Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-19
RIVER NEWS.

STATE OF THE WEATHER AUGUST Is.
Augusta, clear, no wind, So; Bufa-
10, clear, 73o; Boston, cloudy, 639
Charleston, clear, 950; Cleveland,
clear, 7so; Chicago, cloudy, IL; Chat
tanooga, clear, Sc; Cincinnati, clear,
75o; Dubuque, cloudy and sultry;
Jackson, clear, 75'; Louisville, clear,
e10; Montgomery, cloudy, so; Nash
vile, hazy, S0'; New Orleans, clear,
s2o; New York, 700; Osyka, cloudy
and calm, 79'; Philadelphia, cloudy,
730; Plaster Cove, clear, 64'; Pitts
burg, clear, 1872; st. Louis, clear, 81;
Vicksburg, clear and warm; Wash
ington, cloudy, 80'; Fortress Monroe,
cloudy, 73'; Shreveport, clear and
calm, $40; Houston, clear, 89'.
BOATS LEAVING THIS Jay.
BELLE ST. LoUIs...-...St. Louis, 5 pm.
GREAT REFUBLIc.-..New Orleans 8 pm.
NICK LoSGwORTH--New Orleans, o pm.
ARRIVALS.
Steamer Geo. W. Cheek, Friar's Point.
Belle st. Louis, st. Louis,
DEPARTURES.
Steamer Geo. ". Cheek, Friar's Point.
IN PORT
Steamers W. A. Caldwell dud Belle st.
Louis.
RIVERS WEATHER AND BUSINESS.
NEW ORLEANs, August 18.-De-
Embellishments, for st. Louis. Ar
rived-Pink Varble, from Louisville.
LOUISVILLE, August 18.-The river
is falling, with 3 feet 7 inches in the
canal.
CAIRO, August Is. -MohaWk arrived
from New Orleans, and left for st.
Louis; Longworth from Louisville to
New Orleans, passed at 10 am;
Nightingale from Arkansas river to
Cincinnati passed at 2 pm. River
stationary.
MEMPHIS GAS WORKS August Is.
River fell 81 inches in past "a hours.
Below high water mark of 1867, p feet
9 inches.
CHAS. GOODWIN.
The latest news from above will be
found in our telegraphic dispatches.
The Ohio is falling steadily, and boats
are having trouble in that stream.
The Arkansas is rising at points above
Little Rock, and may be swelling
there by this time. There is four feet
scant TO JacksOnpOrt in White river.
Weather hot. Business moderate.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Jack Chambers leaves to-day for a
short visit North. He will, while alb
sent, purchase some new " combined
motion " velOcipedes for his rink at
Hot Springs.
The tug Pioneer, on Monday last,
A~lrrrhf 70 fhfa nnpf q Hnrr Of 10A ~ r.
nificent cypress logs from the planta-
ton of u friend Charley Morris.
One of the tOws held in its lap the
nest of an Arkansas eagle. The bird
was captured, and is now in the pos
session of Reynard, at Pacific Place.
The Mountain Belle has been sold
at Cincinnati for the sum of $4,000.
Please give US the name of the boat
recently lost near Atchison, Kansas.
We see il called the Meteor, MentZ,
Neutz, NutZ, Maze, and several other
names which we can't recollect.
The Havana, OftheN Nashville Packet
Company, recently burned below Gin
cinnati, at ParlOr Grove, was insured
for $1,000.
The Belle St. Louis, Capt. Ziegler,
leaves to-day for Cairo and st. Louis.
She connects with the trains North
and East. Baskette is clerk.
The gay Nick L~Ongworth, with our
old friend Lew Hates upon the roof,
will pass down to-day for Nicksburg
and New Orleans and all way points.
Eugene Bowers has charge ofthe Office,
The Sam Hale, Capt. Walker, will
arrive to-day and leave on Friday for
IIna-A n,I EG~nennnAH nwww-nnnn Tor
ter is Secretary.
To-day the elegant Great Republic
will pass down on her way to the
Crescent City. she has no superior as
a passenger packet. Jas. Kerr is her
popular clerk.
The w. a. Caldwell is the regular
L. S. mail packet for the Arkansas on
Friday. RUDE Haynes commands.
The Natoma is the regular Saturday
White river packet.
Capt. Win. Hollcr0ft will have
command of the Dexter during the
coming season.
1t is now said that Thomas Evans,
engineer of the Tempest, was not
lynched for killing Charles Springer
at the head of the Missouri river. The
killing was justiiable homicide, and
Evans was discharged.
Lewis Coons, the new Inspector Of
Hulls at Louisville, has Just received
his commission, and goes on duty at
once.
A boat called the Granite State,
eighty-five feet long and seventeen
feet wide, and drawing three feet of
water, loaded, arrived at Dubuque
last Wednesday, from Oshkosh, Wis.
There was plenty Of water, but the
greatest difficulty she experienced was
in the manner of the construction of
railroad bridges. These have been
erected without reference to the cur
rent of the river. 1t has, however,
been demonstrated by the Granite
State that navigation may be secured
through the heart of Wisconsin, from
the great Northern lakes to the great
Mississippi.
Hamilf and Coulter have arranged
for another race, to come off next
Friday owe the upper Monongahela
course, for $1,000 a side. The referees
boat is to be steered between the rival
boats.
Wood is very scarce on the upper
Missouri.
Game is very plenty on the upper
river, twenty-five miles from the
Cheyenne agency. Buffalo are COM
ing down more Immensely than has
ever been known before, and more
than five hundred Indians have gene
out hunting them. This, say old
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