Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-13

from New Orleans, II am. Weather
clear and cool.
CINcTNNArf, October 12.-The river
has fallen / inch, with feet 3 inches Of
water IN the channel.
/ PITTsBURG, October 1.-THE MoBon-
! gahala river has 4 feet inches water in
the channel, and falling slowly.
] ST.LOUIs, October l2.-Arrived moilie
Moore, from New Orleans. Departed:
| st. doe, for Memphis River falling.
/ Weather clear and pleasant.
! VICKsBUB9, October I2.-No boats
own. Up: City Quincy, PargOud and
Casltol City. Weather clear and cool.
River falling.
Still anotL r attempt was made on
"Wednesday to elevate the wharf boat at
Vicksburg and when she had been
Taised ten feet pump broke, and down,
down again to the bottom went the
| wharfboat. Another attempt will be
made tomorrow.
1 Billy Thomas, late clerk of the Belle
st. Louis, has gone to Vieksburg to take
charge of the Traders Office for few
weeks, when he goes upon the new
steamer Maud.
The traEsfer-boat 81. c. Mutt attempt
ed to cross the river in the heavy fog
yesterday morning with the Little ROCK
train, but grounded near the head OF
the bar on the Arkansas side, and staid
two hours, until the tug n. M. Jones
went TO and pulled her'oR
The Pat. Cleburne, from the lower
coast, arrived yesterday at noon with
sixty-ive bales Of cotton, four mum
dred and forty-nine sacks of cotton seed
and a fair miscellaneous list of freight.
Tho ET.arfd fTorrsar from zf lnulS.
| came in at dark with three hundred
tons of grain and produce, and viii not
! probably get it out before this morning.
The fine steamer Colorado will leave
/ this morning at ten o'clock, from the
elevator, for Cairo and st. Louis. She
| has the best of accommodations and
4 fare, and runs well. Captain 5. F.
/ Luker, one of the most popular steam
/ bOatmen on the river, has command OF
| her.
The United States mail and passenger
/ packet Julia, Captain Boyd, leaves this
/ morning at. ten o'clock for Vicksburg
and all the bend landings. Colonel Jas.
/ Thompson is her prime minister.
4 Freights from this city to New Or
/ leans are steady at one dollar and twen-
/ ty-hve cents per bale (uncompressed) ON
| cotton, and four dollars per long ton on
/ oil-eake.
/ The Pargoud carried tive thousand five
hundred and sixteen bales of cotton, and
/ four thousand three hundred and nine
/ teen sacks of seed to New Orleans last
| Thursday, and the Susie Silver left there
on the same evening with light trip Of
sugar.
/ The John Kyle is coming down with
lighter in tow.
The City of Quincy is coming up for
/ St. Louis with two hundred and fifty
! tons of railroad iron, one thousand SACKS
| of salt and other mis- ellaneOus freight.
The st. Luke leaves as above this
evening at five o'clock for Cairo, 81.
! Louis and all the usual way landings.
! J. H. Maddox, contractor for Cumber-
! land river improvements, died suddenly
/ from an attack of cTamp collie, early on
/ Saturday morning. He was at Gibbs's
| woodward, near HaTpeth Shoals, when
/ taken i'll. and after his attack lived but
! a few hours.
The City ofQuincy wiz pass up at one
/ o'clock on Monday afternoon, for Cairo
| and Sc. Louis.
The Shreveport Times, Of Tuesday,
reports from twenty-five to thirty inches
| from the mouth Of Red river to the
wreck of the Era Number Seven, and
SAYS the boats at the mouth have to run
| the lower side of Turnbulps 3 landing, as
/ the upper side has filed up.
The Cherokee broke her doctor in
Red river, and had to send it overland
in buggy to Shreveport for repairs.
A heavy rise is expected in Upper
| Red river.
The Muscatine Journal of the eighth
saws: "There is a gorge of freights IN
every town between st. Louis and st.
/ Paul, and it appears impossible for the
/ limited number of boats now in this
trade to diminish the amount to any
I considerable degree before navigation
closes. This state of things affords the
/ competing lines an excellent Opportu-
! nifty for advancing rates, which they are
not slow to embrace"
ALE Cutting, of Metropolis, Illinois,
has built since April lst, four model
| barges, two steamboat hulls (the Belle
/ of Shreveport and John B. ManO), and
! two tugs, one being the largest ever con-
structed in the West, and that is the
/ Virgins ferry one, which is eighty-five
! feet long and eighteen feet beam.
| The following well-knOwn steamboat
men were in attendance at the st. Louis
| Fair last week: Capt. G. 7. Burdick,
/ steamboat agent in New Orleans; Capt.
! Rufus Ford, connected some years ago
with the Keokuk Packet Company, but
/ now farming at Galesburg, Illinois,;
I Capt Frank L. Rhodes, formerly steam
| boating in the Illinois river, but at pres
| ent a resident of Shawneetown, Illinois;
and Capt S. NJ b harrison, formerly
steam boat cabin der in the city, but
now farming e Missouri.