Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-13

RIVERS, WEATHER AND BUSINESS.
The rise at this point has about closed,
and in a day or two the decline will set
in. Our dispatches give the latest news
/ from all points. The weather cleared up
Yesterday, but it was cloudy toward
night and more rain was threatened.
BY TELEGRAPH.
CAIRO, ILL, June I2.-Port List Belle
Memphis, st. Louis to Memphis, 10 pm;
Colorado, Vicksburg to st. Louis, 2 am;
w, r. Curtis, New Orleans to Cincinnati
City of Cairo, st. Louis to Vicksburg, 4
pm; Grand Tower, Memphis to st.
Louis, 6 pm; Cherokee, Cincinnati TO
New Orleans, 6 pm; Continental, New
Orleans to st. Louis, 6 pm: st. Joseph,
st. Louis to Memphis, Z pm; Kate Rob
inson, st. Louis to Cincinnati, 7 Pm.
Richmond, st. Louis to New Orleans, 7
pm. River fell II inches. Weather
cloudy; mercury 62'.
LOUISVILLE, June I2.-Arrived-RObert
Burns, from Cincinnati; EdinbdfR, from
New Orleans. Departed-RObert Burns,
tor Memphis; Edinburg, for Cincinnati.
River stationary; 5 feet in the canal and
3 feet in the chute. Rain fell constantly
from 10 O'Clock last night until 6 O'Clock
this afternoon. 1t is now clearing off.
The mercury is ranging from $50 to 62'.
CINCINNATI, June 12.-The river has
fallen 2 inches, with IL feet Inch in the
channel. A steady rain has fallen during
the day. Arrived-ThOmas F. Eckhert,
from New Orleans.
ST. LOUIS, June I2.-Arrived: Belle
Memphis, from Memphis. Departed:
Mohawk and barges, for New Orleans.
The river is still falling. Weather alter
nately clear, cloudy and cool, with slight
showers this afternoon.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Commercial came in from Evans
vile and goes into retirement. There is
not business enough in the trade to
justify.
The Alice Dean passed up yesterday.
She added two hundred and thirty bales
of cotton here.
The Mollie McPike arrived from the
Arkansas yesterday. She laid over here
several hours to clean out her boilers.
The City of Cairo, Captain James F.
Luker, will pass down to-day for Vicks-
burg and the bends. She carries the Uni
ted States mail Charles P. Hough is
chief clerk.
The Belle Memphis, Captain John
Crane, will back out to-day for Cairo and
st. Louis. She connects with the trains
north and east. Billy Blenker and Glenn
Manson are her clerks.
The st. Francis will, as usual, get away
for all landings on the st. Francis river
tomorrow. Tom Bowman is master.
The Des Arc, Captain William Elliott.f
leaves tomorrow for all landings or
White river. Tip and Arthur Field ae
her clerks.
The chief mackerel-our cotempOrery
of the Acknowledgement fishing on Satur-
day. He was not a success as a fisherman,
but he caught a duckiDg, ana, in conse-
quence, was wrapped up in fd4nel blank
cts, ETC., all day yesterday.
There are several steamboat clerks ia
town out of employment. They talk of
building a boat OF the cooperation plan,
and will do so at an early day no doubt.
The u. s. mail packet Thos. II. Allen
will back out this evening for Pine Bluff, |
Little Rock and all way landings on the
Arkansas. She connects with the pack
cts for Fort Smith. Ed Rowland COM
mands and Messrs. Morrison and Wad-
dell are her chief clerks.
The Richmond will be due from st.
Louis in a day or two.
The Rubicon, from Vicksburg to st.
Louis, no doubt passed up during the
The Natoma, Indiana and Great Repub-
lie are all due to-day from New Orleans.
The Natoma will lay over here until to-
when she will get away at 5 pm.
for Cincinnati.
The towboat Bee and barges passed up
yesterday morning.