Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-17
RIVER INTELLIGgNCE.
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The weather yesterday was as cold as
Greenland, and the strong northwester
that continued all the night previous,
did not abate in the least until nearly
sundown, and then the temperature did
not change much, but, If anything.
| dropped peg or so lower. The river
fell three inches for the twenty-four
hours ending at three o'clock IN the af-
| ternoon, and stood then three feet seven
| inches above low water, with full eight
feet to Cairo, and plenty Of water below.
| The water in the Arkansas is being
blown out rather too lively to suit steam
boatmen or shippers, and should that
| stream continue to decline as it has for
! several days past, there will not be
enough for boats to get as high as Pine
| Bluff; above there but twenty-one inches
is reported, and above Little Rock there
| is but ten inches. White river has
scant thirty inches at Little Island. and
| is falling. Last night signal kilograms
! do not explain that thirteen-inch rise
reported at St. Louis Thursday and a
similar decline the day following, but
| give the following changes since the day
| previous: At st. Paul decline of four
/ inches; at St Louis, two inches; Pitts
| burg, one inch; Cincinnati, eightincbes;
Louisville, four inches, and at Shreve-
! port and Nashville one inch each. At
! Cairo the river was stationary, and the
! only report Of rise was at Davenport,
where it rose one inch, and at Nicksburg
nine inches.
Movement Of Roats.
There were nine arrivals and thirteen
| departures yesterday. including local
packets, and nearly every boat had
something to take on or put off here, so
that there was a fair amount Of business
done. The Cleburne came up with two
hundred and sixty-seven bales of cotton
nine hundred and ninety-nine sacks of
seed. The Bodmann passed up early
with a light trip. The Idlewild, from
Evansville, arrived at daylight with
two hundred and fifty tons, Including
three hundred sacks corn, two hundred
and fifty sacks oats, two hundred and
eighty barrels cOrnmeal, and went back
at dark with seventy-five bales of cot
ton. The Thomas H. Allen brought
from White riverfive hundred and sixty
eight bales of cotton, and reshipped
sixty-thTee bales of cotton for New
Orleans. The Mollie Moore went up
during the afternoon, putting out sixty
four crates and twelve casks of crOckeFy-
ware, and had for st. Louis one thousand
sacks salt, three hundred tons govern
ment freight, sixteen tons scrap iron,
and about twenty-five thousand feet Of
pine lumber. The Carrie V. KouHtz also
passed up duTin-. the evening with four
hundred tons, including thirty-six hun
dred sacks salt for st. Louis, putting out
here twenty-nine casks chains, sixteen
casks pitch. The Andy johnson laid
over until nearly dark, when she left for
New Orleans, adding three hundred
bales cotton, ninety coOps poultry, aud
forty people. The Shannon, from Gin
cinnati, went south, before noon, with
a good trip. The Potomac departed
for Cincinnati with seventy five bales Of
cotton. The st. Luke brought two
hundred tons Of produce from St. Louis
and went bacRIight The Belle of Pike
left at noon with two hundred bales of
cotton for st. Louis. The Lawrence
from Cincinnati arrived at dusk with
three hundred tons Of furniture and pro-
duce, and lays over until Monday. The
Fort Gibson, fer the Arkansas, took two /
hundred tOns-as much as she could (
carry on the water, and the Armadillo !
for the Ohio, departed with two hundred |
and twenty-five bales of cotton for Gin
cinnati, twenty-five bales for CarrOltOn /.
and fifty tons of miscellaneous freight. !
This summed upthe business up to dark. /
By Telegraph.