Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-18

es; Ieavenworth, one inch; Nashville,
fifteen inches; Omaha, two inches; st.
Paul, two inches; Pittsburg, two inches;
Shreveport, one inch; st. Louis, one
inch. At Cincinnati it rose fifteen inch
es; Louisville, eleven inches; Vicksburg,
three inches. At New Orleans it is
stationary. Weather clear and warm.
Business on the levee yesterday was
only moderate.
BY Telegraph.
CAIRO, June 17.-Arrived: Shannon,
New Orleans, 10 pm; Idlewild, Evans
vile, 10 am; Andy Baum, Memphis,
midnight; Dictator, Paducah, 8 am;
City of Alton, New Orleans, pm. De-
parted: Shannon, Evansville, II pm;
Idlewild, Evansville, Z am; Andy
Baum, Cincinnati, 10 am; Emile La
Barge, Red river, ! pm; Dictator,
Memphis, 4 pm; City Of Alton, st.
Louis, 6 pm; Great Republic, New Or
leans, Z pm; City of Vicksburg, st.
Louis. Weather clear and warm. The
river has fallen four inches.
PITTSBURG, June 17--Weather clear
and warm. The MOnongahela river is
falling, with feet l inch water in the
channel.
rising, and stands with IA feet water
in the channel. Arrived: r. B. Hud-
son, Wheeling. Departed: Argosy,
Pittsburg.
NASHVILLE, June 1.-THE river is
falling, with 3 feet water on Harpeth
Shoals. Weather dry and very warm.
Arrived: Umpire and Eddyville, Upper
Cumberland. Departed: Umpire and
Eddyville, Cairo.
LOUISVILLE, June 1.-THE river is
rising very slowly, and now stands feet
in the canal, and feet incheS4n the
chute. Weather clear and warm. Mer-
curry S00 to So. Freight is scarce. Ar
rived: Key West, Sam Brown, Jno. Dip
pold, Pittsburg; Charmer, Evansville
Departed: Key West, Missouri river;
Charmer, Cincinnati; Jno. Dippold,
Pittsbuag; Falls Pilot and eight barges,
Evansville. a number of baTges of coal
have put through the canal for Southern
ports.
EVANSVILLE, June l7.-Weathe clear
and very warm. Mercury so at noon
The river has risen eight inches, and is
stationary. Port list-Down: Brill, 8
pm; TarascOn, $3.50 pm; Evansville,
IL pm; Mary Ament, 2 am; John Kill
golIr, am; Quickstep, am; Rock
Island, Z am; Ada Heilman, z am;
Tom Reese and baTges, am. Up:
Robt. Mitchell, pm; Fayette, pm;
TarascOn, 10 pm; Lady Lee, II pm;
Arkansas Belle, Z pm. Business fair.
NEW ORLEANS, June 17.-Arrived: I:
Bismarck. No departures. Weather
clear. ThermOmer SO.
VICKSBURG, June 17.-Boats up; Po-
tomac, 10 am; Kate Kinney, ! pm;
James Howard, 8 pm; John Kyle, 8
pm. Weather clear and warm. The
river is rising.
ST. LOUIS, June 17.-Arrived: Belle
LrCrosse and Mitchell, st. Paul; Hart
ford, Evansville; John Means, Pome-
roy; Dexter, Davenport; Annie john
son, Galena; Grand Tower, Memphis; :;
Continental, New Orleans. Departed: !:
Minneapolis, st. Paul; Harry johnson,
Keokuk; City of Quincy, New Orleans;
City of Chester, Memphis; Strader, Pc
Oria City; City Of Cairo, Louisville.
The river is falling slowly. Weather
clear and warm.
LITTLE Rock, June Weather clear
and pleasant. The river is falling. Ar
rived: Fort Gibson from above De-
parted; Pat Cleburne, Memphis; Mollie
Ragan, Cincinnati.
miscellaneous.
The tow-boat Mohawk passed down
yesterday morning after leaving two
baTges Of coal for Brown & Jones, of this
city.
The Mary Houston, from the Okio,
went south during the morning with
nine hundred tons of freight.
The a. J. White came in with
eighteen bales Of cotton, eighty sacks of
seed. and q lot of sundries to order.
The tOw-bOat Charley Mcdonald ar
rived from the Ohio with three barges OF
coal for Mcdonald d Co. She returned
at Sark with tow of empty barges.
The Belle Memphis, from st. Louis,
arrived with a five hundred ton cargo,
several items of which We're six hundred
barrels of flour, two hundred and thirty
four bales of hay, two hundred and
eighty-seven sacks Of corn, and two
hundred and eighty-two sacks of oats.
She returned at dark with fair way trip
and thirty-siX ChOctaw Indians for
Cairo.
The Charles Bodmann, from New Or
leans, four and a half days out, dis
charged twenty-five tons of freight here
and had three hundred tons for the Ohio
and one hundred and seventy cabin pas
sengers.
The John Howard, from Little Rock
for st. Louis, passed up yesterday after
noon without landing.
The Thomas II. Allen, from the Ar
kansas, brought in fifteen bales of cot
ton, three hundred and seventy-nine
sacks of seed and q fair passenger list.
FUhn ftffxr Of LInIov,o a,
rived with one hundred and fifty tons of
freight for this point, and departed for
below at dark with fair trip.
The Belle st. Louis is the United
States mail packet for st. Louis to-mor-
row.
The John Kyle will pass up tomorrow
for st. Paul direct.
The regular semi-weekly coast packet
A. J. White, Captain Mark Cheek,
leaves this evening at five o'clock for
Napoleon, Chicot City and all way land
ings. She connects at the mouth of
White river with the steamer Batesville
for all points ON White river. B. P.
Fields and Charlie Sharpe are her popu-
lar clerks.
The reliable passenger packet Thomas
H. Allen, in command Of Captain
Eugene Smith, leaves this evening at
five o'clock for Pine Bluff, Little Rock
and all the usual way landings. Col
onel Pat Morrison and Bob Gillespie are
her clerks.
The fleet passenger steamer st. Fran
els, Captain T. r. Bowman, leaves this
evening at five o'clock for Helena, Ma
riana, Wittsburg and all the usual way
landings. Sam Paine and Billy Dean
are clerks.
The Great Republic, Captain Thorwei-
gan, leaves this evening at four o'clock
for New Orleans direct. Mr.. Philo
Young is clerk.
The Shreveport Southwestern, of the
twelfth, says: s'The weather for the past
week was all that steamboatmen could
wish for. Being very dry with the ex-
eeptiOn of Saturday evening and all of
Sunday it afforded them an excellent
opportunity for receiving and discharg-
ing cargoes. Since our last weekly is
sue the river opposite this point has
fallen seven inches. For the twenty
four hours ending at four o'clock yester-
day evening it declined one inch, which
left il at that hour nineteen feet four
inches above the lowest water of last
summer, and eight feet nine inches be-
low the highest water of the past
spring.
The Jefferson Democrat, of the ninth,
saws: "Our bayou is still falling, and
very rapidly too. The 'Dredge Boat
island if making its appearance. All
the points and stumps that were covered
a few days ago, are presenting them
selves. We have never seen water fall
any faster except during the storm on
Yesterday. We have nothing late from
above the raft, either by steamer, horse
man, canoe, glOg or plank.n
The StLouis Times Of the fifteenth says:
Charles Cole, a veteran boatman, has