Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-10-17
RIvER MATTERS.
u-.rHER ANp RIYERs.

WEATHER AND RIVERS.
MEMPHIS, October 1S.-We bad rain
yesterday, the first for several days.
The river is falling steadily q Is nearly
back to its old stage, previous 10 the late
rise. White river is falling. OF the Ar
kansas the Little Rock Gazette, OF the
l4th, says: "The river had still a down.
ward tendeaey at 8 pm, yesterday, and
as a rapid fall invariably leaves a badly
cut 1p channel, we cannot safely report
mere than three feet water in the cha
mel to Fort Smith, aud six feet out to Ma
p~oleon."
Arrivals.
Steamer Hsyfiower. White river.
RGbie0n, VicksbuFg.
Departures.
Steamer Rubicnn. st. Louis.
" Sam Hale. Cincinnati.
I" Natoma, FriaT's Point.
". a. Caldwell, Ark. river.
In Port.
Msyfower.
nIECEELANEOUs.
Capt. John Ford, Of the tug Nettie
Jones, is not especially anxious to get
any more RATS TO tow up to this city.
The Mary Forsyth. Capt. Ziegler, is
the regular Cairo and st Louis packet to-
day. She leaves the wharfbost st 5
o'clock pm, sharp, and makes all 0 u
nections above with trains and packets.
: White and Briggs are her elegant Secre-
taries.
The L. S. mail steamer Mayfiower,
Capt. VIM. Ashford, will back out at 5
pm. to-day for all points on White river.
The MsYfower is one Of the finest of our
local packets and connects at Dsvalps
Bluff with the Little Rock train. Charley
Smithers is her Clerk.
The Ozark. Capt. Nowlsnd, leaves on
Monday for Little Rock and all points
on the Arkansas.
The W. A. Caldwell did not get away
until yesterday evening. Her crew re-
fcsed 10 work the night before, hence the
delay.
The Sam Hale left for Cincinnati VIII
1875 bales OF cotton. The largest tri. OF
the season.
Various reasons are assigned for the
loss of the arms on the HespeT. Some
say that the hammers OF the guns were
not properly protected, Others that
they had the GreciaD Bend, while there
was still another party who thought
they were conservative guns aud pre-
ferrsd suicide to being pat 10 such busi-
ness. We, however, think it was a
shallow trick on the part OF the Radicals
ont Of which 10 make capital. If not,
why should the caFpet-bsgger who owns
the boat and who it is said had con-
trRcted to carry them, lay bis boat up so
near the city. The offer of SO, 1000 made
by members Of his own party in Arksn-
sas for their destruction was g better
thing than $1,000 OF a freight bill.
The Olive Branch, Capt Isaac Jones,
will pass down to-day for Vicksburg and
New Orleans. She is an elegant pas
senger packet. Oven G. Hates Is her
clerk.
The Legal Tender, Capt. Roberts,
passes up for Louisville to-day.
The P. w. Strader leaves tomorrow
for New Orleans. Capt. Stein COM
mands.
The Des Arc, Capt. John Elliott, is the
regular Monday packet for White river.
She will be in port tomorrow.
The Plain City makes tri-weekly trips
between Vicksburg and Yszoo City.
The klgour goes to Louisville for a
losd.
The S. n. Long, 3 snsgbOat, was at
Cairo yesterday.
It Is probable that the Nightingale
will be wrecked. Though sunk several
days ago, her passengers are still near
her on the bank csmped in an old ware
house, awaiting the recovery of their
wagons and household goods.
The captain of 8 ~coastiug vessel reports
that while of Coos Bay, Oregon, he en-
%couptsred smoke so dense that it OBJ
structsd his progress FOR one day. Three
hundred birds fell dead on the deck o! his
vessel. The people OF Coos Bay and
vicinity could not account for the smoke.
Cspt. Ed Montgomery will command
the Daxterthi season. Old Gunboat"
remains ashore.
Some Radical stole Jake Frolich's
OverccRt over Ia Arkansas recently. To
what deeper iHfGmy could q carpet-bag-
ger descend than that OF stealing from an
editor?
The miserable kick up behind Hesper,
which departed for Little Rock on
Thursday evening, with 8 Radical ar
senal on board, returned TO our landing
yesterday, sans guns, sans powder, sans
caps. sans lead. The Lesgue in our sis
ter State will be yet 9 little longer in Sc
curing weapons with which to murder
their Deighbors. All that is known OF
the transfer Of the same will be found In
our local columns.
Ii Is not considered entirely safe to
mention the word craft" in the pres
enee OF Captains Ford or Clark, OF the
Nettie Jones.
Col. Alonzo Bennett died In Cincin.
natl on Tuesday, of rheumatism Of the
heart. He was q printer in early life.
but has recently been engaged in business
IS 3 steamboat agent. III 1852 he formed
a partnership with Mr.. Joseph Cunning
ham. The firms, however, was changed
to BrysOn & Bennett, and more recent
ly to Bennett q Getty. A large c~oneourse
OF friends attended his funeral on Thus
day.
The Minnie left Cincinnati on Wednes.
day for Arkansas river.