Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-02-08
In Port.
Dardanelle
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

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Dardanelle
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Clear and mild weather was reported
throughout the north yesterday and the
rivers generally were reported falling,
except the Ohio, which, at Cincinnati,
rose nine feet yesterday, or nearly foot
per hour duringIth day. The decline
/ at Davenport was one inch; at st. Louis
three inches; Pittsburg three feet three
inches, while at Louisville the Ohio rose
one inch, and the Cumberland, at Nash
vile, took another upward start and
rose two feet one inch. Red river has a
ten foot channel depth to Shreveport,
and the Arkansas four feet to Little
Rock, and rising five inches daily.
White river has fully five feet to jack
sOnport aud is rising. Here the fall,
since our last report, was five inches,
and the water level ten feet six inches
above low water mark, leaving exposed,
once more, a goodly portion of the bar
opposite. The weather, yesterday, was
mild and pleasant, and business, at the
landing, quite brisk, considering that
there was but one arrival.
Steamers Going To-day.
The steamer Dardsnelle, Captain
Reese Pritchard, leaves this evening at
five o'clock, for Pine Bluff, Little Rock
and all points on the Arkansas river.
John w. Oniell is her clerk.
The light-draft passenger-steamer
City of Augusta, with Captain Milt
Harry on the roof, leaves this afternoon
at five o'clock, for Devalls Bluff, Jack
sonport and all points on White river.
Captain McKee's new steamer, City
| of Helena, that contains in its office
Will T. Power to comfort the weary
| traveller, will be down to-day to leave as
above at five o'clock this evening. She
is a deservedly popular craft, and is al
ways well patronized.
The James Howard, Captain Yore,
leaves this evening at four O'Clock for
New Orleans. Charles Chassiang is
clerk.
The Capitol City, Captain ]. F. Lu-
ker, departs at five o'clock this evening
for Cairo and st. Louis, and will make
all railway connections.
By Telegraph.
VICKsBURG, February Down: !:
Crescent City and barges and r. +. Lee.
Up: Julia. Weather clear and cool.
NEW ORLEANS, February 7.-Arrived: ::
Belfast, st. Louis. Departed: John
Kyle, st. Louis. Weather clear and
pleasant.
LITTLE Rock, February Weather
i cloudy with indications of rain. The
river is stationary with three feet in the
channel. Arrived: Fort Gibson, from
above.
NASHVILLE, February THE river is
rising steadily, with nine feet large on
Harpeth shoals. Weather fair and mild.
Arrived: Gracey and John LuRsden,
Cairo. Departed: Ella Hughes, Upper
Cumberland; Gracey, Cairo.
CINCINNATI, February THE river
is twenty-sixfeet eight inches and rising.
Arrived: Lawrence and Potomac, Mem
phis; H. c. Yaeger, New Orleans; Henry
Probasco, Madison. Departed: Diamond
and Joe Roberts, with barges, Pittsburg
Weather clear and pleasant.
CAIRO, February ARRIVED: City Of
| Chester, Memphis, 2 pm; Nashville,
Cincinnati, pm; Glencoe, New Or
leans, 6 pm; City of Vicksburg, Vicks-
burg, pm. Departed: Continental
/ st. Louis, p. M; City of Chester, st.
Louis, pm. The river is about sta
tionary. The weather is cloudy, with
the mercury at 540.
| EVANSVILLE, February Weather
clear and pleasant most all day, but now
growing colder, with the thermometer
! from 29o to 500. The river has risen
twenty inches. Port list-Up: Dictator,
PM; Little Condor, 10 pm; Alaska,
2 am; Morning Star, 3 am. Down
Iron Mountain, Z a. M; Gray Eagle, 4
Arkansas Belle, a. NJ, all with fine
! trips. Business active.
ST. LOUIS, February 7.-Arrived
Babbage and barge aud Kellogg and
barges, Cairo. Departed: William ].
Lewis, Ouachita river. The river is
rising slowly, and the channel to Cairo
has been improved somewhat by cutting
out. All the boats that left here yester-
| day got over HOrsetail bar and were get
ting along finely at last accounts. The
Victory and barges, laden with iron, are
20 leave for Steubenville as soon as there
is water enough. The weather is clear
and warm.
LOUISVILLE, February THE river
has risen eight inches and is still rising,
} with nine feet one inch in the canal and
seven feet one inch in the chute. The
Weather cloudy and mild; the mercury
50o at pm. Business is very lively
J Arrived: Belle Vernon, J. n. Phillips,
: Nashville; Thompson Dean, Mary Hous'
ton, Mary Miller, Commonwealth, New
, Orleans; Anna and Liberty No. 4, Gin
cinnati. Departed: Belle Vernon, Pitts.
burg; Dexter, Mary Houston, Anna
Falls and barges, New Orleans; COwen
and barges, st. Louis; Thompson Dean
Cincinnati; Commonwealth, Cincin-
natl.
PITTsBURG, February THE river i:
! falling, with nine feet nine inches in
the channel. The weather is cloudy
with the mercury at 470. Arrived; Ex'
change. A dense fog during the fore
noon impeded the movements of coal
shippers who were arranging fleets fol
the lower ports. The present indica
tions are that coal-shipments on the
present rise will not be very heavy, a.
the river is falling very rapidly and bal
comparatively small number of boat!
will get off The following tows anC
barges got off: Coal Valley, two boats
: and barges, 1900 bushels; Stella, ten
: barges, 10000 bushels; Mary Chaice
twelve barges and two flats, 15O,O0C
bushels; Fearless and Coke, nine barges
I3O, 600 bushels, for Louisville; Jane!
Gilmore, four boats and ten barges, 100,
900 bushels; Eagle, six boats, 130, ,0O'
bushels; Hornet No. 2, four boats anC
one barge, 100, 900 bushels; Fred Wilson
| No. ., fourteen barges; 160, 900 bushels
} J. S. Mercer, five boats, los, 900 bushels
Boaz, nine boats, two barges and twt
e flats, 90, 900 bushels; Tom Lisle, thre,
: boats and two barges, $1,000 bushels
Tom Dodsworth, fourteen barges, $50,
900 bushels.
: Miscellaneous.
=
with two hundred and seventy bales o
= cotton, eleven hundred and seventy
: sacks seed, and went back at night will
/, all the freight she could stow away.
= The Phil Allin went out last nigh
. with magnificent trip, one that mad
: Captain Jim Lee, jr., smile all over hi
. face as he saw the piles of freight car
Tied on board.
There is now at the landing six hun
: dred barrels of -four awaiting shipmen
= !. up the Arkansas per steamer Clarksville
! The Dardanelle was loaded deep las
= night, and to-day only takes Memphi
freight, which must be sent down early
as Captain Pritchard will back out ex
actly at the time advertised.
The Warner and barges are due up.
: The Frank Forrest went out last nigh
) with paying trip of freight and people
!, A huge snag that came down durinI
$ the recent rise lodged directly over on
: Of the chimneys of the Thomas FL. Al
len which were put out at the foot G
D Jefferson street and now lies high an
y dry above the water line.
/ The Lady Lee will pass down on Mon