Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-26
RIVER NEWS.
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RIVERS, wEATaKR AND BUSINESS.

RIVERS, WEATHER " BUSINESS.
1 The Arkansas is failing. with six feet 20
Little Rock and three feet to Fort Smith.
White river has scant four feet to Angus
ia. The upper rivers are all falling. The
Missouri is In bad condition, and the mp
per Mississippi is also quito low. The Sc.
Louis Republican says: "Sandbars very
Troublesome between here and Cairo.
Devils Island has got 10 be the worst
place; Jefferson Barracks next. Liberty
Is still very ugly. Hucker's Bend shoai,
but not 50 bad. Some trouble st Point
Pleasant anticipated" The weather Is
warm, and a very heavy rain fell last
night. Business was brisk on the levee.
| 1900 BY TELEGRAPH.
NEW 0RLEAEs, August 25.-Arrived.
Little Fleta, from Louisville; Mary Alice
and barges, and Pauline Carroll, from ST.
Louis. Departed: Olive Branch, for st.
Louis: Edinburg, for Louisville. -
VIoKsBURG, August 25--Ups Governor
Allen, 8 pm. River falling. Weather
clear and warm. 1
CAIRO. August 2b.-Down: T., n. Kel-
Iogg, st. Louis to, New Orleans, 10 ?. m;
Alpha, Nashville packet, 10 am; Nick
Wall, st, Louis to Shreveport. IL am.
Julia, st. Louis to Xicksburg, 3 an:
Shannon, New Orleans to Louisville, 3
pm; st. Joseph, Memphis to st. Louis,
9 pm; Shark, New Orleans to st. Louis,
u M. Belle Vernon, New Orleans to
Louisville, 2 pm; Susie Silver, View
Orleans to st. Louis, 8 pm. River rose
six inches. Heavy rain this afternoon.
Weather cloudy. Mercury S.e
CNcINNATI, Aug. 25.-River falling,
with 9 feet 6 inches in the channel.
Weather cooler. ~ 'I'
LOUISVILLE, August 25.-The river is
decIing slowly, with z feet 4 inche in the
chute and Z feet on the Portland bar. At
eleven and 10 o'clock, rain fell, and az 9
pm. there are indications Of more. The
weather is sultry.
ST.. LOUIS, August % Arrived: Belle
Memphis, Memphis; Bismarck, New Or
leans. Departed: Emily La Barge, New
Orleans; Colorado, F~icksburg. The river
is declining 3to 3 inches per day.
NASHVILLE, August 25.-Riger falling;
4 feet on Harpeth shoals. Weather fair
and hot.
during this afternoon and indications of
more tonight. Monongahela seven
feet two, inches and is falling rapidly.
The rise was from the Allegheny.
49, r MISCELLANEOUS.
The A.J. White got away Last evening
with a splendid trip. A large number Of
Memphis ladies and gentlemen embraced
&he chance of making a o on her TO
Friar Point and return.
The Emma Floyd left for Cincinnati.
She had q fair trip. Among her freight
WIS a lot of John Rebinsonys circus
wagons, which were toe heavy to make
ths trip overland to Texas. a -
1t is probable that the Geo. W. Cheek
will enter the 0seeola trade after under
going a coat of paint.
The r. f. Lee was to have LETT Cairo for
New Orleans last evening. Sheshould be
here tonight. -g
The Julia viii pass down to-day at 10
am. for Yicksburg and the Dsnds. Cap
tain Callahan is master, and Jimmy
Thompson is in the office, assisted BY
Charley Sharpe.
The City OF Vieksburg, Captain C. D.
Conway, will pass up to-day tor Cairo and
st. Louis. She connects with the trains
North and East. Andy Isaacs and Geo.
Briggs are her clerks. -To1a rz1al
The Memphis and st. Louis Packet
Company and Carter Line Of Red river
packets, as well as the St. Louis and New
Orleans Packet Company, offer to carry
all cotton to be entered az the fair, free of
charge. The judges who are to make the
cotton awards, viii also pass free over the
Captain Elem Calvert, Superintendent
of the St.. Louis Packet Company, re-
turned yesterday from st. Louis.
The good steamer Anna, Captain Frank
Stein, with u pretty friend A. E. Power
III the OIQCt. LEAVES EO-udF IOG NAlTO. EF-
ansville, Louisville and Cincinnati She
goes through without troubls. -s-ro
Captain Patterson, of the Silver Spray
yesterday purchased he steamer 9. B..
Church for the sum of $4,000 cash.
Captains Barnes and Rhea, the pur-
chssers of the NJ. j. Wicks, intend 60
lengthen that boat thirty feet and change
her into q sidewheel steamer. ga
I The engines OF the @. b. Church and M.
J. Wicks cost more than was realized for
both boats entire. The boats sold for
S47, 200 in the aggregate, and the engines
alone cost over So 900. sz az
The elegant new steamer, Pat Cleberne,
gets away this evening for Helena, Ma
pOleon, Prentiss, and all way landings on
The Mississippi. She then returns TO the
mouth and extends her trip TO Little
Rock, where she connects with packets
for Fort Smith. Captain Reese Pritchard
is master. Garrett Huls, Bob Shields,
Walker Outlaw and Charley Musselman
are her clerks.
The r.. p. Walt, Capt. Ashford, leaves
for all landings on White river to>mor-
row. She is the regular u. s. NJ. packet.
The Commonwealth had not arrived at
a late hour last night.
The Nick Wall should have passed down
in the night for red river.
The Continental is due from below.
A fight occurred a day or two ago on
the Ida at Omaha tween the
Captain md engineer. The latter came
near being killed. ~
Captain Frank Marstts contemplates
building a steamer for navigating Buffalo
Bayou, in Texas.
Thu st. Louis local inspectors have sus-
pended pilot Geo. Madison for 90 days, /
On account of the collision between the
Shamrock and Continental.
Ereights are more abundant at st.
Louis. s /
Capt. c.. @. Spillers, who was recently |
assaulted by an officer of an Opposition
boat on the Tennessee river, will be CRATE
fully remembered by the survivors of
Zollieoffer's brigade, as ths Captain who
so safely conveyed the entire brigade
across the Cumberland at Mill Springs,
under the ove of the night with a sim
gle steamer, and in sight of the enemy's
camp fires, and within range OF their ar
tillery, which was brought to bear on his
little craft at daybreak, as ne was loading
the last cargo Of human freight on the
south bank. The safety of that COM
mand from capture that night was un-
doubleday due 10 him, If to any man 1v-
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