Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-20
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VIcKsRURG, July 19-Cp: Lorens, 3
Am. Down: Susie Silver, 10 a.m. Silver
Spray, u M Kiigour, pm. River fall
ing. Weather clear and warm.
LOUISVILLE, July i9.-River stationary,
with 4 feet S inches in the canal, and 2
feet 8 inches in the chute. Weather clear
and not; $50 at ppm.
C1NCrNNArI, July 1.-the river has
fallen 8 inches There is 10 feet in the
channel. Weather cloudy, Thermome-
ter S3o at o
ST. LOUIS, July 1S.-Arrived: Natchez
and Olive Branch, from New Orleans.
River falling. It is very warm. Mer-
curry $50 at noon.
NEW ORLEANS, July l9.-Departed:
Mohawk and barges, and Bismarck, ST.
Louis.
CAIRO, July Is.-The port list is as fol-
lows: City OF Cairo, from Nieksburg to
st. Louis, IL pm; Virginia, from New
Orleans TO Louisville, IL p.m.; Nick Wall,
Red river to st. LOHis, l am; Champion,
Cincinnati to st. Louis, noon; Collier,
Pittsburg to st. Louis, 1 pm; Mary
Houston, louisville TO New Orleans, :
pm; Kate Putnam, Pittsburg to st.
Louis, Z pm; Quickstep, Evansville
packet, Z pm. The river is stationary,
but it is cloudy and showery this after-
moo Mercury S40.
NASHVILLE, July 19.-The river is ris-
ing, with 5 feet on Harpeth shoals. The
weather is fair and hot. Arrived: Ella
Hughs, from Cairo.
MISCELLANEOUS. g
The City of Alton passes down to-
morrow for Nicksburg and the bends.
The Llewellyn came OF the docks yes
terday, and the r. p. Converse was taken
out.
The cannon which announced the arri-
val of the Eclipse and ShotWell on their
great race ia 1854, and the arrival of the
Baltic and Diana in 1858, was the same
which announced the arrival here of the
Lee and Natchez on their recent great
race. 1t is now on board the towboat
Little Alps, at this port, and Is the prop
erty of Captains Sandusky and Main
gault.
The Thomas H. Allen leaves for Little
Rock and all points on the Arkansas this
evening. She is the regular mail packet,
aud with steamers at Little
Rock for Fort Smith aud the Indian ma
ton. Ed. Nowland Is master. Harry
Hall and Aleck Waddel are her clerks.
The Marble City, Captain Geo. Boyd,
leaves to-day at 8 pm. for Cairo and 81.
Louis. viii 7. Power is chief clerk.
The celebrated steamer Virginia, built
in England during the late wsr for q
blockade runner, at a cost of $4,000, was
offered for sale at auction on Wednesday
at the Washington Navy Yard, but no
one being disposed to bid $40, 1000, the low
est sum the Secretary of the Treasury
was willing to accept, the sale was post
poned. The vessel was seized in Mobile
bay in 1864, aud shortly after sold for
sos, 900 to a party who subsequently, be-
came a government defsulter. The
steamer was seized at New Orleans as a
part of his assets, and has been in posses
sion Of the Government about four years.
A party of ladies and gentlemen yes
terday, by invitation, visited Pacific
Place, the home of Charley Morris, on
the towboat Little Alps. We will have
more to say of it in u next.
Hon. Thomas Ewing, in a late letter on
the Mississippi river, develops an inter
esting theory of the tendency Of rivers
running southwark TO abrade their west
ern banks, and attributes it to the con-
stsntly-inereasing centrifugal force inn
parted by the water as it proceeds TO b
south. He enforces this explanation by
pointing to the fact that ships sailing
southwark must correct g westward tend
ency, that railroad trains are effected by
it, aud that there is a reversed tendency
in all things moving northward. This is
an idea which deserves elaboration in the
light Of more ample facts.