Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-12-07

Wdbbf III the u CLOUDY weather.
and the thermometer at 80. At Cincin'
natl the river was about at q stand,
though q rise was expected, with four
feet water In the channel at Wheeling
the night previous. The mild weather
will u the SHOWS to melt, and q light
rise may be looked for in the Kknawha
and Kentucky"
Arrivals.
Steamer Delaware, Cincinnati.
Glasgow, New Orleans.
Ida, New Orleans.
" Victor, 0sceOla.
/" Countess, Haile's Point.
" Belle Vernon, st. Louis.
" Luminary, Sc. Louis.
Sam Hale, Cincinnati.
Guid0n, White river.
Mississippi, New Orleans.
Departures.
Steamer Glasgow, st. Louis.
/" Mississippi, st. Louis.
Ida, st. Louis.
" NatOms, st. Francis river.
" Moilie HambletOn, st. +. river.
+" Kste Hart, Hickman.
Champion, Cincinnati.
L" Belle Vernon, New Orleans.
Luminary, New Orleans.
Boats IH Port
Vieksburg, Bart Able, Delaware, Sam
Hale, Countess, Victor and Guidon.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Pilgrim struck q wreck and sunk
above Helena yesterday morning. Par
tiuuiars in local columns.
The Louisville, Capt. Ross, will pass
up for st. Louis to-day at noon.
The w. J.. Lewis, Capt. HerndoB, will
leave the st. Louis wharfbOat to-day ct
5 pm. for Cairo and st. Louis. Nh. Hill
lard is clerk.
The Peoria City is the regular Vieks-
burg packet to day. Her officers are
careful and reliable gentlemen.
The gay little Countess, Capt. Hsight,
Will back out at 5 pm. for Haile's Point.
The Sam Hale, Capt. Walker, arrived
last night with a good trip. She departs
to-day at the usual hour and Will go
through sure.
The George D. Palmer, on her last trip
10 New Orleans from the Arkansas river,
had 6l9 bales of cotton.
Capt. Peterborough has bought an in-
terest in the Norman and takes CON-
mand Of her. Capt. Scott goes on the
Bermuda.
The Empire and Norman both leave
Louisville this evening, the former for
this port and the latter for White river.
The Era No. 3 arrived st Galveston on
the lst with q queer cargo. We give her
manifest: To unknown, q thIse-legged
stool, one muscovy duck, sack gu
Der peas" marked Georgia." n
blind negro, Uncle Tom"
Coal is scarce at Louisville and the
people OF that city are much exercised
thereat. 1t is plentiful here but Is
always sold at famine prices.
Capt. John w. TOOin, OF the new
steamer Frank Pargoud, will be in town
to-day.
We regret to learn that Capt. Schade
is lying very low at st. Louis from an
affection of the liver.
A Padueah merchant went East a few
days ago leaving MS clerk in charge OF
the store. The latter sold out the stock,
appropriated the proceeds as well as his
employers wife, and fled. They were
arrested on the Viola Belle at our land
ing, last evening, by detectives. They
had registered IS Mr.. c. +. Hill and
wife.
The Delaware, Capt. Calhoun, arrived
yesterday with a good trip from Ctncin-
natl. She returns to-day st 3 pm.
The peerless passenger steamer Vieks-
burg, Capt. John Brooks, with Press
Work in the Office, leaves to-day 5 pm.
for New Orleans. She was detained by
shippers who could not get their cotton
ready. Capt. Brooks needs no eulogy
from US. He is too well known by our
old citizens. Mr.. Campbell is freight
clerk Of the Vicksburg.
The swift and reliable Saturday packet
Bart. Able, Capt. VIM. Harrison, having
q full cargo engaged, will depart this
evening for New Orleans. She Is q supe-
Eior steamer IN every respect. Mr.. CUl.
bertOn is chief clerk, n Jim Rowland
is her cotton clerk.
