Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-02-17
IphIs ANA Little ROck RalIroad
RIVER MATTERS.
WEATHER AND RTvErs.


6e found in u telegraphic columns.
Arrivals.
Steamer Gerard B. Allen, st. Louis.
" Julia, st. Louis.
" Louisiana, New Orleans.
Des Arc, White river.
Departures.
| Steamer Louisiana, Louisville.
Il. W. Cheek, Hales' Point.
+" Natoma, FriRr's Point.
" Ozark, Arkansas river.
81. Francis, st. Francis river.
F" Des Arc, White river.
" Julia, VicksbuTg.
/" Gerard B. Allen, Shreveport.
In Port.
Gaid0n, Minneols, MARITIME, Bermuda.
2IsCELLANEOUs.
Yesterday was an old fashioned Tues
law. All the boats in port were thrOnged
with freight and people. The Arkansas,
St. Francis, White, and lover river
packets were all we'll ~pGtronised, and
vent out with trips to suit Pat YOTe or
any other q
The Louisiana passed up. She got 500
bales OF cotton at this port.
Col. Sid Jones, the well known agent
Of the UHited States mail line between
Louisville and Cincinnati, is in our city
on his way home from New Orleans.
Capt. Fiem Calvert, Superintendent
Of the Memphis and st. Louis Packet
Company, returned home yesterday from
q short visit to his family in Missouri.
Capt. Fiem is q Of the most energetic
and popular officers connected with this
line, and his return Wa5 warmly well
coined by hundreds of friends. Capt.
links is himself again.
Tho Arunsu ant VIM Aehford 10
the regular Thursday packet for Jack
sonpOrt and all points on White river.
She is a No. l steamer. Milt Harry and
John Smither are her clerks.
The Belle St. Louis, Capt. Alex Zsig-
Ter, leaves tomorrow for Cairo M st.
Louis, making all way landings, and
connecting with the trains north and
cart.
The Mary Forsyth, Capt. Haney, is the
regular Thursday packet for Vicksburg
and the bends. Freight for her received
at all hours, upon the st. Louis wharf
boat.
The Minneols decided to lay wei I'M
til to-day, In order 10 Ill cut her engage
ments. She leaves promptly at 5 p. M,
for Cairo, Evansville, Louisville and
Cincinnati. Capt. Bfeller, her master,
is a popular officer, and VIM. Hall is his
tutHl Cltfhs we CDLlL1Euu Nl16 MILF
nicola to travellers.
The splendid Magenta, Capt. J. Frank
Hicks, will be in port to leave at five /
captain Reese Pritchard will have the
Thomas h. Allen at the bank to-day, TO
load for Little Rock and way points on
the Arkansas. She leaves tomorrow al
five PM, and connects with the Fort
Smith packet closely. Greed Walker
and Joe Thomas are her clerks.
The mammoth Thompson Dean, Capt.
James II. Pepper, will pass down to-day
for New Orleans. She gets away at five
pm.
The swift and handsome steamer
GuidOn will back out to-day for Pine
Bluff and way landings on the Arkan-
sRs. She is an excellent steamer, and is
in charge OF clever officers. Capt. Clay
Rec is master, and Garrett Huls is chief
clerk, assisted by Dan Sullivan.
The Geo. w. Cheek brought down
sixty-six of ClaytOn's cavalry from
Oseeola on Sunday. They shot an inof-
fensive passenger, named Davis, as the
boat lay at Mound City, where the ruff
got ashore. They will take q boat
Thursday for ~JscksOnport.
What Of the Dry Docks? Has the
dropped? Won't they be brought
20 this city? These questions are asked
daily and we can give no definite an
swer. That they should be here now
there can be no doubt, We hope that
Of our property holders will take
the matter In hand and urge the prompt
REMOVAL of the Cairo docks 10 Memphis.
The Great Republic was let down into
the water at Mound City on Saturday
last.
The steamer Alice V wss purchased
% Saturday, at United States marshsl's
sale, at Madison, Ind, by Mr.. James
Cunningham, for S2500. She will prob
be djsmantled sb once.
The work OF widening the channel
through the rocks, known as Sycamore
Chain, in the Mississippi river, twelve
miles above Davenport, has been COM.
The ecffer dam will be taken
away az rapidly as possible, and by the
navigation opens In the spring, the
Sycamore Chain viii have
.eased to be 8 terror to pilots. The
.hsnnel is from 216 feet wide, ia the mar
owest place, to 800 feet wide in the
place, and the bottom OF it is as
mooth, uniform and level as possible 10
and is four feet below the low
water mark Of l884-which was the low.
st water ever known in the Mississippi.
~ now laid bsre it shows a clean cut Of
ne width and depth named, with only
curve, and that only four degrees in
90 feet. When the water is let out and
be dam removed, buoys will be set
PARKING the outward banks Of the chan I
eli, for the guidance Of pilots, 30 that 6
bose pilots who have not msde them !
familiar with it while the work 1
1ss in progress may have no fears on I
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