Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-26

A private telegram from an official
source received last night from Louis
vile, states that the gates of the new
locks will be all right on Thursday
next.
The Belle Lee will be here to leave on
Thursday next for New Orleans.
The A. ]. White picked up a snag
at the foot of Presidents Island late Sun
day night, that tore away one of her
stauncbeOns and poked its nose through
the cabin deck, but did no serious dam
age.
OF nearly twelve hundred bales of
cotton put out by the boats that arrived
on Sunday and yesterday, not one bale
had been hauled away. Such is the
effect of the horse disease even at this
early date. There were not a half
dozen drays at the landing at any one
time, and but little freight was taken by
the departing local packets. The upper
landing in front of the James d. Par
ker, was covered.with freight, and she
had not got all her freight out when our
reporter left the river, soon after dark.
a Cairo telegram, received yesterday
morning, states that the steamer II. NJ.
Shreve was burned at Chester Saturday
night, while coaling. There are no par
ticulars, except that no lives were lost.
She left st. Louis Friday night for New
Ocleans, loaded to over three feet.
Such was the demand for draws YES
terday that in exceptional cases one dol
lar per bale was offered to haul cotton
from the landing. Several OK teams
were seen at the landing late in the
evening, and will, during the prevalence
of the horse plague, take the places of
the sick mules.
The Salvor Number Two has recovered
the iron, etc.. from the barge Florence,
sunk at Birds Bend.
Freight rates from Cincinnati to this
city by boat have advanced to thirty
cents per hundred pounds
The Elevator is now Illuminated by
gas from a hundred and fifteen burners,
to say nothing of that furnished gratis
by the chaps who daily sling their PEN
ellis there.
The Batesville leaves here for White
river on Thursday.
The Katie arrived at New Orleans
Saturday, and goes on the docks.
The +. II. Durfee is coming here, and
the Lady Lee is en- route from st. Louis
to Vicksburg in the Anchor Line.
being transferred to the new tOwboat
now being completed at the foot of Anna
street, st. Louis, caVed in on Friday,
making a total wreck both of the cabin
and texas.
Mansford, the popular newsman, on
the corner of Second and Monroe
streets, has our thanks for late files Of
up-river papers.
The Edinburg is past due from below.
Arthur Douglass, a well-known Mem
phis and st. Louis pilot, died suddenly
Of heart disease ut Mascoutah, Illinois,
one day last week.
The Nautical Gazette says the In
spector General of Steamboats, don't
know beans about steamboating, and
that he is the laughing stock for the In
spectors under him.
The st. Joseph will probably enter the
st. Louis and Grand Tower trade to-day,
in place of the Jacobs.
The Pittsburg Commercial insists vet
that the Natchez did not beat the time
Of the J. NJ. White.
The steamer Express, plying between
La Crosse and Brownsville, in eonnec-
ton with the Dubuque railroad, while
to make her regular trip on
18th, was smashed by float
ing ice, near Brownsville, and sunk in
ten feet of water. No lives lost.
The Emma c. Elliott, John Kilgour
and Mary Mcdonald were all due from
above last night.
The Henry Ames will pass down to-
morrow for New Orleans.
The City of Quincy viii be here to
leave at nine o'clock tomorrow morn
ing for New Orleans and the bends.
A Cairo telegram received last night
says: "The steamer Belle Shreveport
struck snag this morning above
and leaks so badly that she
IS unloading, preparatory to going on
the docks. Her freight is not damaged.
She win probably reship by the barge
line.u