Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-03-15
RIVER INTELLIGENCE,

RTvER WEATHER Their was 3
sllght swell in the river st his pOint; at
Csiro there was g rise of i've inches, snd 81
Cincinnati TWO feet The weather here
was cloudy With 8 ughs rain in the morn
Ing, turning cool in the evening The Ar
kansas Is falling With thrss fest out.
Rates Of freight hOm So. Louis TO New
Orleans wss advanced Tuesday to eighty
cents for -four, and forty cents q hundred
for pound freight. The Memphis packet
stopped receiving on Wednesday &C noon,
but doubtless had boats yesterday to
carry of eli their back frsi2ht.
BOATS LEAVING TO-DAY The psssen-
ger steamer A J. White, Captain Mark
Cheek, leaves this evening st I'VE O'Clock
for Napoleon and ali Way landings.
Messcs. B. P. Fields and Charles Sharpe
are her clerks. TINS hae PASSENGER
cleaner Thomas II. Alien, Captain Ed
gene Smith. leaves this evening at I'VE
O'Clock for Pine Buff. Little Rock snd
81 way poiats on the Arkansas river.
Mr.. Pat Morrison and Billy Willis are
clerks 1.-THE hne and feet passenger
steamer Charles Bodma1, Captain Q P.
Shiukie, leaves this evening IS foul
O'Clock for New Orleans ard all way
lsudings. Mr.. Holden is chief secretary
1.-THE passenger Etesmsr Edinburg,
CAPTAIN Fenbon, lsSyss this morning at
ten O'Clock for Louisville and Cincinnati.
Captain J. L. Carter hiss charge Of the
ofice.--...The Colorado, Captain Luker,
leaves this morning 81 ten O'Clock Tor
Vicksburg and all the usual way
landings, b Desderick is clerk.
ARRIVALS Phil Allin, Friars Point ;
G. w. @ esk, Frisrs Point; A. ]. White,
NAPOLEON; MOllis Moore, New Orleans;
Continental, New orlssnsi City Of Helena,
DEP4ETUREs-Ph A1lin, Friars
Point; G. W. Cheek, Frisrs Point; Mollie
Moore, st. Louis; Continental, St. Louis;
City of Helena, Yicksburgi Glasgow,
IN PoRT--Thomas d. Allen, R. J.
White.
AT THE LEvEE There was about the
usual amount of business yesterday.
The City of Helena pissed down late,
loaded to the gusrds; she put out q lot of
stock here......Ths A j. White brought
from Napoleon seventy nine bales of
ootton. six hundred snd fortysfour sacks
Of seed, and s cabin nearly full Of people,
1.-THE Contine atsl, up six days from
New Orleans, discharged ten tons and
had seven hundred tons for points above,
including seventeen hundred and TWEEN
tv-eigbt bars of railroad ron.-.......T The
MOllie Moore passed up from the same
point, seven dsys out, with six hundred
snd fifty tons Of freight, including one
thousand and ninety-s1x bars OF iron and
| nine hundred packages OF BuRar.----Ih6
Phil AIIin, from Frisrs Point, brought in
one hundred and ninety-eight bales OF
cotton and twelve hundred sacks Of seed,
and q good PASSENGER nst......The g.
| W. Cheek esme in with tWenty-One bales
cf1coston, two hundred and ten sacks OF
seed and sundri5s....--.The Mary Boyd
came of the docks yesterday st noon..-.
The Glasgow, Phil Allin and George ".
I ~ ~ -snA F14a ~ IT,
CITY of Chester had not arrived an to
dark, but will doubtless bs in port this
morning The Capital City, Arkansas,
| Henry Am3s and p. ". Strsder were All
due from below last night,
OTHEB MATTERs-An attemps IL beiua
made to obs-r0es the Mississippi river n
Carondslet, By permitting q railroad
bridge to Re thrown across Il of only four
hundred feet span, and with the lower
cords of the bridge only fifty feet above
the surface OF the river. This would pre-
vent my hrst-class boat from coming
above Csronedlet, The top Of the pilot
house Of the Great Republic IL fny-seYen
teet above the water, when b is fully
loaded, and the tops Of the p~ilothouses Of
the Memphis and New Orleans packets
are fully fifty feet above water. The bill
has been twice read IN the house, snd re-
ferred to the committee On commerce.
lkotOI1 moAsu161. viii % 4MIA-uAhscAJ
taken by st. Louis boatmen to oppose the
bill.
By TelcEraDE.
CINCINNATI, March 14-The river has
Is feet water in the channel, having risen
| 3 feet since yesterday. Arrived Emma
@. Elliott and Minneola, from MemphisJ
Robert Mitchell, from New Orleans. De-
parted: Minueola, for Madison, 70 &c on
Bhs docks
NV ORLEANs, March 1A-Azrived :
Citv OF Cairo and Pauline Carroll from
s.. Louis; Indians, from Cairo. Departed:
James Howard and Crescent CITY ard
bsr1es. for st. Louis; John Il. Groesbeck,
for Cfneiunatf. Weather WarIn and clear.
LITTLE Rock, March IA Weather
eloudv. cold and windy. River falling
-s4L 1870 q fact harnw Denartad. T0n-