There is some danger Of the river max
ing = channel through the American
Bottoms so as to leaveSt. Louis two miles
the stream. IL is proposed 10 riyet
the Illinois shore with stone, where the
infringes, to prevent wearing
Tie Adams Express manager on the
steamer Linton was robbed at Paducah
on tie night Of the 4Lh, OF between three
and four thousand dollars. Whe the boat
be went 70 the Ocffie, and when
returning was met by two genteel look
iugm men, VINO knocked him down.
Capt. John B. Davis WAS in Cincinnati
yesterday. By a dispatch to Levy 4
Miller, we learn that he will be IN this
city Cd Monday.
Bv a dispatch to Capt. Nat. s. Green,
are advised that the great MOllie
Able will be in port on Monday next.
The Champion departed for Cincinnati
last night, with 600 bales OF cotton.
Capt. J. f. Miller, of Nashville, is pre-
oariug the A. Baker for business.
Capt. q. G. Pickett has traded the
Cleona, at New Orleans, for the
!. G. Blacktord. be gave SlO,0 900 as a
Jonus, and runs the BlackfOFd in the
9pelousas trade.
The Lee, on her last trip to New Or
cans, had 5000 bales of cotton, and 5l4S
iacks OF corn.
New z and molasses are arriving
n New Orleans in fair quantities. The
,rop, however, will not be large.
Tne Cincinnati Enquirer Of the 5th
~ EH
At Pittsburg, last night the river was
'alling, with twenty-elght inches in the
channel, and ice making in the Allegheny.
The Mouongahela Is rising 1t Green's
,oro and Brownsville. At Wheeling
is four feet ten inches, and rising
Marietta, three feet eight inches, and
Using at Parkersburg, four feet, and
and three feet, and rising at
oomeroy. At Cincinnati it has recedsd
.wo inches during the twenty-four hours
,nding last night, with three and q half
hence TO Louisville, and twenty
even inches on French Island bar, and
hree feet from Evansville to Cairo.
The following boats have gone into
quarters at ST. Joseph Mo: EN-
iv- Colorado, Nymph, st Joseph, Sun
Ell Nile. Uncle Ned and Zephyr.
The machinery Of the Waverly Is all
esdv for shipment, and will probably be
rought down to st. Louis by the Noun
Marx Block, agent Northern Line at
fuscatine, gives this item: over o0O,-
90 bushels of grain have been shipped
this point to st. Louis since the in
oming Of the new crop. This is not so !
ad when it is known that b bulk OF
be wheat crop is still in the country. I
The Walter Dance son her way south.
his steamer has on board Capt. King,
( Mobile, who will run her between
lew Orleans and Montgomery, Ala, :
nd Capt. CrspsteP will cOntlnne on
GARD in charge of the Office.
The Republican Of the 5th says: The
icean Wave got ia from Dubuque on the
!, with six barges, two for this port and I
,ur for New Orleans, loaded with grain.
he carries with her two portable sleva-
with which she can transfer freight
ON one barge to another, thus facilita-
her movements If at any time she
ats aground. She leaves for New Or I
ans tomorrow. y
The Democrat growls in this wise on :
lie barge question and the action of the :
t. Louis Underwriters The resolution +
peculiarly misehievous in its bearing c
n Mr.. Merry's venture. He brought 7
six barges Of grain from Dubuqne :
this point two Of which contained
Urn and oats consigned to st. Louis. {.
his property was all insured without q
ord by the agents of the same oompa- =
in Dubuque who refuse to insure b
ere. Mr.. Merry could load up the two
lrges with -four, corn, etc, here and :
to New Orleans, but the Board :
: Underwriters dstly refuse to INSURE
shipped in these bRrges, because
le Ocean Wave tevs four others. Any
De can see the Inconsistency Of this
ding, and how it works against st. Z
outs. The insurance agents of the ]
Gina, for instance, residing in Dubuque,
sure the property on all the bsrges
rem though the dangers Of the Keokuk 4
Ipids aud the perils Of the passage Of :
le Rock Island bridge menaces them
ld mskss the risk comparatively !
-eAt one. Now, after the Ocean Wave !