The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-11-02

the rise will not amount to much here
under the influence of cold autumnal
I winds and frosty nights. The river Is al
I ready falling at Louisville and New Al
baDy.
arrivals SEsd Departures.
Tie arrivals AID departures yesterday
include the Pink Varble, Arkansas Rtver
to Louisville; Hartford, Henderson and
retuTn; Pine But, Grandvlew and re-
turn.
Heals l5ue Here.
Among the first boats due here are the
/ Quickstsp and City of Evansville, from
Cairo; Rose Hite, from louisville; Edin-
burg, Mary Houston and shannon, for
New Orleans; Norman, from Memphisi
Evansville, from Bowling Green; Lorena,
from New oFleass; r. G. Gray, from Ar
kansas River.
Goats Leaving To-day.
FOR CAIRo.-The elegant, new lieht
draught steamer, Florence Lee, will leave
for Cairo aud all way ports at u. to day,
having superior passenger accomodati ons
and superb officers. Captain Lee Howell,
a pleasant and excellent gentleman, COM
mands, and VIII. p. Fowler, Ed. Thomas
and John SuTre, are her clerks, ali pro.
verbal for their polite courtesies to passen.
| gers and shippers.
FoR LoUIsYfLLE.- The fayorite Rose
Hile win be the mall and express packet
for Louisville at F. M. to-day, and IS ad.
mirably appointed, Captain Jas. Mather.
gentleman OF great popularity COM
mands, and Capt. Frank o. smith aud ].
l.. McMears. do the honors of the office,
and are careful, accurate and obIging.
The Rose Hite is one of the most popu ar
| boats that graces our wharf.
For GRANDvIEw.-The fne passenger
steamer Pine Bluff leaves at Pm. for
Grandview and all way ports. in charge of
those attentive and obIging gentlemen,
Captain Lafayette Elder, John A. Adams
and Robert Adams Especial attention
given to way business.
For He SDERsoN.-The foe steamer
Hartford leaves for Henderson at 3 Pm.
to-day, In charge OF that competent and
attentive commander, Captain Joe Nc.
Reynolds, with Captain Charley Perkins
and James II. Letcher in her once
miscellaneous.
Business was fair on the wharf yester-
day, bat our port list was very light. The
MalIie Rason and the Hartford had every
thing their own way, nothing else being
at the wharf.........The Pink Varb!e passed
up at I:20 a. M, with medium trip........
| The Mallie Ragon was receiving a fine
| trip. 1.-THE Hartford came up as usual,
full Of people, and Was taking a handsome
freight out........The famous City OF Evans
Vile Will be here tonight or tomorrow
morning, and will mount her new smoke
stacks and get ready to go out on Monday
| next. She is now in magnificent condi-
ton, AID VIII start out on the Fall and
Winter campaign one of the handsomest
boats that ever
The Florence Lee, as we learn from a pri-
vate dispatch rom Captain Gus. Fowler,
passed Padueah up at o'clock yesterday
morning and will be found at the wharf
this morning........Harry Walker, of the
| Mary Housto1, telegraphs us that the riv-
er is falling at New Albany, and that the
/ Mary Houston will defer her departure
for more favorable auspices. During the
| low water she has been thoroughly over.
hauled, repainted and refurnished, and is
now considered in as good condition as
when she first 8 arted out. She is. I'M
questionably, one of The best steamers on
the Ohio River, and no two gentlemen
stand higher IN public estimation or more
| deservedly so than Capt. l.. b. Durham
| and Harry Walker.
| GIeanAmgs from Our Exchanges
! CINCINNATL-The Commercial OF Monday
says:
Deck hands are scarce at 81. Louis.
| The Adam JACOBS has received over one
| hundred timbers in her bottom at IT,
| Louis, and resumes her trips In the st.
| Louis and Grand Tower trade tomorrow
The Columbia, hence up the Arkans a.,
| broke a shaft when within thirty miles OF
Little ROCK. The Little Rock went down
The "Grand Levee" in Morgan's Bend,
| between the mouth of Red River and
Bayou sara, Is eILner cldentaliy or want
| only being seriously injured. Last Sun
| day. a considerable portion OF the plank
ing had been removed. while In several
| places II was on IRE and burning undis-
| turbed. This levee was constructed by the
state of Louisiana, and protects from
| overflow the finest section OF country in
| the south; and why such au i'm poriant
| bulWarks Quilt at an immense outlay for
The preservation Of q large AMI productive
| portion of the state, should thus be allow
ed to be DESTROYED, we cannot inn agine.
| A raft, containing 700,0OJ feet or white
| pine lun Der, from the head waters of the
Mississippi, arrived at New Orleans on
| Monday last.
The Gazette says;
CAPTAIN II; y. Hart expected, yesterday,
day, 70 load for New Orleans.
The steamer Orioie burst her cylinder
heads, few days since, between POmeroy
Mr. James Rees arrived from the wreck
| of the Maggie Hays Saturday night, and
leaves for Pittsbufg to-day, HAVING recov.
| cred the safe and other valuables of that
| Inflated steamer.
the dam at Rising Sun, for the i'm
That at Medoc is not. We have already
| announced the completion Of the dam at
| warsaw. THESE three dams comprise all
the impro vements between here and
| Louisville taat have been under contract.
W.. II. Stanley sold, on saturday, at
| PIttsburg, to Capt. IL. Carpenter, Of New
| Albany, a pair of steamboat engines and
doctor. The engines are 915 Inca cylinder
| and 3 foot stroke.
The PIttsburg Commercial thinks that
| hull inspectors "maY as well learn some
other trade, on account of the early
| in on ri ,
| A sharper named Mcdonald played
| trick on the owners and officers OF the Mat
tie Roberts, last week, at Manchester After
| borrowing sums OF b, $40 and sl5 from va
rious individuals about the village, and
| contracting for the purchase Of the Gibson
would like to be the owner OF a steamboat.
He therefore bar2ained for the Matte
| Roberts, to be delivered at Gallipolis the
| next Thursday. Let the Manch ester Ga
zette tell the remainder:
The officers and owners OF the Matte,
desiring to make the occasion one Of pleas
ure as well as profit, engaged the PomerCy
| Brass Band, our string band. invited
| a party OF terpsicnoreanists 20 free and
jolly ride. Thursday morning, about 4
| O'clock. at Galnpolis wharf, might have
the brass band, awaiting the advent Of tue tue
new and festive proprietor. But, alas! he
he did not come. A glimpse of the truth
| revealed itself to them, and they returned
| 70 their homes ''sadder," and who knows
| but what "Wlser?"
The Times of Monday evening says:
Weather cool here. No present indica-
lions for rain. Air cool; wind from the
our Pittsburg advices report the weather
clear; river feet nine inches ana ialllng.
| weather was shOWery yesterday ana last
night at Pittsburg and above, there Is no
/ which coming on the present water. will
! open navigation for a time Bt least over
the falls, for boats loaded light.
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