Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-01-18
RIVERS. WEATHER AND BUSINESS.

MEMPHIS Gas WOREs, January II.
River rose three inches in past "a hours
Below high water mark OF 1857, u feeJ
8 inches. CHAS. GOODWIN.
Superintendent ct Gas Works.
LOUISVILLE. January 1.-THE river il
81 EiEh tida. Residents thai live along
the river are evacuaiiag. Up-Belie Yer
non ant anna. Down.. ". SLrader
and r. 2. aIE.
CAIso. January I7.-Up-Rublcon, .
q Colorado, = pm D0wD-COmuOn-
wealth., Il AMI Forsyth. g pm. The
river rose 5Wo feet. The weather j. clear
ue-cary0. There was q heavy thunder
storm last ni-a5.
There is no-hiug later from the Ohio
tlGu that published - oar ls7uS Of YES
tcrday. The wires were down yesterday,
aud il is probable cBat no dispatches Al =
rived lass night. The Arkansas Is falling.
with less th5n thrss feet 10 Lizzie Rock
White river is also declining. The Miss
iSsippi As again open 10 So. Louis, but The
cold snap Of yesterday Hay close II uP
again. Business is active on the levee.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Liberty 1-augh5 il 403 bales cotton
aud = sacss seed.
The Legal Tender cams In with 299 bales
cott0n.
Tue eco. W. Cheek had ~ bales cotton
and Is sacks SEED.
The Tines. H. Allen. from lie Arkansas,
had 100 usl5s coetou.
The now steamer r. P. Walt win be
here tOtal1a hsrdeparture On Friday next.
she Is SAID 10 bed perfect steamer IA every
respect, ana viii bs an hauOr 10 Tie packet
e9tAp1ay Ad Storm Wi1 command her,
and Charley Smi,her viii be her drsg
clerk, assisted b. Ernest WalwCtrLh.
SmitIar vas recently CLERK Of tho \ asO-
ma, and Walw0r5h l. Low On the Da4 da-
uelle.
The Louisville, Caps Frazier. gets aw ~
-0-dty az II G-m. Ior FLcksburg a Ne -
OrieHn-.
The Julia, from 81. Louis TO Vieksburg. I
was due oos lad not arrived at late hour
last night.
Tue Nellie Gratz gs.s awsy to-day for
Ozcsola.
The Geo ". Cheek. Capt. Malone. with
Baruey Barind aud Fa4Ek Gonssrman IN,
me Office, leavss tC-dayfo Friar's POiEs
aud All way landings.
The Fms steamer -. Francis, Capt. TORI
Bowman, leaves ~ her usual hOur for-
ali way landing on lie st. Francis river TO-
Witts0urg. 81 Is al elegant packet.
5 IA. Paine. Trad. C0nanJ aud Mr.. Berry
are he's capable and polite secretaries.
Tns splendid United States mail packet.
Guidou, with Clay Rice OF the roof, leaves.
tO-dsy lor Little Bogk, Fort smith and all
taternsciate landings on the Arkansas.
Shs IS punctuat as a clock r. J. Butler
and Alsx. WaddelI do he Office duties IN
their own agreeable way.
III famous Magenta, Captain Hicks,
&c 5 away tomorrow As the regular
y ednesday New Orleans packet, John
sullivan, her chief Secretary. Travellers
Should remember tbsi The fimous caterer
Frank smith, = a feAiurs o. the Magenta.
Monsieur Murray, who was BrOwplow'ss
FOR Governor Of MS State, iSa
also Gu he Magenta.
The Legal Tender gets away to-day a {
her usual hour f0r Shreveport snd wa
landing or While river. Captain john
Elliott Is master. Elliott, Ely and Field.
a. Ser clerks.
Ths Uui1ed States mail packet Liberty.
Cap-sIu Pat Wheat, viii leave - S pm.
Tor I'll poiuts On White river 10 jackson /
port. she connects with the Little Rock
Grain and with the Usage for Black river.
D.. Green, Charley sharpe and Jack
Horne are her secretaries.
Captain Stewart, formerly Otthe Bengal }
Tiger, Il aDassenger on the Magenta, and
VIII be in own to-day.
Captain r. 5. Yerkes, formerly a well
known steamboat master, but u0w Of the
Erm Of Rose y Ysrkes, Steamboat agents. !
OF Cincinnati. IS IN our city on = briei'
business trip.
The Alice Dean, Captain skunk. will
leave tomorrow for Cairo and Cincinnati.
She is the regular packet.
Cotton is moving stedultJ. me snip
for the past week amounted 70
about 1900 bales, most OF which went by
During the Suspension Of navigation
between Cairo ard ST. Louis, the Iron
Mountain Railway transported freight
through to this city al the following rates:
Flour, Coo; pork, soc; whisky. =; corn,
4Ge. per sack oats. bacon, lard, ETC., ACC.
per cwt groceries, soc.
Present rates by the river are as fOllOwss
Flour, 5Gc; pork, 7sci whisky, 81 corn,
goc. per sack; oats. eLc., SOC. per 100 lbs
Il hJ freight, 40@ DC. per leo l6s.
The Helena GqTfoa says:
The Matte Belle - doing 4 good b1si-
ness, fully as much asshe expected. Per-
living about MaTianaa inform Us
= larger boat would do much core
business. rs she has such poor cabin de-
coIum0datiOhs. We are glad 10 inform
cur Mariana friends thtt Capt. Cum
minxs viii con have a batter bout in tbs
trade. On her last "trip, Monday. she
brought down thirteen bales Of cotton,
thiri cen passengers, and q large nuu5era
OF ducks and other game. She returned
YESTERDAYS with as much freight as abe
wanted.
"Ths Hassa hss retired from ths Pass