Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-11-10
RIVER NEWS.
BOATS LEAvING THIS DAY
RIVERS. weA1HEn arp BUSINESS.

IN PORT.
NJ. F.. Forsythe. Commercial. Mary Boyd.
Fanny Brandies. Magenta.
RIVERS. WEATHER AND BUSINESS.
MEMPHIS GAS WORKS, November 9.
The river declined 3 inches in the pre-
vious twenty-four hours. 1t stood % feet
7 inches below the high water mark of
1867. CHAS. GOODWIN.
ST.. LouIs, November 9.-The river is
declining.
C~INcINNATI, November 9.-Arrived-R.
G. Gray. The river is stationary, with o
feet 5 inches in the channel. The weather
is cold and cloudy.
LOUISVILLE, November 9.-The river is
falling here and above; three feet seven
inches on the Falls. Departed-Grand
Era. The weather is cloudy and raw.
NEW ORLEANS, November 9.-Departed
-Argosy and barEes and Thompson Dean,
for st. Louis.
CAIRO, November 9.-DOwn-Kate Put
nam, II am. KentoT, 2 pm. The river
has fallen two inches. The weather is
cloudy with the mercury mt 40o.
NASHVILLE, November a.-The river is
stationary. with fifteen inches on Harpeth
Shoals. The weather is cold and cloudy.
The Arkansas river is unchanged so far
as we can learn, but we expect to hear of
a swell at any hour. The last report set
the mn water at 80 inches to Pine
Bluff. White river is falling steadily.
Weather wet and disagreeable. Bust
ness good, but impeded by the rain.
MISCELLANEOUS.
1t is said that the Gallatin is broke in
two.
We learn that the wharfboat at Helena
is to be towed to this port to go on the
docks.
The Magenta brought in $50 bales of
cotton and 55I7 sacks eoitonseed.
The Continental came down drawing
eight feet. She was nearly two days at
Island 81, where she had to tighten.
Capt. Levi has recently opened a mar
ket at the corner OF Second and Wash
ton streets, and has the finest display
of meats, game, etc. in the city. his
river friends Will find him at the place
4 named.
The Pioneer came up yesterday from
below. She brought up a diving boat
and some material recovered by the
latter from tho bosom of the great river.
The Pioneer goes to Helena to-day, and
viii ply between that city and Mariana,
on 81. Francis river.
The Liberty rounded out from the
wharf in handsome style, and is now
one OF the finest of our local packets.
Her repairs cost over $4,000.
Til business of our dEy-docks for sew
eral days past has averaged about 81 900
perday.
The RuAieon passed up yesterday for
st. Louis. NShe had $40 sacks of cotton
seed, 81 bAes of cotton, aud l2j tOns of
sundrie.
The Mary r.. Forsylhe passes up to-day
at 4 p.m. fOf Cairo and st. Louis.
The Lady Gay was sounding at Island
n when the Boyd passed down.
The L0reAa came in yesterday and left
for New Orleans. She has had an unfor-
tunate trip. She was aground several
days in the Ohio. In landing at Mt.
Pleasant she ran into the wharfboat,
breaking her boiler-deck in on the star
board side, sm1shing about $500 worth OF
furniture, knocking down her s%tancheOns
aud killing q rOustabOut Who had shipped
at Cincinnati. He was brought here and
buried. In backing out from our levee,
last night, she tore off her larboard guard,
killed three horses and did other damage.
People below should take in their els
terms, fences, gin houses. etc, As she is
now slashing down the river AZ a fearful
rate. ~
Thu 5liamrock. with so bales of cotton,
for st. Louis, AMI the Euma Floyd, with
700 bales. for Cincinnati, got away yester-
day. The latter boat gets 2Jj bales at Co
IumbuS.
The Spray also got away for Cincinnati,
with 33i bales OF cotton.
The Mary Boyd e Tine in last night from
above, and will be in port to-day, for the
inspection of our people. She turned over
the two new barses, brought out of the
Ohio, to the Caldwell. which left for the
Arkansas last night with a good trip.
The Legal Tender, Capt. John Elliott,
with Elliott and Fields in The Office, gets
away to-day for White river, connecting
with the Little Rock Railroad.
