Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-28
RIVER NEWS.
BoATs LEAVING THIS DAY.
pEPAhfUREs.
RyrRs. wFaTBEg am business.

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stationary, with three feet and five inches
in the canal. 1t is falling at Pittsburg
with four feet and three inches in the
channel. Departed-Piuk Narble and lie.
onidas for New Orleans.
CAIRO, October 27.-The river is sta.
tionarv. Weather clear and mild. Up
Belle Vernon, lam; Belle Memphis, Il
am. ~Down-Belle st. Louis, II o'clock
last night; Robert Moore, ] pm.
ST. Louis, October 27.--rhe river is fail
ing. Weather clear and mild. Departed
Mohawk, Mary Houston, and City o
Cairo.
CINCINNATI, October 27.-The river /,
declining, with six feet in the channel
Departed Emma El0Yd and Mestrnnre.
land.
NASHVILLE, October 27.-The river j.
falling, with two feet on Harpelh Shoals
Weather fair and cool.
New ORLEANS, October 27.-Arrived-
Mississippi from St. louis. Departed
Commonwealth for St. Louis; Lawrenc'
for Cincinnati.
MEMPHIS GAS WoRKs, October q.
The river declined X inches in the pre-
vious twenty-four hours. 1t stood "a fee
\ an inch below the high water mark o
CHAS. GOODWIN.
The Arkansas IS aAcut on 4 stand, o.
rather it was AZ last report, What il is
now doing is haTd to tell. II is a fickl,
stream and difficult to keep up with. 1
is safe to say that there is 20 inches to Lit
tie Rock. The Arkansas is about on
stand still. Weather clear and pleasant
Business very good.
MISCELLANEOUS,
Ry a dispatch fron Capt. Trask, datet
YaZOO City, we learn that the Hamilton
left there last night for Tallahatchie river
and that prospects are bright in tha
quarter.
The Magenta left last night for New Or
leans with LOCO bales of cotton and a first
rate passenger trip.
Tho Belle st. Louis leaves to-day FOL
Cairo and st. Louis. She is a handsome
and popular passenger packet, and makes
all way landings. Alex. Ziegler is mas
ter and Mr.. Baskette is Clerk.
The Geo. w. Cheek, Capt. Malone, get
away tomorrow for OscuOla and way land
ings. Frank GontermHn and Charley
Jackson are clerks.
The Edinburg leaves at 8 pm. to-day
Tor Cairo, Louisville and Cincinnati, anC
is sure 10 20 through. she wants d few
more bales OF cotton to all out her load
r. 5. Yerkes is master and Mr.. Key.
clerk.
The Indiana and Olive Branch will pas
down tomorrow for New Orleans, the lat
ter at noon and the former at ) pm. Boil
are elegant packets.
The Alpha, Capt. Ryman, with w. r
Gracey in the office, leaves to-day fol
Cairo and way landing5. She enters tn,
trade as a regular weekly packet.
The United States mail packet W. A
Caldwell, Capt. Harrison Blasdell, viii
leave as usual to-day at 3 pm. for Little
Rock and way points on the Arkansas
She is light draft and staunch, and viii
connect closely with the packets for For
Smith. Garrett Huls and Miit, Harry al,
her popular clerks.
The continental and GrOesbeck are due
from below.
The Lizzie Gill is due from below. She
comes with stump-tailed chimneys.
The Alpha is in port, having arrived
from Cairo. She will stay in the Mem
phis and Cairo trade, if sha can make il
pay. 1t is not Capt. ID. DeHaven':
Alpha.
The Post Boy takes cotton from Vicks
burg to New Orleans at 80 cents per bale
and passage at eight dollars.
The Countess now runs from Nicksburs
to the mouth of White River.
The Viola Belle and Importer are re-
ported hard aground in the Arkansas, be.
low Pine Bluff.
VICKsBUH0, Oct. %, 1869.
River Editor appeal; The Hamilton ar
rived safe and sound last Sunday, and
left for the YazoO Monday night. She
encountered rough weather on her down
ward passage, but rode the waves sue
cessfully.
The wal between Capt. Tom Leathers
and John Cannon wakes hot. Cannon
has the advantage just now, with the Par
- - I'll -
Natchez and Dexter will alter the com
plexion of things when they get on the
track. Capt. Leathers has many friends
who wish him TO hold his own and sue.
coed.
The Yazoo boats have more business at
his time than they can do.
The Calumet and Belle YazOo only
ascend a short distance above Yagoo City
owing to low water, and the Era No. s Is
the only boat that can reach Greenwood,
The Hamilton will find ali she can do in
the upper part of the Yazoo.
The Plain City, reported sunk at Vieks-
burg, is being dismantled. She lies high
and dry on the side of the bluff, opposite
the Prentiss House.
The Belle Yazoo re-shipped her New
Orleans trip on the PargOud at Vicksburg
and turned up the Yazoo, for which tradt
she was constructed.
The Countess has been purchased by
the negroes, it is SAID, and is making reg.
ular trips between Yieksburg and Green.
Vile, under their auspices. X.
The Mary Houston will be dine from
above tomorrow.
The Indiana is due from Cairo tonight
on her way South.
The Olive Branch and Stonewall wer,
to have left St. Louis Tuesday night fol
New Orleans.
The West Wind has been boughtfor tn,
Evansville and Memphis trade, by parties
in the former city.
The Sully, recently sunk in the Mis-
souri, river, is said to be z total wreck.
The Mountain Belle Is coming from
Cincinnati, bound for st. Francis river.
The Cora S. has been vegy unfortunate
She sunk INC in the Alabama river
twice in h Arkansas, Once in the Ohio
once in the Mississippi. and now again il
the Ohio.
The st. Louis Times says: Barge No
II, belonging to the Mississippi Valley
Transportation Company, which had Just
been locked, and which had several hun
dred tons of freight aboard, sunk early
Sunday morning near the Company's
wharfb0at. The cause of her sinking il
as yet unknown. large amount Of hel
freight will be lost. The barge will most
likely be a total loss, and WAS not insured,
The cargo was fully insured.
The following boats were in port al
Pittsburg on Monday Mellie Ebert, Mes
senger, Kate Putnam, Glendale, IRON
sides, and Henry A.. Jones, with an aggre-
gate tunnage Of 1470 tuns. Number OF
coal packets in port 46, with a tunnage OF
1863 tnns. with capacity for towing coal to
lower ports, on a good stage of water, OF
over 5000, 600 bushels. Small towboats for
jobbing around and up the Allegheny
river, 81; tHnnage, 1862 tuns. Two tugs
engaged in towing freight in barges to st.
Louis; tunnage, 257 tuns. Total number
of boats of all kinds in port, 81, with q
tunnage Of I2,4bs tuns.