Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-19

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from st. Louis; LaBelle, from Memphis.
Departed: Marcella, for Memphis, last
/ night. Weather clear and warm.
VIcKsBURG, October 18.-Boats down
| City Of Alton, Robert r. Lee. Weather
clear and cool. River falling.
ST. LOUIS, October lS.-Arrived: st.
Joseph, from Memphis; Carrie v.
Kountz, from New Orleans. River is
stationary. Weather cloudy and cooler.
CAIRO, October 1s.-Arrived: Susie
Silver, from New Orleans, 10 lam; II. S.
Turner, from st. Louis, / I'm; Colorado,
| from st. Louis, pm; Utah, from St.
| Louis, pm. Departed: Grand Tower,
for Memphis, 10 am; Henry Ames, foT
/ New Orleans, II am; Mohawk, for st.
Louis, Sam. Susie Silver, for st. Louis,
noon. The river has fallen ] inch.
| Weather clear and warm.
LOUISVILLE, October 1S.-There is no
change.
LITTLE Rock, October 18.-Weather
mild and pleasant. River stationary.
EVANSVILLE, October 1S.-WeatheT
clear and mild. Mercury 64o. The riv-
Ell has fallen inches.
miscellaneous.
The James Howard did not get away
until late yesterday afternoon.
The City Of Chester got away yesteF-
day morning for st. Louis with three
hundred and fifty bales Of cotton.
The Mary Boyd, from White river,
came in night before last with ninety
seven bales Of cotton and a number of
people.
The City of Helena came up early
yesterday morning with forty bales of
| cotton, which she put out and laid here
until evening, when she left for St.
Louis with two hundred and fifty-five
bales.
The G. w. Cheek arrived with six
bales Of cotton and one hundred and
fifty-nine sacks Of seed.
The regular tri-weekly coast packet
Pat Cleburne, in command Of Captain
James Lee, leaves this afternoon at five
o'clock for F'riars Point and all the usual
way landings. Mr.. J. G. Harris Is her
prime minister.
The passenger steamer Mary Bovd
leaves as above this evening at five
o'clock for Devalls Bluff, JacksOnport,
and all the usual way landings. Captain
Joseph Rice commands. Alex Waddell
and Charles Smithers are her clerks.
The hght-draught passenger steamer
Little Rock, Captain James BowIin.
leaves as above this afternoon at five
o'clock, for Pine Bluff, Little Rock and
all way landings.
The Grand Tower, Captain Lennox,
leaves this evening at five o'clock for
Cairo and st. Louis. Mr.. White is chief
clerk.
The iight-draught passenger steamer
Jennie Howell, leaves at five o'clock for
White rfUnr fFQf.fgfp Oh
mands.
The Henry Ames, Captain Jacobs.
leaves this day at twelve o'clock for
New Orleans direct.
The tine passenger steamer II. S. Tur-
ner, Captain Rusk, leaves this evening
at six o'clock for New Orleans and all
way landings. Mr.. Al. CroxaI is her ex-
ecutive officer.
The Crescent City, with three barges
in tow, went down last evening before
dark.
The iron steam-tug Picayune and the
steamer Lotowanna are offered for sale
in New Orleans.
Commodore o. P. Shinkle, of Coving-
ton, and now seventy years of age,
accompanied by his wife, are now visit
ing their daughter in Louisville.
A St. Louis exchange notices distin-
guished arrivals as follows: "a. r.
Bunting, late clerk Of the Mollie Moore.
arrived Tuesday evening from Hot
Springs, Arkansas, where he went to
cure rheumatism in his leg, with which
he has suffered long time.n
st. Louis pilots are coming down the
river to Cairo to look at the channel.
The new sternwheeler, Belle of
Shreveport, will doubtless be down To-
night or in the morning on her first trim.
She has about twelve hundred tons ca
paeity, and carries largely on five, four,
and three feet depth of water. She is
two hundred feet long, forty-three feet
beam, has a six and half feet hold. She
draws thirty inches aft and twenty-four
inches forward. Her cylinders are
twenty inches in diameter, six feet
stroke, and it is believed she will be a
good runner. The cabin is spacious and
comfortable, and the whole steamer is
one of the strongest and best built now
on the river. She is owned by gentle
men of the Carter Red River Line. Cap
tain Thomas w. Rea commands, and
II. A. DOhrman and Lem. COnroy are
her clerks.
Captain VIM. G.. Wright, formerly a
Missouri river pilot. died on, Tuesday
morning, al his residence in st. Louis
county, Missouri.
The water circular of the Atlantic
proved perfect success, during its trial
Tuesday evening.
The Laura brought down, last eve
ming, fifty bales Of cotton and eight
hundred and seventy-five sacks Of seed,
and went back to Stoekley's at a late
hour in the night.
On her way up, the Glencoe worked
thirteen hours an the John +. TOlle,
aground at Island Thirty.
When the Belle Of Pike and the Ames
cOllided at Cairo on Wednesday, several
Of the Pixies passengers scattered to the
Ames and got left.
The st. Louis Globe Of Thursday con-
tains the following: " Five steamers
for New Orleans will hereafter leave
weekly, and they are crowded with
freight and cabins full of passengers.
The annual skedaddle of Hibernians for
levee-work in che South has commenced,
and large numbers Of deck passengers
are on every boat. Ere ghts firm, with
q decided upward tendency"
The Utah has seen chartered by the
Anchor Line to run to Vicksburg.
The II. S. Turner coming down ground
ed at Horsetail bar, but was pulled off
by the COwan.
VIII Nischer, formerly editor of the
RichmOnd's Headlight, is now lecturing
in st. Joseph, Missouri.
Mr. Frank Bedard is said to be pro-
crossing so finely with the Cumberland
Island dam that he is now about ready
to close the old gap, through which
steamers used to pass on the Illinois side
of the island, which will compel them, |
from this on, to take the Smithland
chute.
"Walt," writing from Cairo, says:
1.-THE work Of removing Bacon rock has |
begun. The current Of the Mississippi |
river, as it cuts of Cairo point, is ap- |
closer to it every day, andwill /
soon have come that far, making its re-
an imperative necessity. There /
is atpresent two feet on the Rock. j.
Albert, at work at Birds Bend pulling 4
snags, found big rackheap where the |
river is cutting at Captain Fallis place |
and tried to remove it, but at dark Sat |
urday night had made no headway, al |
though she parted two-inch chain in /
her effoyts. To-day she will make |
another effort.
On Wednesday last the steamers Lake /
Superior and Northwestern were having
a little race, just for fun, when, just /
above Louisiana, Missouri, the Lake |
Superior struck one OF the barges of the |
and sunk it. The barge /
was loaded with grain, and viii be
total loss.
Plum Point, Point Pleasant and Island /
Ihirty-four are very ugly places, and 1
afford no more than six feet Of water
for hnats