Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-02-16
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CAIRO, February I5.-Port list: Valid
| Louisville TO Sc. Louis, 10 pm Mary
Hamilton, Louisville 70 New Orleans,
IL pm; Sam. Brown, Memphis to st.
Louis, 4 am; Belle Memphis, Memphis
TO st. Louis, 5 an; City Of Chester. St.
I Louis to Memphis, 5 q m ". II. Brown.
Cairo 70 st. Louis, 6 am Glencoe. New
Orleans 70 Louisville, I pm; The Henry
Ames Is high and dry At Island 8 but lies
straight and in no danger. River fell g
inches. Weather clear. Mercury, 81.
NEW ORLEANS, February 1j.-Arrivsd:
Richmond from Cairo. Departed: I'm
porter, Arkansas river.
VICEsBUEG, February 15.-DOwn: Ed
inburg, SPIN; Virginia, 5 a m. Up: Mol
lie Moore, 9 am. River falling. Weather
clear and pleasant.
CINCINNATI, February l. River sta
tiOnary. Arrived: MinneOia. from Mem
phis. Departed: L~sonidas. for New Or
leans; Alics Dean, for Memphis. Weather
clear. Temperature, 40.
LOUISVILLE, February 15-Ths weather
is mild and cloudy Mercury, 50. The
river has fallen 3 inches, 4 feet 2 inches in
the chute, 6 feet . inches in the canal. Ru-
siness on the levss extremely dull. For
ty-eight boats and sixteen bargss with
one million two hundred Thousand BUSH
els Of coal here for lower points, seven
boats and one barge Of which are below
the falls, the rest above.
PITTsBURG, February l5.-Ths weather
clear and Eth8wing last. M~CuOugahsla
scant 5 feet but rising.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Phil AlIin came in with 81 bales
cotton.
The r. c. Gray brought In "a bales Of
cotton.
The Robert Burns left for Cincinnati
with 400 bales cotton.
The Utah brought 2J6 bales cotton from
the Arkansas.
The Thos. Fl. Allen came from Little
Rock wish 557 bales cotton. She rsshipped
90 bales AZ the mouth OF White river.
The George ". Cheek. Captain Marx
Cheek, leaves as usual to-day for Friar's
POin and al way landings. She is a first
class packet. Frank GOntermsn is her
clerk.
The Mary Houston Captain L. B. Dun
ham gets away at 10 am. for Vicksburg
and New Orleans. She takes passengers
senger packet. Harry Walker Is her chief
clerk.
The City OF Chester, Captain Alex.
ZeigIer, with J.. W. Baskstte in the office, |
to-day for Cairo and st. Louis She
is the regular packet.
The " old reliable" Rubieon will pass
down this evening for Vicksburg and the /
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mail, and Is prompt as a tewn clock. ALI.
GrissOm is her popular and careful mas
ter, and John Blake is her chief clerk.
The Chas. Bodmsn, Oliver ShinkIe mas
leaves to-day az noon for Cairo and
Louisville.
A fatal accident occurred on tho Belle
yesterday. See local columns.
The new irOn-huu steamer John T.
Moore came in last evening, and left at
for New Orleans She created a
sensation, and is doubtless one Of the
very finest steamers ahOat.
The Tom Jasper, eight days u from
New Orleans, passed up yesterday.
The NJ. J.. WlCks passed up Yesterday.
The Great Republic did not get away
from Hopeheld until yesterday morning.
She put of 700 tons railroad iron at that
point.
The Belle Lee left for New Orleans, with
500 bales cotton.
The freight Of the Sam Hale is coming
IN the Alice Dean.
The Pat Cleburne goes out on Friday
'Or Little Rock.
The r. G. Gray, in addition to the cot
on for this port, bad 900 bales OF cotton
or the East and added 200 here. She had
100 barrels of Oil from the Arkansas,
md q lot OF cOnfiscatsd tobacco presses
rom the Indian Nation.
The elevator question vas yesterday
by the Board to q committee. {
The st. Louis Republican says: "Ex- !
lieutenant Z. @. SJsnard, and Mr.. Lee I
& ShyrOck departed for the city Of Wash
1gtOu last evening, in the interests Of G
be Board OfTrade and Union Merchants [
Exchange, TO assist the committees from
lOuisVille, Cincinnati and Pittsburg in
the bridge-blOckade iuiquity, 9
pending before Congress. We hope
be Legislators of the nation viii pay re-
peCtul attention TO the representations c.
{ these gentlemen, who are in every g
qualified to present the importance /
( keeping open our great waterways to
commerce Of the people. It is a very
npOrtant matter and one which demands Z
he immediate and favorable action of Z
Ongress.