Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-04-04
Forty Miles Wide and Booming An In
land Ocean Swelling Every Hour
The RCsalt.
Changes Made in the Upper Country,
and Disastrous Effects Of the
Flood Below.
What River Men and Planters Have to
Say About 1t it-Damage Done TO
the City LeYee-Etc.

"WbRt do you know about the riVer?'
is sskod by everybody Of every TO ~, and
every OOJy has an opinion to express in
the wsy uf experience and observe ton.
TIE most exuavsgsnt Of these expires.
sions was made yesterday by an old
disciple Oi Neptune, who, about half
sses over, was standing on the highest
one OF toe buff quietly contemplating
the b.oEd eXpsnse Of wztsr spread out
before him. He made ~ his mind to
s2y something finally, ard when he
Cp5ret his ha3h-mi!l, ne asrOnizhed
the crowd with the expression, empha-
sized with the peculiar literature OF the
profession: "F0rty miles vide, and ten
mics detp-W The old sinner seem.
ingiy relieved by this cOpious exhaust,
quietly restored his hst 10 its accus-
toned resting-plsce, and slowly wended
his way 10 the negTsst h3ssar OF liquid
comforts. This historian embraced the
opportunity afforded By the balmy
weather yesterday and made a
suIvey Of cur river front
from ths mouth Of Wolf to the
ssud heaps, and saw enough to warrant
the b7iief that II something is not done
ior tEslRldiEg here soon, there Will be
nothing left TO work on. At the corner
u " 1A-l1GLl% iAf4 GAAGIlg Dl kLAE AlNtl lAOuLt
when, IN 1852, the ievee vas fully one
bundled yards wide, the river has en-
crOsched upon the leYee UDtil the site Of
the old Washington hotel, located on
that corner, is entirsly gone. Above
that acres Of ground have disappeared,
until the site OF the Little Rock railway
depot is in danger of crumbIiBg in on
the uext decline Of the river. The ex-
n oil -yupA ~ aFnEgra Rrnvrvr r
ones is full of cracks, and all the coal
stored there hss been removed to more
secure locality. l. front OF Bohlen &
Huse's ice.hou5e, where, not long ago,
two or three wagons could drive abreast,
there is now hardly space ;Or foOtway.
Pete Lawless's old boiler -shcp is
among the things thai were, AMI all
alcng there tae psdestIisn j. impressed
with the fact thst he tresds on Danger
Gus ground, Far back from the bank Of
the river huge cracks are distinctly de-
fined showing where the next "taken is
to be gOObled when Big Muddy Opsus
its c8pscious NAV. Below the foot Of
J JsffeTsOn street, al the present stage of
water, he leYee is as good as could be
desired, beats having no trouble ia re-
ceiving and discharging ct the stone
wharf, but when the decline sets in it IS
feared thst an immense area of the
paved wharf will go with it,
Some river men are OF opinion that
the newly made cut Oil at the Dsvils
Elbow bend, some tWenty-fv- miles
above this C ty, will have the effect to
Withdraw the force OF the current from
the Memphis shore, thus preventing
any farther cayiug OF the leYee; but
there is so much uncertainty about the
action Of the Mississippi river current
that this opinion will not do to set
watches by.
THE RISE YESTERDAY.
AS is usual, when 3 big rise is OF,
! everybody has 8 measuring of his
! own, and the observations are as various
as March winds. We append here the
report from the signal Ctfice, giving the
| condition Of the rivers At sll points from
which it will be seen that the river here
az three O'Clock yesterday afternoon
stood thirty-fOur feet eight inches above
| low. water marx, which is eight inches
| above the highest Tesched last August,
and within two and three-fourihs inches
! OF the high water Of 1867. This makes
| the present rise within about twelve or
| thirIeen inches Of the elevation reached
! in 1914. upon which line the Anchor
! Line eleva or was built, the tops of the
| o ling Of that structure bsing sawed of
even with that line. ThefOllOwIng en-
| brace the reliable reports Of the rivers
| here and else where:
OFFICE SIG. SER. OBS. u. S. A,
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