Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-28
RIVER NEWS.
STATE OF THE WEATHER MI

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Augusta, clear, 80; Buffalo, cloudy 76o;
Boston, clear, so Charleston, clear, So
Chicago, clear, So; Chattanooga, cloudy,
7S0; Cincinnati, clear, 740 Dubuque, cleBr
and cool; Louisville. clear, 800; Mont
gomery, clear, 500; Nashville, cloudy and
damp, 500 New Orleans, clear, $50; New
York, cloudy, 100; Osyka, rain, 79o;
Philadelphia, cloudy, 7So; Plaster Cove,
n. s, cloudy, 75o; Pittsburg, clear, 7so;
st. Louis, clear, 76o; Vicksburg, cloudy
and pleasant; Washington, cloudy and
broken, S00; Halifax, calm and foggy, 69o
Key West, cloudy, $50; Havana, warm,
calm, $50; Houston, clear, SO; Shreveport,
cloudy and warm, 800; Mobile, clear and
pleasant, 50.
A LEAVING HI DAY.
GEO. ". .Friar's Point, . pm.
FORT SMrTH...--.-Arkansas river, 5 pm.
ARRIVALS.
Steamer Great Republic, st. Louis.
" Nick Longworth, Louisville.
G. W. Cheek, Friar's Point.
DEPARTURES.
Steamer Belle Memphis, st. Louis.
st. Francis, st. Francis river.
Des Arc, White river.
" Nick Longworth, New Orleans.
Great Republic, New Orleans.
IN PORT.
Fort Smith, Geo. W. Cheek.
RIVERS WEATHER AND BUSINESS.
LOUISVILLE, July 27.-The river is fall
ing, with Z feet 8 inches in the canal.
Departed-Indiana, with a full trip.
Weather clear.
CINCINNATI, July Observation-Disclosures.
River falling, with 2OK feet in the
channel.
Weather clear and warm.
GT IOTrTl Tn1u 81 Arrf~aI Dsfw Of
Cairo.
The river is falling.
Weather warm and clear.
CAIRO, July 27.-Up-Mary Houston,
10 am. DOwn-Hale, 6 am; Belle st.
Louis 6 pm.
The river rose 7 inches.
The weather is clear. Mercury IS deg.
NEW ORLEANS, July 27.-Arrived-
Rapides. Departed-City of Alton for st.
Louis.
MEMPHIS GAS WORKS, July q.
River rose : inches in past "A hours.
Below high water mark of 1867, 8 feet 7
inches. CHAS. GOODWIN.
The rise is steady at this port, but as
all the upper streams are falling we Will
soon be able to report similarly. The Ar
kansas is falling fast. So likewise is
White river. Our dispatches give the
latest news from above.
The weather is cloudy and clear by
turns. Business fair.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Ozark met with an accident on
Monday below Little Rock, which Will
compel her to return to this port and 90
on the docks. By a dispatch from Capt.
Adams we learn that a large tree fell
across her roof, which parted her hog
chains and broke in her cabin, doing con-
siderable damage, but no lives were lost.
She will be in port to-day or tomorrow.
The towboat Dick Fulton passed up
Yesterday with barges.
The Legal Tender has her chimneys in
position and will GO out on Tuesday next.
The Great Republic and Nick Long
worth passed down with good trips, and
the Belle Memphis for st. Louis had her
cabin full of people.
Elem Calvert being entirely recovered
since his trip to the Hot Springs, has sold
his Bucephalus and now goes afoot.
The Fort Smith, Capt. Rowland, leaves
to-day for all points on the Arkansas go
ing through direct to Fort Gibson. She
will no doubt take the freight of the
Ozark from where that steamer was dis
abled to Little Rock, and in consequence
viii tax no freight from here except that
destined for points above Little Rock.
The handsome Geo. w. Cheek, Capt.
Malone, with Charley Smither and Stack
Lee in the office, leaves to-day as usual
for Friar's Point and way landings.
The Belle st. Louis leaves tomorrow
for Cairo and st. Louis.
1t is said hat Capt. VIM. Donaldson
viii build a big sternwheeler at Pitts
burg.
Capt. John H. Boinger, Girard B. Al
len and Capt. John P. keyser have been
appointed a Committee by the President
Of the st. Louis Board of Trade, to solicit
gfpaLr en- h=arfnffong fop tho nnrpnSa nf
building a "screw propeller" at st. Louis.
Capt. Hiram b. Halet has sued Sam
Barr, jr., former Clerk of the Great Re
public, for $500, money loaned.
The Peter Balen is laid up at Dauphine
Rapids below Fort Benton. Cause-low
water.
All the st. Louis wharfbOats, eight in
number, are to be concentrated, with five
feet space between each boat.
The United States Marine Hospital at
Louisville is about to pass into the hands
of the Sisters of Mercy"
The Chippewa Union of the 18th inst.
says: A raft composed of fourteen strings
of lumber sixteen feet wide, containing
yer three acres of surface measure, and
an actual board measure in the body of
the raft of l,65I ,552 feet, was 1oated down
the Mississippi river, a few days since, to
market. Estimating the top loading by
reducing it TO board measure las was don
in other rafts), it contained 1900, 600 feet,
the largest raft that ever left Reads
Landing. We learn, however, since the
above statement was made, that a raft
measuring $500, 600 feet of board measure
was started from the same point on the
2lst inst, for the trade on the Mississippi
river, and that a part of that cargo is des-
tined for the Chicago market. We shall
wait %anxiously to learn the size of the
raft.