Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-15

" Continental, st. Louis.
" Laurel Hill, New Orleans.
" Commercial, White river.
" City of Alton, st. Louis.
" Argonaut, Louisville.
Boats in Port.
Mary Swan, Minneola, Celeste, Anna.
Cleaner.
The regular Cincinnati packet Silver
Moon, will depart for that city on Fri.
day next at 5 pm. Capt. Merrilees is
In command.
The J. S MeCune, Capt. DufFer, will
leave for White river tomorrow even
ing at 5 o'clock.
The popular Belle st. Louis, in charge
Of the equally popular Capt. Zeigler, viii
| back out for St. Louis tomorrow at
o'clock pm.
The gay Celeste, Capt. Reese Pritch-
ard, will get away at 5 pm; to-day fol
Arkansas river.
The Mfnneola, for Cincinnati, Capt,
Miller, will leave at 5 O'Clock this even
ing.
The Anna, Capt. Shinkle, will leave
for Cincinnati at y O'Clock m. this day.
The Mary Swan, for Evansville, Capt.
Hukill in charge, goes out at 5 pm. this
day.
The great Richmond will be in port
this morning en- route for the Crescent
City, and will continue her flight 81
noon. She is a flying craft-as fleet as
the wind and withal, is as comfortable
a. can be. Those who understand hel
construction will have no hesitancy in
committing themselves to her for safety.
Capt. Slut. Neal is her experienced and
popular commander, assisted by the no.
tOrioUsly clever Capt. Voolfolk, who
presides in the Office with the grace and
dignity of one " to the u bOrn.u
The splendid steamer Gen. Qultma1
will be found at the Star wharfboat this
morning. She is well known as one Of
- finest steamers afOat, and the fame
of beT commander, Capt. Jim White, i;
world wide fer courtesy, kindness and
ability. Mr.. Howard, the chief clerk, i:
q competent officer who knows what il
due a traveller and never wearies in his
attention. Mr.. MossOp, his assistant, is
also a genial and popular officer. The
cuisine is presided over by Frank Smith,
whose name alone is a guarantee that
nothing will be wanting to please the
palate or the most epicurean taste. We
thank you, Frank, for favors bestowed.
Do not forget that the Quitman leaves
promptly at 8 pm. Sam Shock is heI
passenger agent.
We learn that Mr.. w. B. Pennington,
at present the efficient second purser OF
the Mary Irwin, goes out on the Albert
Pierce in the same capacity.
Mr.. Geo. Upwright, a well known
steamboat agent of Little Rock, with his
newly made bride were passengers on the
Commercial homeward bound.
The fiags of our steamers were at half
mast yesterday, as a tribute of respect to
the memory OF Capt. Elisha Timms, who
died in New Orleans on Monday last.
Capt. Timms enjoyed the confidence oil
our steamboatmen while living and they
will ever revere his memory.
Our friend Mcdonald, of the Star
w~hRrfbOat, goes TO st. Louis to-day by
rail to see the Black Crook. We COM
Times, and other friends who can appre-
ciate q good boy.
The wrecking boat Mariner, which
struck a stump and sunk near Omaha,
was insured for $4,000 in Cincinnati
offices.
The steamer Albert Pearce enters the
- Louis and Vieksburg trade in place
of the Phil. Sheridan.
The barge Emily, loaded with stone
from the Grafton quarries, while in tow
of the Naples packet Belle of Pike, on
Friday night, near Apple creek, oNhe
Illinois river, sprung a leak and sunk
almost instantaneously. Two negro
-TOustabOuts, who were on the barge at
the time, were drowned.
The Wabash river has again assumed
navigable proportions, and was rising on
Saturday.
The sternwheeI steamer Julia, belong
ing to the Northwestern Union packet
company, struck a snag on the 10th inst,
near MankatO. and sunk boat and cargo
total loss no lives lost.
A New Orleans exchange in recount
ing the damages sustained by the late
flood in that vicinity, says:
At Buras settlement the leVee broke
at Mrs. H. l.. Smiths and DIR. Wester-
fields. The U s. Survey schooner Hall,
ashore near Mrs. Iohnson's landing ;
threatened break at Bernard FasterlingTs,
the landing at that place being washed
away; the wharf at Capt. Brainard's
gone, and the water flowing over the
levee crevasse at Tropical bend below
Alfred Ruiz's place, several buildings in
the water and the orange trees and rice
crops in that vicinity probably ruined.
The inhabitants are in great distress,
The levees are broken at Blanchmines
and Bellevue plantations the water
running over the leYee at Point Michel:
a crevasse occurred at Riceland, fifty
miles below the city, about three hun
bred yards in width-new and old levee
both gone.
The Evansville Sentinel on the Border
says they have q wharf vuIture in that
city who boards steamers and carries off
bananas, etc, We have none here, al
though we did see a Contemporary on
Sunday morning coming up town shortly
after the arrival of the Quitman, totter-
ing under q basket which contained a
good sized fish and some half bushel of
crabs.
The st. Louis Times of the I3th saws
There is still a decline going on in the
river here. Along its whole course the
upper Mississippi is falling at the rate of
twelve inches per day. The Illinois is
and the Missouri is falling. A
amount OF rain fell Saturday, but
about the usual number of boats sue
eeeded in filling out and getting away
A very good river business is expected
this week. The convention of boatmen
and owners which meets tomorrow. will
result in arrangements and regulations
will be very valuable to the steam.
boat interest. A great deal is necessary
to be done, and we are sure it win be
done well.
The LouisV Courier says:
A steamboat load of rotten and dam
aged corn was sent to Cincinnati the
other day from Memphis, and in q few
the Memphians may be looking for
L back again dexterously done up in
liquid form, in barrels, with red heads
aud blue heads, labeled "pure copper
distilled, = or cold Bourbon or "blue
ruin" No matter what it is labeled, it
will be supposed to be sold at a sacrifice,
md as both good whisky and good corn
ire scarce, and times are hard, ii will
and sell cheap, though we incline to
he opinion that such stuff would be
lear at any price. Trade, however, is
rade, and Cincinnatians take the
and ~perseveringly send their
ituf forth to be sold, and they succeed,
A dispatch from Council bluffs says
The steamer Leclaire, a mountain boat.
,sssed down the river, bringing news of
ne destruction Of the steamer Miner.
y the Indians, about 500 miles above
sioux city. The Jost landed to take on
wood, and while the crew were chOpping
he wood, the Indians, about 200 in num-
surroundedand massacred the whole
and captured the boat, killing and
calping men, women and children in
iscriminately. Only two men escaped.
liter pillaging the boat they burned il
0 the waters edge.
1t may be proper to add, that at st.
.ouis the report of the massacre is not