Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-21
RIVER NEWS.
BOATS LEAVING THIS DAY.
BOATS LEAyING MONDAY
Mary Boyd. q O. Day.

RIVERS. AND BUSINESS.
The river at this port is falling at the
rate of about i've inches per day, and low
water will soon be upon US again The
Arkansas has risen seven feet at Little
Rock and is still swelling. White river Is
falling slowly, with four feet 70
Our dispatches give the latest news from
all points. The weather is clear, and
business fair Pm the levee-
BY TELEGRAPH.
ST. LOUIS, August 2O.-Arrtyed: julia,
VicksburE. Departed: St. Joseph, Tor
Memphis: City of Cairo, for Nicksburg.
River fell three inches.
LOUISVILLE, August 20.-The-river was
at a stand-still all day, with i've feet in
the chute. Weather cloudy, COOL and
pleasant.
CINCINNATI, August 20.-RiYer II feet
s inches in the channel.
PTTrsBURa. August 20.-Weather
cloudy and cool; thermometer SOs. River
falling, with two feet ten inches in the
channel.
uarted: CITY of Evansville, Evansville
packet, &C 9 pm; Belle st. Louis, Mem
phis to st. Louis, 9 am. Thompson Dean,
St Iouis to New Orleans, 8 pm; Belle
Memphis, st. Louis to Memphis, 7 pm.
River stationary. Weather clear. Mer-
Quay 100.
| August AJ.-AAO AAFoA -
/ rising again rapidly, and a further rise OF
ifteen feet is reported; above eight feet
on Hsrpsth shoals. Weather lair and
warm.
NEW ORLEANs, August 2l.-Departed
Forsythe and Continental, for St. Louis.
Weather cloudy; mercury, So.
VICKsBURG, August @.-Up: bismarck
IL o'clock last night; Collier. Z pm;
Belle Vernon, IL an; Grand Era, o pm
Down: Governor Allen, IL am Olive
Branch, 4p.m. River falling ; weather,
cloudy and warm.
PTTIsBURG August 20.-Ths weather Ia
cloudy and cool; 2 feet 3 inches IN the
Monongahsla and falling. No arrivals or
departures.
risen l5H inches with IS feet in the chan
mel. Weather cloudy; mercury H.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mr. John s. Sullivan, clerk of the Belle
lee. who has been sojOurning at Hot
Springs for some weeks, returned yester-
dsy, and will be in the city q few days.
the launch of the new Arkansas river
packet j. s.. Durham viii a place on
Monday evening.
A boat race will come on the Sd prox.
between the Chickasaw and Essex boat
clubs of this city.
h new boat Little Fleta is due from
above on her way to New Orleans.
The bridge timbers for The railroad
bridge at Little Rock Will go around on
the Mary Boyd.
THE elegant new steamer City of Yicks-
burg, Captain @. d. Conway, Will pass
down this morning for Nieksbuag and the
bends. She carries the United States
mail. Andy Issacs and George Briggs are
her clerks.
THE Pauline Carroll, Captain Henry G..
Carson, will pass down this morning for
New Orleans and all way landings. Ross
Powell is her clerk.
The City OF Cairo leaves on Monday Tor
Vicksburg.
The Mary Boyd goes out tomorrow for
Little Rock and all way landings On the
Arkansas. Rube Haynes is master.
The fine steamer Rubicon is due up to-
day. and will be in port to leave this even
ing for Cairo and st. Louis. Captain Bill
Blake commands, and John Blake IS her
the Belle Memphis leaves on Monday
We are glad to learn that Captain Elem.
Calvert found his mother much better on
his arrival at home than he expected, and
viii return to his post on Wednesday
next.
among steambOstmen. Burt Bell, once =
Cincinnati and New Orleans clerk, died 81
Lansing, Michigan, q few days ago. Cap
tain ID. g. Farmer died in Houston, Texas,
ON the 4th. and VIM. kearney, q pilot,
died at Evansville on Friday.
The San Francisco Press Is advocating
the reduction of wharfage n dockAge.
The reduction of wharfage SHOULD be ax1-
tated everywhere.
The Cincinnati Inquirer says: Captain
Henry o. Hart, late Of the Kenton, yes
terday bought the interest of Captain JAS.
Ransom, hree-sixteenths, in the John II.
Groesbeck, reported at the rate Of S25,OOO
for the entire boat. Captain Hart viii as
sumo command of the Groesbeck In the
New Orleans trade on the opening OF the
fall season. Captain Ransom bought of
Captain Hart the machinery Of the Gull
don for $500, for which he intends con-
tracing for q boat tor a Southern tributa-
nv trade at once. Mr.. Jas. Rees, clerk of
the wauanits, passed through the city
Yesterday en- route from Portland to Fits
burg. Major Sam. 2. Armstrong u ne,
gotiating for the purchase OF an additional
0ue-eiQhth interest In ths Armadillo, from
Captain A. Byers."
The st. Louis Republicans says; soap
tain Charlie B. Church, b purchaser OF
the @. B. Church and NJ. ]. Wicks at
Memphis on Wednesday, was known far
and wide twenty or twenty-five years ago
as q very prosperous successful steam
boat captain. Long ago, having accumu-
lated q handsome fortune, Captain Church
set I'D his domestic tabernacleonthe bud
at Memphis, where, surrounded by every
comfort wealth can give, and q numerous
and pleasant circle of friends, q lovely
and Interesting family, he has passed
many happy years away"
The Louisville Commercial says: "The
monster boat that Captain James Howard
is building at Jacksonville for Captain
George Pegrsm, viii be the largest boat
that ever iOated on our western rivers.
she is not exactly the longest, but has &
greater tonnage than any other. Her ex-
treme length is 1880 feet over all;
beam IS feet; extreme width over
all, % feet; depth Of hold, 10 feet
four inches; double set of bits fore
and AFT, and four set of breast
hooks; extra bulk head, double, hve
inches thick; cylinders, So inches, 10 feet
stroke. They are going to use b endless
chain for lowering and raising freight 10
and from the hold. 1t is capable of rails
ing 1000 barrels per hour, q great improv-
msnt on the old way. 1t Is the largest
boat built this season anywhere, and Cap
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