cylinders being "A incbe
In diameter, with z feet Btrol.e. SIN
= will have a full length calm, htte'
= out and furnished in elegant style
She is named in complimentsto ,. y
Merrill, ESQ, the manager OF the NIL
waukee aud St. Paul Hailroad, one o
I the most cnterprising managers Of on
Of the most prosperous railways ~ ~
limited States. The Merrill will pl
ia the New Orleans trade until Ga
Upper Mississippi Is open to Sc. Pau
The hull ID well timbered. with
inch plank forward, inches all owe
Der hull, and 3 inches on her knueklei
She has an easy and graceful mode
Gibson & CO., Of Aurora. lndiani
ship fourteen Thousand new oil bar
= fels to the oil wells on the Allegban
River, 10 a day or two, by one OF Gap
McAleer's toWboats. Will some
our railroad people make an esti mat
m Of how many railway cars and Train
q Il will take to convey this number
. The chimneys we're elevated o
~ nnnlnin m. a. JOnea' new an