Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-08
MiseeuaneOns.

The Nile arrived from Little Rock yes
terday morning, diseharging here thirty
bales of cotton, twenty bales of which
W ere fOTreshipment East. She departed
with one hundred tons of iron for St.
Louis.
The Exporter, from New Orleans, six
days out, with a barge in tow, put out
about dozen packages of sundries here,
and had two thousand one hundred and
twenty-five bars railroad iron for Cairo
and two thousand two hundred and
eighty bars for Evansville.
The snagbOat, H. S. Thayer came
in from White river yesterday morning.
The Mary E. FOrsythe and Glencoe,
from New Orleans, passed early this
morning after daylight with fair trips.
The Mohawk and barges passed up
from below after laying here several
hours cleaning out boilers.
The City of Helena, from Vicksburg,
arrived at noon, put off sixteen pack
ages of sundries, and left for st. Louis
light.
The Continental, five days out from
New Orleans, discharged fifty tons of
freight here, and had eight hundred and
fifty for above, including five hundred
tons Of pig iron, one hundred and seven
ty-five tons of sugar, and one hundred
and twenty-five tons of railroad iron.
She laid here nearly all day cleaning
out boilers.
The City of Cairo, from st. Louis,
passed down, bound for New Orleans,
with full trip.
The Kate Kinney, from New Orleans,
three and half days out, put off here
thirty tons of molasses and vegetables,
and left for the Ohio light.
The Pink Varble arrived yesterday
evening from Pine Bluff, with five thou
sand six hundred and eighty sacks of
cotton seed and fifty barrels Of oil.
The local packets all departed with
fair trips of freight and passengers.
The Bismarck, from St. Louis, added
fifty-fiye bales of cotton here, and left
for New Orleans with a seventeen-hun-
dred-ton cargo, well laden.
The regular coast packet Phil Allin,
Captain James Lee, leaves this evening
at five o'clock for Friars Point and al
way landings. Stack Lee and James
c. Harris are her chief secretaries.
The John Kilgour leaves this evening
for Cincinnati, direct. She has superior
accommodations for passengers. Cap
tain A. Stein commands and Mr.. Frank
Beck is chief clerk.
The John KilgOur is due from below
to-day with two hundred and fifty tons
of freight for the Ohio.
The wharf at Pittsburg is again crowd
ed with tOwbOats waiting for a rise.
The old locks in the canal at Louis
vile are in working order, and the ma
jOrity of the boats that have been laid
up at the foot of the canal left for Gin
cinnati last Sunday.
The Charles Bodmann is hard aground
in the canal at Louisville. The Robert
Mitchell and Glasgow are in the canal
lying Just above the Bodmann.
The Grand Lake left Louisville last
Sunday for New Orleans with eleven
coal-boats for the Grand Lake Coal
Company.
The Simpson Horner left Louisville
last Sunday night with ten boats of coal
for Homer, Woods & Co., Vicksburg,
Mississippi.
The rates of freight from Cairo to New
Orleans are fifty-five cents per barrel on
flour, and pound freight twenty-seven
and a-half cents per hundUed.
A passenger on the Idlewild, on her
last trip down, imprudently opened his
pocket-boOk on the hurricane roof, near
Padueah, when the wind, which was
blowing gale, took from it six hundred
dollars in greenbacks, note for four
teen hundred dollars, and another note
for smaller amount, landing them in
the river, whose turbulent waves at once
swallowed them up forever.
The John OvertOn got hard aground
about seven miles above this city, in the
vicinity of Paddy's Hen and Chickens.
After using all her own "pOwers" to
'get off, the ferrybOat Excelsior went
up early yesterday morning 20 tighten
her, but unfortunately ran afoul of alOg,
seriously damaging her hull, and was
compelled to set about saving herself
from sinking. A bulkhead was soon
rigged, however, and she returned to the
| city, without being able to render any
assistance to the 0yertOn, which was
still aground when last heard from.
The st. Louis Democrat of the sixth
says; ''The first bridge over the Arkan
sas river viii be at Little Rock, and at
the Point of Rocks near the foot of
Rock street. Rocks will be used in its
construction. 1t will be q railroad
bridge.
an. M. Jones, of Brown & Jones, coal
merchants of Memphis, is here to spend
a few days with friends
A st. Louis exchange notes the de-
parture of Captain Noel from that city.
He goes to close contract for a new
boat TO be built expressly for the Vieks-
burg and bends trade, and to run in con-
nection with the r. E. Lee and Natehez.
She viii be built either at Metropolis,
Madison, or Jeffersonville, and is to be
two hundred and forty feet in length,
thirty-six feet in width, and six feet
depth Of hold. She is to have three
boilers and twenty-ineh cylinders, with
seven and half feet stroke.
J.V. MCDONALD & Co.ahave reOpened
their Coal Yard at Helena, and started
new one at Island Is, where steamd
boats will always find the best of Pitts
burg coal. Their Office for both yards is
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