Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-27
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RIVERS, WEATHER AND BUSINESS.
GAS WORKS, July 26.
The river fell 2 inches. Below high
water mark of 1857, 25 feet So inches.
CHARLES GOODWIN,
Superintendent Gas Works.
The Arkansas is falling, with 5 feet 5
inches to Little Rock. There is no change
in White river. All the upper streams
are falling, and 6 feet large is all that is
reported at Liberty Island. Weather
cloudy and hot. Business on the Ievee
was brisk yesterday.
BY TELEGRAPH.
NASHVILLE, July 26.-The river is
swelling, with 4 feet on Harpeth Shoals.
The weather is dry and hot. Arrived
Ella Hughes, from Cairo.
PTTTsBURG, July 26.-Very heavy thun-
der, lightning and rain storm during the
afternoon. The M~onongahela has 3 feet
4 inches, and is rising. At OIL City it is
rising slowly, with 20 inches in the cham
mel. ~ .
NEW ORLEANS, July 26.-Arrived: Pau
line Carroll, from st. Louis. Departed
Henry Ames, for st. Louis; Leonidas,
tor Cincinnati.
CAIRO, July 26.-Passed down: Little
Rock, Cincinnati to Arkansas river, at IL
pin JUL SAS"h So4AS " NAgAAHAASr y
am; Alaska, Cincinnati to New Orleans,
8 pm. Emma Floyd, Cincinnati TO Mem
phis, 9 a N. Up: Bismarck, New Orleans
to st. Louis, 10 Am; RubicOn, Nieks-
burg to st. Louis, 2 am. Kate Robinson
Cincinnati to 81. Louis, 2 I'm. River
fell 2 inches. Weather clear. Mercury,
9o.o
LOUISVILLE, July 26.-The river has
reached a point so low that none but
boats of exceedingly light draught can
descend the falls, there is only "a inches
in the chute and 4 feet on Portland bar.
The weather is clear; mercury at 2 pm.
stood at $50. The Memphis Packet Com
pany have perfected arrangements for a
line of boats to run from Portland to
Memphis, until the canal is opened.
CINCINNATI, July 26.-Nine feet in the
channel; weather clear; thermometer $50
at
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Continental passed up Yesterday,
She had company A, Sixteenth Infantry,
bound TO Louisville. They are from
point.
The ferryboat Isaac Bowman passed
down yesterday for New Orleans.
The st. Joseph got away for st. Louis
with 200 bales of cotton and a large pas
senger trip.
The Des Arc had a fair trip for White
river.
The Susie Silver is due up to-day on
her way to st. Louis.
The Olive Branch and Alaska and
Emma Floyd are tine next boats due from
above.
The Belle st. Louis leaves tomorrow
for st. Louis.
The Marble City passes down to-mor-
row for Vicksburg.
The Mary Boyd leaves on Friday for the
Arkansas. She is the next regular packet.
The Coosa River Steamboat COMPANY
and the Georgia and Alabama Steamboat
Company have consolidated their stock,
under the charter of the Georgia and Ala
bamaS Steamboat Company.
The s. G. Day had agood trip for the st.
Francis river.
Captain Milt R. Harry yesterday pur.
| chased one-half of the Hesper. and will
place her in the Black river trade in place
Of the Fairy Queen. The interest pur-
chased was that of Captain Jim Lee. She
leaves for White and Black rivers, as far
up as Pocahontas, on Thursday at 5 pm
The Mary Miller enters the EvansvilIe
sld Memphis trade IN the LIST of Sep
TENDER.
The James Means has been sold &c
parties in LIE Claim, Iowa, for $500.
The Silas Wright, aChippsws river boat,
was struck by a gale at the foot OF Lake
Pepin, a few days ago, and completely
wrecked.
George Scott, a cabin boy on the Balle
st. Louis, died a day or TIVE ago on that
boat. His parents reside near Cincinnati.
MI. bennett writes to the Plaater's Ban
ner as follows: Captain Broad is at work
with the Peerless at The bend of the Peche
in front of Mr.. Roses plantation. He
made great havoc among the snags, old
logs, projecting live oaks, and obstruc-
tions to navigation generally. In places
he has lined the banks of the bayou with
those steamboat smashers that have
threatend steamers ever since the bayou
has been navigated by steam. He
has done good work in this bend, and
In the bend just above Trainer Ham
sons s~hip-yard, and also between Frank
lin and the mouth of the bayou. He has
a heavy work to perform tn Indian bend,
and in many other places above. Captain
Forgey, on the L. d. Hine, is doing good
work between New Iberia and st. Mar
tinsville. He has cleared out the bayou
about thirteen miles, nearly half the dis
lance. He and Captain Broad will put
the bayou in much better n~avigabls con-
dition than It has ever been before, by the
time the next crop is ready for market.