Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-11-26
RIVER NEWS.
BOATs LEAVING MS d..

Sallie OsCeola.
River.
Orleans.
Thompson Orleans.
IN PORT.
Wauanita. Mary Boyd. Lawrence.
Fanny Brandies. Des Arc. Belle 81 Louis.
MEMPHIS GAS WORKS, November ..
The river rose ! inch in the past
"A hours. 1t stood p feet 81 inches below
ths high water mark of 1867 this morning.
CHAS. GOODWIN,
Superintendent Gas Works.
NEW ORLEANS, November -Arrived:
Olive Branch, Bee and barges, from St.
Louis. Departed: Mary Houston, for
Louisville; ". r. Arthur, for st. Louis.
P~TrTsBURG. November 3-The river is
stationary, with three feet and a half in
the channel.
CAIRO, November &.-Up-Rubicon, y
last night. Down-Bengal Tiger and
Spray, 3 am; Della, 10 am; Octavia,
Shreve m COlOradO, 4 p-m- City Of Cairo,
7 PM. The river has risen 8 inches. The
weather is cloudy and warm.
LOUISVILLE, November 2-Departed-
Nightingale and swallow. The weather
IS cloudy and warm.
LOUISVILLE, November 25.-The river
is rising, with five feet in the canal.
NASHVILLE, November &.-The river
is falling, with hve-and-a-half feet on Har-
peth Shoals. The weather is bright and
beautiful.
ST. LOUIS, November 25.-The river is
falling.
The Arkansas is again declining. with
about 3 feet to Little Rock. White river
is rising very slowly, and has 4 feet to
Augusta by the lead. The Ohio at Cairo
IS rising, but at ST. Louis the Mississippi
is falling A swell is reported at Louis
vile. Weather clear. Business active.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A brilliant wedding came of at the
residence Of Eugene Leidy, Esq, on Adj
ans street, last evening. The bride was
the beautiful Miss Jennie Wolfe, and the
groom our popular young friend Capt. T.
4. stake, Of the Memphis and Arkansas
River Packet Company. IT'S almost use
less to say that we wish them a long life
of welded bliss, for we know that they
are worthy Of every blessing which can
be shOwered on their path.
The Des Arc, Capt. Marsh Miller, leaves
to-day tor Friar's Point and all way land
ings on the big river. She is the regular
packet. Billy Miller and Tip Fields are
her clerks.
The spray, Capt. Brown, leaves tO-mOr-
row for Cairo and Cincinnati.
The Mary Boyd reshipped AIS bales OF
cotton at the mouth of White river, and
DIOlAlb IIV hdlES I'D NnA= DlFb. NeElNeS 9
about % tons OF miscellaneous freight.
The Colorado, Capt. Fisher, will pass
down this morning for Vicksburg and the
bends. Billy White is in the office.
The Kate kearpey Is due from st. Louis,
The Kate Putnam and Kentop are due
from below.
The Richmond passed up at a late hour
Wednesday night for st. Louis.
IEe Thompson Dean passed down yes
faHfNlW- ShA aided pJf haNaa of aoFfnn I
here. Commodore Thompson Dean was
a passenger on her, and stopped OF here,
Tommy NORM, a well known deformed
little newsbOy, who sold papers on steam
ers at our levee. was drowned by falling
overheard from the GUidOn, "Wednesday
Aight. His papers were found on thu
guard, but his body has not been recOv-
cred,
The Mary Boyd, Capt. Rube Haynes,
will leave to-day for Jacksonport and
way landings on White river. She CON /
meets with the Little Rock train, and is
one of the finest passenger packets ahoat.
+. W. outlay and Bob, Shields are her
well known clerks,
The Marble City and II. NJ. Shreve will
be duefTOm above tonight or tomorrow. /
The Belle st. Louis had not arrived
from above at a late hOur last night. Sho
viii no doubt be in 20 leave on her return
trip about nOon to-day,
lee is running heavily at Dubuque and
above on the Upper Mississippi.
