Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-10-16
RIVER MATTERS.
WEATHER AND RIVERS.

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WEATHER AND RIVERS.
MEMPHIS, October Eve are hsvi1,
lovely weather-clear as bell Rhd warn
enough TO open cotton like pop corr on
hot griddle. The river here falls rapidly
and from all points above We hear o
falling rivers. The stage Of the Ohio vii
be sacund Ia our dispatches. Whit
river is falling. The Arkansas is getting
to q low stage, but is cutting out, and 4
in good condition, with 81 feet to Little
Rack.
Steamer Nick Longworth, Louisville.
4" Westmoreiand, Cincinnati.
Z" w. A. Caldwell, Ark. river.
Departures. Z
Steamer Nick Longworth, New Orleans
/" Westmcrelsnd, New Orleans.
Z" Caldwell, Arkansas river.
" Tempest, White river.
" Marble City, st. Louis.
DarliHg, Cincinnati.
In Port
Natoma, Sam Hale.
MIsCELLANEOUS. .
The Legal Tender Is due up on Satur,
day.
the Arkansas with 100 bales of cotton
! again for Little Rock at q late hour last
night.
The Darling got away for Cincinnati
with 1900 bales OF cotton.
The Nick Longworth passed down, IS
! lid also the WostmOrelaDd.
The Hesper left for Little Rock yester-
! day, taking the guns of the Arkansas
| Loyai League. She loaded them during
the morinE and left before night. It is )
feather in the cap of our citizens that
they allowed these arms to depart in
peace, bat q fearful reckoning will be i "a
store for those who are Instrumental la
! srmiBg the negroes against the whites,
if those arms are used for that purpose.
I Capt. Houston will, no doubt, be re-
membered for his part in this affair and
will not receive much patronage, we
think, along the Arkansas.
The Julia, Capt. LOckhart, with Andy
Isaacs In Che Office, will pass down this
evening for Vfcksburg and the bends,
carrying the United States mail and
making all wsy landings.
The fine steamer R0bicon passes up at
noon to-day fer Cairo and st. Louis.
Capt. Bob Riley is master, and our pop
ulsr young friend ALI. Grissom is in the
Office.
The Ozark is tbs regular Arkansas
river packet for Monday next. Capt.
Rowland is master.
Joe Holman, engineer of the Caldwell,
wss fined yesterday in the sum Of S. for
whaling a deck hand.
The gDleddid U. S. mall packet May
flower, Capt. Ashford, leaves tomorrow
for all points on White river, connecting
at DevalPs Bluff with the Little Rock
train. Charley Smithers is clerk.
A certain young man, who is known
here and at Little Rock, and who OBJ
tanned a sum Of money from Billy Oar
els uEdsr false pretenses, has more
chance 20 keep his name out Of this pa
per. II he don't refund we shall GER
tainly expose him.
The Sam Hale, Capt. Walker, leaves
on Saturday for Cairo and Cincinnati.
She has a full trip of cotton already en-
gagged, we learn, but has some taterooms
left.
The elegant Mary Forsyth, Capt. lie
gler, leaves on Saturday for Cairo and
81. Louis. She is q fae passenger packet.
Mr.. While is clerk.
The Comet was purchased at New Al
baDy on Monday last by Capt. Ed. Ford,
for the sum Of 5000. She goes to New
Orleans.
Capt. Jas. Ross died on Thursday near
Neville, Ohio, in the sixty-eighth year of
his age. He was q pilot on the. river
forty years ago, and with his neighbor
John McFall, was pilot on the Duke of
Orleans in May, 1914, Whenshe made the
l-HaL-akzA 49, g., ~ -
cinnsti in five days and eighteen hours
the quickest trip on record.
The body Of Mr.. HOWertOn, OF Little
Rock, drowned st Madison, Ind, q few
days ago, wss recovered on Sunday last,
a geld watch, SI400 in checks, ana 2
large roll OF currency were found upon
his person.
Cairo don't want any Congressional
excursion snd has refused to appropriate
the $1,000 assessment made upon her.
a case of some Importance to river
men was decided in Vt. Louis on the 1871.
The decision was rendered by Judge Nil.
OF the Z. s Circuit Court. The Charges
against the steamer Bright Star were
that she carried freight and passengers
bet |een the town of Washington, Mo-.
and towns on the opposite side OF the
river, and that she therefore was subject
the various laws of Congress requiring
vessels impelled by steam 10 undergo pe-
riodical inspection, and to obtain a coast
ing license.
the defense was that the vessel "a
simply a ferrybo&t, ana that the Law : Of
Congress do not apply TO vessels OF .eaged
exclusively In the internal COM neres NJ
The State as this u ie, snd this view
sustained By the coUst IN an eIabor.
ate and able decision OF Considerable
A writer Glskes the following compu-
-Atlon ABOUT wharfage. A first class
'teanoost registered at HOO tuns, pays
each round trip between St. Louis and
New Orleans the following wharfage
;hsrres: