Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-12-01

CHAS. GOODWIN.
Superintendent Gas Works.
CAIRO, November Observation-Disclosures
at II m.; Texas at 8 pm. The river rose
three inches. Indications Of a clearing
up in the weather.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 30.-Arrived-
Thompson Dean and Commonwealth. st.
Louis; Belle Vernon, Cincinnati.
LOUISVILLE, November 50.-Westher
rainy. Departsd-Pike, New Orleans.
The river Is rising, with i've feet nine
inches in the canal.
NASHVILLE, November 3a.-Heavy
rains last night and to-day. River rising,
with four feet six inches on Harpeth.
C~INCISNATI, November 30-Tne river is
rising, with twelve feet i've inches In the
channel. Weather rainy. Departed
Emma No. 9, New Orleans.
ST. LOCIs. November 3O.-The river is
falling steadily.
ST. LOUIS, November 3O.-Arrived-
Belle st. Louis, City of Cairo. Departed
Lady Gay, st. Luke, Rubicon. Weather
cloudy and cold.
The latest news ron above Will be
found in our dispatches. From st. Louis
TO Cairo there Is now about : feet, and
hence TO that point about lOH feet. The
Arkansas is, without doubt, swelling, but
our advicss only give 81 feet 10 Little
Rock up to yesterday morning. The 81.
Francis is rising slowly. White river is
on a stand with 5 feet to Augusta, and 4
feet TO ~Jacksonport. Heavy rains fell
yesterday morning, but towards evening
it became colder. Business on the levee
retarded by the rain.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Captain T.. A. Levy, the Well known
steamboat agent, himself to-
day as a candidate for Wharfnnaster. He
would make a faithful and good officer.
Capt. Mike Pyne, it Will be seen, has
been called upon by his friends to let his
name be used for the position Of Wharf
master. He accepts, and enters the field
with an ensergy which augurs Well for
the result.
The snagboat 5. II. Long came in from
above yesterday and leaves for below TO
day. She viii work this winter in the
bends below, or in some tributary OF the
big river.
The very handsome and swift psssen-
ger packet MOllie Able VIII pass down
to-day at 10 am. for Vicksburg and New
Orleans. She is commanded Is one Of
our old citizens, Capt. Dan Able, who IS
as popular afiOat as he was ashore. john
Leavenworth is secretary. and IS also an
efficient officer.
The magnificent lOw-pressure Rich
mond, Capt. j. slut Neal, gets away this
evening for Vicksburg and New Orleans.
49, A&-AG - ~ " L4C- - y A1EzE1AEbE
packet and her speed is unequaIiod. Capt.
John Brooks has her Office in charge.
The sumptuous palace steamer Great
Republic, with W. B. Donaldson on the
quarterback and MIR, Atkinson in the
Office, leaves also for New Orleans TODAY.
Every traveller has heard Of the Great
Republic, so that words are s~uperiuous.
She leaves at 5 pm.
Col. Gus. SignaigO, the talented editor
nF the Grenada N5uEnaY and vwfFa Aarrn
TO day on the Great Republic for a brief
visit 20 Natehez. We commend him and
his to the especial care of Capt. Donaldson
and Clerk Atkinson.
The Fort Gibson. Capt. Smith, viii get
away to-day for Pine Bluff, Little Rock
and IT. Smith direct. This Is the first
through boat for many weeks AMI she will
no doubt get a big trip. In the Office John
Hardin oticiates Don't forget that she
goes through,
The st. Joseph, Capt. Corbett, leaves to-
day for Cairo and St. Louis. She is the
regular packet. John Lyle is in the Office.
The Norman, Capt. Barclay, leaves to-
day for Cairo and Evansville. She is a
tine packet and goes cut promptly as adj
vertised. Henry Miller is in the office.
The MayfOwer, Talequah and Column
bia are running in the Ouachita between
New Orleans and Columbia, and several
dingies are running from the latter point
to Trenton, a distance of 100 miles above,
No boat has run above Trenton this sea-
son, and the river is lower than for many
years.
