Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-01-28
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.

has fallen four inches since last report; at
Pitts burg, six inches; ab Cairo, five inches
and at ST. Louis one inch, and rose ab
Shreveport four inches, five inches at Gin
c1nnati and two inches as New Orleans,
remaining stationary at Lsavenworth,
n sshville, Louisville and Omaha. There
WAS heavy rain at New Orleans, threat
ening at Vicksburg, Nashville and Oma-
hs, cloudy at other points named above
The weather here was cloudy and moder-
ate. The river here is now four and half
feet above the low water mark of 1871
There is nine feet from here to Cairo; nine
feet scant, a. Reeves bar, and four and a
malt feet from St. Louis to Cairo. The
Arkansas is declining. White river is sta
tionary. There Is, by the report to night,
a slight check TO the decline in the MisEis-
sippi and tributaries, and some think that
there will be a rise before the coming
week closes. The bars are again giving
pilots trouble, several boats are reported
aground. At st Louis ice is moving by
the city, sluggishly. The board Of un-
derWrtters of that oisy caused the follow.
ing to be posted on Change Friday: "Nav-
igstion between st. Louis and Cairo being
practically suspended for the present, the
members Of the board of underwriters
give notice that no cargo risks will be
5sken by them between st. Louis and
Cairo until further notice "
BoAFs LEAVING To-DAK-Tbe psssen-
ger stssmer Robert Mitchell, Captain r
MeWsde, leaves to-day at twelve O'Clock
for Louisville and Cincinnati. Captain F.
Stein is her clerk.
ARRIYALs-TOm Jasper, New Orleans;
Sioux City, st. Louis; Capitol City, St
Louis; q. ". Cheek, Frisrs Point.
DEPARTUREs-TOm Jasper, Cairo; Sioux
City, White river; EmmaC. Elliott, White
river; g. W. Cheek, Frisrs Point; Capitol
CITY, Natehez; Emma Floyd, Cincinnati.
In PORT-DardaneIle
AT TIE LEVEH-There was but little
business at the wharf yesterday, there
being but tour arrivals and few depar-
tures...-.....T The John Kyle was several
hours aground at Reeves bar yesterday,
.........The J. L. Hyatt arrived from above
With tow OF coal for this city ......... The
Capitol Oity, nom St. Louis, passed down
after dischsrglng twenty head Of stock.
She added 3 lot OF way freight here, draw
ing seven feet........, The G. W, Cheek, from
Friars Point, came In with one hundred
and torty-six bales of cotton, three
hundred and thirty-seven SACKS of
seed, and returned with a fair
trip-......,The Emma @. Elliott departed
for White river With good trip of freight
and passengers. ..,....,, The Dexter, Robert
Mitchell and Belle ST. Louis are due from
Below. The Tom Jasper, seven days
out from New Orleans, with barge in tow,
discharged fifty tons of freight here and
had i've hundred tons for above, including
hve hundred hogsheads of sagsr ,..,.,.., The
Sioux Oily arrived from s.. Louis with
seven hundred barrels of -four and two
hundred and seventy-hve sacks of grain
and a lot Of sundries. She departed for
White river loaded to the guards The
towbost Kellogg and bArges passed up at
noon yesterday.
OlHER MArTERs-The Susie Silver,
which left Sc. Louis for New Orleans on
Wednesday, went no further Bhan Uaron-
delet, and will lay up far the present. On
account of card issued by the under
writers, which is given above, several
boats withdrew their advertisements and
ceased receiving Cntil the weather mod
crates. The st. Joseph was to leave
Cairo for New Orleans yesterday ......G Gen.
sral Nathan Rsnney has recovered his in
disposition and is again on duty 80 sgen;
of The Memphis and st. Louis Packet
company at Sc. Louis......... The So. Louis
Times of Friday ssysi "The Comets
bsTges are all below the dana at Buffing-
ton, and all right at Ground Hog, but the
Comet Ia sill stuck on the dam, where
she will have to await a rise Of eight or
nine feet Of water 70 float her off.....,...Af-
ter the Fannie BTsndiss had sunk Captain
J. Murray tried to get a Wreckinghost at
Memphis 20 60 to the wreck and try and
save what they could and for such SER
vices they were to be paid with cotton
that was in the wreck, but he could not
pull the "woOp over their eyes, so he got
3 astboas and went at 1t on his own ac-
count and raised forty-foul bales on which
he intended to claim salvage, but the ship
pers OF the cotton hearing Of Il, ubelled
their property before the United Ststss
marshal, and Murray has been ordered to
appear on the 4th of next May and in
berVene for his interest in the cotton, or
the same will be condemned as prayed for
IN the hbel.....,,., A year ago q committee
Of the Pittsburg GOAL exchange issued g
circular in which was the following state
ment; The whole foreign commerce of
the United States ls valued at $500, OO0, coo, |
while that OF the Ohio river alone amounts
to S7l5, COO, coo, and that Of the entire Mis-
sissIppi valley reaches ths enormous sum |
Of 81 000. 000, COO, Of. which Cincinnati |
claims Sl7O, 600 600, Pittsburg $50, 600 coo, |
and Louisville slI5, 600 00O.......,. The Jack |
sODpOrt (ArkRnsssl Statesman of the 18Th |
says; On last Wednesday morning Csp- |
tain Charles Beard, pilot on the steamer |
Bluff City, was found dead In his bed. |
Captain Beard was an old stesmboatman,
and his death will be deplored by ali who |
know him. He had been In Ill health for /
some time,
ny AeAp8E8PUs
LITTLE Rock, January 27.-River fell |
feet since last rise, and still falling fast. |
Weather cloudy and cool. Departed; Pat !
Jleburne, foE Memphis; Armsdillo, f5f |
Fort Smith
NEW ORLRANs, January N.-Arrived: |
Tidal Wave, from Arkansas river. De- |
parted: Glencoe, John +. Tolle and ILL.,
oois, for 81. Louis; Henry 8. Turner, for
EVANSVILLE, January 27-Weather
cloudy and cold. Mercury 27s to 34e,
River has fallen inches, and is full OF /
Ice Up; Andes. IL p m; Silver Moon, I |
An. Down; Nick Longworth, pm.
CAIRO, January H.-Afrived: Carrie V. |
Kountz, New Orleans. pm; Alice Dean,
New Orleans, 2 p. m; 81. Joseph, Memphis,
pm; Pink Vsrbls, Memphis, p N De-
parted: 81. O. Yesger, tor Belmont, pm;
Alice Dean, Cincinnsti, pm. River has
fallen 8 inches. Weather clear. Mercury
34o.
CINcIENATI, January q. The river was
clear from ice this morn
ing, but toward noon 1t Was again rum
ming heavily from the gorges above This
evening there is some abatement, but |
still heavy. Weather modersting and |
cloudy.
LoUIEvILLE, January 27.-River falling, |
with 5 feet 10 inches in the canal, and / |
IN In ha m