Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-15
RIVER NEWS.
BOATS LEAVING THIS DAY.
ARRIVALS.
BY TELEGRAPH.

CAIRO, August l4.-POrt list-Bee,
New Orleans to st. Louis, 2 AMI; Mo
hawk, Cairo to New Orleans, 8 p.m.; UNI
pire, Nashville packet, 2 pm; Idlewild,
Evansville packet, 4 pm; Rubicon, st.
ouls to Vicksburg, 8 pm. St. Joseph,
st. Louis to Memphis, 8 pm. River fell
4 inches. There has been a drizzliug rain
ever since noon. Mercury $50.
NEW ORLEANS, August I4.-Arrived /:
Belle Vernon, from Cincinnati; Bismarck,
from st. Louis; Shannon, from Louisville.
Heavy rain this afternoon.
VICKsBURG, August l4.-Down: Susie
Silver, 2 pm. Continental, l0p.m.; Julia,
IL am.
CINCINNATI, August 14.-River 9 feet
Z inches and rising slowly. Weather
cloudy and cool.
LOUISVILLE, August IA. - Weather
cloudy and pleasant. 1t commenced to
rain at 5 pm, with prospects of a steady
fall. River stationary; 20 inches in the
chute and 5 feet on Portland bar. No ar
rivals or departures.
ST. LOUIS, August I4.-Arrived: Belle
st. Louis, from Memphis; Nick Wall,
from Shreveport. Departed: Mary Alice
and barges, for New Orleans. River still
rising slowly. Rain has fallen almost in
cessantly since last night, and a rise is
expected.
RIVERS, WEATHER N BUSINESS.
The rise in the Arkansas, as we pre-
dicted, did not amount to much. It went
up but one and a halfinches, and is again
reported falling. White river has prOba-
bly, three and a half feet to Augusta. The
upper streams are all falling. The weather
is wet, with no prospect of an early cessa-
ton.
MISCELLANEOUS.
LOUISVILLE, KY, August IA.
Editors APpeGt-The A. J. White made
q trial trip to-day. She made twelve
miles up stream in forty-five minutes.
Advertise her to leave here Saturday
next. GEORGE W. CHEEK,
Sam. @. Paine, clerk of the st. Francis,
has been at home several days. He has
been i'll and confined to his room at the
O%verton, but is again able to be out.
The s. G. Day, Captain Everdon, with
E. A. Levy in the office, leaves tomorrow
for st. Francis river.
The Des Arc, Captain Elliott, will get
away tomorrow for all landings on
White river. Arthur Field is her clerk.
The elegant Pat. Cleburne, Captain
Reese Pritchard, gets away this evening
for Napoleon, where she connects with
light packets for Pine Bluff, Little Roek
and Fort Smith. She Is one OF our fine5t
local packets, carries the United States
mail, and makes all landings on the river
below. Garrett Huls and w. Outlaw are
her clerks.
h elegant passenger steamer Belle
Memphis, Capt ain John Crane, leyes as
usual to-day for Cairo and st. Louis. She
makes all way landings, and connects
with the trains north and east. Billy
Blenker Is her popular chief treasurer.
The Belle has JUST come off the docks
and is in splendid trim.
The fir steamer Rubicon passes down
this evening for Vicksburg and the
bends. Nc more popular boat runs in
any trade. VIM. Blake is master. and
John Blake is chief clerk.
ALI. Grissom has gone to Newport. Sara
toga and other watering places.
The sale of the CT. Church and NJ. J.
Wicks will come off on the I7sh inst.
Don't forget it.
The Mollie Able has laid up at st. Louis
to repair for the fall season.
The little ship "Red, White and BIue''
is going through the lakes to the Missis-
sippi; down through the Gulf and up this
Atlantic coast to New York again.
o on the Missouri are double trip
ping it, owing to low water.
The tOwbOat Warrior was burned a few
days ago, at Calhoun Ferry, nineteen
miles above SpOttsville, on Green river.
She was valued at $4,000, and was owned
by Lemon, Calvert & Co., OF Bowling
GfB6ns NO uNeH lOSb.
The st. Louis Republican saws: AT
Hackers bend, Hat Island, Devils
Island, Greenleaf, Herculaneum ant J sf.
ferson Barracks the water is still v,srv
shallow, and the current ill-defned I'm d
sinuous. At Liberty the condition of the
river, instead of becoming better, seems
to be growing worse. The difficulties at
that worse of all h reefs on the river
have not become any the less.
b Engineering and Mining Journal
some time ago hit the nail on the head by
stating in an editorial that the true cause
OF all boiler explosions was siI nply that
the pressure of the steam in the boiler was
greater han the strength Of the weakest
portion. Generation Iof explosive gases,
of nitrO-glycerine, or the development OF
electricity as a cause of explosion, is
downright nonsense; water in the exher-
Oidal condition and want of air in the wa
ter, are at least very doubtful causes
scale at b bottom of the boiler hastens
its deterioration, and in this way is un-
doubtedly often a cause. We recommend
as the best ~preventives against boiler ex-
plosiOns:
l. A boiler of proper construction, and
kept IN good condition.
2. A capable and conscientious engi-
neer.
5. Steam-gauges and s~afty-valves in
perfect condition and accurately adjusted.
If o observe these three conditions.
you need not be sfraid.1