Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-22
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
Boats LeSv1nE TO-day.


Belle of Cairo
Mary E. Forsy Thu. Cairo
Departures
A. J. White........-.-........... ~ napoleon
I'm nnall
May Flower orleans
w. j. LeWiS........ OTiealls
Dardanelle White river
Armadill orleans
N FOFe
Mary f. Forsyth, Andy Baum, Belle of Pike.
River-we Observation-Disclosures.
There has been a rise of one inch in
the river here since our last report, and |
the water now is nearly foot above the !
lowest mark of last season. The depth |
over Reeves and Horn Lake is six feet, !
and that over the bars above, five feet. |
The Arkansas was benefited but little !
by the recent rains, as far as is known |
and that, with White river, did not raise !
more than two inches. There is nothing
from the Missouri or Illinois indicating
rise, but in the Ohio the case is differ |
emit, there having been heavy rains in !
the mountains and coal regions eft the !
Allegheny and MonOngahela, as well as
the side streams below the mouth of
those two rivers. The Kanawha and |
Muskingum are swelling, and at Pitts /
burg, our dispatches tell us, they expect
enough of rise to send out a small coal
| fleet. There the water last night was
raising an inch per hour, but it is mat |
| ter of some doubt as to whether or not
| the river will be frozen over sOlidly
abOve and below Cincinnati before the
heaviest of the rise gets down, At all
the points heard from last night the |
weather was bitter cold, and at many
points snow was falling. Here the wind |
early in the day was directly from the
north, and the mercury at twenty-eight /
degrees. About nine o'clock light
snow began falling, and continued at
intervals until dark, when the landing
was nearly deserted.
BY Telegraph.
NASHVILLE, December 21.-The river
is rising rapidly, with feet water on
! Harpeth Shoals. Weather extremely
cold. Departed: n. Phillips, Pittsburg; |
Ella Hughes, Upper Cumberland.
NEW ORLEANS, December 2l.-NO !
arrivals. Departed: H. S. Turner Bel |
fast, Cincinnati; Belle Lee, Memphis. |
| Weather clear and cold.
LOUISVILLE, December 21.-The river
is closed, with ice gorge in many places. !
| Weather cloudy and cold, and splitting
snow. Mercury ranged from 100 to 1S0. |
A.
of heauy ice. The ferryboats above the
piers are obliged to stop running, and
those below have great difficulty in !
crossing. There is an ice gorge some
forty miles below the city, and another
is expected to form at the bridge here. !
Weather very cold: Mercury So above !
zero at am, and gradually sunk all |
day till it reached 50 below, tonight.
CAIRO, December 2l.--Arrived: Emma |
G. Elliott, Memphis, l am. Departed; |
Arkansas Belle, Evansville, 10 pm;
Tyrone, Nashville, 4 pm. The river
has fallen inches. Weather clear and |
very cold. Mercury 9 degrees above /
zero. Considerable in the river, and it |
is feared there will be an ice gorge at Co. |
lumbus.
EVANSVILLE, December q. Weather /
clear and coolest of the season; Mercu-
~ 10o The river has fallen inches. /
An ice gorge is reported at Hawersville
and Dutch Bend. The Tarascon, which
left at am. for Louisville, is laid up at
Tell City. The Ada Heilman, from
Cairo, only arrived to-day. She also
lies up.
VIcKsBURG, December p Down:
r. E. Lee, Northwestern and City Of
Cairo. up. w. Strader, John B.
MANU- weather OAOhuJ anu OOOla INV
er rising.
CINCINNATI, December 21.-The river
is rising, with feet inches water in the
channel. Weather cold. An ice gorge
ii indicated below.
steamers Going This Fay.
The Belle of Pike, Captain Rider,
leaves this afternoon at five O'Clock,
from the foot of Beale street, for Cairo
and all the usual way landings.
miscellaneous.
The Lawrence lays here for better
water in the Ohio. Nearly all of her
freight was out last night, and effectual-
ly filed the landing opposite where she
lay.
The Mayfower did not get away until
late last night, when she took for New
Orleans five hundred and fifty bales of
cotton and seventy tons of miscellaneous
freight.
The Ashland lays up for the present,
or until there is more water in the Ar
kansas.
The Mary E. Forsyth came down
yesterday morning with a barge, and
added at Wolf Island nineteen hundred
sacks OF corn, and here nearly thou
sand bales of cotton for New Orleans.
Point Pleasant.
The salvage bill against the steamer
Katie has not yet been paid, and she is
still in "hoek" at New Orleans. 1t is
presumed, however, that the bill viii be
settled soon.
kilograms from Cincinnati, yesterday,
as well as those from Louisville and st.
Louis, reported the weather extremely ,
cold. AT the latter point sleighing was
excellent.
Old "Prob." failed to observe in his
bulletin on Friday night that a general
snow-storm would prevail all over the
country yesterday. He disappointed
hereabouts to such an ex-
tent that had he presented himself at
the landing free bath would have been
rendered him.
Overcoats were luxury yesterday,
and ''blessed was hen who could sit by
stove, in the cabin of boat, or in an
office all day.
The Arlington was to have left late
last night with fifteen hundred bales of :
cotton for Cincinnati, and doubtless got
away.
The Andy Baum is lying at the upper
l4nding, and viii load as soon as the
weather mOderates. II
The Dardanelle, for White river,
cleared last evening drawing three feet,
and had a good trip of people.
The rains last week made only a shore
rise of an inch and half in either
White river or the Arkansas.
The Thomas H. Allen had not been
raised up TO Friday night, and it is i
hardly probable that she will be at pres
emit. ALI her freight, and perhaps her !
will be taken out by the
Eckert, however, and brought here.
The Mary Alice and barges passed
south at noon yesterday.
The West Wind will hardly get away
from here before next week.
The Yaeger and Mollie Moore did at
last get through to Cairo, and the for \
mer will continue her trip to New Or :
leans, taking the freight of the Mollie
Moore when she gets below Point i
(
At noon yesterday at Pittsburg the :
river had risen two feet and eight a
inches since three O'Clock the afternoon
previous, and was rising an inch per
hour. 1t was then thought there would
be sufficient water to send out some
coal, but with the mercury at twenty
Eve degrees the probability is that the
rise will not last long.
It cost the Lawrence fully fifty dollars I
more to discharge her cargo here than .