Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-31
RIVER NEWS.
STATE OF fHE WEATHER JuLr %.

Augusta, cloudy, so; Baltimore, clear,
70o; Boston, clear, 730; Charleston, clear,
$50; Cleveland, clear, $50; Chicago, hazy,
So; Chattanooga, clear, 40; Cincinnati,
clear, CO; Louisville. clear, 70o; Mont
gomery. cloudy, 10; Milwaukee, clear,
760; Nashville, hazY and pleasant, 100
New Orleans, shOweTy, Sc; New York,
clear, 75o; Osyka, clear and calm, 76u
Philadelphia, clear, 69o; Plaster Cove,
n. s., cloudy, 73o; Pittsburg, clear, Csc f;
st. Louis, clear, 74o; Nicksburg, cloudy
and pleasant; Washington, clear, 74S;
Shreveport, cloudy, pleasant and calm,
IS; Mobile, clear and pleasant, so
Halifax, rain, 70o; Portland, hazy, CSC;
Wilmington, clear, TO'.
"A LEAVING THIS DAY.
White river, ) pm.
CITY OF CAIRO, .-..----..St Louis, 5 pm.
LUMuNARY....-....... Nicksburg. 8 PM.
LINTON..-~.-..-St. Francis river, ) pm.
ARRIVALS.
Steamer Lizzie Gill, st. Louis.
c.. w. Cheek, Friar's Point.
Natoma, White river.
Marble City, Yieksburg.
DEPARTURES.
steamer Marble City, st. Louis.
sam j. Hale, Cincinnati.
c.. w. Cheek, Priar'S Point,
Ozark, Arkansas river.
Lizzie Gill, New Orleans.
IN PORT
steamer Natoma.
RIVERS WEATHER AND BUSINESS.
LOUISVILLE, July 30.-River falling
steadily, with five feet ten inches in the
canal.
NEW ORLEANS, July sO.-Arrived-Sl-
yer Spray, Great Republic and Nicholas
LongwOrth.
MEMPHIS GAS Works, July 30.
River rose ) inches IN past "a hours.
Below high water mark of 1851, : feet =
inches. CHAS. GOODWIN.
The upper streams are falling. and we
will sOOn have low water nom the head
waters to the Gulf. The Arkansas * de
Ginning, with : orS feet to Little Rock.
White river is falling more rapidly, and
is becoming thin toward Augusta, with
about , feet thence to J~acksOnpOrt. The
latest news from above will be found in
our dispatches at the head of this column.
Weather fair, and business moderate.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Lizzie Gill passed down yesterday
evening with one of the best trips of the
season.
The Indiana is due from the Ohio.
The Monitors at Mound City are rapidly
undergoing the repairs necessary to fit
WI - ~ - ~ 1 I'D
The Thompson Dean leaves New Orleans
this evening Cor st, Louis.
On Thursday the river at New Orleans
was falling and was within three feet nin8
inches Of high water mark of 1862.
The 81. Louis Democrat of Thursday
a%QnQUnces an advance in New Orleans
freight To the following figures: Flour Zoe
per Dbl; corn 25ei oats 20o per sack; hay
and pound freight 25e per l0h potatoes 400
per Dbl; horses and cattle s. per nd
mules 81. The barge company's rates are
less by sc OF bbls and 2Lc per 100, and
other things in proportion.
The Luminary, Capt. Conway, passes
down to-day for Nieksburg and the bends.
She carries the L. ). mail.
The fine steamer City of Cairo, Capt.
Maliu, viii hack ont to-day for Cairo and
st. Ouis. She makes all way landings
ard tonneats Gith trains North and East.
Henry Corbyli is CLERK.
The gay little Lfntoh leaves to-day for
all points on the ST. Francis river. She
was once a favorite in the trade, and viii,
no doubt, soon again make herself a ne
cessity to those who live on that crooked
stream. She looks very handsome in her
new dress, les Wars IS her mqsteFr as rs
yoFe.
The U. s. mail packet Satona, capt.
VIM. Ashford, leaves to-day for all points
on White river. She with the
Little Rock Railroad and with packets for
upper White river. Carrot Huls and
John Smithers are her clerks.
The reported burning of the steamer
Peter Balen, nj Dauphin's rapids, Upper
Missouri, is not credited among steam
hOatmen at st. Louis.
The New Cincinnati and Louisville Mail
Line steamer United States made a trial
trip ON the Ohioion Monday. She made
the run from North Bend to the Mail Line
wharfbOat-seyenteen miles-in honr
and twenty-three minutes, CARRYING nom
one hundred aud twenty to one hundred
and thirty-Hye poundso OF steam. Her full
length is 200 feet; beam. 10 feet 8 inches;
hold feet > inches. The hold is bnlk-
headed, and timbers all extra fastened.
Shs hae a very sharp model, and though
her registered tHuaaga, Custom house
measurement, Is 1884, her actual carrying
capacity is about 800 tons. She has seven
boilers, 20 feet long, a7Z inches In dame
ter; cylinders 26 inches in diameter, and
ten feet stroke. The boilers and engines
are new, as is nearly all the rest OF her (
machinery. on Monday she carried to
Louisville an excursion party Of about
four hundred Cineinnatisns.
Our yOuRg friend VIII. II. King has RE
snmed charge of the river column of the |
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