Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-24
BY Telegraph.

Helena; Tor Memphis. River falling
slowly. Weather clear and cooler.
New ORLEANS, August 23.-Arrived
LaBelle, from Louisville; Henry c,
Yaeger, from st. Louis. No departures,
Weather clear. Thermometer go.
VICKsBURG, August 23.-BOats down.
Pink Varble and II. e. Lee. Weather
clear and warm. River falling.
LITTLE Rock, August 23.-Weatbel
clear and very warm. River rising.
with 6 feet 3 inches water in the channe.
at this point.
CAIRO, August 23.-AITived: Jennie
Howell, from New Orleans; Tom JAS
per, from New Orleans; Julia, from st.
Louis; Bismarck, from st. Louis. De
parted: Jennie Howell, for Louisville,
II pm; Grand Tower, for Memphis, II
pm; Tom Jasper, for st. Louis, s am;
Atlantic, for New Orleans, S am; Law
renee, for Memphis, s pm. River sta
tionary. A refreshing shower fell at )
pm, the first for several weeks, and is
now cooler.
NASHVILLE, August 23.-The river
is falling, with 80 inches water on Har-
peth Shoals. Weather very warm.
CINCINNATI, August 23.-The river
is falling, with II feet water in the
channel.
P%ITTsBURG, August 23.-The Monon-
gahela river is about stationary, with s
feet , inches water in the channel.
Weather sOOl. There is a poor prospect
for water at present.
LOUISVILLE, August 23.-The river
is falling slowly, with 5 feet IL inches
water i'll the canal, 3 feet II inches in
the chute. Weather clear and pleasant.
Business dull. Arrived: Belle Vernon
and barges, from Cincinnati. Departed:
shannon, for Memphis; Belle Vernon,
for New Orleans; Charley Mcdonald,
for Pittsburg. The Liberty went over
the falls and laid up at Portland.
EVANSVILLE, August 23.-Weather
clear and warm. Thermometer $50.
River rising rapidly. Port list-Up:
Grand Lake, s am. Business good.
Miscellaneous
The \. J. White, from Chicot, came
in, with six bales of cotton, II hum
dred and fifty-eight sacks of cotton
seed and a fair passenger list.
The Phil Allin, from Friars Point,
brought in a fair trip of cotton and seed.
She brought in the second bale of cotton
from the State of Mississippi, this sea-
son.
The Dexter, from st. Louis, added one
hundred sacks of Oilcake here, and left
for New Orleans at daylight yesterday
morning, with full trip.
Pittsburg coal is selling at seventy
five cents per barrel at New Orleans.
The Lawrence passed Evansville last
Tuesday, with seven hundred tons Of
freight for this port.
The towbOat Smoky City has laid up
at Portland, and the Charley Brown at
the foot of the canal.
Signal stations are to be opened on the
upper MOnOngahela and Allegheny.
Full river and weather reports will be
received from points on those rivers after
the twenty-first instant.
The tOwbOat Simpson HOrner gets at
Pittsburgh new cylinders, twenty-eight
inches in diameter and six and a half
feet stroke. The Simpson Horner has
been almost newly built; all the defect
i've timbers We're taken out at q cost of
not less than fifteen thousand dollars.
Captain Plateau, of the Red river
steamer Era No. 10, says he has over
come the power of resistance in steam
boat wheels, and by his own ingenuity
has discovered a plan by which a boat
will receive the full benefit of the power
The lifting of a dead weight,
water, on the wheel is dispelled by
the buckets in an angular posi-
ton on the wheel-arms. Captain Fla
teau thinks the speed of his boat is in
creased at least one mile per hour by
this invention.
The barge Annie Laurie, sunk at
Sun by the Wild Cat, is broken
in two aud lies in the channel, and is a
dangerous obstruction.
The Belle st. louis, from above, came
in during the forenoon, put of seventy
five tons of freight, added twenty-five
tons, and had a fair cargo for points
below. She was eight hours aground at
Greenleaf bar coming down.
The old wharf-bOat of the Mound City
packet lies On-a sand-bar opposite
the city, in a sunken condition.
The tOw-boat Sharp Mcdonald passed
up at noon yesterday, with twelve emp
Jy cOal-bOats, for the Ohio.
The Colorado, from below, discharged
Dnehundred packages merchandise here,
and departed for St. Louis at dusk, with
a fair way trip.
The Phil Allin and A. J. White, both
'or the lower coast, got off at dusk with
'air trips of freight and people.
The regular United States mail packet
Mary Boyd, in command of Captain
Smith, leaves this evening at
i've o'clock for Pine Bluff, Little Rock,
md all points on the Arkansas river.
Mr.. J. S. Jones holds forth at the desk.
The regular United Statesmail packet
R.. P. Walt, leaves this evening at five
,'clock for Devalps Bluff, ~Jacksonport,
all points on White river. Captain
William Ashford commands, and Ed.
Postal and Dan Sullivan are clerks.
The United States mail packet Julia,
command of Captain @. w. Boyd,
caves at five O'clock this evening for
VicksbuFg. Nh. William Goebel is chief
Jerk.
The Grand Tower, Captain LennOx,
caves this evening at five O'Clock for
Louis and way landings. Mr.. White
S her prime minister.
The Cincinnati Commercial of the
wenty-first says: 1.-THE Gladiola came
If the ways yesterday, and was dropped
to the wharf. She was heightened
hirty-seven feet, and draws ten inches
than before. She will probably be
AIKEN below the falls before the canal
loses"
The Cincinnati Gazette of the twenty
lfsI says ndttS AOI SlSlllefS lOaullE
,ver the wharf-bOat of the Southwestern
transportation Wharf-boat Company
been established. Five cents per
on freight received or. discharged
will be assessed. For instance, if a boat
eceives four hundred tons, her tax viii
Re twenty dollars"
The st. Louis Republican of the TWEEN
y-second says: zone of the hottest days
f the year; thermometer ninety to one
hundred degrees, according to location.
n some steamboat offices it was one
hundred and ten at four o'clock in the
.fternoon. Water falling slowly. Bust
less good, the river interest being a very
'ital one. Several tributaries are played
nut or playing out, such as the Ohio, Il
and Missouri. The business
f the streams in connection with
It. Louis is but the sickly- shadow
f its former self, but the great river, the
of Waters, the Mississippi, never
ives up, except in low water hence to
afro, or hence to st. Paul. The Upper
Mississippi is rising, and Illinois and
lissouri are falling. Only sixteen
lches in the Ohio, over the falls at
,%ouisvllle. A pilot writes that there are
My four feet of water in the Lower s