Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-09-04
RIVER NEWS.

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GLASGOW Cincinnati, 5 pm
MARBLE CITY.----.-...E icksburg, 8 pm.
White River, 5 pm.
ARRIVALS.
Steamer Pauline Carroll, st. Louis.
" Glasgow, Cincinnati.
" G.. W. Cheek, Friar's Point.
Fit. Gibson. Arkansas River.
" NatOma, White River.
DEPARTURES.
Steamer G.. W. Cheek. Friar's Point.
d" Fl. Gibson, Arkansas River.
" Pauline Carroll, New Orleans.
Is PORT.
Eatoma, Glasgow.
RIVERS neAIHER And BUSINESS.
LOUISVILLE, September 3.-De-
parted: Belle Memphis. River
stationary.
CINcNNATI, September S.-River
falling with six feet in channel.
LOUISVILLE, September 3.-River
rising with three feet nine inches in
canal.
CAIRO, September 3.-Up: Repub-
lie and LOngworth, lam. Down:
Baranquila, 10 am; Silver Spray, s.;
Olive Branch, 7 pm. Rivers stationery.
MEMPHIS Gas WORKS, September 3.
The river o 9 inches the past
twenty-fOur hours. 1t stood y feet ~
inches below the high water mark Of
1867 this morning.
CHAS. GOODWIN.
The weather yesterday was warm
and pleasant, and business at the
landing was moderately active.
The Luminary failed to arrive up
to dark, but will probably pass up
early this morning. 1t is reported
she will not leave Nicksburg until the
next after her regular day.
The Pauline Carroll had a heavy
freight for New Orleans. She passed
down under command of Capt. Ed.
Dix, a veteran boatman for thirty
years past and a commander for more
than twenty. He retired from the
river with q fortune a few years since,
but vicissitudes and a hankering after
first principles induced a return TO the
I river Of life. The writer remembers
Capt. Dix on the st. Ange in 1919.
Milt Harry, formerly n Of the best
| and most popular clerks in the White
river trade, Is, we learn, clerk OF the
! Glasgow, now lying at our levee. We
I are glad to welcome him back, and
congratulate Capt. Skunk on securing
the services of one Of the cleYerest and
| most excellent officers atiOat. Never
firing in his eXertiOns to make the
| traveller at home, always attentive to
| their wants, it would be astonishing if
/ Milt were not as much Of a favorite 8
he is.
The Glasgow brought down a good
load of freight, of assorted merchan-
| disc, from Cincinnati. She returDs
this evening.
The Fort Gibson had a good trip for
| Arkansas river.
Capt. Clay Rice returned from Iuka
| yesterday, looking feeble but some
| what improved i'm health. He thinks
of going to Bailey Springs, ear Flor
ence, Ala.
Capt. Thomas MetZler arrived in the
| city yesterday, in search ola low water
| packet for the NaZOO trade. The Cap
tain looks as hale and vigorous as he
/ did twenty-five years ago, when this
reporter was a young man. He re-
ports the YaZOO getting very low,
prospects Of a fine cotton crop and an
active fall trade, with plenty OfmOney
in prospective. Capt. Metzler is
building a new boat in the Ohio,
which he will have ready to run in
connection with the new NatcheZ,
from Nicksburg up, sometime during
| October.
Several merchants arrived in the
| city yesterday from YaZOO City. They
are here with a view of purchasing
goods to supply their fall stocks, and
il behOOVes u merchants to hold out
inducements that will make a favOra-
bic impression and cause a return trip.
The railroad down the YaZOO Valley
is all that is now wanted to bring a
large trade from that fertile and beau
/ tiful valley. Much of the cotton
raised in that county will also find a
market here.
The Thompson Dean arrived at st.
Louis on Wednesday.
The City of Cairo left st. Louis on
Wednesday with as much freight as
she wanted and her cabin full OF peO-
pie.
The Olive Branch LETT st. Louis yes
terday for New Orleans.
The w. r. Arthur left New Orleans
on Wednesday. The MOllie Able and
Lady Gay were there yesterday.
Capt. Jack Chambers reached Gin
Icinnati Wednesday, after an absence
of OvertwO years.
An argument in favor of light sea
steamers to navigate both river and
ocean is the subject of a letter of Capt.
H. W. Johnson, who claims to have
been the steamboat pioneer of China.
He says; - have taken great pains
to study up the best models for ocean
steamers, and am under the conviction
that steamers drawing from 8 to u
feet are in every way superior to deep
| built ones. a vessel will go over the
water with much greater economy
and faster than she will through it. !
have built in New York three fine
river steamers, and taken them to
| China with the usual Walking-beam
engine, and steamed all the way. Of
these. the Fire Queen, 325 feet long,
IL feet beam, drew but 8 feet with 500
tons, coal and provisions. / am fitting
out at Wilmington, Del, an iron
steamer 12a feet long, 20 feet beam, 6
feet 3 inches hold, which goes 70 sea
in u few days for the Magdalena river,
U. s. c., with 100 tons of coal, 10 tons
of stores, drawing only 4 feet, a stern
| WhppI all her acpOmmOdafi-,DS an tho