Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-04-19
RIVER NEWS.
BOATS Leaving THIS DAY.
IN PORT.
Tom Morgan, Mlnueois, Celeste.

] 2Na IT MNuNEDn
Legal Tender river
Louis
IN PORT.
Tom Morgan, Mlnneois, Celeste.
RIVERS, WEATHER, BUSINESS.
The river is declining slowly here. the
fall in the past J~Wsuty-f0ur hours being
about Our inches, and the total decline
fifteen feet While river is rising a5
J~acksOnpOrt, with twelve feet TO that port.
The Arkansas is also rising, with Otless
than fourteen feet TO Little Rock. Red
River is reported rising rapidly above
Shreveport, and has all the water nscss-
sary for large boats TO hat point. Bust
ness az the lsvee, yesterday, was fairly
active but not brisk. All the outgoing
steamers had good trips, while the arri-
walls brought fair carg0es. The day was
cloudy with a stiff southwest wind.
BY TELEGRAPH.
LOUISVILLE, April 1s.-The rivsris fall
ing; 3 feet 10 iuches. in the chute: s feet
10 inches in the canal The weather is
clear and very warm to-day. Arrived a.
! John kllgOur, New Orleans. The follow
ing steamers leave tomorrow: Nick
L~ongWOrth, New Orleans; Altoona. ST..
Louis. The Pilot landed alongside OF
the. BOdmaun to-day. Size Will.bs edged up
and pushed INTO a position where 10 Will
I take less water to float her of Howard
& Co., OF JeHersOnVille, comm8nesd an
other steamer for the Memphis and St..
1 Louis Packet Company. The boat will
be q duplicate of the Grand Tower. built
for the same company last fall. The hull
viii be 2l2 feet long, AZ feet beam, S feet
hold, full length cabin, and will Do ready
for work September LIST. Howard 81 co..
launch the new Louisville and Hsuder-
son Packet Grey Eagle, next week.
John Oiler, pilot on the Cincinnati Mail
Line, married Miss Bright, of this city to-
day. Anumber of salt and coal barges
in the canal are waiting for the locks 90
be repaired, which viii probably be In
isbed tC-mOrrOW.
NEW ORLEANS, April I8.-Arrfved.
| Potomac, Cincinnati. Mohawk and barrss.
St. Louis. Departed: Dexter and Mo
hawk and bargss, 81. Louis; @. B. Church
and Robert Mitchell, Cincinnati.
NASHVILLE, April l8.-The river IS
falling; 4 feet large on Harpeth Shoals.
hi weather is fair and warm. Arrived
John Lumsdeu, Cairo.
NICEsBURG, April IS.-DOwn: Semi
mole, s pm; Bismarck, IL last night.
Narcbez, z pm. Kate Kinney, 10 am. :
Mary Houston 9 am Ajax and barges,
IL AM. Up: Indiana, Il m, Julia. :
pm; Arkansas, 6 pm; John A. Wood,
8 am. The weather is warm and cloudy;
\ river is falling slowly.
CAIRO, April 1S.-City Of Cairo, Mem
phIs 10 st. Louis, 8 PM; Dictator, Mem
phls TO st. Louis, g pun. p. ". Strader,
New Orleans 70 Cincinnati, 5 pm; j. n.
Kellogg, New Orleans to st. Louis. IL
an. j. Fleming. Memphis TO st Louis
noon; Silver Moon, Cincinnati to Mem
phisr 8 pm City of Chester, st. Louis TO
Memphis, 8 pm. River stationary: Their
mOmeter, Is. A painter named Tom Al
len, fell overheard from the Pink VarbIs
while at the wharf and was drowned.
~CLNCINNATI. April IS.-River y feet 6
inches in the channel and falling, De-
parted: Lsonidas for New Orleans.
ST. LOUIS, April 1s-A suit for over
S2O,0B0 has been brought against the
steamer Great Republic, q of the finest
New Orleans packets on the river, tor
supplies furnished during the past year.
Arrived Grand Tower and Mary Miller,
New Orleans. Departed City Of Ficks-
burg, ViCksburg; Richmond, New Or
leans. The river is falling slowly. The
weather is warm, with very high winds
and prospects Of rain.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Olive Branch. for st. Louis, passed
up last night from New Orleans. i've davs
out. She had $50 tons OF freight for ST.
