Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-28

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RIvERs WEATHER N BUSINESS.
GAS WORKS, March q, 1870.
The river fell two inches in the pa,
tW~enty-four hours. Below high waite
mark of 1867, twelve feet n and a ha
inches.
CHARLES GOODWIN,
Superintendent Gas Works.
Our dispatches give the latest new
from all points above and below. Their
is no change in the Arkansas or Whit
rivers since our last. Weather clear an
warm.
CINCINNATI, March 27.-RaiAin
this evening. Thermometer 50 dc
grees. River % feet and rising fast
Arrived: Carrie Brooks, from Mus
kingum river for st. Louis; Emperor
from New Orleans; Junita, from Pitts
burg; Glendale from st. Louis; Lega
Tender, from Memphis; Glasgow
from New Orleans; Robert Moore
from Nashville: Phil. Sheridan, from
Pittsburg. Departed: Junita, 70
Pittsburg; P. w. Strader, for New
Orleans.
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The Ievee presented its usual Sunda'
appearance yesterday. Passing boats re
ceived and dropped a few bu
our local packets came in seemingly witt
less hustle than usual, tied to the banl
and Immediately stood on their good be
havior.
The r. L. Lee was due from below las
night and has no doubt passed up.
The steamer General Anderson will gel
away to-day for Helena, Friar's PoinI
and way landings. She is very fast and
likewise popular. Captain Jim Lee is
master, and ldessrs. Stack Lee, Cumming.
and Chism are her clerks.
The fine passenger packet Des Arc will
get away tO-I1orrow as usual for Jackson.
port and all way landings on White river
She connects with the Little Rock train
and with the Fairy Queen for points OF
Black river. Messrs. B. P. Field and
Ely are her accommodating clerks,
The Belle Memphis is the regular mail
for st. Louis this evening, Captain
Crane in command, and Billy Blenker in
of the office. She makes all rail
road connections.
The Gallatin, Capt. WaggOner, is the
Tuesday packet for New Madrid. Frank
Tonterman is clerk.
The Z. s. mail packet, Mary Boyd, Capt.
.ube Haynes, viii get away to-day for
Rock and all way landings on the
Arkansas. She is a tip-top packet, and
connects with the steamers for Fort
smith. W. r Mcclure, a,popular gentle
nan, is chief clerk, and is assisted by Bob
Captain Lew Hates, of the steamer Nick
carries with him to New Or
ans a very large and magnificent pair of
IL LCunu haanHse.Hlr -@slI,I ,-I-.-z-
lRented, which he intends to place on ex-
to be presented to the steamboat
making the flstestbeIne from New Or
Satchez, Frank P29oud and Robert E.
ZEE will before a gSORt while make a dash
or this beautiful ats of horns.
ThA bla Stoskeed which passed down
Che meaachiiaR Nv days ago, struck a
lat on the 24th and
ha BOf1E.a g water. s,rn,o-,u G,
arondalet Marine
- Fie&s Sfat of the Memphis
IN Bowman, came
&bales cotton and go
ac es tomorrow for st.
Gryyent& kks. E. a. Levy
Askear back as &Aistory of the Missis-
ip river can&Se traced, incessant
haAges have beeSsgoing on at its mouths.
I'D channels hix FILLED up and new ones
ormed, while ut the same time a contin-
led sedimentary deposit has forced,
While the delta itself continually en-
reaches, upon the sea. The depth of
afforded in these channels has never
,een equal to the demands of commerce,
nd only by diIth OF the most enormous
of steam power. and blowing
through the mud Jumps and channel bed,
las the larger GLASS of vessels been ena-
lied to pass in and out. At times ships
ave been detained from thirty to sixty
lays on the bar. In I720 of all the passes
he South Pass was the only one in use.
old French Export, now in Paris, made
1870, gives the depth on the bars at
en- to twelve feet. Another report gave
depth Of seventeen feet to one of the
asses, and argued that TWENTY-FIVE feet
night be insured by the use of dredges.
he bars at the several passes are eontinu-
lily changing, often two or three times in
season Since 1913 the Southwest Pass
as been the main outlet. In the year
there was as much water through
he Northeast Pass as in the Southwest,
he Southeast Pass, which, in 1926. was
he main ship channel, has now oniy
six feet over the bar, and in MANY
laces where deep water then existed
here are only a few inches now. During
he present generation the inside shores
f the river have made out into the gulf
sveral miles. Besides the deposit of
aud and sand, which form the bars, there
requently arises Jumps or mounds near
b channel. These lump Dften torn ina
ew days, rising several feet above the sur
ice of the water. A vessel outside the
ar on n occasion, many years ago, had
lot of brick thrown overheard in three
of waier They were raised
bOve the surface by one of these humps,
nd afterwards 5aken to Balize town and
sed in making; chimneys. In another
an anchor, lost by a vessel, was
out of the water, and Afterwards
iken ashore. Some forty years ago. a
-oOp, used as a lighter. was lost outside
the bar in a gale of wind. Several
ears afterwards she was raised by one of
strange formations, and her cargo
as taken out of her. Many plans have
cen suggested, aud several partially
,sted, for improving and deepening the
through h passes. The most
popular n successful is that of
with huge harrow-shaped
fastened to the stern Of steamers,
nd lowed, or dragged with the current
ON the upper or inside of the bar, to its
lter limits in the Gulf, a distance of
Tree or four miles. 1t is calculated that
a annual appropriation of 500, 900 will,
used in this way, keep a depth of eight
,n to nineteen feet on the bar at all
mes. This Insignificant sum would re-
eve the burdens of commerce, for many
of people residing along the
-eat inland sea and its tributaries, and
ould be of incalculable benefit to its fu-
ire commercial prosperity.
Our Hickman (lxy.) exchange says, and
Q endorse, the following: We notice
iat the merchants and shippers of Hick-
an have signed a petition recommend
g the promotion of Billy Blenker, the
resent popular clerk of the Belle Mem
his, to the command of the new steamer
rand Tower, n of the new boats short
TO be put in the trade between st. Louis
I'd Memphis by the st. Louis and Mem
lis Packet Com oany. The friends of
is gentleman here speak in the highest
rms Of his capacity and qualifications
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