The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-06-25


moderate trip passed up at noon.....
The Pine Bluff arrived at 2:3O will
a handsome packet TIL
Baltic, with three model barges load
ed with iron ore. passed up at / PM
BILLY Liter has resigned his DO.
sition as clerk Of the Hartford and
will assume charge of his fathers
farm near South Carrollton. John
Wilbanks, a young getleman well
known IN the trade, takes charge Of
the Office of the INTERCHANGEABLE
West Wind was due yesterday after
noon with a big trip, including two
loaded bargcs, from the Wabash.
Our latest advices report three feet
on the Grand Chain and falling.......
The Mary Houston arrived at 3 PM,
with a fair start. She added some
little freight here.
GIeanIngs from Our Exchanges
PITTsBURG. Tho Commercial of
Wednesday says:
The marks last evening indicated
four feet FIVE inches and falling slowly.
The weather during the day was
warm. Trade on the landing was not
very active.
ClNcINNATL-The Commercial of
Thursday says:
Captain 0. p. Tharp, Superintend-
ent of the Marine Ways. received the
following dispatch yesterday from
Captain L. p. Leathers, commander
of the Natchez:
ST. LOUIS, June p, 500 P.M.-The
Natchez's time from New Orleans to
Carondelet was three days, tlcenty one
hours and thirty fotr minutes, and TO
the City Of st. Louis. three dags.
tiCenty one hours and ffiy eiqht MIN
utes. Il. l.. LEATHERs.
This is the fastest time ever made
from New Orleans to st. Louis, 278
miles-by any steamer. This beats
the famous time of the j. NJ. White,
made In 1913, when she came from
New Orleans to st. Louis in three
days, twenty.three hours and nine
minutes.
The old Tacony, lying in the Upper
Missouri, has become a wreck. She
was tied up last Fall, during high wa
ter, and as the water receded she was
left high and dry aground, and soon
after tipped over on her side. The
machinery has all been taken out of
her. and she is left to rot amid the |
sand which has gathered around her. |
She was built at Paducah for John |
How and others, and has changed |
owners several times.
The Chronicle of Thursday evening
says:
The case Of Thos. Sherlock and |
others VS.. the Germania Marine and |
Fire Insurance Company, of this city, |
which is to be made test case Of the |
suits to recover insurance on the Mail |
Line steamer America. before the Su- |
preme Court, was called In that Court !
at Columbus, yesterday, and post
poned to the September term.
On the last trip up Of the Fleet
wood, while making a landing &C |
Hartford City, Monday night, young |
colored boy, named George Waller, |
fell overheard and was drowned. He |
was standing by the torchlight when
he fell into the river, and as he never /
came up or was seen, is supposed to |
have gone under q fat lying at the
wharf. Young Waller was a bright
boy, and was a universal favorite with
the crew, not one Of whom but would
have risked his life to save him, had
il been possible to do so. He was
between twelve and fourteen years of
age, and his parents arc supposed to
reside in this city.
Capt Cannon was very much sur
prised to learn that the Natchez had
not beaten the Princess time to
Natchcz, on this trip, as he had bet a
fine hat that she would. Many steam
boatmeD, however, assert that by the
natural cutting away of the banks,
thus deepening the bends, Natchez
city is now at least ono hours run
further from New Orleans than when
the Princess made her remarkable
time Of IL hours, 30 minutes.
On the other hand, the Louisville
papers think the distance has decreas-
I'd by the cut-off5 that have been
made since 1874
LoUIsvILLE-The Courier Journal
Of Thursday says:
The new steamer Shoe Fly raised
steam for the first time at Pittsbure,
asst Saturday. Its supposed she will
be high flyer of the first water.
New ALBANY.-The Ledger of
evening. in commenting
On the run of the Natchez, INDUCES
10 these Uery impartial speculations:
The Natchez was equally as we'll
to make run as the Eclipse
md ShotWell we're, and had a much
more favorable river. The Natchez
had the advantage of two cut offs,
'uil thirty miles less distance, and
wharf boats to land alongside. She
could take advantage of all the Is
and chutes, some ofWhich the Eclipse
ind Shotwell could not. The run of
he Natchez does not compare lavora-
ply with the run of the Dexter in
1869. She made % landings, had a
rood freight, including 300 head Of
stock burned no pine wood, and made
he run to Cairo in 3 days 6 hours and
20 minutes: just l hour and 10 min
ltes longer than the time made by the
Natchez. The Cincinnati papers will
AXE due notice.
That will do for the marines.
ST. Louis. - The Democrat Of
says:
The river continues falling. To
Cairo there is nine feet packet
water" or nine and half feet can be
'ound. Upper Mississippi falling
steadily, three inches per day, and
here is only three feet six inches on
he lower rapids. There is another
noticeable rise in the Upper Missouri.
Il comes from above Sioux City. and