Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-13

WEATHER. AND RIVERS.


WEATHER AND RIVERS.
CAIRO, July 12.-Down-BIinneols, s
p. No.; TaeoDy, y %. Up-Luminary, Z
p, m.
The river has fallen two inches. Mer-
curry, 80.
LOUISVILLE, July 12.-The river is
falling. Mercury 80 in the shade at noon.
No arrivals or departures.
MEMPHIS, July I3.-Weather clear
and warm. River fell three inches In
past "a hours. All the upper streams
are full except the Missouri. A big rise
is reported coming out from Benton.
The Cumberland is rising, with two feet
on the shoals. Arkansas stationary,
with eight inches to Little Rock. No
change in White river.
Arrivals.
Steamer Mollie Hsmbleton, st FIR. river.
City Of Cairo, st. Louis.
Departures.
None.
Cleaner, City Of Cairo, NJ Hambleten.
MISC ELLANEOU5.
A boat race came off on Saturday
evening, on Wolf river, between the
rOWboats Ivanhoe and Lizzie. The Ivan
hoe came off victor by about one length
in race OF two and half miles.
Oar informant Was IN error in refer
enee to the Star wharf-bOat being Ia
the hands of the sheriff. That officer
hiss no claim whatever upon her.
The City Of Cairo, Capt. Crane, backs
out to-day at 6 pm. for Cairo and st.
Louis. She connects with the trains
and with the Northern line packets for
st. Paul. Billy Blenker is chief clerk of
Cairo, and is a clever gentleman.
The Commercial, Capt. VIM. Ashford,
leaves tomorrow for White river. She
is the regular q. s. mail packet, con-
Meeting with the Little Rock train at
Devalps Bluff.
The gay Nellie Hambleten backs out
for the st. Francis Tomorrow evening.
She is the only packet in the trade.
Paine, Clark and Shell are her clerks.
The Ozark is the regular q. s. mail
packet for the Arkansas to-day. She is
commanded by Capt. &c. MoFetsn, and
Jimmy Thompson is Secretary. The
Ozark is light and will 60 through with
out fail or delsy.
The ladies of the vicinity are raising
money to remove the Confederate dead
killed at and near Island No. 10, and
buried upon the banks of the Mississippi.
The banks of the river are falling in, and
it is feared another rise viii sweep these
graves away.
High prices of board, whisky and other
little things ia New York, caused Durf
TO seize his carpet bag and exit from that
city, after remaining there only two or
three days. It is not now known where
he is, but search will be made through
the tembs by his friends before they re-
turn. He is the man who wanted the
vote Of this district cast as a elGglsch for
Pendulum and greenbaeks.
By an ordinance of the city of st.
Louis, no melons grown south of the lat
itude Of Cape GirsEdeau are allowed to
be sold in that city 81 retail. We should
pass an ordinance that no people who
have been raised North of the Ohlo
should be permitted to land in this city.
1t would be eminently proper and about
as sensible as the st. Louis affair.
Capt. Jim ChsnOWeth now commands
the Lorena, and is loading her at Cincin-
natl for New Orleans.
The Nat0ms dropped down to the Gin
eiQnati levee on Friday, in splendid
order, having been locked and thorough
ly repaired, reprinted ana refitted
throughout. Capt. Jim Lee is highly
delighted with the manner in which the
mechanics have executed their con-
tracts. She will be here to resume in z
few days her trips to Frisr's Point
There is scanJ five feet in the lower
Ohio and the channel is very fat and
undefned.
The Dexter has laid up at Cairo.
The tow boat Wild Hoosier, which
sunk short time ago about eight miles
below Cincinnati, was raised, but sunk
again before reaching Cincinnati, and is
being wrecked.
The local inspectors at Cincinnati. in
the case Of the steamer Magnolia explO-
siOni have revoked the license of the en-
gineer on watch. The inspectors sttri5-
ute the explosion to the absence of water
in the middle boiler.
The delegation sent by Mobile to St.
Louis and other Western cities for the
purpose Of enIisting their cooperation in
the project Of opening direct commUni-
cation with the Mississippi river and the
great West via Bayou Manehac, made q
report Of their progress to the merchants
and citizens of Mobile. They consider
that the opening of direct water eommu-
with the West was a foregone
and whether Bayou Manchac
be the point or not, the necessities OF the
West demanded il, and it must be done
sooner or later.
Captain Samuel Barr, jr., clerk Of the
steamer Great Republic, was arrested az
st. Louis on the 10th by order OF Capt
Lee, chief of police, on information
deemed so entirely reliable that the
grand jury found true bill against him
for murder in the first daOrea in o0nnap.
ton with the shooting OF Henry Ander-
son, 3 colored man, on board the Great
some days ago. 1t is said that
the grand jury has found bill against
Captain Donaldson.