Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-12
RIVER NEWS.

BOATS LEAVING MONDAY.
JrlIA............ St. Louis. ) pm.
THOs. II. ALLEN. Arkansas river, . pm.
GEO. W. Friar's Point. 5 pm.
Nicksburg, pm.
ARRIVALS.
steamer Alaska. Cincinnati.
" g.. W. Cheek, Friar's Point.
st. Francis, st. Francis river.
Dies Arc, White river.
DEPARTURES.
Steamer Alaska, New Orleans.
IN PORT.
Steamers 7. II. Allen, G. w. Cheek, st.
Francis, Des Arc.
RIVERS WEATHER AND BUSINESS.
CAIRO, July n.-Up-Alaska, 10 pm.
last night; Sam j.. Hale, 4 pm; Lumi-
nary,5 pm; Great Republic, 7 am.
Down-Mollie Able, 10 pm. last night;
Rubicon, . pm.
River rose two inches.
LOUISVILLE, July n.-Up-SiiverSpray.
DoWn-Minneola.
Weather warm.
River falling with : feet 8 inches In the
canal.
MEMPHIS GAS WORKS, July II.
River rose wv inches IN past twenty
four hours. Below high water mark of
1857 eight feet six inches.
CHAS. GOODWIN.
Two inches more were added yesterday
TO the rise at this port. The news from
above viii be found at the head of this
colun n. The decline will soon set in here
and tllen look out for low water, snags,
sand bars and stern-wheel steamboats,.
Weather clear and Intensely hot. White
river is falling as fast as i went up. 1t has
fallen four feel at JacksonpGTt, with four
teen feet nj The Arkansas is falling
slowly.
INSTALLATIONS.
The Alaska passed down yesterday uR-
announced.
We learn thai Smith. the agent OF the
Associated Press at Cairo, has been re-
moved, and hoped that his removal would
bring about a change for the better in our
dispatches from that quarter: He was in
attentive, or incompetent, or both-only
equalled by Osborne who %pretends to get
up the report at st. Louis. We hope the
Company Will attend TO the latter gentle
man and stir him mp with a sharp stick.
The successor Of Smith at Cairo has start
ed out by negiecting 10 send any news
from that place on Saturday night, We
hope he viii do better in the future. The
st. Louis agent also failed to report.
The Thos. II. Allen, st. Francis, Geo.
W. Cheek and Des Arc arrived yesterday
loaded with delegates and planters to az
tend the Labor Convention in this city on
Tuesday next.
An unknown towboat passed up yes
terday. coma TN.
The Des Are leaves on Tuesday for
W hite river.
Capt. Bowman backs out the st. Fran
els for al points on st. Francis river to-
The Julia, Capt. Callahan, with Andy
Isaacs in the Office, viii leave to-day at )
pm. for Cairo and st. Lo1is, She makes
all railroad connections.
The gallant Rubicon is the regular L. :.
mail packet for Vicksburg to-day. She
lands at all intermediate points. Capt.
Bill Blake il her popular master, and in
the office All. GTiss0m, one of the hest
clerks afloat, holds forth.
The Geo. W. Cheek is the regular Mon
day packet for Friar's Point, and gets
away at pm. Capt. Geo. Malone is her
chief officer, while Stack Lee and Charley
Sharpe are clerks,
The L. S. mail packet Thomas II. Allen.
Capt. Reese Pritchard, with c. T. Walker
and Joe Thomas in the office. leaves to-
day for Little Rock and all way points on
the Arkansas. She connects with the
Fort Smith packets direct, and is a very
popular steamer.
We received no Northern exchanges |
yesterday. |
The CommpaEealth and Mollie Able
are due from above, and the Emma No. 3
from below.
We learn hat P. G. Bigley, ESQ, for
merly of this city, has arrived in New
Orleans and taken his place as active part
ner il the new coal firm of McClosky,
Bigley & Co. Our New Orleans friends
will hndMr. Bigley a thorough-going, up
right business man, and one whom it viii
do to tie to. We wish him all success in
new sphere. r.1