Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-18
RIVER NEWS.
BOATS LEAVING THIS DAY.
RIVERS, WEATHER AND BUSINESS.

RIVERS, AMI BUSINESS.
GAS WORKS, April Il, 1870.
The river rose l inch in the past
twenty-fOur hours. Below high water
mark Of 1867, l foot 1 inches.
CHARLES GOODWIN,
Superintendent Gas Works.
Our dispatches give all the latest news
from above. The late cold snap win have
a tendency to check the rise at various
points, but the weather, as we 20 to press
IS again undertaking. Yesterday was a
cold, raw day, such as would do credit TO
mid-winter. We have no later news from
the Arkansas or White rivers. The Up
per Mississippi was falling on Saturday
at st. Paul and Lacrosse, but rose 5 inches
at Dubuque. AT st. Joseph the Missouri
fell 2 feet on Saturday. A st. Paul paper
OF Friday says: The water from the
broken tunnel at St. Anthony, under
mined yesterday the summit and Island
planning mill, and MoultOn's planning mill,
and they were completely destroyed. The
total loss Is about fifty thousand dollars,
The prospect nov is that the entire east
ern portion of Hennepin Island, and on
which are many valuable mills and costly
dam and bridge, will be swept away be-
fore the water can be shut of from the
head of the broken tunnel"
MISCELLANEOUS.
The towbost Shark passed down yester-
day with a tow.
The Legal Tender, Capt. Elliott, is the
regular Tuesday packet for all landings
on White river.
The st. Francis, Capt. Bowman, gets
away tomorrow for st. Francis river.
The Lewellin has gone into the Evans
vile and Nashville trade.
The gay and light draught passenger
packet Ozark, Capt. w. B. Rowland, with
Tom p. BraShear in the office, leaves to-
day for Pine Bluff and Little Rock direct.
She makes all landings and carries the o.
S. mail. She gets away promptly at 5
p. m.
The Mary Forsyth, Capt. Jas. F.. Luker,
will pass down this evening for Vicks-
burg and the bends. Charles Hough is
her chief clerk. she is the Z. S. mail
packet.
The towboat Collier has been sold to
Messrs. Mathews, Pollock q Fish, OF
Louisville, for the sum of $4,000.
The Gen. Anderson is the regular Hell
ena and Friar's Point packet, and leaves
to-day al 5 pm. Captain James Lee is
master, Stack Lee, Chismand Cummings
are her clever clerks.
The beautiful Belle Memphis, Capt.
o CrHne, will back ont to day for Cal
70, st. Louis, q all way landings, She
is the pride of the line, and makes all
railroad connections. Billy Blenker does
the office honors.
The G. B. Church is lying at the bank a
few miles above the city, awaiting her
steam pipe, which was sent here for re-
pairs. She will get off for st. Louis, no /
dOpbt, to-day.
The splendid passenger packet, Belle
Lee, viii pass up to-day at 10 a. m. for
Cairo and ST. Louis. She makes all rail-
road connections. The Belle is now a
Memphis institution, being commanded
and owned by Captain Frank Hicks. A.
McVay, a popular and competent clerk. /
has charge of the Office, aud we hope the
new owner will secure his services per-
manently, as no better clerk assigns q
state room or carries a safe KEY.
The steamboat Antelope is coming from
Dubuque with a load of grain. Anopr
her other freight she has Hour for New
Orleans at 1850. per barrel. A dispatch OF
the 18th says: The Antelope got of this /
morning with a tow of 5000 bushels of
wheat; 1900 do sacked oats, and roo bar
rels hour, provisions, etc, the largest
shipment that ever left here for southern
markets. She will return for another
cargo, already secured, and bring un a
tow OF coal from Cairo. She was cred
with Iowa coal on her down trip.
By TELEGRAPH.
BROWNSVILLE, April 1.-THE river Is
stationary, with I've feet water in the
chahneL' Weather cloudy; thermometer
PITTssuRe, April 1.-THE weather is
ehangeable; rain last night and to-day.
The Monongahela is eight feet six inches
In the channel.
OIL CRY, April 1.-THE river is falling
slowly, with i've feet seven inches In the
sbanneL. Weather cloudy and rainy;
$50.
GREENSBORO, April 1.-THE river is
stationary. Foul feet four inches in the
The weather Is changeable.
49o.
CAIRO, April 1.-THE river has fpIlen
sight inehesin the last t~wenty-four hours.
list: Colorado, New Orleans to st.
Louis; Wauanita. New Orleans to Cincin-
Passed up: Baker. Down: Forsyth,
81. Louis TO Vicksburg.
CINcINNATI, April ia light rain and
now this forenoon. II is now cloudy and
Mid, with prospects OF more rain. The
iver Is about al a stand with twenty-four !
set In the channel The only boats IN
PIT last night were the Anna, Sam. !, {