Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-15

weather cloudy ana a nghb rain Iell till
evening.
Z VIcKsBURG, Ooetober l4.-Departed
LaCarge, Exhorter. II. c. Yeager, Kel
log. Barges up; Sunrise, Silver Belle
Lee, Belfast, James Howard. Weathe
Clear and cool. River falling.
ST. LOUIS, October l4.-Arrived: Bell
of Pike, from Memphis; City Of Vicks
burg, from Vicksburg; Bismarck, from
New Orleans. Departed: City of Ches
ter for Memphis. River falling slowly
Weather clear and cool.
NEW ORLEANS, October l4.-No ar
rivals. Departed: Bee and Bargers
from st. Louis. Weather clear anC
pleasant.
CINCINNATI, October l4.-The rive
has fallen 2 inches with 3 feet incl
in the channel.
MlsceIIaneOus.
The light-draught passenger steamer
Fort Gibson, Captain James Bowlin
leaves at five O'Clock this evening fol
Pine Bluff, Little Rock and all way
landings. Captain ]. S. Jones holds
forth at the desk.
The United States mail packet Thos
II. Allen, leaves this afternoon at fom
o'clock for Devalls Bluff, Jacksonport
and way landings. Captain VIM. Wal.
ker commands, and Ed. c. Postal and
Alex Waddell are clerks.
The fine passenger steamer VIM. J.
Lewis, Captain VIM. Blake, leaves this
morning at ten o'clock for Vicks5urg,
and all the bend landings. She has su-
periOr accommodation and fare. Mr..
| John Blake is her prime minister.
The United States mail and passenger
steamer A. ]. White, in command OF
| Captain Mark Cheek, leaves this after
noon at five o'clock for Napoleon, Chi
cot, and all the bend landings. B. P.
Fields, William Smithers and Charles
Sharpe are her popular secretaries.
/ The regular tri-weekly coast packet
/ Pat Cieburne, in command of Captain
| James Lee, leaves this afternoon at five
/ o'clock for Friars Point and all the
usual way landings. Mr.. J. c. Harris
is her prime minister.
The semi-weekly passenger steamer
| st. Francis, Captain T. r. Bowman,
! leaves this evening at five o'clock for
| Helena, Mariana, and all the usual
way landings. Captain Sam G. Paine,
Billy Dean and james Franklin are her
| clerks.
The st. Joseph, Captain Corbett, will
I leave this evening at five O'Clock for
| Cairo and st. Louis.
The light-draft packet Batesville,
/ Captain A. B. Smith, leaves as above
| this evening at five O'Clock for Devalls
Bluff, Jaeksonport and all points on
White river. Mr.. J. J. Young is chief
clerk.
The Capital City, Captain Crapster,
leaves this morning at ten o'clock for St.
Louis. Mr.. James B. White is her chief
purser.
The A. J. White, from Chicot, brought
in two hundred and seventy-two bales Of
cotton, five hundred and sixty-two sacks
Of cotton-seed, and sundries to order.
The Belle Memphis, from st. Louis,
came in after breakfast with four hun
| dred tons of grain and produce for this
point, and returned after dark with
twenty-five bales of cotton for st. Louis.
The Pat Cleburn, from Friars Point,
came in with forty-eight bales of cotton,
one hundred and fifty sacks of cotton
seed, and sundries to order.
The R. f. Lee left Vicksburg Friday,
with one thousand seven hundred bales
of cotton, for New Orleans.
The Belle Memphis came dowu from
st. Louis, without wetting spar.
The Pauline Carol, has awaiting her
one hundred and forty barrels of apples,
ten tons miscellaneous freight, and nearly
one hundred and fifty bales of cotton.
The Kyle adds considerable cotton
here.
Both the Phil AIlin and Cheek, back
ed out last night, with fair trip.
The circus attracted the lOngshoremen
yesterday, aud the boats had some diff
Guilty in procuring laborers to discharge
their cArgoes.
From our Louis exchanges, we learn
that work on the government dyke,
across Alton slough, is progressing sat
isfactorily, under the direction of Mr.. S.
E. McGregory chief engineer. A steam
pile-driver is now at work, driving piles
across the stream, from shore to Thore.
The piles used are trunks Of trees. hey
are about twenty-three feet long. Be
tween four hundred and five hundred Of
these will be required to reach theleDgth
Of the dam. The willow brush on Tow
head island is being cut down, bound in
bundles and sunk between the piles. The
stonework will be placed on top Of the
brush. This dam, with the abutments,
will be about one thousand feet long;
probably the longest engineering work of
the kind in the United States across the
current of river.
The Fort Gibson, from the Arkansas
River, arrived in the forenoon with two
hundred and ten bales of cotton, and put
off one hundred and sixty-three bales at
the mouth of White River for New Or
leans.
The Katie KOunss, from st. Louis for
Red River, passed down yesterday be-
fore daylight, with light cargo.
The Belle Lee is the regular Thursday
steamer for New Orleans and the bends.
Captain Ned Outlaw has gone to st.
Louis, where he may, if suitable posi-
ton offers, locate himself permanently.
Captain Sam. Shock has not yet re-
turned from the st. Louis Fair. He will
doubtless bring mortgage on the Fair
Grounds when he does come, as it is
known he was negotiating for it one day
last week.
Last Wednesday night at Dubuqueice
formed an inch thick, and on the night
following Prospect Bluff, Arkansas, re-
joiced in weather cool enough TO make
ice quarter of an inch thick.
The Phil. Allin's band attracted the
usual number of listeners last
night, previous to her departure. One
old sage declared that it was ''de ban
that lOnged to that sukuss on de hill"
The Celeste came down last evening
from OsceOla with one hundred and
seventeen bales Of cotton, two hundred
and two bags of cOttOn-seed, and seven
hundred and eighty-five sacks cotton
seed. She was hailed at late hour last
night about forty miles above here by
company of thirty negroes, who wanted
to be ''tOtedn across the river, but her
commander not being in the ferriage
business declined to accommodate them.
Commodore w. J. KouDtz was de-
feated for Congress in Pittsburg, as was
expected, the district being largely Re
publican. The S. H. Long is work
ing over the wreck of the. II. ]. Lock
wood, and has recovered the doctor, one
Of the cylinders, the pitman and several
Of the connecting rods, and the diver is
looking over the wreck"
The st. Louis Democrat of the twelfth
instant says: " Frank Miller, second
clerk of the Legal Tender, came up yes
terday from Memphis where the boat
has laid up owing to low water in White
river. He will have the same position
on the Emma Elliott, when she euters
the Memphis and New Orleans trade,
which will be in about a week.
Captain Pearce, owner Of the Robert
Burns, proposes sending her to the Cum
berland river to act in conjunction with
the interests Of Woods, Yeatman & Co.
and not the Tennessee Iron Works.
The new steamer Belle of Shreveport
will perhaps make one trip from st.
Louis TO New Orleans before she goes in
the Red river trade.
Receipts by RtVer.
Per steamer Celeste, from Osceola--
Jefferson and E % bales cotton, Gage
and + % do, w P Walker II do, Bus
by J & Co 8 do, Shane h & Co do,
Haddenand A 4 do, J & J Steele I do,
w J Harman do, ] r Haynes do,
Howes Il w 4 do, V w Williams do,
Martin & H 20 do, Fsrgas0n & Co , do,
Ely II 4 J 2 do, r L do, in all III
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