Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1869-12-25

or over SINCE buu0AJs 1UAso "
Cairo the regular New Orleans
packets have ceased towing barges,
aud load as deep as shipments Will
permit, and there is nothing 10 pre-
vent large and fully loaded boats
from plying to Lssalle and Du-
buque. The rains and snow have
been extraordinary In amount for
several days throughout the North
west; hence the lower Missouri
has risen rapidly, and .he Illinois
and upper Mississippi from their
headwaters. No Ice at KeOkuk
yesterday, and It is supposed that
Lake Pepin 10 open, or will quickly
be so. The swell was going on
more slowly last evening here.
Rates Of freight to Southern points
unchanged.
The Belle Lees last freight trip
into New 0rlerns consisted Of 1860
bales cotton and 1926 sacks seed.
The Lorena arrived yesterday
with a large lot Of freight for
Vicksburg. She was all day dis
charging.
Mr.. Jas. Kerr, jr., editor Of the
Grand Era Torch Light" has our
thanks for q copy Of his neat and
excellent little paper. May the
ssTorch-L Light" Illuminate sufi-
GENTLY to allow Mr.. Kerr to see
plenty of grecnbacks.
The Memphis Appeal Of the 18th
says:
The City Of Alton on her way up
broke her offender heads near Is
land 30, and will, no doubt COmeto
this port to repair.
Another big rise 10 reported In
the Arkansas. It has now IA feet
to Little Rock, aud is still swelling,
White river is also on q bender and
has water enough to float the
largest steamers with all they
could carry, The st. Francis Is
rising.
River at this place s inches in past
twenty-four hours.
From our exchanges:
Four new side-Wheel boats are
In process Of construction at Pitts
burg.
John N. Powell, marine reporter
for the New Orleans Price Current
for over twenty.years, died In that
city on the 9Th inst.
The w. X. Arthur has been rails.
ed, and is no doubt now In st.
Louis.
The Submarine is now working
at the Kate Robinson.
The Tow-boat BOaz Is due from
Louisville with the largest tow Of
the season, consisting Of thirteen
boats aud eight barges, continuing
100000 bushels Of coal.
Trinity river, Texas, Is at food
height, rnd over its banks at Por-
ter's Bluff.
The w. r. Arthur has been rails
ed, and arrived in st. Louis Oh
Thursday, to 60 on the docks.
An exchange says that in the case
of the steamer Triumph, formerly
the Confederate ram Atlanta, libell-
ed at Philadelphia, the court de-
cided it had no jurisdiction ; that
no vessel Of war can be held for
wages due to o sailor. The ship
was accordingly discharged.
Nine steamers and IL barges,
worth $4,000, belonging to the
Steam Navigation Company, have
laid up in the vicinity OF Sacramen.
to, owing 10 scarcity Of freight.
The warehouses on the Sacramento
river are Crammed with wheat and
barley. Farmers are holding out
for higher prices, and, anticipating
a dry winter, they will not sell.
From our exchanges:
Commodore James Wise, who lie
now Superintendent of the Mem.
phis and Cincinnati Packet Line
was once captain Of q Cincinnati
and Nashville boat, and q young la
dy from Memphis going North, was
on one occasion q passenger In his
charge. When the boat was leay.
ing the wharf, and all the other
passengers were on the decks tax.
ing a parting look at the city, the
captain observed that the Young
lady was sitting alone in the cabin.
With his accustomed gallantry, be
approached her and proposed that
she should 60 out with him and see
the sight. The young lady very
readily recognized the captain, but
quietly informed him that she had
been instructed by her mother to be
careful how she associated with the
boat handsl
Up the Red river, toward shrve.
port, La, steamboats, are sunk 90
thick that a lifebOat going up has
to take q zig.zag course, and
steamboatmen employ alligators TO
do nothing but SIT on the wrecks
and bark. This is from a reliable
eOntraband.
Within a week eleven coal.
barges have been sunk by coliiding
with piers Of the new bridges at
Bellaire, Parkersburg, SteubenvilIe
and Louisville.
LITTLE RIvER-THE TENsAs. &c.
This afilnent Of the Ouachita is re.
ferred to by q correspondent, as
follows:
Several thousand bales Of cotton
will be shipped from Little river
this season, raised chiefly among
the hills at the upper end, to which
no steamer has yet assembled, owing
to low water, and along the south
side Of the lower portion, where
there is always two or three feet of
water. and where small steamers
can run nearly all the year. The
steamer Louisville, aflerWard the