Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-06-18
MEMPHIS INrEI.LfGENCE.

From the Argue, Jane ~
Tue WRARF-Yesterday WAS by far the
most business day upon The levee that we have
seen for SIX months Stm- twenty boats were
in pert with immense csrg0es spreading them
out upon the landing. The draymen were out
in full fierce eager for a load. The heat was in
tense throughout The day. We did not hear Of
any eases Of coup de SOiiel, but If il continues as
warm for several days there viii be jobs for the
undeItakers sure.
The PosF OFFICE.-The city post flee was
re-opened yesterday for the first time in tendays.
Little if any business was transacted. The long
row Of boxes present a lonely appeal ance-not
4 letter or paper to be found in any Of them.
No clerks were visible at tie windows yesterday
30 long lines Of applicants b~eseigiag the
g pigeon holes" for mail matter. It reminded
one IF The post tfice which must have been kept
in Goldsmiih's " Deserted Village" Like liam
let with the part Of " Hsm'etf omitted, it was
the post ctlics without being the post ,fliee at
all Matters will doubtless be more eulivened
about the pest ,fioe corner in a lew days.
THE RIyER.-Gonirary to cur expectations
the river has risen fully three feet since cur last
report, aud Is still swelling slowly. The Iiso is
from tho Missouri, assisted by tie Ohio.
FreigAts had to be removed rapidly TO keep
them cut of reach Of tic water. There were a
large number OF boats at the landing from St
Louis, louisville and Cincinnati, with full car
goes, covering the entire WHAT. l. reminded
us of former days 10 see so much hustle and &C
tivity upOR the levee.
SALE OF LIQUOR AT THE RIYER-Not
withstaudiDg ali the la S are closed in the city,
the steamboat bars are doing a lucrative bu.i-
ness. Is il justice to the sap-seTlers " in the
city to prohibit them from keeping open, when
tho river m~n are daily dealing in the cEitler ?"
From tn Av.'aneh June u
POSTAL Twelve hundred letters were mailed
yesterday, from the Memphis poSiofice. There
were one hnrd-ed and Thirty lock boxes en-
gagged.
Ranaways still abound. Alealy a goodly
number have been arrested, and scarcely a day
passes that the police do not take up a score.
Yesterday eight were recovered aud put where
they will be returned to their masters.
SERIOUSLY ILL-CoL Chul s Ellet, the COM
mander of the Federal ram Fl ct, is said to be
seriously i'll. lie was wounded with a ball from
q pistol in the recent fight before Memphis, tie
ball striking near the knCo and ranging upward.
Shortly alterward he was taken with m asks,
and is said to be quite i'll. lie l.. for Cairo n
the Eugene yesterday afternoon.
IxFLux OF MERcmAxTs.-Tt is estimated
that the Glendale from Cincinnati, and the Com
mercial from Louisville, brought down near two
hundred shippers, and cargocs of sal', pork,
bian, Lay, bacon, potatoes, lemons aud oranges,
sufficient to supply all "the world an1 the rest
of mankind" fer many months. 1t may be
mentioned also, as a significant fact that an
overwhelming number Of Tie shippers are
Israeliies.
CLERKsHIPs-We learn that there were 70
less Than thirty APP l~ications from cit'z us Of
RI Lii, =, A. -o.H =. A.
The check Case mt mernphis.
AZ er several days prosecution, Capt Check,
of Mound City, Ark, who was arrested at Mem
phis by the Federal authorities, las been re-
leased. The following is The finding Of the mill
tary commission:
A military commission. consisting Of Capt. A.
M. Flory, of the forty-sixth Indiana volunteers I;
Lieut.. Wm. S. Msgill, and Lieut. Ashford Bur
ley, Of tho ~forsy-ihiTd Indiana volunteers, mem
beTs Of the bosrd, and Sergeant (acting ~lieuten-
anil A. Il Ewing, of the feTty-Six Indiana vol
unteels recorder, having been appointed to ex-
anime q charge and take testimony against Eli
i1h Cheek for he alleged murder of John p.
Bsman, in OF near june, 1851, it was in $ 3 ior
for that purpose, ard publici y was given to
their proceedings hy notices in the daily papers
of Memphis. the testimony, OF which the foIt-
Coipg is a synopsis, does not i~nplieate Check in
the crime. lie is, therefore, discharged from
military arrest. II Jciag expressly Radt rsaOI,
however, that his discharge is not TO be in any
VIE plead by him in bar of any future pTrce d
ines against him upon the same charge by The
tribunals Of the country in mitigation OF any
verdict. C A DAVIS, Flag Odiro-, etc.
G. N. FITCH, Com u S. Troops.
A true copy ofthe finding
JAS. D. CoSDIx, A. A A G.
MEMPHIS, June II, 1862.
II Federal papers published in New Orb avs
DO not say a word about siekne: among their
troops. But from other sources we learn that