Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-02


Minimum thermometer, -.
W. MELROY, Sig, Ser. L. S. A.
BY TELEGRAPH.
NEW ORLEANS, August 1.-Weather
clear and warm. No arrivals or depart
ures.
LOUISVILLE, august Weather clear
and warm. River falling, with feet
inches in the canal.
VIORsBURG, August 1.-Weather hot
and clear River fell Z inches. Up:
Atlantic, Capital City, Commonwealth,
Maude.
CINCINNATI August 1.-NOon.-River
falling. Weather faiT....... Night-Riv-
eT feet II inches and falling. Weather
clOuCy and cool.
LITTLE Rock, August 1.-The weather
is clear and warm. RIVER rising, with
10 feet inches on the gauge, and rising
above. Departed: Governor Garland,
Memphis.
PITTsBURG, August 1.-Noon.-River
feet 8 inches and rising Weather
clear and plessant......Ni ght-River 4
feet 8 inches and about stationary
Weather clear and pleasant.
CAIRO, August 1.-Noon.-Weather
We've, Vicgsburg, 2 am. Departed: Ste.
Genevieve, ST. Louis, am. Night
River 20 feet 6 inches and falling.
Weather clear; mercury So. Arrived:
Grand Lake, New Orleans, 4 pm. De-
psrtej: Bee, New Orleans, p.m.;
Grand Lake, s.. Louis, pm.
Movements at the LeVee,
ARRIVALS
City Of Vicks6urg, VieksbuEg; Grand
Tower, s.. outs; II. G. Yesger, 81.
Louis: Glencoe, New Orleans; r. E.
Lee, CsirO.
DEPARTURES.
Grand Tower, Vicksburg; City OF
Vicksburg, st. Louis; H. q. Yaeger,
New Orleans; Glencoe, 81. Louis; Andy
Bsum; Cincinnati; Illinois, Vicksburg;
Osceoia, st. Frances river; r. E. Lee,
New 0:iesns.
BOATS DUE.
Phil Allin, a. J. White, r )sa Miller,
Frank Forrest.
BOATS LEAVING THIS DAY.
ARKANSAS CITY-Phil Allin, Stack
Lee, master, five pm.
ARKANSAS RIvER-Rosa Miller, T. ].
DaTrsgh, master, five pm.
FRIARs PoINT-A. J. White, n. s.
Green, master, five pm.
Receipts Yesterday.
Grand T1wer-450 tens, 1903 bhls
-four, $50 bOls meal, 120 SKIS corn, ass
sks bran, Is crates and So bbls cabbage,
Y casks bacon, so bales hay, IS rolls
baggiDg go boxes crackers, 1877 pkgs
butter, 47O boxes starch, 500 pigs sun
dries.
Marine Miracles.
Little doing ar the levee.
The Glencoe passed up yesterday,
bound for st. Louis.
Tne City OF Vicksburg passed last
evening, adding here forty bales CT cot
ton.
Captain Smiths upper White river
packet will be finished in about sixty
days.
The S.. Louis and Memphis packets,
OF the Anchor Line, Will soon be placed
in position again.
The Illinois departed for Vicksburg
with fair showing of freight and quite
a number OF passengers.
Tie regular O5ceoia and Ashport
packet Frank Forrest is due this morn
ing and returns again on Friday.
Captsin MOssop, the genial clerk Of
the r. E. Lee, was formerly drsymsu
aad t. canister in and about Louisville.
The II. G. Yeager passed down early
in tue morning fuzzy laden. She lost
nearly fOrty-eight hours on the bsr OPP
posite OsceOla.
The Andy Baum, for the Oaio river,
departed with ITO bales cotton, $50 bris.
oil, 20 bales rags, 200 boxes sweet p0-
tatoes and sIndries.
Tne A. j. White, n. s. Green in COM
msnd, is the regular Frisr's Point
packet leaving this evening. D. P.
Davis has charge of the office.
The Rosa Miller, in command of Cap
tain Thomas J. Darrsgh, is the regular
Arkansas river packet leaving this even
ing. Wash Floyd attends to the affairs
of the office.
Many persons visited the bluff early
yesterday morning to get view Of the
fine steamer Robert E. Lee, but fonud
themselves disappointed. The Lee left
at daybreak.
The Phil. Allin, carrying the United
States mail, is the regular Chicot and
Arkansas City packet leaving to-day.
Captain Stacker Lee commands, aud
Jimmy Thompson attends to all office
affairs.
TIE river opposite Osceola is1begin-
laden s.eamers. The Grand Tower re-
ported in her regular channel eight and
a half feet, and the r Z. Lee, after feel
log about for five hours, found her way
out, and wss drawing eleven and half
feet. Pilots should he careful.
DR.. Thomas J. Griffiths, surgeon in
charge Of the United States marine hos
pital at Louisville, reports he folio owing
~ In "a hnEnlfLI nnHpF
mis- charge during the month Of July,
1876: Number Of pstients remaining the
last day Of June, 40; admitted during
the month OF July. 81; treated, 102; dis
charged, 81; died, /; remaining on Ih5
last dsy of July, so; number Of tdOor
marine patients treated during the
month, Is. The name OF the man wto
died WIS Thomas Burke, a deCkhsnd
on the Iron Mountain.
Commodore Jim Wise, e Cincinnati,
has framed and succeeded in getting
passed the council Of that city cheap
wharfage ordinance. Here is the cream
Of it: 'Oue and half cents PER ton for
each and every ton said boat, barge or
water-crsft may register (customhouse
measured except such boats, baTges or
water crafts IS may measure less than
one hundred tons, each Of which shall
pay the sum Of five dollars, and in con.
sideration Of the payment Of the above,
the boat, barge or water-craft so paying
shall be entitled to remain at the public
landing twelve days without further
charge, provided any steamboat may
nave The privilege of making landings
within the city limits to distribute and
take on cargoes within that time with
out further charges, tut nothing in this
ordinance shall Ee so construed as
to entitle any boat, barge or water
craft to any immunities, after
leaving said landing. :
II any boat, barge or water. craft shsll
remain longer st the public landing
than twelve days, such vessel shall pay
an additional charge Of two cents per
ton for each and every day it shall so re-
main, and any boat, barge Cr water-cIaft
lying at the landing less than TWEEN y.