Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-11-23
RIVER NEWS.
Boat. Leartnr d
Boats I'm Port.
Pat Clebune. Ada Heilman. Belle Memphi
Rivers. Weather and business.

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Tn river is about sta ionary, but reported
rising above. kilograms below will give the
stage Of water at the principal ports. Business
was active At the wharf. The weather yester-
day was clear and cool.
ny Telegraph.
C4IRo, November 2-Arriyed: Marble City,
Memphis, 2 pm; Lucy ertram, New Orleans,
5 pm. X yer rose o inches. Very light snow
this morning. Weather now GEAR and cold.
V~IcKsBURG, November 2.-Passed down
h NJ. Shreve, s.m.; Glencoe, 8 a m. Weather
cool and clear. River IistAg slowly.
Mary Miller, st. Louis; H. s. Turner and City
OF Alton, ST. Louis.
PIrTsBURG, November 2.-Slight fall OF
snow to-day. The Monongahela, has 5 feet 7
inches in the channel, and stationary. The
Allegheny is falling above. No arrivals or
departures.
LITTLE RICK, November 2.-Rfver has risen
5 feet, and Is still rising fast, with Al feet out TO
the mouth. Arrived Little Rock, from above.
Departed: Utah, for above.
ST LOUIS, November 2~--Departed: MoLlte
Moore, New OrleRns; Fontenelle, Red river;
Alice, Memphis. River rising. Weather clear
and cold; mercury several degrees below the
freezing point. About an inch Of now fell
last night.
MILWAUKEE, November PA special dis
patch from Lacrosse says the Mississippi river
Is nlled with floating ice, and there Is a pros
pect Of a gorge, owing 10 the low stage OF the
water.
CIecIENArr, November 22.-Riyer IA feet In
the channel, having risen q inches IN the past
"A hours, and Is about stationary now. Light
snow this morning; oloudy, with a cold wind
from he north Tonight Departed MtnneOla,
Memphis; Texas u Charles Bodmsn, New
Orleans. Coal boats are still arriving, and the
Clipper yesterday sunk one barge and the Geo.
Roberts foul at 5nag bar. The former lOst one
at the pier OF the Newport and Cincinnati
bridge The Thompson Dean made u saLs-
factory trial trip to-day.
EVANSVILLE November ST. this morn
ing; now cloudy and cold. Mercury -. River
aIsceiIaneOusS
The Commonwealth, i've days on~ came In
from new Orleans with a barge in tow aud
discharged % barrels of oranges and ID crates
Of earthenware. hi had w tons OF freight
Tor st. Louis.
early yesterday morning and discharged IS
bales Of cotton and L43 sacks OF seed, and de-
parted for st$Eouis after adding SI bales OF
cotton.
The Lady Lee departed at noon yesterday for
Red river, drawing 81 feet.
Tue James Howard is still aground at Reeves
bar. She had to send up for n monster
coal barge to tighten her OF.
The Pat Cleburne came in from the Arkansas
with as bales bales Of cotton, and reshiPped p
bales at the mouth for New Orleans.
The Colorado arrived from St Louis, three
days out, added 81 tons freight and departed
for Vicksburg drawing seven feet.
The Ada Heilmsn came in from Evansville
with a good trip. She returns this evening for
above.
III. II. c. Yeager came In from New Orleans.
uN6 QdyS out, anu ulSGlhIBEu ADlIAN-olA SUCKS
Of salt, twenty-five barrels Of rosin, ano six
bales of cotton, and departed for st. Louis
with six hundre tons Of freight.
There are four nuudred bales of cotton on
the levee await z shipment TO New Orleans.
The Pat Cleburne leaves tomorrow for the
Arkansas river.
The Belle Memphis lays over until noon
Today
The Fanny Brandeis left for the Ohio with a
light trip.
The bismarck LEFT st. Louis last Tuesday for
The Great Republic, Belfast and Julia are
due from ABOVE.
Eae solicitor Of the treasury has decided that
any passenger steamboat carrying petroleum
oontrsry to law is subject 10 seizure, but the oil
itself is not. Also, that when carried accord
Ing TO law, oil petroleum must be marked at
what degree Fahrenheit II will ignite; aud the
transportation Of coal oil on passenger
steamers is entirely forbidden.
The city of Quincy, p. K Strader, Henry
Ames aud Mary E. Poe were due from below
last night.
The 70 Ike aammon is at Hopeheld,
and discharged four locomotives for the Mem
phis and Little Rock railroad.
From Louisville fretghts to New Orleans
were taken at the following rates Bacon, 4Uc;
pork. 81 per barrel; flour, SIC; potatoes, apples
and onions, 70 cents; whisky, -; hay, Sl2 per
ton: horses a d mul-s, IS and $ D.
This VIcksburg Herald Of the DIST inst. says:
The steamer Matte, a small JOb-boat, struck
a snag at strikers landing, near Greensboro,
and sun min water three feet over her main
deck. an9 being wrecked. She was valued
al SsUOO, and Is repoTTed Insured Tor $40"
The Louisville Courier OF the 2Ist says:
THE repairs of the and the new
outfit this season cost about twenty-five thou
sand dollars-.--The iron propeller just built
at ftttsburg will Tow sixty thousand bushels
OF GOAL 70 hemphtS--.--.-The licensed p lots OF
have organized themselves into an
association for mutual protection. Ca Ia
Hughes has been elected president, and @. 2.
Yarbrough, secretary The new steamer
City Of Helena was brought over from James
Howard, & Co.'S ship-ysrd yesterday evening,
and moored At the city wharf. She will leave
Headlight" will again be revived. II Is not
stated who Is TO be the editor"
Boats Leaving To-day.
For New O~RLEANs-The fine and elegant
passenger steamer Great Republic, Captain W.
II. 1hOrwegan, leaves to-day at 8 pm. for
New Orleaus and all way iandings. b
Young Is her chief purser.
FoR ERIARS POINT-Thel lively g. W. Cheek
leaves to-day at 3 IN. for FIiars Point ard all
the coast landings. Captain Mark Lhsek is
her commander.
FoR ST.. FRANCE RIvRR-The fine and ele-
CANT steamer 81. Francis, Captain Z. T. Bow
man. leaves to-day at 5 pm. for Helena, Ma
rlana and all points on the st, Francis. sam
I. Paine aud Ed Crowley are her CLERKS.
FOB ST. LoUIs-The fine steamer Belle Mem
phls, Captain Crane. leaves to-day at u m. for
Cairo and ST. Louis. Billy Blsnker is clerk.
FOR EVASsNILLE-The fine and feet pasSen-
ger steamer Ads Heilman, Captain J B. Halr'
ieaves to-day at 4 p N. for Cairo, Evansyn -
and all the coast landings Mr.. Oliver BraUI
Is her chief purser. ~