Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-24
RIVER MATTERS.
wEArRra AID nIYERs.

ST.. LOUIS, July 23.-The river Is fall
ing at this point.
CAIRO, July 23.-Down-City of Al
ton, pm; Lizzie Gill, pm.
The river fell inches.
Mercury Sc.
LOUISVILLE, July 2s-Ths river is fall
ing fast, with 3 feet inches in the canal.
The weather Is cloudy. Thermometer
50.
Arrived-Argosy from New Orleans.
MEMPHIS, July 24-Weather cloudy
and sultFy. The river here came to q
stand yesterday. The packets report
mark twain in the channel from Cairo
down, and nine feet scant from there to
st. Louis. The Ohio is recediug from
Pittsburg down, with three and half
feet 10 the canal and five feet on the
bars in the Lower Ohio. White river il
falling, with eight fset In the channel
through TO Augusta. The Arkansas con
tinues low, with two feet scant in the
channel from Little Rock to the mouth.
Arrivals.
Steamer Ruth, New Orleans.
Departures.
Steamer Ruth, st, Louis.
Marble City, st. Louis.
NStoma, Napoleon.
In Pert
None.
MISCELLANEOUS.
There was little or no business doing
on the wharf yesterday, with but one
arrival and three departures. Freights for
all points continue scarce, with little
travel.
An envelope was lost on Wednesday
evening, addressed to G. b s. Jones.
containing loJ or papers, valuable to
him alone. Mr.. Jones is an old steam
boatmsn and will literally reward the
finder by leaving the envelope and con-
tents at this Office.
Capt. Ike Whitaker is loading the r.
@. Gray at Cincinnati for Memphis.
The Frank Pargoud and Lizzie Gill
are due this evening from st. Louis.
The City OF Alton is the regular Sat
urday st. Louis packet.
The Emma No. 8 is due from New Or
leans.
The Legal Tender win be due to-mor-
row from Louisville.
The Julia is theregulsr Saturday Vjcks.
burg packet.
The Arkansas river is ct low tide.
The W. A. Cald well will be Fepaired.
and reprinted aud fixed up in the finest
style for the falItrade.
Captain John B. Davis and family, of
this city, are visiting at st. Paul. An
exchange says that Captain Davis voy-
age, about ten years sgO, to the sources
OF the Minnesota river, with 8 view 10
connecting the navigsbls streams OF the
Minnesota and Red river of the North,
will be long remembered.
The Mat. Burns is loading at st. Louis
for the Arkansas river.
There is some talk of replacing the
Mayfower in the Memphis and Evans
vile trade.
The Marble CITY backed out for st.
Louis, with slim passenger trip.
The NstomR cleared for Napoleon with
fair trip for the times.
The regular Saturday White river
mail packet, Liberty No. ., in command
Of Capt. James Rice, will be at the wharf
this morning to receive for White river
and all way points, and leave on Satur-
day. Messrs. Milt. Harry and Charley
Sharpe, two smiab!e gentlemen, have
charge OF the Office.
The Luminary, Capt. Euker, with Capt.
Lee Finney in the office, will leave TO-
day at pm. for Cairo and St. Louis.
Montana papers state that the steamer
0uAAOu - W bS taken D0ullV overland
around the great falls abSve Benton, and
Is hereafter % ply as regular packet in
waters heretofore undisturbed by a
steamers wheel, adding many more
miles to the navigation Of the Missouri.
1t Is another Western enterprise. The
boat will be placed on skids, aud snRked
overland on bull trains.
st. Louis exchanges Of Wednesday
have the following. a. Riyar falIino, fast
here. There will be a stage OF only six
feet or less to Cairo by aud by. Then
will steam bostmen and barges encnun-
ter trouble, aud rates of freight will be
higher than now. Then will be found
also several boats running below that
have been known as Missouri river
packets, The last boats up report nine
feet water at Herculsneum, above Cairo,
and the same at Island "a, below Cairo.
All the upper rivers are falling. The
Mississippi about Dubuque is also lower
than at any time last year"
The RubjcOn will leave for Vicksburg
on her regular day next week. She will
make her debut as q beauty Of the first
water.
A Pine Bluff exchange Of the
18th says: "Ths river at this point con-
tinues almost too low for steamers to ply
between the mouth and Little Rock
We have heard s rumOr OF y small rise
In the upper river.n