Daily union appeal. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-186?, 1862-08-26

inches il Is nov bet few feet above low
water mark. Business was quite brisk at the
wharf yesterday.
There IS 81 feet water at st. Genevieve-
the packets experience great difficulty in pass
ing the bars above Cairo. The Illinois is
high, and has afforded coed boating tide
during the whole season.
The Missouri Is stationary, with 4 feet in
the channel.
There is no improTemer: in the Ohio, and
worse than all continues to decline. At Flint
Island there is but 80 inches.
The Tennessee Is very low, and boatmen
find il dificalt TO navigate that stream even
with light draught boats.
The Cumberland Is no better than the Ten
nessee, being very low AID falling.
The John D. Perry has been raised, and
will, ere long. resume her regular trips.
ItiI thought that the j. c. Swon will prove
total loss. -
There was quite feet of boats aground at
Island % last Sunday the gunboat Tylor,
ard the Commercial, and others stuck hard
and fast, experiencing no little difficulty in
getting back to the channel. Boatmen should
/ keep a good lookout for this troublesome
place, as the channel is very narrow and hard
/ to follow at the head of the island
! The st. Louis Democrat of the 22d says,
E The officers of the Skylark and CalHe have
arrived II this city. Their narrative is an tx-
citing one bat We can only give it briefly
from an officer Of the Caliie Ttc CaIi;a vss
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I met SkylaFk at Duck Creek towhead took
+ Of IS Tors Of her freight and left II on the
bank aad was dashed to her. About O'clock
Monday afternoon, while the Uallie was tax,
I ing more Of the freight from the Skylark.
i some thirty guerriliss, commanded by Capt.
4 T. y Napier, fired into Us, hitting the Caliie S
t pilot, Metz George, in the wrist and leg.
wounding also deckhand of the SkylarF.
+ Captured both boats Made Us get up steam
7 on the CaIlie; took both boats t. the middle of
/ the river, and dumped overheard lot of
/ freight; afterwards pat on SkylaIk 80 horses,
+ and made her 60 on with this freight and
/ themselves to TFotter's Landing, eight miles
! below. Here took of their horses and all the
! groceries they wanted, and got all the money
4 they could from passengers. Burned both
boats. Kept US prisoners and paroed us next
/ morning. Previous to the burning the w.
| b. Terry, bound up, came close into ehore, and
! suspecLing nothing, hailed US. The answer
/ was shower of bullets from the guerrillas,
/ who were arranged and ready at the stern of
| tao boats The Terry behaved we'll, and with
! great presence of mind cat their barges loose
and went on, thus saving boat and barces
Heard she arrived safely at Hamburg. Some
Of us Skilled ourselves down the river until we
were picked up by steamer.
GLEANINGs FROM OUR E1cHANGEs.
The river at Pittsburg is falling with twelve
4 inches in the channel. The Kanaxha is fall.
ing with two feet from the Salines TO the
mouth ineiaaGia Commercial, 2Ist.
The river is falling at this point, with thre.
feet water in the canal last evening" The
weather is clear and pleasant.
The j. Il. Baldwin came down from Rich
ards shipyard yesterday ard commenced re
| ceiviBg for Memphis. She looks entirely new
and is one of the handsomest low water boat
ahost She will leave for Memphis to-mor
row Louisville Josuy.aI, 2oh
The river has latterly got down to dead Low
water mark, forcing the steamboats, and othe
ambitious craft to abandon it. In this emer
gency, J. J. Johnson of Wellsburg, has ap
propriated what remains of it between that
place and Wheeling to his own use as FIRE,
canal, and made several trips during the pas
week by the process known as cordelling
considerable produce mas come to market il
this way Wheeling LafeLLigeneer. "a
4 FoR CAIRO AND ST. LOUIS The superl
and ever popular passenger packet, Platt
Valley, Capt. Colvert, Il. L. McGhee & Co
agents. will depart this evening at O'Clock
Now is your time; ship on the Valley, an,
our word fer it, you will be glad to meet Capt
Colvert again, as he is a gentleman, kind an
careful, and withal, commands as good Graf
as ever aoated the " dark and angry tide G
the great Mississippi.
FoR LoUIsyILLE---The Exchange, an ole
CANT packet, departs this evening at
o'clock.
/ The Lady Pike viii also depart for Loui,
: vile Wednesday evening at o'clock.
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