Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-09-02
RIVERS WEATHER AND BUSINESS.

N PORT.
Minneola.
RIVERS WEATHER AND BUSINESS.
CAIRO, September Up: Alaska
and RubicoD, IL Am. Down: Glas-
gov, 9 am; Octavia, noon. River
rose four inches. Weather clear ann
cool.
LOUISVILLE, September DE
Orleans. Weather clear and pleasant.
River rising with three feet two inches
in canal.
CINCINNATI, September River
rising with six feet four inches in
channel.
New ORLEANS, September AR
rived, Pretonaand barge5. Departed,
w. r. Arthur, for st. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, September 1.-River Sta
tionary.
MEMPHIS GAS WORKS, September l.
The river rose 81 inches the past
'twenty-tOur hours. 1t stood D feet IL
inches below the high water mark OF
1861 this morning.
The river swells steadily, and Is
gradually climbing over the sand bar
opposite the city. This rise will only
be a small affair, but such as it is it
will relieve steamboats, from much of
their trouble along the Ohio and up
per Mississippi. The latest news from
points above viii be found in our dis
patches. There is four feet and falling
in the Arkansas. No later news from
White river. Weather warm during
the day, but nights cool. Business
very good.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Great Republic passed up yes
terday. She put OF a lot of railroad
iron above HOpetield for the Little
Rock Road. Several OF her passen-
gers strolied through the city during
the day.
The elegant passenger steamer Belle
st. Louis, Capt. Alex. Zeigler, leaves
to-day at D pm for Cairo and st. Lou
is, making connections with the train
at Belmont for the North and East.
Mr.. Baskette is the popular chief
clerk of this fine packet.
The W. A. Caldwell is the regular
Friday packet for the Arkansas.
The Minneola will get away to-day
for Cairo and Cincinnati. She is a
good passenger packet, and makes ali
way landings. w. 3. Miller is mas
ter, and Messrs. Hall and Jones are in
the office.
The Nick LOngworth passed up yes
terday.
The Pauline Carroll is due on her
way to New Orleans.
The Glasgow is past due from Gin
cinnati.
The Dan Able came in from below.
She will make some slight repairs be-
fore entering the Friar's Point trade.
The new Red river boat Flayilla
passed down yesterday.
The Argos did not get away until
yesterday. She was detained by the
U. S. Marshal, or the Sheriff.
The tOwboat Mohawk passed down
yesterday.
The Des Arc came of the docks yes
terday and the Thomas IL. Allen
The monitors arrived safely at New
Orleans.
New cotton is going into New Or
leans at a lively rate. We heard that
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two ago.
1t is expected that the r. Z. Lee
will start l o New Orleans in a day or
two.
The Barrauquilla pronounced Bar
Taw-keel-yah), a new boat, is on her
way out Of the Ohio, bound Tor the
Magdalena river, South America.
From New Orleans she pursues a
straight line, almost, through the
Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea
TO the mouth of Magdalena river,
passing along the coast Of
Hayti and Jamaica, the whole
distance of salt water being 1900
miles. Her whole trip will be over
1000 miles. There are two rivers in
South America called Magdalena-
one in Bolivia, sometimes called
Ubahy, sometimes BrancO, and some
times San Miguel; the other in New
Grenada and Colombia, for which
this boat is intended. 1t rises at the
frontier of Ecuador, lat. , deg. N,
long. 76 deg. w, flows north and en-
tiers the Caribbean. sea lat. IL deg. N,
long. IS deg. w. The total length Of
the stream Is estimated at 800 miles,
and it is navigable for more than half
that distance. Its current is very
rapid, and its navigation dangerous,
but 1t Is the main route of commune
cation between the interior of seW
Grenada and the sea.
fredericksburg Herald says: "Warm
and exciting times are expected to
take place between the New Orleans
packets this fall. We learn that Oh
next Saturday the Parg0Ud will back
out from New Orleans with the Ames, !
when the prices of freight and cabin
fare will take double 5ummer-set to
very low ~fgures-say five dollars for
cabin passage and twenty-five cents
per bale for cotton" I
The Knoxville Press and Herald has
been informed by old boatmen that
the HOlston and Tennessee rivers are
four inches lower than ever before
known, with a prospect of falling still
The Cairo Bulletin says: With a
commerce which is only surpassed by
about hVe cities along the rivers of the
West, Cairo owns but two small stern
wheel steamers and a medium sized
side wheel packet-neither of which
boats do anything, comparatively, in
the carrying of freight. Several
thousand tons of freight are shipped
from Cairo weekly to all points, aud
our ewn steamers carry perhaps 200
tons only of that amount. No effort
Is madeto obtain even a fraction OF the
Southern bound freight, which eonsti-
.utes the great bulk of our commerce,
while Evansville insists on owning all
packets which ply between that
,ity and Cairo.