The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-04-21
Grand Tower, Memphis.

pa~ The Exchange discharged for Strait
ton & Bird, loo kegs nails; @. d. Viii.
hanson, 100 ditto; Reed s. Mann, osditto T;
Parsons & Davis, Is pkgs glassware; G..
r. Woodward, Ga kegs nails, 1l3 bids, So
bars iron; and few tons for rcshipment.
nea. The Katie r. Kountz discharged for
Reed " Mann, 30 pcs iron, IL kegs nails I;
G. X. Woodward, 100 pkgs iron, 100 kegs
nails; and about 25 tons for the South.
|. Gay The Henry Ames discharged Q
crates cabbage, 81 boxs oranges and (?
! punches bananas for Thomas, Green & Al
den, and few lots for resbipmen..
BsrThc Jas. Fisk, jr., brought "a hid.
tobacco for reshipment South, hhds, 10
butts tobacco, 20 boxs handles for st Louis,
and 10 pieces castings for Reed s. Mann,
! Cairo.
rG-The Mississippi was supposed to be
] on stand ut 81, Louis yesterday but ow-
ing to the exceeding high winds no one
could tell positively what it was doing.
ra-Thc Ohio is still falling with 8 feet
in the chute ut Louisville, but is station.
aryat Pi,:.burg with feet inches water
| in the channel.
n@-Thc Cumberland is also falling
with feet on Harp cth Shoals.
Esy The Colorado brought 4S bales cot
ton and Il lot Of hides for rsshipment east.
per rail.
gH- The Olive Branch brought for d.
After 8 pkgs sundries, J. b. ella 2 cases
bananas, r. j. Cundif 3 crates cabbage,
md tho following for reshipment; &c SKIS
coffee, 81 bbls molasses. 81 hhds sugar for
the Cumberland river, aud .25 tons for the
/. G. r. r.
RI"Tho Tyrone brought lab hhds to.
bacco. 20 bols eggs, ss9 SKIS corn, 10 pkgs
sundries for the South, 90 pkgs sundries
for. ST. Louis and lG do for Cairo.
Eay-The river has fallen 10 inches since
last report, and the rate Of the decline ia
increasing daily.
rsa-The weather was clear yesterday,
with only few feecy clouds flying in the
sky, but oceans of dust wh,rling through
the streets ana into the noses. mouths, ewes
and ears Of pedestrians, making a promo
made anything but pleasant.
6V'Owing to the exceeding high winds
of Yesterday and day before, it was almos.
impossible for small boats to navigate.
Yes erday afternoon the ferry boat was
able to make but one trip, and tho james
Fisk, Jr. the reliable Paducah packet,
found it difficult to make any
gtrThe Kate Ellis which received
some injury up Wolf river short time
since, is now on the Memphis docks which
is the first boat Mr.. w. z Walker has
taken out Of the water since he announced
the docks ready fop work
asA.The Arkansas river rose 80 inches
on the 18th and has Is feet in the channel
below Little Rock.
pds-A wrccking boat has been sent TO
raise as much as possible Of the coal sunk
by the Simpson Horner at Ashport. 1t
will be sold where the boats low lie.
1GrTbo Thayer now on the ways at
Mound City is the first of the snag boats
that has had need of repairs.
The Evansville Journal Of Monday
says: "When the Susie Silver was hero q
week ago, with load Of railroad iron, her
crew refused to unload her or obey the
orders Of the mate. After considerable
parley, Captain Green Shields, who was in
command of the Uoat was about contract
ing to have tho boat unloadel by laborers,
when the crew who had not done a days
work from New Orleans up, proposed to
discharge the iron for IS each,
extra pay. They we're told
to go to work, which they did, aud
had tho iron or by daylight the next
The boat proceeded to Louis.
vile, where Captain Thomas w. Shields
uined her. Upon learning the c,rcum.
stances, he had an Interview with the
United States Commissioner, who prompt
" counseled him to pay only the regular
wages at whicl the crew had shipped He
paid them their regular wages and dis
charged the entire crew, ordering them TO
leave he boat, which they did aud pro-
ceeded direct to the office of Commissioner
Merriwrther to file complaints for wages
Captain Shields was at once advised af the
fact and he visited Commissioner Merit.
wethcr and explained the case, when Mer-
riweiber ordered the men to leave, with
the admonlion that they were liable for
arrest and punishment for mutiny. This
Is right and IN accordance with the decis-
ons OF the courts in the case Of Walter
3. Dance, most of the crew of which boat
we're sent to prison for an act Of prscise,y
he same character. If all commissioners
we're as honest as Colonel Merr,wether.
'teamboats would be less frequently an
'oyed and less frequently robbed than
hey are now"
pa Evening before last the tow-boat
Gilmore, when just below Lower Caledo-
MI, found IL necessary, by the severity Of
tho wind, to land Dor tow, which she oil %
soon AS possible. But tho waves ran 70
hi sh III A even thjs urvpautiop ala m, -