Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-22
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.


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Frank Forrest, TH. Allen, sam J. Hale
e Rivers, weather, Business.
}, The weather was more mild yester.
t day, and after noon few drops of rain
: fell, leaving the weather rather cloudy
: at night. The river has not changed
: any since our last report, aud is now
: three feet four inches above low water.
/ Nearly all Of the upper rivers are closed
: by ice, and the southern tributaries are
: not yet reported rising. The Ohio is
falling, and the Tennessee, Cumberland,
I. Wabash, Kentucky, Kanawha, Musk
5 iDgum and other tributaries Of that
stream are still unnavigable, or falling
White is so low that even the lightest
: draught boats are compelled TO tighten
over Little Island, and the Arkansas
is down to within an inch of the lowest
, stage of the season. Taking all
, these things into consideration,
the outlook from a steambOatman's
standpoint is something besides encour-
aging. With these slight Inconvenience
il will be borne in mind that rates are
decidedly low. Hence to New Orleans
one dollar and twenty-five cents per
bale on uncompressed cotton, and four
dollars per long ton on oil-cake; and
seventy-five cents per compressed bale
on cotton to Evansville, and one dollar
to Cincinnati, ID which point il takes a
week to make q trip. III there is money
/ ia tnat trade, or in bringing cotton from
the Arkansas OF White rivers to this
city at one dollar and fifty cents per
I bale, when it takes a boat ten days to
make a trip, we fail TO observe it; and
the result, without the aid of the " Flipi-
/ lptic" among the horses and mules,
Will be withdrawal and stump-choking
/ of at least half of the few boats now
running. Yet with all this our own
boat-owners are not unhappy, but look
/ for the d" better times coming"
BY Telegraph.
| CINCINNATI, November 2l.-The river
/ is stationary, with feet water in the
I channel.
! CAIRO, November 21.-Arrived: EN-
ma c. Elliott, from memphis, 9 am.
Departed: Mary Alice, for New Orleans,
/ 10 pm; City of Chester, for Memphis,
/ II pm; Idlewild, for Memphis, l pm.
River has fallen inches. Weather
cloudy and moderating.
PITTsBURG, November ,.2l.-The Mo-
nOugaheia river is about stationary, with
feet inches water in the channel.
EVANSVILLE, November 2l.-Weath-
er cloudy and cold, with signs of rain.
Mercury ranged from 25' to 420. The
river has fallen 6 inches. Business
dull.
LOUISVILLE, November 2l.-River
falling, with feet water in the canal,
and , feet in the chute. Weather clear
and moderated.
NASHVILLE, November THE r1ver
is stationary, with is inches water on
Harpeth Shoals. Weather milder, and
raining tonight.
VICKsBURG, November 21.-No boats
down. Up: Lewis and Joe Kinney. |
Weather clear and cool. The river is !
falling.
New ORLEANS, November 2J.-Ar-
rived: Minneola and barge, from Gin |
ciunati; Pauline Carroll and Andy John |
son, from st. Louis. Departed: Mollie |
Ebert, for Cincinnati; Commonwealth, |
for st. Louis. Weather clear and cool.
ST. LOUIS, November 21.-Arrived. |
Mollie Moore and Carrie V. Kountz, |
from New Orleans; Belle of Pike, from |
Memphis. Departed: City of Quincy, |
for Vicksburg. The river is falling. |
Weather cloudy and warmer, with snow |
this afternoon. There are thirteen boats |
at the island below HOrse-tail brr. At |
Jefferson Barracks there is only about |
feet water.
LITTLE Rock, November 2l.-The |
river is very low. Weather clear and
cool.
Movements OF Boats.
The local packets did a small land
office business yesterday, the st. Francis |
bringing up one hundred and seventeen /
bales of cotton, and the Cleburne one /
hundred and fourteen bales of cotton |
and five hundred sacks seed, both going |
back at dark with fair trips. The Mary |
Houston passed up for the Ohio early in /
the day, putting out two hundred pack |
ages, and had three hundred tons be /
sides. The Mayflower came up this |
morning with seventy-five bales of cot
ton, and went back to New Orleans be- |
fore dark with five hundred and thirty |
five bales of cotton. The w. F. Curtis |
passed down late in the day from Evans |
vile, and had full trip, but did nothing
here. The Arlington departed for Gin |
cinnati with six hundred and fifty bales
of cotton and fifty bales of rags.
Boats Going To-Day.
The steamer ~ J. White, Cap
tain Mark Cheek, leaves this after
noon at five o'clock for Napoleon and /
all bend landings. Messrs. Fields, |
Smithers and Sharpe are her secreta-
ries.
The tri-weekly passenger packet Phil /
Allin, Captain James Lee, leaves this |
evening az five o'clock for Friars Point |
and the usual way landings. Messrs. |
Gray and Cannon are her clerks.
The United States mail packet G. w. |
Cheek leaves this evening at five o'clock |
for Friars Point and all the way land |
ings. Captain Malone commands, and |
Messrs. Wildberger and Jackson are her
clerks.
The Frank Forrest, Captain Sexton,
will back out at five O'clock this even
ing, from The foot of Union street, for
Fulton and intermediate plantation /
landings. Mr.. o. X. Japlin, is chief
purser.
The City of Chester, Captain Zeigler, /
leaves this evening at five o'clock for
Cairo and st. Louis, and makes all /
business landings, as well as direct con-
nections with the railroads at Belmont |
and Cairo.
The Continental viii be here TO leave
at noon to-day for Vieksburg, Natchez
and New Orleans.
Miscellaneous.
The Dardanelle, for the Arkansas and
Jennie Howell for white river, will de-
part from the wharfboat tomorrow
evening.
The James ID. Parker goes out tO-mor-
row evening for the Ohio.
The City Of Helena and the Colorado |
are choking stumps at Cairo.
A Cincinnati telegram received last
night announces that the Ohio River |
Improvement Convention adjourned to /
meet at the call Of the President. 1t i
adopted resolution to invite the Gov
ern0rs of all the States interested in the
improvement of the Ohio river to send /
delegates to the next convention. The
Executive Committee reported a me-
mortal, to be presented to Con-
gress, which was adopted and a COM
mittee appointed to present il. It asks
Congress to consider the Ohio river inn
prOvement as national measure, and
not as a local project, as heretofore. It |
argues that the States of Ohio, Indi-
ana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia,
Kentucky, Illinois and Tennessee, and
the States represented in the conven-
ton and directly interested in the inn
provements asked, contain thirty-five
per cent. of the population of the United
States, and yield forty per cent. of the
farming products Of the nation as shown
by the last census, and in 1855 they paid
over one-third of the revenue Of the
nation. 1t asks an appropriation
of two million dollars to defray the
expenses of the surveys, with
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