Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-16
BY Telegraph.

VICKsBURG, August 15.-Boats up:
H. S. Turner, Lady Lee, City of Quincy.
Weather clear and warm. River falling.
P~TTTsBURG, August 15.-The MOnOn-
gahela river is rising very slowly, with
80 inches water in the channel by the
stone mark. Weather cloudy.
CAIRO, August l5.-Arrived: City OF
Vicksburg, from Vicksburg, 4 pm;
Grand Tower, from st. Louis, 5; H. G..
Yaeger, from st. Louis, 5. Departed
Mary Miller, for New Orleans, l am;
City of Vicksburg, for st. Louis, 5 pm.
River fallen 5 inches. Grand Tower
reports 6 feet and a half at Greenfields.
The weather is clear and cool.
LOUISVILLE, August 15.-The river
has risen 4 inches and still rising. The
weather is pleasant. Business very
dull. Arrived: Mary Ann and barges,
from Vicksburg; Pink Varble, from
Memphis. Departed: Pink Varble, for
Cairo; Mary AnH, for Vicksburg.
ST. LOUIS, August 15.-Arrived: Belle
Memphis, from Memphis; Mollie Moore,
from New Orleans. Departed: Pauline
Carroll and Atlantic, for New Orleans;
Forteville, for Red river; Colorado, for
Vicksburg. River falling slowly. The
weather is clear and warm.
NEW ORLEANS, August 15.-No aTri-
walls. Departed: James Howard, for
Cincinnati; Tom Jasper, for st. Louis.
Weather clear. Mercury $40.
EVANSVILLE, August 15.-Weather
hot. River fallen 2 inches. Business
very light.
CINCINNATI, August 15.-The river
has ) feet 6 inches and falling.
Miscellaneous.
The st. Francis, from the lower coast,
came in with two hundred sacks of seed
and a lot of sundTies to order.
The towboat Charley Mcdonald came
in from below yesterday morning,
cleaned out her boilers here and left for
above at dark, with a tow of empty
barges.
The City of Helena, from st. Louis,
arrived during the afternoon, discharged
one hundred and ten tons of freight,
added twenty tons of way freight and
left with a five hundred ton cargo for
below.
The Mary Boyd leaves for the Arkan-
sas river tomorrow.
The La Belle is reported hard aground
al Island Is, and a mile out of the chan
mel.
Hiram Dolby, mate of the city Of
Helena, discharged one of his deck
hands, at st. Louis last Tuesday, for
neglecting his duty, when the deck
hand armed himself with an iron nut
with a string about two feet long
attached, and struck the mate on the
temple, shoulder and hip, and then
threw the weapon overheard. In the
confusion of attending to the mate, the
assassin made his escape. The wound
on the temple is a dangerous one, but it
is hoped it will not prove fatal.
The A. ]. White leaves on next Tues
day for Chicot and the coast landings, in
place Of the G.. w. Cheek.
The fare from st. Louis to st. Paul by
has been reduced to five dollars.
The Colorado is the United States
mail packet for Vicksburg on tO-mor-
row.
The City of Chester, from st. Louis,
arrived at dark with a fine cargo of
grain and produce. She was several
hours aground above Cairo on her way
A towboat from below passed up at
noon with a tow Of empty barges-name
unknown.
The semi-weekly United States mail
pocket, George w. Cheek, leaves this
morning at five o'clock for Chieot and
all the way landings. Captain George
Malone commands, and Robert H.
Wildberger and Billy Smith are her
popular clerks.
The regular t~ri-weekly United States
mail packet Phil Allin, in command of
Captain Stack Lee, leaves this evening
at five o'clock for Friars Point and ali
way landings. Billy Gray is chief sec
The regular st. Louis and Vicksburg
United States mail packet Belle st.
Captain William Blake, leaves
his evening at five o'clock for st. Louis
and all the bend landings. She has SUI
DeriOr accommodations and fare. Mr..
John Blake is her chief purser.
The st. Louis Democrat, of the four
says: River stationary, owing
the rains, which have been heavy and
'epeated on all the upper rivers. Bust
hess good for the season. New crops
ire coming in more literally every day.
md shipments to New Orleans, Vicks-
1urg and Memphis are liberal. There is
/ slight rise in the Upper Mississippi,
)ut the others are u~niniuenced to an
.lppreciable extent. Hence to Cairo there
s seven or and a half feet; to
6eokuk, four and a half feet; in the
Missouri, four feet, and in the Illinois
inches. The tributaries
Ibove st. Louis are reported all falling.
The Lower Ohio affords q very poor
prospect for navigation.