Stesmboating in the tributaries of the
lower Mississippi is not a desirable occu-
patiOR we should judge, by what a friend
writes Us from Trinity, az the head of
Black River, Louisiana. He saws: Com
petition with other boats, efforts fair and
foul of rivals TO beat you at every
turn. sleepless nights on deck In good
and bad weather, work at the cotton piles,
wrestling with swamp fevers, difficulties
with drunken and worthless officers and
crew, low water and lower spirits, daily
attacks of chills, bad whisky and worse
fare, no money in sight and balances on
the wrong side are only a few Of the mat
tiers to contend with"
The elegant new Grand Era leaves TO-
morrow for shreveport and all way points
on Red River.
The Mary Houston no doub. passed up
last night,
The Columbian will pass up tomorrow
for st. Louis.
The due steamer Virginia, Capt. Charlie /
ShUltz, viii get away for New Orleans to-
day at noon on arrival OF the train. She
is a No. l packet in every respect.
The Ida Rees leaves to-day for al points
on Upper Arkansas river. She goes to
Fort Smith.
The reopening of the Hatchie river to
steamers is again agitating the public
mind, and as the question is now before .
the Legislature we publish the following
of a committee CT the subject, ap-
pointed last year by our Chamber Of
Commerce: THE Committee appointed
at a former meeting TO report the propri-
ETY. and plan for opening the navigation
of the Big Hstchie river to Bolivar, Tenn,
beg leave TO say that upon investigation
they ind that the distance from the
mouth Ofth river to Bolivar is about
80 miles, that the bridge on the Memphis
and Ohio Railroad is hardly halfway
perhaps not over 100 miles-leavip1 the
greater portion of The naviGable part of
ther river above the bridge, which is much
better for navigable purposes than below;
md the country and settlements the very
best that are on its banks. In former
times boats of a capacity of 1900 or 1900
bales of cotton run regularly in the trade
from about the lst of December TO the
close of the cotton season, with fawer &C
b a upon any other river of its
size in the country. The facts of its be-
ing navigabie are clear enough, and only
he fact of said bridge o~bstFucting it has
prevented a regular trade in this river fer
he past three years. 1t seems that the
since the close of the war
JaCooNA az &Nt NtGA&AtUE liz EdlALbtu UELIEe ]
he head of navigation, on what account
We cannot say, as the facts are otherwise.
but suppose it was not properly under
at the time, ar perhaps favOring the
railroad. to allow them to place the pres
3nt bridge there instead of OF a draw
bridge. At all events, a section Of eoun-
.ry about so miles long and q miles wide
5 deprived of this natural outlet, and
orced to haul their products to points by
which a nraqfar mart nF tho f-ala = az
Terted from this place where it legiti-
nately, and by custom and former asso-
belongs. Without wishing to tax
he Memphis and Ohio Railroad a dollar.
We think justice to the people who set
led on this river, partly in consideration
If its convenience, il not altogether, de-
hands that it should be opened to Rolf
Tenn, the former head of navigation.
md TO that end request that a COMMITTEES
70 appointed in the Legislature, through
,ur representation, iR tho name of this
chamber Of Commerce, to favor the paS-
age of the bill now pending, opening the
navigation of the Big Hatehie river to
All of which is respectfully sub-
nitted, O.. II. DORION,
"C~hairman."
Robert Burns in the Memphis and Ciuein-
Iati trade, is dead. He died a few DAYS
at his nome in Cincinnati.
Capt. Pies. Todd, well known as an old
captain OF the Tennessee river
led at Gunsersville, Ala. a day or two
90.
\ letter nom Madison, Ind, says that
Ohm X. Stewart & Co. have contracted
'lth capt. J: Kinney, of Boonville. Mo-.
build a sidewheel s-teamboat-buil 200
long, So feet beam, Sd feet hold. This
70 receive cabin and machinery from
mother boat, and is intended for the
lissouri river trade. The hull for Capt, I
davidson, of Lacrosse, Wis, is now ready j
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