Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-07

LITTLE Rock, July 6.-Weather cloudy
and rainy. River falling.
NASHVILLE, July 6.-River falling, with
3 feet inches on the shoals.
CINCINNATI, July g. Noon.-We feather
clear and hot. River falling.
CAIRO, July 6-Noon.-Weather, light
rain. :. .Night-River "a feet inches, and
rising. Weather cloudy and warm.
NEW ORLEANS, July 6.-Weather cloudy
and warm, with heavy rain shower this even
ing. Departed: City of Alton, st. Louis;
A. =. Donnally, Cincinnati.
PIrTsBURe, July 6-River feet z inches,
warm. .Night-River feet z inches, and
stationary. Weather clear and warm.
VIcKsBURG, July 6.--Weather cloudy,
with light rain this evening. Thermometer
Is deg. River fell inches. Up: City of
Vicksburg, noon; Commonwealth, o'clock
last night.
EVANSVILLE, July 6.-River falling, with
10 $40 feet by the gauge. Weather cloudy
and hot, with heavy rain this afternoon and
prospects of more tonight. Thermometer rs
to 80 deg. Up: Thomas Sherlock, mid
night. Down: James D. Parker, l: 80 am. |;
Mary Houston, noon.
Movements ut the Levee.
ARRIVALS.
Mark Twain, st. Francis river; A. J.White,
Arkansas City; John A. Scudder, st. Louis.
DEPARTURES.
Katie Hooper, Arkansas river; John A.
Scudder, New Orleans; Mark Twain, st.
Francis river; A. J. White, Arkansas City.
BOATS DUE.
Dolon-John B. Maude, West Wind, James
d. Parker, New Mary Houston.
Up-Coahoma, Paris c. Brown, Colorado,
Illinois, Gold Dust, Robert Mitchell, Com
monwealth, Hattie Rowland.
BOATS LEAVING THIS DAY.
VICKsBURG-John B. Maude, VIM. H.
Blake, master. ten am.
ter, five pm.
CINcINNATI-Robert Mitchell, Dan Moore,
master, five pm.
BOATS LEAVING MONDAY.
FRIARs PoINT-Coahoma, Stack Lee, mas
ter, five pm.
JoHNsoN's LANDINe-West Wind, ]. G.
Andrews, master, i've pm.
RECEIPTS.
Mark Twain-8 bales cotton, 106 SKIS cot
ton-seed, $4,000 shingles, cow and calf, Is
pkgs sundries.
A. ]. Whlte-22 bales cotton, 40 SKIS cot
ton-seed, Sc pkgs sundries, mule.
Levee Paragraphs.
Business quiet on the levee yesterday.
Not packet in port at dark last evening.
Captain Frank Hicks was at Vicksburg
Thursday.
The local packets departed with only mod
The James w. Calf is coming with 400
stoves and 400 kegs nails for Memphis mer-
chants.
The Belle Memphis, Captain James A.
Yore, takes the place of the Capitol City in
the Vicksburg trade.
The Mark Twain departed last evening
with fair trip for st. Francis river. Among
her passengers was an excursion party.
The new steamer Paris G. Brown was due
last night, en- route to Cincinnati. She may
pass up at an early hour THU morning.
The New Mary Houston, Captain Charles
Miller, will be due down Monday on her way
to New Orleans. Elliott Miller is her clerk.
The Hattie Rowland, on her recent trip up
the Arkansas river, had grand Fourth-o
July excursion from Pine Bluff to Little
Rock
The West Wind, Captain j. G.. Andrews,
is the upper coast packet Monday evening at
FIVE o'clock for all points as far as Johnson's
Landing.
The John B. Maude, Captain w. II. Blake
in command, is the Anchor-line packet for
Vicksburg and the bends this morning at ten
o'clock. VIM. Gobel is her clerk.
The John A. Scudder passed yesterday
evening from st. Louis for New Orleans, with
fair trip. She added here rs bales cotton,
800 sacks oil-cake and lot of sundries.
Mrs. Captain Blake is accompanying her
husband, the popular commander of the John
b. Maude, this trip, as Is also their son, an
intelligent little gentleman of about fifteen
summers.
The Coahoma, Captain Stack Lee on deck,
is the packet Monday evening at five o'clock
for Helena, Friars Point and all way landings.
Ed Thomas is her attentive clerk, assisted by
Platt Rhoades and Billy Smithers.
The splendid passenger packet Robert
Mitchell, Captain Dan Moore on the roof, will
pass up this evening at five o'clock for all
points on the Ohio river as far as Cincinnati.
Captain Frank Stein will be found in charge
of her office.
The James d. Parker, Captain G. B. Rus
sell, will arrive to- morrow morning from Gin
cinnati with a full cargo of western products,
and leave on Tuesday with return trip,
ticketing passengers through to New York
city and other eastern points cheaper than by
any other route. Captain Wash Thompson
is her gentlemanly clerk.
Gronauer and Ralston, United States local
inspectors for this district, report the follow
ing business transacted during the quarter
ending June 30, 1873: Licensed, AZ masters,
mates, 80 engineers, 10 pilots. Total fees
received for licenses, $500. Steam vessels in
spected, 10; aggregate tonnage, 2702 IS.
Total fees received for inspection, 1853.
The Anchor-liner John B. Maude arrived
from st. Louis at ten o'clock last night, DIS
charging a number of packages at Hopefeld
and large lot at the Lee wharf boat. The
Maude lays over till ten o'clock this morning,
when she continues her voyage to Vicksburg.
There do not live cleverer gentlemen and
more experienced steamboatmen than are the
officers of the Maude. Captain Blake and
Chef-Clerk Gobel are always on the lookout
for the comfort of passengers.
New Orleans Times, July I'd: Captain
w. II. Thorwegan, commander, and George
Miltenberger, clerk, of the iron steamer
Charles P. Chouteau, were in the city yester-
day on business intent, and we are pleased to
say that Captain Hicks and Captain Thorwe-
gan have entered into a mutual arrangement
for the runningiof their boats on the opposite
weeks during the next season, which viii be
benefit to all concerned, and speaks well
for the gentlemen entering into it. Captain
Norwegian and Clerk Miltenberger expected
to return to st. Louis last evening by rail-"