Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-24

water mark, and three feet three inches
below high-water mark of 1857. The
changes elsewhere are as follows: AT
CAIRO II declined ten inches; Cincinnati
thlrty-seYeh inches; Leavenworth one
mem LoulsVths fourteen inches; Oma-
ha two mehesi Phksburg eleven inches
st Louis two inches; st, Paul one inch,
At Vicksburg 1t rose i've inches. New
Orleans five inches; Nashville tvreutv.
four inches; Davenport two Inches.
Weather clear and pleasant. Business
on the levee yesterday was fair, all the
loca packets leaving with good trips
There were six arrivals and nine de.
partures up to dark.
The Emile Labarge, from Red river,
passed up at noon yesterday with a lighi
trip.
The towboat Boaz passed down early
yesterday morning with a tow of coal
for points south.
The Henry Ames, from st. Louis,
with a fuel barge in tow, arrived yester-
day morning, put OFF fifty barrels oil
meal, added one hundred bales of cot
ton, and departed with a one thousand
seven hundred ton cargo for below, load
ed fiat.
The Marble City, from st. Louis, came
IN with a fair trip, two items Of which
were nine hundred and thirty-three bar
rels Of -four and four hundred and TWEEN
ty-one sacks of grain.
The John Kyle, from New Orleans,
i've days out, arrived at noon, dis
charged fifty tons of freight here, and
had seven hundred tons for above, in
Guiding one thousand six hundred bars
railroad iron and three hundred tons OF
sugar.
The Glasgow, from White river,
brought in sixty bales of cotton, added
one hundred and f~fty-nine bales, and
left for the Ohio with a fair trip.
The A. j.. White, for Napoleon, st.
Francis for Wittsburg, and Legal-Ten-
de- for White river, all departed with
fair trips of freight and passengers.
The Grand Lake, No. 2, and the J. II.
Bigley, passed down during the day
with lows of coal.
The Minneola departed with eight
hundred bales cotton for Cincinnati.
The Marble City departed with a fair
way trip.
The harbor tug, P. J. Report, was sold
yesterday to Mcdonald 4 Co, coal
dealers, for ffteenhundred dollars. She
goes to Island Eighteen for towing pur-
poses.
The Little Condor arrived yesterday
with three barges of salt for Banksmith
& Co, of this city.
The MOiie Moore from st. Louis,
passed down at noon, without landing.
A barrel Ofpork fell on q negro rouster
on the Marble City, as it came out ofthe
hatchway, and nearly broke his neck.
The Continental, from st. Louis, ar
rived at dark, and lays over until this
morning. She adds here three hundred
bales of cotton and about one hundred
tons of oil cake.
The Mary Boyd is the regular Friday
Arkansas river packet.
The City of -Vicksburg will pass down
tomorrow for Vicksburg.
The Phil Allin, Captain James Lee.
leaves this evening at five O'Clock for
Friars Point and all way landings.
Lee and James G. Harris are her
The new and fine passenger steamer
Potomac, in commando Of Captain Batch
elor, leaves this day at twelve O'Clock
for Vicksburg. Mr.. S. ]. Bachelor holds
forth in the office.
The Mary Miller, Captain James Paul,
leaves this morning at ten O'Clock for
Cincinnati.
The passenger steamer Continental
this morning at ten O'Clock for
V~icksburg and New Orleans. Captain
Luther Il. Woods is purser.
The st. Louis Times Of the twenty
first says: "Messrs. Houghton and Rey-
nolds, lOcalinspector of Louisville, have
published a card warning engineers of
the peculiar dangers attending naviQa-
ton during the present high stage of
water. The large amount of vegetable
and mineral matter held in the river
water creates a thick sediment in the
which cakes badly and renders
hem liable to burn. A constant atten-
ion to this matter on the part Of en-
will certainly be Of benefit to the
travelling public.n
The st. Lous Democrat of the twenty
second says: "The Mohawk left at
lawn of day yesterday, for New Or
cans, towing three barges containing
twenty-five hundred tons of freight.
Two of the boilers of the old Virginia
ire being placed in Charles Gallagher's
Touring mill, at Cairo. Steamboats, are
that, in consequence of a strike
II the Grand Tower Company's miners,
he company are unable to supply boats
their own coal, but will tryto pro-
;ure enough Of other Illinois coal to run
heir yard.n
Phe New Orleans RcoyaQe, of the
list, says: 'aThe greatlow-pressure Rich
nond left last evening for st. Louis,
one hundred passengers and up
wards OF seven hundred tons freight, in
three hundred tons of iron.
The John Howard, for Arkansas river,
lad three hundred tons railroad iron,
wO hundred tons of ice, fifteen hundred
aoks salt, and a large miscellaneous
The Colossal, for White river,
lad five hundred tons Of railroad iron.
The Richmond had on board yesterday,
'Ound to Memphis, three stables of race
took.V - H-r
The Vicksburg Times, of the Goth,
avs; 1.-THE steamer Ella Belle was burned
about twenty miles above
bayou. The boat was coming
o this port with a load of cotton and
eed. She had on board about one hun
red bales of cotton, and W. six hun
red sacks of seed, all of which, except
even bales of cotton, together with the
'essel, was destroyed"
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