Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-01-12

" ~ AAlNE NDlA VIII AEANE ACC lhAAtAAhE
and no indication of an early opening o
navigation. the White, Arkansas anC
st. Francis rivers are falling.
A~-rtyaEs-
Steamer Die Vernon, V~ieksburg.
" Antelope,
/" Cleaner, Arkansas river.
=" Clermont, Louisville.
L" Des Are, White river.
" Rose Hambleton, Pine Bluff,
" Belle Memphis, st. Louis.
Departure.
Steamer J. P. Webb, Evansville.
" J. II. Groesbeck, Cincinnati
" Sam. Parker, "
I" ClermOnt, White river.
" Natoma, st. Francis river.
+" Victor, OsCeOla.
BOaLs In Port.
Norman, Die Vernon, Des Are, Ante
lOse, Rose Hambleton, Cleaner, South
erner, Lady.
miscellaneous.
The Belle Memphis came in with 1G
bales of cotton, 100 sacks Of grain and q
big passenger trip. She lost thirty hours
by getting aground at Plumb point.
The Die Vernon brought up her cabin
full Of ~pv.es go bales of cotton
on deck. SrSsTs down and takes the
S~outherner's freight this morning.
The Rose Hambleton, We were in.
formed by Mr.. Wells, her clerk, brought
i'm 100 bales Of cotton, besides a full cabin.
The Des Are brought in $50 bales Of
cotton from White river. Capt. John
will bring it out if its ready.
Capt. Nat. Green, we learn, takes COM
maud Of the Cleaner this trip.
The swift packet Lady viii be at the
landing this morning, and leave at
pm, sharp.
We learn that Capt. Dick Mason was
10 have left for New Orleans last even'
ing, TO make some arrangement about
the SOutherner. Her debts are said to
be very heavy, ami 1t viii probably be
two weeks before they are adjusted.
NOTICE.-Al shippers having freight
on the S~nutherner are notified by Jas. T.
Bourne d Co, her agents, to call at their
Office and surrender bills Of lading foI
the purpose Of reshipping on another
boat. The Die Vernon viii take all the
S~outherner's freight al same terms.
Don't fail to call at No. y Jefferson
street early to-day and make your ar
rangements.
"An Alton paper savsJEhe steamer R.. Z.
Lee is faster than the famous Altoona,
which in years past ran between st,
Louis and Alton. It regards the name
as a very good selection, as the fleetness
Of the steamer will be q constant re-
minder to the eX-rebels Of the remark
ably good times made by the general-in-
chief Of the Confederate army, on his
retreat before the national forces after
the evacuation OF Richmond
The above We clip from a dirty radical
sheet, published in P~orkopolis, called the
Commercial. It is not original, being
clipped previously from that ether
equally dirty thing Of st. Louis, called
the Democrat, which in turn copied il
from u dirtier than either, if such can
be, the Alton paper first alluded 10. II
is a remarkable fact the little dogs who
keep on the outside Of the ring make the
most noise. We will venture a weeks
salary that neither one Of the parties
who inserted the above fling at the glo-
rious Old Hero e saw a rebel. except il
be in prison at Alton or st. Louis while
the ~pOTk-eater, it is said, when John
Morgan and Kirby Smith visited those
parts, took refuge on a gunboat,
The passengers Of the Robert Burns
from this port TO Cairo, on her last trip,
published at the latter place the follow.
ing card Of thanks TO Capt. Eugene
Bowers:
ave, the undersigned, passengers on
board the Robert Burns on her last tTiT
nom Memphis to Cairo, feel DESTROYS t
express our gratitude to Capt. f. K. Bow
ers and his efficient officers for their IN.
firing efforts in putting her through
most difficult ice gorge, above Columbus
ahead of the boats Ruth and Alice Dean
and cannot but think that it was entirely
through MS perseverance that q passage
was made through. We cheerfully re-
commend the Robert Burns to the trav.
cling public as a boat well worthy o
their patronage
The Louisville Courier of the I0tl
saws The river was falling slowly yes
! terday, with five feet four inches water
| in the canal, in the evening, by The
mark. During the previous twenty-foul
! hours it had fallen two inches at thu
I head Of the falls, and six inches at Port
land. the weather was mOdeTating all
day, with the thermometer ranging
from IS to 40, but it was freezing a
/ night. with a big white frost yesterday
morning. On the falls there wero scam
/ three ana q hall feet water in the chut,
down the Indiana shore. The river
though pretty full Of ice, was far less OBJ
/ structed yesterday than it had been fol
several days. The Ice had thinned ont
or had nearly all run out, the weather
not being hard enough to make more
There is a good deal of ice along tk'
shores and the wharf space from Fourtl
street to the canal is full of heavy ice
The river was falling very slowly at Gin
cinnati yesterday, with mOderatinl
weather,
The old stern-wheeler Marietta, wa
sold at sheriff's sale ct st. Louis, Oh
"Wednesday last, TO VIM. {. Daggett fo
- 700. The Marietta has been laid a
at the lower landing for several month
past, having made but one cruise il
Twelve months, sHd that was with Lip
MANS circus from Cincinnati 10 st. Pau
and back to st. Louis, where she wa
% tied up - fOT debt.
For ST. LOuIs.-The elegant and fas
messenger packet Belle Memphis Wi
leave our landing this evening at
O'clock for St. Louis and all way land
ings. Capt. Musselman commands be
:. aud a more urbane and sffable gentle
man could not be desired as a compsg
non du voyage. w. c. Postal, sup't.
For PINE BLUFF.-Ghe swift and fai
cipsting steamer Rose Hambleton sIiT
her line to-day Al 5 pm. for the abov
and all intermediate points. She is