Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-03

and above st. Louis four feet scant to
Quincy, and above there navigation is
suspended. The rise in the Ohio reached
Louisville yesterday and is coming down
at the rate of four miles an hour, but
will make no very great difference in
the channel or stage of water here. The
river at Cincinnati had fourteen feet
eleven inches in the channel and had
not then ceased rising. The lower trib-
utaries are bad. White river has thirty
two inches over Little Island bar and
the Arkansas has only sixteen inches
over Rob Roy bar, and not water enough
above Little Rock to float a toy sailboat.
The weather yesterday was clear and
pleasant.
Signal TeI IegramS.
The change Of the rivers and depth
of water above low water mark at differ
ent points above and below as reported
last night were as follows: st. Paul,
depth two feet ten inches; Davenport,
one foot seven inches; Cairo, three feet
two inches, river fell one inch; ST.
Louis, five feet five inches and station
sry; Pittsburg, five feet six inches and
fell nine inches; Cincinnati, fifteen feet
one inch, and rose nineteen inches;
louisville, five feet eight inches, and
rose two feet two inches; Nieksburg,
two feet, and fef1 one inch; Nashville,
stationary, three inches above low water
and ten inches on Harpeth Shoals.
sly Telegraph.
EVANSVILLE, November 2.-Weather
cloudy and cool. Mercury 39'. The
river has fallen ] inch. Business mode
rate. Signs of snow.
CINCINNATI, November 2.-The river
is rising, with IA feet II inches water
in the channel
LOUISVILLE, November 2-River has
risen 2 feet, with 5 feet inches water
in the canal and feet 8 inches in the
chute Weather clear and turning cool.
Departed: Mollie Ebert, Memphis.
Movement Of Boats.
There was a fair amount of business
done at the landing yesterday, the local
packets coming in for good share of
it. The CIeburne came up in the morn
ing with one hundred and sixty bales
cotton, five hundred and eighty
two sacks of seed, and vert back
at dark with a fair trip. The
Glasgow, from st. Louis, passed
down at daylight yesterday morning,
with fair trip, for New Orleans. The,
Belle Vernon got away at dark with
one hundred and ninety bales
Of cotton and five tons of old
iron, for the Ohio. The Nick
Longworth, five days ont from Cairo,
came down early, having been helped
over the bar at Island Forty by the Oil
City, as stated yesterday. and went Oh
down with q good trip, doing nothing
here. She lost thirty-two hours by stop
ping at Island Forty The Legal Ten
der departed for ST. Louis at dark, TAX
ing one hundred and seventeen
bales Of cotton for that point.
She enters the "Anchor Line"
but as an independent packet,
that company haa4s telegraphed
that they would give her day out.
The r. j. Walt will doubtless follow
suit, as the st. Louis Company are about
to lay up nearly all of their large boats
and put lighter ones in their stead. The
Emma c. Elliott came down at dark,
and rounded to at the Elevator to put
out her cargo, amounting to three hun
dred and fifty tons. The f. H. Durfee
came down before dark, loaded to the
waters edge, with fully one thousand
tons, loading her down to six feet, and
was as trim" with her heavy load as
Mate Tom Bolie could make her She
brought down a number of passengers
and Clerk Kerr, of the sunken steamer
Belfast, and YVES to have laid here until
daylight this morning, her pilots Hood
and Jones, not caring to risk Reeves bar
at night, as they had brought her through
and over a thousand bad places without
hardly using her spars. She was fivesl
days out from st. Louis, and considering
the condition of the river made excel !
lent time. The Little Rock was detained
by low water and the fog, and will not
arrive from the Arkansas until to-day.
The Jennie Howell for White river and
Celeste for 0seeola had good trips.
Miscellaneous.
Compressed cotton is carried from
here TO st. Louis at fifty-five cents per I
bale.
The Elliott line OF steamers, running |
in White river, have been temporarily |
on account of extreme low |
water and scarcity Of business. They |
will resume, however, on the first rise.
The Little Rock had not passed Helena /
at a late hour last night, having been
detained by fog and low water, but viii |
be up to-day to leave tomorrow for the |
The Cherokee, from New Orleans, ar
rived at Pine Bluff on Thursday, having /
been five days going from the Post y 1
10 Pine Bluff, and seven days from the |
mouth Of White river. If there is |
money in that kind of navigation, we /
have yet 10 learn it.
Cotton is taken by boat from points I
on the Arkansas river to New Orleans /
ut four dollars and half, and Is brought |
here at three dollars bale, but it takes /
q boat two weeks to make a round 1 p,
and without rain soon that stream viii /
have no boats to bring the cotton out.
On Monday the larger boats of the /
Anchor line will be Withdrawn, and !
llght-draught boats placed In the Mem /
phis and NicksbuTg trade. This viii ne /
5essitate another advance in freights.
The steamboats, aud railroads at New |
Orleans have together formed tariff Of /
ireights, which went into effect We'd |
nesday last. By this agreement the (
-ates are SO fixed with the difference Of /
that it will be equal on either (
boat or rail.
The Department Of Justice at Washing /
ngtOn has directed that guit be imme- 1
1iately instituted against the owners of c
he steamer Metis, in accordance with 4
The provisions of the steamboat law |
The Steamboat Inspector at Providence /
..Gs been directed to furnish the evidence {
during the recent iuvestiga- I
ion Of the disaster.
The average monthly mean of the
last month was 30.149. The 4
average mean of the Thermometer was
So, and the rainfall during the month, (
!. .2S inches,
Captain Tehudi says one OF the St.
Louis river reporters has the horse dis
ease, and-bad fellow that he is-tne
Denl0erat man gives the name Of the
Individual.
John Stevens, the watchman, and 4
his wife, narrowly escaped death by the 4
burning OF the Kate Kinney, the flames /
gave them no time to dress, and they
1ad TO descend hastily by the derrick /
from the cabin to the lower deck.
The Submarine No. IA has been IN J,
.he possession OF the United States MaIa
hal at Yieksbnrg for several weeks past
she having been ''gObbledn at the in
stance Of suit in which Captain Leath-
ers is plaintiff.
The Katie, doubtless, left New Orleans
asst night for this city.
Tue bridge from San francisco 10
Goat Island Is to be tubular concern,
water tight, and held up by large buoys.
Pilots Hood ana Jones, Of the Durfee, 4
report six feet-stick measure-of vatar
10 Cairo. and tell Us that Paint Pleas (
ant, Island ThiGty, Osesala and Bulletin
laEs aFe the worstplaces.
Included in the Durfee's freight items ]
for New Orleans yesterday there wera i.
three thousand barrels CT doaz five 4
thousand two hundred pales Of hay and .
hfteen hundred sacks of corn. She had j
also 3 large cargo of bacon. eabbages,
aud ether truck.