Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-29
RIVER NEWS.
srArR OF THE WEATHER. July 9.

STATE OF TIE wEATHER JULY %.
Augusta, clear, sOo; Buffalo, cloudy TO
Charleston, clear, SO; Cleveland, cloudy,
80; Chicago, cloudy, 709; Chattanooga,
clear, 780; Cincinnati, clear, 750; Louis
vile, cloudy, 7So; Milkaukee, cloudy,
$50; Nashville, clear and pleasant, 10
Natehez, clear, so; New Orleans, clear,
$40; New York, clear, 500; Osyka, clear,
$50; Philadelphia, clear, 70; Plaster
Cove, n. s., clear, 49, ~Pittsenrg, clear,
To; st. Louis, clear, S0'; N~icksburg,
clear and warm; Washington, overcast,
78o; Halifax, cloudy, 720; Fortress Mon
roe, clear, 500; Havana calm, 81; Key
West, clear, $50 Houston, clear, 81.
BOATS LEAVING TBIs DAY.
BELLE ST. LoUIs..--~..st. Louis, S pm.
ARRIVALS.
Steamer Sam J. Hale, Cincinnati.
DEPARTURES.
Steamer G.. W. Cheek, Friar's Point.
Fort Smith, Arkansas river.
~ PORT.
Steamer Sam J. Hale.
RIVERS WEATHER AND BUSINESS.
ST. LOUIS, July 25.-The river is falling
steadily here.
LOUISVILLE, July 2.-The river is fall
ing with : feet 3 inches in the canal.
Arrived-P. w. Strader.
Weather clear and warm.
MEMPHIS Gas WoRKs, July q.
River rose 5 inches in past "A hours.
Below high wafer mark Of 1867, 8 feet 2
inches. CHAS. GOODWIN.
The rise is not so great to-day as yester-
day, and the indications from above point
to an early and rapid decline. This time
last year the river at this point was nearly
twenty feet lOwerthan il now is, bur high
waters have prevailed everywhere for
months back. and low water boats were
like a poor boy at a frolic. The latest
news from above viii be fOundin our dis
patches. The Arkansas and White are
falling. Weather warm but tickle. Bust
ness dull.
The Belle st. Louis, Capt. Alex. Ziegler,
Will leave at 5 pm. to-day, for Cairo and
st. Louis. BaSkette is her clerk.
The sam. J. Hale viii get away to-mor-
row for Cincinnati and al way points.
She is a first class packet. Mr.. Miller is
chief clerk.
The Ouachita is very low. There Is less
han thirty inches TO Trenton.
The steamer Peter Balen, which has
been laying mp at D%auphin's Rapids, he
low Fort Benton, caught fire IN Thursday
last, and was burned TO the waters edge.
She was owned In st. Louis, and was on
her way to that port from the mountains.
Billy Jones, 2 wei known river clerk.
recently i'm the \ icksburg and YazOO river
trade, is in town. We regret to learn that
he is in bad health.
Emmet Strange Is In the city. He was
lately clerk of the Hodge, In Red river.
Detective McCune has succeeded in fnd-
ing the watch recently stolen from Capt.
John D.. Adams at the Peabody, as well as
one or two others stolen at the same time.
The thieves have escaped.
The Mississippi is laid up at St. Louis.
and will be put in splendid order for the
fall trade. Capt. Nat Green and COok
Creighton will be in own in a day or two.
The tOwboat J. y. Kellogg passed down
YESTERDAY.
Capt. Goblin publishes the following in
the NateheZ Democrat:
Experience confirms my opinion that
the restaurant is the true plan 10 live on
steamboats,, but finding II does not give
satisfaction to all. i propose in future to
have passengers to choose whether they
viii live on the old or new plan.
Those who prefer the old plan can, at
the time of registering, pay the old price,
which will the cost Of passage,
meals and everything.
Ny motto is to give every facility to
travel"
The st. Louis is the ferryboot designed
to transfer cars across the Mississippi
from Belmont Co Columbus, XIV.
The late conference Of river men at Du-
buque was to prepare for the transfer of
travel and freight, In case the river i'm
p~rovsnents cut them on, as is expected at
Campbell's Chain, about August list. This
chain is about eight miles above Daven-
port. The Golfer lam rests on Campbellis
Island. and will inclOse the huge mass of
solid granite known as CampbelPs Rock,
IN nbafruaffOn wall Eppu-n - rivar man
The shore of Campbeli's Island will form
OHe side Of this Enclosure, running from
thence out in the river about 1900 feet,
her down the river about 1890 feet, and
thence back to the Island.
The dam viii be almost similar in shape
TO that which surrounds Sycamore Chain.
and viii inelOse about t~hiTty-fve acres Of
the river bed. Ii IL intended to blast out
the rock and remove the dam this season.