Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-18
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
EOats Leaving To-Day

Mary river
Grand Towe Louis
SOlOT &c cAsD u
City of White river
Rivers. Weather and business.
The river opposite this city has de-
clined three inches since our last issue,
and shows by the gauge eight feet two
inches above extreme low-water mark.
The changes of the rivers elsewhere are
as follows: At Ke0kuk it declined one
inch; Pittsburg, three inches; Cincin-
natl, ten inches; Louisville, three inch
es; Vicksburg, thirteen inches. at Om-
aha it rose one inch; Cairo, one inch;
st. Louis, two inches; Nashville, fifteen
inches. At Davenport and Fort Benton
it is stationary. Weather clear and
warm. Business on the wharf yesterday
was light; the local packets, however,
got off with fair trips.
by Telegraph.
CINCINNATI, August 1.-THE river
is falling, with feet inches water in
the channel. Arrived; r. C.Gray, from
Memphis.
LOUISVILLE, August 1.-THE river
is falling slowly, with 3 feet 10 inches in
the canal, and / foot 10inches in the
chute. Weather hot. Business dull.
Arrived: Smoky City and barges, from
New Orleans. Portland wharf will be
repaired Immediately.
LITTLE Rock, August I7.-Weather
clear and warm. River falling, with 5
feet water in the channel at this point.
Departed: ClarksviIle, for Memphis.
PITTsBURG, August 1.-THE Monon-
gahela river is about stationary, with
feet inches water in the channel by the
stone marks. Indications for more
water are good.
CAIRO, August 17.-Arrived: Fonte-
nellie, from st. Louis, S pm; Belle
Memphis, from st. Louis, 4 pm; City
of Chester, from Memphis, pm;
Henry Ames, from st. Louis, .. IN.
Departed: FOntenelle, for Red river, 4
am; Pauline Carroll, for New Orleans,
pm. River has risen l inch. Weather
clear. Thermometer so.
New ORLEANS, August 17.-NO arri-
walls. Departed: Glencoe, for st. Louis
Weather warm; heavy shower this
evening.
EVANSVILLE, August 17.-Weather
clear and hot. River stationary. Port
list-Down: Pink Varble, IL pm.
ST. LOUIS, August 17.-Departed: st.
burg, for Vicksburg; Utah, for Arkansas
river; Dexter, for New Orleans. River
rising slowly. The weather is clear and
warm.
NASHVILLE, August 1.-THE river
is rising slowly, with 80 inches water on
Harpeth Shoals. Weather fair and very
warm.
VICKsBURG, August I7.-Boats down
Colossal. Up: John f. Tolle. Weather
clear and warm. River falling.
Miscellaneous.
The Grand Tower, from st. Louis, ar
rived yesterday morning with a four
hundred and seventy-five-ton cargo,
several items of which were twenty-five
hundred and fifty dry barrels, eleven
hundred sacks of grain, four hundred
and fifty packages Of beer, one hundred
and thirty rolls of bagging and one hun
dred bales of hay. She returned at dark
with fair way trip.
The last boats out from Jefferson to
Shreveport report three feet in Cypress
bayou, above Boon bend, and four feet
in the lake, and the water falling slowly
The City of Augusta, from White
river, arrived with fair trip.
The II. s. Turner, from New Orleans,
went up yesterday morning before day
light, after discharging several small
lots of freight here, with one hundred
and fifty tons of freight for the Ohio and
cabin full of people.
The following are the freight rates from
st. Louis to Shreveport: Flour, 81 per
barrel; saddlery, $50 per 100; bacon, 65c
per 100; whisky, S2 per barrel; hard
ware, 81 per 100; No receipts given for
Jefferson freight.
The City of Vicksburg is the United
States mail packet for Vieksburg to-
morrow.
The Mary Alice and barges passed up
yesterday afternoon.
The Mary Boyd, for Little Rock, and |
City of Augusta, for White river, both /
departed with fair trips of freight and |
people.
The Pauline Carroll is the New Or |
leans packet tomorrow.
The Colorado, from st Louis, come in |
after dark, cOaled here and departed for |
Ficksburg with fair cargo.
The following are the rates of the diff /
ferent lines operating between st. Louis
and points south: To New Orleans, by |
pork, sixty, and pound freigbts twenty |
cents a hundred. The New Orleans
Packet Companv's steamers are eharg-
ing fifty cents for flour to New Orleans; /
pork, seventy-tive cents; whisky, two
dollars and twenty-five cents, and twen-
ty-five cents per one hundred for pound |
freight. The Merchants Southern Packet
Company are receiving for the John
Kyle on a basis of forty-five cents
barrel for -four to New Orleans, and
twenty-five cents per hundred pounds
for pound freight.
The United States mail packet Julia,
in command of Captain G.. w. Boyd,
leaves at five o'clock this evening for
Cairo and st. Louis. Mr.. VIM. GOebel |
is chief clerk.
The st. Louis DeBocrQs of the six
teenth instant says: "The Mary E. Poe
will be taken on the sectional docks and |
cut into four parts and her hull widened
out so as to give her greater capacity. |
The process will necessitate the length
ening of the boat slightly. By this
means it is supposed the Mary E. Poe
will become an eight hundred ton boat,
and clear a thousand dollars per trip .
more than her profits would be other
wise. She will be made twelve feet |
wider amidships. She will be taken out
en- the docks next week, under super
vision of Superintendent Silas Adkins. /
Captain John Spane intends to bring
the Bismarck to the wharf on Monday |
morning to load. The Susie Silver is /
expected 10 load next week for New
Orleans, as well as the Belfast. The
steamer City of Alton has been sold by
Z. A. Sheble, seven-eights, and P. w. |
Sheekley, one-eighth, to the City of
Alton Transportation Company, for |
twenty-fogr thousand dollars. Henry
Seaman has shipped as second clerk Of
the great Dexter. Captain w. Brolaski
has abandoned the river business, and
yesterday bought the st. James Hotel, |
corner Walnut and Fifth streets"