Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-03-02
RIVER E W
BOATS LEAVING THIS DAY.
IN PORT.
Robert Burns. 81. N
RIVERS, WEATHER AND BUSINESS.


MEMPHIS, March 1, 1871.
BtUer Editor AppeaI-River rose Is
inches in past a hours. Below high
water mark Of 1867, . feet 4 inches.
JOHN TENT.
The river goes on swelling a foot
and more each day. All upper rivers
are advancing, and the small streams
running into the Ohio are flooding
/ the country. The low lands Of the
Mississippi will more than likely be
under water in "a week or ten days
more. People living in the swamps
should prepare themselves for the
coming inUndation. The weather
yesterday was mild and beautiful,
with a stiff breeze from the South
which sent clouds of dust everywhere
over the wharf. Business was fairly
active at the levee and there was
plenty Of room to transact all that Of
fered. The rising river is gradually
contracting the space for freights and
trouble would be experienced to trans
pct IA heavy days work at this time.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Mississippi is clear Of ice as far
as Dubuque.
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Cairo and Columbus will be finished
in one week. She will be very fast.
The Mississippi Valley TranspOrta-
ton Company have contracted for a
new tow boat, which will be very
powerful.
The Oceanus, Captain Horace BiXby,
is expected to pass down at noon to-
day for Shreveport and Red river
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The Continental passed down yes
terday loaded heavily. She added
1900 sacks of oil cake.
The MOllie Able is due from below
tomorrow.
visited and admired by thousands of
our people yesterday, and adding 20
passengers and 500 barrels of potatoes,
sailed of down the river, shortly after
midday, as graceful as a swan. An
immense crowd witnessed her depart
ure from the top Of the bluff.
The tOwbOat Little Giant was sold
at st, Louis, the other day, to Duncan
Cornell 81 Co, for $1,000.
The Mary +. Forsyth and LeOnidaS
are due from below.
The Welcome went out of White
River with tWenty-fOur hundred bales
Of cotton.
The tOwbOat Kate Ellis was pur-
chased at Louisville, on Monday, for
twenty-five hundred dollars by W. j.
Bigley. She is coming with a tow Of
five coal bOats,and will be used in this
harbOr Tor towing purposes.
A COlOred labOrer, while rolling cot
ton on board OF the Silver Moon yes
terday, fell into the river. After a
good dOusing, he got out, but hemade
a narrow escape.
The Minnie was expected to pass
up last night, on her way from Ar
kansas to st. Louis.
The City of Chester, Captain Alex.
Ziegler, Is the regular packet for St.
Louis this afternoon at 3 o'clock. j.
W. Baskette is clerk.
The tOwbOat Dick Fulton, with a
lot Of empty barges, passed up yester-
day.
The Little Alps leaves for Little
Rock with three ~cOalbOats to-day.
The G.. w. Cheek, Captain Mark
Cheek, leaves for Friar's POinttO-day !
Frank GOntermau is clerk.
The st. Marys, Captain A. Robin
son, leaves for Evansville this after
noon at . O'Clock.
The City Of NicksbUrg left st. Louis
for NicksbUrg, on Tuesday evening, |
and is due on her way down this
EVENING" or tomorrow morning.
The Silver Moon got away for the
Ohio last night with 1900 bales of cot
ton, 20 tons Of steel, 23S bales of wet
hides and a lot of beer kegs.
Several hundred bales Of cotton are
on the levee for the Marble City, due
this morning on her way from Nicks-
burg to st. Louis.
Hon. JEFF. Davis and family went
South as passengers on the Katie yes
terday.
The Belle Lee left for the South last
night with 1000 bales of cotton, at 81
p per bale. She had a light passen-
ger trip.
The Tom Morgan arrived from
seventy-hve miles up Hatchie yester-
day, with 174 bales Of cotton.
The Robert Burns came in yester-
day with a light cargo Of Cincinnati
merchandise.
The RubicOn leaves st. Louis for
Nicksburg next Saturday.
Mr.. n. J. Bigley has sold the tow
y ldb alps ~ inc A4Dn4PlAo ACc OOu-
pany for the sum of Sl9,0 600. She is
thirteen years old but still in good
condition.
A correspondent, writing to a Gin.
cinnati paper from on board the Pat
Cleburne, in the Arkansas, says: Il
hasten to inform you Of a very inn
pDrtant event. Jim BludsOe, whose
spirit, it is said, went up the night of
the Prairie Belle, is alive, and at pres
ent employed as engineer Of the snag-
boat in this river. The Natchez wife
is with BIN, and 1 learn the whole
thing was a set up job to get shut of
the Pike county wife. When every
body on the Prairie Belle supposed
Jim was holding her nozzle to the
shore, he was quietly sliding out on a
plank on the starbOard side. In fact,
he was the first galOot ashore, making
tracks for Natchez. If John Hay or
any other man wants to take their
chance at judgment with Jim, 1 am
sure they viii have no use for winter
clothing after that date, for which 1
hold myself personally responsible.
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