Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-17
RIVER MATTERS.
WEATHER AND RIVERS.

The weather to-day was not SO warm
as on the two preceding days. The river
at this point is falling steadily. The
Ohio is falling at Cairo, but is rising at
Louisville. IG is falling ct Cincinnati
and Pittsburg. The latest news from the
Ohio, however, will be found in our teIe-
graphic columns. The Mississippi i,
falling at st. Louis, but reported rising
at Dubuque, The Arkansas Is falling,
with scaht thirty-fOur inches to the Rock.
We have no later news from White
river.
Arrivals.
Steamer Ruth, st. Louis.
LOtawsnna, New Orleans.
DEPARTURE
Steamer Ruth, New Orleans.
" Lotawanna, Cincinnati.
Commercial, White river.
NJ, HambletOn, st. FIR. river.
In Port.
Cleaner.
The splendid low pressure packet Rich.
mOnd, Capt. Slut Neal, will pass down
for New Orleans to-day at 10 am. She
is one of the finest packets afioat. Wool
folk and Lodge are clerks.
The LOtawanna passed Nd Yesterday.
She has been plying in the Ouaehita, bur
there was not water enough in that river
for her TO remain, she will load at Gin
cinnati for New Orleans, if trip can be
picked up.
The Sam Vail, Capt. Berry, came in
yesterday from FOrked Deer, with 800
sacks of corn. Mr.. Sam Neal, of NedPs
State Gazette. was a passenger on the
Vail. He returns home this evening.
The R. z. Lee will pass up for Lluis-
vile on Thursday.
A fishing party, composed Of AL Hsr-
ris, r. A. Thompson and one or two
others, duly equipped with jugs, poles
etc, left last evening for some point il
Arkansas, where they will spend the
day in fighting mosquitoes, gnats and
red-eye.
There is no little complaint among
those who deal with steamboats, relative
to dull times, but it may not occur to
them that much Of the dizziness prevail
ing here is due to exorbitant prices de-
manded for everything. Take coal and
ice, for instance, The former can be
purchased In New Orleans st five cents
per b1shel less than here, and at Cairo
for very little more than one-half the
cost of the same article at this point.
Ice, which can be bought at Cairo for
fifty cents per 100, and at New Orleans
for the same, is sold in this market al
81 80 per 100. The monopoly In this lat
ter business has opened the eyes Of one or
two gentlemen from abroad, and We
think We can safely promise our river
men that next season they will be able to
secure this luxury at much less cost than
they do at present.
The Cleaner, Capt. Harrison Blsisdel,
leaves for Little Rock and intermediate
ports to morrow st pm. Garret Huls
and Sam Wood are in the office, and are
popular gentlemen with shippers.
The Commercial left for White river
with a good trip.
The fine steamer Darling, Capt. Lew
Hates, backs out to- day for Cairo and Gin
cinnati, making all way landings. Capt.
Power, one OF the best clerks on the
river, has charge of the Darling's cabin
arrangements.
The Conway City, Capt Marble, with
Corbyn in the Office, leaves for Cairo and
st. Louis tomorrow evening at m.
The exact location of Bayou Manchao,
which is now receiving a large share oil
attention from the press throughout the
West, is not we'll known by many Of our
readers. For their information we give
81 a., ting from letter written by
W ME- i a W Long. -ho was State En-.
giueer of Louisiana in 1887, aid who
made q survey Of the bayou under in
structions OF the State Board OF Public
Works:
bayou Manehac is about twenty
miles below Baton Rouge, the first five
miles of which is dry bayou, or nearly
so. 1t commences back of the roadway
or levee a. its mouth, with breadth OF
some fifty or sixty feet, and depth only
to admit the Mississippi waters at their
highest stages, and then only in quanti-
ties sufi ,ient for light pirogue or keel
boat navigation, should the levee at the
mouth be removed. The fall In this i've
miles is nearly twenty-fOur feet. At the
end of this distance it passes the south
ern terminus of the high lands on which
Baton Rouge is situated, and here IL is
Joined by q bayou coming from the
south, which give it back drainage for
the valuable sugar estates on the east
side of the river, reaching from Bayou
Mancbac as far down as Plaquemine, il
not to DonaldsOnville, some twenty five
or thirty miles, or more. From this
junction to the Amite river Is 8 distance
of above seven miles, The bayoa is
somewhat enlarged, but ordinarily is but
a shallow, fordable stresm.n
The Ouachita Telegraph Of the 10 b
instant says:
closed, but the river here Is still quite
full, although falling. Light draught
boats will be able to run to this place fol
several weeks"