Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-07
BY TeIegrnph.

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inch, and Nashville, stationary. No re-
ports from other quarters.
p BY Telegraph.
CAIRO, October 6.-Arrived: City Of
Helena, from Vicksburg, at two am
Belle Pike, from, at four am; Exporter,
from st. Louis, at nine am. Eddyville,
from Evansville, at ten am; Common
wealth, from St. Louis, at one pm.
Capital City, from st. Louis, at three
pm; st. Joe, for st. Louis, at six pm.
Departed: Belle Memphis, for Mem
phis, at nine pm; Nashville, for Mem
phis, at eleven pm; City of Helena, for
St. Louis, at six am; Belle Pike, for
st. Louis, at seven am. Eddyville, for
Evansville, at six pm; Capital City,
for Vicksburg, at seven pm. River fall
en- four inches. Showers since noon.
Weather cloudy and cool.
EVANSVILLE, October 6.-Weather
cloudy and wet. Rain since one pm,
with prospects of its continuing. The
river has fallen seven and a half inches.
Mercury 74o. Part Of the list down:
Ella Hughes, at eight am. Lecture No.
2 at nine am; Fayette, at five pm.
Evansville, at half past seven pm. Up:
Frank P. Gracey, at four pm, generally
WILL RtOu lIlDc. Navigation II CA
tremely difficult.
ST. LOUIS, October 6.-ArTived: At
lantic, from Cairo; Bertram and North
western, from KeOkuK; Huntsville, City
of Chester, from Memphis; Dexter,
st. Johns and Bertram, for Keokuk.
The river is falling. Weather cloudy
and cool. Heavy rain this morning.
Tnr~rcx~rrrH nofnhar -pfpar gf1-
tiOnary. Weather warm this morning,
tonight.
CINCINNATI, October 6.-The river is
declining. Rain falling heavily since
dark.
miscellaneous.
The Colorado, from above, arrived
early yesterday morning, before day
light; added forty tons Of way freight,
five thousand feet Of lumber, and thirty
thousand packages of laths, and depart
ed for below in the forenoon, with a fair
The Thos. II. Allen, from White riv-
er, came in with a moderate trip.
The st. Luke, from st. Louis, arrived
with three hundred and fifty tons of
for this point, two items of which
were sixteen hundred dry barrels, and
four hundred sacks of grain.
The James Howard, from st. Louis,
for New Orleans, went south early yes
terday morning, at daylight, drawing
six and a half feet.
The Julia, from below, brought in five
cotton, several smaller lots, and
departed for st. Louis with a light trip.
The Thos. H. Alien is the United
States mail packet for White river to-
morrow.
The GAINESVILLE, from st. Louis, came
IN at daylight with a fair trip.
The a. j. White leaves tomorrow
evening for Chicot and the coast land
.ngs.
The G.. w. Cheek, from Chicot, came
near noon with sixty bales cotton,
.wO hundred and seventy-two sacks cot
.on-seed, and a lot Of sundries TO order.
The Phil AIlin, from the lower coast,
with two hundred and twenty
lales of cotton and fifteen hundred aud
iorty sacks OF cotton-seed.
The regular United States mail packet
w. Cheek leaves this afternoon at
i've O'Clock for Friars Point, ChicOt and
III the way landings. Captain @. w.
commands, and Robert Wilder
and Charley Jackson are her
Jerks.
The regular coast packet Phil Allin
caves It five o'clock this evening for
7riars Point and all the usual way land
ngs. Captain Stack Lee commands,
md Messrs. VIM. 2. Gray and Wynne
cannon are her clerks.
The Belle Memphis, Captain John
crane, leaves as above this evening at
i've o'clock for Cairo and st. Louis. Mr..
Nm. Blenker is clerk.
The GAINESVILLE leaves tomorrow
for all points on the Arkansas
liver.
Major VIM, G.. Merrill, in charge of
he Ohio river improvements, has Just
ubmitted his annual report to the En-
,ineers' Department, which contains
suggestions relative to the West
IN rivers generally. 1t will be printed,
General Humphreys will urge on
congress the suggestions embodied with
egard to improvements on the Ohio.
he report states that the contracts out
landing at the commencement of the
Iseal year have all been completed, ex-
ept the dredging of Merriman's bar.
he contracts that have been completed
those for the dam at Charters
'reek, the dam dyke at the upper Firm
the dam at Marietta Isle, the
IKE at Medare, and the contracts for
amoving distractions out Of the Ohio
liver above the falls and below them.
these a very necessary dyke has
partly constructed at Glass House
and one thousand and ffty-one
1cks and large boulders have been re-
loved from HOrsetail and Lowrey's.
lew contracts have been made during
be past fiscal year. These for the year
lst closed are reported ia the last annu-
report, and those for the coming year
ave not yet been made. Careful de-
liled surveys and maps have been b,
lade during the past year of the bars Of
Iorsetail, Whites and the Trap,
and RaecOon Shoals, Line, ]
sland, Upper Twin, Isle, Charles T
IN, Augusta, Lang, Barmedac, Ris-
lg Sun, Gunpowder, Warsaw, Craig's
nd Greasy Flats, all of which are above ]
.ouisviile, and at Evansville, and the
umberiand down below Louisville.
surveys win be made during
le ensuing low water season. The OH (
rs IN charge recommend the construc-
on Of a small survey and inspection
Gamer, and also Of a lght-draneht
iag-boat, especially adapted to the
hio river. The small and compare
vely useless steamer, hitherto belong T
e to the Ohio river, Improvement, j
wrecked during the breakup Of o
le ice lsst winter. He also again urges I
le necessity Of a system Of beacon
and buoys fer the Western rivers
ii Of the passage Of the general bridge
". low before Congress, which WIS H
avn up hy the Board OF Engineers on {
q Ohio river bridge. He also calls IT. Z
to TIE need Of q general law reg Z
the bridging Of alhnaqlgabse rIv-
whether wholly within q State O. 8