Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-10


! Weather clear and pleasant.
LITTLE Rock, November 9.-Tht
weather is clear and pleasant. Rive
rose 8 inches. but is now on stand.
CINCINNATI, November 9.-The rive
is falling, with s feet inches waite
in the channel. The Lawrence and Po
tomac departed for Memphis, and tn,
Edinburg for New Orleans.
Movement OF Boats.
The local packets arriving yesterday
| brought fair trips. The CIeburne had
! two hundred and sixty-one bales cotton
and one thousand five hundred and
| twenty-eight sacks cott0n-seed. The
! Tyrone departed just before dark with q
| load of oil-cake for New Orleans. The
| H. NJ. Shreve came down from St
Louis with three hundred tons of grain
and produce, and went back at night
with q light cargo. The Yaeger got
away at day light with one thousand
I eight hundred sacks Oil-cake for New
Orleans. The LaBaTge brought mod
crate trip and was at the elevator when
night set in. The Huntsville went down
at dark with about one hundred and
fifty tons for Red river, and the Boyd
and DardAnelle, the former for White
river and the latter for the Arkansas,
left with as much as they wanted to car
Ty. The City Of Vieksburg was looked
for from below, and perhaps came up
during the night.
Boats Going To-Day.
The fine passenger steamer Mary
Houston, in command Of Captain
Chas. Miller, leaves this morning at
ten o'clock for Vicksburg, New Orleans
and all way landings. She has superior
accommodations and fare Mr.. Elliott
Miller holds forth in the office.
The Dexter, with Captain Jno. T. Me-
Cord on the roof, leaves as above this
evening at four O'Clock for New Orleans.
Mr.. JnO. Fore is her chief clerk.
The Dexter was reported aground at
Point Pleasant yesterday.
The big James Howard is at Cairo,
swallowing up IN her monster nav a
few train-loads of freight, which she
brings south to-day.
During the gale at New Orleans on
Wednesday several steamers parted
their stern lines and ratified against each
other rather prOmiscuOusly for q half
hour, and the Governor Allen was car
ried by the wind out from shore and up
the river for sOme-distance.
The Minneola is coming down the
Ohio with a barge, and has one thousand
barrels Of whisky, two hundred casks of
bacon, and 4 large amount of beer and
other similar .uxuries. Now will the
river reporters Of the press at the Cres-
cent city rejoice.
niscelianeOus,
The Robert Mitchell was due from be-
low last night, on her way to the Ohio
river.
The st. Marys goes out on Wednes-
day next for ali points on the Ohio.
The Nashville did not get in as early
as was expected, and will not get away
before Monday evening.
The good steamer Clarksville, Captain
Sam. 3. Adams, is the United States
mail steamer for the Arkansas on Tues
day.
Captain BiXby's popular steamer, the
City Of Alton, will be down tomorrow
morning for New Orleans.
The Anna is billed to leave here at
five O'Clock tomorrow evening for Cal
70, Louisville and Cincinnati.
The Jennie Howell advertises that her
day Of departure is Tuesday, when she
will leave for White river
The Mary Mcdonald, ma, w. j..
Lewis, st. Mary's and NJ ~ Houston
were all due from above last night,
Pilot Ferd. Montana, who was on the
Katie when she struck the wreck of the
Holeomb, came up yesterday on the
Cleburne, and cOrrobOrates the state
ments made in regard to the loss of the
Katie. He further states that, although
the Katie struck at two O'Clock in the
morning but few on board knew it until
daylight, when the ladies were awak-
ened and notified to get ready to 90
ashore to the hotel at Helena, where
Captain Cannon had arranged for the
reception of all the passengers. The
passengers, then, at daylight were trans
ferred 10 the shore by the steamer Web
ster, after which the freight, consisting
Of eighty barrels Of whisky, two hun
dred boxes cheese and all Of the stock
on board was safely transferred to the
shore, and then the work of getting the
cotton out of the hold was commenced,
in order that the leak might be stopped,
but before accomplishing much CAPTAIN
Cannon saw that the boat would break
in two, and ordered the fires put out, so
that in case she broke in two and the
steam pipe broke there would be no loss
of life, as there would have been had
not this precautiOn been taken. At ten
o'clock the boat had settled down SO low
that she broke, her bow and stern drop
ping down and being covered with water
to the depth of six feet and resting upon
the bottom, The cabin is badly broken,
but all the furniture, doors, bedding, and
ware Of all kinds, has been taken out
safely, and the machinery loOsened, so
that it can be removed easily hy the
bellboat. The Katie's passengers went
down from Helena on tb lpitol City,
and will take boat there 5r New Or
leans.
The Presidents Of the different steam
boat lines, centering at st. Louis, have
been appointed as delegates to the Cairo
Convention 10 be held ON the twelfth
instant. In addition to these Captain
b. r. Pegram, John ]. Baker and 4. A.
Shehle were appointed delegates at large
to represent the st. Louis Steamboat
Captains Benevolent Association.
Captain B, r. Pegram, of the James
Howard, makes a trip to Texas in a few
days, in company with Captain John
Fitzgerald, on business connected with
the Texas Pacific railroad
st, Louis elected her delegates to the
Cairo Convention on Friday night last.
Commodore Rollingpin's almanac for
1873 is said to be q rich production.
The following pilot personals we take
from the St. Louis Republicans VStew-
art and Bronson went out ON the Fannie
Lewis, and Ed. Callahan and Dan. Lu-
cas- on the Legal Tender. Billy Crib
biDg and Bob Ostrander are the star
gazers Of the John A. Tolle, Henry
Switzer and partner of the Tom Jasuer.
Jesse Jameson and George Haggerty Of
the Andy johnson, Doc Lane and Ed.
Metcalf Of the Lucy Bertram, Durland
and Murray OF the Pauline Carroll, the
Jolly brothers, Beck and Oscar, of the
Thompson Dean, and Dick Kennett and
Joe Douglas of the Great Republic. The
two latter will 60 down on the Pauline
Carroll to-day % examine the river as
far as Cairo"
The new locks of the canal viii be
completed tomorrow aud ready to pass
large boats through. Captain Walker
gives US this Information, and states fur
theF that bis company will at once put
their large boats in the trade to this city.
A small sternwheel craft, named Fan
ME, about twenty five feet long aud six
feet 6en, and propelled by crank,
passed st, Louis Thursday ON her way
south from some point above.
The City Of Helena was to have left
st. Louis last night for Yicksburg.
The South is to be supplied soon with
enough garden truck to supply II
throughout the winter. The St Louis
Of Friday says. serhe Gas
eonade came in from Davenport yester-
day with two barges in tow Containing
eight thousand bushels potatoes, SIX
thousand bushels onions and five thou
sand head Of cabbages; in all four hun
dred and forty-tive tons, and all throagh
freight for Vicksburg. The Illinois
broughtfour hundred barrels of lime for
sopth.n