Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-05-16
RIVER INTELLIeENCEi
Boats Leaving To-Day,

Frank Forrest. ultoil
]. Y. Rankin. 2ansas flsef
City OF Ctlestef ~. LOUIS
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Departures.
Richmond lsVllIe
Thomas Sherlock. ew Orleans
City OF Chester ,st LOUIS
Capital City..--..-..-...-.-..-- .. Flcksourg
In Port.
Arlington, Frank Forrest, James E. Rankin,
Belle of Texas, Legal Tender, Anna.
The weather and Rivers.
The weather yesterday was decidedly
mixed, especially during the early part
of the day, rain and clouds being promi-
nent, but toward sIlndown the clouds
cleared away, and indications favored
sunshine to-day. The river rose nine
| inches, and at dark the level was
| twenty-nine feet one inch above low
water mark. The stage of water above
| tlow-Water mark and rise or fall at other
ports for the past twenty-four hours is as
follows: St. Paul, eight feet six inches;
fall three inches. Omaha, five feet nine
| inches; faH, five. Davenport, nine feet
one inch; fall, nine. LeavenwOrth,
stationary. KeokuR, ten feet ten inches;
fall, four inches. Cairo, thirty-nine feet;
rise, two feet. st. Louis, twenty-five
| feet four inches; rise, three inches.
| Pittsburg, six feet six inches; fall, six;
Cincinnati, thirty-one feet six inches;
| fell three feet one. Louisville, thirteen
feet six; fell six. Vieksburg, thirty-nine
| feet five; rose one. Shreveport, twelve
feet five; fell two. Nashville, ten feet
! four; fell two feet seven. Evansville,
| thirty-feet ten; rose six. FreepOrt, fell
five. Oil City, two feet one; fell two.
Marietta, eleven feet two; fell two feet.
Kansas City, ten feet three. New Cen
eva, five feet five; fell ten. Lexington,
seven feet two; fell four. Paducah,
thirty-one feet four; rose thirteen.
Brunswick, seven feet eleven, fell five.
Hermann, seven feet one; fell three. st.
I Joe, six feet. Jefferson City, nine feet
| two; fell ten inches. The Arkansas has
about seven feet to Little Rock, butonly
thirty inches on the worst bar above
there. White river has eight feet to
Jacksonport. -
movements of Boats.
The movement in freight at the land
| ing yesterday was as limited rs were the
arrivals and departures OF boats, and at
dark the landing presented quite dTeary
aspect, there being but three boats to
meet the ewes of the visitors that usually
stroll out upon the bluffs. The days
| business we sum up as follows: The
morning with six hundred tons of rail-
road iron and good trip of people. The
| Thomas Sherlock came down early from
| the Ohio with about one thousand tons
/ for points below, and discharged ten
| tons here, besides two fine carriages
and after adding two hundred and forty
| bales of cotton left for New Orleans.
The Arlington arrived early from the
| Ohio with fully four hundred and
| fifty tons and good passenger trip
! Dan Moore always brings the people
and goes back tomorrow. The James
| Rankin brought forty-twO bales of cot
/ ton and twelve hundred sacks seed from
! the Arkansas, and the Frank Forrest
had fair show of bend freight and cot
ton. The city of Chester, from st.
Louis, arrived with six hundred tons,
! including five hundred and seventy-five
kegs beer, six hundred and fOrty-nine
sacks corn, two hundred and ninety
eight sacks oats, one hundred and seven
packages eggs, seven hundred and forty
! barrels flour, two hundred and nineteen
bales hay, one hundred and seventy
| five barrels meal, three hundred
packages of lard, one hundred and
eighty sacks bran, fifty-nine head Of
stock. one hundred and forty-sev5n bales
I Ol CUlLOlls anu COAGAOC4elOAC 1Nchl
| freight, and went back at night with
three hundred and fifty bales OF cotton.
/ The Capital City. from the same ''burg,h
brought down one hundred and fifty
tons for this metropolis, and added
| twenty tons, which made her cargo
nine hundred tons for points below, and
that was the sum total of the river
| transactions during the day.
The Legal Tender came up after dark,
with sixty bales of cotton, and reshipped
forty bales for New Orleans. She passed
| the Anna with an ice barge in tow
above Friars Point, and that boat doubt
/ less arrived about one O'Clock this morn
/ ing. The Anna has also part of the
wreck of the Dardanelle and good cot
ton trip. veE-
The James E. Rankin leaves this af-
ternoOn at five o'clock for Pine Bluff
and all intermediate points on Arkansas.
river. Captain John Fenwick is her
/ popular commander, and Cash Thomas
is clerk.
The Frank Forrest, Captain I. 2, Sex
ton, leaves this evening at five o'clock
! for Fulton. Mr.. B. o. Mitchell is clerk.
! The regular semi-weekly coast-packet
A. J. White, with Captain Mark Cheek
in command, leaves at five o'clock this
evening for Helena, Napoleon and all
way landings.
The Phil Allin, Captain James Lee,
leaves at five O'Clock this evening for
Friars Point and the usual way land
ilgs.
The Colorado leaves this evening at
five O'Clock for Cairo and st. Louis,
Captain Boyd is her popular COM
mander.
The Arlington, Captain Dan Moore,
will leave for the Ohio tomorrow after
noon. Go down to the big red wharf
boat and secure your passage.
The steamer John Kilgour viii depart
/ hence for Cairo, Louisville and Cincin-
natl tomorrow morning at nine O'Clock.
| The Kilgonr offers first-class cabin fare
| and accommodation, and is fleet pack
ct. Captain A. Stern commands, while
! Captain Ben. B. Merrielles governs the
office affairs.
The Anna goes to the Arkansas to-
morrow evening. E
News Drift.
| The following letter to our reporter
from Captain Irwin Dugan, of the
wrecking steamer 7. F. Eckert, dated
Tuesday night, gives, in q few words,
the exact situation at the time the Kyle
sunk: g We raised the Kyle in three
hours; water on her starboard guard
about two feet deep; was taking on wood
at woodward on Louisiana side, one mile
above Brunswick Point. The engineer
discovered the water on her guard, and
Immediately started the syphons to
working. As there was about forty faith
Oms water where she was wooding.
CaptaiH Hutchinson deemed it best to
back her out and run for the opposite
side, which was accordingly done. The
man heaving the lead continued to cry
out "no bottom," for a long time, it
seemed, but finally, when he had found
"mark twain,n Captain Hutchinson
said he experienced feeling of relief
] She was kept on running until she set
tied in ten feet water. She had some
thirty-five passengers, and but for Cap
tain Hutehinson's promptness in back
ing her out and starting her for the other
shore, no doubt, many lives would have
been lost, as all the passengers were
asleep at the time. A Vicksburg dis
patch of Wednesday evening at five
O'Clock, says: ave start for Cairo to-
night, having just arrived with the
Kyle's Vixburg freight. The Kyle is fol-
lowing US closely and will pass down
this evening. Reese and Captain Bar
nard go down on her to New Orleans.
We left our 'wreeking- boat the r. H.
Vance, at the mouth of White river.
The Cleburne will tow her to Devalls
Bluff, on her next trip. Our friend
i Jerks, of the Little Rock Gazette, calls
Captain Reese Pritchard his young