Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-30

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by Telegraph.
NEW ORLEANS, July 29.-ArFived
Pink Marble, from Memphis. No de
partures. Weather clear and warm.
NICKSBURG, July 29.-BOats down
Frank Pargoud. Up: Henry c. Yaeger
Crescent City and barges, and Colorado
Weather clear and warm. River rising
P~ITTsBURG, July 29.-Weather i.
clear and warm. The MOnongahell
river at dark was falling, with 4 feet {
inches water in the channel.
LOUISVILLE, July 29.-Weather cleal
and very warm. The river is falling.
with Z feet S inches water in the canal
and 5 feet S inches in the chute. Nc
arrivals outside of local packets.
CINCINNATI, July 29.-The river Is
falling, with 10 feet water in the chan.
mel. Weather clear.
ST. LOUIS, July 29.-Arrived: Julia,
from Nicksburg; City of Quincy, from
New Orleans. Departed: City Of Ches-
ter, for Memphis. River falling slowly.
Weather clear and red hot.
EVANSVILLE, July 29.-Weather cleal
and hot till noon; now cloudy, with in
dications OfTain. Mercury 9Oo. River
swelling slowly. Business active this
morning. Port List-City Of Cairo,
from Louisville to New Orleans, noon.
CAIRO, July 29.-Auived: Grand
Tower, from Memphis, J am; John
Kyle, from st. Louis, 8 am; Bee, from
st. Louis, Z am; Mary Alice, from
New Orleans, s pm. Departed: Belle
st. Louis, for V~icksburg, 10 pm; Grand
Tower, for st. Louis, 5 am; John Kyle,
for New Orleans, 3 am. River has risen
6 inches. Weather clear and very hot
this morning; shower this afternoon,
and cooler.
NASHVILLE, July 29.-The river is
rising steadily, with ) feet s inches water
on Harpeth Shoals. Weather very
warm until after 6 pm, when strong
winds with threatening stOrm-clOuds
up.
miscellaneous.
The Belle Memphis, from st. Louis,
came in early yesterday morning with
seven hundred fifty tons of freight. sew
eral items of which were twenty-seven
hundred and fifty dry barrels, twenty
one hundred and twenty-three sacks of
grain, five hundred and sixty-eight kegs
of beer, three hundred and twenty-five
rolls of bagging, three hundred andsiXty-
two bales of hay, three hundred and
thirty-five packages of lard, and one
hundred and eighty wet barrels. She
returned at dark with a fair way trip.
The G. w. Cheek, from Chieot,
brought in seventeen bales of cotton, one
hundred and ten sacks of cotton seed, a
lot of sundries to order, and a cabin full of
The snagboat H. S. Thayer left for the
Arkansas river yesterday afternoon.
The st. Francis will hereafter make
two trips a week, leaving this port every
Tuesday and Thursday.
The John T. Moore, from st. Louis to
New Orleans, passed down before dark,
loaded to the waters edge.
The Utah, from above, arrived during
the afternoon, discharged several small
lots of freight here, and departed for
Little Rock with a four hundred ton
cargo.
The regular semi-weekly coast packet
G. w. Cheek, Captain George Malone,
this evening at five o'clock for
Napoleon, Chicot and all way landings.
She connects at the mouth of White
river with the steamer B~atesville for all
on White river. Robert H. Wild
and Charlie Sharpe are her pOpu-
clerks.
The reliable passenger packet Darda-
leIle, in command of Captain Eugene
smith, leaves this afternoon at five
''clOck for Pine Bluff, Little Rock and
I'll the usual way landings. Colonel
Iohn Hardin and Billy Willis are her
Jerks.
The Colorado leaves this evening at
i've O'clock for st. Louis and all the
way landings. Captain james
Iuker commands, and Mr.. H. Diedrick
lOlds forth Mt the desk.
The tri-weekly passenger steamer st.
francis, Captain T. II. Bowman, leaves
5 above this evening at five o'clock, for
Helena and ali the usual way landings.
Sam Paine is her chief secre-
airy.
The John Kyle, Captain Hutchinson,
caves at eleven O'Clock this morning
Or New Orleans direct. Mr.. Brown is
Ier clerk.
The Shreveport Southwestern of the
wenty-fourth instant says: 'rThe river
pposite this point fell two feet two
inches for the week ending at four
'elOck yesterday evening. For the
wenty-fOur hours ending at that time il
eclined five inches, which left it, at
hat hour, ten feet seven inches above
ne lowest water of last summer and
ixteen feet six inches below the highest
Iater of the past spring. The officers
f the Little Fleta, which steamer came
from Jefferson Monday evening, re-
ort three feet scant through the lakes,
nd navigation difficult between this
oint and and the City of the Cypress
IS We are yet unable to give our
any information from upper Red
yer. We are inclined TO think that
eavy rains have fallen in the northwest
very night during the past week, as we
aue noticed nightly dark clouds and
Ipid flashes of lightning in that direc-
on. If they had rains up there, we
expect to hear of a rise in a few