Des Arc citizen., 1859-09-14
RIVER NEWS, &c.

RISE IN WHITE RIvER.-Our river com menced rising on Saturday, and up to last evening had raised near five feet. This gives ten feet in the channel from Jacksonport tc | the mouth
 l. GB The U. s. Mail packet Sam. Hale, Capt Wm. F. Young, is due Friday morning, bound for Jacksonport. She will be down on Mon- day, bound for Napoleon. w. F. Briscoe. her clerk, furnishes us with files of late papers.
 GR- The U. S. Mail packet Fortune, Capt David B. Prize, passed up yesterday morning The Fortune will be down tomorrow, bound for Napoleon. B. Coles, her clerk, furnished us with full files of late papers.
 H The Wm. H. Langley, Capt. Riley Kinman, from Memphis, passed up Saturday night, and returned on Monday morning bound for Memphis. Robt. H. Powers, her clerk, fur nished us with late newspapers. The Lang ley is due again from Memphis, on Friday.
 GT The Memphis, White and Little Red river packet Tennessee Belle, Capt. S. Little field, is due from Memphis to night.
 GY- The Mary Patterson, Capt. Morg. Bateman, from Memphis, passed up yesterday morning and returned this morning, bound for Memphis. Thanks toher officers for late pa- pers.
 GT The Gen. Pike. Capt. Riley Jones, was to leave Louisville last Saturday, and will resume her place in the memphis and White River trade immediately.
 THE E. M. RyLAND.-This new candidate for patronage in the Memphis and White Riv- CT trade, passed up on Sunday. She isa neat side wheel craft, and carries as polite and ti- dy crew as ever walked the decks of steam CT. Capt. Ben Johnson commands, and Messrs Sheridan and Lowe are in the of- fee. She has fine Calliope on board and furnishes any amount of music to her passen- gers, as we'll as those ssalong shore" The Ryland arrived at our landing last evening on her return trip to Memphis. By invitation from Capt. Johnson and his officers, a large crowd of our citizens visited the boat, and were received with that politeness and attention which will long be remembered. ssThe young, the gay and the beautifulp' were there, and as they moved in the ssgraceful mazes of the dance,'' we were reminded of earlier years and the bewitching snares that tNine around the hearts of the young. The Ryland will leave Memphis again next Tuesday, arriving here tomorrow week--which will hereafter be her regular days.
 SOMETHING NEW IN BOAT BUrLDrNG.-The Wheeling Intelligencer has the following mo- tice of short boat built there for Green riv- CT. s.Probably the Matilda, which descended the falls yesterday, is the boat alluded to. The new steamboat built by Capt. Wilson, for the Messrs. Reed and Mitchell, of Evansville, Indiana, is now about completed, and will leave for Green river in day or two. She is a hundred and ten feet long, and sixteen and 9 half feet beam. She has an upright tubular boiler, similar to those on locomotives, and an immense deal is thus saved in weight, space and expense. With about ten tons of freight to give her an even keel, she will only draw about eight inches water. Steamboat mon who have seen her, say that if the tubu- lar boiler works, it will introduce an entirely new idea in boat building; and her coming out is, therefore, looked to with considerable in- terest. As an emblem of her extraordinary ight draught, her owners have placed upon the top of the Jack-staffa a large water sprink- ler''
 WAGES OF RIVER PILors.-We learn that at the Convention of Pilots in Louisville, re- gently, the rate of wages was fixed at S250 per month, for every Pilot in the Louisville and New Orleans, St. Louis and New Orleans,
 
 Nashville and New Orleans, Memphis and New Orleans, Cincinati and New Orleans trades.
 DEATH OF AN OLD STEAMBoATMAN.-We learn from the Louisville papers that Captain John Harrington, died on the 29th ult., at his residence, in Shippingsport, aged 70 years.- The Democrat says:
 Capt. Harrington was native of the East ern Shore of Maryland, but for more than for tv years was resident in this city and vicinity. He was long time commander of steamers plying between this port and New Orleans, and also between New Orleans and Mobile. In this capacity he won a most enviable reputa- tion, and was greatly distinguished for his ur-. banitv of manners. For several years past he was Justice of the Peace, and performed his duties faithfully and with exact impartiality.