Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-18
Is to-day at noon, for - OrIeans

leaves to-day at noon, for New Orleans
direct.
The Mary f. Forsythe leaves this
afternoon at four O'Clock for New Or
leans. Captain GreenOugh commands.
The Andy Baum, Captain VintoD, de-
parts this afternoon at five o'clock, for
Cincinnati and all points on the Ohio.
The fleet passenger steamer LaBelle,
Captain Wood, leaves this afternoon at
three o'clock, for New Orleans and all
the bend landings. Travellers going
South will find the LaBelle first-class in
all respects. Mr.. J. J. DOdd is chief
clerk.
Miscellaneous.
There is but eight feet water in the
channel at the Delta bar, below Vicks-
burg.
On Saturday the new set of colors was
presented to the John B. Maud, Of Vicks-
burg.
A half interest of the John Lumsden
viii be sold at public auction in Cairo ON
the twenty-eighth instant.
The Arlington is the Saturday packet
for Cincinnati.
The MayfiOWer will be here TO leave
tomorrow for New Orleans
The Northwestern came down yester-
day morning with two barges in tow,
and laid here until night, taking cotton,
when she had on herself and barges
seven hundred and thirty-six bales at
two dollars per bale.
The Suzie Silver was hard aground at
Island Twenty-six, when the North
western came down.
The ExpOsitOr viii drop down to the
Elevator to-day, discharge and store her
Arkansas river freight there, and leave
tonight for New Madrid, where she
loads with corn for the south at forty
cents per hundred.
A gentleman who came down the riv-
er yesterday reports upward of forty
thousand sacks of corn at Madrid and
Point Pleasant, awaiting shipment to
southern markets.
1t may seem strange, but it is never
theless true, that there are at this mo-
ment over three thousand bales Of cot
ton in the city % awaiting shipment
to New Orleans, and with freight at tW 0
dollars per bale. One shipper alone has
fifteen hundred bales.
A private telegram from Fort Gibson
received yesterday, reports the weather
there cold, and the Arkansas river dead
low, with not the slightest prospect OF
a rise.
The GAINESVILLE passed Helena for this
city at two O'Clock yesterday afternoon
with two hundred and seventy-five bales
of cotton, and but for the rain and fog
last night she would have been here be-
fore daylight this morning. As tits, she
will arrive during the morning.
Captain w. P. Walker, of our city,
who is the inventor of the Marine
Camel is daily in receipt Of numerous
letters and communications from va
rious patents, patent solicitors, patent
newspapers, and patent everything else,
since the APPEAL made known his val
liable invention to the world, asking for
agencies, information, advertisements,
and, in fact, everything that mind can
conceive of. Captain w. thinks it a
terrible bore to be great man.
The Andy Baum was ahead of the
Arlington when that boat passed Padu-
cab the other day, and both will doubt
less arrive here to-day, with fair trips.
Captain Walker has now engaged for
shipment to the Ohio river some fifteen
hundred bales Of cotton, over half of
which is already upon the landing.
The T. F. Eckert did not get her
pumps to work at the Thomas II. Allen,
recently sunk in White river, until yes
terday morning when it was expected
that she would be speedily raised.
The City of Cairo got three thou
sRnd-dollar trip 10 start from here with,
and undoubtedly left at daylight this
morning for New Orleans. She had
twelve hundred and fifty bales of cotton
at two dollars per bale, seventy-five tons
of miscellaneous freight, forty head of
cattle, fifty cabin passengers, and was
drawing five and half feet water.
Both the A. J. White and St Francis
were fully laden when they went out
after dark last evening.
The signal kilograms received last
evening report a rise of four inches at
Cairo, and three inches at Shreveport,
and a decline of one inch at Davenport,
two at st. Louis and Pittsburg, I'VE at
Cincinnati, six at Louisville and two
inches at Nashville.
The John Howard was on the docks
yesterday at New Orleans. Her cap
tain did not think she was hurt much,
out locked her to make s. sure thing OF
it. Ali of her cotton was recovered but
forty-eight bales, which were stolen by
negroes in the neighbOrhOOd where the
accident occurred.