The Cincinnati Commercial says: ''The
swallow, Alaska, John H. Groesbeck,
Emma No. 3 and Belle Vernon have been
organized into a regular line TO New Or
leans during the forthcoming season.
Capt. James 5. Wis5 has been appointed
Superintendent Of the line. The LeOnidas
and silver Spray have not, as yet joined
this line"
The little AIlena May has been bought
from the Brownsville Packet Company
and lifted mp as a trading boat, to be en-
gagged IN trading or hlack ard Red rivers.
The Nar2nita, Captain Conway, gets
away to-day for Cairo and Cincinnati. She
IS a No ! packet, and goes through,
The Lawrence leaves to-day for Louis
Vile and Cincinnati. She wants cotton.
Captain Pierce commands.
The Liberty, Captain Wheat, gets away
tomorrow for Augusta and way points !
on White river,
The Nat0ma, Captain Ashford. leaves on
Saturday for themOuth of White river and
all way landings.
The Guidon, for Little Rock, got away
last night with an excellent trip.
Captain Jack Chambers, who has been
prospecting fOr oils over in Arkansas, is
ggsln IN our city, and as Jolly as ever.
Inc ste2mer Ben Campbell vas sold
yesterday TO Capt. Weller and Mr.. T.. II
Carr, her clerk; terms not known. She
enters the Randolph and Simpsons Land
ing trade as semi-weekly packet, and
leaves here on Mondays and FRIDAYS.
She gets away to-day on her hrst trip
under the new regime,
Attention is called to the meeting of
citizens at the Chamber OF Commerce yes
tegday. We have not space to alluds to
1t more fully in this issue.
We have received the following account
aE ~ --W H a. D
steameE RubieOn, from a passenger. Ii
but endorses what We nave already said
OF Capt. Blake, Aft Gtrissom and the rest
of the gallant crew of that steamers.
=" Editors MsasBAiS appeal: Through
the cQolness and intrepidity of the cap
tain and officers Of the steamer Rubieon. /
another of those terrible and heartrsnd-
ing disasters, that so recently filed the
public mind with horror, has been avert
ed. The facts are substantially as fol-
lows: The steamer RubicOn. from Nicks-
burg, hound for st. Louis, left her land
ing about five o'clock pm, November
18Th, with forty-five passengers, including
women and children. About half-past
two O'Clock on the morning of the 10Th,
when rounding brunswick Point, forty
five miles above Ficksburg, the alarm of
fro was given, and instantly all was ex-
element and confusion. The boat was
Immediately headed for the east shore,
and the passengers assured there was
plenty of time, not only to save them
selves, but their personal effects. Not
withstauding this, one of the passengers,
in the excitement, jumped overheard, but
was rescued by the crew. The women
and children were first taken safely on
shore, and the men elambered up the
river bank as best they could. All hands
then went vigorously to work to
extinguish the fire, which WAS spread
ing rapidly from the p~ilOt-hOuse, at and
threatening the immediate destruction of
the boat. Within thirty minutes from
the time the fire broke out it was extin-
guished, and the passengers, with all their ,
effects, safely on board, and although the
pilOt-hOuse was entirely consumed. the
boat immediately resumed her trip, and
the passengers were safely landed at their
several destinations. The fire is supposed
to have originated from the upsetting Of a
lamp by one Of the cabin boys, among
some loose papers, in a room under the
DilOt-hOuse.
"HENRY WHTTTEMORE.
"Passenger.1
NOVEMBER 20, 1S69.-We, the under
officers and passengers on board
steamer RubieOn, hereby certify that the
acts as stated above are correct.
h. Blake, Capt, Aft. GIBSON. Clerk
e. Bust, Pilot, G. W. Rod. Stewa ard :
annie Robinson Mrs. NJ. E. Hudson
Brown,
In addition to the above I desire to
ali the attention of s-teamhOatmen to the
that the hose was lying hooked up
longs1de the boilers, uncOiisd and ready
or immediate use, thus preventing un-