Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-20

The river is stationary here, with the
water three feet three inches above the
lowest marx Of last season. Above to
Cairo there is seven and a half feet, and
above there but four feet eight inches to
st. Louis, and above there navigation
is, for the present, virtually closed, as
heavy ice is reported at KeOkuk andDu-
buque. The Missouri is frozen over
above Sioux City, and In some Of its
lower tributaries ice is reported floating.
The Illinois is not much better, and the
Ohio is getting low, but is yet uaviga-
bic. The Arkansas is down to twenty
one inches over Rob Roy, and sixteen
inches e Fourche bars. White river
has but tWenty-eight inches in the chan
mel at Little Island, and these called
ditch, even with that depth, is 80 hard to
| find that the yawl and stick has to be
resOTted to by boats going either way
Red river is down to about ten inches,
and is much lower than it was last sea-
son. The weather yesterday was mild
er, and at night quite comfortable with
out an ~overcOat for leyee perambulatOrs.
The changes in the rivers reported by
signal kilograms were a rise Of three
| inches at st. Panl, five inches at Cairo,
and two inches at Nicksburg, also q de-
cline of four inches at Davenport, three
inches at st. Louis, six inches at Pitts
! burg, five inches at Cincinnati, and two
inches at Louisville.
Movements Of Beats.
There was a fair amount of business
done at the landing yesterday, there be-
ing six arrivals and nine departures.
The H. s. Turner came down during the
morning, discharged fourteen hundred
barrels Of flour and meal, and added
three hundred and nineteen bales Of cot
ton, besides some small lots, and left at
| dark with seven hundred tons, including
eight hundred sacks of corn she took at
Madrid. About half her freight was for
way points. The Emma c. Elliott
brought from st. Louis three hundred
and fifty tons, including two hundred
and forty-eight dry barrels, thirteen
hundred and thirty-seyen sacks Of grain,
and went back light. The Indians laid
over until morning, adding two hundred
and ten bales of cotton. The Tom Jas
per went down at daylight with a fair
trip. The Lawrence cleared for the
Ohio with two hundred and th~iTty-nine
bales of cotton for re-shipmeut at Gin
%cinnati. The Arlington, from Cincin-
natl, brought two hundred and seventy
tons Of freight, and has three hundred
bales Of cotton to 90 back with. The
Little Rock, from the Arkansas, brought
four hundred and eighty bales Of cotton,
and re-shipped ninety-eight bales at the
mouth Of White river. The st. Fran
els, for Mariana, Al. White, for NapO-
leon, and Pat Cleburne, for Friars Point,
left, with fair trips, and the Mary Boyd,
I for White river, was loaded to thirty
four inches, and will tighten over Little
Island, a barge being kept there for that
purpose.
Telegraph.
CAIRO, November I9.-Arrived: Ar
madillO, from Memphis, S pm; Charles
Bodmann, from New Orleans, 9 JPN.
Mollie Moore, from New Orleans, II
pm; Glasgow, from New Orleans, ]
am. Departed: Colossal, for New Or
leans, 9 am. Glasgow, for st. Louis,
MOllie Moore, for St. Louis, 5 am. P.
J w. Strader, for Vicksburg, 5 am: Bod
mann, for St. Louis, 9 Am. The river
has risen 5 inches. Weather cool, with
a light rain.
VICKsBURG, November I9.-Down;
Shannon and barge, LaBelle, Natchezi
Warner and barges. Up: Houston, H.
< c. Yaeger, Pennish, John Kyle and
barges. Weather clear and cool. The
river Is rising.
NEW ORLEANS, November 19.-Ar-
/ rived: PeytOna and barges, from Evans
vile. Departed: City of Alton, for st.
I Louis; Tyrone, for Memphis. Weather
| clear and cool; white frost this morn
ing.
CINCINNATI, November 19.-TheTive
is S feet 3 inches, and falling. Arrived:
| Nashville, from Memphis.
ST. LOUIS, November l9.-The river
is falling. Weather cloudy and cold.
Arrived: st. Joseph, st. Luke and Belle
of Pike, from Memphis; LaBarge, from
Nicksburg. Departed: Legal Tender,
for VieksLurg; Utah, for Memphis.
P~ITTsBURG, November 19.-The Mo
nongahela is receding slowly, with 4
feet water in the channel. The weather
is cold-snowing. The IrOnsides is load
ing for New Orleans.
LOUISVILLE, November 19.-River
falling, with 4 feet 6 inches water in
the canal, and s feet in the chute. The
weather is cloudy and chilly. Arrived:
Anna, d. Yell and J. d. Parker, from
Memphis; John kilgOur, from New Or
leans. Departed: Anna, for Cincinnati.
The locks will be impossible for ten or
ultetA ud1S.
EVANSVILLE, November 19.-Westh-
er cloudy and cold. Mercury, 500 to 400.
Wind is from the east, with signs OF
snow. The river has fallen 8 inches.
Departed-Up; Nick LongwOrth, pm;
Idlewild, Ppm; Potomac, Fayette and
Hornet and barges, II m. Business is
light.
NASHVILLE, November 9.-The river
is stationary, with Is inches water on
Harpeth shoals. Weather cold and
cloudy, with indications of snow.
LITTLE Rock, November 19.-The
weather is warm and cloudy, with indi-
cations of rain.
Beats Going To-Day.
The tri-weekly passenger packet Phil
Allin, Captain stack Lee, leaves this
evening at five O'Clock for Friars Point
and the usual way landings. Messrs.
Gray and Cannon are her clerks.
The United States mail packet G. W.
Cheek leaves this eveningat five o'clock
for Friars Point and all the way land
ings. Captain Malone commands, and
Robert Wildberger and Charley Jackson
are her clerks.
The NJ. Z. FOrsythe came down late
last night with a large trip Of freight
and seventy cabin passengers. She will
probably lay over until this morning.
The Frank Forrest, Captain Sexton,
will back out at five o'clock this even