Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-08

: PIrrsBURG. November THE Monongnhel
q river has 4 feet 8 inches water in the channel
, Weather warm, with fair prospects for rain
: No arrivals. The Arlington leaves for New or
leans this evening, and the MinneoIa for Mem
: phls.
VIcRsBuRG, November Boats down
Mary Miller. Up: Robert Mitchell. Weathe
cloudy and cool. River Milling.
NEW 0RLKANs, November arrived Car
RE V. KountE. No departures. Raining al
Nashville November THE river is swell
ing, with II inches water on Harpeth shoals
Weather fair and pleasant to-day.
EVANSVILLE November THE weather wa
clear and frosty this morning, and pleasan
this evening. Mercury 90. RIVER has riser
8 inches, and is about stationary. Up: Fay
cite, Arkansas Belle, Hurt. Down Evansville
Mary Ament. Business fair.
81. Louis. November ARRIVED: Kellogg
and barges, New Orleans; 10 Kinney, Vicks
burg; Victory and barges aud Lake superior
keoKuk; heithsburg, Peoria; GascOnade and
barges, Davenport; ST. Luke, Memphis. De-
parted: Alice, New Orleans; Fanny Lewis,
Nicksburg; Dictator, Cairo; Legal Tender
Memphis; ST. Johns, KeOkuk. River rising
| slowly. Weather clear and warm.
CAIRO, November ARRIVED: Common
wealth, from st. Louis, 2 pm; Iron Noun
tain, from st. Louis, 3 pm; Mcdonald, from
ST. Louis, 3 pm; Emile LabaTge, from st.
Louis 3 pm; Bee, rom st. Louis, 4p.m.; st.
Marys, from Cincinnati, 5 pm. Departed
Turner, for st. Louis, l pm; Huntsville, for
Red River, 2 pm: Ruby, for New Orleans, .
pm; Commonwealth, for New Orleans. River
| risen 10 inches. Weather clear and cool. ST.
Luke from Memphis, 9 am Ruby from Lou
%isviIie, 10 am; EddyviIle from Evansville,
midnight; Nashviu from Louisville, 10 am
Dayton from Mound City, 10 a. m; Il. s.
Turner from New Orleans, il am. Departed
st, Luke for ST. Louis, midnight; Eddyville
for Evansville, 2 an 10 Fleming for St.
Louis, Il am. Weather clear and cool,
Movement of Boats.
A fair amount OF usin was transacted at
the landing and levatOr yesterday. The Ce-
leste, from OsceOla, brought ffy-four bales Of
cotton, seven hundred and sevenUy-two sacks
I If corn and seven hundred and fuynnfv-TUgn
sacks Of cottOn-seed The City Of Augusta
brought from White river four hundred bale.
Of cotton, and the Mary Boyd, from the same
stream, brought four hundred and thirty
three bales, having discharged one hundred
and six bales at the mouth Of White river,
which the Katie viii doubtless take. The
Glencoe and Indiana, the former for st. Louis
and the latter for the Ohio river, passed up
during the morning with light trips OF sugar
and salt, and the Pat CIeburne, from Frlars
Point, brought forty-six bales Of cotton and
! two hundred and fifty-six sacks -cOtton-seed.
The Capital came down after dinner
with three hundred tons for N1cksDurg
and intermediate points, and put
of here one hundred sacks grain and one
hundred and sixty bales Of hay. The Southern
from st. Louis two hundred and seventy-hve
tons Of Anchor Line freight, which she was
putting out at dark, and viii load with oil
cake for New Orleans. The principal items OF
her cargo 70 this city were fourteen hundred
and fourteen dry barrels and two hundred and
twelve sacks Of grain. The 81. Francis, from
Phillips Bayou, ON the ST. Francis river,
brought eighty-One bales OF c-OttOn-ssed. The
w. ]. Lewis passed up without doing much
here. The Katie departed before dark for New
Orleans with four hundred and thirty-three
bales Of cotton, fifty tons Of miscellaneous
freight, and an excellent List Of passengers.
n st. Francis and Cleburne got ava at dark
with good trips.
signal kilograms.
The dispatches received by Slgnal-Omer
Rhode last night, report a two-inch rise at
Davenport, one inch at Cairo, nine inches at
It. Louis, making in all seventeen inches rise
there, and two inches at Nicksburg. A decline
Of one inch il also reported at -. Paul, one
inch at Pittsburg, twelve inches at Cincinnati,
four at Louisville, three inches each atShreve-
port and Nashville, and TWO inches at New
Orleans. The water-leyel at st. Paul is three
feet seven inches above low water mark, al
Davenport one foot and ten inches, at Cairo
three feet seven inches, at st, Louis seven feet
two inches, at P1ttsburg four feet TWO inches,
at Cincinnati ten feet seven inches, at Louis
Vile five feet eight inches, at Nicksburg one
foot six inches, at Shreveport seventeen inch
es, and at Nashville three inches.
Boats GOing To-Day.
The tri-weekly passenger packet Phil AIin,
Captain stack Lee, leaves this evening at five
o'clock for Friars Point and the usual way
landings. Messrs. Gray and Cannon are here
clerks.
The United States mail packet G. w. Cheek
leaves this evening at hve O'Clock for Friars
Point and all the way landings. Captain
Malone commands, and Robert Wildberger
and Charley Jackson are her clerks.
