Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-01-26
RIVER NEWS.
aIyERs. wEATAEa ANO BUSINESS.

MEMPHIS Gas WORKS, January q.
River rose Z inches in past "a hours
Below high water mark of 1857 four feet
CHAS. GOODWIN.
Superintendent Gas Works.
NEW ORLEANS, January 25-Arrlyed
Continental from Cairo; Commonwealth
from ST. Louis.
VtcKsBURG, January 25.-Up: Virgins
at IL pm; Columbian 10 am Down
Strader . pm; Tom Jasper 8 pm. III
river is rising fast. The weather is clea
and pleasant.
ST. LOUIS, January 2l-Arrived: Bell
Memphis, Olive Branch and Mississippi
Departed: st. Joseph and st. Luke. Til,
liver is falling slowly. Some thin icl
running. Weather clear and warm.
CAIRO, January 25.-Up: Clara and Min,
nicola l am; Hale Z am; Richmond
pm. Down; Atlantic 1 am. McGif
pm. The river rose y inches. Weather
clear. Mercury 49,.
The swell at this point goes on rapidlvI
very rapidly indesd .Or thest2gsof water.
aud we think it will go up to within about
lzor 10 inehfs Of high-water mark. Thi.
viii overflow many places in the bends
both above and below this city. The Ar.
kansas is rising steadily at Fort smith.
with good steamboat water I Little Rock,
White river is swelling steadily. Orr
dispatches give the latest news from IN
Upper Mississippi and Ohio. The lac
rains have been very general all over thu
country, and the rise now going on viii
be apt to continue for some days to
come.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The White river, Arkansas and Friar'a
Point packets went out with good trips.
The Colorado. Capt. Mckee, will get
away to day for Cairo and ST. Louis at )
pm. She is the regular packet, and
makes all way landings, and connects
with the trains North and East.
The General Anderson, Capt. James
Lee, IS the regular packet for Friar's
Point this afternoon. Stacker Lee and
Charley Jackson have charge OF the ex-
chequer department.
5The Cobb Webb, Capt. Mel. q Priddv
has entered the Delta, Mississippi. Yazj -
Pass and Moon Lake trade, and will run
in connection with the Memphis packets.
thus giving our merchants a chance to
make shipments OF goods directly TO their
customers along the Pass, on Moon
Lake and the COldwater river. CAPTAIN
Priddy is well and favOrablY known here.
and will doubtless make a tip-tOD steam
boaiman. He understands and attends
to BIZ siness,
The Robert Burns, Capt. Stein, will
- 49, NA-L1F ~ LdlEVe LOUISVILLE ana
Cincinnati. She is tho regular packet.
Alex. Powers, u popular aud competent
officer, has charge OF the Office.
b w. a. Caldwell, Capt. Rowland.
goes cut on Thursday for ali points on the
Arksnsas. She is the United States mail
packet.
Toe r. P, Walt leaves on Saturday for
White river.
fne current is very swift at this point,
and up stream boats get along slowly.
The Great Republic passed up last
night.
Tie Walter 2. Dance passed up-for ST..
Louis.
The c. B. Church was launched several
weeks age. and will be ready TO receive
freight for her first trip in a week or two.
It was a new boat IN purse or construc-
for the Memphis and ST. Louis Packet
Company that was held on the stocks at
Jacksonville, Ind, by stone ballast dur
ing the high water, and not the Church,
as reported.
The NJ. J. Weeks was receiving freight.
at Louisville yesterday, and was an
nounced TO start South this evening. She
Is the largest stegnwheeler ever construct
ed.
i steamboatmsn now In this CITY IS
about TO contract for a SIC0. coo propeller
steamboat with guards seventeen feet
wide. She is intended for the Cairo and
New Orleans trade.
Louisiana exchanges state that there il
a proposition On fuOt TO turn Red river
through the bayou at Lattier's dirthouse.
and back TO The Old river again Just below
ScOpln's cutoff, thus shortening the river
seven or eight miles, and cutting OF Tones
bayou en- irely.
Capt. A. b. shaw has sold the Arkansas
to the New Orleans and White River
Packet Company for S3V,0JU. She is TO
run in connection with the Seminole. and
form a through line from White river TO
New Orleans. The Seminole went into
the trade last December, and has carried
several full loads of cotton and good
up freights. This line will not do Mem
phis any good.
The Belle Memphis has been put in eIe-
order, and is preparing to leave Cairo
81. Louis, to enter the lists between
that port and our city.
The freight list of the Lady Cav footed
up $4,000, and was insured for that sum-.
boat lies within 100 yards of shore.
Just above Preston, on Union Point, ca
reened so that the water is on the boiler
deck. The obstruction which sunk her is
same that sunk the Arthur, and
caused other mischief. Il is an old tree
It's roots attached. 1t lies Quartering
,rossways Of the river, on what used 10 be
he head ofa dry bar. Below it the bar
la-..been cut away, and the channel has
undergone important changes. Only a
part of her cargo can be saved, in a dam
iged condition. II is barely possible that
he boat can be raised.
It Is stated that the Northern and
Packet lines have about
an arrangement for a five
years partnership. Each ompany agrees
o put up 5000 forfeit for carrying out 1
he contract.
Chas. F. Geater, a former well known
lerk In the Vicksburg and New Orleans
rade, has been missing since the LIST of
.a"uary. Fears are entertained for his
afeJy, as he had considerable money
bout his person when last seen by his
riends.
Samu j Huntington, the Ouohita pilot,
whose death was mentioned a few days
incP, was born in 1929, In Adams county
dtssissippl, and was a lineal descendant
( one OF the original signers of Indepeu-
.ence HIS mother was Miss Helen Dun
daughter of a Scotch bAronet. He /
educated at Hartford. Connecticut.
on the river IN 1850, and run resDee-
lvely, on the Francis Jones, Amanda
'ulton and Sydonia, first Standing a
Fatch as pilot on the latter steamer, in
5 g. In 1861 he Joined the 9th louisiana
egtmeut, Col, TheO. Hunt, made the
amptiVu Of the Peninsula, under GEN
raj Magruder. In the spring of 90 he
the 18th louisiana regiment. and
Anticipated in the battle OF shiloh. Ia
lay 1872, he Joined the Orleans Light
lorse, and served out the remainder of
he camp dgn of Kentucky under Bragg,
{ ihe battlesOf PeTryville, Murfreesboro,
Visionary Ridge, the retreat to Atlanta
Hoods march on Nashville. After
close of the war ne resumed his former
ccupatton as pilot on the Ouschita river.
'uring his career he was on the Sydonia
hen d burned, OF the Lincoln when
le sunk IN 1888, on the Sun Beam when
ne sunk ia 1883 He was the principal
gent in the founding OF the Ouachita
llots' Benevolent Association, and as a
Hot had few, II any, superiors.