Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-10
old. The Mollie Moore and H. c. Yae.

cold. The MOllie Moore and II. G. Hae-
/ ger are loading for New Orleans.
i LOUISVILLE, December 9.-The rivel
is stationary, with feet 9 inches in
the canal and / foot 6 inches In the
chute. Weather cloudy and cold, and
Mercury DO. Arrived: Minneola
Memphis; Mollie Ebert, New Orleans
Departed: MinneOla, Mollie Ebert, and
J. ID. Parker for Cincinnati.
! NASHVILLE, December 9.-The river
is falling slowly with . feet water on
Harpeth Shoals. Weather fair and
cold. Mercury 290.
CAIRO, December 9.-Arrived: Ar
kansas Belle, Evansville, II am; Ty-
rome, Memphis, / pm. Departed
Mary Alice, New Orleans, pm; w.
J. Lewis, Vicksburg, 2p. M. Departed
Arkansas Belle, Evansville, 4 pm.
Belle ofPike, 4p.m.; H. S. Turner, New
Orleans, pm. River risen one inch.
/ Weather clear and cold. ThermOmeteI
rs. H
Boats Going To-day.
The st. Francis, Captain Bowman,
| leaves this evening at five o'clock fOT
Helena, Marianna, and all the usual be-
low landings. Mr.. Sam c. Paine is
chief clerk.
The A. ]. White, Captain Mark Cheek,
| leaves this afternoon at five O'clock for
Napoleon and all the bend landings.
Messrs. Fields, Sharpe and Smither are
her popular secretaries.
The light-draught passenger packet
Cherokee, in command of Captain Ed.
Nowland, leaves this evening at five
O'Clock for Pine Bluff, Little Rock and
all points on the Arkansas river.
The fine passenger steamer VIM. J.
Lewis, Captain VIM. Blake, leaves this
morning at ten o'clock for st. Louis and
all the bend landings. She has superior
accommodation and fare. Mr.. John
Blake is her prime minister.
The Utah, Captain Vorhies, departs
at ten o'clock this morning for Cairo
and st. Louis. Mr.. S. NJ. Shoate is
clerk.
The Z. G. Elliott, Captain Corbett in
command, leaves as above this afternoon
at five o'clock for Cairo and st. Louis.
Thomas Withledge is clerk.
The fine passenger steamer John Kyle
leaves this afternoon st three O'Clock for
New Orleans direct She has superior
accommodations and fare. Mr.. William
Brown is her purser.
Miscellaneous.
The Legal Tender is announced to
leave tomorrow for New Orleans.
A dispatch yesterday to the Cincinna-
ii Chronicle says the steamer Frank P.
Gracey, recently chartered by the Gin
cinnati and Memphis Packet Company,
struck a log opposite Slim Island, and
sunk in five feet of water, Sunday night.
She had cargo of four hundred bales Of
cotton. She is owned by Captain Simms
and James Bennett, of Nashville, and
was valued at fifteen thousand dollars;
insured for ten thousand.
A New Orleans telegram, received by
a business firm in this city, directs that
no more goods be shipped there, as trou-
bic was apprehended between the two
opposing political parties.
The Salvor No. is now at the wreck
of the H. NJ. Shreve, taking out her
cargo and machinery. The former will
be sent to st. Louis and sold.
The City of Quincy, coming up, has
four hundred tons of sugar for st. Louis.
A private letter, received at st. Louis,
announces the death, in Canada, of Cap
tain Thomas Hunter, q well-known
steam bOatman.
The ice over the Illinois at Peru is ten
inches thick.
The machinery of the H. NJ. Shreye,
as it lies in the wreck, has been pur-
chased by Captain Dave Powell for five
hundred dollars.
Captain Tom Berry was in town yes
terday, from his plantation in Walnut
Bend.
The Grey Eagle was raised with hand
pumps.
The United States Marshal at Cincin-
natl advertises for persons claiming any
interest in the Anna to appear on the
third Tuesday of December, and show
cause why that steamer should not be
sold pursuant to a libel filed by Peter
Eichels, one of her owners.
On last Tuesday Captains Shallcross
and King raised the hull Of the Kate
Kinney, scuttled and sunk at New Al
bany, October 18th.
A dispatch received here last night
announces the sinking of the Thomas
H. Allen below Devalls Bluff night be-
fore last. No particulars, however, were
given.
Freight rates from New Orleans to
Shreveport are five and one-third card
rates of 1883, of which the following is
the basis: Flour, 81 per bbl.; pork, IS
per bbl.; whisky, SO; bacon, by the
cask, $40; sugar, by the hogshead, $50,
and measurement freight eighty cents
per foot. Cotton from Shreveport to
New Orleans is carried at ten dollars per
bale.