Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-02-28
RIVER E
RoArs LEAvING rHIs nAY.
DEPARTURES.
IN PORT.
Joseph. st. Francis. Gen. Anderson
RIVERS. WEATHER AND BUSINESS

MEMPHIS GAS WORKS, February q.
The river rose Is inches the past q
hours. Below high water mark of 1867,
IL feet l inch. CHAS. GOODWIN,
superintendent Gas Works.
There has been no change in the stage
of water in the Arkansas and White riv-
ers since our last report. The former
continues to fall slowly withno prospect
Of a rise, while the ~latteris about station
airy with a fair boating stage 20 Jackson
port.
The Ohio is declining from Pittsburg to
to Cairo.
The Mississippi is stationary at st.
Louis, ana a slight rise is reported at Keo-
kuk.
The Illinois is open and business to
Peoria resumed.
The Missouri has a fair boating stage to
LeavenwOrth.
LOUISVILLE, February27. Down: Hale.
River rising, with 9 feet 6 inches in the
canal. Weather cloudy and damp.
CAIRO, February Z7.-Up: Alice Dean,
II o'clock last night; Indiana and Utah
5 am. Down: Thompson Dean. 2 am. /;
Clara, 3 I'm. Julia, Mary and Alice 4
am; Cityof Cairo, 5 am. Atlantic : pm.
The river rose , inches. Weather clear;
mercury 62S.
CINCINNATI, February 29.-Arrived:
Kate Robinson and Emperor. River
rising with . feet in the channel.
NICKsBURo, February 27.-Down: Kill
gOur, / o'clock last night; Mississippi, 2
pm. Belle Lee, 10 pm. Up: T. L Nc
Gill, 4 pm. River falling. Weather
clear and warm,
ST. LoUIs, February 27.-Arrived: Pau
line Carroll, Emile LaBarge and w. !
Lewis. Departed; Henry Ames, Mollio
Ebert, Il Belle and barges for New Or
leans. River rising slowly. Weather
cool, with continuous high wind since the
storm of last nighg.
PITTsBURG, FebrusrA SIT has been
raining all day. Riverc htionary.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The St. Joseph, with Captain Corbett or.
the roof, aud that affable clerk, Lyle, il
the Office, leaves Tonight for st. Louis.
Il Ozark, Captain AID Storm master,
Will get away to-day at ; pm, fOr the Ar
kansas.
The Liberty is the United States mail
packet for White river tomorrow.
The General Anderson l. the regular
packet for Friar's Point to-day, and will
leave at 8 pm. Captain Jas. Lee COM
malds. and the popular and gentlemaniy'
stack Lee does the bOnOrs OF the Office, as
sisted by Mr.. Cummins.
The Des Arc, for White river, will be
found at the wharf to-day, and leaves %
morrow evening.
The Magenta wiz arrive tomorrow, and
leaves pom the arrival of the trains
Wednesday for New Orleans.
The Robert Burns viii probably arrive
at an early hour this morning, and leaves
on Wednesday for Cincinnati.
The Nj. j. Wicks was aground at Hat
Island on Thursday night.
The MOllie Ebert left st. Louis Satur-
day with 500 tons OF freight for New Or
leans.
The Utah is loading at St. Louis for the
Arkansas river.
Passengers who have travelled on the
new Natchez, state that she runs steadily
in a storm, and does not roll as has been
5 .ated.
-Four thousand tons Of freight was
shipped South from St. Louis on Friday
last. One company sent out four steam
ers and two barges. Tonnage is scarce at
that village as well as at all points on the
Ohio. S-teambOatmen are lust now in
their glory. The warehouses along the
Ohio are full of freight, awaiting ship
ment South. Freight blockades are re-
ported at several places on the Ohio river.
Steamboatmen are advancing rates.
Captains VINO a few weeks ago were beg
ging for any kind of freight at moderate
now refuse to take any but the
best paying freights. Pork which could
It EHlDltu d rev weeks ago TOT ID cents
per barrel, caLnot now be sent forward for
less han 81 to 81 %, and whisky COM
mands from 3 % to 81 so per barrel
freightage. Hay and stock nave also gone
in proportion, and it is not unlikely
that a further advance in freights will be
made soon, especially along the Ohio, as
many of the boats running up that river
are being induced to stop at Cairo and
load a. that point.
Capt. John Shirley, of Louisville, is re-
proposals from Louisville build
srs for the construction of a frst-class
New Orleans freight boat for parties in
the South, who expect to commence work
in ten days.
The tow boat, Sam Merwin was to have
Louisville on Saturday, for New Or
leans, towing the hulls of the Lafourohe.
Romeo, Louisa, and the wreeking boar
No. S,'containing LOO tons of
hay, corn and flour.
The Louisville O-ourier-JouyaaL of Sat
lrday, says the Cincinnati and Louisville
Mail Line are doing an immense business,
adds. Every boat that comes in
goes out Is fun, making regular time
md close connections" Refer
ng to the new boat now being
quilt for the Memphis and st. Louis
transportation Company, the same paper
avs: 1.-The new boat Q. B. Church. now
built at this port by Captain McAfa-
President Of the St. Louis and Mem
,his Transportation Company, and under
he immediate supervision of Thomas II.
Newell, is rapidly approaching compile
ion. Il is confidently believed now that
he viii be finished and ready to leave
his port by the middle of next week.
;he will make her first trip to New Or
direct, after which she will enter
st. Louis and Memphis trade"
The Local Board of United States In.
pectOrs, at Louisville, rave restored the
Icense of pilot Sterling Bondurant.
Bully Dill, the well known passenger
gent of the Memphis and st. Louis Pack
c Company, len this morning by rail for
cincinnati, where be will remain a few
avs. We commend him to the hospital
les of our river acquaintance of the
.Orkop0lts,
The Fayette resumes her place in the
Evansville and Nashville trade to-day.
The Silver Bow passed down yesterday 4
aorning for Red river, loaded TO the {
yards. ]
The following are the eonsignees of 563 :
lles cotton brought to this port by the ]
t.. Francis yesterday: Toof, Phillips Geo.
bales; Gay q Martin, 4 do; Jas HoImes E
co, p do; II o Williams eco. IL do. 4
NV III ac r. SIeffay DO. Pr;na r-.-