Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-04

point Is falling, with 20 inches in the
channel. Weather cloudy; Thermometer,
7so ate p.m..6LatrQs
PIrTsRURG, May s-Westher delight
fal: The Monongahela Is o feet inches
and falling. G
GREKSsnoRo, May 3.-The river al this
point Is falling slowly, with about 81 feet
mOmeter, 629 at s pm.
NASHVILLE, May 3.-Rfver still rising,
with . feet large on the shoals. Weather
clear and warm. Arrived: Jno. Lums-
den, from Cairo; Lewellyn, Evansville
both heavily laden with corn, hay, -four,
etc. The Emma Floyd cleared for Gin
c%innati, and the Leweliyn, for Evans
Vile. a7a res
LOUISVILLE, May s.-River falling slow
~, witE 81 feet in the canal, and 81 feet
In the chute, ove the falls, with 79H
feet space under the bridge. Up:
Kate Putnam, Nashville to Pittsburg;
Silver Noon, Memphis to Cincinnati.
Departed: Mary Houston, Louisville to
New Orleans. Arrived: SC. Msrys.
CfSc1NNArI, May 8, 9 p.m.-The river
has fallen. I foot 4 inches, with
% feet inches in the channel. Weather
clear; barometer 1922; mercury, CSC.
from Pittsburg; Norman, Evansville.
Departed. Local packets and Silver Spray,
for New Orleans. The st. Charles, from
Pittsburg, grounded after breaking her
machinery coming down. She returns
Tomorrow noon. Rates are steady at last
quotations. The steamer Rock Island is
at the wharf this evening.
-Ee MISCELLANEOUS.
The Robert Burns got away for CineIn-
natl with 600 bales cotton.
The fine steamer Thos. II. Allen. Cap
tain f W. Nowlsnd, with VIM. M. Nor
rison, Dan Sullivan and Charlie Mussel-
man in the Office, gets away to-day for
Pine Bluff, Little Rock and all way points
on the Arkansas. She il the United
States mail packet, and connects with
steamers for Fort Smith.
The Great Republic was due last night
from below.
The Minneola is due from Cincinnati.
The Kenton is due Oh her way TO New
Orleans, from the Ohio.
The Belle Lee, Cap ain Frank Hicks,
viii pass up to-day for st. Louis. She is
an elegant passenger packet. A. Mo
Way is chief clerk.
r. G. Smith, the well known engineer,
continues at his post on the st. Joseph.
He has many friends in our city, and
stands at the head of his profession.
The Gallatin enters the Memphis and
Cairo trade as a regular packet, making
her first trip to-day, with Captain Jim
Erwin on b ROOT. The Gallatin is &
flyer, and will, no doubt, do a good bust
ness. Frank Gonterman Is clerk.
The champion of FOrked Deer, Captain
Berry, is in excellent trim, and his many
friends wish him unbounded success. As
a river man he has no superior, and as a
genial gentleman he stands a No. I.
The Marble City will pass down to NOR
row for Eicksburg and the bends.
The Julia, Capt. Callahan, will leave to-
day for Cairo and st. Louis. She is the
regular packet, and connects with the
railroads north and east. Andy Isaacs is
chief clerk.
The Richmond passed down yesterday
with a good trip.
The Mollie Able passed up yesterday for
st. Louis.
Capt. r. w. Dugan will back out the T.
F. Eckert to-day for Cairo and Cincinnati.
She is new, staunch packet and goes
through on time.
More than a thousand tons of ice were
destroyed with the ice houses, at DaVen-
bort, during the recent high water.
Dumont, of Cincinnati, has contracted
with the Merchants st. Louis, Arkansas
n White River Packet Company,
through Captain Mat. Houston, for
the machinery for a new packet, I
consisting Of a pair OF cylinders /
Is inches in diameter, with 3 feet 6 inches I
stroke, and W double hue boilers Is |
inches in diameter, and p feet long.
Mack built the hull.
The following gentlemen were elected
directors Of the Evansville, Paducah and
River Steam Navigation Com
pany, at Evansville: DIR. Brock, of Flor
ence; Captain Tom L. Lee, of Padueah; I
Commodore John Gilbert, of Goleonda:
Charles w. Brown and Frank P. Carson.
of Evansville. John Gilbert was elected
President and Superintendent, and W. G..
Brown was chosen Secretary and Treas
urer. Anew boat for the line will be built
at once. Captains Lee, Howell and Amen
]. Duncan are commanders of the fleet.
The commissioners selected for the
purpose have appraised the Quickstep at
81, 900, at which price she will be put In
the Evansville, Cairo and Memphis Pack !
st Company as stock. Z,
Captain James s. Wise has sold the
\ ashv1ile packet Spray to Captain Heg-1
-er ana others, TOR the Kanawha river
trade, for $4,000.
Capt. Frank Burnett, a well known
Upper Mississippi boatman, has been
by the United States Senate
supervising Inspector of Steamboats, for
.he st. Louis, or Fourth District, q POSI-
ion creditably filled for some months by
Iapt. ALI. Sanford, a personal friend Of
President Grant.
The Louisville C0lsPier-JoHrnGI saws.
The commerce ofthe Ohio river amounts
% S694. 0O0.000 per annum. Yet il Is al
to languish and suffer through the
nattention of the Government, and for
he want of the pitiful sum of S250,OO0,
while many other streams having less
nan one-tenth our commerce, receive ap-
'ropriations amounting to millions.