Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-11

RIVERS, WEATHER AND BUSINESS.
The river at this point rose 4 inches In
the past a hours. 1t is now 2 feet 9
inches below high water mark OF 1867.
Our dispatches give the latest news from
above. They are full and our readers
can draw conclusions from them as well,
probably, as we a 4. The Arkansas is
falling with 80 inches to Little Rock.
White river Is unchanged. Weather clear
and warm.
BY TELEGRAPH.
LOUISVILLE, April lO.-Port list: Alice
Dean, Cincinnati to Memphis; Emma
Floyd, Cincinnati to Nashville; Bermu-
da, Cincinnati to Evansville. The J. W.
Carrot leaves at 10 am tomorrow for
New Orleans. River falling rapidly; at 8
pm. there was y feet water In canal; 10
in chute over falls. Weather warm I;
slight rain.
GREENsBoRo, April I0.-River station
airy, with about 3 feet In the channel.
Weather cloudy. Thermometer "a deg. at
6 p. m.
BRowNsv1LLE, April 1O.-River station
airy with about 8 feet in the channel.
Weather cloudy. Thermometer 81 de-
grees.
OIL CRY, April 10.-River rising slowly
with 6 feet In the channel. Weather
cloudy. Thermometer IS deg.
CINCINNATI, April I0.-Weather cloudy.
Thermometer SO deg. Barometer 1914.
River falling steadily with SO feet 9 inches
In the channel. Arrived: Carrie Brooks,
st. Louis; Belle Vernon, from New Or
leans.
CAIRO, April 10, sp.m.-River station
airy. Weather, cloudy and cool. Port
list: LOrena, New Orleans to Cincinnati,
9p.m.; City Of Alton, up, 4 am; Sam
Brown, Cairo to st. Louis, 8 am. Long
worth, up 10 an; Lewellyn, Memphis
to Evansville, 2 pm; PetOna, Louisville
to New Orleans. Rubieon, down at s p.
M; MOllle Ebert, st. Louis to New Or
leans, 6p.m.! Sam Orr, Evansville pack
ct, Z pm. Anna, st. Louis to Cincinnati,
7 pm; Pauline Catroll, up, at noon.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The T. f. Eckert arrived yesterday
from the Arkansas, She brought part of
the wreck Of the Guidon including her
boilers and machnp5ry, and also a portion
of the Last Chs1ce.
The st. Francis came in with liza bales
of cotton and $4,000 feet of lumber.
The tow-boat Diamond passed down
with a big tow.
The. Dick Fulton came in from below.
She taKes several empty ooaI barges here.
We had five arrivals yesterday from
New Orleans, They were the Dexter, T.
L. McGill, Olive Branch. c.. B. Church and
2. W. Strader.
Capt. Chss. Goodwin, Superintendent
of the Memphis Gas Works, left a day or
two ago for New Orleans on a short bust
ness trip.
Mr.. Edgar, formerly mate of the Celeste
was arrested in this city late Saturday
night. Particulars in our local column.
The Silver Moon leaves on Wednesday
for Cincinnati. She arrived from Ia
point yesterday with a big trim.
The st. Francis leaves Tomorrow for all
landings on the ST. Francis river.
day.
The c. 3. Charoh passed up liQht,
Captain Tom Newell arrived at home
yesterday from below on the Church.
The Gen. Anderson is the regular Hell
ena and Friar's Point packet, and leaves
to-day al D pm. Captain Jamea Lee is
master, Stack Lee, CAis mand Cummings
are her eleYor Glerks,
Tit beautiful Belle Memphis, Capt.
iona Crane, will back out to-day :or
tGdiro, St. Louis, and all way landings.
She is the queen o. the line, and makes
all railroad connections. Billy Blenker
does the office Donors.
The United States mail packet Darda-
nellie, Capt. Borelin, will get away to-day
at i've pm. for the mouth of White river,
la oAAAf LAlAAD GoChs anu al Way Aduu-
on the Arkansas, She is a staunch
low water packet, and Is sure to &c
through. Jack Chambers, a shining light
of the honorable order of Good Templars.
has her Office in charge, and will be found
P. B.
The splendid Sreamer RubIcon, of which
our friend Capt. Bill Blake is master. will /
pass down to-day tor Vicksburg and the
bends. She Is the regular United States
mail nQpEnf and vvn anrnnaon1 ha- -
travellers. ALI GrissOm is chief clerk.
and, like Capt. B., he is a competent and
careful officer.
The following memorandum of the
trip of the Dexterto this port we received
from Capt. Dick Lightburne, TO whom it
was addressed by Capt. Isaac Jones.
Steamer Dexter, Sunday Morning.
Arrived at your city this morning at 2
having made rather a long trip
from New Orleans. We have between
four n i've hundred ems of freight, most
Of which is railroad iron for S.. Louis;
many passengers. The first night out
did not get the machinery to work
well, but she started OF the next morn
ing and went sailing to Natchez. We
made hatcher in twenty-five hours ex-
aetly, from New Orleans. This, under
theciroumstanoes, (having made several
landings ,coaled and run against a big rise
Of water, l consider mighty quick time.
examination we found her wheels
were about to let down, and remained at
.atchez nearly all night. Repairing and
strengthening the wheel, I found it nee
sssary to slack the speed of the boat, as it
evident the wheels would not stand
,he pressure. The two following nights
we're obliged to lay up tor ugly, stormy
weather. Have ~lostsseveral hours each
lay working on The wheels, and will put
n balance of the night here ct same BUSH
hess. It will be as much as we can dc TO
ret to st. Louis without the wheel falling
Town. This boat is very fast; do not be-
ieve her speed is known. am satisfied
hat she has no yet been properly or
ully developed.
The steamer r. N. Rice arrived from De-
rOit at Cleveland, Ohio, Friday morning,
the pioneer boat of the season,
There is considerable Ice of that port, but
{ is rotten.
The Ida Campbell, a small steamea was
unk q few days 9 at Durand, on the
Upper Mississippi, by the ice.
A st. Louis exchange has the following
n reference to the RichmOnd: We nave
authority Of Mr.. PhiIo Young and
JOhn p. Fitzgerald for stating
the pilots of the Champion were
ware that the Richmond had met with a
erious disaster. When the ChanAion met
he Thompson Dean, the pilots of the for
ner hailed those of the latter with the in
Ormation that "the RichmOndis sunk" J
t was about three am. when the Champ
On passed the Richmond, whdn the lat
sr's passengers were on shore where
gifts were burning, and her freight
hickly strewed the current Three times
id the Richmond hail the passing steam
T with her bells. No response came.
the Champion passed on. Some q
teamer passed, at all events, paying no J
.ttentiOn TO the distressed Richmond,
it is believed that the Champion was :
be boat. What defense can be offered
Or such apparent disregard of distress9
ohm Langiois, assistant clerk of the
performed so rapid and sue
essful a journey, that the owners of the
Oat are considering the prOpriety of pre-
snting him with a testimonial, recOg-
izing his services. He was intrusted (
18th the duty OF conveying, with all pos '
bile speed, a telegram to the nearest sta
on-Peevely, on the Iron Mountain
distant twenty-five miles. Pro
lring a horse, he made his way to the
path, dashing through the strange
nd tangled woods in as reckless and !
airing a manner as an Indian or Mexican.
70 crossed and re-crOssed the river in a o
Zif, walked four miles, and was back In
at the Richmond, rathar-iust
four hours time. This certainly speaks
ell for the energy and endurance of the
1ung clerk, Mons. LanglOis. He de- L
rYes the testimonial from his liberal =
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