Louis, and discharged here SO boxes or
anges and about ten tons OF miscellaneous
freight.
The tOwbOat Diamond left last night for
the Ohio with a tow OF empty bargss.
The Continental passed down late last
night, adding here 1888 bales Of cotton and
a few passengers.
The tug Kate Ellis, belonging to Blgley
z Mellsrsh, sprung a leak yesterday. and
viii go on the docks for repairs.
The Legal Tender went out last night
with an excellent trip for White river.
The repairs to the ST. Francis were
completed yesterday and she left last
night for the St. Francis river with a full
trip.
The towboat J. H. Bigley left for the
Ohio river yesterday morning, towing the
Des Arc, which boat will be dismanuIed.
and her machinery placed upon the new
boat now being built BY Elliott 81 Miller.
Cotton rates TO New Orleans were re-
duCed TO 80 cents on Monday evening.
The tOWbOst Diamond came down from
the Ohio yesterday with 200, 600 bushels of
coal tor Brown 81 Jones'.
The Eau Clair, says the Evansville |
Courier Of Saturday, LETT at ten o'clock
for the bloody and saaguinary prize
fight field, on Green river island, at the 1
foot of the tow-head. She did not have
many when b left, but 10 WAS q hard
looking crowd. II was enough to make a I
man scratch to just stand and look at
them. She came back at 1 O'Clock, with
Jim Mulllgan ~Vanquished and his head
badly punched.
There is but four feet over HarUstb
shoals in the Cumberland river, and less
than three and a half feet in the Ohio at
Pittsburg. ely tims7' on both those
is close at hand, and even now
large boats in the upper Ohio are com
PEELED 70 lay up, on account Of low
water.
The Belfast has laid up at Portland for
more water and freight.
The Nick LOngwOrth was to have Iem
Louisville last night for New Orleans.
Captain Q. +. Shlnkle arrived SC LOuis-
vile Sunday from Cincinnati with wsdg-
Is, iack-sersws and other appliance. To
aid ia launching the Charles BOdmanu
rom Wave Rock, where she lodged some
lime ago. The BOdmaun has nGJ twisted
my or received any damages, as sheElias
perfectly straight and easy.
II is understood thst the Great Repub-
ic is indebted to her pilots about $4,000. "
JJher service claims against her will prob
IDLY amount to $4,000 more. She was
)uilt about three years since by Captain
Donaldson, at a cost Of 5000, eco, and is
Of the largest and best boats on the
liver.
The MinneOla, Captain W. B. Miller in
command, j. S. Jones, clerk, will depart
8 pm, TO day, for Cairo, Louisville and
Cincinnati.
The United s ates mail steamer, Phil.
AIlln, leaves Al 5 p N to-day, Tor Helena,
'riar's Point and ali way landings. Stack
ZEE, J. O. Harris and Neil Booker are her
The Colorado passed up at dark last
light; she brought up 10 bales Of cotton
nd added here n bales for reshipment.
The Atlantic a oarges passed down ,
yesterday. II
The Virginia passed up yesterday, three S
nd q half days out from New Orleans.
put out here several horses that are s
o take part in the coming races, and a lot 2
f fruit and vegetables. Z
The City Of Chester will arrive tonight 3
nd depart tomorrow evening for Caro-
nd st. Louis. d
The City Of Vicksburg viii pass down I
o-mOrrOW for Nicksburg and the bends, 4
The Batesville, Captain Smith in COM 3
land, viii leave TO morrow evening for q
Il points on White river. "a
the Celeste came ia from the Arkansas p
esterday with IT'S bales of cotton and re- y
IL bales az the mouth of Wbite (
liver. .
Mondays st. Louis Repu5lican saws: .
river here continues to rise. The =
.se during the q hours preceding six 3
clock last evening amounted 10 I8 Y
1ehes. The small rivers toward tbe :
of The Mississippi and the RIiz- =
are all reported to be unusually 4
igh. We cannot tell why this is so. bnt :
leh rs SAID to be the tact. The Illinois Il
as no neen influenced by the causes So
-hleh nave produced the upward tom 81
9ncy IN the Missouri and Mississiopf ~,
Vsrs, SILL that stream keeps up well.
az p0ats have not yet experienced any
.mcutey IN navigating the waters" =