Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-17
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B1 JELEhEAfAs
PrrTsBURG, PA, August I6.-The river
is falling with five feet two inches in the
channel. No arrivals or departures. Bust
ness on the wharf is dull. Reports from
Upper MoDongahela say that the river is
falling. At Oil City the river is station
airy. The weather is clear and warm.
CINCINNATI, August I6.-The river has
risen l inch, with 10 feet 9 inches in the
channel. The weather Is clear, with the
thermometer at 10.
NASHVILLE, August 16.-The river is
rising, with 81 feet on Harpeth Shoals.
The weather was cloudy most of the day
and cooler. Arrived: Ella Hughes from
Cairo. Departed Alpha for Cairo.
CINCINNATI, August I6.-The river is
rising, with 10 feet 9 inches in the channel.
No arrivals or departures.
ST. LOUIS, August 16.-Arrived: Sallie,
Arkansas river; Grand Tower, Memphis
Co commonwealth, New Orleans; City Of
Vicksburg, Vicksburg. Departed: Shreve,
Red river; Pauline Carroll, New Orleans,
The river is falling. The weather is clear
and pleasant.
CAIRO, August 16.-Port list: Olive
Branch, st. Louis to New Orleans, Z am.
City of Cairo, Vicksburg to st. Louis, 3 p.
NJ; Argonaut, Tennessee river to st.
Louis, 4; Belle st. Louis, st. Louis to
Memphis, 5; City of Evansville, Evans
vile packet, 7. The river fell three inches
in past s~wenty-four hours. Weather
clear. Mercury 7So.
NEW ORLEANS, August 16.-Arrived
Susie Silver and Continental, st. Louis
Tom. Rees and barges, Cincinnati. De-
parted: Collier and barges for st. Louis.
Weather cloudy and threatening rain.
VICKsBURG, August l6.-Down: Grand
Era q m q. Arthur r q m TTn. TOhn
KilgOur, II midnight. River stationary.
Weather clear and warm.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The towboat Mohawk passed down
yesterday.
Captain Elem Calvert left for Missouri
on the train this morning, having re-
ceived intelligence of the serious illness
of his mother.
The Olive Branch passes down this
evening for Nicksburg and New Orleans.
She is an elegant passenger packet, and
Captain John 7. McCord, her master, is
not only one of the best steamboatmen,
but is also one of the most agreeable and
polite officers upon the riYer-one with
whom it is a pleasure to travel. Mr.. Ed
Hawks is clerk.
The Alaska left New Orleans with $500
bars of railroad iron.
Major Robinson, of the Arkansas Pack
ct COmpany's Office in this city, left yes
terday for the East.
The Julia, Captain Townsend, with
Jimmy Thompson in the office, leaves to-
day for Cairo and st. Louis. She con-
meets with the trains North and East.
The Pat. Cleburne is said to be very fast
since her late improvements. Her CRATE
bars were lowered, fire walls extended,
and several feet added to her chimneys.
She now comes up stream twelve miles
an Jour without any crowding.
Captain Rube Haynes returned yester-
day from Crab Orchard Springs, Ken
lucky, where he has been spending the
summer with his family.
The sale of the NJ. J. Wicks and G.. B.
Church takes place to-day. 1t is hoped
there will be a large attendance at the
sale, as such an opportunity 10 secure two
splendid steamers may never again
occur.
The steamer Mason, as she now lies
high and dry on a sandbar in the st.
Francis river, will be sold at auction to-
day, after the Wicks and Church are
sold.
One of the new Arkansas river packets
now building at this pert for Major John
D.. Adams, will be launched on Saturday
next, at 5 pm. We have no doubt
that the launch will be witnessed by a
large number of our citizens. The new
a Will be called the j. >. Durham,
after j. s. Durham, Esq, editor
of the Van Buren, (Ark.) Press.
The other boat also in course of con-
struction will be called the John r.
Wheeler, in honor of the editor of the
Fort Smith Herald. Editors are highly
esteemed in our sister State.
Captain Patterson, of the iIl-starred Sill
yer Spray, is not well engaged at present
in Cincinnati, at least we should Judge so
-. N-N...N. 4. 49, $780, - Nk.N .
in which he talks freely of "river pirates"
above Memphis. Captain p. forgets that
these same "river pirates" as he calls
them, helped to rescue the passengers and
crew of the lost steamer, and after they
were rescued, did all that lay in their
power to alleviate their wants until the
City of Cairo came along. Captain Pat
terson is a wolf, and the little interest he
took to identify his brother-in-law, Cap
tain Jordan, and his f~ather-in-law, poor
Thad. Wirthlin, is pretty good evidence
of the fact.