Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-03
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
Departures.

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Pat. cleburne. +. G. Elliott.
Fort Gibson. R0bt. Burns.
River, weather aad nusIneSs.
The river at this port has fallen nine
teen inches in the last twenty-four
hours, and stands by the gauge twenty
five feet eleven inches above extreme
lOw-water mark. The Mississippi atSt.
Louis is on a swell. With that excep-
4 ton, the rivers everywhere tend shall
lowward. The river from st. Louis to
Cairo has nine feet in the channel. The
Arkansas is rising slowly, and White
river declining with six and a half feet
to Augusta. The changes elsewhere
are as follows: Al Cairo, it declined
tw~enty-four inches; Cincinnati, three
inches; Davenport, II inch; Louis
vile, two inches; Omaha, one inch;
Pittsburg, four inches; Shreveport, sew
en- inches; st. Paul, one inch; at
V~icksburg, it rose ten inches, and at
New Orleans, Nashville and Leaven-
worth, it is stationary. Weather clear
and windy. Business OF the levee yes
terday was only moderate.
By Telegraph.
LITTLE Rock, May 2.-Weather clear
and cool. The river Is stationary, after
rising u inches.
LOUISVILLE, May 1.-The river is
falling slowly, with 6 feet S inches in
the canal and 4 feet S inches in the
chute. Weather alternately clear and
cloudy, and quite cool, with the mer-
curry ranging from 507 to so. Business
dull. Arrived: Alice Dean and Charles
] ID DI,v-oI, g., ~ n-T-
NEW ORLEANS, May ARRIVED:
LiOness and barges, from Pittsburg;
John Kilgour, from Louisville; John +.
TOlle, from st. Louis. Departed: r. Z.
Lee and Mary +. Forsyth for Louisville.
The Glencoe has 10 bars railroad iron
and rs boxes sugar for st. Louis.
Weather clear and pleasant.
CAIRO, May ARRIVED: City of
Vicksburg, from Vicksburg; Grand
Tower, from st. Louis. Departed: Tom
Jasper, for New Orleans, ! pm; City of
Vicksburg, for st. Louis, l pm; Grand
Tower, for Memphis, l pm. The river
has fallen "a inches. Weather clear.
Thermometer co..
CINCINNATI, May 1.-The river is
stationary, with IA feet water in the
channel.
miscellaneous.
The james Howard, from New Or
leans, four and a half days out, passed
up yesterday at noon, with one thousand
four hundred and e~ighty-two tons of
railroad iron for Louisville.
The Undine, from Osceola, brought
in siXty-ive bales of cotton, fifteen sacks
of seed and sundries to order.
The City of Chester, from st. Louis,
arrived with a fair trip OF grain and
produce. She returned at dusk with
one hundred bales Of cotton for st.
Louis.
The Belle Lee leaves tomorrow for
New Orleans and the bends.
The H. S. Turner, from Louisville,
passed down, bound for New Orleans,
with an eight hundred and fifty ton
cargo, well laden.
The r. P. Walt leaves for White river
tomorrow.
The Potomac and Belle st. Louis are
due from below to-day.
The Robert Burns, from Cincinnati,
came in with a fine trip Of produce and
furniture.
The Alaska passed up yesterday after
noon without landing.
The City of Helena, from st. Louis,
discharged here two hundred and sixty
three packages of merchandise, added
twenty tons way freight, and departed
for V~icksbuTg with a fair trip.
The Coal City made the round trip
from Louisville to this city and return
in nine days. She brought here sixteen
boats with three hundred and fifty thou
sand bushels of coal, and towed back
eight empty barges.
The Emma c. Elliott failed to get off
last night, but will leave positively this
evening at five o'clock. John d. Elliott
commands, and George AlcOke is clerk.
The Frank Forest, from Cairo, with a
barge in tow, came in with n thou
sand sacks of oats and three thousand
sacks of corn.
The passenger steamer A. j. White,
Captain John Washington, leaves this
evening at five O'Clock for Napoleon,
Chieot City and all way landings. b.
F. Fields and Charles Sharp are her
clerks.
The Phil AlIin, Captain James Lee,
leaves this evening at five o'clock for
Friars Point and all way landings.
Stack Lee and james G.. Harris are her
clerks.
The United States mail packet Fort
Gibson, Captain James BOwlin, leaves
this evening at five o'clock for Pine
Bluff, Little Rock and all points ON the
Arkansas river. Mr.. y. II. O'Neil is
chief clerk.
The regular Ohio river freight and
passenger packet Robert Burns, Captain
NJ. i. Verdin, leaves this evening at
five O'Clock for Cincinnati and ell way
landings. Mr.. Andy Wilson has
charge of the office.
The Belle st. Louis, Captain William
Blake, leaves this evening at five o'clock
for Cairo and st. Louis. Captain ALI.
Grissom is prime minister.
The Potomac leaves this evening at
four o'clock for Cincinnati. Captain
Bachelor commands.
The passenger steamer Tom Jasper
leaves this evening at four o'clock for
New Orleans. Captain Burk commands
and Mr.. n. b. Hatcher is her secretary.
The fine passenger steamer Thompson
Dean, Captain Pepper, leaves this eve
ming at five O'clock for New Orleans.
MI. Fowler is her chief clerk.
Coal has declined here inprices. Pitts
burg is selling at sixty-five cents per box,
and Illinois at ffty-five cents.
The Louisville Ledgerof the thirtieth
says: 1--WE called attention yesterday to
the fact that the mud in the canal was
becoming "a lOIIlllldDIt OUcldtlt ~ INV L
To-day the mud has caused an
entire suspension of navigation for all
classes of steamers. The mud is fully ;
three feet deep and unusually solid.
Boats can neither pass up nor down.
The great Charles Bodmann is mud
bound and still at the city wharf. We {
she will discharge her crew and I
await future events.n
The st. Louis Times of the first says:
Captain Peter Conrad has transformed
the Argonaut into a sand boat, and is
now prepared to furnish any quantity of
sand for the building up of the city.
The Argonaut belongs to the st. Louis
Land Company, of which Captain Con- !
rad is Superintendent. Mr.. John Shep-
pard, an old steamboat mate who has
been an invalid for some months past,
was refused admittance to the Marine !
Hospital a few days ago. The Lucy
Bertram, en- route from st. Louis to Pitts :
burg with a load of ore, cracked one of
her cylinders, above Cincinnati, and re-
turned to that place Saturday for re-
The Louisville Courier of the first
"Captain Booth yesterday APP
Dealed from the decision of the local =
inspectors of this port in regard to the !
collision of the J. ". Garrett and Falls
City. The barges sunk by the recent
reshet, are beginning to show them
selves above the surface Of the water, T
md the river between Cincinnati and II,
.evay is represented to be a graveyard 4
wrecks. There il one sunken barge t
Muddy Creek, opposite North Bend, .
lose to the channel" 4
J.V,M Med oNALD &CO. have reopene-
heir Coal Yard at Helena, and started