Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-16
RIVER NEWS.

~ III sees ANNof
RUBIcoN............-...-... st. Louis, 5 pm.
THos. H. ALLEN-......Ark. River, 5 pm.
GEO. ". CHEEK---.Friar's Point, 5 pm.
ARRIVALS.
Steamer Luminary, st. Louis.
" G. w. Cheek, Friar's Point.
T. II. Allen, Arkansas river.
st. Francis, St. Francis river.
Mollie Able, New Orleans.
DEPARTURES.
Steamer Luminary, VicksbUrg.
I" Mollie Able, st. Louis.
IN PORT
Steamers G. W. Cheek, st. Francis, T.
II. Allen, W. A. Caldwell.
RIVERS WEATHER AND BUSINESS.
CAIRO, August 15.-Grand Lake,
Memphis to Grand Tower, 10 pm;
Alaska, Cincinnati to New Orleans, 8
am; Marble City, V%icksburg to st.
Louis, 9 am; Kellogg, New Orleans
to st. Louis, IL am.
The river fell u inches.
The weather is clear. Mercury S9'.
MEMPHIS GAS WORKS August 10.
River declined 1873 inches in the past "a
hours. 1t stood 10 feet and 81 inches
or 20 feet 81 inches below the high water
mark of 1867, this morning.
ChAS. GOODH1N.
The weather was oppressively hot
and sultry yesterday. River men about
town steered clear of the wharf, and
cultivated ice dealers acquaintance
Just for the privilege of sitting around
their doors. Several seemed on the
best kind of terms with Ed. Postal, at
his Main street livery stable. Ed. has
a shady sitting place around his head
quarters.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Charley Beehn has removed his
| printing Office to the Bethel block, No.
$50 Main street, where he is prepared
to do all kinds of job work.
Freights from Eastern cities are
| down next to nothing at this time.
| Western and Southern merchants are
reaping profits by the war of the diff
ferent opposition lines, by purchasing
their fall stocks and shipping at the
present reduced rates.
The tow boat Ike Hammick has the
monitors Hecate and Fury in tow, and
is on her way to from Mound City, Ill
inois, to New Orleans.
Several of the boys were out on a
drive to the suburbs yesterday, in
search of melons, grapes, pretty girls,
and soon.
The T. H. Allen is the regular
Arkansas packet this afternoon at five
O'Clock.
The Nick Longworth is due to-day
on her way to New Orleans.
The RnbicCn is the regular packet
for st, Louis this afternoon. She
arrived from Vi0ksburg last evening.
The George W: Cheek is the regular
Friar's Point packet this afternH1F:
The Legal Tender is the regular
White river mail packet tomorrow
evening.
The tow boat Neshank passed up
yesterday.
The Nightengale is due from Arkan-
The Mollie Able was due from
below and the 7. Dean from abovelast
evening.
The Sam Hale left Cincinnati
Saturday evening, ana VIII De here
tomorrow night to leave for Cincin-
natl next Friday. lf- zlI-Ea
The Belle Memphis is the regular
packet for st. Louis tomorrow after
noon. Capt. Crane in command and
Billy Blenker clerk.
The st. Francis arrived last evening
with her usual consignment of pretty
girls, under the special charge of
Hunty Bowman. The st. Francis
leaves on her return for Wittsburg
and intermediate points tomorrow
afternoon.
The Julia will leave at 5 o'clock
this Afternoon for Nicksburg, carrying
the United States mail.
The Ohio river is getting very low,
only four feet in the canal at Louis
vile and four and a half on the bars
to Cincinnati. Freights fromSt. Louis
to the Ohio have increased to 20 cents
per hundred.
The Great Republic left st. Louis
for New Orleans on Saturday.
The water in the upper Mississippi
rapids is getting thin.
Lynch, the leader of the riot on the
steamer Dubuque, has not yet been
captured. 1r-r--- ref-sf reo1rr
There is three and a half feet of
water in the Missouri river between
st. Joseph and Omaha. :
The boats laid up at Portland, KY,
have been moved further up the river,
and the channel has cpmlnenced cut
ting est, and five feet viii be found
over the bar to-day,
Capt. Parisotis Xazoo packet was
launched at JeffersOnville last Satur-
day. Her dimensions are: Length,
165 feet; beam, 80 feet; hold, 6 feet.
When launched she will be brought
over to the Louisville wharf to receive
her machinery, which is being built
by Kirk, Dennis& Co., at the South
ern foundry.
The louisville Gomier-Jouy7ao of
the 18th says: 1.-THE engineers In
of the construction di the wing
down at the head of the canal, taking
advantage of the present low water,
have commenced work. Large guam
Of lumber are being received
The Marine Hospital at Louisville
Is likely to be re-opened for the adj
mission of invalid river men.
Capt. Joe Clark's new Red river
is to be called the Seminole.
The river Nile, in Egypt, is lower
han 1t has been known TO be for one
hundred and fifty years. The cotton
.rop of that country is expected to be
$4,000 bales this season.
The War and Navy Departments
nave transferred to the Treasury De
lartment the power to contract for the
'ecOvery of all vessels, both Con-
ederate and Federal, which were
Junk during the late van in Southern
md other waters.
The story of Capt. Milt Atkins adj
mission to the afmshouse at Louis
lille, the other day, was a canard.
rhe Captain is all 80 K" and made
money last season..
The O0mier-JourDal says; & Evans
lille, Memphis, and Yicksburg are :
he only places on the rivers where I
owboats are charged Wharfage. As (
owboats seldom land until reaching !
heir destination, except to purchase
upplies, it would seem that the ,
bove-named places make t6whoat- I
men pay for the privilege of spending !
heir money with their merchants !