Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-12-05

LA6AAAI WI AAAICJ AALG AaLLs
HIsCELLANEOUs.
The Southerner was aground st Grand
Chain, above Cairo, on the 4ih.
The Delaware lost her chimneys Oh
the Ohio in a storm. Her % steward
courted a passenger Oh the tripand mar
ried her at Cairo.
the New Orleans and Vicksburg trade.
We would like to see her a regular
Memphis and New Orleans packet,
The tOwboat Ajax, it is reported. will
take SEQ 900 bushels Of coal each trip 10
New Orleans.
The G.. G. Russell will take the Yam
KEGS bsFges to New Orleans.
The Olive Branch left last night for
New Orleans, with about 1000 bales OF
cotton and 800 tons of miscellaneous
freight. She would have got more cotton
were it not for the rain, which put q stop
to shipments.
The Luminary, Capt. J. I. MeCord,
viii pass down to-day for New Orleans.
She leaves the City wharfbOat at 4 pm.
Messrs. Levy q Miller, agents OF the
GuidOn, received q dispatch from that
steamer, saying she would be in on time,
She leaves on Saturday for White river.
The T. L. McGiI will be in port to
leave for New Orleans to-day at 10 am.
The steamship Weser, which arrived
at New York from Southampton on
Thursday evening, made the shortest
passage on record between those two
ports. She left Southampton at s pm.
November 10Th, and arrived in New
York in nine days and three hours.
Capt. Hicks passed V~icksburg on the
2d inst, with 300 bales Of cotton.
The Alaska is loading at Cincinnati
for New Orleans.
The Darling has laid up at Cincln-
natl.
Stephen Irwin, pilot Of the Right
Way died at Baton Rouge.
The Pilgrim will leave to-day for
Arkansas river. She is light Of draft
and will have nc trouble getting through.
Capt sam. Berry is master and Jimmy
Thompson is chief clerk.
Capt. John BOtfinger left for Cairo and
Metropolis last night, on business. He
has made such arrangements as viii
continue the Olive Branch in our trade.
Capt. E. B. Byingt0n, the great ticket
agent Of the West, will not get away for
Sc. Louis before tonight. He was not
in command Of the colored brigade who
escorted him to Iowa. They merely
accompanied him as a guard of honor.
Bye is locking youthful as a four wear
Old, and is, as ever, a favOrite with the
fair portion Of our race.
The Bart Able will be in tonight, as
we learn by a dispatch to her agents,
James Il. Bourne & Co. She leaves for
New Orleans on Saturday. Capt. Har-
rison is master.
The StOnewall passed up last night.
She met the Commercial lying at Bur
deau with her stern up stream. The
Vicksburg is still aground st Pillow, in
three feet water. The StOnewall made
an effort to reach her and could not do
it, though she drew but three and a half
feet. The Vicksjurg has not a line or
tackle aboard, and viii not get off until
she procures some OF the river rises.
Her clerk came up last night on the
S~tOnewall.
On Tuesday night the Great Republic
was at Friar's Point.
The Golden Eagle has gone on the
Ways at Cincinnati for repairs. The
Emperor is the only Memphis boat load
ing at that port.
A lot of cement and sppIesis awaiting
shipment south at New Albany, while
parties from Amity, Ind, are endeayor-
ing TO make contracts for the shipment
Of six hundred tons Of hay to New
Orleans Gem New Albany.
Capt. Jacobs, Of st. Louis, has bought
one half OF the Ida S~tockdale for SI2, OOG.
The Argosy is loading at Pittsburg for
New Orleans.
The Louisville Democrat says: Three
" cullud " individuals from Washington
came down passengers on the st. Marys
night before last. They were on their
way to Jackson, Miss, to open Govern
.ment schools and teach the young
African idea how to shoot. They put on
more airs than white folks.
The Mobile Taaes Of Sunday says (:
The printed classification of steambOats,
we learn from Capt. Mccartney, the In
spect9r, viii be Out On Monday (to-mor-
row. There are twenty-five boats
elassed-Of which fourteen are rated as
first-clsss eight IS second class three
as third class. All the side-wbeelers are
put down as first-class except two, while
five stern-wheelers are placed alongside
Of the best side-wheelers their names
are Jennie Rogers, Nyanzs, JeRess,
Clara, Sallie List.
The r. L. Woodward has been sold by
the Illinois River Packet Company to
David Campell, who will proceed to
wreck her.
The Benton, from the mountains, ar
rived at Omaha on the Both of November.
She brought down US passengers and a
large amount OF treasure, and the ma
jOrity of the passengers from the steamer
Imperial, which remains neal Fort Ran
dali. The river there is ice-gorged. The
Benton will remain there over winter
unless the weather mOderstes.