Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-04

LAURA,
RNEaS WEATHER zEg agSlsESS-
CAIRO, July 2-Th7 river rose foHtt- rs
inches to-day.
There was n light rain n dark.
Up-Belle ST. Louis, 4 am.
Down-Belle Memphis, 4 pm.
New ORLEANS, July 3-TEa AlonaNk
arrived and the Thompson Dean, for 81.
Louis, and Mary Houston. for Louisville,
departed.
C~ISCISNAGI, JuIy 5-fho uVes - ri-iEg,
with nineteen feet in the channel.
The steamer Sam J.. Hale departed.
The weather is warm.
ST. Louis. JuIv 3.-The river IS station
airy. Mercury Q52.
Deparfed-Missis-ipp Jud Julis.
AE5ErTTTs Gas WORKS. July ?, 1867.
The riFOY rose 7 luchez the E2zt y hours.
II stood tI3 feet 3 inches or 4 feet S inches
below the high water mark Of 1887 this
morning.
CHAS. GOODWIN.
As W. predicted, tho fears OF oar s..
Louis contemporaries, that we of the South
would experience dire trouble :" from
high water, is ell m~oonshinc. Tho late
swells in the far Northern streams were
caused hylcCai rains. andth dreaded June
rise this year will prove q myth. The
Chic IS yieinE Tt Cincinnati, and is rising
fast 81 tho mouth. ms Cumberland is
falling, with little over three feet on TAG
shoals. The upper Mississippi and upper
Missouri are again falling. The Arkansas
IS rising with about ine fee; 10 Little
Rock. White river is also rising.
The latest news from above viii be
found in our dispatches above.
81 Gather clear and hot. Business fair.
Capt. Bobt. u. Vester, who commanded
a Confederate gunboat during the WaF is
in town. RE mas recently returned from
Texas.
The Julia. Capt. Callahan, leaves On
Monday for Nicksburg and the bends.
The Belle MNmphis leaves on Monday
for St. Louis instead OF Tuesday, as here
tofore. She connects with the trains
Hortf ard East. Crane il master and
Blenker eleIk.
The Thos. II. Allen, capt. Futeaard, Is
the regular United States mall packet for
the Arkansas, leaving tomorrow evening.
The Des Are. Capt. Elliott, leaves on
Tuesday for all points On White river.
The Geo. W. Cheek, Capt. Lee, viii get
agay Tomorrow evening far Friar's Point
and way lan6ings.
The new st. Francis leaves on Tuesday
for St. Francis river. She goes to Wits
burg. Tom Bowman is master, and
Messrs. Paine and Clark are clerks.
AAAL AAA ann IA HUH aAG 6Ahal IA1
and lays M until business opens in the
fal4
The Lizzie Ella passed down about day
light Yesterday.
The Indiana Is due from above.
Capt. Rogers has resigned his position
rs captain OF the Commonwealth, and
VIM. Thompson has been appointed
in his stead.
The Jennie Br0Wnh has been sold al Pitts
burg to Capt. Price, of Rock Island, for
$1,000, cash. She will be used in towing
rock for the Rock Island bridge.
The following to@bOatz have left Pitts .
burg on the present rise; For New Or
teans-Ajas, $4,000 bushels; Dick Full
$4,000. For Cincinnati Clipper,
10000; Whale, 10000; Leopard, 10000;
Coal Valley, 10000 Reindeer, $1,000. For
Louisyille--Hyena, 60,e00. Total, 10000
bushels.
Great damage has been done in North
west Aissoan By recent heavy rains.
Bridges, fencing and crops haze been de-
strOyed, and many streams are higher
than they were ever known before.
Our river friends will appreciate the fol-
Memphis dispatch, which we clip
an Indiana paper: a storm this
evening unroofed and otherwise injured
twenty buildings in various por-
lions of the city, and blow down CHM
aeys. a lady named Withaup and three
men are reported to have been drowned
while crossing the river in a skif." "a
lady named Withaup," we presume, re-
to the steamer Lady Withaup.
The st, LOGis Trees ofth I'd says: The
here yesterday rose rapidly, and the
presented G scene Of the greatest
confusion on account OF the excited rush
lf drays and wagons in every direction to
-emOYe freight that was in danger Of
being washed away by the madly swell
.ng waters. To make the confusion still
worse, at the very points where the most
was on the shore the heaviest ship
nents were being made on the outgoing
boats. The rain, that fell almost in tor
'ents at times, did not seem to help the
natter any. Hundreds Of passengers. ar
living and departing, found themselves
n a sad predicament in attempting 70
ross a levee made parr0w By the rising
water, covered with drays going at q
ir6ak-neclI speed, ankle deep in mud and
lush. Happily, however, 20 far as we
ould learn, no accident occurred and no
was damaged up to a late hour in
afternoon; but we fear some freight
vas swept away last night. But notWith-
landing the present heavy rise here, we
o not think now that there is so much
anger Of an overflow below as was at
rst anticipated. Already the uppar
ilssonri and upper Mississippi have
timer come to 5 stand or are rising very