Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-10-02

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We learn that Capt. Tom Berry will
go out to-day in charge Of the Pilgrim.
Business was good on the landing to-
day, and the Commercial left With a full
trip-after refusing freight.
The Bridgeport is still reported aground
at Phillips. The Rose Hambleton was
working st her when the Marble City
passed down.
The Louisiana was above Phillips at
last report, and will no doubt tighten
over.
The Adam Jacobs was drawing five feet
one inch on her down trip. She light
ened e Phillips, and rubbed heavily at
"a, but was delayed only n short time.
The Ozark, which left for Little Rock,
did not ever reach Pine Bluff. She only
reached HslPs landing, or Sycamore
Grove, and was unable to cross the bar.
The Van Buren, came down and took her
freight. The Ozark will possibly be in
port this morning.
The Adam Jacobs, Capt. Crane, will
be in port to leave for st. Louis, at 5 pm.
to- morrow. She is one OF the safest boats
aflOat. Mr.. Mason is the well known
chief clerk.
The st. Patrick did not get her repairs
finished in time to leave last evening.
She will start to-day at u M. for Vicks-
burg and the bends. Capt. Garrett j..
Huls is master, and DR.. Clay Rice is
purser.
The American did not get freight
! enough to leave last night. She will get
away to-day, provided she gets a trip.
/ Capt. Rowland is master.
The swift and handsome steamer Pill
grim, having over sixty tons of freight
! on board, will leave tonight without
fail for Little Rock and all way points.
The Pilgrim is a Memphis bost-Owned
here, and is one of the staunehest low
water packets afioat. Capt. Ike Whit
taker is her master, and J. Lee Finney is
chief clerk. Andy Granger is also one OF
the pursers Of the Pilgrim. Shippers
should not forget her.
The many friends of Capt. viii. Wood
will be glad 70 learn that he has almost
recovered from his recent illness, and is
able to be again about.
According to the last estimate. the
nunb Der Of steamboats, upon the Missis-
sippi river owned BY New Orleans, is nut
down at eighty; Cincinnati claims one
hundred and fifty; st. Louis, two hun
bred and ten Pittsburg, n hundred
and ffty-nine and Louisville, sixty-siX.
The total value OF the property is esti-
mated at over IS, DOC, 600.
Memphis is not far behind, and our
citizens are interested in nan boats,
which are, no doubt, claimed by other
ports.
During the PRESENT low water in the
Cumberland, q great deal of sunken ma
ehinery has been taken up, and shipped
to the north. Six or eight thousand
dollars worth, at least, has been fished
up in the neRhborhood of Nashville
alone.
The Lizzie Gil is loading at st. Louis.
She is o said to be the best low water
steamer af1oat.
A negro deck band in attempting to
secure the yaWl Of the Pilgrim, which
had become detached in the Arkansas
river, was drowned. His name we did
not learn. 2
A negro prisoner under charge OF a
guard, bound from VicksbuTg to Little
Rock, died on the Pilgrim before reaching
the latter place.
A negro was pushed iato the river at
st. Louis, by a deck hand on the Sucker
State, on Saturday last, and drowned.
BY a dispatch TO Capt. Nat. Green, we
learn that the Cleaner left Pine Bluff on
Monday. She will be here to leave on
Saturday next for a return trip.
The Louisville Democrat says:
1.-THE river was receding yesterday with
scant two feet water in the canal by the
mark, On the falls the stage of water
was Just about ut no water mark, or
nearly one inch below DO water mark in
the steamboat pass down the Indian
chute. We make this report as a matter
Of record, as well as to state the present
condition of the river.
"At Cincinnati the river continues
1ln~1n Faflfnn ruFeh fnu1 II an fhfrFr- taoh-. I
wster over Medoc bar.
"The Ohio river is comparatively in a |
worse nayigable condition than the Ten
nessee. Along the lower portion of the
river, from Paducah to Cairo, there are
fully three feet or about forty inches
water over the Grand Chain.
Below Evansville the water Is very
low, much lower than at any time since
1856, with a feet of boats detained in the
vicinity of Shawneetown, where the
channel is much cut up, with less than
thirty inches on the bar a
"The shoalest point along the lower
Ohio, above Evansville, is at French
island, where the Pink Varble reports
but twenty three inches water. This Is
low water mark indeed, and a very de-
plorable condition for a navigRble stream
to be in.
"The officers Of the Palestine report but
thirty-two inches water in Chenault's
Reach, the shoslest point between
Owensbors and the foot OF the falls. At
Hughes bar, six miles below the city,
there were three feet water, and thirty
five inches at ROckport.
"The New Albany wharf and wharf
boat landing are cut of from direct water
communication. A sand bar has formed
directly in front OF the wharf and a boat
TO effect a landing has to go down, de-
scending toward the Kentucky shore;
and then come up by the lower New
Albany shipyard to reach the wharf.
An ascending boat would be compelled
to follow the same course. L
1.-THE Portland bar at the present crisis
has presented no very serious obstruc-
to navigation. Boats can get
through the canal, descending, OF over
bland and past New Albany,
ascending, find no impediment at the
much abused Portland bar.
" The lowest water, according TO our
record, was in1s3S. Then there were but
twelve inches water at Rockport. Now
are thirty-iye inches. This, how
ever, must not be regarded as q criterion,
as Il Is s well sscertained fact that the !
shoals, bars and quicksands are of ~uncer-
tain tenure and location. Where a good
channel is found to-day there may be a