Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-25
RIVER NEWS.
BOATS LEAVING THIS DAY,

the past twenty-four hours. Below high
water mark of 1867. twelve feet four
inches. CHARLES GOODWIN,
Superintendent Gas Works.
Our dispatches give the latest news from
all points above and below. The Arksn-
sas is low, and even light bOats.have trou-
BILE in that stream. White river is falling
slowly. Business is moderately brisk
upon the levee. Weather clear and beauti-
ful.
LOUISVILLE, March 24-Up: Garrett
and Dean. Down: SslIie, America and
Dexter. Weather clear and pleasant.
~CIScINNATI, March 24-Departed: P.
Q. Gray, for Arkansas river. River rising,
with rs feet in the channel. Weather
clear.
PIrrsBURG, March 24.-weather pleas
ant. River falling, with 8 feet 8 inches in
the channel.
ST.. LOUIS, March H.-Arrived: Belle
Memphis, Marble City, McGill and Sub
marine. Departed; Carroll and RubicOn.
River rising slowly with a good stage of
water to all points. Weather clear and
warm.
LOUISVILLE. March 24.-River station
cry. Nine feet in the channel.
CAIRO. March 24.-0Own-Henrv Ames,
st. Louis to New Orleans at 10 pm.
Lewellen, Evansville to Memphis at IL D.
M; LOrena, Cincinnati to New Orleans at
4 an; Belle Vernon. Cincinnati to New
Orleans at l am. Up-Belle Memphis,
Memphis to st. Louis at IL am; Peyto-
mia, New Orleans TO Louisville at : am;
John Kilgour, New Orleans 10 Louisville
at l pm.
River stationary. Weather clear and
Mercury $50.
NASHVILLE, March 24.-River rising;
J feet on Harpeth shoals. Weather fair
and pleasant.
NEW ORLEANS, March 24.-Arrived:
Tom Jasper and Richmond. st. Louis;
GrOesbeck, Cincinnati; Louisville, from
Louisville. Departed: Robert l.. Lee,
Louisville; Shark and barges, st. Louis;
Magenta, Memphis.
NICRsBURG, March 24-Up: st. Marys,
At 4: Arsosy, at 1; Emile LaBarge, at 7.
River stationary. Weather clear and
pleasant.
MISCELLANEOUS.
GUIDoN SUNK.-The Memphis and Ar
kansas river U. ). mail packet GuidOn.
Captain CLAY Rice, which LETT this port
last Monday with a heavy cargo of mis-
~cellaneous freights, on Tuesday night,
when 100 miles above the mouth of the
Arkansas, struck a snag and sunk to the
boiler deck. The boat aud cargo will
prove a total loss. The passengers and
crew, with their baggage. and the boats
books, were all saved. The GuidOn be-
longs 20 the line Of which Captain John
D. Adams is President, and is between
four and five years old, and has recently
been put in a complete state of repair at
much expense. She was valued at SI2, 900,
and was insured for 5000. There is a
diving or bell boat a short distance above
where the accident occurred, which has
been ordered TO the wreck and will no
doubt save considerable freight. OF four
boats lost by this company this is the
only one on which there was any insu-
rance
The United States Mail packet Celeste,
Captain Ed Rowland, will back sut to-day
for Little Rock and all way landings on
the Arkansas. She is a fins steamer, and
very popular.
The General Anderson, with Captain
James Lee on the roof, Will get away to-
day for Helena, Friar's Point and ali way
landings. Stack Lee, Cummings and
Chism do the honOrs Of her Office.
Captain Andy Dearth will back out the
MOliie Gratz to-day for Osceola and way
points She is the regular packet.
The K. p. Walt will, as usual, get away
tomorrow for Jacksonport and way land
ings on White river. Morg Bateman is
master.
The Utah is loading at st. Louis for the
Arkansas river.
Oue-fourth of the Henry Ames was sold
a few days since to Messrs. Post and Ba-
ker, for SO, 900. She left st. Louis Tues
day with all the freight she wanted.
Frank CaytOn and VIM. Flowers, both
well known in Memphis, are her pilots.
