Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-19
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
Boats LeavIng ID
River. weather and Rnsine.-.

pOllU, ana again the bar on the oDD0sifp
side Is covered by water. Heavy rains
are reported along the entire Mississippi
as well as the lower portion of the Mis-
sour, and yesterday rain was reported
at CINCINNATI Louisville, and through
out this State. The Arkansas is ex-
? pected to rise again, and White river
has a large stage to JacksOnpOrt. A
light shower fell before daylight yester-
day, and during the morning the water
came down in torrents, but later in the
day it cleared off quite cool. Business
at the landing was only moderate. The
changes Of the rivers elsewhere are a.
follows; At Cincinnati it declined four
inches; at LeavenWOrth two inches:
Pittsburg four inches; Shreveport two
inches; at Cairo it rose seven inches:
Omaha one inch; St. Louis three inches:
st. Pau four inches; at Davenport and
New Orleans itIis stationary.
BY Telegraph.
CINCINNATI, May lS.-The river has
fallen four inches; eight feet six inches
water in the channel, and stationary.
Rain has been falling since four o'clock
this evening.
CAIRO, May IS.-Arrived: AIinneoIa.
Memphis, s pm; Richmond, st. Louis.
midnight; City of Chester, Memphis,
midnight; Lady Lee. Red river, S pm:
Nick LOngwOrth, Louisville, 1 pm; Ar
kanas Belle, Evansville, 8 pm. De-
parted: Richmond, New Orleans. I pm:
Minneola, Cincinnati, 8 pm; City Of
Nicksburg, l0p.m; Glasgow, Red river,
II pm; Chester, st. Louis, > am; Lady
Lee, st. Louis, II I'm. RainingaIl dav
but clearing up tonight The river has
risen seven inches. Mercury, so.
I AuHrVTUu NEarTC M O.
menced swelling this evening, with two
feet scant on Harpeth Shoals. Rained
during the afternoon, continuing to-
night.
EVANSVILLE, May lS.-It has been
raining nearly all day. Weather cooler;
mercury, So. The river has risen four
inches. Port List-DOwn: Allegheny
Belle and barges, , am; r.. A. Babbage
and barges, II am. Business is very
light.
~PITTsBURG, May IS.-The MOnonga-
hela river is falling; three feet six inches
water in the channel. Raining slowly
since ! pm.
LITTLE Rock, May Is.-The river is
again rising rapidly, and great fears are
entertained Of an overflow. Several
rains to-day, but the weather is now
clear and pleasant. Arrived: Nightin-
gale, nom Cincinnati.
ST. LOUIS, May lS.-ATrived: Citv
of Alton, New Orleans. Departed: Belle
St Louis, Vicksburg; John F. Tale and
Pauline Carroll, New Orleans. The river
is falling slowly. The weather is clear
and cool.
NEW ORLEANS, May IS.-Arrived:
MurrillO, Pittsburg; John Kyle, st.
Louis. Departed: Chas. BOdman, Gin
%cinnati; Robert Mitchell, Cincinnati,
with one thousand bars railroad iron and
ninety casks sOda-ash; Susie Silver, with
three thousand bars railroad iron for st.
LOuis Weather warm and shOweTy.
VICKsBURG, May 1S.-DOwn: Dexter,
II last night; Alice Dean, T pm. to-day; ,
Pargoud, lOp.m. Up: r. E. Lee, SPIN;
Bismarck, 4 am. Weather clear and
warm. River falling. ]
LOUISVILLE, May I8.-The river has y
risen two inches and is rising SLOWLY. =
with five feet two inches in the canal 5
and three feet two inches in the chute. Z
Weather cloudy and warm to-day and :
raining this evening and afternoon. &
Arrived: Indiada, New Orleans. De- o
parted: Indiana and Kate Kinney, New
Orleans. r.
Miscellaneous.
The Belle Lee, from st. Louis, arrived
before dark, added twenty-five tons of
way freight here, and left for New Or
leans with a twelve-hundred-ton cargo,
well laden. ]
The towbOat Dictator departed for
above with several empty barges. q
The City of Vicksburg, from above, <
qua off one hundred packages Ofsundries a
here, added ten tons of way freight, and d
departed for below with a six-hundred-
ton trip.
The Mary Houston, from New Or II
leans, arrived at noon, discharged here b
tons of sugar and mOlasses, and
had two hundred and fifty tons of n
for the Ohio. L
The City of Helena, Captain Mckee,
this evening at five o'clock for
Cairo and st. Louis.
Thefine passenger steamer Nick Long
worth, in command of Captain Lew r.
departs at five o'clock this even
ing for New Orleans and all way land
ings. She has superior accommodation n
and fare. Eugene Bowers holds forth in
the office.
The elegant passenger steamer Rich D
mOnd, Captain Green, leaves at five
for New Orleans and all the q
way landings. Captain J.. T. McCOrd
Dfficiates at the desk.
A passenger named John MOOne, on o.
the steamer Mary Houston, fell over IN y
board on her up-trip, forty miles below :
Napoleon, and was drowned before as
sistanee reached him. L
The Grand Tower, from st. Louis,
came in with a fair trip, several items of
which were one thousand five hundred
and tifty-seven barrels of flour, one hum
lred and eighty barrels of meal. one
hundred sacks of corn, two hundred and
sacks of oats, twelve thousand I
hundred and lightweight feet of L
lumber, and let sundries. She returned mi
1t dark with a fair way trip. L
The Legal Tender got off for White N,
liver with a good trip of freight and er
Fl
The Thomas H. Allen leaves for Little n,
Rock tomorrow. b
The r. P. Walt, from White river, n
in forty-twO bales of cotton and ~
lot of sundries. She broke her lar de
,Oard bridge-tree and water-beam in u
White river, and had to ONE up on one 4;
tn
The Emma c. Elliott will lay up here
or the present. Messrs. George Aleoke WI
md Al. Croxal, her clerks, left for Gin
innati, their home, by steamer Mary =
Houston. n
The Crescent City and barges passed Il
ip yesterday morning from below.
Walt at Cairo says: Captain Crapster
eceived permission from Captain God
lin, while at st. Louis, to use the Wild
WagOner's whistle until he should con-
dude to build it, and while in port to-
it was placed upon the CapitOl CITY. II
Her supply pipe is not quite large =
nOugh to blow the deep whistle properly, A
md will be altered, but the tone is ex- an
client any way" q
Captain Simms, of the Nashville =
Jacket Talisman, is about to build a hull
t cost Of twelve thousand dollars for
he Talisman's cabin and machinery. Ist
{ viii we II hundred and sixty feet
Ong, thirty-twO feet beam, and five feet "a
lold, and side-wheel, and the present Sd
lalisman machinery will be altered TO 9,
nit. 4i
The st. Louis Democrat of the seven 5tf
zenith says: Heaviest rain of the sea- &C.,
yesterday, and similar weather has
PREVAILED for several days from the Mis- 7th
ouri to beyond the borders of WiseoE-
in and Minnesota. Livelyswell going
N at st. Paul; big rise at WinOna; the a
o0ging tributaries are on the rampage 0n
IL swell expected in the Missouri; the
illinois is evennow eOmingu up. Arkan- =
as river is booming; rising fast with 6n
yer twenty feet in the channel.
)uachita river is also high, and Red Y
liver win have a freshet soon without
ouht, Barge COmpany's rates to New
)rleans-FlouT, SOC per bbli pork, 45e; 8
Ound freight, 174c. This comes near .
Dur barrels for a dollar. River falling
yesterday. L