Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-01-25

and bargGs from st. Louis, Allegheny
Belle and barges from Wheeling, Alps
and Darges FROM P~iEUsburS.
V~ICKSBURG. January 24-DOwn; Ma
geuta at IL pm; ,Moilie Able az , pm.
The river is rising FAST Weather cold
and raining.
MISCELLANEOUS.
LOOK OUT BELow!-We urge our road
ers to be on the watch. High water is
coming. The recent rains, added TO the
rise in the Ohio and its tributaries, and
the water coming out of the Upper Mis-
sissippi, will, We fear, cause disaster along
the river below here. It is now within q
little over four feet of the high water
mark of 1867, and Is swelling at the rate
Of one foot daily. y day or TWO more and
il VIII run Oyer in many places. Nothing
can prevent an overflow except spell OF
/ cold weather to freeze the uppg streams.
It mas been raining here incessantly since
Saturday night. Some snow fell yester-
d.y afternoon. The Arkansas is no dOubt
swelling, as is also White River. OUl dis
patches give the latest from above. Bush
ness on the levee was retarded bythe rain.
The Fairy Queen is still on the docks.
| The weather has retarded her repairs Sh
viii get 0iffor JacNsOnpOrt about Friday
next, and Will be in splendid hx. Capt.
Harry is spariGg 40 e~Xpense~to put her in
tip-tOp order.
FhcSt. Francis, Capt. Thomas Bowman,
is the regular packet for the St. Francis
/ river this afternoon. The st. Francis IS
the most beautiful and comfortable
steamer ever III the trade, for which she
was especially constructed.
II Will be impossible to raise the Lizzie
Gill. and she win prove a total loss. The
obstruction she hit broke the outriggers
from the after-end of the boilers 20 ten
feet abaft the wheel. The water is now
/ over her bOiler-dCcS, and is still rising.
Capt. Thompson, her commander, has
/ stood by the wreck and worked skiiI.ully,
faithfully, earnestly n increasingly 10
save the property under his charge.
The steamer Sollie passed down yester-
day without landing.
The Legal Teude brought in 5lS bales
cotton.
The Liberty, from White river, had 500
bales cotton.
The Geo. w. Cheek came in with So
bales cotton.
The W. A. Caldwell, from the Arkan-
sas, had 2s5 bales cotton.
The crew Of the Usage, now up White
river, are a desperate set. They recently
threatened to burn the town OF Augusta,
aud shot the barber of the Liberty
through the hand,
Mr.. Bowman, clerk of the Lizzie GIL,
came dp yesterday on the Dean and left
by rail for St. Louis
The Geo. W. Cheek. Capt. Malone, will
get away to-day for FTiar's Point and all
way landings. She is very reliable, and
has made one hundred and one trips in
the trade, and has always been on time.
Barney Barjnds is her chief secretary and
il a popular officer.
The Legal Tender, Capt. Elliott, leaves
to-day for Jacksonport and way landings
| on White river. She connects with the
Little Rock train. Elliott and Arthur
Fields are her clerks.
The United ates mail packet Legal
Tender, with Pat. Wheat on the roof.
leaves today for Augusta, JacksOnport
and all way &ndinES on White river. She
connects with the Little Rock train and
with the Usage for points above. Or.
Green and Charley Sharpe are clerks.
Thad. CouaHt, the popular cotton clerk
of the 81. Francis, requests eousignees to
send Tor their citton today Al an early
hour. Thad. is ''old business
The D~ardanclle is the regular Z. s. mail
packet Tor Little Rock, Fort Smith md all
points on the Arkansas to-day. She is
one of the best boats in tho line. Capt.
John Woodburn, q veteran In the trade.
will cOIumaEd, ana the peoples fJvoIite,
rollieking, rafting, delicate, jolly, popu-
lar, Competent and reliable Jack CHAM
bsrs, has charge of t!ie Office.
Capt. Raymond, or the Engineer Corps.
describes The Yukon river, in alaska, as
the third largest riYcri in the world.
kentucky liver is now bank full, and
coal, pig metal and lamisr-are being rap
idly brought down from the mOun,ains.
Fuel is very scarce at all points along
the Mississippi and its tributaries.
Steamers experience continued difficulty
in obtaining supplies. WO0dyards, 50
numerous a few yearsagO, are now almost
abandoned, and vessels have to rely on
the coal depots at New Orleans, Baton
Rouge, Natchez, Vicksburg, mouth OF
White river, Memphis and Cairo. The
little wood TO be found at long distances
is generally green and barely lit for Use,
and seldom sells for less than 81 per cord.
The mouth o: Red, river, once a noted de-
pot for supplies OF coal aud pine wood, is
now bare. Enterprisiug Western wood
choppers would find q neld of employ
men5 and profit at a hundred points be-
tween New Orleans and Cairo.
We yesterday alluded to~the case of
Murphy VS.. w. J. May and others, own
ers of the steamer Mercury, which was
decided for the defendants in the Court OF
Common Pleas at Louisville a day or two
ago. The particulars of the case are as
follows: The plaintiff states that on the
18th day of March, 1867, he shipped on
the Mercury, at Glover Bend, on Black
river, Arkansas, two hundred and seven
mules and three horses, to be taken to
Memphis, for which Murphy was to pay
the defendants one Thousand dollars. The
plaintiff says the defendants failed to
make good said contract that the pilot
took the boat out of her course and ran
her against a snag, in consequence Of
which all of the mules and horses were
destroyed and lost. The horses and mules
were worthOn hundred dollars each.
The plaintiff asked judgment for the
sum of 81 900. The defendants claim that
it was understood at the time the mules
were shipped that they were not to be
responsible for losses from inevitable ac-
cidents. The river rose after the boat left
Clover Bend 50 that the pilot could not
see the landmarks, and there were strong
and unusual currents out of the main
channel, and it was impossible to distin-
guish the main river from a chute. The
boat struck a snag and was sunk, and no
human aid could have extrieated the boat
from the situation into which she had
been ~broughtlby thefloOd. She was forced
into that situation by cause which those
in charge OF her could not control.