Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-21
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inches above low-water of 1871.
Changes Elsewhere.
At Keokuk, it declined one inch; Cairo, two
inches; ST. Louis, one inch; P1ttsourg,
two inches; Vicksburg, two inches; Shrege-
| port, one inch; Nashville, two inches; New
Orleans, five inches. At Cincinnati, it rose
| five inches.
~CrNCINEArI. September 2O.-The river is
rising, with 6 feet . inches water in the chan
VIcKsBURG. September 0.-Boats down:
Katie p. Kountz, John Kyle and Robert e..
Lee. Up: Belfast, commonwealth ana JuIla.
| Weather clear and warm. River falling.
NEW ORLEANS, September D-Arrived:
Henry c.. Naeger from 81. Louis. No depart
ures. Weather clear and warm.
September 3l-The weather
is clear and pleasant. Mercury ranged from
49, to ~. River has risen inches. Business
81. LOUIS. september @.-Arrived: St. Jo-
seph, from Memphis; John F. rOile and Cres-
cent City, from New. Orleans, Departed:
Charles IN and Henry S. Turner for
New Orleans. The uver1s failing. weather
clear and warm, with indications of rain
LOUISVILLE, september D.-rhe river is
falling, with IA inches water in the chute. and
81 inches on Portland bar, Weather clear and
cool. Freights plenty, but shippers are IN
willing to risk the water.
LITTIE Rock, September 2.-Weather clear.
River rising, with 2 inches water in the chan
mel. Departed: Clarksyille, Tor Memphls.
NASHVILLE, September D.-The river is
falling, with ID inches water on Harpeth
Shoals. Weather fair and pleasant.
PITTSBURG. september U-Aut MOuouBdileld
river is stationary, with 24.tnches water IN the
channel.
CAIRo, September 9-Arrived: City of
Quincy, from New Orleans, ] pm: Colorado,
from st. Louis, 4p.m. Departed: Legal Ten
der, for Memphis, s pm; Grand Tower, for
I Memphis, Il pm. The river has fallen ?
inches. Weather cloudy Mercury
Miscellaneous.
The Henry Ames, from st. Louis, with a
barge in tow, added several small lots Of
freight here, and left for New Orleans in the
forenoon with a fifteen hundred ton cargo.
The A.. J. White, from Chicot, broughtin ten
bales of cotton, two hundred and axty-three
sacks of seed. and a lot of sundr1es TO order.
The Batesvilie, from White river, arrived in
the forenoon with a moderate trip.
The City of Nicksburg, from st. Louis, added
| one hundred and twenty-five tons OF freight
here, and LETT for below during the forenoon
with a fine trip.
charged twenty bales cotton at the elevator,
and departed for st. Louis yesterday morning
before daylight.
in with thirty-sfx bales cotton and two hun
dred and ninety-fOur sacks seed, and a cabin
full of passengers.
in command OF Commodore o d. Edison,
leaves ut i've o'clock this evening for Devalls
Bluff, J~acksonpOrt and all points on nlue
river. Mr.. Walker Outlaw holds forth in the
office.
The regular tri-weekly coast packet Pat Gle
burne, in command Of Captain James Lee,
Point and all the usual way landings. Mr.. J.
c. Harris is the prime minister
The light-draught passenger steamer Bates
Vile leaves this evening at five o'clock for
Devalls Bluff, JacksonpOrt and all points on
White river. Captain A. 3. smith commands
and ]. Youngs holds iorth in the Office.
The United States mail packet Fort Gibson,
with Captain James BowIin on the roof, leaves
this evening at five o'clock for Pine Bluff, Lit
tie Rock and all points on the Arkansas river.
Mr.. J. $. Jonesis her prime minister.
The Grand Tower leaves as above this after
noon at five O'Clock for Cairo and st. Louis,
Captain Lennoxc ommands and Mr.. White Is
clerk.
The Celeste, from the upper coast, came in
before dark with fifteen bales Of cotton and
one hundred and siXty-twO sacks OF cotton
seed.
The Colorado isthe United States mail pack
ct for Vieksburg tomorrow morning.
River Items.
h C%arOndelet ways had on Wednesday the
Great Republic, May Lowry, Lady Lee, Belle
of Pike, barges Grace Darling, Brown and
Fannie Rogers and the wreckingboat Aid,
which is TO be transformed into a~SnagbOat.
She is to have a trestle built in each huI to
strengthen them; also a thwartship deck
placed between the hulls forward, to haul logs
on. and a derrick forty feet high on each hun,
with a boom thirty feet long for the handling
of logs. She is also to be thoroughly caulked,
days. Congress has appropriated one hun
and fifty thousand dollars for the service
which she is intended for, and with the buy
ing and repairing OF the boat VIII last about
Rogers, formerly Of the Savannah, Common
wealth and other steamers, and who has had
considerable experience in the buslness has
been plnced IN command of her.
Rates from Evansville to Cairo have ad-
vanced to forty cents per hundred on pound
The hull OF the silver Moon, fourteen years
DID. has been sold by Captain q. A. Jones to
NJ. Wise & Co. for fifteen hundred dollars, who
will convert il into a barge for the o
Means.
W. g. Mccoy will have charge Of the mann
moth wharfboat at cincinnati. W. b. Snlli-
van succeeds him as clerk Of the R. W.Sktl-
Finger.
Monday TO J. Phelp and N. i. Mtkesen, who
machinery.
Captain Blackman is building a new boat at
Fredonia, Pennsylvania
The West Wind was pulled of the bar at
Louisville, Sunday, by the ferry.
The wharfboat recently sunk at JEFFERSON
vile was the hull of the old Capitola The
cabin has been removed and the hull sent
adrift-
dleOf the river opposite st. Joseph, which ex-
tends TO about three hundred yards below the
bridge piers. Another bar has formed on the
Kansas sid Of the river at Ellwood, above
and below the upper rlp-rap.
The Hiram Wood arrived at Sioux City from
YanktOn last Saturday, with over twenty
eight thousand bushels Of wheat.
Mr.. fremont Kinsey has accepted the posi-
ton of clerk IN the Office of the Champion
Coal and TOwboat Company in place of Eu-
gene Shinkle,W who has gone into the Office of
the Charles Bodmann.
Marshal Packard, of New Orleans, publishes
this: I'm obedience to three admiralty war
rants, TO me directed, L nave seized and taken
into my possession the steamboat Katie, her
boats, tackle, apparel, etc, now hbeled by p.
FriIenger, II. 5. Garnahan, j.. Pinckney
Smith, for causes set forth in the libels now
pending in the District Court of the United
States. ] will order that boat to be sold II
cause is not shown why she should not be
sold" The TahlequRh is also hbeled at suit of
g. SOules & Co.