Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-03-29
Memphis and Little Rock Railroad
RIVER MATTERS.
WEATHER AND RIvEKs.

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mark. eight feet nine and q half inches.
CHAS. GOODWIN.
The rivers above are again rising slowly
as will be seen by our dispatches from
the Ohio and Upper Mississippi. The
Arkansas is falling. White river is also
declining, The weather is unsettled.
1t rained yesterday and was warm,
Arrivals.
Steamer Darling, Cincinnati.
4" Ben. Campbell, Osceola.
Is Nstoma, Friar's Point.
w. A. Caldwell, Ark. river.
st. Francis, st. Francis.
Commonwealth, n. Orleans.
Departures.
Steamer Commonwealth, st. Louis.
In Port.
Steamers Ben. Campbell, Darling, Ma
toma, Coosa, w. A. Caldwell, st. Fran
els and L2urs.
MISCELLANEOUS.
There was no stir upon the levee yes
terday. Things were very dull.
The Legal Tender leaves Cincinnati
for White river on Saturday next.
Orders for freight will be promptly al
tended to.
The r. E. Lee is coming from New
Orleans on her way TO Louisville, to
which port she will run during the sum-
mel season.
Cant. Crane will be in port to-day with
his splendid packet Belle Memphis, and
leaves tomorrow at five O'Clock for Cairo
and st. Louis. Billy Blenker is her
clerk. -
The elegant steamer w. A. Caldwell
came In yesterday with an excellent trip.
Cant. Rube HAYNES will back her out
= N1r TfNfla po0k and all WQU
points on the Arkansas. Capt. Cham
bers runs her Office and an oil well. His
| assistant in the former is Bob Shields.
Can't. Rube Hayes having purchased
an elegantne residence on Poplar street,
mas removed his family to this city,
where he will reside permanently. They
arrived yesterday on the Caldwell.
The Darling, under a full head OF cal
Hope, came into port yesterday, and
leaves on Wednesday for Cairo snd Gin
cinnati. Capt. Carter is master, and the
popular Capt. Power is clerk.
The Magenta will pass down tO-mor-
row evening for New Orleans. Frank
Hicks is master.
The Natoms, Capt. Lee, leaves on
Tuesday for Friar's Point and iDterme-
date landings. Fields and Lee are
clerks.
tbs new steamer st. Francis, Capt.
Tom Bowman, with Paine and Clark in
the office, leaves tomorrow for all points
on st. Francis river.
Major John d. Adams returned yes
terday from a visit to Louisville, Gin
einnati and st. Louis, where he had
been on business connected with his
splendid line OF Arkansas. river steamers.
The Guidon is the regular Wednesday
packet for Pine Bluff.
To-day at 5 pm, Capt. Weller will
back out the Ben Campbell for OsceOla
and all way pOints. She is q No. l
packet. Jim Hall is her obliging chief
secretary.
The light draft steamer Lady Withaup
leaves to-day for Dyersburg AID all way
points on the F0rked Deer river.
The Laura, Capt. MOrg BatemaD, will
get away to-day for JRcksonport, Pow
hatan, POcahontas, and all points on
White, Black and Little Red rivers.
She lie a regular packet, and has compe-
tent clerks in the Office.
The splendid steamer Des Arc, Capt.
Matt Glass, is due from White river to-
day, and leaves tomorrow on her return
trip, making all way landings to Au-
guste, connecting with the Little Rock
train and with the Argos for points above
to Jacksonport-there, We are out of
breath. She has such choics spirits at
her desk IS Joe Elliott and Alex Wad-
dell. while ABE" has choice spirits of
another kind in his department.
The fine steamer Julia will pass down
this evening for Vicksburg and the bends.
She is the regular U. S. mail packet, and
makes all way landings. Andy Isascs
has charge OF her Office, and he will be
found q pleasant officer to travel with.
The Houston (Texss) Ship Canal is to
be a fixed fact, 500, 900 have been SUBJ
scribed. Enough, says a Houston ex-
change, to make q beginning on the
great work and ensure its completion,
as well as add materially to the pros
perity Of the " Bayou City " by relieving
its citizens from the enormous burdens
nov imposed upon commerce.
Gov. BrOss, OF Chicago, in a lecture at
Quincy, last Friday night, incidentally
remarked that the cashier Of q bank in
San Francisco, with an income of a
thousand dollsrs q day, was formerly the
clerk of q steamboat plying between
Keokuk and st. Louis.
Capt. Hseberlee, of the Red river
packet Frolic, is about to contract for
two new stern-whPelers for the New Or
leans and Grand Ecore trade.
The Fort Gibson is coming with her
new cabin.
The new tariff adopted by the consoli.
dated companies between st. Louis and
st. Paul will, it is said, drive trade toward
Chicago and the East.
We take the following from the
Transcript, (Dardsnelle, Ark which
might have added that much of the pros
perity alluded to is due to the energy of
Maj. John D. Adams, Superintendent of
the Memphis and Arkansas river u. s. |
Neil Packet Company: "No one who
has not paid strict TO the trade
and travel on the Arkansas river for the
last few months can have n adequate
conceptions of the proportions which
have been assumed by both on this river.
Scarcely a day passes that some boat
does not come either up or down, well
loaded with both freight and passengers.
There can be no doubt that the boating
business on the Arkansas for the past
three months has more than trebled that