Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-19

seventy-five bales Of cotton and one
hundred and forty-three sacks Of cotton
seed. The Phil Allin had one hundred
and forty-eight bales Of cotton and four
hundred and sixty-seven sacks Of cotton
seed. The Cheek had forty-three bales
of cotton and one hundred and eighty
three sacks Of cottOn-seed. The Frank
Forrest had seventy-three bales Of cotton
and two hundred and eighty-nine sacks
Of cOttOn-seed. The Emma G. Elliott
brought three hundred tons, and at dark
was taking six hundred bales Of cotton
at the elevator. The weather was
pleasant, but cool, during the early part
Of the day, and at night cold.
By Telegraph
CAIRO, December 1s.-AFrived: Quick
step, Evansville, an; Susie Silver,
New Orleans, 5 an; Robert Mitchell,
New Orleans, l PM Celeste, Memphis,
pm; Mary Miller, Louisville, pm;
Alaska, Cincinnati, pm. Departed:
Mary Z. Forsythe, New Orleans, pm;
City Of Quincy, New Orleans, 5 pm;
City Of Chester, Memphis, midnight;
Lawrence, Memphis, 2 am. Weather
rainy with sleet last night; clear and
cold to-day. River risen inches.
LOUISVILLE, December 18.-The river
IS falling slowly, with scant feet 10
inches in the canal, and foot 10 inches
in the chute. Weather cloudy with a
moderate sleet last night; streets icy to-
day. No business. Arrived; Sam. j.
Hale aud Shannon. New Orleans. No
boats going up. An ice gorge reported
above. Less ice floating to-day.
PITTsBURG, December Is. - The
river is about stationary, with feet ?
inches water in the channel. Weather
cool, with light fall Of snow this fore
aOon. No arrivals OF departures.
CINCINNATI, December 1s.-The uver
is falling, with Z feet 3 inches in the
channel.
NEW ORLEANS, December 1s.-NO
arrivals. Departed: James Howard,
Louisville; Glasgow, Mary Alice and
barges, st. Louis; John B. Maud, Chi
cot City; P. ". Strader, Memphis.
Weather cloudy and raining all day.
EVANSVILLE, December 1S.-Weather
cloudy, v ct and cold, with indications
Of clearing. Mercury go all day. The
river has fallen inches. Business ac-
tive. Port list-up: Arkansas Belle, 10
am Down: Leclaire No. ,, II am;
Mary Ament, 6 pm
NAsHvILLE, December 1S.-The river
is rising slowly, with . inches water
on Harpeth Shoals. A heavy rain last
night Weather cloudy and damp.
ST.. LOUIS, December 1S.-River fall
ing slowly, and full Of heavy ice.
Weather clear and mild to-day; two
inches Of snow fell last night.
VICKsBURG, December 1S-DOwn:
Belle Lee and PargOUd. Up: Bis
marck. Weather cloudy and cool. Riv-
er falling.
Steamers Going This Day.
The Tom Jasper, Captain Burke,
leaves this evening At two O'Clock for
New Orleans direct.
The Mary z. Forsyth leaves this
afternoon at two o'clock for New Or
leans. Captain GreenOugh commands.
The Andy Baum, Captain Vinton, de-
parts this afternoon at five o'clock, for
Cincinnati and all points on the Ohio.
The feet passenger steamer IlaBelle,
Captain Wood, leaves this afternoon at
three O'Clock, for New Orleans and all
the bend landings. J. J. DOdd is chief
clerk.
The semi-weekly passenger steamer
St. Francis, Captain Bowman, leaves
this evening at five o'clock for
Helena, Mariana and all the usual
bend landings. Messas. Paine, Dean and
Franklin are clerks.
The GAINESVILLE. Captain sam. Adams,
leaves for White river at noon to-day.
The Exporter, Captain Williams, de
parts this afternoon, at five o'clock, for
Cairo, in the Anchor line.
Miscellaneous.
Referring to the trip Of the Utah the
st. Louis Times of the seventeenth SAYS:
{" 1t is said there IS a movement on foot,
to present Captain Voorhees, with an ap-
prOpriate pair of horns for making
the longest time ever made from st.
Louis to Memphis"
The Belle Of Shreveport was to have
been let into the water from the CarOn-
delet ways on Tuesday.
\ Little Rock telegram saws the river
is on a stand-with scarcely sufficient
water to rust a fOur-penny nail.
The La Belle came up yesterday sf-
ternOOn and went to the elevator 10
unload her eargo-three hundred tons
the principal items being four hundred
and several barrels of mOlasses, one hun
dred and seventy-six hOgsheads Of
sugar, two hundred and fourteen barrels
of oranges, and would have brought
enough eOcOanuts to supply the State
one hundred and forty hOgsheads-had
the weather at New OTlesns been favor
able for packing.
When the La Belle passed Horn
Lake yesterday the Northwestern was
aground there with one of her baTges;
the other having fiOated five or six miles
down the river, was taken in tow by the
La Belle and taken TO the bank. The
Northwestern seemed hard and fast, and
too far from the channel to allow the La
Belle to render any assistance. The
officers of the La Belle report but five
and a half feet of water at Horn Lake
and Reeves. The channel has proba-
bly, filed up considerably during the
past fOrty-eight hours.
The Emma c. Elliott got six hundred
bales of cotton and left for Cairo late
last night, with Garret Huls in COM
mand.
The Chattanooga Times tells all about
a new boat, Just built there by Captain
Joseph Glover for the trade between
that city and lockwood. She has great
speed, as was shown on her trial trip,
when she ran eight miles an hour up
stream. She is named the J. T. Wilder,
and she is one hundred and fOrty-twO
feet long, twenty-seven feet beam, and
carries two hundred and twenty tons Of
freight.
Captain John GreenOugh telegraphs
that the Mary f. FOrsythe viii be here
to-day.
The little stern-wheeIer West Wind
came in yesterday afternoon from the
Ohio with three hundred tons of miscel-
for,.Dr,- er.srrHN s.,a1rsr1srarr ell lid Of
produce, and thirteen hundred barrels Of
-four, two hundred bales of hay, two
hundred and seventy sacks of oats and
one hundred and twenty-five barrels of
meal.
The City Of Chester telegraphs that
she will not be down tonight.
The tOwbOat Little Alps was to have
left last night with a fleet of empty
barges for Cairo, and viii there get
several barges and bring them down to
New Madrid, to be loaded with corn,
from which points she tOws them to
New Orleans.
The Northwestern added considerable
corn at Madrid at thirty-five cents per
hundred pounds.
The Dardanelle goes to White river
on Saturday.
OdpAdAlu Lettot I4lACllalN GdtAuE ONtA
from Little Rock by rail on Tuesday,
and reports the Arkansas nearly dried
up. The water is so low that the
Cherokee cannot come down from the
wreck of the Little Rock, with the cot
ton she saved from that boat and will
await a rise. Captain Pritchard says
that the Wharfmaster at Little Rock
has not collected a dollar wharfage in
over q month, there having been no
boats there in that time.
The Exporter mot ExpOsitOr, as the
types made US say yesterday went to
the elevator and began unloading her
river freight yesterday, and
loads in the Anchor Line to-day for
Cairo.
IIhara was last MIGHT over fr-n thou-