Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-12


Foasts were drank to the packet com
pany, the Lee, the City OF Alton, tn
press, etc, and the occasion would havl
been a pleasant one, had not our cotem
pOraries on Second and Jefferson street.
imbibed too freely.
The Belle Memphis, which left on {
quick trip to Cairo, arrived there, ",
learn by a dispatch to Capt. Ad. Storm
after being twenty hours cut. A feti
tious dispatch announcing her as beating
the Lees time, created no little excite
ment IN city yesterday. She wa
caught ia q storm, hence the tin1s made
The Belle st. Louis, Capt ZeigleF, viii
depart for st. Louis at 5 O'clock to
mOrrsw evening.
Capt. Rees Pritehard backs out the
Celeste this day at 8 pm for Arkansas
| river.
Rrhe Cora S. leaves for Louisville Oh
Friday.
The Darling, with Cart. Lew Hates in
command, and Capt. Powers in the Of
fee, viii back out this evening for Cairo,
Louisville and Cincinnati AgoOd boat,
With No. / gentlemen in charge, she
should be well patronized- Nearly all
her staterooms were engaged yesterday.
The argOnaut departed Tor Louisville
with q very light trip. She viii, we
learn, not return 10 this port, but win
run during the remnant Of her short life
between Cairo and Louisville.
We every day see the necessity FOR a
local Inspector Of bulls In thu city. Old
steamers from every direction, when
worn out ia other trades, seem to think
that Memphis Is the spring which will
renew them-make them new again as
when FIRST launched upon toe river. We
don't want an inspector like the one Of
Louisville, who does not know a staunch
racket when he sees one, or who, may
be, closes his eyes to the SHORTCOMINGS OF
some which leave that port, but we want
a competent and reliable steamboatman,
one who win do his duty without fear or
favor.
The great steamer Gen. Quitman will
be found at the wharf this morning.
Few steamers are more popular than the
Quitman, and no bOatmen on the river
are more so than her officers. Cant.
White has no superior As a careful officer.
Messrs. Howard and MossOp, the PURSUITS.
are well known for courtesy to passen-
gers, and the attention which they give
TO all business entrusted TO them. Frank
Smith, the steward, knows how to keep
q hotel and to please the most f~astidious
taste. Don't forget that the Quitman
leaves promptly at 5 pm. for New
Orleans.
The Liberty No. 2 resumes her place
in the Louisville and Memphis packet
line this week. The owners of the boat
have gone to Cincinnati, where an in
surance committee of arbitration are to
decide her late insurance claims for re-
pairs, etc.
A barge for the N. Y. T. company was
launched az Litherbury's ship yard, Gin
~cinnati, on Thursday. It has nine feet
hold, and is expected TO carry 1900 tons
of freight.
Saturday afternoon the new boat Of
Capt. Sam. Montgomery was successfully
launched from the ship yard Of Stuart &
Barmore Of Jacksonville. When cent
away " she glided SO well and so easily
along the ways that her headWay carried
her across the river to the tow head, lust
hardly missing the coal fleet tied up st
the shore. She, however, did no dam
age, and the tOYbOat Neville took her
in tow and tOwed her down the falls to
New Albany, where she is TO be com
pleted.
The steamer Anna White takes 1900
tons Of ordnance stores from the st.
Louis arsenal to Parkersburg, Va.
The St Louis Democrat Of Monday
says River falling steadily here rising
above Keokuk. The Illinois is station
airy and the lower Missouri falling.
Weather hot. Rates TO New Orleans ad-
vanced q trife. Il is likely that to
Vieksburg and New Orleans they will be
still further advanced to-day. The total
number Of steamboat departures last
week, including the daily Alton packet,
was dfty-four. Business continues fair
the season.
The Louisville Democrat Of Monday
says The river continues falling, though /
not very fast, with seven feet four inches !
water in the canal last evening By the
mark. During the previous f0rty-efght
hours IL bad fallen six inches at the head
Of the falls, and eighteen iuches at Port
land. on the falls there were five feet
inches water in the pass last even I
ing down the Indian chute and falling.
The weather continues very warm, with
3 light shower Saturday and no rain yes
lerday, and the thermometer at eighty
xix at noon.