Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-19
RIVER NEWS.
STATE or THE WEATHER AT DIFFERENT
PINT FoR JUNE Is, 1869.

STATE OF THE WEATHER AT DIFFEREST
POINTS 0 TUNE Is, 1869.
Augusta, clouly, 76o; Buffalo cloudy,
74o; Boston, cloudy, 700; Charleston,
cloudy, SIC; Cleveland, clear, 500; Chi
cago, cloudy, 750; Chattanooga, clear, 75o
Cincinnati, cleaE 770i Dubuque, cloudy
cloudy, 770; Memphis, clear, 75o; Mil
waukee, 620; Nashville, cloudy, 40;
Natchez, cloudy, use; New Orleans, cloudy
and dark, Sc; New York, clear, 80o;
0syks, Miss, cloudy and damp, zee
Philadelphia, clear, re; Plaster Cove,
n s., clear, so; Pittsburg, clear, 30; St.
Louis, clear, 10; Vicksburg, warm and
coudy; Washington, clear, 74o; Halifax,
clear, SO; Houston, cloudy and hot;
Mobile, cloudy and warm; 830; Key West,
clear, SO; Havana, clear and warm, SO.
l. ARRIVED.
Steamer G. w. Cheek, Friar's Point.
i" Ozark, Arkansas river.
" Natoma, White river.
" Leohidas, New Orleans.
DEPARTURES.
steamer Marble City, st. Louis.
I" Leonidas, Pittsburg.
" G.. W. Cheek, Friar's Point.
IL PORT.
Natoma, Sam ]. Hale and Ozark.
RIVERS. WEATHER AND BUSINESS.
CINCINNATI, June 1s.-Weather clear
and warm. Departed-SiIver Spray. Riv-
er falling, with 1917 feet in the channel.
ST.. Louis, June ls.-Departed-Belle
Memphis. River stationary. Weather
clear and warm.
CAIRO, June 1S.-The river fell S inches.
The weather is very warm. Mercury 90
at noon.
Down-MoIIie Able, 5 am; Luminary,
2p.m.
Up-Thompson Dean, Bpm.
LOUISVILLE, June ls.-The river is
rising with : feet in the canal. Weather
clear and very warm.
Up-Mary Houston.
DOWN.. Z. Lee.
/ NEW ORLEANS, June l8.-Arrived-In-
diana, Galoten and Commonwealth.
Weather warm and sultry. The river
here is declining rapidly. Al St. Louis
and Cairo the river is falling. The Ohio is
rising slowly at Cincinnati and Louisville,
with feet In the canal, and 81 feet on the
falls. The Arkansas is rising, v 18th a large
stage of water in the river from Fort
Smith, and White river is nearly bank
full, but falling.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Business on the wharf was Quiet. with
little moYement in freights.
The Cheek cleared for Friar's Point
with a fair trip.
The Marble City, for ST. Louis, had a
fair passenger list.
The superb passenger packet Natoma.
Capt. William Ashford, is the regular
Saturday White river mail packet, leav-
ing to-day at five pm. for all points on
White river, connecting at DeVall's Bluff
with the Little Rock Railroad. Capt.
Garrett Huls, a worthy and efficient off,
Ger, has charge of the Office.
Capt. Shalcross, agent of the Louisville,
and Capt. Palmer, O&the Cincinnati Tn
~derwriters, passed through last evening
from Little Rock, bound home.
The City Of Cairo, Capt. John Mahn, IS
the Saturday st. Louis packet, leaving to
day at hve pm. Henry Corbyn is her
clever purser.
The splendid steamer Ozark, Capt. Har-
rison Blasdel, is the regular Saturday Ar
kansas river United States mail steamer,
leaving to-day at 3 pm, for all points on
the Arkansas. connecting at Little Rock
with light draft boats for Fort Smith.
Capt. AID Storm, a sociable gentleman and
accommodating clerk, has charge OF the
ONCE.
Capt. Geo. Kountz contemplates build
ing a fast and fine sidewheeler for the
Red river trade, and will use the cabin of
the Grey Eagle.
The elegant steamer Luminarv. Cant.
Conway, will leave the wharf to-day at 5
pm. for Vicksburg and the bends. Capt.
Lee Finney does the hOnors OF the Office.
The Nicksburg Times SAYS the Frank
Pargoud Is to have a paper published on
board called the Stern illumination, as a
setoff to the Richmond HeadIight.
The City of Alton, Capt. Pat Yore. will
pass down to-day for New Orleans.
The Lizzie gill and Alaska are due
from New Orleans.
The Great Republic viii he ug on sun
day for st. Louis. '
The famous low-preSsure passenger
steamer Richmond, Capt. Stut Neal, will
leave SIC wharf to-day at . pm. for New
Orleans and the bends. Messrs. Voolfolk
and Lodge, two clever gentlemen, have
charge of the office.
The lwge and commodious steamer Mol
lie Able, Capt. Dan Able, will leave the
wharf to-day at four pm. for Gew Orleans
and the bends. Capt. LsavenwOrth, an
affable gentleman. has charge OF the office.
Maj. John D. Adams, President of the
Memphis and Arkansas River Packet
Company, contracted yesterday with
Capt. Samuel Hambleton, of Cincinnati,
for the building OF three new boats-One
for the White river trade, q fine sidewheeI
steamer, geo feet long, which viii be built
ana furnished IN elegant STYLE; w Stern
wheelers, for Arkansas river trade, a du-
plicate Of tho Thomas Il. Allen. lately
bGilt at Madison, Ind. and also a dupli-
cate of the Fort Gibson, All three Of the
steamers will be built staurch and sub
stantial, with entire new engines and ma
.chinery. The sidewheeI boat for the
White river trade will be christened the
Avalanche. The boats will be built at
Cincinnati, and finished, ready for bust
ness by the 18th of September.
1t was rumGTed on the streets Yesterday
evening that the Barge Company had
made a compromise with Capt. II. w.
Smith, Superintendent Of the Memphis
and st. Louis Packet Company, the st.
Louis Packet Company agreeing TO trans
port Memphis freights at the same rates
allowed by the Memphis and Charleston
Railroad, which is . reduced figure from
the present tariff. This arrangement,
with the proper support and assistance !
given 10 our local packets in the White |
and Arkansas rivers, win enable them 10 |
regain a large amount of trade that goes
elsewhere.
Bachelors kslr Dys.-This splendid Hair Dive /
Inc best IN The world; the only true and i
perfect bye harmless, reliable, i~uStantane- |