Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-23

canal, feet in the chute, and feet on
the rocks. Weather very hot. Business
very dull. Arrived: Charley Mcdonald,
from New Orleans.
4 VICKsBURG, August 22.-BOats down
Henry Ames and Bee and barges. Up:
Crescent City and barges and City oi
Vicksburg. Weather clear and warm.
River falling.
CAIRO, August 22.-Arrived: John
| F. Tolle, from New Orleans, pm:
] Grand Tower, from st. Louis, ! pm.
Departed: John F. Tolle, for st. Louis,
pm. River has risen 2 inches. The
weather is clear and warm.
NASHVILLE, August 22.-'The river
is rising slowly, with 80 inches water
on Harpeth Shoals. Weather dry and
very warm. Thermometer so in the
shade at 8 pm.
Miscellaneous.
The John Kyle, from St. Louis, ar
rived yesterday morning at daylight,
added a few lots Of potatoes here and
departed for New Orleans with an
eighteen hundred ton cargo.
The st. Francis, from the lower coast,
came in with one hundred and three
sacks Of corn and one hundred and fifty
sacks of seed, and one bale Of cotton,
the latter being the first new bale that
has arrived by river this season from the
State of Arkanaas.
The Glencoe from New Orleans, five
days and half out, arrived at noon,
put OFF here about fifteen tons of freight,
and had light trip for above. She dis
charged two thousand bars of railroad
iron iat Helena, on her way coming up.
The following are the rates from St.
Louis TO points south: To Memphis,
flour thirty cents, and seventeen and a
half cents perhUndred on pound freights;
to New Orleans by steamboats, and
barges, forty cents on -four and twenty
cents per hundred on pound freight.
The Louisville canal will be closed on
the twenty-eighth of this month for re-
pairs, and open again about the first Of
October.
The Robert Mitchell, after a few
slight repairs and refitting, will enter
the Evansville and New Orleans trade
as q regular packet.
The Shamrock got off for the Ohio
before dark with light trip.
The r. P. Walt is the United States
mail packet for White river tO-mOr-
row,
The City of Chester, from st. Louis,
came in with a fair cargo of grain and
produce, and returned at dusk with
several lots of way freight and a fair
passenger list.
The towboat J. II. Bigiey passed up
during the afternoon with a tow of
empty coal barges.
There is only four feet of water at
French Island in the lower Ohio.
The Belle st. Louis had not arrived
up to dark last night, but will probably
be found at the wharf early this morn
ing.
The City of Augusta leaves next Tues
day for White river. Captain John Ed
son goes out in command.
The regular semi-weekly coast packet
A. j. White, Captain Mark Cheek,
leaves this evening at five o'clock for
Napoleon, ChicOt and all way landings.
Charles Sharpe and Billy Smithers are
her popular clerks.
The regular tri-weekly coast packet
Phil Allin, in command Of Captain
James Lee, leaves this evening at five
o'clock for Friar's Point and all the
usual way landings. Stack Lee and
Billy Gray are her chief secretaries.
The regular st. Louis and Vicksburg
United States mail packet Belle st.
Louis, Captain Alf GrissOm, leaves this
at ten o'clock for Vicksburg
and all the bend landings. She has su-
periOr accommodations and fare. Mr..
John Blake is her chief purser.
The Colorado, Captain James F. Lu-
ker, leaves this evening at five O'Clock
for Cairo and st. Louis. Mr.. H. Died
rick il clerk