The United States mail packet Color
ado, Captain Mckee. leaves to-day at 10
am, for Vlcksburg and the bends.
the great steamer Thompson Dean,
Captain James H. Pepper, with w. B..
Fowler in the Office, leaves az 3 p.m to-
day for Vicksburg and New Orleans.
The Silver Moon viii only shed her rays
upon US tonight as she will depart to-
morrow for the Ohio. Passengers for
Cincinnati will find her master, Captain
Ben. Merrielees, a careful officer and
genial travelling companion.
a dispatch from Camden, Ouachita
river, dated 2lst instant, reports six feet
of water in the channel and falling rap
idly.
Houston, Texas, is a fourishing city,
and contains a population of ten thousand
people. 1t stands at the head of naviga-
ton on Buffalo Bayou, which enters The
head of Galveston Bay from the west.
uniting with the San JacintO river, just
above san Jacinto Bay. She is the rail-
road center of the State, and within the
mex three years it is expected she will
center one thousand miles of Texas Fail-
roads. Several dredgeboats are at work
on the bars improving the channel of the
river to Galveston.
There were six steamers at Cincinnati
bound for New Orleans last Monday. The
Lorena and Belle Vernon loaded at Coo
per hundred and SO per barrel for whisky,
and left on Monday night. On Tuesday
rates declined to soc and 81 90, at which
the Sallie, Nick Longworth and Edinburg
were loading. The America, Captain
POage, left Tuesday for the Arkansas, and
the r. G. Gray is to follow.
The magnificent passenger steamer
Belle Lee will pass down this evening for
New Orleans. 1t is needless to say aught
in her nreEaa ffanfufn lin Whit r.
master, who has commanded many fine
packets, says the Belle is the finest
steamer he ever pulled a bell rope upon.
A. McNay, one of the best clerks, as well
as most elegant gentlemen on the river, is
her chief secretary.
The W. A. Caldwell was to have come
of the docks last evening. She is in
splendid order, having had every unsound
timber taken out and replaced by new
ones. She is undergoing a thorough
course of paint, and Will be ready TO take
her place in the White river trade on
Thursday next. Riley Kinmsn Will com-
mand, and that popular gentleman Capt.
Garrett Huls viii, as usual, be in the
Office.
The Silver Moon, among her cargo, had
a large lot of bar stores for VIM. II. Car
yer, OF Towards row, who is so popularity
known among river men.
Tit Mollie Able has just been locked
at ST. Louis, and is TO cave for New Or
leans Saturday.
The funeral of Captain H. n. Smith was
largely attended at st. Louis last Tues
day. Captain Smith, IN his early years,
practiced law, merchandised, and at one
time was a member of the Missouri Leg
~islature. He made his advent upon the
river in 1851, as clerk of the st. Louis and
Brunswick packet, General Lane, which
was commanded by Captain Isaac H. Me-
Kee, now of the Colorado, owned by the
company of which Captain Smith was
President. The General Lane was the
first steamer he was connected with. He
subsequently bought and commanded the
J.. NJ. ~Clendenin, and afterward the
in the Missouri river trade. He
afterward bought the Falls City, which
had been built for a Wheeling and Louis
vile packet. The new Falls City was the
last boat he commanded.
Captain John Ford, formerly of the tug
Jones, is winning golden opinions
In New Orleans, where he is now located.
By the following extract from the Plea
yuae it will be seen that he is as usual on
he alert and always on hand when his
services or those of his tug are needed, =:
Had be been here we must do him the
TO say we do not think the late
accident in our harbor would have
happened. The Picdyune SAYS: "The hull
Of the New York at about s O'Clock parted
from the wharf and loated down the
river, and when nearly opposite the
steamship landing turned over and disap-
There was some two hundred (
bales cotton recovered from the New
York's cargo. The c.. Ii. Durfee was
across the river, and through the
axertions of McColskey q Bigley's coal
Tug the fire on board of her was put out. ]
visited her yesterday and found that J
I part OF her upper works were destroyed.
der hull was not hurt in the least. Her
may be put In good order. She l
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