Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-15
GENERAL NEWS,
Business very quiet.

Business very quiet.
Receipts by river yesterday bales of cot
ton.
The Piasa arrived from the Ohio with a
tow OF stone for paving purposes.
Signal Service report: River 10 feet 8
inches-decline 8 inches yesterday.
This weather seems to have been borrowed
from July-but it's all right. Our cotton is
safe.
The City of Providence arrived from
Vicksburg yesterday afternoon, and lays over
for st. Louis this morning.
The Ste. Genevieye arrived from st. Louis
Yesterday morning with 3441 packages of
freight, and returned in the afternoon light.
The Ida Durragh will not leave Cincin-
natl until next Wednesday. She is having
cabin furniture manufactured to order here,
which is the cause of her detention. She
has an excellent trip in sight.
A wirograph from Captain Milt Harry, at
Duval's Bluff, yesterday announces that
the Josie Harry will arrive from White river
about 5 O'Clock this evening, Dec rolente, and
will return at her usual hour tomorrow
evening.
The Annie P. Silver passed South yester-
day morning with heavy cargo, drawing 8
| feet. She added here a lot of Memphis
made flour and party of government sur
veyors, numbering about 40 people, and sew
! eral other passengers.
Cincinnati Enquirer: There is a well au-
thenticated rumor amoAg the cook-houses on
the public landing that Captain H. A.
Jones, Captain Frank Stein and Captain Dan
Moore intend building a new boat for the
Cincinnati and New Orleans trade. A prom
nent contractor and builder has agreed to
have the new boat ready for business by the
let OIL December. Captain Frank Stein Will
command the new boat, and Captain Dan
Moore will have charge of the Office
Chattanooga Times, Wednesday: Gas pre-
dicted, the heavy rains having a most
decided effect on the river, and a considera-
BILE rise is now in prospect. Yesterday il
rose al the rate of s inches per hour, and at
o'clock pm. registered IL feet above low
wafer and was still rising. At o'clock pm.
yesterday IL registered 20 feet at Lsnoirp,
which would indicate total rise of Is feet
at this point. AT this time last year the
| river was lower than it lad been at any time
| during the preceding 40 years"
A dispatch 10 the New Orleans Peayune,
dated September 11th, gives the following
particulars of a terrific cyclone at South
Pass: 81 have just returned from Port Eads.
| Passed the Lone Star badly listed 10 port,
and the Haytian worse listed to starboard.
The Underwater is at the outer end of the
jetties safe. Pilot w. E. Pendleton says the
storm did not equal that OF 1869 at Pass-a-
| POutre. The concrete top of the east lefty
was torn off, its railroad track swept away,
the concrete tower on the east jetty blown
down. Pieces of the concrete are torn out
as though done by artillery. There is a
general top damage to the concrete in length
of from 100 feet to 8 feet, but it can be REM
edied by money and time. The coping
course, for considerable and various lengths,
| is entirely swept away. The inside row of
| piles and brush stood the storm we'll,
probably because the concrete received
| the first and heavy blows. For the entire
| length of the concrete it is more or lees
| damaged in its coping. Captain B. 81. Til
| ford, the pilot, informs me that he took
careful soundings to-day, and found no.
where less than 81 feet of water, which
| shows that the jetty channel has not been
injuriously affected by the storm. The fol-
| lowing steamers are at Port Eads and unin-
jured: G. w. r. Bayley, Ella Andrews,
Sunbeam, President Brearly, Chamberlain
and Modulus, and schooner Mignonette.
Every levee is backed up in its rear with
rice, from Quarantine down, all of which is
ruined. Booth & Bulot had A stacks of
rice before the storm, now they have
only "A. This is fair average of the
destruction of the rice crop. The levees,
| from Fasterliug's 10 Bulops rice mill, on the
west bank, are swept away. This whole Sec
| ton appears to-day one desolate waste. The
| damage to houses at Port Eads was less than
expected"