Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-06
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
Boats I.eavins To-Day /.

/ Indiana New Orleans
Belle Lee : Nv
Great hepubilc OileAils
In Port.
ITH Allen, ST. Francis, Phil Allin,
undine, Mary Boyd, Frank Forrest.
River, weather and Business.
The river at this point has declined
tWenty-six inches in the last twenty
! four hours, and stand nineteen feet six
| inches above extreme low water mark.
The river is still rapidly receding, and
over thirteen feet lower than when the
decline set in two weeks ago. The chan
mel below Cairo now affords about eigh-
teen feet, and above that point TO st.
Louis about twelve feet. Arkansas river
is on another swell, and in fair stage.
White and all other southern tributaries
are in good boating order. After rise OF
four or five feet at st. Louis, chiefly from
swells in the lower Missouri and Illinois
rivers, the river has checked up again,
4 affording good navigable stage in all
upper scountry streams. Weather clear
and warm. Business on the levee yes
terday was fair, with plenty of arrivals
and departures. The changes of the
rivers elsewhere are as follows: At Cal
TO it is stationary; at Cincinnati it de-
clined six inches; Leavenworth five
inches; Louisville four inches; Nash
vile six inches; Shreveport six inches;
st. Paul one inch; Vicksburg three inch
es. At Omaha it rose six inches; Pitts
/ burg three inches; st. Louis one inch. At
New Orleans and Davenport it is sta
tionary.
BY Telegraph.
PITTsBURG, May 5.-Weather clear
and pleasant. The MOnonghela river
has 5 feet 10 inches water in the chan
mel, and is falling.
! VICKsBURG, May 5.-Boats down {:
Tom Jasper, s am; Mary Miller, II m.
Up: Tidal Wave, last night; Mary E.
FOrsythe, u last night; Glencoe, am;
City of Helena, IL am; Kate Kinney.
2p.m. Weather warm and clear. River
falling.
CAIRO, May 5.-Arrived: n. w. G..
and barges, from Caseyville, s pm;
Belle st. Louis, Vicksburg, g.; Emma c.
| Elliott, Memphis, 6 am; James Gil
more, New Orleans, S; Pobert Burns,
Memphis, 2 pm; City of Vicksburg, st.
| Louis; Iron Mountain, Louisville. De-
parted: Belle st. Louis, for st. Louis,
! 10 pm; Belle Memphis, Memphis, 10;
Emma G. Elliot, Cincinnati, Z; James
Gilmore, Ohio river; Crescent City,
New Orleans,1; Robert Burns, Cincin-
natl, 8; City of Vicksburg, Vicksburg,
| s; Iron Mountain, st. Louis, Z. River
stationary. Mississippi river rising.
! Weather clear and warm.
| ST. LOUIS, May 5.-Arrived: CITY of
Quincy and Kellogg, New Orleans;
] City of Chester, Memphis. Departed:
Bee and barges, New Orleans; Dexter
and barges, Dubuque; Savannah, st.
Paul. The river is about stationary.
/ Weather clear and warm.
LOUISVILLE, May 5.-The river is
falling slowly, with 6 feet in the canal
and 4 feet in the chute. Weather clear
and pleasant. Business dull. Arrived:
| Robert Mitchell, Cincinnati; Simpson
HOrner, Vicksburg; Grand Lake, New
Orleans. Departed: Cora Bell, White
/ river; Mary Houston and Grand Lake,
! New Orleans; Simpson Horner, Vieks-
/ burg. The Bodmrnn is hard aground in
/ the canal. The Mitchell and Glasgow
are in the canal waiting to get through.
The Mitchell will have to tighten.
Miscellaneous.
The Undine, Captain Goodrich, leaves
this evening at five O'Clock for Osceola
and all the coast landings.
The Nick LOngwOrth, Captain Lew
Hates, leaves this morning at ten o'elock
for Cincinnati. Captain Eugene Bowers
is secretary.
The Phil Allin, Captain Leslee, de-
parts at five o'clock this evening sharp
for Friars Point and the coast landings.
Stack Lee and James G. Harris are pur-
sers.
The Thos. H. Allen leaves this even
ing at five o'clock for Pine Bluff, Little
Rock and all points on the Arkansas
river. Captain Eugene Smith is master,
and Mr.. Pat Morrison is clerk.
The Belle Memphis, Captain Crane,
leaves at five o'clock this evening for
Cairo and st. Louis. Billy Blenker is
purscr. D
The City of Vicksburg leaves for Vicks-
burg this evening at five o'clock, Cap
tain b. J. Carter is master, and Sarrett
Hulls is chief clerk.
The Colorado, from st. Louis, dis
charged sixty tons freight here; added
fifteen tons way freight and left for
Vicksburg with a five hundred and fifty
ton cargo.
The Phil. Allin, from Friar's Point,
brought in fifty-four bales of cotton, one
hundred and twenty sacks of seed and
a good passenger list.
The ThOs. II. Allen, from Little Rock,
arrived with twenty-five bales of cotton,
twenty-five sacks of seed, and reship-
ped nineteen bales at the mouth for
New Orleans.
The Julia, from Vicksburg, passed up
yesterday morning, bOuUd for st. Louis,
light. Only stopped to coal here.
The Indiana, from Louisville, passed
down at an early hour yesterday, bound
60 OIL, Id o. 1,
The towboat Mary Ann passed up at
noon, yesterday, with tow of empty
barges.
The Glasgow, from Red river, coaled
here and departed for st. Louis light.
The Sam Clark left with tow of ice
barges for the Arkansas river at dark,
The Henry Ames, from New Orleans,
discharged one hundred and TWENTY-FIVE
packages sundries here, and departed
for st. Louis with good trip, including
several hundred bars railroad iron.
Captain Tom Berry's father died at
Walnut Bend last Saturday.
George Solari, brother of James So
lari, mate of the steamer ClarksviIle,
fell overheard from the Thos. H. Allen
last Saturday, two miles from Helena,
and was drowned before assistance reach
ed him. Fifty dollars reward is offered
for the recovery of his remains.
The Undine, from Osceola, came in
with fair trip of cotton and sundries.
An ice barge broke loose last week |
from the mounds below the city, and |
fioated down the river as far as Council |
Bend, where it got smashed up by the |
bank falling on it. The barge contained !
seven hundred tons of ice, and only half |
can be recovered.
The Belle Lee, from Louisville, came |
in at noon, added one hundred tons of
oil-cake here; and departed with thir- |
teen-hundred-and-fifty-tOn trip, two
items (which were five thousand sacks |
of corn and -four hundred and fifty hogs !
head of tobacco.
The St. Francis, from Wittsburg, |
brought in one hundred and fifty-three |
bales of cotton, seven hundred and |
eighty-two sacks of seed, and a lot of |
sundries to order.
The Great Republic from st. Louis,
passed down at dusk, bound for New
Orleans, with q one thousand eight |
hundred ton trip, well laden.
The Exporter, Nick Longworth, and /
Commonwealth, are due from below |
to-day.
The City of Alton left New Orleans
last Saturday with twenty-five hundred |
bars ofrailroad iron for St. Louis; also the
John F. Tale with thirty-three hundred
bars of railroad iron, and five hundred /
boxes of sugar, for st. Louis.
The Louisville Courier of the I'd I
says: "It appears that the owners of
the Wild Duck viii pay the license fee
for the Mcmillan eapstan, underprotest,
and some Of the steamboatmen are still
dqtQrniupd IN parrV the naftar IN a