Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-09

ON'' DuA9 mSAHPHAs.
RIYERs, WEATHER AND BUSINESS.
GAS WORKS, March s, 1870.
River fell 3 inches in past "a hours. Be
low high water mark Of 1867, 10 feet
inches. CHAS. GOODWIN.
Superintendent Gas Works.
Our dispatches give the latest news from
points above. 1he Arkansas is again at q
generous stage for that stream-say four
feet to Little Rock. White river has
plenty of water to all points. Weather
clear and cool. Business On the levee
was very brisk to-day. and boats depart-
ing had excellent trips OF freight and Deo-
pie.
LOUISVILLE, March S.-River falling
with 9 feet 4 inches in the canal.
81. LOUIS, March,S.-Riyer rising.
NASHVILLE, March S.-River rising with
l5!z feet on Harpeth Shoals. Weather
cold and cloudy.
NEW ORLEANS, March .-Arrived: Pey.
tona and barges and Indiana, from Louis
vile, and Henry Ames from st. Louis.
Departed: Columbian, Thompson Dean.
Atlantic and barges, for st. Louis, and
Edinburgh tor Cincinnati.
NICRsBUHG, March Sup: W. r. Ar
thur, D pm. Down: Grand Era, y last
night; Magenta, 4 am, and Glasgow
pm. The river is rising. The weather is
! clear and cool.
CINCINNATI, March s.-Arrived: Rob
ert Burns. The river has a tendency to
rise, with q feet in the channel.
PITrsBURG. March Silver stationary.
with q feet 4 inches in the channel. Ere
quent snow squalls.
CAIRO, March S.-Mary Alice. New Or
leans to Pittsburg, 9 pm; J. II. Groes-
beck, New Orleans to Cincinnati, II pm. f:
Sam. J.. Hale, Memphis to Cincinnati. 1
am; Lady Pike, Memphis to Cairo, ?
am; Messenger, Cincinnati TO New Or
leans, 8 am; Shark, New Orleans to st.
Louis, 8 am; Kellogg, st. Louis to New
Orleans, noon; sam Brown, St. Louis and
return, 2 pm; Wild Duck, st. Louis to
Pittsburg. River rose 3 inches. Mer-
curry 36o.
ST. LOUIS, March s.-Arrived: Shark and
St. Luke. Departed: Olive Branch, Ru-
bicon, City Of Cairo. River rising. Wea-
ther clear and warm.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Virginia viii pass up this morning.
The Des Arc and Liberty left with full
trips for White river.
The Mary Boyd did not get away for
the Arkansas until late in the evening.
She was loaded to the guards.
The Belle Lee passed up yesterday.
She goes 20 Cairo, and probably to some
port up the Ohio.
MI EIlArSL " dAWfELlr CLERK OF the ~.
p. Walt, who has been sick for some DAYS
and confined 20 his room, is again up. and
viii resume his duties in the Office Of the
Walt as soon as she arrives.
The Lorena, Capt. Shurman, will get
away at ten am. to-day for Cairo and
Cincinnati.
The bright Silver Moon, with the popu-
lar Capt. Ben Merrilees on the upper
deck, will get away to-day for Louisville,
ITnufnnaff and oil NOV 1.naTn&1 Oh -
a No. l packet.
The Belle Memphis. Capt. John Crane,
viii leave to-day for Cairo and ST. Louis,
and makes all way landings. She also
connects with the trains North and East.
Billy Blen6er is her chief clerk. The
Belle is fairly entitled to be called the
q" StOnewall" of the packet company.
The Colorado, Capt. Mckee, will pass
down this morning at ten O'Clock for
Vieksburg and the bends. She is the L.
5. mail packet.
Tom Kirwan, and other well-known
steamboat men, returned from New Or
leans on the Great Republic.
The America, Capt. Poage, leaves to-
day at three pm. for Cincinnati.
The Legal Tender, Captain Edison, leaves
to-day tor New Orleans with the trip she
some time ago brought out OF the Ohio.
She viii 20 through on time and offers
superior passenger accommodations,
Arthur Field is her clerk.
The local inspectors at this port were
yesterday engaged in taking evidence in
the case of the Great Republic and tug
Nettie Jones. Several pilots and other
river men gave their testimony. The re-
suit will probably be known to-day.
James Russell, a w~ell-knOwn st. Louis
and New Orleans pilot of many years K
perience, is in the city. He came as pilot
on the M~ountaineer, and will remain
several days. Next season James will
nave his papers made cut through to
Shreveport, where he has already made
several trips. He will rank No. l there
as he has long done on the Main river.
Mr.. Russell holds his age well, and looks
hearty, gay and lively.
The st. Francis went ont last evening
full of people, and with her guards nearly
to the water with freight. For two
months past she has been doing a profta-
Bile business. The friends of Captain
Bowman will be gratiisd at this evidence
of his prosperity. A few more such trips
as that of yesterday and the st. Francis
viii be clear out Of the woods, nOtwith-
standing the fact that she tried TO butt
the bridge at Madison to pieces, and dam
aged her guards somewhat in the futile
attempt.
The W. A. Caldwell leaves tomorrow
for all landings on White River. Captain
INAAtN N4uAAau VIII ENAAl1hlu duQ GdE-
Tett Huls has charge of the Office.
The new and light draft steamer Oar
denelle is the regular Arkansas river
packet to-day. She goes at 8 pm. and
will make all landings to Fort Smith, she
is commanded by John WOODBURY., COM
petent officer and her Office is in charge
Of rollieking Jack Chambers, whose
are legion, here as well as on the
Rackensack.
e.. Tho Eal1uffu Cant MarE DbooL- -oAs ]
away at five pm. for New Madrid and the
bends. She IS a good and reliable packet.
GOntsrman is clerk.
The Gen. Anderson, Capt. Jim Lee,
Stack Lee, Cummings and Chism in
the Office, leaves to-day, as usual, for
Point and way landings.
1t is, perhaps, not generally known that
up till The year 1916 Fulton and Living
ston held a patent for the entire right for
navigation by steam Of all the rivers in
,he United States. II. N. Shreve was the
first person who openly denied this grant,
after much effort he succeeded in
throwing open the navigation of the pub
lie highways to all competitors. The first
used on our western waters was
built under the immediate supervision of
Fulton, at Pittsburg. Il was
''The Orleans" and departed from
Pittsburg in October, 1911. arriving at its
destination, which was Natchez, about
January I, 1872. This boat ran between
Natchez and New Orleans for about two
years, making the voyage TO average
about seventeen days, and was finally
wrecked near Baton Rouge. Up till 1919
here are but fOrty-one steamers recorded.
The forty-first, called 1.-THE United States"
vas built at Jacksonville, owned by
Hart & Co., andhad two separate engines,
were made in England. She was
If seven hundred tons burden.
The Mr.. Shreve just mentioned was
IGNORED, on the 9th of April, 1917, with a
yrand dinner given him in Louisville as a
Of the consideration in which
le was held as a steamboat navigator, and
particularly to congratulate him on the
Tery expeditions voyage he had made
rom Louisville to New Orleans and back.
trip was made by the teamer Wash
RgtoR and only occupied forty-fUe days!
{ is said that at this dinner Mr.. Shreve
PREDICTED that a trip from New Orleans to
louisville would yet be effected in
or twelve days; but this was looked
rather as the dream of an enthusiast
han as the sober calculation of q saga
man.