Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-05
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The City Of Alton, from New Orleans,
less than four days out, arrived at noon,
discharged five hundred and seventy
five packages Of merchandise here, and
left for st. Louis with four hundred
ton cargo and light passenger trip.
The q. W. Cheek, from the lower
coast, arrived with. fair trip Of cotton
and seed.
The Belle st. Louis is the United STATES
mail packet for Vicksburg tomorrow.
The City of Chester, from st. Louis,
arrived with a fair cargo Of grain and
produce.
The towboat Smoky City, from
Natchez, arrived early yesterday morn
ing, three days and nineteen hours out,
with eight empty boats and barges in
tow. She added a few stores here and
left for the Ohio at noon.
The City of Vicksburg, from st. Louis,
came in before dark, discharged one
hundred tons of freight here and de-
parted for below with five hundred
| ton cargo. Mr.. Garrett Hulls, her chief
clerk, stops OFF here on account OF i'll
/ health.
| The excursion trip up the river yester-
/ day was a grand success. The Emma
| G. Elliott, Celeste, John Overton and
Laura were all crowded with pleasure
/ seekers.
The City Of Helena, Captain Mckee,
1 leaves this evening at five o'clock for
Cairo, St. Louis and al way landings.
| Mr.. VIII. T. Powers holds forth in the
office.
The passenger steamer A. J. White, in
| command of Captain Mark Cheek, leaves
! this evening at five CLOCK for Napoleon,
1 Chicot and all the bend landings. r. P.
/ Fields, Billy Smither and Charles Sharpe
are her clerks.
/ The regular United States mail packet
Phil Allin, Captain James Lee, leaves
/ this evening at five o'clock, sharp, for
/ Friars Point and all the usual way land
I ings. Stack Lee and Billy Gray are her
/ prime ministers.
The Mary Boyd, Captain Ed. Now
| land departs at six O'Clock this evening,
I sharp, for Pine Bluff, Little Rock and
all points on the Arkansas river.
| The Lady Lee, Captain Shields, leaves
this evening at four O'Clock for Shreve-
port direct.
The regular Ohio river packet Nash
vile, Captain Drinkwater, leaves this
evening at five O'clock positively for
Cincinnati and all points on the Ohio
river. Mr.. Al. CrOxall, a clever gentle
man, has charge Of the office.
The Msdison Courier Of Wednesday
says: "The Davenport, st. Louis bound,
was run into by the towboat Brown at
Vevay bar this morning. Her forward
guards were broken. She stopped at the
shipyard here, where J. B. Stuart & Co.
repaired her 80 far as to enable her to go
on her way. Contrary to expectations,
Captain Lou. Shields is in. Louisville.
What the attraction there is we are un-
able to tell, but will, probably, when he
starts from there to Canada. Captain
Thomas Harmon, an old Nashville
steamboat Captain and an uncle to Cap
tains VIII and Tom Harmon, died here.
The following boats are laid up between
here and Carondelet: Fannie Keener:
Rock Island, Dexter Continental, Capt.
tol City, Thompson Dean, st. Joseph,
Marble City, (sOOn to undergo general
oyerhauling) Savannah, Susie Silver,
wrecking boats Salvor, Salvor No. 2, and
Submarine No. IA, City of Keithsburg,
P. w. Shader, Commonwealth and the
Carrie V. Kountz. The Fontenelle ar
Tiveu yesterday from Benton. She Wis
out about thirty-two days on the round
trip, having left this port on the ninth
of April. She had to take her smoke
stacks to pass under the Leavenworth
bridge
The st. Louis Repu5licGn Of the third
says: The river at this port is falling
slowly. The Illinois river. is getting
quite low. The upper Mississippi, by all
accounts, is getting to be troublesome to
boatmen. On the rapids there is not
more than three feet four inches. The
steamers plying in the upper Mississippi
trade are compelled to carry lighters to
assist them in passing over the shoals.
Business here is encouragingly. active.
The Mississippi Valley transportation
Company's barges, the Kyle and the
Tolle, and the Memphis and Vicksburg
packet lines, were al receiving fair car
goes for the South yesterday. There is
not a great excess of tonnage at this
port