Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-03
GENERAL MEMS
Business moderately brisk Yesterday

IbcCclplS DN river 1cottTddy SOl DdiSS COT
ton and $50 sacks cotton seed.
The Dean Adams had good load on wher
she left for Arkansas City yesterday even.
ing.
Signal Service report: River So feet, and
stationary during the 81 hours ending :0s
pm. yesterday.
The City of Providence arrived last mig hi
from Nicksburg, with good list of people
for this place.
The Guiding Star passed down last night
Tor New Orleans with big trip and he,
cabin crowded with people.
The Katie Hooper, the railway packet, left
for Madison to connect with the Memphis
and Little Rock railway yesterday evening
1 The City OF New Orleans, with fifty cabin
passengers and loaded with freight, passed
down Tor New Orleans at 8 O'Clock Yesterday
morning.
The City OF Baton Rouge made the run
from Memphis TO Cairo, against a rising
river, in 10 hours and So minutes Distance
260 miles.
The Annie p. Silver, four days and nine
hours out from New Orleans, passed up Tor
ST. LOUIS before daylight yesterday morning,
doing little business here,
| Steamers are particularly requested to 90
| slow or keep off from the eastern shore down
about Stack Island, as the levee there is in a
critical condition, and liable to be broken by
| the waves.
The towbost Joe B. Williams, with tow
| of empties, came up from below vest rday
afternoon, and went TO bank on the Arkansas
side to clean boilers. She was there at dark
last night.
Louisville Courier-Jownal: at is only a
matter OF a little time now, when Louisville
will own and control a fine, fast line of side
wheel boats running between Louisville and
New Orleans
The new Mary Houston, on her fifth day
out from New Orleans, passed up Tor Gin
cinnai yesterday AFTERNOON, having about
400 tons of freight and a good list of people
in the cabin.
The Signal Service reports yesterday indi-
Gated general decline in the rivers at all
points, excepting l inch rise at Cairo and
New Orleans, and inches at Keokuk. The
decline at Pittsbprg was > feet inches, and
in the Cumberland at Nashville 3 feet .
inches.
Mr.. Charles Farnsworth, the popular
young gentleman connected with the COM
mission house of A. c. & A. b. TreadwelI, OF
this city was married last night to Miss
Katie, The eldest daughte Of the late Cap
tain U. B. Church, who was, perhaps, one OF
the most popular steamboat commanders of
his day.
The officers of the Dean Adams. in from
Arkansas City yesterday morning report a
bad break in the levee at Beath's Landing.
about 100 miles below Memphis, and few
miles above Laconia, on the Arkansas side
The creyasse is about 100 yards wide,
through which the water is pouring in IRE
sistible currents. No efforts were being made
to close it, and the extent of country liable
to be deluged is not stated.
The latest from the lower river is en-
braced in the following New Orleans special
telegram OF the 30th ultImo to the Cincinnati
CogtmereiGt: THE Mississippi river, with its
subsidiary outlets, the Atchafalaya and
Bayou Lafourche, has reached dangerous
flood stage, which has Just begun to manifest
itself in creyasses. On Saturday the levee
broke at Tropical Bend, some sixty miles
below New Orleans. near Quarantine Sta
ton, the creyasse being 100 feet wide,
and causing the overflow of the culti-
waited plantations in the neighborhood. The
break was constantly widening, and body
of water two miles wide was passing across
the plantations to the swamp in the rear.
Reports from there on Sunday show no i'm
provement in the situation. Lumber for the
repair OF the levee had to be sent from the
city, and the delay does not add to the pros
pect OF an early closing OF the break. Re
ports from there to-day are discouraging |
The river was nearly up to the top of the |
levees below there, and numerous breaks |
are daily threatened To-day information |
was telegraphed to the governor that the |
levee at Lockport, on Bayou Lafourche, !
some forty miles west of this city ON the New |
Orleans and Texas railroad had broken, and |
the adjacent country was being rapidly |
flooded. This is in the midst of a very pro- |
ductive sugar district. and great damage it is
feared will be done. The governor sent out |
an engineer this evening to take charge of |
the work OF repairs. 4 creyGsse on the |
Louisiana shore Is reported at Delta, Just
below Fieksburg, but nothing definite is
known of it. The levees there were believed |
to be quite strong, and news OF a break in
them Is startling. 1t is evident the levees are
being tested to their utmost capacity, and a (.
few inches more of rise will play havoc
Missouri Reprbtie1n; THE Eads jetties
at the mouth OF The Mississippi will have
cost, when fully paid for, s, 100000 This
Is called large SUM, but the real value of
the work is not less than ten times s., 200
600. The jetties viii have paid for them
selves in three years from this time, If they
have not done so already, in the amounts
saved 10 the people OF the Mississippi val
lev in the reduction Of freight rates. But
one OF the most valuable features OF the
cities is their example. They have proved
successful as mode OF contracting the iiow
Of water at barber mouths, aud thereby
deepening the channel, and It is probable
hey.will be adopted for this purpose at Il .
mouth OF many rivers which flow into sea
lsrbofs. General @. A. Gilmore is improv-
ing the harbor of Charleston by means Of
cities, under an act OF Congress, and the
,esults be expects are Of the most gratifying
character. He has built ten ietties Of the