The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-09-06

~ vs. AH@ e@aA HDA44E mattresses 0A Oh
coverings, ell having the boats name
interviewer. The cabin contains u
s'ate-rooms and a posG Office room /;
aad there are two state.rooms in the
recess aft OF the cabin, for the acoom.
mediation Of eolored female passen-
gers. A splendid mirror ornaments
the after bulkhead Of the cabin. The
boat was furnished by the Young
Mems Bible Society Of Cincinnati.
with two elegant B bles Of medium
size convenient for use. The oabin
was built by Glasseook, Of Wheeling,
and is a very substantial job. On
the larboard side Of ne gang
way is roomy 5arbcr shop
aud wash room. The bar is OF
the starboard forward, and Is neat
and roomy, and is ornamented with
the pleasant eountenanco Of Barney
Rood, who will always have a ready
smile " for his friends. The Office
outfit - books. stationery, lis
from the JOURNAL Bindery. job
Office, and Stationery Room, and de-
ies competition. Her books we COM
mend to the careful inspection of
steamboat clerks everywhere. Her
upper guards are spacious and roomy.
and with her forward boiler deck are
admirably adapted TO the peculiar
trade for which che was built. An
iron foot guard runs around her rail
ing, as on the Idlewild and City of
Evansville, AID her stairs arc
covered with iron plates for their
preservation. Her smokes stacks are
models Of beauty, with elaborately
ornamented tops, including tall leaves.
Tier texas will afford ample room for
her officers aud crew. Her texas and
are well proportional,
aud the boat, in all respects, presents
as graceful and elegant appearance az
any we have seen. The following are
her roster Of officers Captain, Lee
Howell; mate, Richard Egett; clerks,
Robert MoMeehan, John A. G0rshell
and Dick Morrow; bar-keeper, Bar
ney Rood; steward, James Porter;
engineers. VIM. Taylor aud John
Wallace; pilots, Joseph Smith and
James Tell. AS we remarked in tho
outset, a moro perfect or better ap-
pointed stern wheel steamboat never
touched at this wharf. She is well
worthy her owners and builders, and
Of the gallant cfioers who will com.
mand her. She leaves at 4PM to-day.
Dispatches from st. Louis an
nounoing an advance in freight rates
to all points on the Mississippi, in.
duces the packets 10 make a slight adj
vance on rates from here. The fol-
lowing are the rates on re.ahipping
freiRhts:
coLUMBUs--one and half above regu-
lar local card rates.
ST. LOUIS. MEMPHls AND WAY Points
BELOW COLUMBUS Flour, potatoes, appleB
and ali dry barrels, coo; pork, per barrel,
81; eggs per barrel, 81 per d0zsn. DC;
whisky. Der barrel Oh -, hay, per ton,
W chickens, per d0E. Too turkeys do j 25:
horses per head, a8; mules and cattle, 90.
s8; hogs, do. 81 IS sheep, 40. al: fnrniture.
Two ca rates. bacon and heavy pound
freight, s6c; stoves, castings, hollow ware
and light, So groceries way points) sos
stock men, with stock In charge, haif the
regular fare.
NEW ORLEANS And POINTS BELOW MElr-
Pits Flour, apples, potatoes, and ali dry
barrels, 75c; pofk per barrel 81 rs; eggs
per barrel e. %, per dCz "a nc; whisky
per barrel, a. CO., enicxeiss per dozen, IN 25;
Iurkiea per dozan, " %; horses per head,
$40 co; mules per mead, S. 01s hogs per mead,
81 90 furnitnrc, three card rates; tobacco
90
and heavy pound freight, SOC per 100 ibss
stoves, castings. hardware and ligat, COG
75c; plo VS. 400 and 500; corn, 40c; oats, 45c;
stock ADD poultry men, with stock IA
charge, ooe-haif regular fare.
GIeaninEs from Our Exchanges
CINCIENATI The C0mmeretGl or Gatur-
lay says;
Capt. A. 81. Halliday, Of the Jennie
Howell, received q dispatch from Capt,
Nm. knight, last evening, from Eaton
tapidFs Mich stating that be was daily
improving, aud Will remain 40 the springs
WO months longer, in hops OF speedy
Capt. Frank Stein was on Change yes.
erday, engaging 100 tuns for the Auuas
eaving POr land for Memphis this eve
linR or 10 morrow morning, with the ABB
,ona's Cincinnati freight.
GOOdheart received the first bale OF new
tennessee cotton yesterday.
The Commercial Of Sunday Says
The st. Marys, from Cincinnati. arrived
u New Orleans on Friday She 40 loading
"A
II. y. EteWart g. 90. yesterday raised
team Ia their furniture factory, b6l Race
Street. They have the contract for turn-
ng the bats for Capt. q. 8. h0yG8'a Marine
laGe bail club, as well as the spas and dBr-
icKs for the new J. IA. Foster.
The body OF the late Ed. Corbeni OF Cine
.innati, who fell overheard from the
fleetwood, near ChttO, was found at Me-
lille, four miles below Chtlo, Weoneaddys
md after the usual COrouer's Inquest, Inc
erred a. Neville. The body was TOO much
lecom posed and swollen to permit Of its
emoval 10 Cincinnati.
NEW ALBANY.-The Ledger OF Friday
pays the following very Just compliment
o one OF our most enterprlslng and suo-
essful business men;
Col. r. X. DunKersOn and several other
I've business men OF Evansville VIII soon
pen an immense tODaccu and cotton
warehouse IN that city. There lH not in
newest more gentiem auly or thorough,
pright aud enterprislmg business maui
han Col, r. X. Dunker8on and we wish
Inn success In his new enterprise.
ST.. LOUIS. - The Democrat OF Saturday
avs:
Weather cool, with ali the sky covered
With clouds yesterday murntngi and
mail quantity CT rain fell Weather
cared up, and became warm after
Change nOur. Business was quiet as
lsual on Friday. The river has neither
isen nor fallen during the past three
avs M IS safe 10 say that the Upper Mis-
Issippi river rise viii affect the river here
u6 ifUle. A fre8neJ In Two or three
mall tributaries does not mean o. fresuet
a the Mississippi. Below @ tincy tie im-
rovement only amounts 20 about eight
inches.
Agents Wanted for