Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-17
hours. Below high water marx Of 1867,
10 feet 9 inches.
CHARLES GooDwIN,

10 feet g inches.
CHARLES GOODWIN,
SUPERINTENDENT Gas Works.
The river falls steadily and rapidly at
this point, and IN a few days the familiar
old sand bar opposite will poke ITS head
above water. From the upper stream the
news Is favorable. The swell from Pitts
burg has reached Louisville, and at that
point the Ohio is swelling slowly. A
slight rise Il also reported in the far upper
Mississippi. but it will amount 70 nothing.
Our dispatches give the latest news from
all points. The Arkansas IL falling, and
White river il about at a stand, with
plenty Of water 20 all points. Weather
clear. Business brisk.
BY TELEGRAPH.
NASHVILLE, May 16.-RfYer 4 feet On
shoals and scant.
LOUISVILLE, May I6-The river is ris-
ing. with Z feet 8 inches in the canal, and
5 feet 3 inches in the chute over the falls.
Weather clear and warm. Thermometer
70. Port lst-R. G. Gray, Louisville 70
Arkansas river, and regular packets.
Business duh.
CAIRO,4May I6.-The river has fallen IL
inches in the pact "A hours. Weather
warm and pleasant. City OF Cairo, Mem
phis to st. Louis; Alice Dean, Memphis
20 Cincinnati; Wieks, Memphis TO st.
Louis; Richmond, New Orleans to st.
Louis; Shamrock, CincinnatitO st. Louis;
MOllie Able, st. Louis &c New Orleans.
CINcINNATI, May 18.-weather clear
and mild. River, 1871 feet, and on 4
stand. The usual list OF packets arrived,
well freighted, giving an unusually ami
mated appearance to the landing. Rates
to New Orleaus, IS cents per hundred
pounds. The Collier, from Pittsburg for
st. Louis, discharged 2j6S kegs OF nall
here. Arrived-HudsOn, from Wheeling:
Ohio No. 4frOm Marietta, Wren from Ken
lucky river, LOrena from ST. Louis. D.
psrted-Ssm Hale from Memphis, and
local packets
ST LOUIS, clay I2-WeatheF warm and
beautiful. The river continues to decline
about 8 inches In q hours. Arrived
From Pittsburg, Messenger; Vicksburg,
Colorado; Memphis, Belle st. Louis; Lit
tie Rock. MOlie McPike. Departed
Belle st. Louis for Memphis.
The MOllie Able will pass down this
.morning for Vicksburg and New Orleans,
q will be seen by the following dispatch:
"CAIRo, Nav Is, 1870.
To Memphis Appeal: The steamer
MOllie Able viii leave Memphis for New
Orleans Tuesday, l7th inst, At u N.
"DAN ABLE"
Captain Dan Is too well known here to
need praise from US. James B. White Is
her chief clerk.
The Gallatin, Capt. John Edison, leaves
az 4 pm. as the regular railroad packet
for DeNalIs Bluff, Little Rock, bot
Springs, and all points In Arkansas. car
rying passengers through to Little Rock
in twenty eight hours. The Gallatin is =
fleet steamer, and makes close and prompt
connections with trains at DeNals Blum.
Her officers are experienced and clever
bOatmen, careful and attentive to their
respective duties, and deserve the patron
age OF travellers. Charley Sharpe and
Beaye Williams are associated in the Office,
and spare no efforts to render passengers
comfortable.
The st. Francis, Captain Tom Bowman.
viii get away to-day at 8 pm. for all
landings on Sc. Francis river. She is the
only packet in the trade. Sam Paine. E.
A. Levy and j. O.. Berry are her clerks.
The st. Joseph, Captain Corbett, gets
away to-day as the regular Cairo and 81.
Louis packet, making all way landings.
John Lyle is her chief clerk.
The Robert Burns will get away to-day
tor Cairo, Louisville and Cincinnati She
is a No. l packet. Frank Stein IS maste..
and A. F. Power is her chief clerk.
The Geo. W. Cheek, Captain Geo. Me-
lone, with Barney Barinds and Charley
Jackson in the Office, leaves to-day a. Ter
regular hour for Friar's Point and al way
landings.
The towboat Shark arrived yesterday,
and left two bargss Of ice &C this port for
Bohlen, Huse q Co.
Captain Sam Houston, Supervising In
spector Of this District, is in the city.
The Legal Tender eamein yesterds AZ with
233 bales cotton and acahin full Of passen-
gers She leaves on her q to White
river this evening, taking freight and pas
seBgers for all points on upper White and
Black rivers, connecting at Jacksonport
with the handsome little Fairy Queen for
POeahontss. Captain JnO. d. Elliott is
her commander, and B. P. Fields, assisted
by his brother Anthony, are her clerks.
The Belle Memphis came in loaded to
her guards with freight, and after unload
ing, Ieft on her return for 81. Louis.
The C. B. Church arrived with 500 tons
| of Western produce and groceries. She
leaves this evening for st. Louis and ali
way landings. Captain Haney is master.
The Cairo and Nashville packet Tyrone
struck q snsg opposite Tobacco Port on
the Cumberland, on Saturday night, and
sunk with her stern in 81 feet water, and
| 81 feet water over her larbOard guard. No
lives lost. Her cargo was slightly dam
aged. The boat can probably be raised.
Alpha now at the wreck.
The Utah passed up, flying Light, on her
way from the Arkansas to st. Louis.
The Nile went down, going to the Ar
kansas with about $50 tons Of freight,
chiefly from st. Louis.
The Mary Houston, from New Orleans
for Louisville, put out several cousign-
ments of sugar, mOlasses and other
Southern productions.
The Mary Boyd went out for Little
Rock with a far trip Of both freight and
passengers.
The Anderson went out for Friar's
Peint with a moderate trip.
A Minnesota raft pilot said a few DAYS
ago, that he hired thirty or forty men to
pull oars at one dollar per day for actual
working time, with deck fare back
equivalent to about $50 per mOnth-snd
says he could hire ten times the number
wanted at the same price. This is much
lower wages than is ordinarily paid.
FOR WHITE RIVER.