The Frank Forrest, Captain Sexton, will
Jam bAAL ~ - EAbNA lis 1hGAAAAAk AtbAA ait I
foot OF Union street for Fulton and intsrmedf-l
ate plantation landings.
It United States mail and passenger steam
er A. j. Nhite, in command OF Captain Mark
Cheek, leaves this afternoon at five O'Clock for
Napoleon and all the bend landings. b. 7.
Fields, William Smithers and Charles Sharpe
are her popular secretaries.
The II. n. Shreve leaves this afternoon 81
five o'clock, in the Anchor Line, for Cairo, st.
Louis and all way landings, making direct
connections at the points named with the
trains for the North, East and West.
miscellaneous
The Shamrock, under charter to Noyes'
circus, was seized by the United States Mar
shall at Aurora, Indiana, a day or two since, /
subsequently bonded and came down
over the Falls Wednesday.
Captain WIG. Mccoy has contracted with the
put in the X. W. SkiiIingeT. She will be cut
ia two in the middle, and when completed
goes in the Red river trade.
II Is said that at New Orleans steamboat
captains hold regular morning meetings, and
prepare their plans for the day.
The steamer Anna was pressed into the ser
vice Of the state Of Alabama, last Wednesday, |
10y Judge Elliott, 10 carry witnesses from Mo-
bile to The Baldwin County Court.
Rates from New Orleans to st. Louis nave
been advanced, ana are now as follows: For
sugar 25c per 100 lbs, mOlasses 81 Is per Dbl, Gc
per half bbi. keg 31c, moss and dOmestlcs 3Oc
pei 100 lbs, Liverpool salt 3c per sack, Turks
Island SOC per sacks, liquors soc per 100 lbs,
and other freight In proportion.
At the meeting Of the General Council
w eunesQfN night. an Ordinance introduced I
designed to compel natboatmen to give their
goods to commission merchants 10 sell, was
aid on the table, and the iatboaters were al
to come in on the old terms.
Wharfmlster Lightburne collected two
nine hundred and s~eventy-seven
dollars and twenty-five cents last month.
Last year the collections were but one thou
and and four dollars and sixty-four cents,
and during the same time last season st. Louis
i've thousand two hundred and
a~inety-nine dollars and ninety-dve cents.
The Bismark is due from below, and the
Henry C.. Yeager and John Kyle from above.
lhe Yeager, however, was hard aground at
Point Pleasant when the Capital City passed
here on Wednesday morning.
The Yaeger has two u~GdrtdtOns Of Oil-cake
The Katie had alarge numbel Of passengers
Asst night, many OF whom came here by rail
rom Louisville and st. Louis.
a misunderstanding package, with ancient
hieroglyphtcs over the sides and ends,
nd measuring about two by four feet, came
on tbs Belle Memphis the other day. II
considerable curiosity at the elevator,
{ being consigned to one OF the attaches of
institution, and none were found that
deeipher the name nor any part of the
1ddress-that being in Chinese characters-
Intl Chris sharpe was called upon, when he
aid il wns for him and nj once proceeded TO
pen IL, when ioi there came forth an elegant
ress-coatZa loose sack, and q smasher, too,
II worked and quilted in silk, and with a
.uge red stripe about the bottom, which Chris
eelared was 10 keep the mosquitoes away. II
5 hardly necessary TO add that the garment I
5as a Christmas present from his oldest !
rother, the Grand Tycoon Of Japan. The
ol~or-yeuoW-is, however, rather light for
his season, and Chris says IL Will be worn
My upon state occasions.
The landing about the elevator and the ap-
reaches thereto was not examined by the Q
wharf and Landing Committee Of the Gene Z
alCouncH yesterday, they could not get t. 10 a
Ir the mud. The poor dfay mules could,
and doubtless inWardly thought OF
5veral new cuss words when they were knee S
eep IN mud, tugging away at aload Of cotton a
r car wheels. .
We learn by a private telegram from st. L
outs, that the railroads leading southwark a
that city are advertising to carry Mem =
bis freight at the old river rates-a basis OF =
ltee todeiiver freights here As soon as the
oats do This, with a rise in the river at st. n
outs, Will cause a tumble In rates by boat
lcre to-day or tomorrow.
On Wednesday morning last, as we are in I
rmed by the officers Of the Capitol City, an 1
occurred at Point Pleasant, that .
hen investigated, Will most likely serve as a 4
ssSOn 70 those IN charge OF boats. Ihe n. q. n
aeger WINS hard agrOuRd, with her head IN h
ream, and the Kyle about thirty feet from n
err, head down stream, and her bow about
nidships Of the Aaeger. The Kyle set her
lar 70 shove Oh, at the same time backing, "
nj for a moment did not move, and the be- 81
IN 10 swing around, until She struck the Yae- III
then gettlng loose she started back sud n
snly, and her entire larbOard guard forward m
the WheeihOuse was torn away, sweeping "
TO the river about forty head Of horses and OF
.ules that were coming outh. number Of 81
10 horses We're either Killed or crippled, and al
men tne Cagitoi lily passed the river was a.
VI Of them. The Kyle then went to the bank st
M up things and save tho stock thai swan OF
the shore, and Will doubtless be down this
ornlng, as her injuries were not believed to In
more than the loss Of her quart. OF
Stirratt Pepper, a gentleman who has had In
any years experiences In -,serV- 50
& in the capacity OF clerk and captain, has
Gated himself here, and viii be found at ali