Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-03
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
Boats Leaving To-day.
Departures.



pOsite the city since our last report, and
now stands eighteen inches above low
water mark, with nearly seven feet and
a half of water Over Reeves below, and
but scant six and a half feet over Point
Pleasant and other shOal crossings
above. No improvement is yet re-
ported in the Arkansas or White rivers,
and both are much lower than they
have been in years. Red, the Ouachita,
NazoO and other little streams below
have about enough water to float a
| light-draught skiff OF side-wheel dug
out, but wouldn't do much more with
their present stage, and the latest news
from the streams above will not in
terest our steamboat friends much.
Warmer weather is reported and q
slight breakup of the side streams,
including Licking and the Little Miami
rivers abOAe Cincinnati has caused a
swell ola foot or so there, and the Cum
berIand at Nashville has suddenly taken
unto Itself river-like proportions and
rose fourteen inches, which are the only
noteworthy changes reported. At st.
Paul there is four feet of water; at Dav-
export seven feet; at Cairo only two feet
seven inches above low water; at st.
Louis only three feet; Pittsburg two feet;
Louisville three feet and one inch;
Nicksburg scant three feet and at
Shreveport the water is sixteen inches
below zero on the gague. The decline
at st. Louis yesterday was sew
en- inches Louisville one inch
and at New Orleans four inches.
and at other points the puddles were
stationary. Business at the levee was
moderate yesterday, taking into consid-
Grafton that at n time there were
nearly fifteen pairs of chithneys visible
from the bluff. Toward evening the
movement of freight was active, but, as
during last week, the principal motive
power vas the noble OK, the mule not
having sufficiently recovered to under
take the removal Of all the freights,
either received or for shipment. All
things considered. the local packets had
fair trips out. The weather was mild
and pleasant during the day, and at
night the wind was from the southwest.
BY Telegraph.
EVANSVILLE, December weather
cloudy and rainy till dark; now clearing
and mild. Mercury ranged from So
TO 440. River has fallen 3 inches. Moth
ing doing to-day.
NASHVILLE, December 1.-The river
is rising, with 2 feet 6 inches water on
Harpeth Shoals. Weather mild.
CAIRO, December ARRIVED: Com
mOnwealth, from New Orleans, 4 am;
MOllie Ebert, from New Orleans, 4 pm;
Pauline Carroll, from New Orleans, 5
pm. Departed: Mollie Moore, for st.
9 am. The Glencoe, Andy John
son and Glasgow are still aground at
Point Pleasant, when the Ebert left.
River has fallen 6inches. Weather clear
and mild.
LOUISVILLE, December 1.-The river
is stationary, with 8 feet 8 inches water
in the canal, l foot 6 inches in the chute
and 40 inches on Portland bar. Weather
cool and windy.
NEW ORLEANS, December 2.-Arrived:
Mitchell, from Evansville; John
Kilgour, from Cincinnati; w. II. Curtis,
Memphis. No departures. Weather
and warm.
VICKsBURG, December mo boats
to-day. Up: Indiana and G. w.
Wolff. Weather clear and cool. River
CINCINNATI, December 1.-The river
rising, with 8 feet 5 inches water in
The channel.
ST. LOUIS, December 1.-The river is
Weather mild with indications
If rain.
Boats Going To-day.
The st. Francis, Captain Bowman,
caves this evening at five O'Clock for
Helena, Mariana, and all the usual be-
landings.
The United States mail steamer A. J.
Captain Mark Cheek, leaves
his afternoon at five o'clock for Ma
,rT0A. onI oil tho han1 IoAIfno
The regular packet, Pat Cleburne, S
captain Stack Lee, leaves this afternoon !
It five o'clock for Friar's Point and all !
he usual way landings. /
The L. s. mail steamer Mary Boyd !
caves this evening at five o'clock for
)evalls Bluff, J~acksonport. and all the
Usual way landings on White river.
The light-draught passenger packet
'Ort Gibson, In command Of Captain
I. Bowlin, leaves this evening at five !
for Pine Bluff, Little Rock, and
ii points Oh the Arkansas river.
The E. G. Elliott, Captain COrbett in
ommand, leaves as above this ahern !
L five o'clock for Cairo and st. Louis. I
Thomas Withledge is clerk.
The Fannie Lewisleaves as above this 8
morning at ten o'clock for Vicksburg :
nd the bends. Captain Cartwright G
Commands. '
The r. @. Gray, Captain Yerkes leaves !
his evening at five O'Clock for .Cincin- /
Iati direct. = VSL5 4
The Henry Ames is over Reeves all
light. r
The White yesterday brought two
and seventy bales of cotton
nd six hundred and seventy-six sacks
fseed.
The Cleburne brought up yesterday
ne hundred and thirty bales of cotton
nd n hundred and ninety-four sacks
f seed. /
The Idlewild was to have left for d
Evansville last night with five hundred 4
nd ten bales of cotton for. a
The Insurance Companies settled the {
ennie Howell cotton matters by allow !,
ng that boat one dollar per bale extra 3
for saving the entire cargo, nearly L
light hundred bales, instead of throwing g
portion of it overheard and saving the 4
Oat as might have been done had the
IOwelI's officers seen fit to do so.
The Jennie Howell lies in a bad con-
ition on the bar at Ashley's; her bow
nd stern are on dry land while amid n
there is water. Her officers sent
P here yesterday for jack-serews and
ill block her up and wait for the next
Sc 1t is extremely doubtful, however, j,
or not she win stand the press
re long enough to get rugged properly. .
The II. s. Turner went up last even o
lg with nearly three hundred tons of a
lgar and molasses forpoints above, and P
ut out here forty tons Of freight, in Q
-uding oranges, sugar, etc. She may c,
I'm back from Cairo, reshlpping her t
there, and may lay up there. 2
Ehen she LEFT here her future course q
as undetermined. ?