Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-24
BY Telegraph.

LOUISVILLE, December 23.-Ihe river
is closed, 'and is reported gorged in many
places. Weather cloudy and cold, and
! splitting snow. Mercury ranged from
/ 100 to IS0. The river fell 3 inches here,
but rose Is inches at Portland on account
of the gorge below New Albany. The
ferryboats are running. The ice is : or
s inches thick above the landing. The
/ Nashville pulled off of Portland bar to-
/ day, and is safely mOOred at the foot of
/ Sand Island. She has been stuck on the
bar since Saturday.
| ST. LOUIS, December 23.-Weather
very cold to-day. Mercury 50 above
| zero st Z am, and gradually sunk all
day till it reached s. below tonight.
| The river is full of heavy ice. Ferry
boats above the bridge piers are obliged
| to stop running, and those below have
| great difficulty in crossing. There is an
/ ice-gOrge some forty miles below the
city, and another expected to form at
/ the bridge here.
EVANSVILLE, December 23.-Weather
cloudy and cold. Mercury I20 at pm.
Business suspended.
PITTsBURG, December %. = The
| river is receding, with about 8 feet wa
| ter in the channel. Weather cloudy
and cold Mercury at o'clock, 14'.
The Allegheny is frozen over to the
mouth. Large quantities of ice continue
to run out of the Monongahela.
| NASHVILLE, December 23.-The river
is rising, with 10 feet water on Harpeth
| Shoals. Weather cold.
NEW ORLEANS, December 23.-Ar-
rived Emile LaBarge, from st. Louis;
Indiana and barge, from Cairo. De-
parted: Glencoe, for st. Louis. Weather
clear and pleasant.
LITTLE ROIK, December 23.-River
at this point was partially frozen over
Sunday morning. The present cold
snap is the hardest since 1868.
VICKsBURG, December 23.-Down:
Ouachita Belle. Up: Belle Lee. The
weather is cloudy and cool. River ris-
ing.
CAIRO, December 28.-Arrived: Navi-
CATION is suspended. weather very
cold. Mercury 50 above, and falling.
The river has risen 4 feet 6 inches.
CINCINNATI, December 23.-The river
has risen feet I inch, with Is feet l
inch water in the channel.
steamers Going This Day.
The Mary Boyd will leave here this
evening for al points on White river,
Mr.. J. S. Jones is chief secretary.
The A. J. White, Captain Mark Cheek,
leaves this afternoon at five o'clock for
Napoleon and all the bend landings.
b. P. Fields, Charles Sharpe and Will
liam Smither are her popular clerks.
The popular steamer Batesville, Cap
tain Albert Smith, will be here to leave
at five o'clock this evening for all
points on White river.
The semi-weekly passenger steamer
st. Francis, Captain Bowman, leaves
this evening at five O'clock for
Helena, Mariana and all the usual
bend landings. Messrs. Paine, Dean and
Franklin are clerks.
The Fannie Lewis, Captain Cartright,
leaves as above this morning, at ten
O'clock, for Vicksburg and all the usual
way points.
Miscellaneous.
The Arlington viii get fully fifteen
hundred bales of cotton for the Ohio, but
will not get away until there is some
prospect Of her getting through.
The West Wind will remain here until
there is a probability of her getting to
Evansville. She has nine hundred bales
Of cotton engaged.
A telegram from Little Rock yester-
day stated that Shanley's wrecking-bOat
would raise the steamer Little Rock in
three or four days.
A telegram from Louisville yesterday
states that all the railrOods north of
Louisville have stopped receiving
freight from the south, owing to block !
ade. This viii compel the shipment by
river Of three-fourtbs of the cotton sent |
from here.
A telegram from Captain Williams, of
the Exporter, to Captain Elem Calvert
yesterday, states that there is a heavy
gorge at Columbus. The Exporter is !
below the gorge, which, doubtless, viii
be broken by the rise from the Cumber- !
land and Tennessee rivers.
By an oversight the meeting of Sec
ond Clerks and Leeve Clerks, held at
Col. Cobb's office one night last week, |
was not reported. An organization was
then and there effected for benevolent |
purposes, and it was proposed to raise
sufficient funds to establish a reading
room, library, ETC., but when the hat
was passed around and the contents |
counted, the amount was hardly sufff- |
Gent to buy the library, and it was,
therefore, unanimously voted to invest /
lit in a keg of Lurhman's beer, and /
charter a street car for a ride; all Of
which was done, and obtaining chick
en coop whereon to place the keg, the /
members of the organization took q /
pleasure ride, returning with the key
empty.
Upwards of eight hundred negroes
have arrived during the past forty-eight
hours, on the packets below, to spend
the holidays.
The st. Francis reports meeting heavy
Ice as far below the city as Commerce.
She also reports the Bismarck hard
aground at Helena bar.
Heavy ice fioated past the city all day
Yesterday, but at night the wind
changed, driving the greater portion of
it to the opposite shore.
The p. w. Strader will be due this
morning from below, and will unload
her cargo, two hundred and fifty tons of
sugar and mOlasses, at the elevator, ar
to that effect having been
made by her agent last night.
The Mary Boyd passed Clarendon on
Der way to this city Sunday, and the
passed Devalls Bluff on her !
way up White river, yesterday morning.
| Cotton is now taken from points on
White river to New Orleans at five dol
bars per bale, and is brought here at
three dollars and aehaf per bale.
7 The Ashland, Andy Baum and Lau-
renee are still at the landing, waiting for
something to turn up.
\ Owing TO the close proximity of the
holidays but little freight of any kind is !
now being hauled from the elevator or
landing. The negro draymen do not {
care TO work in the cold and scarcely
anything viii be done until after the