Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-22
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Ozark.
RIVERS WEATHER AND BUSINESS.
NEW ORLEANS, July zI.-Arriyed: Bis
marck and Mary Houston.
ST. Louis, July 2l.-The river IS rising
here.
Arrived: Mississippi. Departed: city
of Cairo and Thompson Dean.
LOUISVILLE, July 2I.-The i've is ris-
ing, with V feet in the canal.
Down: Lotus No. ,.
~CINCISNATI, July 2I.-Weather clear
and pleasant. River rising. with 221&
feet in the channel.
Arrived; Minneola.
MEMPHIS GAS WORKS, July p.
River fell 6 inches in past "A hours. Be
low high water mark of 1867, 10 feet 2
inches. CHAS. GOODWIN.
The latest news from above will be
found in dispatches. IT will be seen
that all the upper streams are swelling
from heavy rains, and ii may yet be
some weeks before low water and light
draft boats will prevail. The swell, how
ever, has no teTrOrs for as now, and will
only serve to keep large side-wheelers
plying when they should be laid up re
pairing for the fall business. White and
the Arkansas are at a good stage. The
Cumberland is rising slowly, with nearly
3 feet on the shoals. The latest mail news
from above is as follows;
The st. Louis Times says; Heavy rains
have fallen along the Missouri from Kan
sas City down, and that stream is rising.
The upper Mississippi and the Illinois are
also rising. The river here commenced
rising Saturday night. IL rose three
inches during the night, about TIN ee
inches Sunday, three inches Sunday
night, and ten inches yesterday, and was
still rising rapidly at dark iastpight. 1t
is higher now than any previous year, at
this date, that we have n record Of
The rise Of 1874 occurred much earlier
than this. We think, however, that this
rise, being caused by temporary rains,
will soon subside. At least we cannot see
any possible chance of its long contiuu-
ance.
Weather cooler. Business DUH.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Belle Lee was due al ten O'Clock
last night.
The Mollie Able passed up last evening.
She discharged 1850 bars railroad iron
above Hopefield for Little Rock Railroad.
A little ferry boat, ealleQ tAe Mary Ell
len, passed down yesterday. SbG'gbes~t Q
Van Buren,, Ark, and is a curiosity, in
her a
The Commonwealth and Alaska are due
from below.
The Robert Burns is due from above.
This elegant Belle st. Louis leaves to-
day for Cairo and st. Louis. She is the
regular packet. Zeigler is master and
Baskettte clerk.
The first steamboat in the West vas
built at Pittsburg in ISL, and called New
Orleans aR1 intended to ply between
and the city whose name it bore. /
1t reached NatcheZ at the close Of the first
week in January, 1872. Many things /
combined to mako 1911 the dHHuS miTdbiiiS
of the West. The waters OF the principal
rivers overlooked their banks; unprscs,
dented sickness followed; countless squir-
left the North, and pressed forward,
by tens of thousands, in 4 deep and sober
phalanx, 30 the South the splendid comet
of the year long continued 60 shed its twi-
light over the forests; the whole valley of
the Mississippi, from the Missouri to the
Gulf, was shaken to its centsF by earth
quakes. 1t was at this epoch, I'm which so
many natural phenomena were combined, |
that the first steamboat descended the
great rivers.
The Ozark, Capt. Blasdell, leaves oil
for Little Rock and all way points.
Ad. Storm and Jim Salisbury are clerks.
Ad, Storm returned home yesterday.
The work upon the Ohio river bridge at
Louisville is progressing daily. Themain
channel, on the Kentucky side of the falls,
IS now closed up against the passage of
vessels, the tresfle work having been COM
pleted to the 18th pier.
The Secretary of War has made the fol-
allotments from the appropriations
Tor improving rivers and harbors, ap-
proved on the 10th of last April: Rock
rapids, SI35, 600; Desmoines rapids,
600; and the sandbarS at the mouth
If he'll Mississippi get SIS, O0O.
Wharfmaster GOOde went up in the
yesterday. He will inspect its
lull to-day, and will, maybe, send her to
he docks.
A Pittsburg dispatch of the 18th saws
10Th riyerr are Using rapidly, with IL
6 inches by the MOnOngahela marks.
has been 3 most remarkable sum-
ner for rain and big rivers. Not a single
DOat has as yet been compelled to lie up
n consequence Of G water, and here on
he 18th Of fully is a splendid eoal-bOat
Use. There was more rain here yester-
lay than during any single day this sum-
ner.
The CINCINNATI Commercial says our old
riend Jake Fricker, who was at one time
ngaged in the steamboat business, has,
re learn, been appointed superintendent
f gutter plates, at three dollars per day. /
don know what " gutter plates y
re but Memphis should have such an
ffieer right away We can name several
Tho want a berth.
The Vicksburg Herald saws: Through
he solicitation of the Plain City Assoeia-
lon, the News Boy will make one trip a
eek to Miliken's Bend. This will afford
ccommodation to the planters and bust
ess men between Vieksburg and that
lace.
There will be a moonlight excursion on
GARD of the Rubicon on the 18th inst.
Capt. Metzler left on the cars yesterday +.
for Cincinnati, to have q new
.eamer built for the Yazoo river. The
of the boat will be l60 feet, beam
} feet, cylinders IS inches in diameter, q
,et stroke. 2 boilers a inches by g feet, {,
fiues, and a fine cabin. She viii be like
he old Hope, with a slight variation, and
i'll be named Hone.