Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-29


fallen 8 inches; there is 9 feet in the
channel; 1t will rise tomorrow. Several
boats are loading for Southern ports. The
weather is cloudy. Thermometer go at
noon.
ST. LOUIS, July 2s.-The Colorado de-
parted for Vicksburg. A slight rain is
falling this afternoon. Mercury, $50 at
3 pm.
NASHVILLE, July 2s.-The river is fall
ing, with three feet six inches on Harpeth
shoals. The weather is hot and showery.
Arriyed: Umpire, from Cairo.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Very low water will no doubt prevail
during the next two or thee months.
Low water boats are already in demand
IN the Ohio, and it is expected that the
large steamers in the New Orleans and st.
Louis trade will soon nave TO give way to
a smaller class of boats.
The r. p. Walt goes out on Saturday
for all landings on White river. She car
ries the United States mail.
The United States mail packet Mary
Boyd, with Tom Berry on the roof, gets
away to-day for Pine Bluff, Little Rock
and all way landings on the Arkansas.
She meets with packets for Fort Smith
and with coachesfor the Hot Springs. f..
w. Outlaw and Bob Shields are her
clerks.
The Grand Tower leaves tomorrow for
st. Louis.
Idlers are upon the levee. They seek
shady places, and shade is MOTIF be found
there.
The Emma Floyd will get away to-day
for Cincinnati. At Louisville sine CON
meets with light boats, aud all freight goes
through as usual without delay. Captain
j. NJ. C~hsnOweth, one of the best and
most popular officers on tho river, com
mands, and Mr.. Wise has charge of the
office.
The Pilots Association meet for perma-
nent organization on Monday next at
Felix, on Front street, near the corneF OF
Madison.
One third of the MoOnstone and two
barges were sold at st. Lonis for $3.50.
We regret to learn that Major Mart.
Walt is ill-sO much 50 as TO be confined
TO his bed. We hope to see him out again
in a day or two.
The towboat Peerless has been sold at
Pittsburg for SIS, 900 to Captain Marsh
Mcdonald.
The Cherokee has been. chartered to
take the place of the Right Way in the
Lafourche trade.
The hull alone of Captain BOardman's
new iron steamboat will cost $4,000.
The st. Louis Times of a late date Y
"A new bOat-the Diana, built by Cap
NaNAh oAoAA "a kOhO III IL 10
tween Galveston and Houston. This is
the thirtieth boa built by Captain Ster-
rett and taken across he gulf. She cost
about S33, 0O0."
The Courier Journal says: General
Grant has assured Captain Hall that he
shall have command of the dOllar-stOre
expedition to the north pole. This, we
fear, will be a terrible disappointment to
the commander of the ferryboat at Ga
lena"
The City of Yicksburg, Captain c. D.
Conway, will pass up to-day for Cairo and
st. Louis. She connects with the trains
North and East. Andy Isaacs and Geo.
Briggs are her clerks.
Captain Eyrie, of Oneida memory, was
denounced as a wretch by the Manches-
ter (Eng.) Board of Trade at a recent
meeting.
Two new Red river boats, the Tidal
Wave and Carrie Converse, passed down
yesterday.
S. Cook Creighton has taken charge Of
the Mollie Able's office, on arrival at this
port. Jimmy Thompson remains ashore
a short time, to rusticate.
The Diana is on her way out of the
Ohio. She was aground at Watkins bar,
at last report.
The Virginia was looked for last night,
on her way to New Orleans.
The boom at saltwater, Minnesota,
closed last Friday, and the active log
season may now be considered at an end.
The season has been a most successful
one, prices having been good, and the
quality of the logs better than the aver
age. There have been eighty days of ac-
tive operation, during which time 504,S54
logs, containing l36, l46, 1888 feet, have teen
run through the boom. The bOomage on
these logs amounts to Sos, 9l9 IS. Out of
this wages have been paid to two hundred
men, at 81 70 to 81 per day, besides board.
OF the amount rated this year, some fifty
millions remained over from last year,
leaving about eighty-six million feet that
was cut last winter. The amount of logs
remaining back, that was not driven, is
variously estimated at from five to eight
million, making at least ninety million
feet as the result of last winters work in
the pineries. This is more than an aver
age, but not near so much as was put in
for the season of 1859, which was one hum
dred and ninety million, b biggest win
ter's work ever put in the st. CroiX.