The regular Memphis and New Orleans
packet Magenta, Capt. J. ~Frank-Hicks,
will get away this evening for Vicksburg
and New Orleans. She Is, we learn, doing
an excellent business in the trade, and by
a little attention from our merchants in
the way OF up-freights, she can be made
to stay with us the year round. John
Sullivan and Mr.. Strange are her clerks,
and are both popular M%emphians. Frank
Smith, familiarly known as HOle-iR-the
icaH among the Indians, has her cabins
under his especial care.
The st. Louis inspectors are investiga-
ting the Stonewall disaster.
The Memphis Board of Underwriters
held an election on Monday for officers for
the ensuing year, resulting as follows:
President, H. a. LiJletOn; Vice Presi-
dent, J. G. Lonsdale; Adjuster OF Aver
ages, II. I. TOmlinsoni Secretary, r. A.
Parker.
A Memphis correspondent of the st.
Louis Republican, signing himself "Y,'
writes as follows: while Memphis has
to contend against the depredatiOns
which free labor and competing cities
have made upon her commerce., she is
called upon to protect herself against the
inroads Of "A foe of a different character,
but scarcely less formidable, which threat
ems serious injury to the very foundation
of which which the city is built. The
Mississippi river, heretofore her steadGast
friend, M the builder up OF her prosper
ity, has latterly become converted into IA
raging enemy, aud menaces the destruc-
ton Of the whole city front. From the
mouth of Wolf river to the foot Of Monroe
street, a distance of seven or eight hum
dred yards, the current sweeps with its
full force, and is constantly wearing away
and bearing off portions of the bunk.
This process has been going on
now for about ten years, and al
ready much destruction has been done.
Whole acres nave disappeared, ware
houses have toppled into the stream, and
vet ITS cry. like that of some insatiate
monster, is still for more" Two years
ago a coal firm purchased n lot on the
river bank, TO be used rs a ~cOal-yard, for
which they paid ten thousand dollars.
Not 4 yestige of the lot now remains.
The river has engulphed the last foot of
it.. Every day a foot or more of some
mans property is swept away by the re-
morseless current. Where this is to stop
no III tdlA NGAAs aAAA W AAN aAHAA III ~
to be entertained with regard to it; for it
is certain that unless some means be APP
piled that will check the encrOachments
ofthe river. il will extend its ravages into
the very heart of The city. You Missis-
sippi river is no respecter of persons
nor things, and wou'd as soon
drown a king "a n beggar, or
sweep away property worth Il thousand
dollars a fro& foot as destroy The viiest
muck that fesIers IN its banks. Mem
phis rests on n bed Of sand about sew
eDty-tive feet in depth, On which is
superimpOsed a stratum of clay or earth
about twenty-five feet thick. 1t is on
this sand that the river infringes, and
this being readily washed away, the
superintendent mass OF earth which it
supports tumbles into the stream. How
to stop the destructive action going on
IL n problem not easily solved, and the
newspapers are now discussing is, both
editorially and by communications"
Several plans have been proposed, but
none that have received entire approba-
ton. Fears are entertained that in the
attempt to remedy one evil, another
may be incurred quite as Sc
r~ions-that II, by operations above
the current he detected to the
opposite shore, sand-bars will he
formed in front of the levee and the lIar-
Dor be destroyed, which would be quite
~ EFtdt u tdttillltN as 10 ulION tiit river
to sweep through the heart of the city.I
While on tho other hand, unless this
crosive action now going on be arrested,
no limits can be assigned to the destruc-
tion that in time will be caused. The
plan which at present meets with the
most favor IS the one which in yOur city,
in . similar emergency, proved so eff
fectual-that of extending dykes out
into the stream. But unfortunately
neither this, Eor any other plan, can be
carried into effect without money, and
the r~ascally Radicals, who have controlled
and robbed this city for the last four years
have left its treasury as empty as their
cOnsciences. So the river must be
permitted to go on gnawing away at the
very vitals OF the city, until such time
as in its capriciousness it may relent of
its purpose, or, money being obtained
from some source, it may be violently
choked from its prey. Which will hap
pen first, or whether either viii happen,
no one can tell"