Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-17

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 bacRlight. 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-
duee, 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 twohundred
/ and twenty-five bales of cotton for Gin
cinnati, twenty-five bales for CaTrOltOn
and fifty tons Of miscellaneous freight.
This summed upthe business up to dark.
By telegraph.
PITvTsBURG, November l6.-The Mo
nongahela is receding slowly, with 5
| feet p inches water in the channel The
weather is cool.
NEW ORLEANS, November I6.-The
weather is clear and waIm. No arrivals.
Departed: Mary Houston, for Louis
| Vile; John Kyle and H. c. Gaeger, for
St. Louis; Maytiower, for Memphis.
CINCINNATI, November I6.-The river
| has fallen inches, with 10 feet inches
water in the cham l.
VICKsBURG, November 16.-Down:
James Howard and Governor Allen.
Up: Ouachita Belle and Fanny Lewis.
Weather clear and cool. The river is
falling.
NASHVILLE, November l6-The river
is falling, with q inches water on
Harpeth shoals. Weather cold and
clear.
ST. LOUIS, November 16.-The river
is falling. Weather cloudy and cold.
Arrived: City of Chester and Legal Ten
der, from Memphis; Atlantic, from New
Orleans. Departed: Grand Tower, for
Memphis; Kellogg, City of Cairo, Mary
Alice and Colossal, for New Orleans;
Exporter, for Arkansas river; Strader,
for Vicksburg.
LOUISVILLE, November l6.-River
is falling, with feet inches water
in the canal, and feet inches in the
chute. Weather clear and cold. Mer-
curry, 27o to 320 Arrived: John Kilgour
and James d. Parker, from Cincinnati.
The new locks are out of order. Water
will be shut off tonight, in order to get
at the cause Of the trouble. 1t is hoped
that the canal will be open tomorrow
night.
CAIRO, November 16. Weather cloudy
and cold. The river is stationary. Ar
rived: Mary Forsyth, from st. Louis,
pm; H. 5. Turner, from st. Louis, 4
pm; Emma c. Elliott, from st. Louis,
pm; Colorado, from st. Louis, 5 PM
Mohawk, from New Orleans; am;
Tom Jasper, from St. Louis, IL am.
Departed: Tom Jasper, for New Or
leans, I'm; Indiana, for New Orleans,
pm; Emma G. Elliott, for Memphis.
Thermometer, S40.
miscellaneous.
The H. S. Turner will pass down to-
morrow evening for Nicksburg and New
Orleans.
The City Of Cairo will be down from
the Ohio, to leave here on Tuesday for
New Orleans.
The Lawrence will be here TO leave on
Monday for the Ohio.
The Glasgow will be due up to-day.
The ChaTmer is coming down the Ohio
loaded flat for this city.
But one boat per day now leaves
Louisville for Cincinnati in the mail line
that leaves Louisville at noon.
st. Louis papers anticipate a six-inch
rise, unless the cold weather checks it.
Although six feet of water is reported
by the signal reports at st. Louis, pilots
report but four and q half feet over Dew
IFS Island.
The City of Cairo left Louisville
Thursday with one thousand barrels
cement, at sixty cents per barrel to New
Orleans, as her principal freight item.
She got but little other freight, owing to
the prevalence of the horse disease.
The Joe Kinney for Vicksburg, and
Colorado for this city, are theNnext An
chor Line boats due down.
There were fourteen steamers at the
landing and elevator at one time last
evening.
The Forsythe and Turner left st.
Louis Thursday evening for New Or
leans with full trips. The former had
six hundred tons and was drawing four
feet nine inches of water. She had also
seventy-hve cabin and sixty deck pas
sengers.
The c. B. Church took the Belfast's
undsmaged freight to its destination
from Cairo, and the remainder goes
back to St. Louis.
The last boat on the upper Mississippi
last season was the Viola, which passed
Burlington, going down, November
10Th. The ice commenced running No
vember 22d, and on the twenty-ninth at
eight O'Clock in the morning the river
closed.
The Mary Boyd for White river, and
the Little Rock forthe Arkansas, are an
nouneed to leave on Tuesday.
The White Collar line Of steamers
that are laid up for the winter are as
follows: Alex. Mitchell, Belle La Crosse,
Milwaukee and Jennie Baldwin, at La
Crosse, and the Northwestern and Phil (
Sheridan at St. Louis, the former only 1
temporarily, as she may go South after !
The Richmond does not come South /
for the present.
A heavy wind sent a score Of boats to /
the bank between Cairo and ST. Louis, /
Thursday.
RuEaer says Dan Rice has bought the /
Argosy to carry his show from one river /
point to another during the winter.
Last Fridays st. Louis Republican [
saws: HAmong the most important sub I
iects for consideration brought before the |
Cairo Steamboat Captains and Owners /
Convention, was that Of regulating the I
freight tariff on through bills Of lading, 4
where transfers aFe made to connecting 4
Inca. Heretofore steanboatnen have /
shared literally in the labor and care Of 4
transporting, but not in the profits, on /
snch bills Of lading.n
The following curious paragraph, per- /
haps. comes from Louisville, although /
we dnd Il in q st. Louis excbange:s
UNITED States Engineers, McRowan
and Calaphell, are having boats built At
JssneaYllls On sha 81. Francis river,