Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-20

Cumberland Island. The City Of Cairo
was at Madrid taking corn when the
Arlington left there, and the Forsyth
at AshpoTt. Both Of the two last named
boats viii have probably arrived during
the night.
The Little Rock was compelled to lay
over until to-day, as she did not get all
her cotton out last night.
The wrecker EckerL came down from
the wreck Of the st. Marys yesterday,
probably to carry up 70 that boat Mr.
Palmer, of the Cincinnati Underwriters,
whose report upon the condition Of the
boat will be made to Cincinnati, and
then it will be decided whether to raise
or wreck her.
Governor Smith, Of Alabama, would
build his canal 20 the Mississippi large
enough to admit Of the passage Of boats
of three thousand tons.
While the labOrers on the steamer
Little Rock were breaking down" the
cotton on the guards Of that boat last
evening, a bale fell into the river. A
deck-hand or labOrer on the Lawrence,
LAYING Just below, saw the bale 20 over
board, and thinking he would make a
idea originating from about
three gauges Of rifle whisky he had on
bOard-plunged in and swan for it, and
succeeded in catching it, but had to be
assisted to the shore by a skiff. The
bath sObered him somewhat, but he de-
elared he would have the salvage or
freeze to death right where he sat at the
shore, and about half in the water.
The night Of the seventeenth was the
coolest Of the season at Dubuque, the
mercury getting down below zero. The
boats there had all laid up for the win
ter, and heavy ice was floating.
The Missouri is frozen over in several
places above Sioux City, and navigation
above Omaha is closed for the season.
This is the earliest closing Of that river
ever known.
A Sioux City telegram, received last
night, says: THE tOtSl amount Of
freight transported to up-river posts
during the past seasons seventeen thou
sand five hundred and fifty tons. Near
" the entire amount Of this freight
reached this point by rail from Chicago"
\ project is on foOttOeOnstruet a canal
between the-kanawha and the James
rivers.
We have q note from Observer Rhode,
stating that for the p st several weeks
an error has been reported in the water
level at Shreveport, by which the water
has been enormously reported as one foot
eleven inches higher than it actually
was. The sudden change noted in the
kilograms will therefore be accounted for
in that way.
A Washington telegram of a recent
date, states that the report Of Major
Mcfarland on his examination Of the
route for connecting the Tennessee river
with the Atlantic at Savannah, will be
transmitted to Congress by the Secre-
tary Of War. The report speaks in the
highest terms Of the feasibility Of the
.proiect.and gives a full estimate Of the
cost.
Boats running between Cincinnati
and Louisville, have stopped receiving
perishable goods for way points, owing
to the difficulty in delivering on account
of the horse disease.
The St. Louis Globe man thinks the
river reporter of the Shreveport Times
the healthiest euss that ever eat corn
fodder up a dry creek, and says: eff
he cannot get oysters be will muscles.
We would rather read his column OF
river news any time than Josh Biliugs's
Xtrax!" And then goes on TO tell how
he is going TO swallow the 15mes's
full column, as he generally does. fist.
Louis doesn't have one I've case Of
the " hippidromie," or some other Ike
horse disease, Row, We shall miss cur
mark.
Captain VIM. Whiting has been APP
pointed Shipping Commissioners for the
port of New Orleans by the United
States Circuit Court Of that city.
A line of steamers from Mobile to
New Orleans has been renewed.
Captain Irwin Dugan, who has been
Ill at Newport, Kentucky, arrived in the
city yesterday, and will again
command Of the wreeker Eekert as soon
as he aceumulates flesh enough to cast
a respectable sized shadow. Were be
to get behind a three-inch st0vepipe,
however, now, he could not be seen.